Retirement hobby stocks spark elder interest in market
The stock market attracts retirees like John W. Bartlett and Louis D. Gilbert who treat owning shares as a retirement hobby. Bartlett turned $500 into about $5,000 in holdings and attends meetings while Gilbert frequents stockholders meetings and teases executives. The piece notes age as a positive factor and cites Eisenhower creating a Federal Council on Aging plus remarks from Dr. E L Bortz.
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John W. Bartlett
Cicero
Sewell Avery
Montgomery Ward
Douglas MacArthur
Sperry Rand
Louis D. Gilbert
New York
Gilbert
Mabel Morris
Sophie Tucker
Maurice Chevalier
Dwight Eisenhower
Federal Council On Aging
E.L. Bortz
The
American Medical Association
Pasture Tricks Double Beef Yield for Brome-Alfalfa Fields
Iowa State College researchers report that managed Brome-alfalfa pasture can more than double beef output per acre. By controlled grazing and seasonal pasture use near Castana, Iowa, they produced 200 pounds of beef from about a third of an acre and showed reduced corn needs for summer feed. The findings emerged at the Western Iowa Experimental Farm Association field day.
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Iowa State College
Castana
Iowa
Western Iowa Experimental Farm Association
Turnabout's fair play in beverage choice
The speaker argues that if one desires his own preferred beverage, others should be allowed to enjoy theirs too. The point is that fair treatment means letting others have their choice as well, illustrating the proverb turn about's fair play.
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Junior
Grange Gleanings Reflects Growing Community Service
Granges nationwide report rising community service activity with 3901 local Granges in the contest and entries up 9 percent from 1955. Pomona Granges sponsor Safe Driving Contest for ages 16 to 21 with prizes. National Grange seeks host farm families for foreign visitors from the USIA. USDA data show costs for farmers rising in several items while fertilizer and seed prices fall. Kenyon Butterfield, former Michigan Agricultural College president, recalled for his Grange influence and travels.
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United Sates
Pomona
USDA
W.J. Brake
Kenyon Butterfield
Michigan Agricultural College
Michigan State University
Farm and cattle studies show gains from cooling methods
The Agriculture Department notes a six fold rise in frozen fruit and berry production from 1937 to 1955 led by strawberries and cherries with peaches apples and prunes driving 1944 46 boosts. Strawberries were 41 percent of the 1955 pack and cherries 17 percent. 1956 deciduous fruit output expected near 1955 levels amid cold spring and freeze damage. California outlook for peaches pears plums strawberries and dried prunes higher than 1955. In California Imperial Valley cooling fans raised daily gains of Hereford steers by about one pound. Roanoke VA reports hogs in air conditioned and insulated houses outperform pen hogs.
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Agriculture Department
California
Imperial Valley
Roanoke
E. A. Kazarian
Michigan State University
American Society of Agricultural Engineers
U S Peach Crop Estimated At 61 800 000 Bushels In 1956
The agriculture Department said the 1956 peach crop in nine southern states is estimated at 61 800 000 bushels, 19 percent above the small 1955 crop but 8 percent below the 1945 54 average. Miss Barbara Jean David 17, was chosen Miss Young America in 4 H at the National 4 H Club Camp in Washington.
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U. S
Agriculture Department
Barbara Jean David
Washington
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