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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1956
Page
2
Tripoli Leader in Iowa is the official town paper for Tripoli and Bremer County. Publisher is William A Buckley. Subscription rates are 3 dollars per year in Iowa and 3.50 dollars elsewhere in advance.
Iowans hold over 1.3 billion in E and H bonds with Bremer county purchases at 19 million over 15 years. Estimated cash value of bonds not yet redeemed approaches 11.49 million locally. Counties show large sales and retained values fueling local commerce and employment.
The Biz-E-Bees held a May 2 gathering at Geraldine Kelsey home with a better groomed girl contest Audrey Kappmeyer and a meringue pie demonstration by Geraldine Kelsey. The Wapsie Whirlwinds met at Frederika Public School gym with sixteen girls and their mothers. Doris Heineman demonstrated salads and Marie Bentley spoke on salads while Sylvia Zekoff discussed weight loss traps. Members chose delegates for county camp and rally day. Beverly O’Connell will attend the convention in June. Maxfield Rangers met at Dale Wehling home with twenty members and a visitor. Gordon Happel was chosen for Ames short course and a $5 donation was set for Farm Youth Exchange. Dale Wehling demonstrated giving a penicillin shot and Lyle Happel spoke on cow bloat. next meeting planned.
Dry weather and the USDA price policy boost corn values. Iowa State economist Francis A. Kutish notes Iowa prices up to 20 cents from March while Chicago futures hit a 14 month peak. He questions rain impact, cites total corn stocks up 7 percent, free corn supply down 5 percent, and USDA sales down a fourth from last year.
Iowa farmers sold 14 percent more hogs in March than a year ago per the Iowa Crop and Livestock Market Service. April plans call for 13 percent more hogs, with May expected 6 percent lower. Kutish notes May and June hogs may dip from recent levels, while cattle sales could fall in June barring dry weather and grass shortages.
Bremer county welfare payments for March totaled 15 414 50 with most funds for old age assistance going to 213 cases averaging 58 65 per case. Aid to needy blind covered three cases totaling 189 dollars with 63 per case. Aid to dependent children spanned 25 cases and 99 recipients totaling 2 732 50 averaging 109 30 per case and 27 60 per recipient. The Marine Corps is the oldest branch of U S military service.
Bremer county farmers with price supported corn will be urged to reseal as much as possible for another year to help fix a large grain storage problem in the state. Albert Brandt, chairman of the county ASC, says resealing yields a storage payment of at least 15 cents per bushel for eligible corn kept on farms for a full extra year. Eligible this year are 1955 corn under original loans, 1955 corn under purchase agreements converted to loans, and 1954 corn now unsealed.
The policy states there will be no further extension of loans on re sealed 1953 corn currently stored on farms.
Farmers must secure loans and purchase agreements for 1955 corn and soybeans by May 31. Albert Brandt says outstanding price support loans mature that date. In Bremer County 18,061 bushels were loaned and 15,650 redeemed by May 14, 1956, amid rising market prices.
Rodney, a one year old, and Ramon and Mrs Linga Denison were hospitalized after reportedly drinking kerosene. Information is limited within the fragment.
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