Family Trip Highlights Knott's Berry Farm Ghost Town Visit
The report covers Gus Bull and family touring Southern California including Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood Freeway, and Signal Hill oil activity. It highlights Knott's Berry Farm at Buena Park with Ghost Town attractions, stage coach rides, and pioneer meals, ending with plans to travel home.
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Gus Bull
Knott's Berry Farm
Knott
Buena Park
Los Angeles
Walter Knott
Gross Thinks Iowa Farmers Won't Endorse H Truman
Washington report argues Iowa farmers will not cheer Truman and Barkley as hog prices sink. It cites a 14 percent drop in net farm income since 1947, imports of foreign pork, and calls for curbing defense spending and military payrolls to ease the burden on farmers and the broader economy.
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Gross
Iowa
H. Truman
Washington
Truman
Barkley
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Canada
Denmark
Italy
Holland
Poland
Czechoslovakia
United States
Washington, D. C
Peron
Argentina
Grandview
Manilla Man suffered fall from windmill ladder rung
ESCAPED Al Grandgenett of Manilla fell backwards from a windmill when a rung broke and dropped 40 feet. He pulled ligaments in a leg and was bruised but not seriously hurt. Cross braces at the tower bottom broke his fall, while a forester advised removing stunted trees to improve woodlots.
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Sunset Boulevard
Sunset and
Vine
NBC
Radio City
Hollywood
Beverly Hills
Iowa
Signal Hill
Signal Gas and Oil Co., of
California
al Grandgenett
Manilla
Library donors and new books at the Monticello library
The library board thanks Mr and Mrs W H Warner Grace Lutheran Ladies Aid and Legion Auxiliary for donations and notes new acquisitions including Marshmallow Park Book Chronicles of Avonlea Bungalow Mystery Song of the Twisted Candles Dark Moment Strange Lands and Seven Leagues to Paradise Memories of Herbert Hoover plus a feature on Jim Hicks’s 36 000 miles of travel and commentary on federal civilian employment trends and military payrolls raising concerns about military dominance.
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W. H. Warner
Grace Lutheran Ladies’ Aid
Avonlea
L. M. Montgomery
Carolyn Keene
Keene
Ann Bridge
William O. Douglas
Paradise
Richard Tregaskis
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Congress
Iowa Farm Wisdom and Open Minded Leadership
A reflection on Iowa farmers adopting sweet clover as a nitrogen fixer and pasture enhancer showing open minded leadership. The piece cites innovations like hybrid corn, corn pickers, and diverse farming choices, highlighting the Iowa way in method and moderation.
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Iowa
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Tackle Amusement Park
Long Beach
Pike
Oil
Berry Farm
Richard Campbell
Iowa State College
Chevrolet
New
Bel Air
Library News
Douglas Trude
Jim Hicks
E. G. Hicks
Monticello
Europe
Sherwood DeForest
Tripoli
Panzer Produce
Sumner
The
Sun Players
Toby the Fixer
Bremer County Tankwagon Credit Association
Joe Marsh
Lowa
U.S. Brewers Foundation
Doe Wars
Oliver Row
H Oliver
Essa
Gas Bull Implement Co
Tripoli, Iowa
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