Spotlight on Agriculture Week in Washington
A Washington visit highlights Iowa's delegation. Senator Hickenlooper and Jack Miller lead a busy Iowa group on Capitol Hill. Interviews with Freeman, Governor Romney, and numerous officials reveal strong farming support, debate over farm policy, and Romney’s 1968 bid rhetoric.
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Washington
Iowa
Agriculture
Freeman
Michigan
Romney
USDA
National Farm Organization
Senator Hickenlooper
U.S. Senate
Senate Agriculture Committee
Jack Miller
Cedar Rapids
Foreign Relations
Aeronautics and Space
Atomic Energy
Congress
Browns return to Wellman home in spring
The Browns return to Wellman after wintering in Plant City Florida. Local social notes include visits from Raymond Trier, Robert Schlabaugh, and relatives. The Ladies Rural Club held a birthday exchange dinner, with member gifts and a flower exchange.
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Wellman
C. O. Brown
Plant City
Florida
Weillman
Raymond Trier
Bernard Redlinger
Robert Schlabaugh
Denver
Colorado
Joel Schlabaugh
Mercy Hospital
Iowa City
Lela Steiner
Vella Maplethorpe
Charles Coleman
Washington
Ladies Rural Club
Wade Page
Barna Karnes
Bertha Durst
Oskaloosa
Multiple Iowa estate and consignment auctions listed
A sequence of sale notices from April to May details estate and business auctions in Iowa towns. Emma Bopp and Clara Davies Estate hold a 6:30 pm April 26 household goods sale at Washington County Fairgrounds. April 26 includes a 1 pm sale of a six room home in Ainsworth for Ella M. Nash Estate. April 29 features a Columbus Junction restaurant equipment closing out for Columbus Cafe at 11 am. May 2 presents a Sprague Antique Shop closing out on Main Street Keota at 10 am. May 6 covers a Brighton Eddie Edwards Auction Service consignment across from the Grade School at 1 pm. Regular livestock sales occur Wednesdays at Smylie's Market Columbus Junction and at Ka lona, Wayland, Ollie, Wapello, and Washington auctions on various days with hogs, veal, sheep, cattle, and other stock.
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Washington County Fairgrounds
Emma Bopp
Clara Davies
Ainsworth
Iowa
Ella M. Nash
Columbus Junction
Columbus Cafe
Sprague
Main Street
Keota
Eunice
Isaac Sprague
Eddie Edward
Brighton
Eddie Edwards
Smylie’s
Kalona
Wayland
Ollie Livestock Exchange
Ollie
Wapello
Highway 61
Washington Livestock Sales Co
Farmers urged to check stored grain on farms
Farmers are reminded to monitor grain moisture and quality in storage, especially corn tied to Commodity Credit Corporation loans. ASC Chairman Howard Lins notes high moisture in some areas increases risk of deterioration and urges immediate county office notification to arrange grain movement, protecting both grain and farmer finances.
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Commodity Credit Corporation
Howard Lins
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee
ASC
Farm policy talks held in Midwest
A series of meetings between Secretary of Agriculture O. L. Freeman and farm leaders was held in three Midwest areas. The purpose was to bring the secretary together with state and area leaders and farmers for a shirt sleeve talk on farm programs and future policy directions.
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Secretary of Agriculture
O. L. Freeman
Midwest
Agriculture meetings set across multiple states in April
Secretary Freeman announced meetings on April 19 in Hutchinson Kansas Ames Iowa and April 20 in Decatur Indiana to seek advice from agriculture leaders on future farm decisions. He called this a critical transition time for farm programs and agriculture and said planning now will impact agriculture’s future. He expressed concern over farm prices and the cost price squeeze on farmers and pledged to relieve the situation with leadership input guiding decisions.
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Hutchinson
Kansas
Ames
IoWa
Decatur
Indiana
Freeman
Rebekahs Honor Wellman Members in Wellman Lodge Meeting
Wellman Rebekah Lodge met April 13 honoring members with 25 years or more. A memorial service was held for Delbert Maxwell. Gifts were presented by Vice Grand Elma Oldfield and Florence Norman to titled honorees. attendees included guests from Moline.
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Wellman
Wellman Rebekah Lodge
Vice Grand
Elma Oldfield
Florence Norman
Delbert Maxwell
Tresa Yoder
Eva Wagamon
Lela Goodwin
Lillie Walton
Hazel Enfield
Bernice Nickell
Myrtle Blumenstein
Nina Johnson
Mable Wagamon
Sylvia Geyer
Gertrude Griffeth
Alta Berry
Edna Blumenstein
Alene Millice
Ruth Page
Leona Blum
Lizetta Walton
Mae Marek
Bessie Capper
Marguerite Plecker
Florence Wade
Harriet Blumenstein
Moline
Rebekah Lodges
Bill Rickey
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Davenport
East Iowa
U. S. Capitol
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Crawfordsville
Ralph Lieberknecht
Wayne Atwood
Packwood
Richard Stanley
Muscatine
Grover Willson
Morning Sun
John Wallace
Neal Smith
Altoona
John Culver
Culver
Smith
Polk County
4-H
Curtis (Farm Bureau
Wm. Scherle
District Seven
John Kyl
District Four
William Scherle
Bill
Scherle
Henderson
Congressman Scherle
Robert Emmett
Gordon Stine
Harvey Burger
Adel
Shirley Bennett
Waukee
Dale Danilson
Woodward
Bloomfield
Bert Bandstra
Kyl
District of Columbia
Congressman Mayne
Sioux City
Rusk
Mayne
Curtis
REC
White House
GOP
Browns
Wellmar
Mrs. C. B. Godber
Edith Long
Harry Karnes
Mary Swartzendruber
Shannon
Illinois
Edna Hudson
Noah Landis
Jackson
Minn
Chappel
Neb
Richard Durian
Joe
Celeste
Fred Durian
Emma Webster
Leo Swartzendruber
Cienwood Springs
Paul A. Hershberger
Hershberger
Mercy
Journal
Don Karr
National Bank of Washington
Karr Tuckpointing Company
Vinton, Iowa
GMC
Peadock Inc
Olds
Cadillac
Pontiac
Buick
C. L. Jennings
New London
Rebekahs
Mrs. 0. B. Godber
Harold Wayne Emde
St. Lukes Hospital
Janice
Michael Scott
O. J. Emde
Jack Musil
Cleveland
Ohio
Carl Emde
Anna Fehlberg
Edith Davison
Paul Noffsinger
Vernon Emde
Margaret Furman
Erma Rugg
Harlan Yoder
Dean Swartz
Jeff
Indianola
University Park, Pa
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Ruth Ann Nine
Penn State
Washington Municipal Water Works
Chrysler Motors Corporation
Cul
Sur
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Plymouth
East
St. Washington
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