Farmer promoted method for abundant wheat yields

1911

Charles E. Funk, one of the successful farmers of Meade County uses a method he declares will result in wheat yielding from 20 to 50 bushels. Here is how. "Soon as the 1911 crop is off the ground we disk the land, double disk if necessary, then we plow deep," he said. "Let no moisture escape. In the fall and winter harrow the wheat as often as needed which probably will not be often in the fall and winter, but in the spring, once a week Keep harrow going until last minute, rain or no rain. Stirring ground often brings good crop."

Joe Talbott, grocer, was a member of perhaps Hutchinson’s first brass band organized in June, 1875. E. Wilcox, in the hardware business was the leader and organizer. Others in the band were R..N.Adamson, Ed Dewitt, A. C. Mead, C.B Winslow, J. S. Nash, Bert Wilcox and Chas. Tucker. Dan Welchon was a member of a "string band" organized about the same time.

A movement among 20,000 former students at the University of Kansas to build a girls’ residence hall was formally inaugurated by university Chancellor Strong, and Dean W. Y. Morgan. Amount to be raised is $75,000. Legislatures of both 1909 and 1911 had refused to build the dormitory even though enrollment of women in the past 25 years had increased from 176 to more than 700. Parents who have girls to send to a university were forced to send them out of state because of no housing. Direct loss to the state was estimated close to a quarter of a million dollars annually.

1936

The 1936 drought might burn consumers’ food purses for months. The crop scourge, speeding a sharp rise in wholesale food prices, was a major factor.

In oil news: a new oil test is to be drilled on the north side of 50S highway, 17 miles west of Hutchinson on a block of leases assembled by Wichita oil operator C. E. Zahn. A new Van Horn test on the south side of the pavement west of Nickerson was on the way. Drillers are near 740 feet in the No. 1 Detter two miles southwest of Nickerson. A cable tool derrick was up at the No. 1 Kerr and would be making a hole. Drillers were below 3,907 feet in shale four miles northeast of Hutchinson in the sand hills. Allowable production in Hauschild field north of Nickerson in Rice County is limited to 2.92 percent a day. Lerado field is limited to 2.08 percent of its potential. These are two big flush oil fields in the state.

George Sours arrived at his home, 545 Ave. A. East at about midnight, parked his car, slept on the porch until 4 o’clock to escape the heat. He went inside to finish his slumber and arose about 6 o’clock to find his coach was missing. Sheriff Allison located it south of Carey Salt Mine, engine damaged, with tags removed. Apparently it had been driven hard. Still missing was a coupe stolen from 306 North Main. A coach stolen in Kingman was found early in the day half a mile south of the Obee School burning and was a complete loss.

Pope Pius ordered a world censorship on movies under the direction of his bishops. He also ordered that they would abstain from viewing bad films. His Holiness also ordered a permanent national reviewing office be set up in each country and suggested it be entrusted to the headquarters of the Catholic Action Organization.

1961

Bill Addington, who started in 1948 with an 18,000-bushel country elevator worth $10,000, has come quite a ways since those days in Elkhart. In the previous weekend he started receiving wheat in two more new buildings at his mushrooming terminal elevator southeast of Obee School. Addington’s latest addition to his Hutchinson terminal brings the total space to 7.8 million bushels of storage. And he’s not finished. "We’re going to build two or three more out here," Addington said, "and that’ll bring her up to around 10 million bushels." His investment in buildings totaled more that $2 million. By winter Addington’s facility will boost Hutchinson public grain terminal space to about 53 million. Only Farmers Cooperative Commission Co. would be larger with a total 23 million in two plants, including the half-mile-long monster within sight of Addington Obee facility. Following in the steps of the late Ray Garvey who jumped into the lucrative business of storing government-owned "surplus" grain, Addington pulled no punches about his operation. His 10-million-bushel terminal would pay for itself by storing up to eight million bushels of government grain. As most men who build for storage of government grain, he believes that as long as the government is in the business of buying wheat, corn and milo, someone has to store it.

1986

The concept of "40 hours" and "full-time job" have been virtually interchangeable since the 1930s in America but the 40-hour clock no longer governs most of the country’s work force. A changing economy and shifting technology now permit a smorgasbord of different schedules and approaches to work. Many jobholders are forced to work overtime with the paycheck the No. 1 incentive, but not the only one. Many choose work more that 40 hours with or without extra pay, often for reasons more complex that the money. About 97 million workers held non-farm jobs with 22 million working 34 hours and another 6.7 million working 35 to 40 hours.

On the high end, 27 million worked 41 or more hours and 9.8 worked over 49 hours with another 7.6 million working over 60 hours. There is strong suspicion that much part-time and overtime work is not reported. Moonlighting posed much of the difficulty in determining the statistics. A moonlighter working two jobs and 55 hours could show up as two part-time workers while a salaried worker with a 70-hour night and day schedule could remain in the 40-hour column because he received no overtime pay. People employed at home are also hard to account.

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