Tulip Time in Pella Inspires West Coast Iowa Picnic
Kate Johnson Van Gorp reports from Long Beach California on the 50th annual Iowa summer picnic drawing 36 000 former residents. Highlights include Granger Dancing Academy Extravagan ze Phantastique and the song When It's Tulip Time in Pella by Charleen Dickman. The event featured remarks by Norvin E Smith and Harry Ruffridge and a welcome by Long Beach Mayor George Vermillion.
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George
Tom
Iowa
Pella
Chronicle
Fred’ Voorhees
Kleinjan
Gerrit Klein
Ina de Gooyer
Coray Nettie de Gooyer
Bertha Ochietree
Lenna de Jong Snider
Louis van Roekel
Lucille Tysseling
John B. Buerkens
Donald “McKim Verle
Henry Knip
Dick Rhynsburger
Edith Rhynsburger
Faust St
Downey
Calif
Minnie Lankelman
Leta Powell
Long Beach
Kate
Granger
Alice G. Harvey
Omaha
Tall Corn Country
Recreation Park
Ames
Grundy Center
Sac City
George Vermillion
Meredith Willson
Girl Scout Troop 98
Marshall Craig
Richard Richards
Tidelands
Granger Dancing Academy
Charleen Dickman
Non Farm Employment Dominates Iowa Labor Landscape
Iowa Development Commission reports 62.7 percent of Iowans work in non agricultural jobs. Of 1,002,180 employed, 285,000 farm, 628,500 non farm. Manufacturing employs 164,600. non manufacturing 463,900. retail trade 129,200. government 102,000. service 71,800. Growth shows 2.2 percent rise in total non agricultural employment.
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Iowa
Town Employment Security Commission
U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Ber
Towa
Let's Tackle Uninviting Stunt
A reflective verse argues for building a hospital in a small town. It questions funding as debts rise and pleads unity to support a communal project. The poem frames the hospital as essential, urging collective effort despite fiscal concerns.
Suggestions on Ensuing Corn Damaged by Drouth
Marion County farmers face varied drouth damage in corn. Extension director Dale Studt advises leaving ears developing on 25 percent of stalks, chopping or silaging heavily damaged plants, and managing moisture at 65 to 68 percent for silage. He invites drop‑in help at the Knoxville Extension Office for site specific guidance.
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Drouth
Marion County
Dale Studt
Studt
Knoxville
Gilts Unharmed by Stilbestrol in Feed Trial
Twelve gilts fed stilbestrol via steers at Town State College showed no harm to litters. January 1955 launch. gilts kept hungry to ingest droppings. Litter size averaged 9.36 pigs, higher than regular management gilts, suggesting no negative effect from stilbestrol exposure.
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Town State College
C. C.lbertson
Iowa State College
Culbertson
Iowa August 1 1955 Crop Report on Corn Prospects
Iowa crops report shows corn prospects down in July while small grains yield higher than expected. Soybeans per acre below last year but total production still over fifty million bushels. Iowa corn production forecast 559,082,000 bushels, up 11 percent from 1954 and the 1944–53 average. Yield expected 56.0 bushels per acre vs 52.2 in 1954 and 50.0 ten-year average. Harvested acres 10,697,000, down slightly from the ten-year average. Drouth cut corn prospects further in July.
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Iowa
Iowa Cooperative Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
State crop prospects show strong corn and oats yields
Extended hot dry weather slowed some corn in poorer soil and droughted western regions but corn on better soil is holding up. Oat production is forecast at 264.91 million bushels, 15 percent above 1964 and 29 percent above the 10 year average, with a high test weight and yields near record levels. Soybeans are forecast at 53.35 million bushels, the second largest crop, with harvested acres peaking at 2.223 million. Hay and pastures yield 1.79 tons per acre from 7.11 million tons, above 1954 levels and the 10 year average.
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Missouri River
Obituary: Mrs Kate Van Dyke Passes in Sully Area
Mrs Cornelius Van Dyke nee Kate Bandstra born February 10 1884 in Kollummerland Netherlands died August 19 1955 at age 71 at the home of her daughter Mrs Delbert Jacobs in Ore Town She came with her parents to the United States and settled in Pella Married March 5 1903 in Pella they lived farming most of their years Later moved to Sully in 1988 She and Mr Van Dyke had eleven children eight sons and three daughters She was preceded in death by her husband and six sons Survived by children Jake Gert Elizabeth Gertrude Sally Cornelia 23 grandchildren and one great grandchild Also survived by two brothers John Chandler Minn and Andrew Peoria and a sister Emma Koster Edgerton Minn Funeral services held April 22 1955 at 1 pm from family home and 1:30 pm from Sully Reformed Church with Rev Charles Stoppels officiating Interment in Sully Cemetery.
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Cornelius van Dyke
Kate Bandstre
Paul Bandstra
Kollummerland
Vriesland
Netherlands
Delbert Jacobs
Ore Town
United States
Pella
Cornelius R. van Dyke
Sully
van Dyke
Jake
Grinnell
Gert
Elizabeth
Peter de Kruyff
Otley
Gertrude
Paul de Penning
Sally
Cornelia
Delbert
Jacobs
Kelogg
John
Chandler
Minn
Andrew
Peoria
Emma Koster
Edgerton
Jesus
First
Christian Reformed Church
Sully Reformed Church
Charles Stoppels
Sully Cemetery
Pasture Decline and Fleet Destroyer Count Change
Moisture deficits in July reduced pasture conditions. On August 1 the level reached 79 percent of normal, down from 65 percent a year earlier and below the 92 percent average for the date. New seedings suffered from dry weather and grasshoppers, with near failure in some areas. On December 7, 1941 the U.S. Pacific Fleet had 54 destroyers. today the count is 125.
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U.S
Iowa farm families sustain top living standards
The Iowa Development Commission reports Iowa farm operator families posted a 1964 level-of-living index of 185, above the national 184. Index based on electricity, telephones, autos, and value of products sold shows Iowa leading the nation overall, with brief dips in 1940 1945 1954 and 1980, while the national average hovered lower.
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Iowa
Bernard F. Nowack
Iowa Development Commission
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Towa
Rhodes
Connecticut
New Jersey
Nowack
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