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A scarecrow in Emporia moons passersby with two strategically placed pumpkins. Halloween decorations are popping up as the holiday approaches.
Former president's art shown until March 14
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ABILENE — Serendipity and curiosity combined to introduce Dwight D. Eisenhower to a hobby that would rival golf as his favorite pastime.
On display through March 14 at the Eisenhower Center, "The Paintings of Dwight D. Eisenhower" explores his passion for and problems with painting. Dennis Medina, museum curator, said Eisenhower began painting at age 58.
Medina said painting relaxed Eisenhower, so much so that "whenever he went on vacation, he usually took his painting equipment along."
Eisenhower gave away most of the more than 300 works he completed, usually with a note of apology as to their quality.
The exhibit includes a sampling of Christmas prints and greeting cards, as well as 18 paintings from the museum's permanent collection and five on loan from family members.
Eisenhower continued to paint until his health prevented him from doing so, and the exhibit includes an unfinished landscape likely started before his last stay at Walter Reed Hospital where he died March 28, 1969.
- The Associated Press
For more information about the exhibit, call the Eisenhower Center. (785) 263-4751.
WICHITA -- With more export markets reopening borders to limited U.S. beef trade, the nation's meatpackers and livestock producers are scrambling to revamp operations to qualify for overseas sales.
In major cattle states such as Kansas - where frustration already runs high with the pace of the U.S. Agriculture Department's cattle identification program and its slow negotiations with overseas markets state governments and industry groups are taking the initiative themselves.
Yesterday, the Agriculture Department announced that pending a final round of inspections, Taiwan would resume beef imports, which were suspended because of concerns over mad cow disease. The Taiwan deal came just three days after Japan agreed to allow limited imports of American beef from cows younger than 20 months. All infected animals found in Japan have been older than 20 months.
"I am very pleased we finally have a framework of agreement with Japan. Many of us believed a very similar framework could have been agreed to several months ago," Kansas Secretary of Agriculture Adrian Polansky said yesterday.
Polansky also criticized progress on the federal animal identification system.
"Many of us are disappointed we are now looking at 3 1/2 years before they initiate the individual animal identification program," Polansky said.
Kansas is putting together its own voluntary animal ID system to meet market demand for ageverified animals, he said.
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A strong domestic taste for beef has kept meat profits and cattle prices high despite the discovery last December of the first case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, a disease that attacks the nervous system and is commonly known as mad cow disease, in the United States.
No humans are known to have been infected through exposure in the United States
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Reopening export trade bodies well for Kansas, which sold $171.1 million of beef and meat products to Japan before the ban. Taiwan bought $2.39 million of beef from Kansas last year.
Kansas has 6.65 million cattle on its ranches and feedlots.Most cattle slaughtered in the state are fed cattle coming out of feedlots animals typically butchered at under 20 months of age.
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The Kansas Livestock Association estimates that the ages of about 10 percent of the state's cattle can be verified, said Matt Teagarden, director of industry relations for KLA.
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