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Record crop at 6.4 billion
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the 1977 corn crop at a record 6.357
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duction of the livestock feed grain
which plays a key role in the outlook
for meat, milk and poultry, 1 per
cent above the 1976 record harvest
of 6.266 billion bushels and 9 per
cent above 1975.
This was the third consecutive
corn production record.
The 1977 summary for all crops
combined showed that farmers last
year produced the biggest volume of
crops in history, 29 percent above
the 1967 total. The previous record
was in 1976 when output was 21 per
cent above 1967.
Monday s crop report also esti
mated the 1977 soybean crop at a
record 1.716 billion bushels, up 33
million from a November forecast
and 33 percent above a year earlier.
Grain sorghum production was
estimated at 790.6 million bushels,
up 11.3 million bushels from the
November estimate and 10 percent
above last year. The crop, was,
however, 14 percent below the rec
ord set in 1973.
The bumper crops depressed
farm prices sharply earlier in the
marketing season and helped touch
off a farm strike movement. Despite
some price recovery in recent
months, the administration is. still
considering use of a production con
trol program to reduce planting of
corn and other feed grains this year.
The small decline in the corn es
timate from the November forecast,
less than a sixth of 1 percent re
lieved fears that heavier losses
might be caused by storms which
delayed the windup of the harvest
last month.
the big harvest last year earned
spite droughts in parts oftheSonil
east. Midwest and most of the Wes
With big 1977 crops promising
ample food supplies for 1978, Ag
riculture Department officials have
predicted that retail food prices this
year will average four to six percent
above 1977 following a gain of 6.5
percent last year.
Officials said the record corncrj
came because farmers got hi;
per-acre yields to more than offset
slight reduction in harvested acre
Overall, however, America farnia
last year harvested 331 million act;
of major crops, up 2 percent froi
1976 to the highest level in twode
ades. Most of the acreage gain cars
in soybeans, cotton, oats, barley®
sunflowers.
Final 1977 summaries of wheat,
cotton, rice and a number of other
crops were issued earlier. They
showed the wheat crop at 2.026 bil
lion bushels, down 5 percent from
1976. The cotton crop, however,
was estimated at 14.5 million bales,
up 37 percent from 1976.
Monday’s crop report said that
The report said total 1977prodii:
tion of animal feed grains - con
barley, grain sorghum andoats-ui
estimated at a record 222.1 mils
metric tons. This compared will
1976 harvest of 213.3 million metr
tons.
Final per-acre yield estimatesfc
leading crops included:
Corn 90.8 bushels compared wii
87.9 in 1976; soybeans 29.6bushe
compared with 26.1; sorghum
bushels compared with 48.9.
Lungfish may hold secret
to suspended animation
United Press International
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. —
Pennsylvania scientists are trying to
learn the secret of suspended ani
mation by studying an air-breathing
fish that burrows in to mud and
slows its body functions in deep
sleep for up to two years.
“Our ultimate interest is repro
ducing suspended animation in hu
mans,” said Dr. Alfred Fishman,
professor of medicine at the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
“It’s not beyond the realm of
imagination.
with little interference from breath
ing, heart operation or other
functions.
Fishman and colleagues have
been studying the strange fish for
years to see how it slows its
metabolic operations and survives
for long periods without food or
water.
The creature is called a lungfish
because it can either breathe water >
using gills or air using lungs, de
pending on the conditions of its
often-changing tropical environ
ment.
“We would like to have a.way by
which we could cause a suspension
of life at a lower metabolic level.
Fishman told an American Heart
Association meeting Monday that
the potential of suspended anima
tion for medicine alone would he
great. Life functions of critically ill
people could he slowed so doctors
could concentrate solely on the ail
ment and surgeons could operate
Under ordinary circumstances,
the African lungfish inhabits the
shallow waters of lakes and rivers in
central Africa. During hot, dry sea
sons the 4-foot creature escapes
death by disappearing into mud and
hollowing out a chamber in which it
may nestle for months until water
returns.
When encased in its subterranean
nest, the lungfish becomes dor
mant. Its heart and respiratory rates
slow down, its kidneys slop
functioning and its oxygen inlalt
drops.
This process is called aestivation
Little is known about it,
Fishman said aestivation mayke
merely a more intense level
hibernation, which appears to be
deeper level of ordinary sleep
The scientists study lungfisl
flown to Philadelphia from Africa,
hut the fish also are found in Austra
lia and in the Amazon region
South America.
The fish have been hooked up to
instruments to monitor body
functions during aestiv ation and the
researchers are now seeking
biochemical brain factor that may
responsible for inducing aestivation.
“The ideal thing would he to
a factor that you could inject intra
venously to just keep the patient
under the influence of this
sleep — suspended function —until
you want to let the patient out when
y ou just discontinue intravenous in- I ^
fusion, Fishman said. L e]]
Reporter saved from jail sentence
United Press International
AMARILLO — A state district
judge Tuesday declined to jail a
television reporter who had refused
to reveal sources of information
used in broadcasts about corruption
in Potter County government.
District Judge Arthur Tipps of
Wichita Falls, presiding in the re
moval trial of suspended Potter
County Attorney Kerry Knorpp,
had said Monday he would order
Mark Baker of KVII-TV jailed five
days unless he named his sources as
requested by a defense attorney.
In 1976 Baker reported a grand
jury was investigating misuse of
county funds by Knorpp, indicted
on the charge several months later.
But Knorpp’s lawyer, George
Gilkerson, of Lubbock told the
judge Tuesday the defense was not
in a position to pursue a contempt
citation against Baker if the news
man appealed. Tipps dismissed the
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witness without further question-°. c , e
ing. fchecl
Baker said the identity of the
source “has no relevance at all to
this damn case” and said pursuit
the issue by attorneys for Knorpp
was harassment in retaliation for the
reporter’s coverage of the case.
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Baker reported on Nov. 4, 1976,
that a grand jury which returned a
bribery indictment, hut Knorpp was
named in March of 1977 in an in
dictment alleging misuse of more
than $6,000 in county funds — the
charges upon which his removal suit
was later filed.
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Knorpp, whose removal trial
started last week, also has been in
dicted for attempting to influence
grand jurors and has been sued by a
West Texas State University frater
nity chapter which claimed property
jointly owned by Knorpp and the
organization was used by the official
to secure a bank loan.
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