The following appeared in the Rock County Star Herald on September 21, 1967.
1,100 Bushels of Sealed Corn Stolen
An inconspicuous theft has netted the biggest haul of corn in years here in Rock County.
Norman Thorson who farms three east and one and three fourths south of Luverne, reported to the Sheriff’s office and to the Rock County Agricultural Stabilization and Con-servation office that 1,100 bushels of shelled corn had been taken from an overheated bin three-fourths of a mile north of his farm.
The corn was sealed at 98 cents per bushel but at today’s market it would be about $1.10 per bushel.
Thorson theorized the corn had been taken in a series of trips sometime during July after an elevator had been removed from the building.
The loss was discovered by Thorson Friday. The corn was sealed under government authority, thus bringing Federal juris-diction to the case. The corn had been stored just short of a year.
County Sheriff Ole Hommen said that authorities had very little to work on toward solving the theft. Apparently what happened, he said, was that someone drove into the alley below the bin and just opened a trap door to let the corn run into a truck, after which it was hauled away.
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