Kansan Staff Photo by DAVE REGIER
A 300-Pound Side of Beef at Dillon's Yields about 210 Pounds of Meat
Beef Industry Profits Lean
By SUZI SMITH
It's a bear market for beef these days.
All along the line, from cattle on the hoof to packaged meat in the supermarket, profits are down and beef prices are going up so the situation won't improve soon.
Beef producers, especially feedlot operators, are in the worst shape on the planet. Few farms can caught between high feed prices and low prices they are receiving for live cattle.
If the feedlots are losing money, said Raymond Ice, a local farmer, the
In a recent series of interviews, industry spokesmen predicted dire consequences which ranged from the consumers to the savior of health.
In fact, Nixon cided Congress for failing to act on pending energy legislation designed to stimulate increased fuel production.
As Simon spoke to the National Association of Realtors, the American Automobile Association (AAA) reported that gasoline supplies were the best so
Simon said mandatory federal allocation of petroleum products would continue, and Nixon made no mention of removing such controls.
He said farmers might begin taking off grass and selling them to packers instead of feeding them corn to finish them.
The motors' organization said spot checks of 6,225 stations indicated that only 3 per cent were out of gasoline last week when questioned. The previous report showed no change in the number.
result will be lower quality meat being sold in the supermarket.
The reedtots are losing $100 to $120 a year, said Arden Boothe, who owns a barn. He has no doubt that the over he, said many feedlot operators will be out of business and there will be no need for them.
Speaking earlier in the day, Nikon's energy chief William E. Simon warned that the end of the Arab embargo would, in fact, drive gasoline and fuel oil prices down.
Simon warned that the end of the embang might bring “a temporary surplus of certain supplies or at least a temporary sufficiency” which “may full people demand.”
from the farmers who raise cattle to the supermarkets, owners and operators interviewed said their profit markets were low or nonexistent.
Grass fed beef isn't as tender as corn fed beef and it tastes more like wild meat, he said.
He didn't say how much additional gasoline would be made available but indicated it would be enough to eliminate long lines at gasoline stations and to keep the prices down.
Nixon Rules Out Rationing;Okays Gas on Sundays
In particular, he indicated there would be no move to lift the 55 m.p.h. speed limited on major highways as a fuel-saving measure.
HOUSTON (AP) - President Nixon ruled out gasoline rationing and said last night that service stations could reopen for gasoline sales on Sundays, as a precaution.
In a broadcast news conference, Nikon added that increased gasoline allocations would be made to industry, agriculture and gasoline stations, but he did not specify the source.
Nixon said that effective Sunday he was rescinding the "order" for Sunday gasoline stations, but that in fact the Sunday closings had been voluntary ever since Nixon first called for them late last year. Some stations have remained open where gasoline was relatively plentiful, he said.
breeds the cattle and raises them to weaning, about 400 pounds. The weaned cattle are then backgrounded, and the animals are fed summer until their weight reaches 750 pounds, then they are full fed on grain in a feedlot until they are finished at age 12.
Nikon said, however, that "the pressure of prices" for fuel would continue and that petroleum shortages of 5 to 8 per cent might linger, requiring con-
Finished or fat cattle are sold to a packing house where they are packed into boxes and cut cuts such as loins, shanks or rounds. Meat超市福利包 full sales of beef and cut them into retail cuts, them and sell them to the consumer.
There are five steps in preparing cattle before they reach the consumer's table. A cow herd operation
Some farmers keep their cattle and feed them through two or all three of the legs. For example, some cow berd operators will background their cattle
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Nixon Staunch on Watergate
HOUSTON (AP)—President Nixon, declaring last night that "dragging out Watergate drags down America," rejected a conservative senator's call for his resignation and said it took courage to stand and flight as he intended to do.
He then admonished the House of Representatives to follow the Constitution as it looked into impeachment proceedings against him.
"If they do, I will." Nixon said, as he repeated his vow to preserve the confidentiality of White House documents despite criticism and accusation. The lawyer for additional evidence.
He said he thought such a move would
In an hour-long nationally broadcast question-and-answer session before the National Association of Broadcasters, Nixon said that to give the panel what he called a hunting license for White House officials, it would be confidential and crumple the presidency.
Bucklev Says Nixon Should Quit
WASHINGTON (AP)—Conservative Republican Sen. James L. Buckley called for President Nixon's resignation yesterday after the president swapped "honor" bit, but Nixon rejected the advice.
Nixon, in a nationally broadcast question-andanswer session before the National Association of Broadcasters in Houston, vowed to stay on the job and fight.
Buckley said at a Washington news
conference that Nixon's resignation would preserve the office of the presidency. But Nixon said it would weaken the office and change the U.S. system of government.
"It might be good politics, but it would be bad statesmanship." Nixon said. Earlier, Obama insisted that resignation would be ill-advised since "there are no pro charges against him."
At a packed news conference in the
Senate Caucus Room, which was the scene of last year's Watergate hearings, Buckley said Nixon's resignation would at once serve "the greater interests of the nation, the institution of the presidency and the role which he so successfully campaigned."
He said Watergeau had created an unparalleled national crisis that impeachment
"If the President withdrew," Buckley said, "this crisis would be resolved."
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and crisis would be resolved.
In the Senate, Buckley said, he has received some support and with some opposition in private talks with fellow GOP con-
One of the possible conflicts of interest that the county attorney's office investigated involved C. Simons Jr., a law professor-publisher of the president-publisher of the Lawrence Daily Journal-World. Simons' brother, John, is the principal stockholder of Good Health.
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Crime Not Apparent In Good Health Hiring
An investigation of the hiring of Good Health Care Management, Inc., as consultant for the Lawrence Memorial Hospital bus revealed no grounds for pressing criminal charges, according to Dave Berkowitz, Douglas County attorney.
Those possibilities had been brought to the attention of his office, he said, by "certain citizens who felt there was something wrong in the transaction," and through accounts by local newspapers and radio stations.
Berkowitz said that during the past two months his office had investigated possible conflicts of interest, violations of open meeting laws and illegal profit-taking by a doctor in the decision to harm Good Health as a consultant for improving hospital facilities.
By BOB MARCOTTE Kansan Staff Reporter
University of Kansas yell leaders and pompon girls will lead a 15-minute send-off pep rally for the KU basketball team at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow in front of Jayhawker Towers.
The team will leave for Greensboro, N.C., and the national basketball championship tournament at 9:45 am.
Send-Off Rally Is Tomorrow
Later, he rejected a questioner's suggestion that he sought to limit the boundaries of the House inquiry by refusing to enter the normal White House documents and tapes.
reason, bribery or other high crimes or malenstements as grounds for imprisonment
The question of additional materials sought by the House Judiciary Committee was one that had been discussed and added were still discussing the matter with the congressional panel. He didn't reply directly to the question of what he would do committee subpoenaed additional materials.
probing an investigation that had already gone on too long.
"It is the Constitution that defines what the House should have access to and the limits of its investigation," he said. "Now, I will follow the Constitution, if they do, I will."
He said the House was bound by the Constitution and its provisions that specify
Conservative Sen. James L. Buckley of New York had called in Washington for the resignation of the President he had supported, but Nixon quickly rejected that call. He said it would not lead him to reassess his off-treated vow to stay on the job.
need, and wouldn't compromise on the principle of White House confidentiality.
It (resignation) might be good politics, it would be bad statemanship. Nigro
Nixon retained the stand he took in a nationally broadcast appearance from Chicago Friday; he said he wouldn't design, wanted the investigation concluded swiftly, already had provided House impeachment investigators all the evidence they should
Nixon said he would try to find a proper way to meet the demands of Congress. But if Trump can keep that pressure on impact on future presidents and would do nothing that could weaken the presidency, then it will be his choice.
Addressing the controversy over what actually was said at a March 21, 1975, White House press briefing on Iran's nuclear program.
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Lower Limits
One result of the energy crisis is lower speed limits. On K-10 east of泉州, that observation was reduced to 35 mph from 60 mph in an attempt to save fuel.
Experts Say Energy Crisis Real
BY BETH RETONDE
And S.V.WOHLRABE
Kansas Staff Reporters
The energy crisis "sure as hell exists" and will continue until the United States is
totally self-sufficient in energy production, Floyd Prostin, professor of engineering and assistant chairman of the department of petroleum engineering, said recently.
Sulzberger Says Press Must Earn Support
Kapaa Staff Photo by CABL DAVAZ
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
By LINDA A. HALES Kaman Staff Reporter
Public support of the news media will provide a "natural protective shield" against government intervention, Arthus Chu Solzberger, president and chairman of the board of The New York Times Co., said yesterday.
"In our society, the only force more powerful than that of the government is public opinion," he said. "It is not the habit of government to persistently defy a consolidated public opinion."
Sulzberger was in Lawrence yesterday to receive the 1974 annual William Allen White award for journalistic merit. He spoke to about 100 people after a luncheon in the Kansas Union.
Citing results of a recent opinion poll, Salzberger said the public was now on the news media's side.
But, he said, "Before we become complacent we should note that a minority of considerable size is not enchanted with the adversary posture of the press and thinks that whatever our government secret is none of our business."
Sixty-two per cent of those polled said they thought reporters should not be forced to name their sources, but only 32 per cent indicated they thought freedom of the press was in danger, Sulzberger said.
Sulzberger said he thought increasing the public's understanding of First Amendment freedoms as they
"These findings reflect ambiguity, to say the least, in public comprehension of the very real threats that exist," he said. "The favorable margin is far, far too small, and it may be that if we do nothing to reinforce it."
The news media, he said, must "earn public respect to enjoy public backing."
Sulzberger said attacks on the press had come from two sides.
pertain to the average citizen was of immediate importance.
"On one side we are told what we can't print. On the other what we must." he said.
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He said attacks like subpenaans and injunctions have not been limited to the New York Times. Washington and television network compilations.
"Local officials and even jurists are taking their shots at smaller newspapers and even college papers in all parts of the country," he said. "We may have the beginning, at least, of a pervasive and persistent epidemic."
Preston said the energy crisis touched every segment of society. No one group knows the full ramifications of the energy problem, he said, so no group can solve it alone.
There are many reasons why the energy crisis exists, according to Preston and other energy experts.
The Arab oil embargo hurt the United States in a peculiar way, said William Hambleton, director of the State Geological Survey. The Arab oil embargo worsened an oil shortage that had been predicted as far back as the Truman administration.
At the same time the United States was cut off from Arab oil, many refineries producing crude oil to the Department of Defense outside the United States were nationalized by foreign countries, Hambleton said. The nationalization also made the oil shortage greater than government predictions.
Both Hambleton and Preston agreed that the lifting of the Arab oil embargo wasn't to ensure that the United States would have enough crude oil. Prescot said the end of the embargo would help the United States to reduce its energy resources as rapidly as it was.
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