Telegraph Prize Winner Named in Sidney Football Contest
George Nolde of Sidney Packing Co wins the Telegraph special advertisers contest. He receives $100 cash and two tickets to the Denver Bronco Oakland Raider game from Telegraph advertising manager Hank Meysenberg. Vern Austin of Fox Theatre drew the winning name.
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Sidney Telegraph
George Nolde
Sidney Packing Co
Nolde
Hank Meysenberg
Telegraph
Vern Austin
Fox Theatre
Wheat Growers Conclave Scheduled in Scottsbluff
The 17th annual Nebraska Wyoming Wheat Growers Association meeting takes place November 18 to 20 in Scottsbluff. Events include a banquet, a Wheat Queen presentation, and talks by state and national wheat leaders, with sessions on marketing and grain programs.
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Scottsbluff
Nebraska-Wyoming Wheat Growers Association
Elks Club
Scottsbluff High School
E.L Hatcher
Lamar
Colo
National Association Wheat Growers
Ervain Friede
McCook
McCook, Presidnnt of the Nebraska Wheat Growers, and Carl Otto of Yoder, Wyo
Wyoming Wheat Growers
Richard E. Bell
Washington, D.C
Foreign Agricultural Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Everett E. Peterson
University of Nebraska
Richard K. Baum
Western Wheat Associates
Portland
Ore
Farm Bureau Plans Year and Convention Reach
Cheyenne County Farm Bureau board reviews membership drives and committee appointments. Nine county reps will attend the Nebraska Farm Bureau convention in North Platte November 15 to 17. Committee chairs include Leonard Beyer and Lemoyne Johnson. next meeting December 8 at the Coffee Cup in Lodgepole with old and new boards hosting dinner.
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Cheyenne County Farm Bureau
Bob Misegadis
Rollie Green
Kenneth Larson
Women’s Auxiliary
Nebraska Farm Bureau
North Platte
Groun
Misegadis
Bill McDowell
Larson
Francis Runge
Lyle Johnson
Dyle Dillon
Runge
Leonard Beyer
Lemoyne Johnson
Kenneth Namath
Don Larson
Lodgepole
Gum claims span Earth to Sun in alternate years
In 1945 industry sources claimed the United States chewed 15 billion sticks of gum annually, enough to encircle the Earth 260 times at the equator. By 1960 enthusiasts said the sticks laid end to end would reach the Sun, 93 million miles away.
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United States
Former Area Resident Cora Loofe Dies in California
A onetime Lodgepole teacher Mrs. Cora Barlow Loofe 86 died Nov 6 in San Francisco. Cremation and burial of ashes at Lodgepole planned. interment date undisclosed. She taught in Lodgepole before marrying L R Barlow, later moved to California, remarried, and lived with daughter Mrs. Fern McGibbin, then in a local nursing home.
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Lodgepole
Cora Barlow Loofe
San Francisco
Calif
Loofe
L.R. Barlow
California
Fern McGibbin
Meat Yields and Prices Rise Since 1960s Market Hogs
A 230 pound market hog today has 21 pounds more meat and 11 pounds less lard than a similar hog in 1960. An hour’s work today buys 25 percent more pork 20 percent more beef 13 percent more milk 25 percent more peas and 40 percent more eggs than in the late 1950s.
Farm Buying Power Dips to 1933 Low in October
The USDA reports October parity ratio at the lowest since 1933 as prices received by farmers fall 2 percent and prices paid rise 5 percent. Farm buying power drops to 70 percent of 1910–14 levels with wheat at mid October averaging $1.32 per bushel, about half parity.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
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