NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, November 10. 1983
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$67,000 bid gives dealer 1939 photo
By United Press International
NEW YORK — A 1939 photograph of a steam locomotive was sold at an auction yesterday for $78,000 — the highest price ever paid for a photograph.
The 6-by-9 inch photograph, titled "Wheels" and taken by painter and photographer Charles Sheeler, was sold to a Michigan dealer at an auction at Parke Barke Bernet in Manhattan. It was acquired four copies of the negative in existence.
Sotheby's spokesman Marcie Stuckin said that Thomas Halsted had bought the photo on behalf of the Detroit Institute of Arts.
The 1939 photo portrays the side of a steam locomotive
Sutchain said that Halsted's $87,000 bid was the largest amount ever obtained as a sale price for a photograph. It was one of the first photographs he was expected to yield on auction.
The previous record high sale price for a photograph was $36,000. It was set in May 1980 for a portrait of Albert Sands Southworth.
United Press International
NEW YORK — This 1939 photograph of a steam locomotive was sold at an auction for $67,000, the highest price ever paid for a photograph. The six-by-nine inch picture titled "Wheels" was taken by painter and photographer Charles Sheeler and sold to a Michigan dealer at an auction at Sotheby-Parke Bernet in Manhattan. It is one of four copies of the negative in existence.
House passes dairy price plan
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House, ignoring a threatened veto, yesterday approved a Senate-passed compromise plan to rein in the runaway cost of dairy price supports by paying farmers not to produce milk.
Congressman rejected, 250-178, an administration-backed plan offered by Hep Barber Conable, R-N.Y., who cut the support price by up to $1.50
then voted 325-91 to approve the compromise, which would pay farmers who cut milk production, reduced dairy production and increased measured money to promote dairy products.
There are minor differences between the House and Senate versions, so a joint conference will be needed before approval and be sent to President Reagan.
UNDER THE DAIRY price support program, the government purchases surplus milk and cheese. The program for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 cost taxpayers $2.7 billion — 10 times what it cost four years ago.
At present, the government collects a $1 assessment to try to cut production, but congressmen said that the plan had backfired.
Backers said that the compromise bill would help dairymen through a tough period as they cut production.
"The compromise is admittedly stopgap," said House Agriculture Chairman Kika de la Garza, D-Texas. "We think it will work."
Michel said, "If you think the committee will accept new law, you must take but a big mistake.
Conable and House Republican Leader Robert Michel of Illinois had warned that the administration opposed the bill. Conable said he had been told "the president will veto anything but the Conable amendment."
In fine-tuning the bill, the House refused to exempt producer-handlers from the program and to exempt them from 50-cent reduction in the support price.
Under the amendment, passed on a 348-71 vote, the Agriculture Department would slow the number of dairy cows sent to market for slaughter if slaughter prices dropped by 10 percent.
THE HOUSE AMENDED the bill to protect ranchers and hog farmers from any drop in slaughter prices that could be caused if moves to cut back milk production prompted farmers to sell dairy cows for slaughter.
Telescope discovers new solar system
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — A satellite telescope that discovered what may be a new solar system has also has found a new asteroid among the planets, new stars in formation and more comets than any other observer in history, scientists from three nations said yesterday.
Astronomy textbooks will have to be rewritten because of the new evidence, and this is why we use them.
Scientists from the United States, Holland and Britain assembled at National Aeronautics and Space Administration headquarters to report on the latest data from the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, known as IRAS.
They said in addition to the asteroid, IRAS has found evidence of previously unobserved rings around a distant star. Scientists have been checking through the Earth's solar system.
"So far, the results of this effort have been nothing short of spectacular."
said NASA chief James Beggs, speaking for the entire panel.
"The taxpayers got a look at the universe that's never been seen before," said Nancy Boggess, a U.S.I. team astronomer. "It gave us a definite perspective on our own planet here. A lot of chapters in astronomy books will be rewritten because of what we found here."
ONE OF THE most widely publicized discoveries was evidence of a second solar system in the universe. Scientists announced in August the discovery that Vega, one of the brightest stars, is surrounded by a ring composed of dust and small meteor-like objects that could be planets in formation.
The satellite has relayed so much data, however, the scientists said they may not know the significance of it all for some time to come.
"The success of this mission makes clear we need a lot of follow-up." said Harm Habing, head of the Dutch team in the project.
IRAS, A JOINT U.S.-Dutch-British
project, is a satellite-mounted telescope orbiting 563 miles above the Earth. It detects emissions of infrared radiation, which is invisible to the eye and which cannot be monitored from space because of atmospheric interference.
U. S. astronomer Fred Gillett said IRAS has detected an asteroid-like body less than 1.2 miles across that passes closer to the sun than any known planet or asteroid in the solar system. Its orbit intersects that of Mercury.
Beggs said the satellite is responsible for the discovery of five comets, "more new comets than any other observer in our history."
Also discovered were three giant dust shells around Betelgeuse, an older star and one of the brightest in the Orion constellation. The shells will help scientists study the deterioration of stars.
IRAS MAPPED THREE rings of dust within the solar system, possibly the result of asteroid collisions.
Brazilian Congress approves pay limit; autoworkers strike
By United Press International
BRASILIA, Brazil — Congress yesterday ratified a wage limiting decree that the government called essential to winning foreign loans to meid payments on Brazil's staggering foreign debt — the largest in the world.
In Sao Paulo, 10,000 workers at a Ford auto plant struck in defiance of the measure, and opposition policymakers said they would intensify Brazil's social problems
"the means more sacrifice for the population but it is necessary," said Congressman Nelson Marchezen, a former government Democratic Social Party.
He spoke after an all-night opposition filibuster ended in 245-3 and 43-1 votes in the House and Senate.
respectively. The approval came on the government's fourth attempt this year to push through the wage bill.
LAST MONTH. A wage limiting measure was turned down despite a state of emergency imposed in the capital amid demonstrations against the government. The government then decreed that the measure on its own the next day.
Planning Minister Antonio Delfim Netto said that without tough wage controls to bring down 197 percent inflation, Brazil would have trouble obtaining funds from the International Monetary Fund and private foreign bankers.
The government asked congress to ratify the measures before the Nov. 18 Washington meeting of the IMF board that will consider progress in Brazil's economy and either release or continue withholding loans.
The Latin American nation needs fresh financing to meet payments on its $90 billion foreign debt, largest of any country in the world.
UNDER THE PLAN, workers earning up to about $15 a week will still get salary hikes matching the inflation index, itself "doctored" to read some 30 points below the true level of price rises.
Higher-paid workers will get smaller percentage increases, however, meaning their real spending power will decrease.
Taxes on earned and unearned income are increased, while the bill contains some protection for pensioners and mortgage pavers.
In the industrial metropolis of São Paulo, striking Ford auto assembly workers demanded hikes to fully automate production of the partial compensation provided
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