Labor Opposed to Corporate Farms Tour Through Kansas
Kansas labor groups led by Jim Yount launch a road tour across Liberal Dodge City Great Bend Hutchinson Phillipsburg Concordia to urge support for family style farms and oppose corporate farming. They stress farm and factory workers share interests and warn major changes would impact wages and rural livelihoods.
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Topeka
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HLJ
Jim Yount
Kansas Federation of Labor
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Labor
Yount
Yous
Kansas Federation of de Motel
Great Bend
Hutchinson
VFW
Phillipsburg
Knigits of Columbus
Concordia
Reber Docking
Labor Federation
McGee
Young
Kansas Farm
McGree
Jet Noise Linked to Hearing Loss in LA Area Schools
UCLA researchers report near Los Angeles International Airport students face permanent hearing damage and emotional stress from jet noise. Decibel readings in yards reached 95 to 115, classrooms 80 to 96, with many pupils showing hearing loss and increased fights. officials urge higher approaches and ocean routes to reduce impact.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles International Airport
University of California At
UCLA
King of the Cocos Islands Faces Australian Oversight
John Clunies-Ross, ruler of the Cocos Islands, governs 48 Malay workers on copra plantations with no written law or formal court. An Australian report calls for a fundamental reappraisal of his authority as he may face new scrutiny when minister John Peacock visits the islands.
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Sydney
The
Cocos
John Clunies-Ross
Indian Ocean
Perth
G.M. Kerr
Australia
External Territories Department
Clunies-Ross
James Dixon
Clunie
s-Ross
Britain
West Island
John Peacock
External Territories
Clunies- Ross
Farm productivity rises as farmer count shrinks
The Agriculture Department notes rising farm productivity with fewer farmers and greater efficiency. Using a head-count measure, one farm worker in 1950 fed himself and 15 others, with two abroad. By 1971 one worker fed 47 others, including seven overseas residents.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
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