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i ‘Insurance Commissioner Would legislature to either revise the state HAIL LAW CHANGE ASKED BY HOPTON 10 HELP FARMERS Either Make It Effective or Close Up Announcement that he will ask the hail insurance law so that it can be of real service to the farmers of North Dakota or abolish the depart- ‘ment completely was made Thursday by Insurance Commissioner Harold Hopton. Hopton’s stand is based on an ana- lysis of hail department operations during the last few years under the Present law, the financial condition} ‘of North Dakota farmers and the recent agricultural history of the state. During the last few years, working ‘under an optional listing law, the hail insurance department has done little business, This condition has been in- tensified by the drouth and the fact that farmers did not care to pay for hail insurance when their crop pros- ‘pects were poor. A bill which Hopton has prepared for introduction in the legislature and which he says has already won wide support from lawmakers who have stadied it, would make impor- tant changes in the present hail in- surance set-up. Most prominent among its features are a reduction in the amount of nor- mal indemnity to effect a lowering ‘of rates and @ quasi-compulsory feat- ure, Would Reduce Coverage ‘Under the present law the normal indemnity is $7 an acre with a maxi- mum of $10. Hopton would reduce the coverage to a normal of $4 an acre and a maximum of $8. All agricultural land would be list- ed for hail insurance and payment of at least @ part of the premium for coverage would be compulsory. The idea behind this is to make the in- surance cost a tax and a prior lien on the land, the same as other taxes. Any land owner could withdraw his land from the insurance before June 20, however, upon payment of 25 per vent of the anticipated premium and before July 6 upon payment of 40 per vent. Under this system, the cost of the compulsory insurance to farmers in zone one of the hail insurance pro- tection would have been two and a half cents an acre in 1928, the worst year in the hail insurance depart- ment's experience. The cost to retain the insurance would be about 10 cents. In zone five, consisting of counties where losses are heaviest, the cost to withdraw the insurance would be six ‘and a half cents an acre under the 1928 loss ratio. In the best year on record the cost of getting out would have been one |™ust apply and a quarter cents an acre in zone | Sency one and three and one-quarter cents in zone five. The plan recognizes, Hopton said, that farmers are in such bad financial time, if they plant a crop and get wiped out, they may be wiped out for good. The reduced coverage would re- turn them something for their seed and enable them to stay on the farm and try again another year. Two-Piano Broadcast Series Is Innovation second piano, Grieg; March 1—Miss Charlotte Sloven, Sonatine, Op. 20, No, 2, Kuhlau, second piano, Riedel, Op. 18; March 8—Miss Barbara Henry, Sonate in G Major, Mozart, second piano, Ann Cox, Sonatine, Op. 20, No. 1, Kuhlau-Riedel; March 29—Mrs. Har- ris Robinson, Romance for Two Pianos, Op. $1; Grieg; April 5—Mrs, M. W. Roan, Concerto in B Flat Ma- jor (first adler ae Brahms. * . Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Gordon, 1204 Broadway avenue, are to have as their guests for several days their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Gordon, and their three children, Derma, Chester and Dale, who ar- rived Wednesday evening from their home at Thermopolis, Wyo, WILLSON ANNOUNCES LIBERALIZATION OF FEED LOAN POLICY FCA Authorizes Increase to $4.50 for Cattle, $6 for Horses Per Month Liberalization of the farm credit administration's emergency feed loan Policy was announced Thursday by E. A. Willson, FERA administrator for North Dakota, on advices from Wash- The FCA has authoribed increase of the original maximum feed loan of $3 per head per month for cattle to $4.50 and the original maximum feed loan of $4.50 per head per month for horses to $6, Willson said. Willson ‘explained the increasing Cost of stock feed was the reason for the liberalization. The lower loan rate did not give the farmer enough cash to purchase sufficient feed for ‘his livestock.each month, he said. Requested Liberalization Dr. H. L.’ Walster, director of the drouth relief service, and Willson re- quested the liberalization when they were satisfied the previous maximum, loan was insufficient at present feed ‘Willson pointed out that PCA’s rul- has had no effect on the maxi- feed advance which is limited month per farmer. of the new policy, Will- at ie Fis H a Pils Hae Bie Ee E E 2 i ae § ia Hi i 5 ‘ horses have been able to secure a loan of only $20. emergency feed loan of make loans of less than farmer had to se- “Under the new liberalized setup, the same farmer is able to obtain a Joan of $18 for his cows and $12 month automatically making him elig- ible for the FCA emergency feed loan and automatically cutting him off from FERA advances. “When emergency feed loans are approved by the local committee and subsequently approved by the FCA office in St. Paul, the farmer immedi- A series of two-piano radio pro-|ately receives a check with which to grams, the first of their kind to be|buy feed from broadcast over KFYR, will be inau- local dealer.” ‘The FERA gurated at 7:45 o'clock Friday eve-|feed directly to farmers, Willson ex- ning. The series, continuing until April 5, will present various pupils of the Mehus Conservatory of Music playing the second piano scores. and chased by the FERA last summer and North z At the close of this series which|drouth areas “irrespective of whether will be continued weekly at the same!they had hour, there will be a second group of {whether they had secured loans from concerts presenting violin sonatas and/the toncertos by pupils of Ralph Trumian | tained feed adi and beginning on April 12. The FCA or whether they had ob- ‘Willson’ said. schedule which Miss Mehus| On orders from Washington these has drawn up for the plano series in- feed supplies later were turned over To e' fal of a new country! You can carry it out in Westward Ho—the covered wagon—that symbol of pioneer days! very American it spells romance, bravery, endurance face of every hardship, the conquest of the elements, the setting 1 In this picture, a typical pioneering in the scene is just one color—brown—and you (first and second movements), Mo- se feme e accuse (000 STUDENTS SET thor, Fantasie in © Minor, Mozart, THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1935 PERFECT DECEMBER ATTENDANCE MARKS; ‘School Officials Announce Lists of Pupils Neither Tardy Nor Absent A total of 698 students in Bismarck grade schools maintained perfect at- tendance records during the month of December, according to school of- ficials who announced the completed lists Wednesday. Grouped by schools, the students neither tardy nor absent during the 30-day period follow: WILL ANNEX First Grade Irene Schultz, David Nye, Larry | Martin, Ramona Malm, John Hege- dus, Verna Fogerstrom, Frances Everts, Marylyn Everts, Marylyn Ellis, Arthur Claridge, Yvonne Bar- ker, Vivian Bakken, Joyce Babcock. Ernest Andre, William Ballou, Ru- ben Behrbaum, Bernard Burbage, Raymond Delzer, Carol Devitt, Wil- bert Haase, Robert Herzberg, Billy Johnson, Lois Mae Johnson, Doris | Kleingartner, Eugene Knoll, Florence |Martin, Ralph Might, Betty Weikum, Joyce Woodward. Third Grade Grant Anderson, Jean Burbage, Ralph Beardsley, Lester Deckert, James Monson, Orlando Monroe, Lug cille Netzbandt, Billy Ottum, Gerald Price, Gene Riedinger, Robert Rit- terbush, Beverly Rice, Jean Smith, Aubrey Short, Joyce Tellengo, Claire Tolchinsky, Nola Tovaas, Evelyn Weibusch, Phyllis Wahl, Forest Way. Seventh Grade Howard Beers, Ann Bergeson, Buddy Brandenburg, George Bounds, Do- lores Brier, Gerald Brynjulson, Lynn Burkhart, Wilda Chapman, Robert Clark, Viola Clausnitzer, Jack Coch- ran, Florence Cohenour, Grace Coj- berg, John Conrad, Jack Everts, Re- becca Freitag, Paul Frederick, Roy Gebhart, John Gunness, Egil Hagen, Foster Hansen, Helen Hedden, Philip John Solberg, Roland Solum, Victor Sorsdahl, Jean Speaks, Frederick Swenson, Curtis Thornton, Joe Volk, Virginia Wilson, Bob Woodmansee, Rita Worst, Bob Weasley, Mary Fran- ces Yeater. RICHHOLT First Grade Arthur Bredy, Wilma Farley, Vir- ginia Fortenberry, Richard Karl- gaard, Jack Roch, Fred Lunn, Wilbur Mandigo, Duane Miller, Raynie Mindat, Betty Lous Neils, Irene Ode, Winifred Quanrud, Marlys Wooton, Vernon Aune, Nadine Carley, Walter Correll, Beverly Gable, Wilbert Koe- nig, Thomas Binks. Second Grade nea Asplund, Robert Gietke, Harvey Gray, Charlotte Gussner, James Janke, Emmarillis Jordan, Betty Klein, Lois Knapp, Wayne Lunn, Dorothy Martin, Robert Russell, Ja- cob Seitz. Third Grade Isabel Carell, Betty Fritz, Joe Guthrie, Ralph Hektner, John Mel- ville, Elmer Ode, Paul Porter, Jackie Scott, Edwin Seitd, Orville Clark. Fourth Grade Teddy Anderson, Vivian Anderson, Warren Asplund, Robert Blensley, Margaret Bredy, Edwin Clausnitzer, Elaine Cleveland, James Coats, Nor- ma Cordon, Roscoe Corell, Mary Ann Fortenberry, Harold Geigle, John Gussner, Jr., Gladys Jesser, Evelyn Klein, Margaret Meili, Mina Mitchell, Myla Mitchell, Myron Ode, Lorraine Russell, Elsie Schultz, George Te Kippe. Fifth Grade Jean Burman, John Carlson, Jack Fossum, Leota Goodman, Bertha Kallenberger, Edward Kallenberger, Verna Koenig, Althea Lippert, Ken- neth Lunn, Guilford Mandigo, Leslie Miller, Mary Jane Nelson, Clarence Olson, Girdell Patterson, Lois Jean Peterson, Jean Pickles, Lyle Porter, Perey Quanrud, Norman Gillenberg, Norma Jacobson, Billy Jahnke, Alice Schuh, Gordon Tilsen, Frank Wen- zel, Billy Wilcox. Sixth Grade Ruby Boelter, Vera De Groot, Jean- ette Forsythe, Esther Koenig, Ray- mond Martin, Hazel Wilson, Roger Anderson, Louise Collier, Norman Fevold, Robert Fossum, Jean Gillette, Jonah Goehner, Eloyse Kositzky, Ger- ald Lunn, Doris Mayer, John Mitchell, Ruth McCurdy, James. Neubauer, Pearl Porter, Elaine Trousdale. Hendrickson, Leona Hochhalter, Wal- ter Hoffman, Isabel Holwegner, Eunice Jessen, Martha Jonathan, Ralph Kaline, Donald Klein, Milton Klein, Russel Knudson, Wallace Kor- rupp, John Kunkel, Royce La Grave, ‘Mildred Larson, Inez Leet, Bob Lipp, Viola Lueck, Edna Lyngstad, Bert Mahiman, Virginia Malm, Merrian Mann, Marion Martin, Janet Mason, John McCabe, Richard McCabe, Ray- mond McCullough, Fred Meske, Marietta Meyer, Lois Milhollan, Ar- thur Montgomery, Dolories Munger, Joe Nicola, Catherine O’May, Eunice Omdahl, Joyce Paviok, Waldemar Person, Gene Peters, Vernon Peter- son, Bruce Plomasen, Harold Russell, Genevieve Sack, Rosalie Satter, Har- old Schultz, James Schunk, Janet Sell, Thomas Skodje, Charles Shafer, Donald Sjoblom, Frances Spohn, Wanda Swenson, Theodore Teppo, Rose Thomas, Sylvia Thorson, Anne Tillotson, Arthur Tilson, Ralph Tru- man, Lynn Ulness, Harry Vadnie, Dan Wagar, Betty Walla, Lois Web- “|ber, Louise Webster, Eldred Welch, Ronald Wheeler, Arnold Winfree. Eighth Grade Jean Aide, Constance Arnold, Thomas Baker, Nick Barbie, Earl Beatt, George Bell, Earl Benesh, Lor- raine Berg, Mary Jane Bernard, Raymond Boelter, Kathleen Brittain, Robert Burckhardt, Bill Carley, Paul Carr, Audrey Cave, Grace Clausnit- zer, Robert Cohenour, Ronald Davis, Lucille Dutt, Lois Erdahl, Joan Fisher, Donald Flateland, John Fox, Margaret Forister, Bernard Fuller, Emi! Goehner, Evelyn Griffith, Lle- wellyn Hamery, Albert Holwegner, Wilbert Jahnke, Helen Johnson, Marion Kant, Keith Kelley, Loring Knecht, Donald E. Larson, Donald 8. Larson, Norman Larson, Edwin Lee, Robert Lee, Kenneth Little, John Lyngstad, Arlene Mann, Dolorus L. Mayer, Dorothy McCall, Claribel Mc- Goon, Lyle Mills, Le Roy Mitchell, Luela Monroe, Alta Moos, Dorothy Mueller, Helen Murray, Jane Ann Mundy, Marie Nelson, Fern Nord, Pearl Norum, Mary Helen O'Connor, Adelene Ode, Gilbert Olson, Mar- garet Owens, Clement Quanrud, Whitney Refvem, Evelyn Rosen, Mar- jorie Rosen, Leonard Rosenberg, Ruth Sandin, Henry Schmidt, Joe Sirnchek, Scott Smith, Betty Smith,| A DRESS WITH THE EARMARKS OF GENIUS ‘ Opportunity Room Orville Olson, Burt Small. WACHTER First Grade Clara Meske. Lucille Schloemer, Velma Gall. Alice Marie Williams, Clayton Schacht, Philip Trolley, Richard Sabins, Anna Schmidt, Mil- dred Hering, Arthur Merkel, Billy Johnson, Ray Springer, Oren Bidwell, Lois Bailey, Roger Johnson, Jack Dutt, Deloris Belk. Second Grade Laura Bidwell, Bobbie Daniel, John Henry Gray, Russell Cable, Leonard Johnson, Rober’ Meeder, Esther Mee- der, Eugene Meyers, Richard Olson, Edward Schwab, Betty Willmann, Third Grade Leila Camoza, Peggy Lu Danicl, Vivian Farnam, Verna Fink, Stella Hering, Shirley Holmes, Illa Johnson, Eugene Schacht, Ralph Rosenberg, Genevieve Schuck, Maynard Roth, Florence Smith, Goldie Stone, Emelie Strobel, Violet Ritchey, Otto Meske. Fourth Grade Freda Binder, Alice Burtts, Ruth Brittain, Freda Daniels, Richard Helfenstein, Peter Lepo, Herman Merkel, Cecil Merti, Norma Olson, Beulah Sack, Gordon Westbrook, Helen Winkler, Robert Richey. Fifth Grade Althea Belk, Duane Graves, Luella Holmes, Donald Longmuir. Elmer Ob- erlander, Katherine Schmidt, Vernon Solum, Barbara Strobel. Carl West- brook, Delores Meske, Elmona John- | son, Florence Rosenberg, Kenneth Varney, Merton Welch, Frances Jessel. Sixth Grade Paul Fink, Robert Grey, Peter Knoll, Warren Johnson, Sophie Mer- kel, Norma Westbrook, Tessabell Westbrook, Billy Willmann, Charles Winkler, Henry Winkler, Ruth Belk, Rose Lacher. ROOSEVELT First Grade Donna Arnts, Richard Brauer, Quinten Cohenour, John Fahigren, Sally Ann Fleck, Lawrence Harlan, George Holm, John Holm, Clifford Holwegner, Jean Leonhard, Shirley Mason, Dorthea Meleck, Mildred Mer leck, James O'Brien, Gene Pfeifer, Irving Skei, Patty Slorby, Grace Weigelt, Leo Weixel, Eileen Ebeling, Charles Finkle, Lawrence Holwegner, Make This Model at Home PATTERN 2173 by hone hlans Time was when a dress like this meant one of two things—a modiste sions @ too flat one. The shoulder tucks make for perfect fit. The cir- cular cuffs and the circular inserts at the skirt—the last word in chic —enhance the figure, and add grace in movement. Pattern 2173 is available in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40. Size 16 takes 3% yards ZINE help you. It's just out! tains page after page of stunning styles ... up-to-the-minute and chic. Designs for children and grown-ups, for every occasion. Get it now! PRICE OF BOOK FIFTEEN CENTS BUT WHEN ORDERED WITH AN ANNE ADAMS PATTERN IT IS ONLY TEN CENTS. TWENTY-! FOR a. race Tribune Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City. ne John Fritz, Ruben Hochhalter, Lin- Burton, Neil Churchill, Willle Cohen- our, Dolores Davis, Winte Lou Hal- vorson, Jane Hall, Hugh Harless, Joan Harty, Dorothy Larsen, Donn: Lee Olstad, Elsworth Pearson, Ric! Renden, he | Remington, ford Sleight, Gweneth Tester, Irene ‘White, Gerard Meyer, Jeanette Nel- son, Chester Perkins. WILLIAM MOORE First Grade Richard Brandis, Rodney MPisher, Hedahl, Gerald Hindemith, Rose Judkins, Breen Kennelly, Kenneth Arline Solberg. Second Grade Patricia Aughnay, Marjory Barth, *|Jim Dolph, Earl Graffam, Laurence Kell, David Kelly, John Morton, Bev- Third Grade naon, Frances Edith Anderson, Elizabeth | Saat eee ieee, Willem , es Pierce, William Robert Boutrous, Lois Broxmeyer,|/schwarts, John Swenson, Douglas Duane Carlson, Dolores Delzer, An- Gerow, ette Diven, Virginia , Lois Hektner, Dorothy 5 Le Roy, Marilyn Robert O'Brien, Yeater, Richard Zabel. Third Grade Errold Adams, Richard Aide, Glenn Madsen, Arthur Perkins, Eileen Pfeifer, Eliga-| Barth, William Byerly, Marguerite beth Rasche, Robert Rue, Kenneth | Ellingson, Ruth Engen, Robert Kelly, Schultz, Shirley Schantz, John Sloan, Laure Spitzer, Robert Tester, August ‘Wagner, Arthur Weixel. Fourth Grade Robert Beattie, Bob Beatt, Arthur Cohenour, Ferris Cordner, Van George, June Le Roy, Roy Reade Lo- | John Larson, Mary Jane Larson, John Lee, Oscar Lovin, Phyllis Mandigo, Carolyn Rhoades, Jack Schunk, Mar- Guerite Storner, Salem Towne, Loren Vettel, Billy Waldschmidt. Fourth Grade Leonard Belk, George Bird, Marian gan, James McLaughlin, Allene Ol-| Brandes, Betty Grace Cave, Robert sted, Anna Mae Rasche, Jean Sloan, Nancy Tavis, June Wesner, Wesley Brynjulson, Alice Joyce Finkle, Kaare Cook, Jack Cripe, Valde de Groot, Richard Fevold, Ethel Hendricks, Kathleen Kell, Royann Kennelly, Hagen, Lorraine Hauch, Alvin Hoff,|Norman Little, Donald McDonald, Dorothea Holm, Alvina Johnson, Rov-|Frank Milhollan, Charles Olmonson, ert Jones, Albert Markham, William |Robert Register, Jane Riggs, Richard Mason, Robert Lee Meyer, Lorraine|Waldo, Virginia Wheeler, La Verne Nicola, Ruth Perkins, Merrill Pike,| Coulter, Jean Frazier, Ona Vie Knief, Virginia White, Beverly Young, Jan-|Marion Martin, Duane Torvik, Mar- ice Preston, Louis derson. Grade Turner, Pred An-|Jorie Ann Walla, . Fifth Grade John Belk, Calvin Bertch, Graydon Fifth Bud Andrews, Betty’ Mae Bernard,|Dehlen, Virginia Devitt, Violet Fag- James Bjelland, Marion Chernich, | ¢rstrom, Eva Marie Hendrickson, Charles Conrad, Nancy Helen Dollar,|£leanor Hoffman, Sonia Husby, Mary Eugene Fields, Lucille Hagen, John| Langer, George Larson, Marie Jean- Hofstrand, Lawrence Hellickson, Les-|¢tte Morton, lie Holwegner, Marjorie Jones, Hi Markham, ward Mueller, Milton Quamme, Rosemary Malvin Olson, Joan Rosenthal, Vernon Rudser, Warren Dwight Mote, Howard |Satter, Dale Saxvik, Virginia Shafer, Lois Solberg, Joyce Stoen, Mary Wal- Selvig, Rosemary Slorby, Norma Skei,|40, Delores Wells, Howard Abbot, Edwin Spitzer, Bennie Tillotson, Ina|Maxine Klindworth, Donald Brophy, Weixel, Katie Weixel, ‘Wildes, Eugene Anderson. Sixth Grade Mary Jane|John Engen, Olive Smith. Sixth Grade Marlin Abbott, Billy Arntson, Flor- Spencer Boise, Frances Boutrous,|ence Boutrous, Arthur Digby, Fran- Maxine Brauer, Lila Jane Brynjulson,|ces Hanson, Morgan Jones, Leonard Louella Bich, Michel Chernick, George | Quanrud, Isabella Abbot, Billy Augh- Constans, Mary Ann Cox, Runel/nay, Addison Bechtold, Walter Bro- ‘Campagna, Raymond Dohn, Jerome|phy, Lois Jean Brose, Clyde Cochran, Dohn, Robert Erdahl, Ernest Erickson,|Margaret Dolph, Jannette Fair, Paul Lloyd Fields, Louise Fisher, George |Gilbert, Beatrice Hendricks, Lee Hil- Hektner, Arland Hofstrand, Martin|den, Dorothy Knecht, Warren Little,|Marian Brandes, Beverly Gunness, Hagen, Jeanne Larson, Mary Logan, |Bernard Lueck, Margaret Olson, Mary | Robert Cook, Richard Waldo, Doris Catherine O'Leary, Quintin Olmsted,|Jane Refvem, Betty Rosenthal, Clar- | Asbridge, Ethel Hendricks, Jack Cripe, Herbert Rosen, Jack Schierbeck, Don-jence Schmidt, ald Schultz, Earl Skei, Roger Sloan, | Rosella Sjoblom, Alice Stoen, Audrey |Frank Milhollan, La Verne Coulter, Robert Alvina Spitzer, Beverly Stadler, Brad- | Waldschmidt. Schorrege, |Betty Grace Cave, |Jean Frazier, Jack Gibbs, Dorothy {57 GRADE STUDENTS tin, Melvin Montgomery, Bonnie Ren- Lng Jane Ann Skinner, Duane Tor- , _ Fifth Grade Beverly Barneck, Violet PLACE ON DECEMBER 2cw:¥ net, Wt mews HONOR ROLL IN CITY Gail Indseth, Mary Langer, Marie Jeanette Morton, Vernon Rudser, Warren Satter, Dale Saxvik, Virginia Shafer, Lois Solberg, Annette Torvik, Delores Wells, Billy Wright. Sixth Grade Will Junior High Seventh Leads] Audrey Waldschmidt, Alice Stoen, Other Classes With 27 on Selected List One hundred and fifty-seven stu- dents at the Will Junior High, Wach- ter, Roosevelt, Richholt, and William Moore grade schools had their names inscribed on the honor rolls for scholastic achievement during the month of December. The seventh grade of the Will Jun- jor High school with 27 in the honored group led all other grades in the num- ber of students compiling high scholastic grades. William Moore school, with 48 honor students, ranked first among the schools. Honor roll students by schools fol- | low: WILL JUNIOR HIGH Eighth Grade Lucia Bantz, Lorraine Berg, Robert | Burkhardt, Paul Carr, Audrey Cave, Ruby Coats, Evelyn Griffith, Gladys | Hawley, Helen Johnson, Keith Kelly, Loring Knecht, John Lyngstad, Ar- lene Mann. Adelene Ode, Joe Sirnchek, Jean Speaks, Bob Yeasley. Seventh Grade | Ann Bergeson, Buddy Brandenburg. Wilda Chapman, Florence Cohenour, Grace Colberg, John Fortenberry, John Gunness, Helen Hedden, Fre- donia Jensen, Bert Mahlman, Mer- rian Mann, Marietta Meyer, Delores Munger, Eunice Omdahl, Joyce Pav- lak, Waldemar Person, Gene Peters, | Vernon Peterson, Bruce Plomasen, Elizabeth Ritterbush, James Schunk, Thomas Skodje, Ann Louise Selvig, Eileen Skei, Pauline Spare, Betty Walla, Ronald Wheeler. | WILLIAM MOORE Fourth Grade Richard Fevold, George Bird, Mar-j| jorie Robinson, Mildred Schlechter, Kathleen Kell, Rosella Sjoblom, Elaine See, Betty Rosenthal, Margaret Olson, Shirley Laskin, Bernard Lueck, Dorothy Knecht. Audiene Wilson, Harriet Wagar, Myla Mitchell, Mina Mitchell, Ruth Richert, Billy Cunningham, Richard Knutson, Marlys Korupp, Evelyn Klein, Robert t Bensley. Grade Charles Ballou, Suzanne Melville, Mary Jane Nelson, Lyle Porter. Grade Louise Collier, Jean Gillette, Elaine Trousdale. — ROOSEVELT Fourth Grade John Heising, Roy Reade Logan, Ruth Perkins, Van George, Beverly Gunness, Allene Olsted, Jean Sloan, Alwyn Smith, Ferris Cordner, William Grabow, Janice Preston, Nancy Tavis, June Wesner, Robert Lee Meyer, Anna Mae Rasche. Fifth Grade Dwight Mote, Rosemary Selvig Betty Dick, Norma Skei, Lucille Hag- en, Charles Conrad, Milton Quamme, Marjorie Jones, Allen Hektner, Nancy Helen Dollar, Corinne Kiley, *Rose- mary Slorby. Sixth Grade Virginia Turner, Spencer Boice, Mary Ann Cox, Mary Logan, Caroline Atkinson, Earl Skei, Michel Cher- nick, Robert Wesuer, Beverly Stadler, Ted Mote, Lela Jane Brynjulson, Frances Boutrous, Jeanne Larson, Gweneth Tester. WACHTER SCHOOL Fourth Grade Marie Mceder. . Fi ifth Grade Bobby Willmann, Deloris Meske. Sixth Grade Margaret Dutt, Robert Grey, Nor- ma Westbrook, Billy Willmann. It has been estimated that 40 incher of water falls on the earth annually. THE PROPOSED Weighing and Grading Law HOW IT WOULD AFFECT THE LIVESTOCK PRODUCERS OF NORTH DAKOTA House Bill No. 7, now being considered in the state legislature, has for its purpose the installation of state appointed weigh- ers and graders at livestock markets, other than public markets, in the State of North Dakota. The object of the bill presum- ably is to assure: (1) honesty and accur- acy of weighing; (2) opportunity to give livestock a maximum “fill” and (3) cor- rectness in grading. 1. WEIGHING. The scales at the Armour Yards at West Fargo are tested at intervals as provided by state law. Furthermore our men who perform the function of weighing are li- coum and bonded as provided by state jaw. The Packers and Stockyards Act like- wise provides for periodical inspection of scales, The cost of the proposed state weighing would eventually fall on the livestock pro- ducers and add to farmers’ expenses with- out improving the weighing service which is already available. 2. “FILLS.” At the option of the shipper, livestock shipped to the West Fargo market would be penned separately and fed and watered for a period of two hours after unloading and before weighing. Bresumably the advocates of the bill be- lieve that the shippers would benefit by reason of the “fill” which might be put on in the two hours interval provided. Such a belief ignores the fact that the buyer must be sufficiently expert to recog- nize the existence of a “fill” and discount the price bid accordingly. Therefore, there would be no real benefit to the shipper by the reason of the “fill.” On this subject the summary of a report on direct market- ing just published by the Department of Agriculture, says: The practice of “filling” hogs by feeding before selling should be dis- continued at all markets, except such feeding as may be advisable for humanitarian reasons. The prac- tice is wasteful of feed, increases marketing costs, reduces the value of the animals for slaughtering and tends to lower rather than to in- crease total net returns to pro- ducers, Note particularly that “filling” lessens, rather than adds to the producer’s returns. 3. GRADING. Every lot of livestock is a class in it- self and the bids that are made represent the buyer’s judgment as to the actual worth of the livestock involved. It is the definite policy of Armour and Company to bid for livestock all that the livestock is worth in the ju ent of our expert buy- ers. Col uently grading by a state a- pointee would not, in itself, tend to assure the shipper any increase in the bids. On the contrary it might work the other way. If the state grader underestimates the Jan. 33, 1935 Fer Farther Details Regarding This Matter Write Armour and Company, Farge. quality of the livestock and we should buy it on that basis the producer would be the loser thereby. The fact that voluntary shipments of livestock to the West Fargo market have substantially increased during the ten years that Armour and Company has ope- rated the plant at West Fargo is, in it- self, the best possible proof that weighing is performed honestly and accurately and that the prices paid for livestock have giv- en the producers maximum net returns. According to studies made in connection with the previously mentioned U. S. De- partment of Agriculture direct marketing report, shippers who patronize direct mar- kets now have an advantage of 12c per ewt. over shippers who patronize public markets. The 12c per ewt. is an average for the country. It is our contention that the shippers to West Fargo save some- thing more than that. It is estimated that North Dakota farmers saved upwards of $250,000 on the livestock marketed at West Fargo last year. If the proposed bill were enacted into law, it would directly increase the market- ing costs incident to the sale of livestock produced within the state. This would have a detrimental effect upon North Da- kota’s program for diversifying agricul- ture by increasing livestock production. It would so inconvenience producers and so handicap existing buyers within the state as to make it difficult if not impos- sible to continue to operate, with the re- sult that this business would be driven from the state to the benefit of neighbor- ing states. * 2 # * Just what Armour and Company’s plant at West Fargo means to the state is best illustrated by the statement that we pro- vide employment for as many as 650 peo- ple and maintain a payroll amounting to as much as $15,000 per week and distri- bute as much as $8,000,000 annually among producers of livestock. In the 10 years that Armour and Com- pany has been in West Fargo some $58,- 614,460 has been brought into the state and disbursed among the livestock pro- ducers of North Dakota, among the wage earners and business houses which sup- ply services and materials necessary to the conduct of the plant. Large additional sums of money are necessarily spent every year in North Da- kota in the conduct of our business and Armour and Company’s West Fargo plant is essentially a North Dakota institution paying taxes and in other ways contribut- ing in large measure to the prosperity of the state. - * . 8 We invite livestock growers who value the service we are now able to render at West Fargo, to study the effects of the proposed law and to make their views known to their representatives in the leg- islature immediately by letter or telegram or telephone, HARRY G. MILLS, Vice President, Armeur an@ Company