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Newspaper
Ruston Leader
Location
Ruston, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1959
Page
8
The program under the National School Lunch Act and Louisiana acts served over 92 million lunches last year, with more than half a million meals daily. In 1947 135,000 children participated, requiring 22,872,628 lunches. Parish and city superintendents oversee operations, with lunch supervisors and school principals responsible at local levels.
Shelby M. Jackson lauds parish superintendents supervisors principals and managers for their role in an eleven year program delivering nutritious midday meals to Louisiana school children. The statement highlights budget preparation fund expenditure record maintenance and interagency cooperation to improve and sustain the meals program.
Louisiana Extension says flame cultivation helps cotton growers fight late season weeds when grass overruns crops after rains. It is not a cure-all and must be used with care to avoid harming stalks, with 2-row units covering about 20 acres daily and 4-row units about 40 acres, using 4 to 6 gallons per acre.
Twilight Garden Club met Thursday June 1 at Mrs T Taylor's home in Choudrant. Mrs Lyn semure served as hostess and a brief business meeting preceded a social hour and picnic supper on the lawn. New president Mrs Dick Taylor led the session with reports and committee appointments announced for program, yearbook, telephone, scrap book and publicity.
State Extension Service directs 411 Club members in soil water conservation and crop production techniques. Young farmers learn USDA methods, with hundreds of farms improving incomes statewide. Top achievers win an expense paid trip to the 36th National 4-H Congress in Chicago and later become eligible for a college scholarship. Awards funded by Arcadian Products Allied Chemical Firestone.
A new experimental electronic cotton classing machine will be demonstrated at the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation meeting in Monroe on July 23. Billy J. Baker of LSU Extension says the device measures five factors in under 10 seconds and checks all but staple length. The display follows recent showings at a cotton growers’ meeting with Farm Bureau, mill officials, and agricultural extension staff.
Hays Station residents welcomed visitors and reported weekend gatherings. Names include Mrs. Wayman Waldron Mrs. Bill Waldron and the F OR boys family with Will Watts and Mrs. Ethel Emerson Cedar Grove. Lively exchanges with Marshall and Jackson Mississippi movers noted. In 1866 rail history referenced.
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