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    Tuesday August 13, 1985/The Battalion/Page 5
Plague
Coping with grasshoppers latest plight
for farmers facing economic hardships
Associated Press
BOISE, Idaho — Idaho farmers,
beset by the same economic hard
ship facing farmers elsewhere, have
also had to cope this summer with
plagues of voracious grasshoppers
and fires that have charred grazing
range and forests.
“In some individual cases, the
grasshopper problems could very
well be the final straw for farmers,”
says state Agriculture Director Rich
ard Rush.
Even before the natural problems,
a survey found up to one-third of
Idaho’s approximately 25,000 farm
ers (out of a population of roughly 1
million) had severe financial prob
lems from rising production costs
and a low market price for crops.
Wet weather early in the year
promised to boost crops of grain,
corn, potatoes and sugar beets, but it
also helped hatch a record horde of
field-stripping grasshoppers.
And the wet early spring was fol
lowed by weeks of not, dry weather
that set the stage for a very bad fire
season.
It was only 18 months ago that
farmers in some of the same areas
“In some individual cases,
the grasshopper problems
could very well be the Fi
nal straw for farmers. ” —
Idaho Agriculture Direc
tor Richard Rush.
were battling to save their crops
from mobs of hungry jackrabbits.
Rabbit populations in some areas
reached 10-year peaks and caused at
least $10 million damage to crops.
A federal effort late last summer
to spray grasshoppers on govern
ment land was limited and too late to
stop the insects from laying the eggs
that hatched this spring and moved
onto private land.
So this spring the federal govern
ment geared up for a spraying pro
ject on government land in the West
ern states that wound up costing $35
million. It covered 6.3 million acres
in Idaho alone.
In areas where the hoppers
swarmed they ate everything that
was green and growing, except for
the state’s big potato fields which
were not as severely affected. Rush
said the total damage won’t be
known until after harvest.
Agriculture officials estimated
they killed up to 95 percent of the
hoppers in some areas. “It will not be
as bad next year as it would be if we
had not sprayed this year,” Rush
said.
But the remedy caused its own
problems because insecticide that
kills grasshoppers kills other insects
as well, including bees used to pro
duce honey and pollinate crops.
Fires helped control hoppers in
some areas. More than 20,000 acres
of range in Elmore County was
scheduled to be sprayed, but the
land was left untreated because fires
had done the job.
The Northern Region, which in
cludes northern Idaho, Montana
and North Dakota, has had nearly
1,000 fires so far this summer, cov
ering nearly 39,000 acres. That’s
twice the normal number of fires.
Officials say fires are likely to con
tinue through the end of September,
when cooler temperatures and pre
cipitation normally move in.
Fiercest fighting in weeks erupts
in Beirut between rival militias
Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Militiamen
battled across Beirut’s dividing line
Monday and gunners on both sides
sprayed residential areas with artil
lery fire. At least 16 people were re
ported killed and 75 wounded.
Among the wounded in the duel
between Christian and Moslem
fighters was Souha Chahin, this
year’s Miss Lebanon. It was the fier
cest combat in weeks in the capital,
where Syria has been trying to im
pose a peace plan to end Lebanon’s
decade of civil war.
The latest casualties raised the
known toll in the fighting since early
Saturday to at least 24 dead and 133
wounded — the highest count since
June, when 28 people were killed in
an overnight battle.
Police said militiamen fired more
than 3,500 shells in 24 hours into
residential districts on both sides of
the Green Line frontier between
Christian east Beirut and the Mos
lem districts in the city’s western and
southern sectors.
Each side accused the other of
shooting first and no one appeared
to know what set off the latest round
of sectarian bloodletting.
It came at a time of political ma
neuvering on both sides and de
mands from Moslem leaders that
Lebanon’s Christian president,
Amin Gemayel, resign because of his
failure to institute reforms that
would give Moslems an equal share
of power.'
Moslems formed an alliance late
last month at a meeting in Damascus
sponsored by Syria, which has be
come the real source of power in
Lebanon. One of the key Moslem
demands was equal power with the
Christians, who nave dominated pol
itics, the army and the judiciary since
independence from France in 1943
but now are a minority of the pop
ulation.
The battles with mortars, rockets
and 106mm recoilless artillery raged
all night. The fire hit at least 40
densely populated residential neigh
borhoods on both sides of the 3-mile
dividing line.
Jihar Farr, a 23-year-old medical
student, and Hassan Harakeh, a
doctor, were killed by a mortar
round that exploded on the Ameri
can University campus in Moslem
west Beirut.
Three people were seriously
wounded, university officials said,
including two women students.
They identified one as Miss Chahin,
20, who is studying public adminis
tration.
University spokesman Radwan
Mawlawi said both young women
were in intensive care at the univer
sity’s hospital.
Ten townships in hills overlook
ing Beirut also were hit by the artil
lery fire. The battle tapered off soon
after dawn into sporadic sniper and
grenade fire that lasted through the
day.
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