Drought Threatens Midwest Farmers Across Multiple States
Severe drought grips the upper Midwest with frosts ice storms floods and new dry spells. Governors Lucey and Anderson urge federal disaster aid as crop losses climb past 1 billion while Minnesota reports half its hay barley and wheat crops damaged.
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United Press International
Upper
Midwest
California
Texas
South Atlantic
Wisconsin
Patrick Lucey
Minnesota
Wendell Anderson
Ford
Brown accused of diverting Social Security funds in aid cut
Attorney Ralph Abascal of California Rural Legal Assistance charges Governor Brown plans to offset a 6.4 percent Social Security cost of living increase by reducing state aid to about 700,000 elderly recipients starting July 1. Readiness to request White House action and drought relief efforts in Wisconsin and South Dakota accompany the report on mounting feed shortages and drought impacts.
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San Francisco
UPI
Edmund G. Brown, Jr
Ralph Abascal
California Rural Legal Assistance
Brown
Abascal
Congress
Lacey
White House
Ashland-Bayfield
Wisconsin
National Farmers Organization
South Dakota
Richard Kneip
Earl Butz
National Weather Service
California
Secret ALRB peace talks begin in California farm dispute
Secret discussions open between United Farm Workers and Teamsters leaders and growers in Los Angeles and Delano with Gov Brown aides named as arrangers. Participants include UFW attorney Jerry Cohen Teamsters VP Lee Harold Gibbons grower attorney Lee Shaw and Assembly leader Howard Berman. Talks aim to set jurisdiction lines with Chavez led UFW over field workers and Teamsters over processing workers.
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Los Angeles
UPI
California
United Farm Workers and Teamsters
Los Angeles Times
Sions
Cesar Chavez
UFW
Teamsters
Jerry Cohen
Lee Harold Gibbons
Lee Shaw
Howard Berman
State Assembly
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Southern Central Farmers Committee
Delano
Edmund Brown Jr
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Si Moore
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Coe
McMahan's
Winston
Calif
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