Roosevelt Standard | 1944-07-13 | Page 2 | Highlights ... in the Week's News

HIGHLIGHTS . . . in the weeh'$ newt I I HAY SHORTAGE: With 10 per ! cent less hay available for each farm : animal this year, farmers are faced ! with an acute shortage of other feeds, says the Middle West Soil Improvement Im-provement committee. To meet this situation, pasture improvement including in-cluding the application of nitrogen, phosphorus and potash is essential to boost production on existing acreage, acre-age, it states. SEA SERPENT: A "sea serpent" 35 feet long, "with humps on its yellow, yel-low, shell-like back" was repoited seen in Payette's lake, near McCall, Idaho. The strange creature has been observed periodically for the last 10 years, it is said. One previous pre-vious scofler. Walter Bowling, was among the group on shore who saw the "thing." He is now convinced that it exists.