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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1968
Page
22
Numerous 4-H groups including Clarksfield Merry Maids and New London Happy Homemakers held meetings with fabric demonstrations, safety talks, and plans for next year. Other clubs showcased pattern fitting, nails, three way switches, and nutrition talks.
The Chronicle Telegram sponsors two Lorain County 4 H members Tim Radachi and Sandy Wolfe to Ohio Forestry Camp at Camp Tippecanal near New Philadelphia from June 16 to 22. Activities include bird walks canoeing sailing hikes and vesper programs with lessons in forestry land use watershed management wildlife conservation wood use and reforestation. Tim is the son of John and Hilda Radachi and Sandy is the daughter of Norman Wolfe.
Industrial and Farm Builders Inc promotes pole designed buildings as attractive versatile structures with strong wind resistance and rigidity from 2 by 4 sheathing and treated splash boards. They can be wood aluminum or steel and serve storage machinery hay grain or livestock needs with design help from Bill Starbuck president. Visit Rt 113 one mile west of Rt 58 South Amherst or call 986-5951 for service.
An Agriculture Department study finds sunflower oil, heavily produced in the Soviet Union, rising as a key global competitor to U.S. soybean oil. Sunflower oil exports and world production surged from the 1960s onward, with the Soviet Union supplying about 65 percent of world sunflower oil output in 1966 and contributing roughly 70 percent of trade.
Paul Schriver age 19 of Belden was elected president of the 1968 Junior Fair Board at the first meeting. Ralph Walker 17 of Penfield is vice president and Ellen Bigler 17 of Columbia Station is secretary.
Rain and wet fields stalled field work across Ohio in May, the Ohio Agricultural Extension Service said. Corn planting was 70 percent complete versus 90 percent normally, soybeans 30 percent planted, and strawberry production forecast at 460 million pounds for 1968. Hay and pasture forages remained in good condition despite drownouts.
Spring and early summer are best for applying chemicals to control pond weeds in farm ponds. Filamentous algae is common and can be controlled with low concentrations of copper sulfate. Mechanical and biological methods also help, improving fishing, boating and swimming benefits.
Poem explores grief as a lingering, shared ache across years. Images of a family home, quiet children, a phone call of bad news, and the endless need to cope reflect persistent sorrow. The speaker recalls small gestures, lost routines, and the heaviness of memory.
A cross section of several thousand Ohio farmers will receive crop survey cards. The cards are confidential and returnable to Dan C. Tucker, agricultural statistician in charge of the Ohio Crop Reporting Service. The survey tallies acres planted and plans, compares 1968 with last year and the five year average, and will be released next month in Washington, D. C.
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