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Mexican police move to avenge deaths of 5
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City’s police department vowed today to avenge the death of five of its men gunned down by 15 stockingmasked terrorists who raided two local banks and made off with $200,000. Two other policemen wounded by the gunmen in the robberies Tuesday were reported in serious condition. A police spokesman said no arrests had been made, and the department had no clues to the identity of the bandits. Mayor Octavio Senties and Police Chief Daniel Gutierrez
Santos stood silent guard for an hour in the early morning beside the five black coffins of the slain men. More than 30 policemen have been killed in Mexico City this year in clashes with terrorists, but this was the largest casualty toll in one clash. “We will not stop our investigation until the assassins are captured,” said a police department spokesman. “We will avenge the deaths of the policemen through justice by arresting their killers.”
Farm Bureau delegates support Butz
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz “has the right answers when it comes to agriculture,” the 292 delegates to the 56th annual Indiana Farm Bureau convention have affirmed. The delegates, representing more than 223,000 families in the Indiana Farm Bureau, passed a unanimous resolution Tuesday in support of Butz, a former agriculture dean at Purdue University. A call for Butz’s resignation has been made by Catholic and Italian-American groups because of his recent remarks about Pope Paul’s stand
against birth Control. In the resolution, which was sent to President Ford, the Farm Bureau said it is “shocked and incensed at the pressures that were put on you by some groups to use the excuse of humor to dismiss Secretary Butz. We feel the time is long overdue for a return of a healthy sense of humor to the American scene.” The Bureau also supported Butz’s agricultural policies and the Ford administration's “efforts irl slowing down and finally overcoming the vicious forces of inflation.” “We know price controls and
government interference will not work in agriculture — they discourage production, not encourage it. Consumers eat food — not government regu-
lations.” The Bureau’s delegates also passed resolutions against forced busing of pupils for racial balance, against the pro-
posed Equal Rights Amendment, against parimutuel betting and a state lottery, and against government deficit spending and wage and price
controls. The Bureau urged expenditure of adequate funds for research and implementation of improved animal health •
Dunes bill supporters ‘give up’
WASHINGTON (AP)-Sup-porters of a bill to expand the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore have given it up this year, says an aide to Rep. J. Edward Roush, D-Ind., However, an attempt will be
made to win passage for the bill early next year, the aide said Tuesday. Roush is the prime sponsor of the House bill to add about 5,000 to the national park along the shores of Lake Michigan.
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chairman of the House national parks subcommittee, said he would set hearings on the bill “as soon as possible next year.” Taylor also said Rules Committee Chairman Ray J. Madden, D-Ind., agreed to drop his earlier opposition to sending a bill to protect the New River in North Carolina and Virginia to the floor for a vote.
'Like he was my own son: Rev. Boone
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (AP)— “I will treat him like he was my own son,” says an Indianapolis minister who opened his home to an 18-year-old youth who admitted breaking into the pastor’s church. Identifying his guest oily as “Joe,” the Rev. H. A. Boone of Mars View Christian Church said members of the congregation have obtained a part-time job for the teen-ager and are collecting clothing for him. He said he received a telephone call about 5:30 pm. Tuesday from a woman who said the youth was at her home. The minister and his wife found the boy and learned he had no place to stay and nothing to eat. A burglar who entered the church Saturday and again Sunday night broke into boxes
of canned goods collected for Christmas relief. He ate. He brushed his teeth with toothpaste taken from a box and then bathed in the baptistry. The congregation found a note after the second break-in saying, “I’m sorry if I inconvenienced you in any way and that I had to enter the church the way I did. I’m desperate and hungry with nothing to eat and no place to Sleep. Please fogive me, Joe.” Boone said the youth had moved from Indianapolis with his family but returned in August because “he likes it here.” He had a job for a time but was laid off, the minister said. “He seemed to be sort of embarrassed. He’s a nice looking kid, well mannered and he is a high school graduate.
‘Beef-in’ protest planned in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz will meet with a group of South Dakota meet promoters Thursday, Rep. James Abdnor, R S.D., said Tuesday. The 50 livestock producers sponsoring the so-called “beefin” left the state last week for Washington, D.C., to protest the faltering livestock industry. The group had planned to present at least 10 of the nearly 50 head of beef cattle it is bringing to Washington to Butz.
But, scheduling problems apparently had made a meeting with Butz impossible. However, Abdnor said that after contacting Butz twice, the secretary agreed to meet with the group Thursday morning. Abdnor said, “I am very pleased to announce that my office has been successful in arranging for a group of the meat promoters to meet Thursday morning with Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz.”
Wheat crop $1 billion over last year’s harvest
WASHINGTON (AP) - Rising prices helped boost the Value of the 1974 wheat crop about $1 billion over last year’s harvest, although production was far less than the government had expected. The Agriculture Department said Tuesday that this year’s crop value to farmers is a record of more than $7.7 billion, including an average 1974-75 season market price of $4.32 per bushel. Last year, when the average farm price of wheat was a record then of $3.96 per bushel, the crop was worth more than $6.7 billion. Soaring prices since mid-1972 have been the main reason, along with larger production the past two years. Revised figures show the 1974 wheat crop was slightly less than 1.8 billion bushels, up only 13 million bushels from the previous USD A estimate made two months ago. That put this year’s harvest about 5 per cent above the previous record in 1973. But that was far less than the nearly 2.2 billion bushels of
wheat the department had expected last spring, based on plantings and normal yields. Poor weather in major parts of the breadbasket sliced that projected yield by about 400 million bushels, which would have been roughly enough to double the U.S. wheat stockpile by next summer if it had materialized. In the leading wheat state of Kansas, for example, a poor growing season reduced this year’s wheat harvest to 319 million bushels from a record of nearly 385 million in 1973 despite more acres planted. Reductions in yields were reported for many other wheat states. “Yield per acre of the 1974 crop at 27.4 bushels is the lowest average yield since 1967 and compares with 31.7 for the 1973 crop and 32.7 in 1972,” the department’s Crop Reporting Board said. The 1974 wheat harvest was from 65.5 million acres, 22 per cent more than in 1973 and the most since 1953 when 67.8 million acres were harvested.
Specialist cites seed * damage; need for cold
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind (AP) — A Purdue agricultura, specialist says drought and frost have caused corn seed damage, but some farmers would like nothing better than a good solid cold spell. “We’ve had quite a bit of moisture in the past few weeks, and the fields are pretty soft,” said Richard Crum, Marion County cooperative agricultural agent.
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below freezing, preferably the mid-teens, to freeze ground deep enough to all the large equipment to worl
the fields.”
“Much of the corn was d« aged by the early freeze in S tember and was h severely,” Crum ss “Because of this, it has tendency to hold moisture. He added, “In fact, Sc farmers are finding that the be better off to leave it in