Youth Drug Experimentation Rising Across Demographics
AP reports rising drug experimentation among American youth. NIDA surveys show 1969–75 increases in marijuana and stimulant use among male high school seniors, with marijuana experimentation up to 49.9 percent in one survey. Among ages 12–17, marijuana experimentation rose from 14 percent in 1972 to 23 percent in 1974, and 53 percent of 18–25 year olds had tried marijuana.
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Butz promises new USSR grain pact at Omaha conference
Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz told Nebraska Governor Exon the United States will obtain a guaranteed minimum purchase from the Soviet Union in future grain talks. He defended grain inspections amid a scandal and described the White House meetings as part of Ford's effort to restore public confidence in government. The Omaha session was the tenth in a national series with 1,100 attendees and featured leaders like Dr David Mathews and William T Coleman.
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Agriculture foe of inflation says food policy is plenty
Secretary Earl Butz tells a White House Omaha conference that agriculture fights inflation and that the food policy can be described as plenty. He notes past subsidies for not producing on 61 million acres and compares to current full production with minimal storage costs versus earlier high daily storage costs.
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Junior Girl Scouts Camp Out Near Chappell Nebraska
Over the weekend troops from Chappell Kimball Lodgepole Ogallala Oshkosh and Sidney camped at John F Bergstrom Campsite near Chappell. They hiked toured libraries held court of honor campfire skits sang taps and eight meals and activities culminated in a five mile hike to Lake Chappell before 60 scouts and 12 leaders departed.
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Meany deemed more powerful than Ford by official in Omaha
AFL-CIO President George Meany is described as more powerful than the U.S. president by Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz during an Omaha conference on economics and domestic affairs. Butz criticized Ford’s grain export moratorium and Congress sympathetic to labor, urging farmers to sell grain widely while lawmakers are influenced by labor. Nebraska lawmakers endorsed a grain market appeal urging unrestricted sales and to copy the plea to Meany.
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