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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1958
Page
2
The piece discusses warm weather with brief cool spells and moisture needs for alfalfa corn and milo, urges more showers for harvest prospects, notes the swimming pool opens with season tickets on sale, and explains dairy promotion funding and aims for better butterfat awareness this month with the slogan spread your bread with butter.
A World War II era feature touts 6 12 Brand Insect Repellent as a bug discourager with science unsure why it repels insects. It promises epidermal puncture proof skin and cites widespread use since the war days, noting the product’s popularity and mysterious mechanism.
The FDA clears Trilafon for injection before cattle shipment and after arrival to ease travel. Shrinkage drops by six to eight dollars per animal, potentially saving over one billion pounds of beef and reducing annual one hundred million dollar losses in cattle production.
Industry experts note a drug used on arrival at feed lots calms cattle and speeds fattening, reducing stress and illness. Veterinarians call it a powerful tranquilizer, predicted to spread to calves and steers, improving tenderness and flavor of beef products for consumers.
University of Nebraska specialists urge strict spray schedules for fruit trees to keep insects and diseases at bay with all purpose sprays, while detailing cedar blight control, early oat drying, grain irradiation, lawn weed causes, grain storage resealing, wheat quota votes, rising market food costs, cattle marketing, global cattle totals, grasshopper control, dairy animal grooming for shows, and the July 1959 milk law.
Oregon and Nebraska history notes describe Ames Nebraska as a railroad town built around the Standard Cattle Company with a vast 101 brand operation. It details the barn with 3008 stalls, large boarding houses, a school church, a sugar refinery opened in 1899, and later relocation of the Scottsbluff factory. It also lists county bid solicitations for Osceola hospital expansion in 1958 with plan inspections and bidding rules.
Polk County Nebraska and the Nebraska Department of Roads invite sealed bids for a concrete box culvert and related work on the Silver Creek East Federal Aid Secondary Project No. S-650(2). Bids due June 19 1958 by 10 00 A M. in Lincoln. Quantities include 104 cubic yards of concrete and 8501 pounds of reinforcing steel. Bidders must be qualified and comply with subletting provisions and the Fair Labor Standards Act minimum wage requirements.
Plans and specifications may be viewed at the Department of Roads office in Lincoln Nebraska. Bidders must submit a proposal with a certified check of at least 350 dollars and a bond equal to 100 percent of the contract. The department may waive technicalities and reject all bids.
Notice that a petition for probate of the last will of J Calder Throckmorton deceased has been filed. Maxine Throckmorton is named executrix and a hearing is set for July 5 1958 at 10 AM in the County Court Room Osceola Nebraska. Dated June 6 1958. L M Merrick County Judge Seal. June 12 19 26.
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