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United Press International
WASHINGTON — Farmers
will cut back significantly on the
use of fertilizer, seeds and other
products because of the govern
ment’s new efforts to reduce
crop production, officials said
Thursday.
“Farmers will use less seed,
fertilizer, fuel and pesticides
and will need less operating
capital,” J. Dawson Ahalt, acting
deputy undersecretary of agri
culture, told a House small busi
ness subcommittee.
“Farmers will also reduce use
of farm equipment, thus ex
tending its life and reducing the
need for repairs,” he said.
He predicted an overall re
duction in the use of those pro
ducts ranging between 5 and 7
percent because of the new pay
ment-in-kind program, which
promises to give farmers gov
ernment-owned surplus crops
in exchange for idling large por
tions of cropland. In some in
dustries, sales may be reduced
by more than double that
amount, he said.
The payment-in-kind prog
ram is intended to use up ex
isting surpluses and increase the
prices paid to farmers for their
crops.
A decision is likely by early
summer on whether the prog
ram will be extended into 1984,
Ahalt told the subcommittee.
Frank Swain of the Small
Business Administration told
the energy, environment and
safety subcommittee that the
payment-in-kind program may
inadvertently hurt some agricul
tural support industries.
Derailment injures 12,
disrupts train service
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Smith, a seven month employee with
A&M, sprays water on the freshly laid
ement Thursday which will become Moses Hall’s
new bicycle rack. Three dorms, Moses, Moore
and Davis-Gary, have received new bicycle racks.
Smith is from New York.
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United Press International
ASH1NGTON — Educa-
jri Secretary Terrel Bell said
ling the firiffhorsday high school students
:agan’stbM )U *d stay late at school for Bi-
;ram anJ fie study and prayer groups —
>osed defe j Ust as they now stay after their
from 1(1 p ftsses for sports or debating,
also would i;X Bell spoke to the Senate Judi-
)n more oi (I 31 v Committee, which began
>tic spenditii® 66 days of hearings on prayer
| school. Hearings today and
passedai Monday will focus on President
norespeniflNga 11 ’ 5 proposed constitution-
rams andf I atnen dment to permit volun
tary prayer in the classroom,
ing toprottoBThe hearing Thursday con-
he tax cull fronted milder proposals, spon-
rker, and fred by Sens. Jeremiah De-
ct indexiDp|l°n. R-Ala., and Mark Hat-
Roth, R-Df Wd, R-Ore., to permit religious
rs ofthei feetings at school during non-
third a public school allows stu-
menttotht fcnts to meet before or after
America,' Ijfrool to discuss or engage in
it nn rhait-Blitics, social activism or athle
tics. why should the rule change
because the students hap
pen to be religious?” Bell asked,
iyvnpi The American Civil Liberties
^lluv Onion’s argument against the
proposal was made by one of its
* 1 ^ice presidents, the Rev. W.W.
'131 i n ‘- r Ra^igh, N.C., a 40-
par Southern Baptist preacher,
il Speaking emotionally, Finla-
~*f'pH toi compared the proposals per-
^LvUBtting religious meetings after
|ass hours to legislation for tui-
;s intemation l 0n tax credits and requiring Bi-
fON—Afiflie reading in classes.
'mentoffcB Saying h e believed in the abil-
sday on d il of churches and synagogues
2,000 forpi t| teach religion, he called the
ation abouiWoposals a means of “surrepti-
3 convicted Bus entry” to get religion into
VilsonandlJ the public schools.
■ Denton, who presided at the
grand jin'B
en-count i
lengthy hearing and was the
only senator present for almost
all of it, said, “I fear that a new
wave of intolerance is rising and
that those who avowedly speak
on behalf of civil liberties are in
volved in a systematic effort
through the courts to limit reli
gious freedom and speech.”
Reagan long has advocated
an amendment that would over
turn 1962 and 1963 Supreme
Court decisions that prohibit
prayer in the classroom. The
committee will hold hearings on
that amendment today and
Monday.
Reagan initially made the
proposal in the last Congress but
it failed to get out of congres
sional committee. He repeated it
in his State of the Union address
should have been expelled from
America’s classrooms.”
The hearing Thursday was
on two compromise proposals
by Hatfield, a liberal, and De
nton, a conservative. Both
would permit prayer and Bible
study groups in classrooms after
school hours.
Hatfield’s bill would apply to
students at high schools only.
Religious organizations already
may meet on state college cam
puses under a 1981 Supreme
Court decision.
But the Supreme Court re
fused to consider a ruling pro
hibiting the Lubbock school
board from permitting high
school students to hold such
meetings at school during non
class hours.
Pegged to the First Amend
ment rights of free speech, Hat-
support f rom both conservatives
and liberals. Suppiorters said it
did not include elementary
pupils because they would not
be mature enough to make wise
decisions about religious
groups.
United Press International
CLINTON, Conn.
Amtrak’s main line from New
York to Boston was closed today
while crews removed four de
railed cars from the Yankee
Clipper and repaired 1,000 feet
of track ripped up by the acci
dent.
Twelve people were injured
— none seriously — and one car
was left dangling precariously
over a bridge in the accident
Thursday, which occurred dur
ing the Yankee Clipper’s
Washington-Boston run.
The accident was being inves
tigated but federal and state
officials said there was no evi
dence vandalism had caused the
wreck.
“I heard a noise that was not
quite normal when the train
went by, and I ran out and saw
the last three cars coming off the
rails at a 45 degree angle,” said
Mike Brooke, who works at a gas
station near the derailment site.
Kathy St. George, 30, a Bos
ton actress who was a passenger
in the first car to derail, said, “I
was jolted right out of my seat
and then sat right back down.
“It felt like — what is it — a
scrambler at an amusement
park. Oh, I wanted that car to
stop.”
“There really wasn’t time to
be scared,” said Carol Kunzey,
30, who was traveling from
Washington to Boston in one of
the last two cars to derail. “We
did sort of have time to compen
sate, to brace ourselves. The
train tipped and all the cushions
fell on the floor. It was very
strange.”
The 10-car train, which had
stopped in New Haven, was
headed east with about 200 pas
sengers under warm, sunny
skies at about 2:30 p.m. EDT
when the four cars jumped the
tracks on an overpass, Amtrak
officials said.
One of the four cars was left
dangling over the side of the
railroad trestle about 10 feet
above Route 81, creating “a pre
carious situation,” police said.
The rear of the car remained
anchored at one end of the
trestle.
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