Water availability cited as key to low soybean yields
Arkansas agronomist Ruel Nester notes both excessive and deficient rainfall reduced 1976 soybean yields to an unofficial statewide average of 18 bushels per acre. He urges practices to boost drought resistance, including winter cover crops and root-friendly cropping systems, plus proper spacing and drainage to protect crops and improve soil.
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Little Rock
Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service
Ruel P. Nester
Arkansas
Nester
Bergland Named Agriculture Secretary A Working Farmer
President elect Carter taps Rep Bob Bergland a Minnesota wheat and grass seed farmer for Agriculture Secretary Bergland who oversees a 600 acre operation and will bring hands on farming experience to Washington He pledges reevaluating price supports within a market oriented framework with Farm Bureau voices weighing in on policy directions
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Carter
Bob Bergland
Minnesota
Bergland
Plains
Agriculture Department
Congress
USDA
Steven Dahl
Tony T. Dechant
National Farmers Union
White House
Dechant
Allan Grant
American Farm Bureau Federation
Nixon
Ford
Farm Bureau
General Farm
Postal Service Christmas Holiday Schedule
The U S Postal Service will run normal mail service on Friday December 24 with some collection and multi-trip adjustments. Saturday December 25 follows holiday schedules with no residential or business delivery and no window service but special delivery and holiday collection are provided.
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U.S. Postal Service
Beiruts Guerrilla Fighting Erupts Again in Beirut Camps
Pro-Syrian and anti-Syrian Palestinian guerrillas clash for four hours in southern Beirut with mortars rockets and machine guns. Dozens killed or wounded. Cease fire declared by the Palestine Liberation Organization four hours after fighting began. Syrian troops and tanks seal camps roads and schools closed.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Palestine Liberation Organization
Rejection Front
Saiga Organization
Bishop Neumann to be canonized in June in Rome
Vatican confirms Bishop John Neumann of Philadelphia will be canonized June 19 after Pope Paul VI announced the date. Thousands of Americans are expected to attend as the late 19th century saint, born 1811 in what is now Czechia, led Philadelphia’s parishes and helped build 40 schools and 80 churches.
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Vatican City
Pennsylvania
Rome
America
John Neumann
Philadelphia
Paul VI
Neumann
United States
John Cardinal Krol
Vatican
Czechoslovakia
Bishop Neumann
United
Michael Flanagan
Paul
Tombstone swears in first woman mayor in Old West town
Marge Colvin, 55, wins Tombstone Arizona mayoral race by 72 votes, defeating the town magistrate. She vows to lead a rough, historic community where past figures like Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday are part of the lore. Colvin vows to tackle the role despite critics and a tough image.
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Ariz
Wyatt Earp
Doc” Holliday
Marge Colvin
Jack Hendrickson
Arizona
OK Corral
Earp
Holliday
Billy
Clanton
McLaury Brothers
Old West
Boot Hill
Lucky Cass
Johnny
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