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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1955
Page
5
Americans say United Nations control after aid created a stalemate in Korea with a divided peninsula. Troops faced mobs while neutral commissioners from Czechoslovakia and Poland were criticized and pressed to leave, as the armistice enforcement continued.
Editor and publisher argue that true local advertising must be handled by local newspapers. They emphasize newspapers as a running history of the community with ads read beside local news.
Secretary of State Dulles warns Korea charges may be heavy but urges patience while Red China’s Chou En-lai seeks a high level conference with the United States. The speech hints at recognition implications and shifts blame for the Korean truce to UN hands, describing the conflict as a tangled, Un centered issue.
A New England station owner posted a humorous vacation sign listing missing services such as rest rooms and windshield wiping, then contrasted with European stations. The piece argues American service stations epitomize competitive industry and broad consumer breaks, noting abroad neglect of basic services.
Dennis Ralph family attended sacraments in Dayton. Curtis Sparrow named baby boy by Sidney Sparrow. Dennis Ralphs hosted at Sparrow home for dinner. L T Williams returned from Provo to visit family. Sowell hosted a gathering with a chicken dinner and games. high score Blanche Henderson, second Jane Wood, low Lee Sant.
The 1955 lamb crop in Idaho is estimated at 950000 lambs saved, four percent below 1954’s 986000, per USDA. Breeding ewes on January 1 numbered 848000 head, down 1 percent from 857000 a year earlier and 13 percent below the 1944 53 average. Lambing conditions were generally favorable but cooler and drier than the prior year, with losses at lambing time higher than 1954.
Idaho farms reported 220000 milk cows in June, a decline from 1944 251000 peak and below 1944-53 month average. The June total was the largest since 1945 but dropped about 4000 from May.
A university station displays a wide seed and variety collection supporting research. The Aberdeen facility notes 6,470 varieties and strains listed for study and seed distribution to researchers.
The USDA reports Idaho farms will raise about 2,520,000 chickens this year, down 630,000 from 1954 and marking the smallest on record since 1924. The prior low was 2,972,000 in 1953, while the peak reached 5,336,000 in 1943. Data are based on June 1 counts from rural carriers and hatchery reports.
USDA Idaho forecast for 49 1225 000 bushels matches earlier estimates and tops 1954 by 21 percent and eighteen percent over the 1944-53 average. Average yield 298 bushels per acre. late summer area at 3 500 000 bushels up 2 percent from 1954. Warm July boosted growth. some early potatoes may remain unharvested due to low prices.
The U S 1955 potato crop is forecast at 398 715 000 bushels. This is 212 percent above the 1954 crop of 356 031 000 bushels but 1 percent below the 10 year average of 401 146 000 bushels.
The proposal outlines a 240000 mile interstate system linking 42 state capitals and about 90 cities over 50 000 population. It would carry one seventh of total traffic and a fifth of rural traffic while serving 65 percent of urban and 454 percent of rural populations. Idaho extension expert Jim Gregory endorses certified seed potato stock as the only safe option.
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