Utah fruit growers seek aid after nine million dollar loss
SALT LAKE CITY. A group of hard hit Utah fruit farmers met with Gov Calvin L. Rampton to discuss remedies for the nine million dollar loss of the state’s twelve million dollar fruit crop. The freeze followed another night of temperatures that wiped out apricots peaches and sweet cherries and threatened apples with heavy ice and broken branches. Orchard heaters and water spraying efforts were used but yielded limited success with the cold.
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Salt Lake City
UPN
Utah
Calvin L. Rampton
Orem
John Gillman
Gillman
Utah County
Salt Lake-Davis
Melvin
Burningham
Rome
Jonathan
Timber cuts in national forests drop for year in Idaho talk
At the University of Idaho Ray Karr of the U S Forest Service warned that national forest timber sales will total about 1.147 billion board feet this year, a roughly 30 percent decline from last year. Northern Idaho sales total about five million versus seven million last year as environmental and management constraints reshape the industry.
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Moscow
Forest Service
University of Idaho
North Idaho Forestry Association
Ray Karr
U.S. Forest Service
Region I
Missoula
Idaho
Karr
Utah Fruit Crops Face Delayed Season and Damage Analysis
Utah State University horticulturist David Walker notes Caché County's fruit belt has escaped severe damage so far though the season runs about two weeks late. Apricots and peaches in bloom were lost, while some peaches apples and pears may survive depending on ongoing cold weather.
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Caché County
Utah
Utah State University
Davdl Walker
Idaho Governor Proclaims Bird Day and Cancer Control Month
Gov Cecil D Andrus proclaims April 1 as Bird Day in Boise and designates April as Cancer Control Month He urges Idahoans to join garden clubs in celebrating bird life and to support American Cancer Society educational and fundraising efforts statewide.
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Boise
UPD
Cecil D. ‘Andrus
Haho
Ceu
Final Stages Of Apollo Countdown Near Launch
Engineers pumped hundreds of thousands of gallons of propellants into Apollo 16 Saturn 5 during a week long countdown rehearsal for a moon flight in 17 days. The test halted nine seconds before ignition after a fault in a command ship circuit breaker was addressed.
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Cape Kennedy
UPI
John W. Young
Thomas K
Mattingly
Charles M. Duke
Idaho cattle disease prompts Church study request
Senator Frank Church urged continued studies of a cattle illness in Idaho identified as polyarthritis. He reported losses from producers and asked Secretary Earl Butz to send scientists from the National Animal Disease Laboratory in Iowa to Idaho to better control the disease.
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Washington
UPD
Frank Church
Idaho
Church
Earl Butz
National Animal Disease Laboratory
Iowa
Four Belfast Bombs Kill and Wound On Patrol Near Rosslea
Four bombs exploded in Belfast and nearby areas including a huge blast that killed an army officer and damaged City Hall and the Royal Courts of Justice. A British soldier was seriously wounded when a Ferret patrol car struck a mine near Rosslea, 80 miles from Belfast. An army patrol at the Busy Bee shop area in Andersonstown faced gunfire after a hoax call claimed a bomb in a parked car.
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Belfast
City Hall
Royal Courts of Justice
Rosslea
Bee
Anderstown
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