90 years ago
Taken from the September 4th issue of the
Hancock Record
University to Open on Sept. 28, 67th Year
The University of Minnesota will reopen for its 67th year of educational and cultural services to the people of Minnesota on Monday, September 28th. Members of the faculty have been asked to be on hand by September 25th to take part in the many advance duties of registration, advice, examination and the like through which the students must pass.
Registration of all new students for Freshman week will take place Monday and Tuesday, September 21 and 22 and the various activities of Freshman week designated to familiarize the entering student with his own duties and with the University of Minnesota, will be carried on from the 23rd through Saturday the 26th.
Examinations for the removal of conditions are scheduled for September 21 through 25 and physical examinations for new students over the same days. Registration day for the newly created Institute of Technology has been fixed on Friday, September 25. Actual classwork will start on September 28th and Extension Division classes will begin at the same time.
80 years ago
Taken from the September 13th issue of the
Morris Tribune
First Football Game Will Be Next Friday The Tigers Will Go To Glenwood For Season’s Opener On Sept. 20
The Tigers of Morris high school will open their 7-game football evening Sept. 20. Coach Andy Doen’s charges were originally scheduled to play Litchfield here today but this game was postponed during the height of the recent polio epidemic and is now set for November 8, weather permitting.
Corn Storage To Be Problem This season Farmers Urged To Make Early Arrangements For Storing Crop
Stevens County farmers were warned this week by Herman Wente, county AAA chairman, to make arrangements for storing this year’s corn crop as soon as possible.
“With statisticians predicting a corn crop in Minnesota this year at least 13 million bushels larger than the production in any of the past five years, the storage outlook isn’t good,” he said.
A survey of storage facilities in the corn-producing area is being conducted now, he revealed, to be used as a basis for an appeal to the Civilian Production Administration for priorities on rough lumber for repairs and construction of corn storage space.
Shortages make it almost impossible to replace permanent storage at present, but farmers can utilize temporary storage methods that will serve until storage space can be constructed, he said.
The large production expected makes it likely that farmers will want to take advantage of the corn loan program, which offers a loan rate that probably will be more than a dollar a bushel since it is based on 90 percent of parity as of September 15, according to Mr. Wente.
“Corn must be in a crib that will protect it from the weather and allow natural drying to be eligible for a loan,” Mr. Wente warned. “ Corn piled on the ground or stored under improper conditions is not eligible.”
65 years ago
Taken from the September 15th issue of the
Morris Tribune
First Consignment To ABC
This pig isn’t going to college, although this picture was taken in Edson Hall auditorium on the University of Minnesota, Morris campus. But the pig will help some young men or women attend the UMM.
The pig is the first consignment to the unique “Agricultural Barter for College” (ABC) program, sponsored in 15 west central Minnesota counties by the Farmers Union. It was presented to Dean Rodney Briggs of the UMM at a meeting on the college campus Monday evening, at which details of the ABC plan were announced.
The donor of the pig was Donald Frederikson of Murdock, chairman of the Swift County Farmers Union, who heads the ABC program in the 15-county area.
Shown in the picture, left to right, are Gale Hausko of Ortonville, chairman of the Big Stone County Farmers Union; Mr. Frederikson, Dean Briggs, and an unidentified farmer.
The “barter for college” program has been established by the Farmers Union to provide loan and scholarship funds for students at the University of Minnesota, Morris, and represents the most ambitious plan devised thus far to help build a loan and scholarship fund for worthy students at the new college.
Farmers wishing to make donations will designate a specified amount of produce to be sold for the benefit of the fund. Crops or livestock consigned to student aid will be marketed through ordinary channels, and the proceeds will be turned into the fund. Donors of the produce give to the general fund, and not to an individual student.
Chairmen of the 15 county Farmers Union organizations have been working for several months developing the ABC plan that was announced at the meeting Monday night.
Representing the Stevens County Farmers Union on the planning committee has been Otto Drewes of Morris.
