Marilyn Tanis Not Afraid Sticks to Post in Arabia
Zeeland born Marilyn Tanis, superintendent of nurses at a Bahrein men’s hospital, stayed on duty during Suez Canal area riots. In a letter to parents she details barricaded roads, arson, and nails in streets while doctors and sailors sought safety. She assists in medical work, orders supplies, teaches Sunday School, directs a choir, and aids orphans at a nearby house of happiness orphanage.
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Arabia
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Tanis
Ame
Wiew
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House of Appiness
Hamilton Reformed Church
Kansas U Professor to Speak at Central Convocation
Dr. Calvin Vander Werf, chemistry professor at the University of Kansas, will deliver a convocation address at Central College's Douwstra Chapel on Thursday February 14 at 10 a.m. The talk titled Where Is Our Next Energy Coming From will be open to the public. Vander Werf, a Hope College graduate and Ohio State Ph.D., has led the Div Ivn of Chemical Education and serves on the Journal of Chemical Education editorial board and co-authors of two general chemistry textbooks.
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Douwatra Chapel
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University of Kansas
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Flood control practices curb Elk Creek floods in Jasper County
Farmers in Jasper County show watershed conservation reduces runoff and flood height. Contoured fields on about 60 cooperator farms cut surface runoff, while rainfall over ten years varied from 20.67 to 46.05 inches. Observers note creeks like Buttermilk and Little Buckley run lower where conservation is practiced, urging wider adoption and local soil district consultation.
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Elk Creek
Jasper County
Clarence Boot
Sully
Soil District
Newton
Alspra
Iowa
Boot
William G. van Wyk
Buckley
van Wyk
Bell
Colfax
Chess
Marshalltown
Heat Lamps Save Marion County Pigs At Low Cost
Heat lamps are saving pigs for Marion County farmers at about one-half cent per hour for each 250 watt bulb. Using 16 litters keeps young pigs away from sows for about eight cents an hour, a cost lower than paying a guard. Ken Main, agricultural engineer at Town State College, reports.
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Marion County
Richard Freeman
Knoxville
Ken Main
Town State College
One-Fourth of Iowans Work on Farms Employed
The Iowa Development Commission reports that almost three-fourths of Iowans work off the farm. A recent study by Bernard Nowack, the Commission's Research Director, shows 1,052,000 employed in the state with 775,700 in non agricultural pursuits and 174,850 in farming roles.
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Iowa Development Commission
Iowa
Bernard Nowack
Commission
USDA predicts higher farm income in 1957 with soil bank support
The USDA forecasts farm incomes rising about 6 percent in 1957 aided by a large soil bank program and continued business activity. Hog prices are expected to rise as slaughter declines, beef output softens with light cattle, dairy income edges up, and wheat exports push over 400 million bushels. Cotton and fats and oils also shift, while corn carry-overs grow. Overall, livestock gains offset smaller crop receipts, boosted by soil bank payments.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
Soil Bank
USDA
Francis Kutish
Iowa State College
Kutish
Cigaret
Iowa employment split shows farming at a quarter
The Nowack study of Iowa’s 1956 employment figures reports 276,300 workers in farming, 174,860 in manufacturing, and 601,350 in nonmanufacturing sectors. Farming accounts for 26.3 percent, manufacturing 16.6 percent, and nonmanufacturing 57.1 percent of the total 1,052,000 employed.
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