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...University of Wyoming enrolled four students in a new four-year course in Recreational Ranching. Prospective dude ranchers will study animal production, livestock management, nutrition, geology, botany, economics, hotel management, bookkeeping, public speaking, journalism, wild life, history of the West...
Tent City. The carnival is not Iowan; the auto racers and rodeo folk are not Iowan; the best horseshoe pitcher is not Iowan; the livestock is not all Iowan. But the people who go to the Fair are Iowa itself, in all its friendliness, power, vulgarity and genius. And the place to see them best is in the Tent City, a unique colony pitched in a rolling, wooded 100-acre plot adjoining the Fair Grounds. These visitors, 10,000 strong, appear at the Fair year after year, are its backbone. They bring their own tents and by some informal right...
Exempt from all except safety and labor regulations, thanks to potent Washington lobbies, are trucks used exclusively for carrying newspapers, fish, livestock and farm produce, all trucks owned by farmers' co-operative associations, private manufacturers and merchants. Totally exempt are school buses, hotel buses, trolley buses, taxicabs and buses & trucks engaged only in intrastate commerce. The Federal law will directly affect about 50,000 trucks, 100,000 buses. However, since every State but Delaware has some measure of motor carrier regulation, the new law will in effect do little more than stabilize an industry in which the big units...
Joseph A. Worsham, attorney for Mr. Carpenter's company, took the witness stand. He had just learned from Representative Patton, he declared, that the mysterious package contained two Department of Agriculture books on livestock raising. Representative Patton had taken them to Mr. Carpenter's room as a pres-ent for his son, then remembered that he could save Mr. Carpenter some postage by using his Congressional frank to send the books to Texas, hence had wrapped them up in a newspaper to take back to his office...
Noting with satisfaction that "livestock that was on short rations is again feeding on green pastures,' the Department of Agriculture wrote: "By borrowing where they could, using Government loans and seeds so far as available and keeping their tractors chugging far beyond the usual hours of labor [farmers in the drought area] and their families have planted acreages of spring wheat, oats, barley and flax that seemed impossible three months...