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'''August 17, 1953 Spokane Daily Chronicle Page 15:'''
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[[file:1953-08-17-sc-p15-reardan-votes-market-quota-and-wheat-yield.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]'''VOTE AT REARDAN FAVORS PROPOSAL'''

REARDAN, Wash., Aug. 17.—The
wheat farmers of the Reardan
area approved the government
proposal to invoke marketing
quotas on the 1954 wheat crop by
their vote Friday.

At Deep Creek there were 194
votes cast, with 180 for and 14
against. Mrs. Henry Weyen, Mrs.
Otto Lucht and Mrs. Robert Anderson
served on the election
board.

John D. Williams and Paul
Oehlschlaeger made up the election
board at Mondovi, where all 110
votes cast were for the referendum.

The Reardan voters cast 161
votes with 153 for and eight
against. The board consisted of
Charles Garber, G. A. Magnuson
and Otto Wegner

'''Harvest at Peak'''

The wheat harvest is in full
swing in Reardan with many
thousands of bushels rolling into the
elevators daily, and Friday the
Reardan Wheat Growers, Inc., began
dumping wheat on the ground.
The yields are varying from 25
to 40 bushels per acre and is an
average but not a record crop, An
especially good production is
reported in the Crescent and
Mondovi regions.
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