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Wednesday, February 21; 1990 / University Daily Kansan
$109 million in drought relief went to Kansas farmers in '89
By Chris Siron
Kansan staff writer
Kansas farmers received $109 million of the $3.9 billion in federal drought relief administered in 1989, according to a report released yesterday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Frank Mosier, director of the Kansas Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, said Kansas farmers would receive about $41 million more in payments this year to offset recent drought-related losses.
He said about 37,000 farmers received payments in 1969. Payments averaged about $3,000. To qualify for drought relief a farmer must show year-end losses of at least 5% percent.
Mosier said prospects for 1990's harvest were better than in recent years, despite two years of serious droughts.
"Most farmers are fairly optimistic, considering recent performances," Mosier said.
Frank Whitham, a Leoti farm owner, said he received about $100,000 in drought aid last year. Despite serious drought-related setbacks last year, he expects better results in 1990.
Whitham grows wheat and corn on his 3,000 acre farm. He said he expected a good wheat harvest this year and prospects for corn were good.
According to an Agriculture Department report, Whitham was one of the top 50 federal drought relief recipients last year.
Mosier said heavy snow in western Kansas on Monday was a good omen.
Lonnie Schulz, conservationist with the Kansas Soil Conservation Service, said there was little moisture in the soil now but recent snow
He said that because there was little run-off from melting snow, the ground usually absorbed more moisture from snow than rain.
could help if it did not blow away.
However, current precipitation trends will not save failing crops harvested this spring, such as wheat and barley. Schulz said.
"When you drive around the state, you can see many farmers did not get their fall-seeded crops up," Schulz said.
He said subsolil moisture had not accumulated because of irregular rainfall. Without subsolil moisture, crops depend on day-to-day precipitation. At least half of Kansas still is suffering from last year's inadequate precipitation, particularly north central and northwestern regions.
Schulz said range and pasture lands were suffering most because grass crops depended more on natural trends than on planned planting efforts. Sporadic rainfall last year led to disrupted plant growth. The lower yields will adversely affect livestock production.
It is too early to predict yields for spring-planted crops, such as sorghum. Schulz said.
Planist Karen Hutchinson performs at the Kansas City Middle School for the Arts.
Mark Bogner, a forecaster with KU Weather Service, said there was no way to accurately project spring and summer water aggregate indicators were positive.
"Kansas weather patterns so far this year don't indicate a drought, but that doesn't mean come March or things couldn't change," Boger said.
Pianist strikes chord in KC
He said Kansas still needed precipitation to make up for low rainfall during the last two years. In 1988 Kansas received about 18 inches below its average rainfall, and in 1989 rainfall was about 12 inches lower than normal.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
By Sandra Moran Kansan staff writer
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Karen Hintonhinson pounded out the final notes on the keyboard, stood and bowed to the applauding audience
Hutchinson, an international concert pianist, spoke yesterday to 47 students at the Kansas City Middle School of the Arts. She is in Kansas as part of Black History Month at the University of Kansas.
She will perform at 8 tonight at Swarthout Recital Hall.
Hutchinson said she was always exposed to music.
"I was really different," she said of her childhood. "My idea of fun was inviting kids over to listen to classical records. Not a lot of it."
Hutchinson has performed throughout Europe and at Carnegie Hall in New York.
When she was six, she began taking lessons from her mother, a piano instructor. One year later, she gave her first recital.
She said her life now consisted of practicing, performing and studying.
Hutchinson said to be successful, students needed to practice two to
three hours a day and stay away from drugs.
"Some people have made a myth in that 'Yeah, you can take drugs, and it will enhance your performance,'" she said. "Drugs just kill you faster."
Hutchinson performed several selections for the students, including pieces by Frederic Chopin and
Black composer George Walker.
She said practice was the most important thing in her daily routine. She enjoys listening to classical music but dislikes rap music.
"I believe rap was put here to drive parents and adults crazy," she said.
W. J. Drummond, KU graduate student in history and Hutchin-
son's manager, said Hutchinson spoke to students whenever she had a chance.
Roger Williams, principal of the school, said he thought the program was powerful.
"I'm hoping what the students have is an opportunity to rub shoulders with professionals in the performing arts," he said.
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because this particular type of project trains students and it provides a lot of research issues to be answered by the University in the research area," she said. "At the same time, the children involved are getting good treatment."
pists, including McGlothlin, train the students.
MelGlottin said that after the students received hands-on training for one semester they could train other students. Six thera-
The students work with a child four hours a week and attend team meetings where they review the progress of the child, set goals for the following week and work with the child in front of the other students in order to get feedback, she said. Students work with the children in McGlothlin's home.
"It's a child's natural environment." McGlothlin said.
Wendy Hara, Chicago senior, said she had been working with Nathan for about a month.
"It's more rewarding than challenging because it's nice to see him respond correctly," she said.
Hara said she was working with Nathan for Special Problems in Child Development, a three-hour
HDFL course. Working with Nathan and attending the meetings counts for 50 percent of the class grade. The other 50 percent of the grade is a take home exam.
she said.
McGlothlin said two children, including her son, were part of the project. Another child will begin the program in May.
"We will continue to add children as the pilot project grows."
The goal of the project is to prevent the institutionalization of autistic children by intervening early in their lives, McGglothin wrote in a letter explaining the project.
A short term goal of the project is to effectively treat a dozen children by 1991, and a long term goal is to establish an ongoing
center for the research and treatment of young children with autism, she wrote.
"Even though it started as a personal thing, it could not have happened without all the support of the people." McGlothlin said. "... It was just a dream until KU said OK."
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