Mideast Crisis, Coal Negotiations Spar In Nation Wide Briefs
In brief items across the nation: Farmland Industries and Midland Cooperatives discuss a possible merger after board meetings in Kansas City. In Lebanon, envoy Habib evacuated Beirut as Syrian and rightist forces exchange heavy fire near the Presidential Palace and U S ambassador’s residence. In Washington, UMW and soft coal negotiators pursue a settlement to the 58 day strike amid holiday talks. Other notes include sports and editorial items teased on pages 4, 10, and 11.
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Farmland Industries, Inc
Kansas City
Midland Cooperatives, Inc
Minneapolis
Midwest
Beirut
Lebanon
Philip C. Habib
Israel
Elias Sarkis
U.S
Habib
Washington
United Mine Workers Union
Severe storms bring heavy rains and a tornado in Kansas
Thunderstorms swept across Kansas with heavy rain and at least one tornado near Beverly. A small plane crash in Carbondale area killed two people amid the storms. Gusty winds and hail accompanied the system as it moved eastward, with rainfall totals near Osage City approaching three inches.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Beverly
Lincoln County Sheriff's Office
Carbondale
the Weather Service
Osage City
Highway Patrol
Michael J. Hines
Linda Roberson
Lyndon
Hines
Osage County
Federal Aviation Administration
Harold Scott
FAA
Billard
Allen County
Lota
Kansas Wheat Crop Hurt by Freeze Faces Damaged, Intact Portions
Kansas State University officials report 70 percent of the 1981 wheat crop escaped intact from a mid May freeze, but about 1.1 million acres severely damaged and another 1.1 million acres damaged with uncertain yield potential. A total 14 million acres remain, with forecasts ranging from below average to over 300 million bushels if favorable weather returns. Experts note frost mainly hit northern regions, while moisture and cool nights offer some optimism.
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Manhattan
Kan
Kansas State University
Kansas
Wilber Ringler
Ringler
Disaster loan aid details from Finney County ASCS office
Finney County ASCS outlines qualification and steps for disaster loans after May 9 10 freeze damaged most county wheat and barley. Eligibility requires full or low yield crops, accurate June 1 acreage report, filed disaster claim and early appraisals, and no crop destruction before appraisal. Farmers may need to leave strips for appraisal and 15 day post harvest claims if grain harvest is planned.
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Ringler
Don Pretzer
ASCS
Pretzer
Finney County Ascs
Riots quell at Michigan prisons and escape in Nevada
Riots at Southern Michigan Prison in Jackson and Michigan Reformatory in Ionia injure 42 inmates before officers and tear gas restore order. In Nevada, three guards held hostage at Maximum Security Prison are released as 23 inmates are returned to cells after a 10 hour standoff.
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Cynthia Kyle
Associated Press
Michigan
Jackson
Michigan Reformatory
Ionia
Dale Foltz
Ionia Reformatory
Carson City
Nev
David “Bang Bang
Wayne
Perry Johnson
Michigan State Corrections Department
Johnson
Michigan Department of Corrections
Bob Berg
William Millikin
Western dictionary aims to capture unique cowhand terms
Western lexicon project at the University of Utah compiles regional terms such as lariat rodeo buckaroo lingo and phrases like I'm froze for buffler and riding point. The dictionary traces origins from ranching and Spanish speaking cowhands and includes obscure descriptors like fried shirt and pike-eyed son of a gun.
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Salt Lake City
Buffler
Donald D. Walker
University of Utah
Dictionary project to map Western speech in history
University of Utah professor Walker leads a three year effort to create The Dictionary of Western American on Historic Principles. The plan replicates the Oxford style, placing words like place in the sun in historical context, with 300,000 slips needed for editing and 20,000 collected.
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Walker
University of Utah
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