University Daily Kansan, January 17, 1983
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Farmers band together to prevent forced sales
By United Press International
Militant segments of the farm economy are becoming more adamant daily in their right to stop private lenders and the federal government from foreclosing on financially struggling farmers.
From Colorado to Illinois, Michigan and Ohio, angry farmers and their supporters are banding together to prevent the sale of frozen milk. The bank of bidders hid almost auctioneers and gone to court in their efforts to keep farmers farming during the recession.
"WE'RE BLEEDING PROFUSELY," said Alan Libra of the Illinois Farm Alliance, a group that supports Randy Carson, who went bankrupt and lost his Farmers Home Administration loan.
"We need a tourniquet first, then some long-term healing potion. We are in an immediate crisis." Libbra said.
Last week, the FmHIA cited poor management as the reason it denied Carson a $300,000 federal loan to resume farming in Tennessee, Ill.
But supporter Dale Nass said there was another side to the story.
"Here's Randy and Susan Carson, a young family trying to farm. They don't have any unemployment compensation for farmers if they can't farm. And, with slim prospects of finding a job in today's economy, they need an alternative, but welfare. It might be a good gesture to finance them and keep them farming. These young people want to work."
Carson plans to appeal the denial of his loan.
THE SCENE AT Carson's farm in November where about 100 protestors outshouted bidders and
began shoving the auctioneers has been repeated, with some variations, in Colorado and Ohio.
On Jan. 4 in Springfield, Colo., about 300 farmers gathered to try to stop the public auction of the 320-acre farm owned by Jerry Smith.
Fighting broke out and sheriff's deputies tossed tear gas into the crowd. But the crowd failed to stop the sale.
Wright, one of the founding members of the American Agriculture Movement, said he would stay on his farm.
"This is my home. I'm not going to leave." he said.
Wright had failed to make payments for three years on a loan from the Federal Land Bank, a private lender.
ON FRIDAY, hundreds of farmers on **chanting" no sale, no sale," failed to stop the public auction of a 191-acre farm owned by Doug Dailey near Tucson. The farmer was sold for $225,000 to the Federal Land Bank, holder of the first lien.
Shouting protesters said they wanted a moratorium on all farm fireplaces.
In Grand Rapids, Mich., two families have filed suit to bar the FmHA from foreclosing on delinquent farm loans.
"We are going to fight it and we want people to know we're going to fight it," said farmer Bruce Rutten of Reading, Mich., who claims the Fm14A accelerated payment on his loan that the entire loan is now past.
Agriculture Secretary John Block has said he was sympathetic to farmers squeezed by circumstances beyond their control, such as the 1980 Soviet grain embargo, high interest rates, bumper crops that have led to burdensome oversupply problems and low prices.
By JEFF TAYLOR Staff Reporter
Lawrence firefighters, when they are not hanging on the back of a speeding firetruck or scaling ladders to the top floors of buildings, spend countless hours talking to school children and other sozial groups about smoke-alarm systems and fire safety.
The firefighters work to inform people how to react if a building catches fire, and they also promote the use of fire-alarm systems and smoke detectors, Roy Allen, a Lawrence firefighter, said yesterday.
Allen is one of three Lawrence firefighters who, for six years, has delivered fire safety programs to area schools.
Firefighters also fight fires with words
"When that smoke detector goes off, 1 want that child to know which way to go and how to react." Allen said. "Sometimes adult through life forget about it."
"We try to talk to kids so they can take information home with them and tell their parents, 'This is what the fireman said.'"
In a rash of fires in the Kansas City, Mo. area last week, five persons were
Most of the children the firefighters talk to are between 4 and 8 years old, did Llary Larry Stemmerman. Children referred to Juvenile Services he said.
Allen said he and the two other firefighters who present programs, Kenny Wyrick and Bill Brubaker, are always eager to talk to children or take them on tours through one of the four Lawrence fire stations. The firefighters show films and hand out coloring books to younger children.
Since Lawrence for seven years has required smoke detectors in homes, losses because of home fires have been reduced. Findley said.
"Smoke detectors have been a big help to eliminate fire deaths," be said. "A lot of it is a lack of smoke detector stuff so people can get out of houses."
"We don't try to get too involved with the little kids, because their attention soan is too short." Allen said.
was raised from five to two because of its outstanding fire protection, Findley said.
The Lawrence Fire Department offers programs for parents who have fire-curious children and are not able to cope with the problem, according to Cast, Paul Findley.
Lawrence apartment complexes, sororites and fraternities are inspected regularly. Findley said, to ensure that they have proper smoke-alarm protection. Sororites and fraternities once a year are required by the state to hold firefighter-supervised fire drills.
"（The inspections）saved us over time, I'm sure, hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage." Findley said.
Among other social groups that firefighters talk to are senior citizen's complexes such as Babcock Place, 1700 Bedford Ave., Freshwater Manor, 1421 Kaiser Dr.
But firefighters deal with other problems besides fire safety, such as the increasing problem of arson.
In these troubled economic days for business people and unemployed workers, fire looks profitable as a way to earn money. People do dblm such as a car, said Stemmerman.
Last year, the city's insurance rating
Stemmerman investigates suspected arson and is beginning a six-month study of the arsons in Douglas County. He estimated that $300,000 was lost in
Douglas County because of arson last year.
Nationally, arson is on the rise, Stemmerman said, and two years ago the FBI added arson to its major crime index.
As yet, Stemmerman said, arson is not a large problem in Douglas County. But last year's $300,000 damage figure prompted a six-month investigation that was handed in to Lawrence Fire Chief Jim McSwain.
The arson rate has increased, in part, because firefighters are labeling more fires as arson. Stemmerman said. He said his equipment have aided their investigations.
Firefighters who arrive at the scene of a fire are better trained to detect peculiarities such as gas cans stored in cabinets, or burn patterns in a room, he said.
Damage estimates might also be higher from suspected arson cases, Stemmerman said, because inflation has raised the value of burned items.
At the scene, firefighters make a note of irregularities or question victims to determine whether the fire is accidental or arson. If suspicion is involved, arson investigators are notified.
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