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100 YEARS AGO
Katy train wrecked at Halsted A Katy freight was wrecked at Halsted last Saturday night, ditching about seventeens cars.
Trains were detoured to LaGrange and the S.P. to Glidden and Houston, Sunday and Monday until the bridge burned east of Alleyton stopping all traffic via that line.
Repairs to the track at Halsted permitted the use of Katy lines into Halsted Tuesday morning.
Bridge burns on S.P.
Trained service over the Southern Pacific was interrupted Monday evening by the burning of a bridge between Alleyton and Ramsey, the westbound passenger train reaching here at 3:14 was the last train to pass over the bridge until Tuesday night when repairs had been made.
The origin of the fire is unknown, but it is suspected that camps may have left a fire near the wooden piles.
New commissioner installed Mr. P. Kanasteiner qualified as County Commissioner of Precinct No. 3 last Monday. Mr. Kanasteiner is one of the two new county officers.
50 YEARS AGO
‘74 construction hit $2.3 million; it’s record high Construction in Columbus during 1974 began sharply, according to building permits on file at the city office.
The new Columbus Hospital Project, totaling $1,353,235, was the big item in pushing the total construction figure in 1974 to $2,236,587.
This is a whopping increase over the $906,285 in building permits installed here in 1973 and almost $2 million in increase from 1972.
Demand for rice termed ‘terrific’ “Rice demand looks terrific,” according to a farm income and price forecast published recently by an agricultural newsletter originating in Washington, D.C.
The fact is the United States has plenty of rice to sell. Bin-busting supplies are now at a record high, with farmers holding the bulk of the 1974 crop in storage facilities, hoping the price will go higher as the backlog of grain in mills begins to be absorbed by consumers.
’75 rice marketing quotas are stricken Marketing quotas will not be in effect for the 1975 rice crop, the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) announced this week.
The ASCS said the national average allurement for the 1975 crop has been sat at 1,300,316 acres. The average rate has been set at a minimum level of 65 cents of parity.
Since the normal supply of 122.3 million hundred weight for 1974-75 exceeds the total supply of 121.5 million hundred weight, there will be no marketing quotas for the 1975 crop.
