Rising Costs Hit Farmers Amid Widening Gap
An Agriculture Department release shows rising input costs squeezing farmer budgets. Overalls cost 6.43 this summer versus 6.02 last year, a $19 300 combine compared with 17 820 in 1971, and wheat at 1.32 per bushel, two cents below a year ago. Despite higher cattle and hog prices improving income, production costs have climbed, with operating expenses 27 percent higher than five years earlier.
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Cattle Prices Expected To Stay High Through 1972
The Agriculture Department says feedlot cattle prices will average well above 1971 for the rest of 1972 though a summer dip is possible. Omaha choice steers moved from 36.50 to 34.25 per 100 pounds this spring before surging toward 39 by early July.
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Universities resume construction of presidents homes in Illinois
Illinois colleges renew president residence projects after SIU controversy. ISU in Normal begins a 97 858 dollar home for President Berle, Western Illinois restarts a 150 000 dollar house for President Bernhard, with occupancy targeted for fall 1973. The SIU mansion sparked Board of Higher Education scrutiny in 1969 and a 1 million gift from W Clement Stone to the SIU Foundation. Pricing guidelines cap new homes at 150 000 dollars excluding land.
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Sentence man for shooting in Skokie and TV host
A 27-year-old Chicago man, Samuel L. Drew, was sentenced to 25 to 30 years for the fatal shooting of Alan Sandler in Skokie and the wounding of Merri Dorham on the Merri Dee show. He received concurrent terms for armed robbery kidnapping and related charges. the case stemmed from a July 1971 incident after a taping in Chicago. He was arrested in Jackson, Michigan, driving Dorham's car.
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Alan Sandler
Merri Dorham
Merri Dee
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Sandler
Miss Dorham
Nathan Kaplan
Jackson
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