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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C.
Colorado Gets Wheat King for
Fourth Time in Last 5 Years
By W. J. DRYDEN
WNU Farm Editor.
While a new United States Wheat King has been crowned, the
state of Colorado still retains its place as the home of quality
wheat. ’For the fourth time in five years, the Pillsbury award
has been given to a wheat producer of Colorado.
Luther F. Givens, 43, Sterling,
Colo., walked off with first honors
at the wheat contest held recently
at Chicago. His entry was Wichita
wheat, a strain developed at the
agricultural experiment station.
University of Colorado. The Wichita
wheat entered in the contest by Giv
ens was of the hard red winter va
riety which had a test weight of
64.8 pounds. The standard weight
of a bushel of wheat is 60 pounds.
The contest, held under the direc
tion of the International Crop Im
provement association and the vari
ous state agricultural experiment
stations and colleges, had for its
judges Prof. R. F. Crim, Univer
sity of Minnesota; Prof. J. C. Hack-
leman, University of Illinois; and
Prof. A. L. Clapp, Kansas State
agriculture college. Prof. K. E.
Beeson of Purdue university repre
sented the co-operating organiza
tions.
Givens operates an 80-acre farm,
raises hay, sugar beets, Hereford
cattle and hogs. His wife, Lena,
raises chickens. They have no chil
dren. Both are equestrians, having
fine saddle horses, and are leaders
in a Sterling saddle club. Some 15
acres of the farm was devoted to
the development of the Wichita
strain of wheat.
Second place in the national con
test went to R. E. Condon, Platte-
ville, Colo., with hard red spring
wheat with a test weight of 64.5
pounds per bushel, winning the na
tional reserve award.
Other winners include D. F. Sak-
uth, Yuba City, Calif., for raising
the best hard white wheat; Ralph
Osborn, Culver, Ind., for best spring
red wheat; Appleton Brothers, Can
andaigua, N. Y., best soft white
wheat; and William Frazen, Mapes,
N. D.
The contest was established in
1941. Since that time Colorado
wheat has four times taken the na
tional honors, while Montana grain
once has scored first. Former Colo
rado winners were George Hof
mann, Iliff; Leo Lindstrom, Ster-
iing; and Jesse Powers, Henderson.
The Montana winner was L. E.
Peterson, Victoria, the winner in
1941.
RUNNER-UP ... for title of
“wheat king” went to R. E. Con
don, Platteville, Colo. This is the
second year since 1941 that a Col
orado grain grower won the na
tional reserve award. His hard
red spring wheat weighed 4.5
pounds per bushel more than the
standard weight of wheat.
WHEAT KING ... of the United States. Luther F. Givens is shown
holding a sheaf of Wichita wheat with a sample of the threshed
grain nearby. The trophy he won in the competition is also shown.
The winning wheat was produced on his 80-acre farm southeast of
Sterling, Logan county, Colorado.
Some Surplus Goods
And Lund Avuiluble
To Formers of U. S.
WASHINGTON.—War Assets cor
poration, new agency handling sur
plus war property, has announced
there will be no strictly agricultural
equipment declared surplus, al
though certain types of equipment
such as tractors and trucks may
be converted to farm use.
The corporation has made plans
to establish a small organization
within the department of agricul
ture to handle surplus goods which
may interest the farmer.
Here are some facts which may
interest farmers. At latest count
there were still some 70,000 acres
of surplus farm land out of an origi
nal 100,090 acres, for sale; there
is no barb wire, the demand exceed
ing the supply by about 15 to 1;
there is a hemp and flax mill for
merly operated by CCC at Hartford,
Wis., for sale; a large quantity of
telephone and telegraph material is
being offered and is at depots of
U. S. signll corps in Chicago; Lex
ington, Ky.; Ogden, Utah; Atlan-
t' Ga.; and Bellmead, N. J.
Champ Potato Grower
HARRISBURG, PA.—By produc
ing 656 bushels of potatoes on a
measured acre, Mervin Hanes of
Stewardstown became Pennsyl
vania’s champion potato grower for
1945.
The award was made to Hanes
by the growers’ co-operative at a
dinner held for him in Harris
burg.
Indian Fighter
Dies at Tulsa;
His Age, 105
TULSA, OKLA.—During his life,
six wars were fought. He knew per
sonally such historical characters as
General Custer, Geronimo, the In
dian Apache chief, and Jesse James,
the outlaw. He recently died here
at the age of 105.
William Franklin Knight, who ob
served his 105th birthday last Feb
ruary 17, was born on a steamboat
at Louisiana, Mo. He went to Tex
as in 1866 as an advance guard for
stage coaches. Later he rode for
the Wells-Fargo express from St.
Louis west.
He was wounded four times by
bullets and once when Comanche
Indians pierced his neck with ar
rows. In September, 1870, after the
Comanches had burned telegraph
wires between the two cities. Knight
rode from Fort Worth to El Paso,
carrying government messages. He
used 33 horses on the trip and slept
only two hours during the five days
it took.
In the early seventies, when buf
falo roamed the southwest plains
country, Knight shipped as many as
10,000 buffalo hides at one time to
eastern markets.
Knight moved to Tulsa in 1918 and
was employed by a local transfer
company. He worked until he was
99 years of age before retiring. He
kept house for himself until forced
to enter a convalescent home be
cause of infirmities. No immediate
relatives have been located.
One-Third of 0. S. Population
Has No Access to Libraries
WASHINGTON. — Two solons have stated that almost one-
third of the people of the United States, or “more than 35,000,000
persons, nearly all of them in rural areas, have no access to
libraries.”
Because of that situation, the«>.
lawmakers, Sen. Lister Hill of Ala-
Born and Lived 71
Years on Same Farm
FAIRMONT, MINN. — When the
Fairmont Daily Sentinel got to won
dering who had lived the longest
time on the same farm in this lo
cality, Mrs. E. G. Swanson of Dun-
nell did a little investigating and
discovered that:
Ellsworth Ziemer still lives on the
Lake Fremont farm where he was
born in 1895; C. L. Peterson still
farms the place where he was bom
in 1890; but top honors go to F. S.
E. Carlson, who was bom Decem
ber, 1874, on a farm near I'unnell,
and still lives there with his wife
and son, making over 71 years on
the same farm.
bama and Rep. Emily Taft Doug
las of Illinois, have introduced iden
tical bills simultaneously in the
house and senate calling for annual
federal grants of $25,000 to each
state for use of state library asso
ciations in rural areas.
The bill also empowers states to
provide additional funds up' to a
maximum of $50,000 annually for
such work, which the federal gov
ernment would match.
While no federal control or ad
ministration is involved, annual re-
•ports would be called for and states
would qualify for funds by prepar
ing plans and submitting them to
the United States commissioner of
education.
The statistics show there are 586
counties without any public library
service. The greatest number, 150
counties, are in Texas. Kentucky
is second with 63 counties with no
library, and Louisiana and Missis
sippi are third, with 35 counties
each.
In only 11 states does every coun
ty have a public library. They are
Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Maine,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, New York, Oregon,
Rhode Island and Vermont.
Osage Ranchers to
Hold Meet in June
PAWHUSKA, OKLA.—The 10th
annual convention of the Osage Cat
tlemen’s association, an event
known throughout the Southwest,
has been scheduled for June 21 and
22, it has been announced by Gart
ner Drummond, president of the as
sociation.
Held in the heart of a famous
bluegrass pastureland, the meeting
will feature a barbecue and a cow
boy dance. This year a large at
tendance is expected when cattle
men from several surrounding
states will hear experts on modern
ranching methods.
There is one fly in the ointment,
however, and President Drummond
is scratching his head for an an
swer. With a much larger at
tendance than ever before expected,
finding sufficient accommodations
is developing into a major problem.
The hospitality of this community
has never failed in the past, and
Drummond is banking on the neigh
borliness of Pawhuska more than
ever, he admits. Anyway, cattlemen
can bunk most any place if they
have to, Drummond states.
Service men
found seven wild
puppies near
Hollywood,
brought them to
canteen so they
would have a
home.
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