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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1955
Page
14
The Agriculture Department forecast this year's corn crop at 3,477,711,000 bushels, up 28,044,000 from last month, with wheat at 910,958,000 bushels. Wheat reserves and surpluses are ample, and the report breaks down crop by winter and spring wheat, durum, oats, barley, grain sorghum, and soybeans, comparing to last year and ten year averages.
Princeton Circle 33 Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic held a regular meeting in the Hall at Princeton with a 2 pm business session led by President Dorothy Lloyd. Devotions were by Mabel Lloyd and Laura Morgan led the patriotic ritual. Etna Yerkes was initiated by Elma June Cannady. A kitchen shower for Barbara Guy was hosted by Phylis Brockus Lavina Weiderholt and Mary Ann Cannady with cake and refreshments for local high school girls.
Lawrence Kansas officials announce $125 000 in federal aid for the Lawrence municipal airport for 1955 56. The city will provide an equal match. Funds will finance a hard surface runway and taxiway about a mile and a half north of the city. Chanute gets 55 000 and Topeka 41 000 in Kansas airport funds.
Kansas and federal agriculture departments forecast the state's largest sorghum harvest at 59,200,000 bushels with an average yield of 16 bushels per acre, beating the 1951 crop. Wheat prospects rise to 132,864,000 bushels, while corn output is cut to 43,464,000 bushels after hot dry conditions.
Pleasant Valley farmers began silo filling on Monday at Wayne Scotts. Families visit relatives in Kansas City and Edgerton. Kenneth Allen Coffman is expected home from Camp McCoy Wisconsin after National Guard encampment.
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