Cal Joosten and Garden Square Cafe Pioneer Local Owner
Calvin Joosten known as Cal runs Garden Square Cafe in Pella with John Vander Wert’s former partnership. Born in Lake View South Dakota he moved to Pella in 1947 and later taught in North English Iowa before entering the restaurant business in 1951. He now employs 16 and offers self service ice cream plus wedding and anniversary servings. The Joosten family resides at 129 Broadway with wife and 15 month old son Kent.
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Pella
Calvin Joosten
Garden Square Cafe
Calvin
Cal
Lake View
South Dakota
Central College
North English
Iowa
John Vander Wert
John
Farm Youth Tourists to Visit Eleven Iowa Industries
Seventy eighth annual Iowa Farm Youth Tour will visit Lennox Industries Marshalltown Rath Packing Waterloo Cherry Burrell Cedar Rapids DuPont Clinton Aluminum Co Riverdale Sylvania Burlington Sheaffer Fort Madison Keokuk Electro Metals Keokuk John Deere Ottumwa Works Firestone Meredith Publishing Des Moines In early September thirty eight boys from Farm Bureau Young People 4 H FFA and Rural Boy Scouts groups will tour to study industry names and will have their participant list announced next month the tour is sponsored by the Iowa Development Commission with Iowa Farm Bureau Federation cooperation.
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Iowa
Iowa Farm
Iowa Development Commission
Farm
Lennox Industries, Inc
Marshalltown
Rath Packing Co
Waterloo
Cherry Burrell Corp
Cedar Rapids
EB. I. DuPont de Nemours
Clinton
Aluminum Company of America
Riverdale
Sylvania Electric Products, Inc
Burlington
A Sheaffer Pen Co
Fort Madison
Keokuk Electro-Metals Co
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Iowa U to Feature Wind Tunnel at State Fair Exhibit
The State University of Iowa will showcase an artificial wind tunnel from the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research at the Iowa State Fair August 23 to September 1. The exhibit highlights university research and service units across Iowa, with displays on economics, labor, public affairs, agricultural medicine, gerontology, and more.
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State University of Iowa
Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research
Iowa River
SUI
Iowa
Bruce E. Mahan
SUI Extension Division
Bureaus of Business and Economic Research
of Labor and Management
Institutes of Public Affairs
Agricultural Medicine
Agricultural Law and Continuation Study Centers
Iowa Testing Program
Iowa Geological Survey
Iowa Child Welfare Research Station
Hospital School For Handicapped Children
Medical Research Services
Extension Division
Dean Mahan
Greenland
Kempkes Talks on Rotary Convention in Switzerland
President Tudor Kempkes spoke at the Rotary Club meeting describing his observations at the International Rotary gathering in Switzerland. Attendance reached about 10,000 including visitors and families. He noted Switzerland’s language diversity and neutrality, showed slides of scenery, and mentioned guests and a family illness in California.
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Tudor Kempkes
Rotary Club
Kempkes
Switzerland
William van Sittert
Europe
United Nations
Harold Schut
Pennsylvania
Forest Smith
Bob Powers
C. I
Joe Shultz
C. C. Buerkens
Jobless Payments To Iowa Workers Continue Decline
Iowa jobless payments fell 18 percent in June from May as 7,884 individuals received 565,200 under the State Employment Insurance Act. Veterans under the Readjustment Act received 25,594, federal civilian 2,719. State employment service placed 10,404 workers in June, an 18.4 percent rise over May, with gains in wholesale, manufacturing, utilities, and government placements. Active applicants remained high due to students teachers and other school personnel seeking summer work.
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Iowa
Employment Security Commission
State
Pasture for Cattle Saves Corn and Supplement Use
R M McWilliams of Iowa State College advocates pasture fattening cattle on legume pasture to save corn hay and supplements while reducing feed costs. More pasture lowers need for high price concentrates, but cattle fatten slower. profitability hinges on fall cattle market trends.
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R. M. McWilliams
Iowa State College
McWilliams
Jagged Rocks Sink Cruiser at Pillsbury Point
Jagged rocks on Pillsbury Point in Lake Okoboji put a big hole in an outboard cruiser recently. The passengers waded ashore.
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Pillsbury Point
Lake Okoboji
Brucellosis laws advance Iowa disease controls
Iowa lawmakers passed two brucellosis measures to aid control of the disease. One requires breeding cattle to be certified brucellosis free before sale. the other enables county wide control plans upon cattlemen petitions. Herrick notes testing and enforcement gains, with ongoing voluntary programs reducing herd incidence from 6 to 2 per 100 in six years.
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Iowa
John B. Herrick
Iowa State College
Herrick
Towa
Toware
Wick Will Water Your House Plants
A simple wick and reservoir system can water house plants during vacations. An Iowa State College horticulturist suggests using a water bucket with clothesline wicks reaching plants, soaked before use, then placing the wick ends into 20 inch deep holes in pot soil to secure them.
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Charles Sherwood
Iowa State College
Plant Care Diagram Suggests Self Watering Setup
Bathtub or tile floor can host the bucket and pots with a light source. If a window light is unavailable, suspend a 100 watt bulb about two feet above the pail. The system keeps house plants cool for up to two weeks, says the horticul turist.
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Sherwood
Birdsfoot Trefoil Best For Permanent Pastures Says Jasper County Farmer
Fat Wise seeded 10 acres of Empire Broadleaf Birdsfoot in spring 1951 and the stand remains productive. Ed notes slow early growth but considers it the only option for permanent pasture seeding. A check strip of old bluegrass offers a strong comparison.
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Jasper County
Fat Wise
Birdsfoot miscanthus past ure roughage use grows amid drought
The passage describes Ed and Everett Edge adopting birdsfoot as a roughage for cattle on split five acre plots. Ed reports threefold production on renovated ten acres, with one plot for seed harvest then grazing, and no bloating. Everett seeds birdsfoot, desires more area, and praises lack of bloat and drought tolerance, noting multiple local supporters.
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Everett Edge
Everett
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T. H. Ragsdale
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Pat Weston
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Good Will Industries
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