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Newspaper

Press Telegram

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

Jul 26, 1974

Page

5

Drought Strains Midwest Crops Amid Historic Heat

Severe drought and extreme heat devastate corn and other crops across the Midwest and beyond. Officials warn yields will fall, prices rise, and farmers face subsidy and loan relief as extended dryness stretches from New Mexico to Indiana. Multiple states report persisting heat, scant rain, and potential billion-dollar losses in Nebraska and Iowa grain sectors.

Kansas City Midwest Fion Vrom Mississippi Valley National Weather Service New Mexico Texas Oklahoma Panhandies Kansas Colorado Indiana Oklahoma Toya Nebraska Corn Agriculture Department Weather Service Five States Missouri J. James Exon Nebraskand Exon Dan Shively Parsons Harold B. Sieele Illinois Farm Bureau Department of Agriculture Hoowever National Corn Growers Assn Iowa Pottawatomie County Dale Awtry Tllingis Don Graffis University Ofllinois Madrid Dale Sheldahl

House Passes Bill to Set Strip Mining Standards

The House approved a bill creating a new Interior Department agency to set national environmental and reclamation rules for surface coal mining by 291 to 81. States could enforce stronger standards. a severance tax was rejected. An earmark of 200 million annually from offshore royal ties was approved for reclamation.

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AEC considers reopening H-bomb plants to ease fuel shortage

The U S Atomic Energy Commission weighs restarting some H-bomb production units to relieve growing nuclear fuel shortages. Chair Dixie Lee Hay warns of government storage for spent rods and notes GE's reconsideration of a Mor ris reprocessing plant, with Purex at Hanford as fallback if private plans fail.

Washington U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Dixie Lee Hay The AEC General Electric Morris Chicago GE Has Mor Ris Craig Hosmer R-Calif Ray SEC Purex

U S Revises 1974 Sugar Import Quotas

Washington UPI The Agriculture Department reduced sugar import quotas for five countries and increased them for nine others aiming to assure adequate sugar deliveries in 1974. The total reshuffling covers 104,589 tons with no change to the overall 12.5 million short tons consumption quota.

Washington UPI Agriculture Department U.S

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