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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH Colorado Gets Wheat tins tor 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 Givens was of the hard red winter variety 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 direction of the International , Crop Improvement association and the various state agricultural experiment stations and colleges, had for its judges Prof. R. F. Crim, University of Minnesota; Prof. J. C. Hack-lemaUniversity of Illinois; and Prof. A. L. Clapp, Kansas State Prof. K. E. agriculture college. Beeson of Purdue university represented the organizations. Givens operates an farm, raises hay, sugar beets, Hereford cattle and hogs. His wife, Lena, raises chickens. They have no children. Both are equestrians, having fine saddle horses, and are leaders n, 80-ac- re By BAUKHAGE News Analyst tions repeated ad infinitum in the strain of wheat. Second place in the national contest went to R. E. Condon, Platte-villColo., with hard red spring wheat with a test weight of 64.5 pounds per bushel, winning the national reserve award. Other winners include D. F. Sak-utYuba City, Calif., for raising the best hard white wheat; Ralph Osborn, Culver, Ind., for best spring red wheat; Appleton Brothers, Canandaigua, N. Y., best soft white wheat; and William Frazen, Mapes, market places and bazaars, in the coffee houses and the couloirs (not to mention the lecture halls). One is: Why on earth are they e, h, ... for title of wheat king went to R. E. Condon, Platteville, Colo. This is the second year since 1941 that a Colorado grain grower won the national reserve award. His hard red spring wheat weighed 4.5 pounds per bushel more than the standard weight of wheat. RUNNER-U- P 1941. Indian Fighter Dies at Tulsa; His Age, 105 Luther F. Givens is shown a sample of the threshed trophy he won in the competition is also shown. was produced on his farm southeast of Sterling, Logan county, Colorado. 80-ac- And Lund Available To Fanners of D. S. War Assets cornew agency handling surporation, has announced war property, plus there will be' no strictly agricultural equipment declared surplus, although 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 agriculture 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 original 100,000 acres, for sale; there is no barb wire, the demand exceeding the supply by about 15 to 1; there is a hemp and flax mill formerly 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. signal corps in Chicago; Lexington, Ky.; Ogden, Utah; Atlanta, Ga.; and Bellmead, N. J. WASHINGTON. Born and Lived 71 Years on Same Farm FAIRMONT, MINN. When the Fairmont Daily Sentinel got to wondering who had lived the longest time on the same farm in this locality, Mrs. E. G. Swanson of Dun-ne- ll 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 December, 1874, on a farm near Dunnell, and still lives there with his wife and son, making over 71 years on the same farm. . whole-hearte- served his 105th birthday last Feb ruary 17, was bom on a steamboat at Louisiana, Mo. He went to Texas in 1866 as an advance guard for stage coaches. Cater he rode for the Wells-Farg- o express from St. Louis west. He was wounded four times by bullets and once .when Comanche Indians pierced his neck with arrows. 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 buffalo 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 because of infirmities. No immediate relatives have been located. Full Documentation Is Required ' By answering ihat question, one can answer the other two I mentioned at the beginning of these lines. One: Why is this thing being dragged out forever. . . . ? Answer: Because this trial is not merely a trial of a handful of international criminals. These evil villains are only a small part of the drama, even if it is they, and not what is behind their castigation, Champ Potato Grower which sometimes still produces The trial is a great procheadlines. HARRISBURG, PA. By producof documentation. ess legal 656 on of a bushels potatoes ing It is the recording of history, for measured acre, Mervin Hanes of the first time in history, of history Stewardstown became Pennsywritten in blood, and ink hardly lvanias champion potato grower for yet dry. It must be a complete rec1945. ord; the record of a crime which, The award was made to Hanes until it is so recorded, may never at a by the growers be admitted as a crime in the eyes dinner held for him in and of international statesmen lawyers. The Allied military tribunal (operation justice, as it was known in One-Thir- d the army) was planned, and is beU. ing conducted to its long and apparently infinite end for the purpose of blueprinting a legal precedent for holding as punishable criminals, the Two solons have stated that almost d heads of states who plot and carry WASHINGTON. of the people of the United States, or more than 35,000,000 out aggressive warfare. That is the answer to .question persons, nearly all of them in rural areas, have no access to one. libraries. Question two: Are they ever .goBecause of that situation, the ing to convict these fellows? I answered that in part when I said lawmakers, Sen. Lister Hill of Alabama and Rep. Emily Taft Dougthat the proceedings were far las of Illinois, have Introduced idenmore than the trials of the defendtical bills simultaneously in the ants who sit daily in the prisoners house and senate calling for annual dock of the court house at NuernPAWHUSKA, OKLA. The 10th berg, or in their lonely cells near federal grants of $25,000 to each state for use of state library asso- annual convention of the Osage Cat- bY. tlemens association, an event 'And for those who fear that jusciations in rural areas. known the Southwest, tice will be cheated, let me say that The bill also empowers states to has beenthroughout scheduled for June 21 and most of those men, if it cannot be to a provide additional funds up been it 22, has announced by Gart- established that they took official maximum of $50,000 annually for ner of the as- part in the planning and execution Drummond, president such work, which the federal gov- sociation. of an match. would war, are probably ernment Held in the heart of a famous wantedaggressive on other adcharges in local or control no federal While the meeting courts. If they go free bluegrass from Nuernministration is involved, annual re- will featurepastureland, a barbecue and a cowlocal will courts the try them, states berg, ports would be called for and boy dance. This year a large at- as the Beast of Belsen and othwould qualify for funds by prepar- tendance is expected when cattle- ers were tried and convicted for ing plans and submitting them to men from several surrounding their separate and private crimes. the United States commissioner of states will hear experts on modern is possible, for instance, that It education. ranching methods. the sadistic, degenerate Streicher, The statistics show there are 586 There is one fly in the ointment, wielder of a jewelled counties without any public library however, and President Drummond a symbol of his psywas that whip service. The greatest number, 150 is scratching his head for an an- chosis well as an instrument of as counties, are in Texas. Kentucky swer. With a much larger at- his perverse desire, will not be conis second with 63 counties with no tendance than ever before expected, victed by the IMT. He is so low library, and Louisiana and Missis- finding sufficient accommodations that his fellow prisoners wont 35 counties with is developing into a major problem. sippi are third, to so crooked that even him; each. Jhe hospitality of this community speak a Gauleiter, he was he when In only 11 states does every coun- has never failed in the past, and couldnt be trusted to sign a single is banking on the neigh- order of national or international ty havd a public library. They are Drummond Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Maine, borliness of Pawhuska more than significance. He finally stole so Massachusetts, New Hampshire, ever, he admits. Anyway, cattlemen much from the Nazi itself that New Jersey, New York, Oregon, can bunk most any place if they he was incarcerated. party have to, Drummond states. Rhode Island and Vermont The Nuernberg trials will con the United States. ... ofWichita wheat with Some Surplus Goods There is one war which will have d my support though I hope it can be fought with brains and without bloodshed. Such a conflict was referred to out dragging as a possibility by a writer recently these in the New Republic. Perhaps it arent they ever will be, he says, as inevitable as going to end? was the Civil war within the The other is: United States. It would be in the Do you think any nature of a civil war within the of these fellows the sov(the prisoners) are going to get off? United Nations to establish Nations and of the United ereignty The intelligence of the questioners and the number of times I hear preserve its unity, just as it was the questions assures me that the necessary to establish the sovermain purposes of the trial are still eignty of the federal government of the United States and preserve the widely misunderstood. union. Associate Justice Jackson knows No other war is worth fighting as well as anyone else that news because any other would merely be from Nuernberg has long since de- the continuation of all the parted inconspicuously from the ary struggles, unwanted by sanguinthe peofront page. He knows, from readthe for the and ple, glory of power ing the American newspapers which nations. single reach him not too belatedly, thanks to the ALS (the armys special courier service), that his role in the Washington Has Nuernberg case will never bring Small Town Air him a succes de scandale. He knows Out of the doors of the his presence is needed in Washingcathedral which crowns ton on the Supreme court bench. hill, through Washingtons In any case, he knows that he the court in ahighest rain that set gentle is adding to his fellow justices bur- the to weeping and the young yews dens, if not their annoyance by re- leaves of the privet shining in maining awayi from the job. Cer- aqueous green, the solemn procestainly he realizes that time is not sion moved. The President and his increasing the prestige which he entourage, the members of the Suundoubtedly achieved when he en- preme court, the cabinet, the congineered the trials and made his gress, and the others slipped away ringing opening address. He has as the family of Chief Justice Harnothing to gain personally by re- lan Stone bore him gently to his maining longer in that dreary, pul- last resting place in beautiful Rock verized Bavarian city. Creek cemetery. Why, then, does' he tarry? Another great American had still-unfinish-ed TULSA, OKLA. During his life, six wars were fought. He knew personally such historical characters as General Custer, Geronimo, the Indian Apache chief, and Jesse James, the outlaw. He recently died here at the age of 105. William Franklin Knight, who ob- WHEAT KING holding a sheaf of grain nearby. The The winning wheat re of tinue until the record is completed. Justice will not be cheated. And it is to be hoped that aggressive war, on the basis of the proceedings of this court, will become illegal. How can the United Nations hope to outlaw war unless they establish with sword, scales and woolsack that war is illegal? trials; N. D. The contest was established in Since that time Colorado wheat has four times taken the national honors, while Montana grain once has scored first. Former Colorado winners were George Hofmann, Iliff; Leo Lindstrom, Sterling; and Jesse Powers, Henderson. The Montana winner was L. E. Peterson, Victoria, the winner and Commentator. WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W. Washington, D. C. As the Nuernberg trials draw to a close, I continue to hear two ques- in a Sterling saddle club. Some 15 acres of the farm was devoted to the development of the Wichita 1941. Complete Trial Needed To Legally Outlaw War S. Population Has IIo Access to Libraries one-thir- Jew-baiti- -- - ng chosen the nations capital where he served for two decades, as his long, last home. And I could not help thinking, of something I have said before in these columns Pennsylvania avenue, from the capitol grounds to the Potomac, and past the White House, is only an extension of a thousand Main streets, which run through the "court house the plaza, square, or the commons, on past the First National bank and the opera house, the department store, and the ice cream parlor, to the free fields and woods beyond. So much a part of America is Americas capital city, and so much a part of Washington are all the towns and cities clustered about their rivers, their main streets, their city halls, and post offices, that when one long serves the nation here, it becomes his second home; often first in choice for his declining years and his last resting place. I am sure that former President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft loved his native Ohio no less than the federal city; here the bridge upon which he could be seen taking his daily walk now bears his name; he lies in Arlington with our other soldier dead. I know that retired Justice Hughes lacks no love or loyalty for the Empire state. Oliver Wendell Holmes, deeply rooted in New England as he was, lived here, and when he died, bequeathed his home to the nation. These are but three of many who chose to live here when their duties no longer made it necessary. There is something about Washington, a city virtually without industries, or the other institutions which make a metropolis, that bears the mark of small-tow- n America. Washington is the only capital of a great nation which is not that nations metropolis. There is also something else town which, for about this thousands of us who follow our humble ways here, make it home. My own prairies are as dear to me as ever, and I never cease to thrill when I move across the border and over the fat black soil of Illinois; I have warm memories of the mists that blow in from the Pacific too; the hills and the lakelands of western New York; New mountains d Englands and rocky coast where I have been more than a transient guest, But I can well understand how those who have moved along the quiet avenues of this city, whose vistas run far back into the beginnings of American history, choose this city beside the broad Potomac as their final home. big-litt- le green-creste- x |