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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1954
Page
2
Benson argues consumers should drink extra milk and eat more butter to absorb government dairy stocks totaling over 1.3 billion pounds. He notes a 47 pound drop in per capita fluid milk and cream consumption since 1945 and cites price supports set between 75 and 90 percent of parity as needed to ensure adequate future supply.
Bremer county placed 887,808 bushels of 1953 corn under price support before June 1. Chairman Alvin Nuss notes the 1953 total exceeds 1952 by 251,404 bushels, with county figures preliminary. Iowa overall shows 188,587,011 bushels supported, down from 170,654,960 in 1952 by about 3 percent.
State ASC reports 1953 corn under price support equals 27.28 percent of last year’s Iowa crop while 1952 corn under support was 25.39 percent of a larger crop. Existing bins hold 220 million bushels, much from 1948. Producers may reseal to keep 40 million on farms as government offers 15 cents per bushel storage until July 31, 1955. Nationwide totals include 130,524,114 bushels farm-stored loans plus 1,046,433 bushels warehouse loans and 27,015,462 bushels under purchase agreements.
Bremer county extension director Richard Mathews warns of a summer slump in egg output and urges strict culling of nonlaying hens. Monthly culling, especially of yellow beak birds, can save feed and prevent meat losses. Iowa flock owners have improved culling, posting an average of 198 eggs per hen for the year, closing the gap nationally.
State of Iowa vs. Leslie Lloyd Stufflebeam and Emil Schmidt both listed in Bremer County District Court as OMVI defendants from Waterloo. State of Iowa vs Art Hesse charged with assault with intent to inflict bodily injury. State of Iowa vs Sam H. Russell alleges lascivious acts with children. Veronica Harrington vs John W Harrington records divorce for cruel and inhuman treatment.
Twelve Bremer county 4-H boys and one leader will attend the state 4-H Boys Short Course at Iowa State College in Ames June 22 to 24. About 1,200 boys and leaders expected. Delegates include John Monaghan Waverly and others. Harvey Carolus and Dick Mathews accompany. The program covers dating money driving voting and community responsibilities with sessions on world citizenship philosophy health and new ag developments. Bob Vosseller of Co-La-Pi-Ca is among eight state officer candidates.
Two oat demonstration plots have been established in Bremer County near Waverly. One by the Waverly FFA on Highway 218, and another by the Bremer County Extension Service on Lorenz Groening farm near Highway 3. Fifteen oat varieties are planted per plot with name cards by each variety for comparison.
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation offers farmers 11 to 16 cents per bushel to reseal stored grain under the price support program. The government will finance up to 80 percent of storage construction and 75 percent of grain conditioning equipment costs to spur new facilities and improve storage on farms.
Hasbrouck Lumber Co of Tripoli outlines designs for multi use farm buildings intended to store small grains or corn this fall. The structures are to be depreciated over five years under a special tax write off plan, with the grain storage function serving as the initial purpose.
Released Through Richard Math ews, County Extension Director Upper grades of cattle sell lower than two months ago while lower grades rise. Farm economist Francis A. Kutish says price spreads normal for season. Slaughter records peak earlier, then eased in April before rising again in May. Survey of 600 farmers in Iowa and northern Illinois, funded by Chicago Union Stock Yards, suggests June is a good month to sell fat cattle with sales expected to rise into July and remain level or higher than 1953. Stocker and feeder prices remain high despite recent slowdowns. In Emmetsburg, Rich Hubert sues for 2000 for injuries to his two-year-old daughter Krista from a cat.
Multiple transfers recorded including Lutheran Children’s Home Society to H J Harold Senst and wife for lot 15 block 4 Home Addition Waverly revenue 1.65 John W Rice and wife to John J Kadlee and wife lot 4 block 5 Home addition Waverly revenue 2.75 L J Carver and wife to Herman Poppe and wife lot 13 Block 2 Home addition Waverly 15.40 Paul Brandt et al to Lorenz Brandt epercent of sepercent of sex of spercent of section 15 91 13 Sumner and Carl Jobe and wife to H W Lemke and wife 6000 lot 25 in Auditor s plat of spercent of section 24 93 11 Sumner Bertha C Bergmann and husband and Keith P Carroll and wife to Walter Schwerin and wife lots 1 2 3 and 1 block 15 W W Smith s addition Frederika revenue 1.10
Local marriage license notices list Lester James 25 and Dorothy James 23 of Waterloo. Donald Osborn 22 and Marilyn Mueller 18 of Grant, Mich.. Robert Bolte 19 and Lois Crowley 17 of Janesville. Bruce Strottman 22 and Laura Gogg 21 of Waverly. Rodney Stone 21 and Joyce Brunko 18 of Waterloo. Kenneth Brown 25 Grundy Center and Minerva Nuss 22 Sumner. Thomas Price 24 Tripoli and Shirley Buchholz 18 Tripoli. Herschel Teter 22 of Granton with Colleen Schweer 18 Readlyn. Vincent Funk 27 Waterloo and Donna Eichman 22 Tripoli.
Esther Williams stars in Easy To Love at Tripoli Theatre Sunday and Monday. The Technicolor musical features water skiing thrills with Van Johnson and Tony Martin, a heat of romantic rivalries, and impressive stunt sequences in a breezy, era style.
A Korea veteran, Ronald Brown, with two years in the combat engineers, recently earned his high school diploma as part of Independence High School’s 1954 graduating class.
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