4-H Judging Team Excels at Dairy Congress
Bremer County 4-H dairy judging team placed sixth overall at the national Dairy Cattle Congress contest with 32 states competing. Team members Merlin Orth Paul Reiter Bob Woseller and Dick Juhl earned eighth Ayrshire seventh Brown Swiss and tenth Guernseys, scoring 1832 to place sixth. Individual scores list Orth 615 Reiter 612 and Woseller 605 with Juhl as alternate among 119 contestants.
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Bremer County
Merlin Orth
Paul Reiter
Bob Wosseller
Dick Juhl
Bremer
Ayrshire
Guernseys
Maryland
New York
Michigan
Minnesota
Ohio
Iowa
New Jersey
Merlin
Cranberry Festival Time Sparks Farm Program Debate
After heated talks Congress passes a new farm act shaping 1955 supports. Kutish outlines 82 percent parity lower limit for 1955 with 75 to 90 percent range in 1956 for corn, wheat, cotton, rice and peanuts while tobacco stays at 90. The act also sets aside up to 2.5 billion dollars in CCC stocks and modernizes parity rules. Cranberry festival time promotes recipes from Iowa State College, featuring cranberry relish and shortcake ideas by Leslie Smith.
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Congress
Francis A. Kutish
Iowa State College
Kutish
Commodity Credit Corporation
USDA
Iowa State College Extension
Leslie Smith
Norval Wardle
Wardle
Ressler Named State Champion Brown Swiss 4 H Boy
Ronald Ressler of the Washington Herdsman 4 H club was named State Champion Brown Swiss 4 H boy by the Iowa Brown Swiss Association after Dairy Cattle Congress judging. He owns five Brown Swiss cattle and has competed in state fairs and county demonstrations while earning a 17 jewel gold watch as his prize.
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Ronald Ressler
Washington
Iowa Brown Swiss Association
Ron
Dairy Cattle Congress
Breed Association
State Extension Service
Bremer County
60th Wedding Anniversary Noted at Knoxville
Mr and Mrs Walter Bane celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in Knoxville with family and friends in attendance. The article notes their milestone and mentions unrelated discussion about age limits for federal judges not being prescribed by the Constitution.
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Knoxville
Walter Bane
B Square 4 H Team Earns Blue Ribbon at Cattle Congress
The Bremer county 4 H girls from the B Square Club led by Mrs Herbert Scharnhorst earned a blue ribbon at the Dairy Cattle Congress for the demonstration The Unseen Finish interlacing a collar The team previously won a blue ribbon at the Waverly 4 H Fair and placed second in county competition with Gleora Bull and Marlys Oberlieu as demonstrators.
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Bremer County
Gleora Bull
Marlys Oberlieu
B-Square Club
Herbert Scharnhorst
B-Square
Waverly
Leroy Two Ladies Meet In Figanbaum Home On Thursday
Ladies of Leroy township gathered at Mrs. Robert Figanbaum’s home on Thursday afternoon. Margaret Krug led a lesson titled How's Your Personality. The group planned to pack boxes for the boys in service and will bring food to the next meeting. Lunch was served by Mrs. Robert Figanbaum and Mrs. Arnold Rieck.
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Leroy Township
Robert Figanbaum
Margaret Krug
Arnold Rieck
Holstein Bull Jump Startles Decorah Streets
A 2,000-pound Holstein bull leaped from a stock truck in Decorah causing excitement. It landed on its head and was stunned, then trussed with a log chain to prevent damage. Separately near Glidden a Mississippi pipeline worker LeRoy Blanchard of Biloxi died after an eight-foot ditch collapsed on him.
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Decorah
Mississippi
Glidden
LeRoy Blanchard
Biloxi
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Richard Mathews
Brown
Emilia Caesar
Skovde
Sweden
Ellin Wahlstrom
Alta
Wahlstrom
Clarence Edeker
Allison
Tripoli, Iowa
Leroy
Figanbaum
Thompson
Block & Klemp
Cupco Aluminum
Hubbard
Sunshine
Colburn Feed Mill
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