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Great Plains The Salina Journal Monday, December 26, 1983 Page 20 Sunflower seeds Colby station to start broadcasts COLBY KLBY, Channel 4, is expected to be on the air Jan. 1. The television station, an ABC affiliate, should eventually employ 20 to 25 people. "Northwest Kansas has its own character and we need local people who understand that character," Frank Gonzales, production manager, told the Colby Free Press. "We've had a lot of luck, in that there is a lot of talent locally." KLBY should be available to viewers in an area from Scott City on the south, to Oberlin on the north, to Burlington, on the west and to Hill City on the east.

Station manager will be Larry Keenan, who began his television career in western Kansas and most recently worked in Colorado. Political groups no longer needed WaKEENEY (HNS) Have you heard anything about Round Mound Dam lately? Neither have two Trego County political organizations. And so they've disbanded. Gone are the Citizens Against Round Mound Dam and the Trego County Taxpayers Associations, groups formed a decade ago to battle a proposal to build a Big Creek dam at a site southwest of Ellis known as Round Mound (because of a hill there). The dam was billed as a way of protecting Ellis from floods.

But in Trego County, landowners saw the dam in a bad light, saying it would take away valuable farmland. Opponents also questioned whether water in Big Creek, presently dry, would be adequate to supply a lake. Directors of the two groups said the original goal of blocking lake construction has been met. Neither group has been active for years. In disbanding, directors of the organizations cleaned out their treasuries by giving unspecified sums to the WaKeeney City Library and the Chamber of Commerce's Christmas decorations committee.

Library starts endowment fund McPHERSON The McPherson Public Library has kicked off a campaign to build a $100,000 endowment fund. The maximum 3-mill levy no longer generates enough funds for operations and acquisitions for the library. The mill levy, in place since 1951, raises about $90,000 a year. Only a small portion of the current budget is available for book purchases. The endowment fund will be a separate invested fund.

A portion of the interest income will be added to the principal each year with the remaining interest being used to purchase books. A brochure explaining the endowment fund drive recently was mailed to library patrons. Memorial to honor Charbonneau OSBORNE A memorial to honor the late Osborne physician Dr. E.U. Charbonneau has been established by two of his colleagues.

John Comely, Osborne, and Burton Cox, Downs, established the memorial in his name at Osborne County Memorial Hospital. Mr. Charbonneau, who had a special interest in the hospital's laboratory and radiology departments, received staff privileges at the hospital in 1959, one year after the facility opened. He resigned in December 1982 due to failing health. He died Nov.

21 in Brighton, after a long illness. "Dr. Charbonneau's primary concern was for the laboratory and radiology departments in the hospital," Comely said in announcing the memorial. "The medical staff is establishing a memorial in his honor to be used for improvements in these departments." Estate gifts aid Lindsborg groups LINDSBORG The Bethany Home and Bethany College, both of Lindsborg, have received gifts totaling more than $300,000 from the estate of the late Anna Warner. The two institutions received $152,749 each.

Mrs. Warner, a long-time Salina resident, had lived at the Bethany Home from 1973 to 1981. She died Dec. 14,1982. The Bethany Home will use her gift to help fund its new activity center.

Bids for the activity center will be opened Jan. 10. Mrs. Warner has made several other gifts to the two institutions over the years. Warner Hall on the Bethany campus is named in honor of Mr.

and Mrs. Walter Warner. Farm program needs 'flexibility 7 Farm Bureau names more Leaders of Year MANHATTAN The Kansas Farm Bureau has named four additional KFB Leaders of the Year in central and north-central Kansas. The new honorees are Kathryn Toll and James Schmidt, both of McPherson County, winners in the Seventh District, and Dorothy Borger, Jewell County, and Ron Buttenhoff, Lincoln County, honorees in the Sixth District. The Leader of the Year award is based on personal achievement, leadership, civic and community activities and participation in the Farm Bureau program.

The award includes a trip to Washington, D.C., next spring to meet with farm leaders. Toll and her husband, Thomas, raise wheat, corn, soybeans, milo and beef cattle on the family corporation farm near Lindsborg. She has served on the county board of directors and was chairman of the safety, young farmers and ranchers and women's committee, In 1980, she was selected Kansas Farm Bureau Queen and represented KFB at the American Farm Bureau Federation annual meeting. Schmidt and his wife, Mary, farm near Canton. Their operation consists of raising wheat, milo, corn, alfalfa and beef cattle.

A computerized feeding system is used for the 90-head dairy herd. Schmidt has acted as county president and vice president, and served on the county board of directors. He has chaired the policy and membership committees and was on the state membership committee. In 1980, he was a finalist in the state Farm Bureau young fanners and ranchers award program. Borger and her late husband, Jennings, farmed near Mankato where they raised milo, wheat and beef cattle.

At one time they also raised 70,000 broiler chickens annually. In her 30 years as a Farm Bureau member, she served on the county board of directors, membership committee and citizenship committee. She has chaired the Jewell County Farm Bureau Women's Committee. Buttenhoff and his wife, Jo, grow wheat, milo and alfalfa, and raise beef cattle and lambs on their farm new Lincoln. He has served on the county board of directors, as county president, secretary-treasurer and young farmers and ranchers committee chairman.

He was a voting delegate to the annual meeting and was on the state young farmers and ranchers committee. Hog producers to trim production WASHINGTON (UPI) The nation's hog producers have cut their breeding hogs by 1 percent and intend to reduce production, which has been pulling down pork prices, by 5 percent through next spring, the government reports. In a quarterly report on hogs and pigs, the Agriculture Department said the inventory of breeding hogs was down to 7.35 million hogs. WASHINGTON (UPI) A key government economist, looking ahead to congressional consideration of new farm legislation, warns that agriculture is too closely integrated with the rest of the economy for policymakers to move commodity and farm incomes away from market forces, without incurring substantial costs. With the support of some farm groups, Congress is expected to guard jealously its prerogative to set farm policy outlines and to limit policy discretion it hands to the agriculture secretary.

And, as usual, there will be pressure to shield farmers from market forces. But the economist says future farm legislation must be flexible enough to deal with a full range, of imbalances between market supply and demand that could occur in future years. "Past exerience with the shortcomings of long-term policies geared to short-term problems should alert us to the importance of greater flexibility," said Patrick O'Brien, an Agriculture Department economist, in a recent farm policy review published in "Farm- line," a magazine published by the department's Economic Research Service. O'Brien is one of many experts already making public suggestions as to the direction of America's agri- cultural policy for the second half of this decade, even though existing farm legislation remains in force through 1985. Agriculture Secretary John Block has convened two meetings of farm and agribusiness leaders and House Agriculture Chairman Kika de la Garza, D-Texas, has promised to convene farm bill hearings next year, about a year ahead of the usual schedule.

Block has said one of the problems with current farm legislation which determines price supports and policy for wheat, feed grains, rice, soybeans, cotton, peanuts, sugar, dairy and wool is that the support levels have encouraged too much production, both at home and abroad. He tried and failed to convinced Congress to freeze target prices. O'Brien said that if a farm policy goal is to promote efficiency and competitiveness in agriculture, it cannot at the same time "guarantee viability to farms that are not viable." That does not mean that alleviation of rural poverty should be subordinated to economic goals of efficiency, he said, but it does mean that income support programs should be handled separately from farm programs. He warned against "risks inherent in continuing with farm pro- grams and policies that were designed for a stable world one where farmers were much more insulated both from the world market for their products and the rest of the economy here at home." The 1981 farm bill which is currently in effect was designed to continue to move toward more market- oriented agriculture. However, according to O'Brien, it is an example of a tendency to tailor legislation to meet current farm sector needs or a narrow notion of future needs, and it lacked flexibility needed to deal with increasing farm sector instability.

Because of changes that occurred after the bill was enacted, it set the stage for the largest scale intervention in agriculture in history. O'Brien said booming agricultural exports of the 1970s, fears of food shortages earlier in the decade, a weak dollar were the experiences on which the 1981 law was based. It seemed reasonable to take likely increases in costs of producing farm products into account by putting increases in support prices into law. So the legislation included annual increases in target prices and price support loan rates. "Yes, there was some concern about the impact of higher support levels on our competitive position in the world market," O'Brien said.

"But open-market prices appeared quite likely to increase even faster than the farm bill's support levels." And, he said, it was assumed incorrectly that only the United States could satisfy continued expansion in global demand. Lawmakers believed there would be two safety valves for years of excess supplies, the farmer-owned reserve and acreage reduction as a short-term supply management tool. The reversals in export markets were unexpected and so was the slowdown in inflation. "High and rising price supports, in effect, indexed us out of world markets at the same time that they worked through changing exchange rates to boost foreign producers' production incentives and their returns from trading in dollar- denominated markets," he said. Privately, administration officials show interest in an across-the-board system that would base price supports on the average market prices of the previous years, much as the soybean loan rate is tabulated.

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