Record Hog Prices Hit New Highs Across Midwest Markets
Kansas City hogs sell for a record 64.35 per hundredweight with new highs at Wichita Omaha Sioux City and Peoria as U S Department of Agriculture data show hogs and pigs in 14 key states at 41.5 million, down 17 percent from last year. Retail prices influence buyers with bacon demand weakening while ham and pork roast costs rise. Kansas Farm Bureau notes signs of reluctance to buy bacon despite elevated wholesale prices.
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Lueck Takes Issue With The Governor
Kansas politics heated as Democratic Chairman Henry Lueck accuses Gov. Robert F. Bennett of a double standard over state workers long coffee breaks. Lueck mockingly notes the governor spent the day coffee hopping and fundraising, while state morale and hiring freezes draw criticism from lawmakers.
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Getty Oil natural gas price forecast sparks decontrol debate
A Getty Oil confidential report predicts more than a 300 percent rise in new interstate natural gas prices if price controls end. With controls, wellhead prices would rise to 1.21 per mcf by 1981. without controls, immediately to 2.25 per mcf. The document circulated amid congressional probes, drawing anger from Getty’s Clay Monzingo as Rep. Moss publicized the figures.
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