Indiana Farmers Tap Government Loans For Feed Corn Profits
In Indiana 46 percent of corn growers followed acreage limits, enabling some to place 20 million bushels of the 1955 crop under price support loans at the national average. Farmers buy open market corn at 90 cents to $1.18 a bushel to feed hogs and poultry, while government loans run at $1.58. Proponents cite slumping hog and cattle prices and the need to survive, highlighting cases like John W. Hauschild who used a 1955 crop under loan and bought extra corn for feed.
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Evansville
Ind
Corn
Indiana
Reid Wilson
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Office
John W. Hauschild
Grayson County Sees 2935 OASI Checks in December
Z E Avery reports 2935 Grayson County residents received Social Security old age and survivors insurance checks in December 1955. Farm operators may soon qualify for retirement benefits as earnings reporting begins in 1955. Tax and benefit questions directed toInternal Revenue Service Dallas and Social Security Office Dallas.
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Grayson County
Z. E. Avery
Dallas
Avery
Internal Revenue
Pacific
Texas
District Director of
Social Security
Commerce Street
Third of Texas farms own television sets in 1954 census
Results from the 1954 Census of Agriculture show 30.8 percent of Texas farms have TV sets. George S. Thompson of the Dallas census office announced 90,323 of 292,946 farms were equipped, below the national average of 35.5 percent but above the West South Central average of 27.5 percent.
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Texas
George S. Thompson
Dallas
U. S. Department of Commerce Bureau
South Central
Spelling Prize, Cats, Saucers and Marbles In A Parade
A quirky string of vignettes covers a kitten buying a saucer from a grocery stoop, a post office stamp mix up, a marble fight, a drunk joke about key possession, a political speaker’s crowd, and a TV quiz prize. It ends with a boy’s witty spelling reply.
Pugnacious pupil Bobby reminded by teacher after recess
After recess a teacher tells Bobby, a notably combative pupil, that she was about to address his behavior. The brief confrontation hints at ongoing discipline in the classroom.
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Bobby
For Sale Kerosene Stove and Community Event Notes
For sale a table top kerosene cook stove in good condition offered by Mrs Loubel Phillips of Kentuckytown. Also listing an income tax service and a farm report due January 31 with Floyd Bassett at the Gift Shop. A pie supper and cake walk occurs Friday January 20 at Kentuckytown school house at 7 30 pm sponsored by Kentuckytown Community Club with music.
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Loubel Phillips
Kentuckytown
Income Tax Service
Floyd Bassett
Kentuckytown Community Club
Bankrupt Creditor Exchange Sparks Rudeness in Night Club
A man admits owing over $100 000 with assets unable to satisfy debts. creditors joke about cutthroat recovery. Other snippets include a couple quarreling about marriage, a sitter doubt, and a ribbed bus operator joke about bank identity.
Reading in the Dark Laugh Line at Dinner
A professor sits beside an unusually quiet blonde at dinner. After failed attempts at conversation he asks if she reads papers. She replies she reads in the dark after bed, explaining she sees only because it rests her eyes.
Couch on the head prompts a house call joke
A psychiatrist spots a colleague lugging a couch on his head and asks why. The reply is humorous: it’s a house call.
Ice Cream Menu Laugh Lines
A waitress lists vanilla strawberry and chocolate flavors in a playful exchange about her throat. The customer asks about laryngitis and she clarifies the menu has just vanilla strawberry and chocolate.
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Whitewright
H. P. Taylor
Guy Davis
Stephens & Bryant
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West Locust
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Lem Tittsworth
Bonham
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Johnson
Dixon Service Station
United States
Carrie Hamilton
Hanna’s
First National Bank
Linda Theatre
Jack Hawkins
Joan Collins
Dewey Martin
Lloyd Bridges
Joan Taylor
Lance Fuller
Pete Kelly
Jack Webb
Janet Leigh
Edmond O’brien
Humphrey Bogart
Frederic March
Martha Scott
Mary Murphy
Arthur Kennedy
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Stewart Granger
Jean Simmons
Bill Travers
Tillett Grocery & Market Siniy
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Kraft Caramels
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Griffin’s Peach
Sun Valley
Wortz Saltine Crackers
Scott Tissue
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Betty Crocker
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