The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 19 March 1968 — Page 4
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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana
Tuesday, March If, 1968
On The Farm Front
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By BERNARD BRENNER UP I Farm Editor WASHINGTON (UPI) - A government farm expert here says a new high-protein food industry appears to be emerging in the United .States. Its products include protein food mixtures designed to fill nutrition gaps in hungry countries where products like milk, meat and poultry are relatively scarce and costly. But the emerging new industry may also come up with synthetic steaks, chicken and other familiar items made from plant products like soybeans, said
Dr. Lester R. Brown, administrator of the Agriculture Department’s International Agricultural Development Service. A major spur to the development of a high protein food industry, Brown said, was the obvious widespread need for more protein foods in the developing nations abroad. Science and industry have been developing a technology to solve the problem by developing substitute livestock products from protein sources. Already one such product, a food supplement made from corn, soybeans and dried milk,
is being used widely in the Food for Peace program. A similar supplement based on wheat instead of corn is now in the final stages of development. In addition to the food supplements, Brown said, industry is at work on vegetable-based products which conceivably could furnish more direct competition for livestock foods. “Researchers in laboratories of several major U.S. food firms are confident of developing products synthesized from soybeans or other vegetable protein sources which will be virtually indistinguishable from
chicken, ham and beef,” Brown said. “One major U.S. food firm is already test marketing a substitute for bacon.” Tile Layers' Toll BONN (UPI) — A 45-day strike by tile layers drove the number of working days lost in Germany in 1967 up to 389,581, compared with only 27,086 days lost through strikes in 1966 and 48.520 in 1965, according to the Federal Statistical Office. The government bureau said 75 per cent of the days lost last year resulted from the strike of tile layers in North Rhine-Westphalia. The average length of other strikes was 1.8 days.
WASHINGTON (UPi)_Sen. Robert F. Kennedy offered to stay out of the Democratic presidential race if President Johnson agreed to appoint a commission of leading “doves” to ease the nation out of Vietnam. Johnson rejected the offer. So Kennedy decided to run. Those are the bare bones of an astonishing story that added an explosive new element today to an already bitter political campaign. Both Kennedy partisans and Jfthnson adherents denied leaking the story to the press and
each accused the other of distorting what really happened. But leak it most certainly did, like a sieve. The disclosure Sunday of the proposed deal brought immediate “clarifying”—and sharply contradictory— statements from Kennedy, who announced his candidacy only Saturday, and from a top administration official who was in on it. What Happened? Kennedy, in a bitter statement Sunday night, charged that reports of his offer were “incredible distortions of what really occurred.” But he
confirmed that he and Theodore C. Sorensen, a longtime political ally of the Kennedys, had conferred with new Defense Secretary Clark M. Clifford, a Johnson Intimate, in Washington last Thursday. The New York senator said the three of them discussed a proposal for an “independent blue-ribbon commission on Vietnam,” an idea put forth by an unnamed Midwestern political leader who also reportedly made the suggestion to Johnson. Both the Johnson and Kennedy camps agree that far, but there is a sharp divergence on what else happened. Kennedy, in his statement, said Sorensen had first broached the idea last Monday in a secret White House
meeting with Johnson. Kennedy denied that the suggestion tied the idea to his prospective candidacy in any way. LBJ Rejected The high administration source, however, indicated that the subject first came up at the Thursday meeting with Clifford and that Clifford had relayed the suggestion to Johnson, who immediately rejected it. During the course of the Clifford meeting, according to the administration insider, Kennedy said in effect that if he could force a change in the “right direction,” then he might not be obliged to run against Johnson.
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