The Daily Nonpareil from Council Bluffs, Iowa • Page 12

PAGE TWELVE COUNCIL BLUFFS IOWA NONPAREIL-JANUARY 20, 1952 SOUTHWEST IOWA INDUSTRIES Garden Seeds By A Stall Wilier SHENANDOAH--Spring is just around the And that means boom-time lor the Earl Seed company here, a ma- T.Southwest Iowa Industry. May's colorful spring seed catalogs are now being shipped out by the thousands. They oiler 782 varieties of garden seed and nursery stock to home gardners "throughout the midwest. In addition "to sending out some 750,000 catalogs--a year, the May company maintains 34 ot Its own stores In three states- Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri- find has thousands dl dealers displaying racks ol garden seeds. The big May operation In Southwest Iowa Is a packaging process.

The company buys most pf its nursery stock from Mount Arbor nurseries in Shenandoah, The two firms have an Interlocking directorate. Wide Growing Program 1 But bulbs and seeds from all over the world are shipped Into Shenandodah lor testing and packaging. Many bulbs come from Holland and France. Seed lor sweet corn and garden peas come from the Snake river Valley in Idaho. Beet seeds are a California crop.

Cabbage and cauliflower seeds come from the Pacific northwest and the majority ol -flower seeds from California. Some flower seeds come from Colorado, and Japan furnishes most seeds for the double petunia, according to John Topham, manager ol May's garden seed division. The May company contracts with growers all over the world to supply this seed. When it arrives in Shenandoah It undergoes a triple-testing program in the laboratory, in test gardens and on the table. Germination ol the seed is tested In a laboratory supervised by R.

W. Schllsk He makes sure the seed is capable ol producing a plant, Test In Gardens Samples ol the seed are then planted In May's 76-acre experimental garden to check performance. And the fruit ol the plant Is pa'ssed around the office lor the final, critical taste test on home tables. The May company samples regular customers to determine their needs and check on progress ol the firm's products. New seeds, according to Topham, are developed by the department of agriculture and various colleges and released to firms which wish to use them.

The May company began operating in 1919. Edward May is now president of the tlrm, which employs some 300 persons at peak season and has an annual payroll of $793,000. Development ol products begins ol seed begins when by Automatic Seed-lilHng Machines operated by Max Bopp, Leonard Gray and Roland Pulley. Machines fill packs with accurate measure, paste flap and fold it back. Filled packs are Sorted for Dealers and put in metal racks in a leased building away from the main plant.

Other seeds arc Packed in Boxes to be shipped to May's 34 stores. Packing here are Lois Adelung and Photos. Farragut Mothers Raise $3 JO for New Band Uniforms Special to The Nonpareil. FARRACUT--The Band Mothers club ol the Farragut consolidated school, organized Oct. 4, has completed its goal to earn money for uniforms.

The club served dinners, held food sales, square and round dances, scrap iron drive to earn money which resulted with $3,400 to buy 57 band uniforms, which are here, Mrs. Eldon Pierson Is president; Mrs. Sterling Simmons, vice-president; Mrs. Eldon Allen, secretary, and Mrs. Lois And- erahon, treasurer.

The Band Mothers have announced a free band concert Will be given soon. Symbols of Feminine Deceit and Despair MIAMI BEACH, Lip- Stick and other cosmetics arc symbols ol feminine deceit and despair," says pretty, modish Mrs Andre St. Phalle of New York Wile ol chairman ol the board of "California Eastern airlines. Friday she made her first adult public appearance with her own face and is going to continue it she said. She told about it at the ses slon of the Assembly ol the Americas lor Moral Re-Arma 'have abandoned cosmptlc: because I do not need them," she said "I examined myself under the spotlight ol MRA standards ol absolute honesty and saw cos mctlcs as a sham, a falsehooc and a sign of deceit and Amazing Taxpayer INTERNATIONAL A Minn -Count Tl easure Alex Enzman was dumbfounded when George 3.

walked In and said he wanted to pay his real estate taxes-the tax bll which wasn't due until next year Enzman has been county treas urer 21 years and this was the first time, he said, that anyone paid his taxes In advance. Fldler paid $33.69 an 120 acres of partly cleared land, He ex plained that he Just wanted to call 'attention to the fact It. a good Idea to pay taxes Mrs. Muir Has Been in Cleaning Trade 9 Years Women in Following her crisp moto, "you Ike anyplace you get your bread uul butter," Mrs. Harry Mulr has ut a niche for her snowy curls the Council Bluffs business vorld, Mrs.

Mulr operates a branch fflce at 345 West Broadway for ho Broadway Cleaners and laundry. She worked herself in- the "cash and carry" branch la nine years in the claims and complaints department of the naln office, Ton years ago, she worked in Chicago grocery store which icr husband managed. Harry Mulr's poor health made the move necessary, Mrs. Mulr says, -le is now with a local department store. 17 Years In Grocery Store After 17 years behind a grocery she chuckles, "you real- ze the customers' rights.

"I didn't have much trouble with complaints, The people icro are a nice bunch," Mrs, Mulr demonstrates her work system by beginning witn the "pink slip." The pink slip Is an 'efficiency" tag on which is written the customer's name. This follows the garment through sacking and billing to avoid mix-up, Mrs. Mulr's cleaning branch Is really a receiving and distributing point for cleaning. A big percentage of her business, she says, comes from nearby shops, A good file system Is the best Insurance against mix-ups when you handle hundreds of a day, fools Mrs. Mulr.

"But most important of a51 -you have to like people in this business," she adds cheerily. "When trousers come- in without markings, just to be cautious we pencil the name in pockets. You find all kinds things in pockets, too from rings to clgarcts." Mrs. Muir is a member ol the Presbyterian church and Modern Mrs. Harry Muir Woodmen ol America.

She lives at 120 North Coal-starved Britons: Two-thirds ol a ton of coal averaging less than one scuttli full per day, is the maximum al lowance for the average British family for the first three month ol this winter November, De comber, and January accord ing to limitation orders ol tlv British Ministry ol Supply. Tin exact figures wore 1,344 pound, lor the northern area and pounds for the southern area. Free for Asthma Tr you ivltli attacks of, Adthrrm and nlioko gasp for breath, 1C nloop la i i because of tlio struggle to brontno, don't fall to sond at onoo to Frontier Asthma Company for a PIIHH trial of the FRONTIER ASTHMA MEDICINE, n. preparation Cor temporary symptomatic relief oC pnroxysmH of Dronclilal Astlima. No iiKittoi' whoi'O you llvo or whether you havo faith In any i i the nun, a today for i free trial.

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Transport Rolls, iver Uninjured i Suffers Only Bruises in Honey Creek Mishap A transport, loaded with 5,000 of fuel oil, rolled over, down a telephone polo ind ended up against the rail road right-of-way just northwest ol Honey Creek on highway 75 Saturday, From the wreckage stepped Tim Wester, 25, 17 Voprhis street, driver, suffering only bruises. Ho rode the transport through ts wild ride. Wester told State Highway Patrolman A. Keller he was north bound. He was coming out of a curve in the road at the northwest edge of Honey Croek when the transport started sliding on the wet pavement, It went off the roadway, over- nirned, struck and knocked down the telephone pole.

It came to a standstill along side the North Western railroad right-of-way. Fuel Spills Out The tractor was ended upright tint the trailer, which had broken loose, was overturned on Its side. About half of the fuel cargo was spilled out. The tractor was listed as a total loss with damage estimated at $8,000 and the trailer with an estimated damage of $1,500, Keller reported, The accident occurred at 6 a. m.

but It was 2 before the wreckace was finally cleared away. The transport is owned by Ruan Transportation company of Omaha, Barnyard hens strut or sulk in relation to their standing in a caste system. An Artist at Woodworking, and He Does it All for Fun STRAWBERRY POINT, 69-year-old Earl Hubbard goes home at night from his job at the fish hatchery he nearly always winds up in the basement. Down there, among carefully selected stocks of wood, he finds relaxation at a hobby that could a good living if much interested earn him wasn't so Jlsh. Hubbard, superintendent of the state trout hatchery at Backbone state park, three miles south of Strawb'erry Point, spends his odd moments at his woodworking bench--something he has' been doing for about 35 years.

The skill he has acquired en ables Mm to turn out 1 wooden products with all sorts of Intri' cate designs and he does it all for fun. He gathers most of his wood from dead trees in the state park sycamore, butternut, maple cedar, walnut, sumac, oak and cherry wood. From a west coatst 'irm he gets vermilllon, camphor, mesquite and eucalyptus, Finished Products When Hubbard applies his art to these products of the forest it year old before he starts to work on it. got to make sure your wood is dry," he explained, When he makes an article he has to turn out two duplicates, The first one goes to his wife, Anna, the others to his two daughters. Mrs.

Hubbard is happy with the results but she has this shows up sandwich in the trays, complaint: "Everytime you want him to do something he's down in the basement." CEDAR RAPIDS, Bert Cone of Cedar Rapids escaped unhurt early Saturday wheiv his car crashed into a switch engine which had stopped on a downtown crossing. Police charged Cone with failure to have his car under control. knitting bowls, eggcups, pick holders, salt and form of inlaid candy dishes, tooth- pepper shakers, ash trays and what not. Needing something else to do besides raising 160,000 adult fish every year, Hubbard took up woodworking in 1913. He started out making chairs and end tables but that got too so he branched out into more difficult projects requiring inlaid color combinations, One ot his favorite woods Is the black cedar that was covered by a glacier in southern Iowa around 50,000 years ago.

Each year he takes off lor some part of the country that will furnish him materials and he returns wlih a year's supply. All of the wood that goes Into a Hubbard project is at least a (INSURE YOUR OWN INCOME Drop in and see what we have to offer you J.I. "Doc" COLE 39 4TH STREET COUNCIL BLUFFS, I A. Now is the Time lor That Interior Remodeling? Basement! Kitchen! Attic! Or Any Room! We Can Supply Your Needs! IF YOU WAHT THE BEST SEE US FIRST LUMBER COAL CO. I select my own groceries item by Hem and when If comes to bread I look for the QUAKER wrapper know- Ing that QUAKER means tip-lop ingredients, mins and mineral enrichment and super baking.

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