Portable Weighing Station Cuts Ranch Transport Time
Leland H. Baker of Woodlake California touts a portable weighing unit that holds ten steers and uses salvaged materials to reduce shrinkage from trucking to central scales. The DIY setup, hauled by pickup, takes about an hour to deploy and includes movable gates and a vertical lifting carrier with scales on concrete blocks.
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Leland H. Baker
Woodlake
California
Weich
Baker
Nebraska Interstate Road Reach West by 2080 Says Son
Editorial notes George Syas of Omaha claims the row super road will reach western Nebraska by 2080 at the present rate of construction. He adds a casual sign off about meeting on the moon.
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George Syas
Omaha
Nebraska
Farm Census Signals Population Drop and Economic Risk
The piece warns a 15 percent farm population drop over nine years foreshadows further rural decline. It cites larger farms, mechanization, and crop controls reducing labor need, urging businessmen and chambers to seek new payrolls to sustain towns like Sidney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney
Chamber of Commerce
The Year to Come in 1960 and Beyond
A retrospective on 1959 highlights economic upturn amid steel strikes and Cold War tensions. It previews 1960 with a Nixon era summit likely, a possible nuclear test ban, disarmament hopes, and rising global, economic challenges that demand vigilance and opportunity.
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U. S
Kremlin
Berlin
Khrushchev
Camp David
Russia
West
America
Rusted Pipe Marker of Dry Oil Hole in Southwest Texas
A lone rusted pipe marks the site of a five mile deep bore in Southwest Texas that yielded nothing. The dry hole underlines the risk in oil exploration and the need for incentives like depletion allowances to spur long term drilling despite low odds of success.
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Texas
Robert W. Stock
U. S
New Year Wish List From Public Figure Poem
A humorous verse wishes happiness for Mamie Eisenhower Kennedy Pike and De Gaulle. It asks for peace and aid for workers and families, weather relief, sports luck, charity, health, and world goodwill as the calendar turns to 1960.
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Mamie
Ike
Senator Kennedy
Bishop Pike
Charles de Gaulle
Age Of The Shoddy And The Moral Crisis
The piece reviews Allen Drury s Advise and Consent as a critique of postwar America s shift to half done work and inflated prices. It cites Bishop Richard Emrich on moral decay and praises renewed public discussion as a path to moral revival. It ends noting Jim Brown s NFL scoring and not smoking aiding athletics.
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America
Allen Drury
Washington
Drury
Michigan
Richard Emrich
Saturday Evening Post
The
Post
Scan
United States
Unicameral faces calls for special session over highway dispute
Opinion notes Governor should summon the unicameral to avert a calamity in the highway department as Roy Cochran and Henry Schlitt near retirement. It argues a special session would delay solutions, fuel partisan fights, and raise costs during an election year.
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Edwin Mc
Hugh Ote
Murdock
Olister
Bilso
Highway Department
Cerca
Roy Cochran
Henry Schlitt
Shed A Tear For Cuba
A Nebraska State Journal column laments Fidel Castro turning Cuba into chaos and hate. It warns of future laws stripping property from counter revolutionaries, compares Castro to revolutionary madness, and urges Americans to reflect on their stance as Cuba’s condition worsens.
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Cuba
Nebraska State Journal
Fidel Castro
Castro
United States
Teachers For A Day Honors And Hesitations In Glen Cove
About 136 Glen Cove adults served as teachers for a day in five elementary schools teaching over 2000 kindergartners to sixth graders. Most enjoyed the experience though some doubt repeating it. a housewife spoke of home problems, while a shaken man smoked to steady himself. The Glen Cove superintendent praised the program for strengthening home school cooperation and learning about the local system.
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Glen ‘Cove
Long Island
Glen Cove
Barrier To Ancestor Worship
The Wall Street Journal notes that a looming national debt will burden the younger generation and curtail indulgence in ancestor worship.
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Wall Street Journal
Across and Down Word Puzzle Clues Mixed with Names
A dense list of crossword style clues with scattered misreads and partial words across and down. The page includes entries like metal move slightly and various cultural, geographic, and objects clues, plus timeworn abbreviations and trivia hints.
Poisoning Watch for Children Prompts Household Precautions
Health experts urge parents to keep medicines and toxic household products out of reach to prevent accidental poisonings. Bernard E. Conley notes about 1500 of 14 000 childhood deaths from 1 to 14 years are due to poison. Training and supervision reduce risks.
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Bernard E. Conley
American Medical Association
Committee On
Cchild
Free time as modern freedom reshapes American life
Réchele Wall argues that leisure is a new freedom enabling self rule as technology removes physical labor. Women are expanding roles beyond drudgery into arts, careers, and public service, while men and society must use free time for personal fulfillment and cultural progress.
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New York
Réchele Wall
Wall
Virus Isolated as Major Breakthrough in Shipping Fever Study
Researchers in the Agricultural Research Service led by Robert C. Bessenger isolated a virus linked to shipping fever in cattle. They identified SF-4 from calf nasal mucus and showed it can induce mild disease, grow in tissue culture, and elicit anti serums. IBR virus was also recovered but SF-4 serum did not block it. An unidentified virus was additionally found in affected calves.
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Robert C. Bessenger
Agricultural Research Service
Soybean Seed Treatment Trial Compared Molybdenum Effects
Farmer Frank Van Horen of Sikeston Missouri conducts a soybean seed trial comparing two plants: one molybdenum treated and one untreated. The trial uses a special form of molybdenum applied before planting to observe differences in root size and foliage.
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Frank van Horen
Sikeston
Missouri
Kena
Health admission rise capped at twenty percent
The Health Information Foundation reports that admissions to general hospitals in the United States have increased by at most 20 percent over the past 20 years.
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United States
Health Information Foundation
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