Sunflower Uses Grow From Seeds To Oil To Industry
Sunflowers have become a major crop used for seeds in snacks and feed, with oil valued for cooking and industrial uses in many countries. World production reaches about 3.7 million metric tons annually, plentiful second only to soybean oil, while Russian varieties boosted yields and North Dakota Minnesota acreage expanded to over 800,000 by 1972.
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Washington
Soviet Union
Egypt
India
Europe
South America
Agriculture Department
North Dakota
Minnesota
States
Women wince and whistle at men in Utah beauty contest
At the University of Utah a male beauty contest drew a thousand coeds who whistled at contestants while crude remarks about bodies were shouted. Sociologist Dr Warren Farrell said the event aimed to foster gender understanding though some reactions surprised him.
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Salt Lake City
UPI
Steve Minaguh
University of Utah
Warren Farrell
Women’s Resource Center
Utah
Farrell
Detofessor
Lawyer turns to pottery in a quest for meaning
Ronald FE. Cook, a former corporate lawyer from Providence, left law after four years at Providence College and three more at Catholic University. He now apprenticed at Cone Ten Pottery in Chepachet with his wife Kathy painting designs, pursuing self sufficiency and a woodsy life in northern New England away from the legal world.
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Chepachet, R.I
UPI
Ronald FE
Cook
Providence College
Catholic University Law School
Washington, D.C
Providence
Cone Ten Pottery
Connecticut
Kathy
Corrections Department
New England
Farmer unearths silver coins near Moscow in clay pot
A Moscow area farmer digging potatoes east of the city found a clay pot with 600 plus Silver coins from Ivan the Terrible era. The oval coins show St. George on one side and One Kopeck on the other. Coins date to late 16th and early 17th centuries, with Ivan the Terrible having lived at Alexandrov nearby.
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Moscow
UPI
Ivan the Terrible
Trud
St. George
Alexandrov
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