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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1952
Page
3
Invitations go to Plover Alumni for the third annual homecoming on Saturday November 22. Two basketball games are planned with D M T Filmore Stormer of K L C D to crown the homecoming queen and honor rolls list top students by grade level.
Thomas returns to his mother's house after a long absence and recalls his youth as a train sound at night stirs memories. He worries about his car and plans to winterize it, while his cautious driving suggests he is retracing old routes and emotional ties to the crossing.
Old laundering methods can harm new automatic washers, says Iowa State experts Naomi and Misa Shank. Shift to a load a day, accumulate clean clothes, and wash promptly to save time, energy, and hot water while protecting fabrics. Regularly use manufacturer guides and dealer demos for best results.
Richard Vosika of Pocahontas posted the top five acre corn yield at 147.9 bu per acre from an eight acre field in blue grass sod. Floyd Nielson of Pocahontas and Dale Lenz of Rose followed with 140.7 and 136.7 bu per acre from five acre plots.
The program reaches about 340000 teens behind the wheel and in classroom training this year with another 300000 gaining classroom knowledge. Since 1936 millions have been trained and early results show fewer accidents among educated teens. Governors from all 48 states backed the program as a proven way to reduce fatalities and damage. By 1951 52, 1274000 students had behind the wheel training and 2270000 had classroom instruction.
The Pocahontas Farm Bureau hosts a Women’s Contact meeting with talks on Education, Legislation and Services to Members. Officers were installed for County and townships, with Lloyd Wagner as chairman and numerous volunteers recognized for past chairmanship and county program support.
Farmers and car owners are urged to prepare for freezing weather with anti-freeze and winterization. Records show the first killing frost in Iowa averages October 10, with early snows possible, including a 1925 October snowfall of 4.8 inches and 25 degree drops.
Elmer Carlson of Audubon, 1985 Iowa husking champion, built Carlson Hybrid Corn Co. from his win and now leads 17 hybrid varieties from Mississippi to the West Coast. He runs a seed firm, nine farms, 70 employees, and 1,500 dealers, while promoting soil conservation and global corn husking demonstrations.
E L Quaife of Iowa State College says town farmers could profit by expanding hog production in 1953. With ample feed and equipment for early pigs, producers should breed for early farrowings. He notes that pigs reaching market weight in July or August fetched higher prices, a trend seen in most years. Planning a July or August market requires sows to farrow early.
A recipe for a light spice cake with caramel cream cheese frosting. Ingredients include cake flour sugar molasses oil eggs water orange rind juice and spices. The batter is folded, baked in a tube pan, inverted to cool, then trimmed. Frosting combines cream cheese caramel syrup and sugar.
Quaife advises sorting gilts now or earlier, aiming for eight to nine months age with 200 pounds or more, favoring pasture access and oat based rations. Well developed gilts yield larger litters and better litter care than younger, less mature sows. Iowa producers with good feed can expand the 1953 hog crop based on pasture and corn prospects following 1952 feed shortages.
A definition explains intaglio as an engraving made below the surface of a material, created by pressing metal or other surfaces to transfer the recessed design onto a medium.
Po ca hontas County Iowa Board of Supervisors in Pocahontas met October 7 1952 with five members present. The board approved the third quarter reports of the County Farm Steward County Auditor Sheriff and County Recorder after motions from listed supervisors.
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