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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1980
National
Ape needs instincts Grain contract to up sales
United Press International
BROOKFIELD, Ill. — Zoo offi
cials hope Hahna, the mother of a
newborn 3-pound, 9-ounce female
orangutan, has the right maternal in
stincts despite being raised in cap
tivity.
The baby orangutan was born
Saturday night, Brookfield Zoo offi
cials said.
Hahna was born in captivity and a
week after she was born, she con
tracted pneumonia and had to be
taken from her mother and hand
raised.
“She may never have learned the
right orangutan maternal behavior, ”
said Dr. Benjamin B. Beck, curator
of primates at the zoo.
China and US close deal
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Agriculture
Secretary Bob Bergland said
Wednesday the new four-year U.S.-
Chinese grain agreement contains
no limit on how much American
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grain Peking may buy each year and
he expects sales will grow.
The agreement was signed late
Tuesday night in Peking by U.S.
Ambassador Leonard Woodcock and
China's Minister of Foreign Trade Li
Qiang.
“We believe the agreement will
encourage further sales of grains to
China and expect that over the next
few years the Chinese will, at times,
buy even more than the 9-million-
ton level,” Bergland said.
The agreement, which runs from
next Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 1984, calls for
Chinese imports of 6 to 9 million tons
of U.S. grain, of which 80 to 85 per
cent would be wheat and the balance
Estimates for this fiscal year
cate the Chinese will purchases,
lion tons of American wheat, 2,5
lion tons of com, 1 million toi
soybeans and 2 million bales of
ton. Soybeans and cotton are not
eluded in the agreement.
If China intends to purchase®
than 9 million tons in any singley
it must give “prior notice” to
U.S. government, the agreen*
said, but the pact does not retf.
U.S. permission for China
additional amounts.
com.
The arrangement is not expected
to boost U.S. grain sales above the
current level right away, but Berg
land said it will assure a “stable, high
level” of trade.
China began to buy U.S. grain in
1972 but bought none in 1975-77 be
fore resuming purchases in 1978.
Grain accounts for about half of $2
billion worth of current U.S. farm
exports to China.
That differs from the 5-year l'!
Russian grain agreement, wfiicf,
quires U.S. permission for Russ
purchases in excess ofSmilliontos
The agreement calls for consul
tions if "exceptional circumstam
prevent the United States
plying 9 million tons or if Chin
unable to buy that amount
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ment first began in May,
said, but the conclusive
in the middle of September,
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WASHINGTON — Americans earned significantly more moneyi:,
1979 than in the year before, but inflation ate up virtually all of tie
increase, the government said Wednesday.
Median family income rose to $19,680 last year, up 11.6 percent
from 1978, the Census Bureau reported, but the increase was almost
totally offset by an 11.3 percent increase in inflation.
The report also shows that 11.6 percent of the population existedon
incomes that were below the poverty level in 1979. It said there were
25.2 million people in families with incomes less than $7,412 last year
The Census Bureau said although there were 700,000 more people
in the sub-poverty income group last year than in 1978, “the numberir
not considered significantly different in a statistical sense.”
However, more elderly people — 3.6 million in 1979 compared to
3.2 million in 1978 — were listed in the sub-poverty category.
The report also said income trends for white, black and Spanisli'
American families remained about the same in 1979 as in the previous
year. ttmoxide po
The median family income in 1979 was $20,520 for whites, $11,651) is Dallas h
for blacks and $14,320 for Spanish-Americans. |o weeks ai
The median income for black families was 57 percent of that for white elf
families last year, about the same as the 1978 level of 59 percent, the |The comp
bureau said. :ion reveale
Beavers blamed
for levee collapse
United Press International
OAKLAND, Calif. — Angry far
mers in the Sacramento-San Joaquin
Delta are taking out their aggres
sions on the California golden beaver
they insist is responsible for last
month’s levee break near Stockton,
Calif.
The head of the East Bay Municip
al Utility District also took action on
the levee problem Tuesday, sending
a telegram to state officials urging the
development of a comprehensive
plan for improvement of the delta’s
levee system.
The water supply for the district,
serving Oakland and surrounding
communities, was seriously
threatened last month when a levee
collapsed, flooding almost 5,200
acres of the Lower Jones Tract near
Stockton, wrecking farmland and en
dangering Tail lines.
Although there is no solid evi
dence tying the burrowing rodents
to the levee collapse, farmers
blaming the beavers, along «i
muskrats and ground sqirrels.
Beaver hunting season does
officially begin until Nov. 1, bull
California Department of Fisln
Game granted some exempl
Tuesday allowing angry resident
begin exterminating the creature
Trappers hired by the fan*
found 18 beaver huts — withsixlt
animals each — within 200 yardi|
the levee break.
While the trappers and
work to reduce the beaver pop'
tion, Game Warden James Din
said it will probably prove inefe
tive.
EBMUD President John!
Reynolds urged lawmakers to c«
vene a meeting on the leveeproU#
to have “all federal, state and 1«
agencies come to a timely agreed
on a comprehensive plan for
protection.”
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