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Americans revere the Bible.
They buy copies of it in enormous
quantities, give them to their chil
dren on confirmation and have
one or two or more laying about
the house.
But they don’t read it.
According to a report by the
Gallup Organization and the Prin
ceton Religion Research Center,
just about every home has at least
one Bible, but they have been col
lecting a lot of dust.
“Only about 12 percent of
Americans read the Bible daily or
more often,’ researchers said.
“One-fourth of all teenagers have
never read the Bible.”
They reported that only one-
third of all teens and only half who
attend church were able to name
the four Gospels of the New Testa
ment and 20 percent of those
teens who attend church regular
ly did not know what Easter com-
‘Only about 12 percent
of Americans read the
Bible daily or more
often, ” researchers said.
“One-fourth of all teena
gers have never read the
Bible. ”
A small but growing band of in
fluential laymen, including politi
cians, corporate heads and civic
leaders, have labored for some 41
years to turn that situation
around.
memorates.
The results, according to the re
port in “Religion in America
1981, ” represent further evidence
of the low state of Biblical know
ledge among the youth of this
country.
Known as Laymen’s National
Bible Committee, the efforts of
the interfaith, non-sectarian lay
organization, come to fruition
once again this year with National
Bible Week, to be marked Nov. 22
to 29.
The group’s a simply stated pur
pose is to make all Americans
aware of the importance of the Bi-
long public service media cam
paign which will use radio and
television spot announcements,
print ads in national magazines,
ads and feature material for news
papers and over 2,000 donated
billboard spaces.
According to officials of the
group, National Bible Week will
be marked with local observances
in over 4,000 communities, with
activities conducted by civic
groups, labor unions, schools, lib
raries, bookstores as well as chur
ches and synagogues.
National Bible
Nov. 22 to 29
Week
ble, to motivate Bible reading and
study, and to reaffirm the found
ing principles of the United
States.
To do that motivation, the com
mittee has developed a host of
activities and enlisted some high-
powered leaders, including Presi
dent and Mrs. Reagan, who are
Ag department funds war on weeds
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WASHINGTON — The U.S.
Department of Agriculture has
allocated contigency funds to fight
a tenacious, deep-rooted weed
called leafy spurge that threatens
to reduce rangeland available for
grazing cattle in the West.
The short-term emergency
project will focus on ways to make
herbicides against the weed more
specific and less costly for ran
chers. For the long term, agricul
tural scientists are studying in
sects to control the weed biologic
ally.
If let unchecked, the lowly
weed hurts livestock producers,
incomes, and could make beef
more expensive to consumers.
Ranchers and state officials have
complained loudly about the
weed.
“If it wasn’t for that pressure we
wouldn’t be getting these conting
ency funds, said Calvin Messers-
mith, a North Dakota State Uni
versity scientist working on the
project.
The villain leafy spurge is diffi
cult to control because its roots
penetrate 3 feet into soil and new
shoots grow from those deep
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roots. The weed’s roots can go a
deep as eight feet and there have
been cases in which the roots went
down 25 feet.
Terry' Kinney, head of the Agri
culture Department’s Agricultu
ral Research Service, said he has
allocated an extra $200,000 from
contingency funds for short-term
research. Another $250,000 a year
is spent on long-term efforts.
Acreage infested by the weed
has doubled each year in the past
25 years. It has spread on 3 million
acres of north central and western
range. Kinney said it threatens 3
million acres more.
Cattle and wild animals refuse
to eat it because it is toxic.
If unchecked, the weed’s
greatest threat is in Wyoming,
Montana, North Dakota, South
Dakota, Nebraska, Idaho and
neighboring states. It also is a
problem in Canada, where control
research has been going on a little
longer that in the United States.
In the United States, the threat
is greatest in rangeland where
livestock graze. It can he control
led on cultivated farmland with
traditional methods of tillage and
cultivation crop rotation and her
bicides.
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serving as honorary chairpersons,
and Thomas L. Phillips, the chair
man and chief executive officer of
the Raytheon Co., who is national
chairman.
Reagan, in his proclamation of
Bible Week, said: the Bible “gal
vanizes our heart to weather the
trials of life, and it rewards us with
strength, comfort, and meaning.
It touches the heart, orders the
mind, and refreshes the soul.” i
He added: “I hope Americans
will read and study the Bible more
thoroughly, for it is my firm belief
that the transcendent values pre
sented within its pages have great
meaning for each of us and our
nation.’’
Theme of the 1981 observance
is: The Bible. Bead it for yourself.
To promote that theme, the
committee is sponsoring a week-
The $200,000 allocated for the
emergency program will go to
agricultural experiment stations at
Montana State University, North
Dakota State University and the
University of Wyoming. ( i
Tordon, the herbicide used
against leafy spurge, is less toxic
than table salt so toxicity is not a
problem, Messersmith said.
However, costs to ranchers are
a problem. The new research
money will be directed at refining
chemical technology.
Scientists are looking at the best
way to apply herbicide with wicks,
rollers and controlled droplets so
it is applied only to the leafy
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spurge and not the vegetation
around it. Reducing the amount of
herbicide used saves money and
protects other plants near the
weed.
The leafy spurge is 18 to 24 in
ches high.
The more exciting long-term re
search is focused on a number of
insects that control the leafy
spurge in Europe. Scientists hope
that insects and diseases can he
found to a
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