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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1959
Page
4
Grafton Gleaners class of the Methodist Church plans a joint effort with other classes to paint the church parsonage. Rev. Earl Hart to chair the project. Also assigned to the Community Calendar project, work must finish by early May. The Hague reports Dutch plans for nuclear propelled merchant ships.
In London, during a regular Friday duplicate at the Wellsley Club, declarer John Collings led four spades with Harold Franklin as partner. West doubled two hearts and East doubled four spades, with West opening clubs. The hand proved challenging as the play unfolded.
State Auditor Albert Steinwedel said a study of a newly passed Indiana law raising county prosecutors salaries found it also repealed the original law providing for any salary payment at all starting July 1. The report notes payroll changes and legal implications.
Allen Kopp launches Kopp Soft Water Service and Home Improvement on Rt 10 east of LaPorte offering sales, installation and 24 hour service for water softeners and systems. He provides free water analysis, salt delivery, and sells various systems for domestic and industrial use. Kopp, longtime Elyria resident with a 21 year tenure, operates six days weekly 8 am to 6 pm at headquarters.
Part time farmers, like full time operators, used the Land Bank System heavily in 1958. Fred W. Gilmore reports that part-time borrowers accounted for 16 percent of long term loans, totaling 41 million dollars of 429 million in new loans. Most loans funded real estate, mortgages, and farm improvements, with 7,600 loans by part time farmers. The system, farmer owned since 1930, reached a loan balance of 2.1 billion and net worth of 299 million at year end 1938.
Ohio State University engineer J D Blickle outlines silo placement to boost farm feeding efficiency. He urges locations that ease filling and emptying, allow silage expansion, shelter feed banks, enable traffic lanes, and aid drainage. Reports on new insecticides and soil treatments accompany practical silo planning and construction guidance.
The North Central Branch of the Entomological Society of America will convene at the Neil House in Columbus on Wednesday and Thursday. Fifteen states are represented, spanning Ohio, Kentucky, Colorado, and Wyoming. The meeting aims to coordinate research, teaching, and extension in insect behavior and control across horticulture, farm crops, humans, domestic animals, stored products, and household nuisances.
Norwalk farmer West Ruggles from Ridgefield township will be honored at the Ohio State University Farm and Home Week luncheon as part of a Farmers Business event. His 40 years of farm accounts show price fluctuations production per acre and rising machinery costs and he is noted for the longest record among Ohio attendees. Also to be recognized from Huron county are Byron Dalton & Sons Wakeman 20 years and Mrs. Clarence Lyons Greenwich 25 years along with other farmers and their wives with long running farm records.
Ohio farmers realized a net income of 2448 per farm in 1958, up 11 percent from 1957, with gross income averaging 7187 per farm. Higher receipts from hogs cattle and wheat offset rising production costs, lifting total farm net income by 38 percent. US figures show 2750 net per farm, 23 percent above 1957. average 2985 per farm, 25 percent higher, second only to 1948.
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