USDA and Justice clash on milk price supports and surpluses
USDA disputes Justice Department claims that federal price supports marketing orders and dairy cooperatives created milk surpluses and raised consumer costs. In a letter toAttorney General Griffin Bell Secretary Bob Bergland argues the report’s premises are flawed. He notes limited surpluses only occurred at times while prices rose due to supply shortages and that milk prices have risen slower than other foods since 1967.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Justice Department
USDA
Justice
Antitrust Division
Atty
Griffin Bell
Agriculture
Bob Bergland
Bell
Bergland
The
Justice Report
Department
Food and Drugs Administration
Declining Kansas enrollments hit big counties hardest
A decade study shows seven of Kansas’s 10 most populous counties lost students while Johnson Leavenworth and Douglas counties gained. The next 10 counties fared better with seven up since 1967 and one flat. K 12 enrollment fell five percent from 1967 to 1976.
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Topeka
Kansas
Johnson, Leavenworth
Douglas
Today in history and a Kansas enrollment trend note
Today in history highlights events from 1942 in the Pacific War to 1647 hostage seizure in England and 1805 treaty with Tripoli, followed by Kansas education enrollment shifts. The piece details Wichita Sedgwick County declines, county-by-county changes, and gains in Johnson and Geary counties, with broader state implications.
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Associated Press
Mi. ‘Ay
Japan
England
Charles I
United States
Tripoli
Leopold of
Saxe- Coburg
Belgium
Henry Ford
Detroit
Juan Peron
Argentina
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Congress
John F. Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev
Vienna
U.S
South Vietnam
Haiphong
North Vietnam
Palestine Liberation Organization
Robert Merrill
State Department of Education
Boards of Education
Sedgwick County
Wichita
Barton County
Reno
Cowley
Wyandotte
Shawnee
Montgomery
Saline
Johnson County
Geary County
Geary
Leavenworth County
Finney County
Riley
Lyon
Labette
Crawford
Harvey County
Saline County
Montgomery County
Butler
Harvey
HEW
Joseph A. Califano Jr
FDA
Far East
Malaysia
Indonesia
Nordien Jackson
Boca Raton
Fla
IBM
First National Bank
Attica
E. Broadway
Newton
FDIC
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