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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1967
Page
8
University expert R U D Schneider outlines five reasons farm work is more dangerous than industry. Reasons include variety of tasks, wide power use, lack of formal training, minimal supervision, and weaker safety promotion since 1944.
A Nebraska Petroleum Council summary notes the rise of gasoline taxes from 2 cents in 1925 to 11 1/2 cents today, and contrasts tax growth with real fuel price declines. It recalls Oregon's penny tax originator Loyal M. Graham and cites broader national tax totals reaching 100 billion dollars since 1919.
The piece notes cool weather may aid the multi million dollar Cheyenne County wheat crop as frosts ease after May 10 15. It reports early growth from a mild March with two to three weeks ahead schedule, snow last weekend aiding wheat, and details local extension work and conservation efforts plus KI BA CHEY MO camp plans and Centennial celebrations.
The Sidney Telegraph advertises printing services for business forms and letterheads at 830 11th Ave, offering to keep local businesses supplied with their printing needs.
KUON TV Lincoln will produce a half hour segment for NET showing early July nationwide. The program titled The Death of the Small Farm examines Nebraska in decline from 88 000 farms to 78 000 since 1962 with 2 000 farms disappearing annually. It asks how agriculture can feed the world while small farms vanish and communities lose homes and voices. Production begins May at Nebraska locations with broadcast date to be announced.
Congressman Dave Martin argues in a Nebraska 3rd District letter that American farmers are forgotten amid rising costs and debt. He cites farm parity at 74 percent, 122000 farms wiped out and 82000 more likely to go out of business, plus farm income lagging while non agricultural income grows. He criticizes Ward Freeman and Johnson administration for neglecting agriculture as the Forgotten Man of the Great Society.
The Sidney Telegraph seeks old photographs for a Western Nebraska centennial issue. Readers are urged to bring in or mail historical pictures of Sidney, Cheyenne County, and surrounding areas to help illustrate the history. submissions should be sent to The Sidney Telegraph, Box 219, Sidney, Nebraska 69162.
The 32 major cattle feeding states held 10.5 million cattle and calves on feed for slaughter as of April 1, up three percent from a year earlier. Gains were concentrated in cattle weighing 900 pounds and up, with Iowa Nebraska Texas Kansas and others showing varied changes. Also noted is soybean oil production per bushel and its use in margarine cooking oils and livestock feed meal.
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