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A long line of trucks, loaded wth beets, awaited weigh-in this morning at the Sterling factory of the Great
gio, on tractor, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Baseggio and Victor Baseggio transfer beets from the machine hopper Western Sugar Co. The harvest officially got underway at 8 a.m. and the factory campaign is scheduled to
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The sugar beet harvest got , -underway in northeastern
Colo-rado this morning. First truck-loads of beets were delivered to Great Western Sugar Co. dumps at 8 a.m.
Company executives believe the harvest may get off to a
slow start.
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will probably want to delay the - - - -- - - - -- - - -- - -~ -... .__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ harvest five to six days,"Lest-er GarnLest-er, StLest-erling managLest-er of GW, told the Journal-Advocate.
1 Recent samplings indicated
"very encouraging" improve-ment in the weight and sugar content of beets, Garner said.
Farmers will let their beets benefit from the warm "grow-ing'' weather as long as possib-le.
During the summer months beets were buffeted by adverse weather conditions, but recent improvement has lifted hopes for a near-normal crop.
The factory campaign at Sterling is scheduled to kick
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off Friday provided enough beets have been delivered. 9 The spotlight this year will befocused on the new beet pulp dryer which has been installed here by GW. It will eliminate the piles of wet pulp.
The dryer was completed last month and GW crews have been getting training in its oper-ation this week.
Also new this year is the sup-erintendent. Ralph Bristol arri-ved this summer from Gering Neb. to succeed Jack Cors. l:,erg who has been
superinten-ffent the past two campaigns, The factory will have about 130 employes for the campaign which will probably continue
into January.
The Sterling district this year '1as 12374 acres to harvest. That is more than usual becau-se acreage around Crook Sid-ney and Sunol Neb. has been added.
Two new stations have been opened to receive beets - one at
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d baum returned from a three are SIS ers. n ,.. · rk Vince Folladori and Sherripose rookie Dick Hughes 06-6) Kitty Samber, Mary Dora worth family. i~nc;i $~ 15f ay; i:iial c:. weeks vacation trip to Cedar Sunday, Oct. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stur- '(Continued on Paga 15) in a battle of righthanders Carlson and Karen Dunning Norren Dunning was a Friday t me
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25-mer funeral services SaturdaySt. Louis 001 000 1~2 10 O Joan Castor. In the afternoon The girls enjoyed roller skat- s e agams 1 Mrs. Marvin Sturbaum. From th wedding anniversary of Mr. in Sterling. . .
Boston 001 000 ~ l 6 O they visited at the home of Mrs. ing in Sterling Saturday. s 001 system. there they drove to Indianapolis and Mrs. Jack E. Kennedy of Mrs. Gene Faccbin~llo will be
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Santiago, Wyatt (8) an~ R. Gib Plane in Ft. Morgan. Mr ..~
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ion of the World war I from Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Stur_baum hers Tuesday afternoon Oct.3.1
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son, Howard (8). W-G1bson. L Betty Jobe of Sterling spent kle VlSited 1D Sterling at trea-
Sept. 1~13 then on to Washing- attended the regular meeting of~
farevyell party was held on 522-1302 116 5o lrd Ave.-Santiago. Thursda visitin her sister Fred Schmeeckle home Sunday ton D. c. to visit at the home the Veterans of World War I Friday mght for Mr. and Mrs. After Houn can
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0 8 - Mr. and Mrs. K. C. Holzworth Andrews (eight miles w of( c
ntl ad fr Pa 1) and famil)> y;ere .s~day dinner ,Mrs. Clara Headley stayed Imperial). Beets will be piled newe: SS:~ults~':mst
9~e Ma- guests of Lila Willich and Kay Wednesday night at the K. C. at Andrews and thentru
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the general. said. . God Church held a revival last Dien Bien Phu m the hills week Visiting evangelists were 180~es
west ~f J!anoi was Reve~end and Mrs. Bullock of ~he site of Fr~ce s ~ defeat Northwest College. Serviceswe-m
the Indochina warm
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manh~dl~ to the lal emphasis on youth Thursday heights by Ho Chi Minh"s Com- nightmunist-led
troops
battered the Mr: and Mrs. Floyd Schmeec-remanants of a French army kle were Sunday morningcall-into submission.. , ers at the K. c. Holzworths. The ~mmun_ists attack . on Mrs. Madalan Reich and Mr~. Con Th1en at times surpass~ Viola Le Valley from Brush 1000 roun~ a day was their were dinner guests of Mr. and most massive aI"!l1lery opera- Mrs. Llovd Reagan Thursday, tion since Dien Bien Phu. Lila wmich and Kay
Doller-Westmoreland has described schell were Tuesdav evening the American rest>Onse - aerial supper guests of the K. C. Holz-bombs and shells from both _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ land-based and naval guns - as
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conventional firepower inhis-tory. . By GAR YGARRISON
The U.S. Marme outposts are A11oc1atad Press Writer
intended to block what some
observers believe could be a BROWNSVILLE Tex. (A~)-large-scale attemot by North Hurricane Fern at one_ time Vietnamese regulars to take feared to be another disaster over South Vietnam's northern like Beulah of two weeks ago provinces. entered t!te Mexican coa~t north . . U.S. spok.esrn,n: 6th graf 140 of Tampico today an_d virtually - - - . . - - - died causing only minute
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