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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1980
Page
14
A concise guide notes that home gardening yields can return up to ten dollars in food for each dollar invested. It details potato storage: keep in moderate moisture, cold air, and darkness. below 40 degrees minimizes sprouting, while warmer temps increase sprouting. mid summer planted crops dug in late fall store best.
Kansas Fish and Game Commission reports weekend fishing prospects in northeast Kansas. Clinton Reservoir shows 57 degree water with 300 cfs release, bass fair under 15 inches, crappie good, white bass fair. John Redmond and Elk City reservoirs offer good to excellent white bass and crappie conditions, with flatheads and carp noted. Melvern and Perry reservoirs report warm water, crappie excellent, walleye fair, bass slow to fair, and channel catfish fair at Perry. Pomona and Tuttle Creek feature crappie good to excellent, white bass fair, trout and minnows listed at various depths. Atchison lakes report fair to good bass and crappie, with crappie very good at Atchison city lakes.
The government reports slower consumer borrowing in March, a record 12.2 billion trade deficit for Q1, and Chrysler Corp a loss of 449 million as auto sales plunge. Banks cut prime rates with Chase Manhattan at 17 percent and Bank of America at 17.5 percent as mortgage rates head toward 12 to 14 percent by year end. Unemployment claims reach 545,000 in late April, near a record high.
The World Health Organization proclaimed smallpox eradicated at a Geneva ceremony, with CDC officials attending. The move shifts focus to immunization, sanitation, and fighting tropical diseases to reach health for all by 2000, while polio and other killers remain controllable rather than eradicable.
Kansas gas and electric and co builder Kansas City Power and Light seek dairy farms and large gardens within five miles of the Wolf Creek nuclear plant to monitor radiation. About 170 letters were sent asking for participation, with 3 to 10 dairies and several gardens chosen for continuous monitoring to establish background radiation before the 1983 start date.
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