Khrushchev's Visit to Iowa 1959 - film 3 part 2
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Description: This film shows the news footage of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's visit to Iowa in 1959. Film three focuses on Krushchev visiting the Iowa State Univeristy campus, in particular the College of Home Economics.
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there are no private homes being built in the big cities such as Moscow Kiev and so on at the present time in Russia they're all these large apartment homes also this brings to mind since he's visiting a home economics of building how the house wyd secures our food in Russia well that is different in a way than ours dick because of the limited facilities in the home particularly refrigeration and space they must shop almost daily for their requirements any perishable goods such as meats and poultry and that sort of thing must be purchased daily they have large open markets in which they bring the produce of the farms to these open markets and they are filled through out the day with housewives they're picking up their staples vegetables fruits and the like for their home use cap yesterday Mr Khrushchev and the travelling dignitaries had a chance to visit a packing plant in Des Moines and how does the meat supply and the method of procuring the meat two different predict that was one of the requests that we made this year is to go through a packing plant in Russia but we were unable to go through one we did see some of the meat that came from the packing plant and it looks quite different than ours dick they bring in the whole half carcass of hog they will cut it up hang it on metal hooks out in the open no refrigeration in these open markets and they merely cut off pieces at a time as the customer points out the particular piece of meat that he or she would like the fruits and vegetables are all out on open counters with no refrigeration and no pre packaging as you see our vegetables and fruit in cellophane bags here in this it's a day today shopping for your food do you see a good cluster of the Peace Officers assembled from various counties in and around central Iowa we noticed a Des Moines police car of course they've been in the caravan ever since it started this morning mr. Khrushchev Adam strava and many of the others left bright and early this morning in fact the lead car inspection car of the security department left Des Moines at seven-thirty mr. Khrushchev and his party left at approximately five minutes before he traveling to the garst farms understand a mr. Khrushchev has had a very very busy days been tramping in the fields taking a look at what mr. Garst had to offer gaap being a farm expert do you suppose that he actually learned very much today well dick I think that was one of his primary interests coming to Iowa was to see how we do put the finishing on our hogs at six months or less and the kind of feed that we use to bring these hogs to maturity and get them ready for market what we saw in Russia the past two summers would indicate that they are desperately in need of corn such as we have here for our swine industry and for our beef cattle they need even above that of the corn they need protein supplement soybean meal and that sort of balancing the ration to bring the port to a good quality level here we see a mr. Khrushchev and a cruise java visiting one of the classrooms in the lower section of the Home Economics building seeing the students as they prepare for their various locations we ended we know that mr. Khrushchev was very interested in seeing I was to university because of the touring Russians that toured the campus some five years ago another shot the interpreter referring to mr. Khrushchev what he is girls in the Home Economics division continuing right on with their classwork kappa you were here when the russians toured the campus five years ago and understand they went back with a great impression of the college now the university yes dick we visited with mats gavage who led that delegation over here in 1955 and he presented each of our group with the book that he summarized his visit to america and a large share that had to do with the agriculture in the Corn Belt here's Dean LeBaron Home Economics division talking to mr. Khrushchev at one of the classroom looks from their cap as if they allowed a great deal of photographers to travel along and gather pictures in the basement section yes and that I expect they'll take back a good many pictures of their own dick to help them remember and to help them analyzed at their leisure so to speak what they did see and some of the things that they hope to put into practice when they get back home of course here are the security cars the cars in the parade that from mr. Khrushchev Ames waiting to take him on the rest of the tour of the University be traveling good many miles yet before he gets back to Des Moines or he catches a jet flight for Pittsburgh actually Pittsburgh the last stop for a weekend meeting with president our at keep dave Camp David of course all the eyes ears in the world will be focused on that spot as mr. Khrushchev president our get together for some top-level meeting through these doors mr. Khrushchev will come he'll come from the top floor we went down the lower flight were you witness the pictures you will make a circle of the wing come back down the steps I hear he was watching the girls in action one of the nameplates where they were studying I understand from outside that there have been no placards very orderly crowd he was estimated the students at Iowa State would be some applause here you can see the snow fence holding the crowd back from the area mr. Khrushchev would walk national guardsmen started arriving on the campus early this morning of course the people connected with the university have been working a well over a week getting things ready for mr. Cruz chávez visit first of all they had to find where the electrical currents were so that when they put the stakes in the ground to set up the snow fence that they wouldn't hit one of them there's a some of the photographer's student photographers gathering some shot that they can take home perhaps later on a live show their grandchildren of course mr. Cruz javis will not be the only stop he will journey to the swine nutrition farm outside of Ames where we have cameras also set up roof job will visit out there model farm so to speak top level nutrition for the hog they played Captain maybe you can tell me a little bit more about the swine nutrition farm well here he will be interested very much in our development of the week type and the crossbreeding that we're doing here to develop the higher percentage of meat cuts from these hogs to get away from the bart and the excessive fat although they do need the bard and the fat in Russia they have reached a point where they're getting large supplies of oil now from the sunflower so that they are interested primarily in getting meat from the hot they want pork just as badly as we want pork in this country to a judge at the security officials confronted some boys walking down the road with a black bag evidently nothing in them as they made them open them up told them to move on their way they're moving on to the crowd to follow right behind by a security official see that they do move to the back of the ground of course students during them and helping add to the confusion as to what went place out in the road back inside the of the Home Economics building still waiting for mr. Khrushchev to come back from his tour highway patrolman still waiting here as we look through the doors we see students attempting to get a glimpse mr. Khrushchev a sign based in the window in Russian and not speaking Russian I couldn't understand it gap I'm sorry my Russian is very poor dick spasiba is the limitation of my Russian which means thank you this is looking out in between the building as the wings jut out on each side of the Home Economics building the students have gathered in what might be termed a patio looking in from the back side waiting for them to come up the steps board the car and go to the swine nutrition farm you you
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