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4 Wil Weather Economy 00 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) The 9th Federal Reserve District, its basic economy "relatively independent from factors of current national concern, tabs the weather as a major factor in determining this year's dollars-and-cents results. From good weather, says the Federal Reserve Bank in its monthly economic review, will come the crop and livestock prices which will decide how the general economy of the region prospers. While other regions are largely dependent on industrial production for good times, this district still looks to agriculture for overall strength. The district includes Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota, northwestern Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. The report says crop expectations will rest on how much moisture is received in the late winter and early spring weeks.

Currently conditions are critical in Montana and serious in the Dakotas and Minnesota. Heavy precipitation is needed. the report -said, to feed early crop development, which In turn will be needed to augment feed for a 21 per cent increase in the number of cattle on feed for market, Conditions on Minnesota's Iron Range and copper producing regions of Montana are continued sore spots in the district's economy. Only banking operations represent some indication of improvement The bank said that iron ore accumulated at lower lake docks at the end of December aggregated 74 million gross tons "about 10 million tons more than on the three preceding Decembers, thermore, low consumption during the winter will leave exceptionally heavy stacks next April when Great Lakes navigation opens." Concerning lack of precipitation, the report said the snowpack in Montana mountains as of Feb. 1 was "much below average, and less than last year by 20 to 50 per cent Furthermore, the subsoil moisture under the snowpack is deficient due to a dry late summer and all Farmers in Montana depending on stream flows and irrigation have recently been asked to consider planting more early maturing crops as a hedge against insufficient water to mature late crops.

"Precipitation as reported by several federal stations across North Dakota for the four months ended Jan. 31 was 55 per cent less than in the same period of the previous year. Moisture conditions in much of the Red River Valley is reported below normal," the bank said, "but the situation is not considered as critical as it is farther west, particularly along the Canadian border." The district over-all beef Inventories were reported at 8.188,000 head on Jan. 1, a per cent increase over the same date in 1960. "The 8 per cent increase in beef cattle numbers in North Dakota was the largest gain shown in the country." The district total of cattle on feed reached 1.036.000 on Jan.

1. as compared with 858,000 a year earlier. "The sharpest increase was in North Dakota, up 40 per cent," the report said. The number of milk cows and heifers was down in the district although Minnesota farmers maintained 1,407,000 head last year. North Dakota and Montana each had 6 per cent fewer and South Dakota 3 per cent fewer.

Hog and pig numbers fell 6 per cent while there was little change in the total number of sheep and lambs held on reporting dates. District states reported substantial increases in stocks of corn and oats in all positions over last year. 1 MU' SUB 1 F. J. Gilbride, State and Farm News Editor S.D.

Farm Prices Up 6 Pet Senate Farm Plan Honors Report Cites Increases in Bill Differs From Others WASHINGTON fAPW-Th Session for Top Youths VERMILUOX. S.D. Fr. Com and Hogs Senate Agriculture Committee has approved- a bill de. ceptional high school iuninr 4 signed to cut down feed grain from South Dakota and surrounding area will have an opportunity to participate in the fourth summer Honor surpluses, but it differs materially from the bill wniist- Prices received by South Dakota farmers for farm products in mid-February x- 3- 'lit iff ed by President Kennedy.

Institute at the University of South Dakota. President I ine committee vote was 15-2. The Senate bill alsn averaged per cent above mid-January and 6 per cent above February a year ago, according to the South Da- D. Weeks announced. S.D.

Youth to Egypt Thirty talented student differed from a bill approved Monday by the House Agriculture Committee. One provision in the Senate bill Kota crop and Livestock Re who have completed hl porting Service, junior year, but are not yet Prices were higher in mid- would require the Commoditv eoruary than a month ago Credit Corp. to put any of Its surplus stocks on the market at i or corn, flaxseed, grain seniors, will selected to attend lectures in mathematics and English land develop a research project during the six-week summer tn. sorghum, soybeans, hogs. 105 per cent of the support rate.

WASHINGTON, D.C. A South Dakota A Club member, one of four in the nation to be chosen for the assignment, left Friday for Cairo, Egypt, where he will represent U.S. youth in the World Agricultural Fair. Larry Pressler, 13, Humboldt, visited with Sen. Francis Ca.se while he was in Washington for an orientation period.

Pressler. son of Mr. and Mrs. Anton Pressler, will return about June 1 from the trip sponsored by the Department of Commerce. lambs, eggs and butterfat as is required by present law.

This feature was ureed bv reDre- Prices for all crops as a group stitute. sentauves of the grain trade. were unchanged from mid-Janu Part of the funds for oratin ary but were 8 per cent below The House version would have allowed the CCC to out grain on the unique program will come from a grant by the National Science Foundation. February, I960. Prices for wheat, rye, barlev tne market at the market price.

Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman had said this would hay. and potatoes declined from Selected students will inond twn mid-January while prices for corn, soybeans, flax, and grain sorg-i induce compliance with the pro Group Mulls Range Grass Improvement hours daily in mathematics class-es and one or two hours in the English class. TECH SINGERS PLAN 3-DAY CONCERTTOUR RAPID CITY Tlie 'sinffinP cures increased. gram by producers.

The Senate bill would raise the Wheat at 11.79 per bushel was Governor Gets Picture In addition to the Whir in support level for corn from $1.06 1 cent below mid-January and 6 cents below February a vear English and mathematics, each participant will choose a research to 11.20 a bushel and require those receiving this support to reduce PRESHO, S.D. Improvement Engineers" of the South Dakota Rye was 78 cents per bushel com their acreage of corn and other School of Mines and Technology of native range grass came un pared with 79 cents a month earlier and 83 cents a Tear earlier PIERRE Aa enlarged picture of Gov. Archie Gubbrud's farm is now hanging in the governor's office. The photo of the Lincoln County farm was taken by Argus-Leader Photographer Herb Qualset It appeared on page 1 of the Argus-Leader shortly after Gubbrud was elected governor. The picture was presented to the governor by Sirs.

Dexter Gunderson, Irene. Her husband, a member of the House, and Mrs. Gubbrud are cousins. (Photo by Fred Masek) feed grains by 30 per cent. In return, on one half of this wiu present eight concerts during their three-day tour of eastern project in any department of the College of Arts and Sciences.

The research will be supervised by a faculty member. It is expected that about 20 of the projects will be in mathematics and science. The mathematics class wi nnt Barley at 73 cents per bushel was 1 cent below a month earlier and idled land, the fanner would get South Dakota. der general discussion at an all-day meeting of the advisory committee of the South Central Research Farm Preshoy county in cash 50 per cent of the support 9 cents below a year earlier. AH The 65-member, all-male chorus from the science and eneinrini price on the amount normally nay at $16.10 per ton was 70 cents college will leave Wednesday for cover material ordinarily studied agents from nine counties and officials from South Dakota State College.

Huron and their first of six hiah below mid-January and $4.90 below February 196a Potatoes were $1.50 per cwt grown. For the other half the farmer would receive payment in kind from government grain stocks equal to 60 per cent of the support price. school concerts. That evening the in roe senior year of high school, but will Introduce the hieh Assessment to Be To Cover Sheldon Levied Losses Tech singers, under the direction' compared with $155 a month Subjects brought up included setting out grass species plots. students to the basic concepts of The House committee bill would of Wayne Merrcll.

will appear at the Corn Palace in Mitchell. earlier and $1.90 a year earlier. Soybeans at $2.35 per bushel at interseeding grasslands with oth me numoers system, mathematical logic, set theorv. nmhahllit require producers of corn and er grasses, proposed fertilizer ex mid-February were 24 cents above In addition to singing at Huron grain sorghums to retire 20 per periments, review of past fertiliz DES MOINES AP) The first! Com (Hieh School, the "Sinpinu Fnrri. mid-January and 51 cents above and the calculus.

In addition students will have an opportunity to learn how problems are solved bv cent of their feed grain land to er experiments and control 1 f. tumiia DUl aiso 10 state suiting fund assessment in its im tn Sinnon aoh conservation use. They would re mnra tJion -TI u. 1 I cheat grass. ton Hih ci aml ceive in cash 50 per cent of the J1" county ana me scnooi district level required by law Aft Tnwa hant.

1 .1 1 Slides were used extensively to High School in Sioux Falls, normal return from the idled land mm iu tusscs I amount. Aoranamson said tne assess computing machine techniques. Laboratory and research projects will occupy two to three hours each afternoon. public funds in the Sheldon Na umstraie results ot crass and pas-RerMfnrrt Wit-h -hi roi. ment procedure is complicated be February 1960.

Corn at 81 cents per bushel was 2 cents above a month earlier but 9 cents below a year earlier. Flaxseed at $2.65 per bushel was 12 cents above a month earlier but 40 cents below a year earlier. Oats, unchanged at 51 cents per ture fertilization and also rotation High School, and Vermillion inch tional Bank failure. State Treas cause it is pro-rated accordins to It I School tne amount of public funds the oi grass ana srnau grain. A move was made to encourace urer M.

L. Abrahamson said. Representatives of the Sheldon The county and school district are entitled, under Iowa law, to recover the remainder of the toss from the state sinking fund, Abrahamson said. The sinking fund, set up many Concerts by the "Singing Engi various banks have on deposit Five Ruthton School Staff Members Resign cooperative use of fertilizer on neers will inrluri mnwtn When liquidation of the Sheldon School Board, O'Brien County Attorney Richard Smith and County Treasurer WiH F. Kaiser met with National Bank's assets is com bushel, was 10 cents below February I960.

grass plots set out In various sec-1 show tunes, spirituals, and sacred tions of the nine-county area, music. Between group selections served by the farm for demon- will be individual instrumental stration purposes. and vocal numbers by members pleted. Abrahamson said, there probably will be an additional years ago to protect public depos RUTHTON, Minn. Five mem Mundt Sets Boys State Deadline WATERTOWN (AP) Jurfe IS PER CENT GAIN if a ADranamson bers of the public school staff Mid-February prices for meat ure Ulscuss tor til- payment by the FDIC on the loss Harry Geise.

manager of the 'of the chorus. have resigned. animals as a group averaged! 8 3cuums aSamst toe smkicg cc the county and school district. its against bank failures, now has about $114,000 in it Abrahamson said. This is about $30,000 short of covering the two claims, be add farm, distributed the annual prog- The concert itinerary: .1 t.

IUM. above Robert G. Christianson. super These amounts will be assigned to nearly 3 per cent mid-January and nearly 10 per cent above ress report and reviewed the lay Wednesday 2:30 p.m.. Huron intendent of schools for the last Abrahamson said O'Brien had $32,102 on deposit in the the state sinking fund, he said.

The school district also had on out of the farm which includes Harry Mundt, Mobridge. Ameri four years, will leave June 1. ebruary, 1960. High School; 8 p.m. Corn Palace, Mitchell.

led. can Legion Boys State director. grass and legume rotations. bank which dosed after the dis Dale E. Kringen, high school prin Prices for bogs, lambs, and Dr.

C. 0. Bentley, dean of agri To make up the deficit, he said. deposit $6,435 in an activities fund, but the state contends the FDIC should pay that claim because it sheep increased while cattle. closure of a $2 million embezzlement by Mrs.

Burnice Geiser. The Thursday 10 a.m., Beresford High School; 1:10 p.m.. Canton cipal, submitted his resignation effective June 15. announced through Department Headquarters here that March IS will be the deadline for reeeint culture and head of experiment an assessment wQl be levied on calves, and wool were unchanged stations, and Dr. L.

A. Fine, head school district had on deposit High School. all Iowa banks that have public Gene Revnick. athletic coach Hogs at $17.20 per cwt were $1 is a separate account of less than of 1961 Boys State fees of $25 of the agronomy department Friday 8:30 a.m., Sioux Falls funds on deposit The assessment and math instructor; Miss Elaine $10,000 and does not include pub- 348 in public funds, he said. The Federal Deposit Insurance above a month earlier and $4.30 above a year earlier.

Lambs were SDSC, told of various factors af Washington High School: 10 a.m. I must be large enough not only tolic funds, Abrahamson said. Vollmer, high school English boy. Protection under a ouota uv- Sioux Falls Cathedral Hieh teacher, and Ansgar Sinding, $16.80 per cwt compared with fecting the farm's operations. Dr.

C. M. Nagel, head of plant pathology department explained tem, in which every high school School; 2:30 p.m., Vermillion chairman of the Board of Education have also resigned. High SchooL $15.80 in mid-January and $18.90 in February 1960. Sheep at $4.20 per cwt.

were 30 cents above a is entitled to representation at Boys State according to school Power Lines To Be Built Delbert Erickson has been ap 1 i the. work being done on barley, including smut, and wheat mosiac. month earlier but the same as in Industrial Output Up In Iowa pointed to the board of directors. No faculty replacements have population, will end on that date if entry fees are not received, Judge Mundt said. February I960.

been announced. Prices for cattle and calves at WASHINGTON (AP) Hoak Grade School Music Contest Format Changed Sponsoring groups were advised $21.50 and $26.60 per cwt respec MINN. MAN NAMED WASHINGTON (AP) Secre Construction Co. of West Des tively were unchanged from to send entry fees directly to Judge Mundt at Mobridge. LOAN TO MINN.

WASHINGTON (AP) The Moines will receive a $3,335 ,213 DES MOINES (AP)-Iowa In. month earlier but 20 and 60 cents tary of Commerce Luther H. government contract to build 213 Boys State, held annually at i Rural Electrification Administra dustrial production topped the $5 Hodges has appointed Eugene FLANDREAU. S.D. The an tion has announced a loan to the miles of power lines in western P.

Foley of Wabasha, as Northern State Teachers College in Aberdeen, will be June 4 to in billion mark last year more than double 1950's output the Ina nual South Dakota grade school deputy assistant secretary for do Iowa, Rep. Merwin Coad, D-Iowa Beltrami Electric Cooperative, Bemidji, of $311,000. this year. Manufacturers Association has re mestic affairs. said.

per cwt respectively above a year earlier. Wool was 41 cents per pound, unchanged from a month earlier but 1 cent below a year earlier. DAIRY PRODUCTS UP Mid-February prices for dairy music contest set-up has been changed this year to accommodate the large number of students ported. Coad said he was informed the The association said the valnp MOBRIDGE, S.D. Rev.

Roger BROTHER JUNIPER who compete. firm submitted the low bid to the of manufactured goods turned out Bureau of Reclamation for the Grow, chairman, and 11 committee members have been named to work out details for a Citizens Entries in the contests have increased each year until it has oy the more than 3,500 plants in the state last vear was ahmrf 161-kilovolt line. products as a group averaged 1 been necessary to split the con per cent above a month earlier $5.25 billion compared with $2.5 Council. About 30 persons repre The line will be built from test making one for piano and and more than 3 per cent above billion in 1950. senting most city organizations Sioux City to Spencer and from one for instrumental solos and a year ago.

and churches attended a planning meeting. ensembles. In addition new re Butterfat at 63 cents per pound Sioux City to Creston via Deni-son. The Spencer leg is scheduled for completion in June, 1962, while 'the target date for the Creston gions have been opened as con The increase in the state's industrial production during I960 amounted to $290 million. Agricultural production in Iowa last year was $2.35 billion, a dron test centers.

COUNTRY PARSON was 1 cent above mid-January and 2 cents above February 1960. Wholesale milk at $3.40 per cwt was down 10 cents from a month The oiano contests have been portion is late 1963. set for April 22 with students in grades three through eight eligi of about $9 million from the pre-'vious year. Combined agricultural and industrial production in Iowa Speaker ROCK VALLEY, Iowa Joseph Miller, Des Moines, field secretary of the National Rural Life Conference, will address families of northwest Iowa and nearby South Dakota at a Sunday night dinner in St Mary's hall here. earlier but 5 cents above a year ble to compete.

Schools hosting the centers are Milbank, Redfield, 1960 was $7.8 billion. Worthington Air Traffic Equals 5.5 of Population WORTHINGTON. Minn. Air ago. Prices received for poultry and eggs averaged nearly 4 per cent Alexandria and Sioux Falls.

Harry D. Linn, executive vir Anyone wishing to enter stu Ay UP FT j) down president of the association, said above mid-January and 36 per cent dents in these regions is ureed liner boardings here during the the figures show that industry is to contact school officials for in becoming an increasingly Impor first two years of scheduled service number 4.006. nearly half the formation. tant segment of the Iowa econ The instrumental contests will population of Worthington, reports omy. above a year ago.

Eggs at 32 cents per dozen were 3 cents above a month earlier and 12 cents above prices in February a ago. Chickens were 8 cents pw pound compared with 9 cents a month earlier and 6'j cents a year be held April 29. Dell Rapids OKs $139,000 Bond Robert Gustafson, rwrth central Airlines agent These contests have been spon PIPESTONE. and sored for the last 12 ywrs by Mrs. William Francis wBl observe The 5.5 average thus established the South Dakota Bandmasters DELL RAPIDS, S.

D. Voters' lhPir wedding anniversary Association. held up throughout February, which saw 156 departures and 118 arrivals, despite the trunk airline this week authorized the school LOAN GRANTED board to issue bonds for Sunday. Open house will be held in their home from 2 to 4 p.m. and from 7 to 9 p.m, WAGNER.

S. D. R. E. Rueb ARMOUR, S.D.

Senior class WASHINGTON (APl-The Ru service suspensions. for four additional class rooms ral Electrification Administration One local passenger, bound for and a gymnasium. The vote was of Armour High School will present the class play. "The Green ''If some folks who think Edmonton, Canada, was willing was elected president of the Ro said it has granted a $254,000 loan to the Mutual Telephone Co. of 377 to 125.

Plans for the new additions to the grade building will be carried out tary Club at the Wednesday tr fly via Detroit Gustaf son reported. Vine" March 28. Mrs. Wanda Jacobsen is directing the three-act comedy. they're going to heaven do there ought to be a warning sent on ahead." Casey, lows.

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