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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1950
Page
4
Parents aligned with biblical truth create a cheerful home and reduce fear in children. Harsh discipline breeds secrecy and resentment, while kindness and the power of suggestion foster faith, confidence, and happiness. Autocratic methods may seem effective but yield only temporary results.
The M. E. Sunday School reported 69 attendees. Happy Birthday sung for Allan Lawrence Tooty Bayliss Mabel Snyder and Alice Wilson. The Bayliss and Weiss families visited relatives in Champaign. Several locals spent New Year in Vandalia with the Reilmans. The Binnions and Terry enjoyed Christmas in Waco Texas.
Mr and Mrs Harold Blankenship and daughter greet visitors while Selby Binnion and family visit friends. New Year Watch Party hosted by James Hathaway. Minnie Peddicord visits St Louis relatives and returns from Chillicothe trip. Lula Quayle visiting sister in Decatur. Emma Thompson James Metzger and others visit Peddicord home. Minnie Peddicord returns from St Louis visit. John Phlers visits from St Louis. Flora Dickey falls on ice injuring shoulder and is hospitalized in Centralia after care transfer.
Since February 1 Governor Adlai E Stevenson leads a campaign that weighed 617,290 trucks and saw 30,968 drivers cited for overweight. A year end public safety report shows $484,671 in overweight fines through October 31 and pending cases. Illinois plans 33 permanent weighing stations to replace rented scales. The state levy board, led by Stevenson, announces no property taxes for 1949. Crop totals show corn at 518,112,000 bushels and soybeans at 82,602,000, with oats and winter wheat also tallied. Governor Stevenson also appoints Judge Albert H Manus and Sam M Arndt.
Rock Island joins the state parole board replacing terms of Duane Reed and Lawrence M. Gross. Judge Manus, a longtime lawyer and former circuit judge, and Arndt of Rock Island firm Arndt and Wingard, with prior roles as assistant state's attorney, are named to the board.
Freely changing prices on open grain exchanges indicate evolving supply and demand worldwide and act as a barometer for market conditions.
Farmers and producers explore future grain growing plans amid the rise of large scale food processing. The text argues for broad open markets like Chicago where raw material prices are formed competitively impacting growers, millers, processors, and manufacturers.
Billions of dollars are paid out by mills and processors for grain crops before needed. Stakeholders cannot bear storage risk alone due to price volatility. Futures markets like those at the Chicago Board help manage risk.
The piece discusses spreading price risk through market participation like insurance. Minneapolis leads in grain elevator capacity with 92 million bushels, followed by Kansas City and Buffalo. A large corn carry-over and near record production drive government agencies to focus on 1950 acreage allotments and potential official cuts.
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