Federal State Efforts Fail To Move Truckers
Protesting fuel costs and lower speed limits, truckers block I 70 and the Ohio Turnpike with hundreds of rigs. Ohio Gov Gilligan threatens court action. six drivers arrested after highway patrol and National Guard on tow trucks move remaining blockades. Police also clear I 94 and I 75 blocks near Detroit. other governors threaten National Guard actions as federal officials promise price gouging review and fuel allocations review.
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William C. Kronholm
Associated Press
Ohio
Michigan
Ohio Turnpike
John J. Gilligan
Columbus
National Guard
Detroit
Milton J. Shapp
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
William T. Cahill
Washington
Claude
Brinegar
Clyde T. Lusk
Transportation Department
Energy Office
Turnpike
Berlin Heights
Cost of Living Council
Farm Bureau Backs 60 MPH Speed Limit Plan in Kansas
Kansas Farm Bureau delegates at the 55th annual state convention voted to advocate lowering speed limits to 60 mph for all vehicles to boost highway safety and fuel conservation. The group also backed energy saving measures including reduced school activities and lighting, plus research funding for new energy sources. Proposals called for enlarging family farm size to 5,000 acres, legalizing predator control methods, adjusting agricultural land assessments by income potential, and restoring a 10 percent local share of state sales and use tax to school districts.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas Farm Bureau
Kansas
Farm Bureau
Area Twist Shows Irom
Mrs. Gail Bradly, wife of a Kansas independent trucker, says she cannot carry her husband’s protest views to Topeka due to fuel shortage. He helped in a Pennsylvania blockade and he seeks a nationwide trucker boycott. They demand 35.9 cents per gallon diesel, 65 mph truck speed limit, halt diesel exports, and penalties not to exceed $160 per mile over 50 mph in places like New Mexico.
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Richmond
Kan
Kansas
Pennsylvania
Topeka
Gail Bradly
Bradly
New Mexico
Governors urge more oil drilling to solve energy crisis
New Orleans AP report says governors of Texas Louisiana Oklahoma and others pressed for expanded drilling and end to federal price controls. They urged states to drill inland Atlantic seaboard exploration and refinery expansion while warning against overreliance on allocation or taxes. Edwards Briscoe Hall King Williams participated.
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Dolph Briscoe
Texas
Interstate Oil Compact Commission
Edward Edwards
Louisiana
Atlantic Seaboard
America
Edwards
New York
Massachusetts
David Hall
Oklahoma
Hall
New Mexico
Bruce King
Arizona
Jack Williams
Commission
Briscoe
New Strain Of Wheat Would Curtail Erosion
Washington State University researchers plan a new wheat strain to reduce soil erosion in ten years with early fall seeding. The breed aims for frost resistance with slow spring growth and yields comparable to Nugaines or Marfed, plus high noodle quality for export potential to Japan.
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Spokane, Wash
Washington State University
US. Agriculture Department
Clarence J. Peterson Jr
WSU
Peterson
Pullman
Columbia Basin
Japan
State Farm Health Insurance Ad Copy
State Farm promotes person to person health insurance detailing hospital coverage including room charges medicines and surgical expenses with a call to action to learn more.
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State Farm
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