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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21,1980
Olympics-play for some, work for many
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,AKE PLACID, N.Y. — The
et, warm smell of jelly doughnuts
elopes the crowd sniffing at the
nter of the Main Street Bakery,
oss the way, golden boy Eric
den skates around an icy oval on
way to his third Olympic gold
lal.
eading the headlines about the
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eastwAy ] ose
bus and ticket snafus during the first
week of the Winter Olympics, one
loses sight of the other side of the
games — the awesome athletic feats,
the trading of pins from different
countries and organizations, the
camaraderie and making of new
friends.
Alison Wyckoff and Carol Mierz-
wa, freshmen at Boston College, said
they spend their days on the slopes
eyeing Alpine skiiers, at the speed
skating oval taking pictures of
Heiden, at the figure skating com
petitions and at the hockey games.
By night, they try out the tiny bars
and get approached “mostly by older
guys.” Joking about the lines guys
hand them, Wyckoff, a Seattle,
Wash., native said, ‘“Are you here
for the Olympics?’ is the favorite. A
lot ask if you have pins to trade.”
“The foreign guys say, ‘Are you
American? American looks good on
you.’”
While the 21-year-old Heiden was
winning his third gold medal across
the street Tuesday, the 23-year-old
pastry whiz David Brown was clean
ing up from the morning rush — 30
dozen jelly doughnuts and 18 dozen
plain doughnuts in a couple of hours.
“I like the excitement and the peo
ple,” he said from his stance over a
stack of icing-caked pots and pans.
“I’ve met people from Finland, Swit
zerland, Germany, Italy, Yugosla
via. The Europeans always comment
the bread’s so soft.”
On the other end of Main Street,
Kim Daby was collecting tickets at
the village’s 53-year-old movie-
house, which is showing 34 classics
ranging from “Downhill Racer” to
“True Grit.”
But, “The most popular shows are
‘Slap Shot’ with Paul Newman and
any of Woody Allen’s movies. The
Russians come a lot. I tell you what
— this is the nicest, friendliest group
of people since I’ve been here — and
that’s 11 years,” He said.
On Main Street outside, hundreds
of spectators windowshop and pin
trading is a favorite pastime. The pin
from Taiwan, which withdrew rather
than compete without its flag and
anthem, is the most desired. The
Russians love to trade for the Coca-
Cola one but almost nobody else
will.
Mirror Lake, in contrast, is quiet,
a pristine snowy white. A handful of
people are admiring snow-capped
Whiteface Mountain in the distance.
Others cut across the frozen lake in
snowmobiles and dog sleds, laughing
in pleasure.
Fifteen-year-old Teddy Eck is
urging on five Siberian huskies —
Smokie, Sickie, Cutty, King and
Bear — taking mostly “Fascinated
Europeans” on 15-minute dogsled
rides for $4 a person.
School’s out for the duration of the
Olympics and with this job, he says
shyly, “I meet lots of girls.”
Plattsburgh State freshmen Rich
Luck and Brian Atkins are working at
the Olympics — Rich as a security
guard screening athletes at the
Olympic Village and Atkins as a food
server.
“We’re having a great time,” said
Atkins. “I look at it this way —
chances are my going to another
Olympics are virtually nil. It’s a
once-in-a-lifetime experience.”
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pASHINGTON — Environmen-
problems of agriculture are
^■sed along with concerns about
|water quality, toxic substances
municipal waste, in the federal
jrnment’s 10th annual environ-
ital report.
the report sent to Congress
lay by President Carter, the
jil on Environmental Quality
Hnsion of agricultural lands is
of the nation’s most serious en-
nmental problems, despite a fed-
investment of more than $20 bil-
for soil conservation since 1935.
fne recent study estimated ero-
ifroin American crop land, range
11, forest land and pasture land at 4
ion tons a year, creating sedi-
itj pesticide and fertilizer pollu-
in two-thirds of the nation’s river
he report cited minimum-tillage
oing as a viable approach to re-
ferosion while maintaining or
teasing crop production, with a
er use of energy, but warned that
*OV\ IV0 ^ ves trade-offs.
y J Vith minimum-tillage techni-
S* farmers do not plow land prior
lanting, but plant seeds and app-
teltilizer and pesticides simul-
sopsly.
ixed sites atVAdvantages to minimum — tillage
ructure — waning include:
the cell s nu:_ More effective control of wind
Coffey and; f water erosion.
evious concept Availibility of more water for
on was that ^ttrowth, because plant residues
■vice moved kfiefos increase infiltration, reduce
■ helix and coloration and lower soil tempera-
DNA at the ss.
-Need for less energy and labor
,resented theilft 126 ’ plow and cultivate.
■ent issue of r. Eas e harvesting in wet
lecularandcefcX’ because soil is firmer,
disadvantages include:
- Herbicide use against weeds
one can spec Jich is nearly twice as high as with
ictical impliu iventional cultivation),
ce of how the: -degradation of water from her-
in reproductB! ide use and increased opportunity
Hevelopment of resistant
ieties of weeds.
dence suggests _g u ii ( j U p 0 f herbicides that may
s at niultipli nage subsequent crops,
i place and ^Possible need to increase insec-
ire reeled thw de use> because minimum-tilled
ding heads, ds provide a more stable habitat
y related pw pests.
ited cells occasi -_ j\jeed f or more intensive farm
rmal mass of tit nagement.
Coffey said. _ Possible delays of spring plant-
, these tumorcti
said.
^'because soil temperatures do
t | rB : increase and moisture does not
idTnvade adjoir f?° rate as ra P idl V as wit h plowed
11 The report said that minimum-
' C r f Jige alone is not the only approach
l 1 U ^ '' ..r Sohiug problems of agriculture,
hape, isoi- 0 p rotation is another alternative.
fating com and soybeans reduces
leases such as brown stem rot of
foeans, soybean cyst nematode
d corn root worms.
Past research showed that the cost
replacing all of the basic plant nut-
nts lost to soil erosion each year is
out $18 billion in 1979 dollars. Stu-
:s showed that a loss of six inches in
?$oil in the Southern Piedmont re-
iced average corn yields by 41 per-
nt.
Under a mandate from a 1977 law,
e Agriculture Department is con-
lering, for the first time, requiring
rmers to practice soil conservation
qualify for price supports.
Bihe new environmental report
i|i) highlights the loss of prime crop
id to urban sprawl, the potential
r gasohol and the falling of ground
tables.
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MONTICELLO, Ark. — A man
lo|fled a courtroom just after being
itenced to prison was found hiding
ider a bed in a house whose resi-
its had no idea he was there,
tew County Sheriff David Hyatt
id.
Gene Marshal, 20, of Monticello
been sentenced Monday to 10
in prison for burglary and theft
iroperty when he escaped, Hyatt
Wednesday. He was allowed to
Ik to a friend in the courtroom and
alked out.
Acting on a tip from a family mem-
' t Hyatt said he and three Mon-
'sllo policemen broke into a local
sidence Wednesday and found
arshall hiding under a bed. The
sidents were not at home and did
it know Marshall was hiding there,
yatt said.
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^WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. —
i R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. has
fimated its employees spent
hours in 1977 “responding
government regulations.’ The
rvey said this time was equivalent
18 years full-time work for 20 em-
)yes, or the full-time work of 360
(iployees for one year.
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