OPA Honors Cook As Top Photographer
J Don Cook of the Ada Evening News named Oklahoma Photographer of the Year at an Oklahoma Press Association clinic in Oklahoma City. He earned multiple top placements across portrait, pictorial, feature and sports feature categories and swept the picture story awards. Ed Blochowiak won the companion state prize for news photography from Shawnee News-Star. Both winners receive a free weekend trip to a state lodge.
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J. Don Cook
Ada Evening News
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Press Association
Oklahoma City
Cook
Ed Blochowiak
Shawnee News-Star
Darrell Barton
KTVY
Oklahoma Sooner
Ag credit demands up
A Kansas City AP report says agricultural credit demand stayed strong mainly for renewals and extensions, while farmers were reluctant to borrow new funds due to winter weather and low prices. The April 1 survey of the Tenth District banks shows loan deposit ratios rising to 62 percent from 57 percent a year earlier as bankers refer requests to city correspondents.
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Kansas City
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Federal Reserve District
Colorado
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Wyoming
C. Edward Harshbarger
Kansas City Bank
Harshbarger
Tornado control theories include mobile home strategy
Norman Oklahoma Dr Alexander B Holmes of the University of Oklahoma proposes an economic model of tornado behavior claiming storms prefer mobile homes He outlines two policies Sacrificial Policy a dense mobile home park in a desolate area and Starvation Policy complete destruction and ban on mobile home construction
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Norman
Alexander B. Holmes
University of Oklahoma
Review of
Holmes
Mohave
Nonfat dry milk surplus eyed for livestock feed use
John W. Scott of the National Grange calls on Agriculture Secretary Bergland to shift about 432 million pounds of government owned nonfat dry milk into livestock feed. He argues the product’s 27 to 32 percent protein could replace expensive soybean meal and help prevent an export embargo on soybeans.
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Washington
John W. Scott
National Grange
Scott
Agriculture
Bob Bergland
Us5da
Commodity Credit Corporation
Bergland
Satellite watches wheat fields from 570 miles up
A government satellite project LACIE seeks to improve crop forecasts by measuring world wheat fields from 570 miles altitude. Results so far are mixed with an overall 7.2 percent error across seven states for winter wheat and several states showing larger gaps versus USDA surveys.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
USDA
Howard Hill
Department
LACIE
Statistical Reporting Service
South Dakota
Hill
Economic Research Service
Soviet Union
Carter pushes tax plan to cut U S gasoline use by 1985
President Carter proposes a package to curb consumption by boosting taxes on gas guzzlers and rewarding economy cars. The plan aims for a 10 percent cut from 1977 levels and a drop to about 6.6 million barrels per day by 1985, with penalties rising as fuel economy falls.
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Carter
United States
Congress
U.S
Carter Administration
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Stratford
Melton
Lonnie Mann
OPA
Pulitizer Prize
National Press Photographers
BO Lo
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Montana
Texas
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jimmy Carter
Nation
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