Iowa official says pork prices at stores unlikely to drop with hog market slide
Iowa Agriculture Secretary Robert Lounsberry predicts consumer pork prices will hold steady despite midweek hog price drops from 61 to 50 and beef price ceilings lifting next month. He cites middleman effects and shifts to beef substitutes as factors, and says cattle markets will react differently.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa
Robert Lounsberry
Lounsberry
Midwest
Paul Queck
Iowa Pork Producers Association
Queck
Washington County 4-H Educational Presentations at State Fair
The State Fair Educational Presentation Schedule for Washington County 4-Hers is announced. Presentations run 9 a.m. to 3 30 or 4 p.m. August 20 to 26 in five rooms of the 4 H Exhibits Building.
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Washington County
Sanford Rugg
Wayland
Melinda Reed
Washington
Nancy Mineart
Brighton
Washington County State Fair
Jefferson County Girls
Johnson County
Wapello Co
Keokuk Co
Holbert honored by livestock Board
J. C. Holbert, longtime Washington resident now in Bettendorf, received recognition from the National Livestock and Meat Board in Omaha Nebraska. He retired as Beef Industry Council chairman and board director with a plaque from Meat Board Chairman John A. Copeland praising his leadership and noting a 50 percent rise in industry support during his three years at the BIC helm.
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J. C. Holbert
Washington
Bettendorf
National Livestock and Meat Board
Omaha
Beef Industry Council
Copeland
Holbert
BIC
Meat Board and Beef Industry Council
The
Meat Board
Rural volunteers organize night patrol to curb livestock theft
Fifteen central Iowa farmers form a special night patrol to guard Story and Boone county roads northwest of Ames. The volunteers plan two men per car to patrol from dusk until dawn across an 18 square mile area to prevent hog and cattle rustling.
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Gilbert
UPI
Iowa
Story
Boone
Ames
Iowa Zones 9 and 13 Weather Summary
Partly cloudy through Sunday with southerly winds 10 to 15 mph today and 7 to 12 mph tonight. Slight chance of afternoon thundershowers Sunday. Warm and humid conditions continue. Highs 88 to 92 today and Sunday, lows near 70 tonight.
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Iowa
Indians oust Boy Scouts as dancers at State Fair
A Des Moines fair board fired the Mitigwa Scout Dancers after AIM demanded real Indian performers. The agreement hires 10 to 20 Indian dancers at 125 dollars per day for the remaining fair, with optional extra pay for four weekend days. AIM also received reimbursement of 23 dollars.
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Boy Scouts
Des Moines
UPI
Fair Board
American Indian Movement
AIM
Hawaii
Fair
Kenneth Fulk
Fulk
Regional Aim
Raymond Slick
Midwest
Ron Petite
Slick
Petite
Fairgrounds
Iowa
Robert D. Ray
Ray
Iowa Highway Patrol
Michael Sellers
Falk
Iowa Congressmen oppose immediate sale of government grain bins
Three Iowa lawmakers urge Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz to delay selling all government grain bins by October 20. They warn the move will remove storage for the 1973 harvest, urging use of bins for storage or delayed sale until next summer to avert a storage crisis and backlogs in elevators and rail transport.
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United Press International
Iowa
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Harold Hughes
Dick Clark
Wiley Mayne
Agriculture
Earl Butz
Clark
U.S.C.A
Department
Mayne
Butz
USDA
Skylab crew photographs tropical storm near Cuba
Skylab 2 astronauts Alan Bean Owen Garriott and Jack Lousma woke early on day off to photograph a tropical low near Cuba as it moved into the Gulf of Mexico. They filmed and photographed the storm while continuing station tasks and testing new equipment amid prior mission setbacks.
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Houston
UPS
Cuba
Alan L. Bean
Owen K. Garriott
Jack R. Lousma
Mission Control
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf
Bean
Garriott
Lousma
Solar Observatory
Edward G. Gibson
Philip C. Shaffer
Shaffer
Mezvinsky pushes faster changes on food stamp rules
Rep. Edward Mezvinsky of Iowa says he expects the federal ban on using food stamps for hamburger containing foreign beef to be removed within a week. He argues the prohibition targets the poor and notes the 1973 Agricultural Act lifts the ban, though policy changes can take weeks or months. Mezvinsky sent a telegram to Secretary Earl Butz urging bypass of normal procedures to speed the change.
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Fort Madison
UPI
Edward Mezvinsky
Lowa
Mezvinsky
Nixon
Iowa Democrat
Agriculture
Earl Butz
Oldest Indian artifacts found near Cherokee Iowa
Workers uncover bone and arrowhead artifacts in a Cherokee dig said to date back as far as 9 000 years. Dr. Richard Shutler of the University of Iowa and Dr. Duane Anderson of Sanford Museum emphasize the site's significance showing three habitation ages 6 000 8 500 and 9 000 years on one spot. Initial funding included a 5 000 dollar National Park Service grant.
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UPI
Iowa
Richard Shutler
Department of Anthropology
University of Iowa
Shutler
Cherokee
North America
Duane Anderson
Sanford Museum
Anderson
National Park Service
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