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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1950
Page
7
Sheep salable 1 008 with good to choice spring lambs 27.00 28.00 and top later. two loads average good old crop shorn lambs and yearlings 22.50. slaughter steers and heifers steady to strong. cows and bulls firm to higher. vealers up to 50 cents. Cow prices 23.50 22.25. bulls 25 cents+ higher. vealers 26.00 30.50.
The page presents Chicago grain and soybeans price ranges for July through December contracts plus partial futures data for oats and soybeans. It also includes a note defining hybrid chicks as first generation poultry from mixed breeds and varieties.
A farmer friendly guide introduces the 6 volt Winchester Hot Spark dry cell battery as an economical electric fence power source. It explains proper fence heights for pigs calves sheep goats cows and horses and notes placement posts insulators and gate connections. The article cites W S Allen of Olin Industries on barbed wire use where legal and promises a fence system twelve to fifteen miles long with six months battery life.
A simple homemade system uses two upright posts with clutch like levers at the tops to support attachments after unbolting. A single worker can operate without lifting the heavy gear.
Paramount’s Wake Island tells the defense of the island by Marines and civilians against Japanese forces. Brian Donlevy leads as Major Caton with Robert Preston and Macdonald Carey in supporting roles. Directed by John Farrow.
William S. Beardsley named two new members to the Iowa Development Commission and selected a successor to the late Dr. I. N. Crow on the state board of health. He reappointed Charles B. Dove to a four year term and named EB Hill to succeed William Youngelas. Dr Milford B. Barnes was named to fill the unexpired term of Dr Crow. Barnes term expires in January.
The Soviet Union ordered shutoff of West Berlin electricity and water produced in East Germany at midnight. Western officials said they could produce enough but warned it could worsen a blockade risk, as airlift planes and coal supplies would be strained. Mayor Reuter called it a distraction from Korea.
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