Clark County News

 

Aug. 6, 1953

 

Twelve-ton Tower is raised at the Drive-in Theater at Christie is nearing Completion

 

Opens about Aug. 15 The 12-ton tower of the new community Drive- In theater at Christie was hoisted into place last Thursday morning by a 75-foot crane as preparations for the opening of the theater neared completion.

 

The tower raises 54 feet into the air and is 48 feet wide. The screen is 48 by 36 feet, and the picture size is 41 by 32 feet.

 

Arlo Clausen, who has had 23 years of theater experience and who will manage the new, locally-owned drive-in, announced this week that plans are being made for opening the theater on or about August 15. The layout includes a snack bar, restrooms, in-the-car speakers and has a capacity of 250 cars. The location, west of the highway, has been approved by the state highway commission; and all plans were approved by the state industrial commission.

 

Commenting on the new drive-in, Mr. Clausen said: “The location was picked for its beauty. It has an exceptional setting of majestic mounds. To see a sunset from there is to see a great natural picture. Being off the highway far enough, the sound of traffic will not bother, nor will light. The Community Drive-in will show first run pictures and ‘buck-a-car’ nights will come four times a week.”    

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Projects Adopted in Dairy Campaign

 

County Meeting Starts the Local Effort to Support Market

 

A start has been given to the effort of Clark County to meet and conquer the threats to dairying. That start is proceeding from a group of 47 persons who attended a meeting last week at Greenwood and who are undertaking to put in motion projects suited to the situation in Clark County.

 

Under the leadership of Stanley Ihlenfeldt, county agent, this group went over the list of projects suggested by the state organization, selecting such as stood a chance of success in this county. The emphasis was upon the cooperative side of this undertaking and upon an analysis of the problem.

 

All U.S. Takes Hold

 

The effort in Clark County, it was indicated by Mr. Ihlenfeldt, is only part of a countrywide campaign. Just as Clark County has set up a steering committee and is undertaking specific projects, so every dairy county, even those in the cotton-growing south, is proceeding in a similar way. Thus, the movement, modestly undertaken here, becomes an operation of immense size and possibility, with dairymen all over the United States joining in to make it a success. The seemingly small start which has been given in Clark County is just a little added to similar littles of dairymen in all other dairy counties, all of it adding up to an impressive program.

 

The problem, it was stated at the Greenwood meeting, is not colossal. It consists in finding a market for a small marginal amount of milk and milk products. By caring for this marginal amount of milk, dairymen can steady the market and achieve the result which has been set as a stint by Secretary of Agriculture Benson.

 

Specific Projects

 

Some of the things discussed and adopted for work were the following:

 

(1) Back the American Dairy Association. This is the promotion arm of the dairy industry. Its effort is to increase the popular demand for dairy products. This is done by advertising and merchandising. Clark County, it was reported, is below average on this. Less than half of the plants of the county are cooperating with the set-aside. The failure is chiefly with the smaller plants. The larger plants are doing better and hence about 70 percent of the milk of the county is making its contribution to the funds for promotion.

 

(2) Engage intensively in public discussion. The people of Clark County can, in and of themselves, make a large dent in the marginal over production. They need to be reminded of the importance of increasing their own consumption of milk products made in Clark County. With meat high and cheese relatively low, there is personal advantage in increasing the use of cheese in place of meal, and that can be done with confidence that nutrition is being well cared for. This phase of the campaign was warmly presented by Sara Steele, the county home agent, who told of unquestioned merits of dairy products in building human health and strength.

 

Cheese for Christmas

 

(3) Use cheese for Christmas gifts. The time of year is approaching when the people of Clark County will be looking for Christmas gifts, many of which will go beyond the limits of Clark County. For a gift from Clark County nothing is quite so good as cheese attractively packaged. In its production of American cheese, Clark County ranks third in the country, and many friends of the county, residing at a distance, have some idea of this fact. To them, cheese is associated with Clark County more emphatically, perhaps, than to those who are right at home. Their loyalty to their old home county can be recognized, and their influence can be extended if the home folks will make a big business of using cheese for Christmas.

 

(4) Use milk and cheese for the breaks and for snacks. For the extension of such uses, a campaign will be developed. Its success will be assured by the conscious effort of all the people of the county. Above are only a few angles in the campaign, which is now starting. The campaign will be extended and made an important factor in the dairy market to the extent to which individuals make it their own business to increase their use of dairy products.

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Oats are in Peril After a Shortage in First Hay Crop

 

Fields are Wet for Ten Successive, Critical Days for Oat Crop Farmers of Clark County have suffered a setback in their early summer crops. Rain has persisted throughout the period when oats should have been harvested, and the damage to oats has followed conditions, which shortened the hay crop and injured its quality. Thus far in the season these two main dependencies of local dairying have been a disappointment.

 

As this is written, oats are still at the mercy of the elements. Practically all of the oats which have been cut by binders are in the fi elds. They are wet and are deteriorating. Practically all of such oats in this area will be graded as weathered, and that means a lowered value on the market.

 

The next bad thing that could happen is that the oats will begin to sprout. This is more than just a bare possibility. With more or less rain in showers indicated for the next few days, the outlook is that the shocked oats must remain in the fi eld, taking what nature has to offer them. Inasmuch as it is their nature to sprout when they are wet, the likelihood is that some of them will sprout.

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A Typical Experience

 

This situation follows damage by rust, which has been prevalent throughout Clark County. Fairy typical of the whole condition is the experience of Robert Jacob of the Neillsville community. He has 20 acres of oats. Of this, 17 acres are in Shelby. All of this lot of oats he has written off as of very little account, if any at all. It is in the shock, and it is wet. Before it was cut, it was rusty, with heads not well filled out. Three acres are certified Branch, and this lot looked good when cut. Just what it will amount to when it is threshed is beyond the estimate of Mr. Jacob.

 

The conditions responsible for the two short crops, hay and oats are shown by the record of the rainfall. In the month of July, the official record, taken at the Neillsville station, shows 6.12 inches of rain in July. The fall has been continuous in quantity great or small on the first four days of August and on three of the last six days of July. This means that in the 10 days up to and including August 4, there has been no opportunity for the fi elds and the crops upon them to become thoroughly dried out. They have been from damp to downright wet all of the time

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How it Rained

 

The rainfall for 10 days follows: July 26, .04 inches; July 27, .57; July 28, 0; July 29, .65; July 30, 0; July 31, 0; August 1, .09; August 2, 1.15; August 3, .13; August 4, .92. There is just one ray of optimism, which is offered after consultation with Stanley Ihlenfeldt, the county farm agent. He draws attention to the fact that the conditions which have brought damage to oats and the first crop of hay have been favorable to the growth of a second crop of hay and to the growth of corn. Both of these crops appear to rate from good to excellent. As for corn, particularly for grain, the crop faces plenty of hazards, especially frost. If the growing season is prolonged, grain corn might come through to make up, at least in part, for the shortage of oats.    

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LYNN -- By Mrs. Wim. Dankemyer

 

Mrs. Paul Grass and children of Racine are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hasz since Tuesday. On Sunday, Mrs. Grass and children accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hillert to Tomah, where they visited Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Hillert, who had their baby daughter christened with Mrs. Grass as sponsor.

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Mrs. And Mrs. Raymond Brooks of Spiceland, Ind., came Friday and are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Clark Books.

 

Miss Audrey Short visited Mr. and Mrs. Don Stewart on Friday at Madison, where she met her sister, Miss Elaine Short, and both went to Milwaukee.

 

Mrs. Otto Tamm and Miss Ella Grottke of Lombard, Ill., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Fred Grottke since Friday. Other Sunday guests at the Grottke home were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Grottke and family, Fremont.    

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WASHBURN– By Mrs. Ralph Short

 

Mrs. Art Williams injured her right leg quite badly last week when she was assisting Mr. Williams with the milking. A cow kicked her, knocking her down. No bones were broken, but she suffered some bad bruises.

 

Some damage was done Saturday between 11 and 12 o’clock a.m. from the hard electrical storm. Lightning came in on telephone wires at the John Reinart farm; burned off telephone wires; knocked a window from frame loose, splinters flying across the room; knocking plaster off the wall and also off a partition between dining room and kitchen and smoke blackened an electric food mixer and singed a curtain. At the John Urban Sr., farm, lightning struck a big elm tree near the house and garage and went into the house, burning out several switches in the house: also, some in the barn and granary. The transformer at the Henry Wallace farm was burned out. A heifer was killed at the Joe Holub farm.

 

Mrs. William Koehler entertained the ladies from the Cannonville Church and Ladies Aid last week Thursday afternoon at her home, 409 Clay Street, Neillsville. The ladies presented Mrs. Koehler with gifts and coin for a pink and blue shower. The afternoon was spent visiting and playing Bunco, with Mrs. Rose Ball and Mrs. Ole Larsen as prize winners.    

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THORP HAPPENINGS

 

Cpl. Laurence Damski, son of Mr. and Mrs. Julian Damski of Stanley, is home from Korea and is spending a 30-day furlough with his parents. Laurence has many friends in Thorp.

 

Donald Jacques returned July 27 to Rockford, Ill., after spending a week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Jacques in Thorp.

 

A/c Jerome Hedler is spending a 30-day furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Hedler of Thorp.

 

Mr. and Mrs. Alton Luer and family of Chicago and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Pagel Sr., were July 25 evening supper guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bohn of Thorp.

 

Mr. and Mrs. George Polnaszek of Green Grove are the parents of a daughter, born July 22.

 

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