Snow and Cold Put Strain on Iowa Agricultural Conventions
Snow and bitter cold challenge farmers and families but state and district meetings proceed in Des Moines Ames and across Iowa. Farm co op leaders, elevator managers and directors hold four day sessions while the Soil Conservation short course opens in Ames. An Iowa Youth Speaking Contest winner will be announced at a banquet for up to 2000 attendees as discussions cover supply management proposals from Secretary Freeman and national figures like Illard Cochrane.
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Des Moines
Ames
State
Farmer's Elevator Company
Iowa
Secretary of Agriculture
Freeman
Illard Cochrane
Ted Willrich
ISU
Glenn
Holloman Air Force Base
New Mexico
Wild Blue Yonder
John Mosely
USAF
Cape Canaveral
Ham
Enos
Major Mosely
College Students Flock West for Education
Western colleges attract eastern youths amid crowded eastern campuses and limited coeducation. Knox College president Dr. Sharry Umbeck notes a gradual Westward wave with midwestern schools offering regional diversity and value. The shift brings increasing cross regional enrollment and broader cultural exchange.
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Midwest
Sharry Umbeck
Knox College
Galesburg
Storage Rooms Now Virus Incubators At University Park
Basement rooms once used to store food for a dormitory's residents are converted into a laboratory studying how viruses invade cells and replicate. The small storage spaces now function as part of virology research at the university.
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University Park
UPI
Tissue culture advances in virus research at Penn State
Dr Ernest Ludwig of Pennsylvania State University describes tissue culture increasing study of viruses like measles and polio. Living animal cells are grown in bottles in ultra cold freezers to preserve their life processes for infection studies, enabling observing how viruses alter cell chemistry and cause disease or cancer in controlled conditions. Quail are common in small coveys in open farmland with brushy shelter.
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Ernest WH. Lidwig
Pennsylvania State University
Ludwig
Ron Wild
Florida Looks to Space Boom to Offset Welfare Costs
Florida faces rising welfare costs amid a booming population and Cuban refugee influx. The state administers federal funds for public assistance, aiding 200,000 people with $81 million in 1960, while Cape Canaveral's Nova Moon project promises jobs and tax revenue to cover growing needs.
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Jacksonville
Fla
UPI
Florida
Fidel Castro
Florida Department
U.S. Welfare Department
Dade County
Miami
State Welfare Department
Census Bureau
Moon
Cape Canaveral
Florida Welfare Department
Department For
1960 John Deere planter and implements auction item
The listing details a 1960 John Deere 495 corn planter with rubber press wheels that covered 250 acres. It includes a John Deere 2 bottom 14 plow with power and trolon rubber, a Kewanee 9 foot wheel disc, and a John Deere 2 row Quick-tech cultivator for later use with rear rigs and weeder.
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John Deere
Humboldt Pto
H.p. Wisconsin
Massey Harris
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