Weekend weather shifts with showers and cool spells
The forecast calls for showers from the southern Appalachians to the Midwest with snow flurries in the northern Rockies. It will be mostly cloudy Saturday with rain chances in the east, lows mid 40s to 50s, then partly cloudy Sunday and a cold Monday with highs in the 50s and 20s to 30s. State city notes list varied overnight lows and tomorrow highs, from Atlanta to Jacksonville and Savannah.
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Western Storms Ease After Deadly Pacific Flooding
After nine days of storms that killed at least 17 people, 12 000 flood refugees begin returning home amid mud and debris. California Nevada Utah endure power outages and 12 counties under states of emergency as avalanches and mudslides block roads and rail lines.
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House Panel Moves To Change New Farm Law
A House Agriculture subcommittee approved two changes to the new farm law despite Reagan administration objections. The moves would adjust deficiency payments for cotton, rice, corn and wheat and restrict farming on land idle to qualify for subsidies, aiming to curb subsidy totals under the Gramm Rudman law while preserving some payments.
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Marijuana tops corn as America's largest cash crop
NORML estimates 1985 marijuana production at 18.6 billion dollars, just above corn at 18.58 billion. The report notes an 11 percent rise from the prior year with 18 states listing marijuana as the leading crop and California Hawaii and Oregon each over 1 billion. The DEA pegs NORML’s figure at half, keeping marijuana among the top five crops.
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