Salina Journal, The (Newspaper) - June 20, 1979, Salina, Kansas e r t RIPENING FOR THE REAPER Duane Kogler checks a field of ripening wheat as harvest near in Central Kan Duane helps his farm on Salina Journal Photo by Fritz was expected to be gin next week in the Salina Area wheat harvest about a week away The wheat harvest is still a few days away in Central al though fanners have been cutting parts of Southwest Kansas for about a Some area fields appear to be ripen ing but others are still green and a few days away from being har We havent had one load said Jim manager of Farmers Coop Grain There might be some cutting this Some of the fields look ripe V and will probably be the ones testing this There are a lot of others that are still pretty We probably wont be in full swing until the end of next The story was much the same from Marion to Russell Theres nothing in said Bob manager of Marions Coopera tive Grain and Were Just a little late down here and some fields are still It probably will be the V middle of next week before we are go ing We might get some early loads in before but most wont start until the middle of the Saline County wheat fanners will have to wait another week or so before they can begin test according to Don Saline County exten sion Were over a week Chisam said We may have some test cuts in the middle of next week around the 26th and the But were still three or four days behind our nor mal harvest time this v fuel supplies predicted worried about the fuel But with the Salina area wheat harvest only days fanners preparing to gather the golden crop are especially ap The though not is not overly The Farmers Coop Association of Talmage and its large Salina branch have been limiting nonagricultural gasoline sales for the past two weeks in an effort to save fuel for mainly holding our fuel for agricultural said general man ager Gerald Supplies will be tight at harvest but we believe be able to take care of the farm ers By watching our outside cultural we believe therell be enough fuel to go around at harvest ONeal said the coop won t know what its July allocation will be until the last few days of but he said it is believed a reasonable amount will Forecast Mostly clear and mild through Lows tonight around 50 in the northwest to the low 60s in the south and Highs Thursday in the mid 80s to low Inside Today Area Circus be Fuel including the diesel derivatives needed to operate some farm have been choked all over the nation due principally to two factors An overall gasoline shortage and the growing momentum of the in dependent truckers ent truckers are a main component in the nationwide delivery network for fuel and other vital A striking example of what is becom ing a critical situation is available in The diesel fuel allocation for Salinas Long Oil Company was cut drastically from May to Longs May supply was gallons while the June allo cation was slashed to a meager spokesman Mike Brady Brady is the manager of Westway Truck 1135 and West The truck haven is owned by Long One supplier dropped us to 90 per cent of last years said Another dropped us to SO per cent and the other shut us plumb Weve been out of all gas several If we run we run Strike effects minimal Representatives of several Salina truck stops report only minimal effects of the trucking though they are concerned about fuel Some truck stops at other Kansas towns have jet hijacked CHICAGO UPI At least one believed to be a Serbian na seeking to free a jailed hijacked an American Airlines jet Wednesday and held the 137 persons aboard hostage in the plane at Chicagos OHare In The identified as Nikola said he was carrying Attorney Thomas Sullivan The flight 293 en route from New Yorks LaGuardia Airport to was hijacked at about The had a crew of eight and 129 The plane was sitting on a runway at OHare while officials negotiated with the hijackers over the radio from the control Kavaja was one of four Serbian na who were convicted in District Court in Chicago May 24 of conspiring to kill Yugoslavian diplo mats in Father a Serbian orthodox was convicted of the charges along with Kavaja but the only one who was not released on is being held in the Federal Metropolitan Correctional Cen ter in Kavaja apparently was demanding the release of Chicago police The Boeing 727 took off from La Guardia at FAA spokesman Irwin Goldstein At it was about 50 miles east of when it the hijacking Goldstein Hes on the ground now at He landed there at Wednesdays hijacking followed by nine days the June 11 hijacking of a Delta Air Lines jet to 15 CENTS J The HOME EDITION JUNE 1979 108th YEAR 171 56 Pages Fanners in some areas of Southwest Kansas have been cutting for about a According to the Wheat Harvest Bulletin released by the Kansas Job 30 percent of the crop around Kiowa in Barber County has already been The grain tests at 61 pounds per bushel and moisture content is to Harvest should be in full swing in Sumner and Harper and possibly Co manche Counties by this Test cutting started Wednesday around Hutchinson and harvest should be going strong by next V Some funnels spotted High winds hit the Salina area been hit by blockades at the Weve slowed down quite a bit to said Bernadine Berry of the Fina Truck Stop at and There havent been near the trucks on the road we just began to notice it this But weve had no blockade attempts The manager of Salina Truck 1944 said his stop has felt no effects of the truck Brady of Westway reported only scattered conversation regarding the truck farmers probably will be able to get enough fuel for harvest most station operators But the fuel future seems clouded with Azure skies returned to Kansas Wednesday after Tuesday after noons siege of tornado heavy thunderstorms and high While there were reports of damage including a suspected small tornado which carved a path from Assaria to northeast of Mentor NorthCentral Kansas apparently escaped the mas sive destruction often wrought by twis There were no reports of Republic County almost had a mo on tornado sightings with at least 20 reports of funnel The Grain at Courtland lost four storage one of them holding about bushels of Two portable grain augers also were according to Bob Ma the firms At Dennis Horkman of Hor kman Grain and Supply said what he believes was a small tornado ripped a quonset hut from its concrete founda tion and folded it around a molasses All the windows in the front of our house are We have them boarded up just like down south in the hurri cane Horkman said several outbuildings and garages in the area also were Max Krummel lost a bulk feed bin and a hog feeder was blown right out in his How it got through all the wires is a At the storm struck about and caused roof and vehicle The storm Sheriffs Captain Dick Hurley believes it was a small twister moved north and toppling some large cottonwood trees across K 4 east of The road was blocked for about 1 The state crews did a remarkable See HIGH Page 2 Journal Photo by black clouds loom to the east of Salina as a storm front moved through the Salina area vf A MSil This picture was taken from atop Indian Rock
