Government to protect farmland from development
Washington moves to protect prime and unique farmland from irreversible conversion. The President's Council on Environmental Quality orders agencies to prioritize preservation, citing 24 million acres of prime land and 275 million acres of prime or high potential farmland across the nation.
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Brian B. King
Associated Press
Washington
President’s Council On Environmental Quality
Council
Russell W. Peterson
USDA
Soil Conservation Service
Davis
Orban
Colorado man digs funerals for his 100th birthday parade
Jim Gernhart a 99 year old retired farmer hosts a 21st funeral for himself on Sunday in Burlington Colorado planning a 100th birthday funeral parade with an antique car procession. He has staged funerals since 1951 and kept a copper casket shipped to Goodland Kansas amid local outcry.
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Burlington
Colo
Jim Gernhart
Gernhart
Goodland
Kan
Rol Hudler
Sidneys Bicentennial Floats Built by Osborns for Parades
Osborns of Sidney drive a family float venture supplying parade entries across the region. They design from scraps including a napkin eagle and a birthday card rooster, hire letters from Mrs Osborn, and rent six garden tractors to pull the floats. The busy schedule tests them but they find it fun overall.
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Mrs
Lawrence Osborn
Sidney
Mrs. Osborn
Snow White
Osborn
Sandhills
Osborns
Young Carter updates on marijuana stance in Nebraska visit
Chip Carter spoke in Lincoln saying marijuana might be legalized in the distant future while he campaigns for his father. He backed decriminalization to free police for hard drug cases and noted drought in Nebraska versus Georgia’s rainy harvest conditions for peanuts.
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John Barrette
Associated Press
Lincoln
Chip Carter
Jimmy Carter
Rosalynn Carter
Chip
Nebraska
Ford
Young Carter
Wahoo
Georgia
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SCS
R.M. Davis
Farmor Co-Op
Isidney Potter
Dalton
Colorado
Financial Counsel
Safe Deposit Box
Saier
American National Bank
Christmas Club
Sidney Nes
I.C
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Olymps
Telegraph
Carter
Pauline Anderson
Aemna
Foland Farm Machinery
Forrest
Duracurve Gas Furnace
Triangle S-M Plumbing
10Th
Osage
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