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MiiTMrrTTT F. J. Gilbride. State and Farm News Editor Monday, April 30, 1962 8 Clay County To Vote on 2 Contests VERMILLION, S.D. There will One of Oldest Elevators in Area To Mark Anniversary at Baltic Petitions For Power be only two contests for party nomination at the county level in the Clay County primary election CHAMBERLAIN, S.D.

May 7, at 10 a.m. the courtroom of on June 5. the Brule County Courthouse a petition to create a consumers' The lone contest for a strictly power district for the city of Chamberlain will be heard before Circuit Court Judge Fred J. Iff 4ff ill il' i -I; 5 i 'U I. v-i n-1-1 1 1 'i i ii -rr i ifiir-mir iiiinff 'i ij-TwiA' mith- fmnrnni-Ti-ri in" nr 'i i vvi ii im.

irrfffTi ii jrw ri, niai nr VrniaTTi mtr am fm county office on the ballot will be for sheriff on the Democratic ticket with Arnold W. Nelson of Vermillion" and Wilson D. Anderson of Burbank as the candidates. Nelson, a Vermillion police officer for several years, filed just before the deadline. The petition has been filed and presented to Judge Nichol, under the provisions of SDC 1960 Supp.

v( 11 I i II! 1 fiywwiawwww. jr t-W aaw, mwiAM- tii. 52.17, entitled "Consumers' Power By BOB RENSHAW Argus-Leader Star? Writer BALTIC, S.D. Diamond anniversary celebration plans are being made for one of the oldest farmers' elevators in the northwestthe Farmers Elevator Co. here.

First meeting of shareholders of the Farmers Cooperative Warehouse Association of Minnehaha County, Dakota Territory, was held in the village of St Olaf, Sept. 10, 1887. Both the name of the company and that of the village have since been changed, but the business has continued to operate in the same Scandinavian community for 75 years. IN NORWEGIAN So predominantly popul a with people of Norwegian descent is the community, that for many Districts Law" for the purpose of Two candidates for the Repub creating a consumers' power dis trict solely for the city of Cham berlain, in Brule County, state of lican nomination for the state senate from the district including Clay and Union counties are John T. Sanger of Vermillion and Carl J.

Schaefer of Wakonda. The seat South Dakota, to purchase, as a preference customer, Missouri Basin power and electrical energy is now held by Herman Jacobs of from the Bureau of Reclamation or other low-cost power and ener Alcester in Union County and he has filed for re-election on the Democratic ticket. gy from the Bureau of Reclama tion, or other sources, if available At the county level in the gen at comparable rates, and to dis eral election in November there will be contests for sheriff, com FARMERS COOPERATIVE Warehouse Association of Minnehaha County first did business in this flathouse. Grain was delivered in sacks and loaded onto cars with wheelbarrows. years a 'motion was passed at annual meetings that business transactions of the company be con- New Uniforms missioner from the First commis sioner district state representa tribute and sell such power and energy to the city of Chamberlain and to the Chamberlain public school system, and to sell the same to other public bodies and to such other persons as may wish to purchase the same, on tive and state senator.

Indian Arts Board Will Meet in S.D. RAPID CITY The Indian Arts The present Clay County sheriff. Norwegian langu- George H. Moe, who is completing his 13th year ducted in the age. public services, non-prolit prin Leo Wherry, Republican candidate for re-election, will be opposed by the winner of the Democratic nomination in the primary.

ORANGE CITY, Iowa The Maurice-Orange City High School Band will provide a colorful highlight in the Orange City tulip festival when they appear in their new Dutch-type uniforms complete with wooden shoes. Representing the band, from left, Firman Schiebout, Mary Bloemendaal, Bob Schoep, Sheryl Peters, Judy De-Haas, and Larry Kleinwolterink. "The Pride of the Dutchman" will perform in each of the parades May 17, 18 and 19 and Crafts Board will meet here Friday and Saturday. ciples for the general purpose of equality of distribution of electric energy to all the people and areas entitled to its benefits at the low Filing just before the deadline The board, which meets quarter ly, is appointed by the secretary for state representative on the Democratic ticket was Dale Peterson of Wakonda. He will op est obtainable costs so far as manager, said plans are underway to hold the 75th anniversary celebration July 14, annual meeting day for shareholders of the coopera of the Department of Interior.

practicable under, and in accord The five members are Chair ance with the applicable statutes. man Frederick J. Dockstader, dir If formation of the "Chamber ector, Museum of the American lain Consumers Power District' Day County to Vote in Four Contests June 5 Moe Indian, New York City; Rene d'Harnoncourt, director. Museum is approved, an election would pose the incumbent. Dexter Gun-derson of Irene, whose candidacy for re-election on he Republican ticket was announced earlier.

Peterson served in the Stato House of Representatives in the 1959 session. follow. The election would be on Students at Yankton to Clean Parks YANKTON The city of Yankton will see "Operation Coopera of Modern Art, New York City; whether there "shall be establish Erich Kohlberg, dealer in Indian ed such a subject to the WEBSTER, S.D. Nominating approval of this court," the no crafts, Denver; Vincent Price, lecturer and actor, Los Angeles: Lloyd New, director of art at the contests for four county offices will be decided at. the primary tice explains.

KHARTOUM A technical sur-vey of TV for the Sudan is being conducted by a West German election in Day County June 5, "3 ft tive. Sen. Karl Mundt, who delivered the address at the 60th observance, is expected to be the featured speaker. M. W.

Thatcher, president of the Farmers Grain Terminal Association, will also be 'invited. However Moe pointed out that the Baltic company is independent and not connected with GTA. MAKES ADVANCES From a start with a flathouse in which all grain was sacked and new Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, N.M. v.v...-, according to County Auditor Es ther Farness. J.

Edward Davis, general man Lake Campbell Boating Rules To be Discussed ager of the Indian Arts and Crafts Asking Republican nomination tion," a giant work day, get underway May 17 when the combined student bodies of Mount Marty and Yankton colleges will participate in a general cleanup of the four city parks, set up playground equipment, plant trees and shrubs, (Advertisement) for register of deeds will be Jef- Board, Washington, D.C., will conduct the meeting here. fers Nelson and Vernon Skoba Oscar Howe, South Dakota's ar FLANDREAU, S.D. The ftere You Born Before i You may be qualified for 1 nftrt lif ininrnnrA an tist laureate, will have an exhibit of his paintings. paint fire hydrants and perform a host of other projects both BUILT IX 1902, this elevator still serves as headquarters for the Farmers Elevator Co. at Baltic.

The office part to the left has been added in recent years. Moody County Commissioners will hold a hearing on Wednesday morning, in the commissioners' handled by hand, the company has advanced to a modern elevator which provides a complete feed operation, including bulk delivery to the farm. A line of farm supplies is carried, equipment is Pipestone Boys large and small. Purpose of "Operation Cooperation," according to Yankton College Student Association presi room of the courthouse in regard fund to buy coal." cided to build a stub elevator in the flathouse and install a hoist to making application to the De you will not burden your loved ones with funeral and other I expenses. This NEW policy is To Get FFA Honor Perhaps the closest the came to folding up was in the for dumping wagons a big im dent, Jerry Wild, is to show ap On Democratic ticket are Mrs Gertrude Geis and Mrs.

Helen Peschke. Four candidates seek Republican nomination for sheriff: Al Er-ickson, Leslie J. Hoff, Lyman C. Kidder and Donald Tvinnereim. Democrats are Mike Marx, incumbent, and Lambert Wattier.

Asking Republican nomination for state representative are two candidates, Joseph S. E. Dargatz and Kermit K. Parks. Mancel W.

Peterson is unopposed for his party's nomination. partment of Game, Fish and Parks for special rules and regu available for spreading fertilizer PIPESTONE, Minn. Three provement over sacked grain tween 50 and 80. No medical and a trucking service is operat fall of 1890 following a fire which preciation to citizens of Yankton for both their support of the in lations relative to operation of all which was loaded into cars with Pipestone boys, Paul Nelson, Bob Johannsen and Harold Pederson, ed for farmers in the area. vessels on Lake Campbell.

wheelbarrows. stitutions and of college functions No time was wasted once farm I examination necessary. 1 OLD LINE LEGAL RE. 1 SERVE LIFE INSURANCE. No agent will call on you.

I Free information, no obliga- I will receive state farmer degrees destroyed a warehouse filled with wheat. This proved to be an almost overwhelming blow because Growth continued in the face of The area in which operation of any vessels or skiers would be "Operation Cooperation," originated by the student leaders of at the state Future Farmers of stiff competition and in 1902 a new elevator was built. After 60 America convention on St. Paul tion. Tear out this ad right insurance was carried with a Mount Marty and Yankton, is be I prohibited and would be reserved for use of swimmers only is an area 420 feet from the bridge and now.

campus of University of Minnes years service it remains the company which failed at the time of the fire and only $266 was paid Send your name, address and year of birth to: Central ota May 6 to 8. main elevator of the present plant east along the south shore of the Marvin Thomsen, advisor of BONN West Germany's so-1 Security Life Insurance Co. big planned and organized by a committee consisting of Francis Hoag, Yankton city manager, and Byron Taft, editor of the Yankton Daily Press and Dakotan, and students and administrators of the lake and approximately 175 feet by receivers of the insurance company. Pipestone FFA chapter, will ac ers decided they needed a convenient outlet for their grain. Minutes of early meetings which have been compiled by Justin Mortvedt, secretary for the past 15 years, show that at the Sept.

10, 1887 meeting it was voted to have a manager on the job by Sept. 13 or 14. Andrew A. Grinde was hired at a salary of $50 per month with the stipulation that he was to furnish a flax tester, and competitors' elevators have been purchased and made part of the company's holdings. from the shore line.

company them. cial housing construction program! M'45' for 1962 provides for a total 1418 "West Rosedal I 21,000 dwelling units. Farmers of the area were res In 1918 the olute that their company would company was re two colleges. survive, however, and construction of a new warehouse started organized and In the afternoon students will I rwj-i --r wL'y i Yrjr immediately. At the 1891 share-1 set up on a cooperative basis.

converge on l-ewis ana warn Lake's beach area where sports, holders meeting it was voted to wheat tester and fanning mill for skits, barbecues served by facul Depression years of the '30s were the next big make assessments sufficient to pay all debts of the struggling company. ty, tours through the fish hatchery and Gavins Point Dam power house and cruises on the excur use in the warehouse. Tenacity and r-ri determination of shareholders to i make a success tpv ff saw the enter- Financial difficulty was still stumbing block; but through extensive borrow- sion boat will be on the program. prevalent in the summer of 1893 and shareholders were asked to Berdahl me they were Mission Hill Woman 'Attendant of Year' YANKTON Mrs. Anna Stan- '-kv weathered and by 1941 settlement had been made for all indebtedness of the company.

10 i I i 4 I store some of their grain so the association would have capital to remain in business. Evidently response was generous because the next spring a motion carried (l( wfrf ,1 age, Mission Hill, S.D., mother of prise a i i through J-quarters of as century despite several setbacks which could have 4 proved disaster- Julian Berdahl, Garretson, has El XA served as president of the board that no more wheat be borrowed COMPETITION of directors for 16 years and as Mortvedt Dr. Willis F. Stanage, Yankton, was honored at a formal awards presentation ceremony in the auditorium of the new Medical Institute Building at the South Dakota member of the board for ous. An excerpt from the Oct.

21, years. During his administration Competition from two line elevators, built on each side of the warehouse near the end of the 1887 board meeting gives an indication of the precarious begin' the elevator at Renner was pur State Hospital 2 miles north of Yankton. (under 16 years ef age) century, almost spelled the end. chased and made part of the expanding company. ning: "A motion carried that we order 10 carloads of coal, five Mrs.

Stanage was presented ENTER THE Steadily increasing busin ess with several certificates of rec- carloads to be delivered at one A number of shareholders thought it useless to continue in the face of modern equipment used by the competitors and voted to redeem in cash at par value their shares time and five at another. To be made improvements essential to provide better service for patrons jognition for her outstanding performance as the Ward Attendant HERE IS A MAP showing the progress of soil survey work in South Dakota through 1961. The letter stands for the conservation type survey. The letter stands for the standard type survey. The figure following each letter indicates the per cent of the county mapped in this manner.

About 60 Per Cent of S.D. Land Mapped in Soil Survey HURON About 60 per cent of the land in South Dakota has now left with manager what kind to of the company which started on of the Year, an annual award order and that the board act as a shoestring and now operates in the association. eiven the top-ranking ward at with capital stock of $300,000. This action further weakened a committee to consult their friends as to how much coal each will want and if they are willing tendant at the Yankton mental institution. Sioux mpiM of Iks.

rljmh WIN VALUABLE PRIZES FOR MOM, AND YOU, TOO! JIIII(lllltlHlllltllllMIIIIIIIIllllMMIIHI1l(llIMIMIiniHUIItlMltlllllMlHHHII1l1IIHIIlimilllllllllllllti Since 1947 new equipment has in the company; but a new board of Idirectors was elected. They de- fo pay in advance to create cluded a seed treatment machine, grain drier, new scale at Renner, new office at Baltic, hammermill, COUNTRY PARSON BROTHER JUNIPER feed mixer, and 50-ton scale to I handle larger trucks being used been covered by soil surveys in sufficient detail for conservation planning, according to Thomas Yager, state soil scientist, for the Soil Conservation Service. to haul grain. i Yager said that 1,104,800 acres of South Dakota farm and ranch land was surveyed in 1961. The surveys were made as a cooperative effort by the Soil Conserva- OFFICIAL ENTRY BLANK FOR THE 'SIOUX EMPIRE MOTHER OF THE YEAR' ESSAY CONTEST Tax Relief Is Goal of Erbe DES MOINES (AP) A legis tion Service, Bureau of Indian Af and federal highway departments, contractors, telephone, gas and fairs and the South Dakota State College agricultural experiment power companies are all users of lative program, including specific station.

the present soil survey maps. measures for property tax relief, Soil survey reports have been During 1961 the Soil Conserva Name Age is being hammered out by Gov. tion Service mapped a total of published for Clay, Jerauld, Spink, Brookings and Day counties. Norman Erbe and Iowa Republi 843,000 acres with a crew of 24 can leaders. Standard soil surveys have now soil scientists.

Five men, working 4-30 tfc been completed in Minnehaha, The governor, who is seeking with the Bureau of Indian Af Codington, Washabaugh, Hand and re-election, said details of the fairs mapped 225,000 acres and program should be ready by Oc the South Dakota agricultural ex Address M. Phone Number of Brothers and Sisters. Bros. Sisters. Shannon counties but are not yet published.

Field work for Davison and Todd counties is expected to "Most great men didn't set out to become great they simply did in a great way whatever was before them to be done." periment station mapped a total tober. He said that any property tax relief program would be tied be completed this year, to increased school aid. of 36,800 acres in Mellette County using one part-time man. Yager said two SCS fieldmen Yager says that since 1955 all Erbe, in his campaign thus far. map publishing has been done on has taken no specific stand on tax located in Roberts County in 1961 Mother's Name increases, but has said he will op will begin doing standard soil sur aerial photos at a scale of about three inches to the mile.

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Mail or Bring to the Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce NOTE: PLEASE INCLUDE A SNAPSHOT OF YOURSELF, I IF AVAILABLE I farmers and ranchers of people who deal directly with them, such Glover, bisseton, is heading up ihis team. And a field party of three men has also been set up at Sturgis for the purpose of starting standard mapping of Meade Coun liam H. Nicholas of Clear Lake, as countv extension agents, loan is advocating raising the state agencies and conservationists, sales tax from 2 to 3 per cent other demands are increasing. and also favors other specific tax ty. Toivo Ollila is the party lead er.

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