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LiC. ARGUS-COURIER, Petaluma, Calif. Monday, April 14, 1975-1 Decline In Grain Prices Pares Feed Costs Of Dairy Farmers WASHINGTON (AP) Government reports show that recent declines in grain prices have helped improve the depressed financial situation among dairy farmers, but officials say the profit outlook for milk producers still is sketchy. Consequently, says the Agriculture Department, the inventory of cows in milk herds continues to shrink. In March, USDA said, milk cows were estimated at 11.176,000 head, down 16,000 from February and 28,000 below the January inventory.

The March estimate of cow numbers was 65,000 head below a year earlier, a decline about six-tenths of one poet cent. Despite the attrition of herds which has occurred for more than two years milk output in March, estimated at more than 10 billion pounds, was up four-tenths per cent from the same month last year. Production per cow was up, more than offsetting their decline in numbers. Officials said the March milkfeed ratio was 1.38 pounds, meaning one pound of milk sold by farmers was valued at enough to purchase 1.38 pounds of feed concentrates for dairy cows. In it was 1 1.33 and in March of last year the ratio was 1.49 pounds.

According to USDA records, the ratio last month was the highest since it was 1.48 pounds in May of last year. Last August, as feed prices soared, one pound of milk was equal in value to only 1.11 pounds of feed. By December it still was only 1.20 pounds. One department expert estimated that the ratio would have to average above 1.50 pounds for a some months before dairy farmers seriously thought about boosting production significantly. The March ratio was based on figures which showed that the average price all milk at the farm was $1.87 per 100 pounds.

compared with $8.28 in February and $8.94 in March of last year. But the average cost of dairy feed bought by farmers dropped to $5.90 per 100 pounds in March, down from $6.21 in February. It was $6.02 per hundredweight in March 1974. Department dairy experts said milk production is expected to hover close to year earlier levels until late spring or even mid-year. After that, they said, much depends on 1975 grain harvests and prices.

WASHINGTON (AP) Meat animal producers grossed $25.2 billion from sales of cattle, hogs and sheep last year, a 17 per cent drop from a record of $30.3 billion in 1973 when livestock prices were much higher, says the Agriculture Department. Cash receipts from cattle sales showed the biggest decline, a 20 per cent drop from $22.4 billion in 1973 to $17.9 billion last year, the department said in a review of meat animal production. The average price of all cattle last year was $35.60 per 100 pounds, compared with $42.50 in 1973. Calf prices were $35.20 per hundredweight against $56.60 a year earlier. Hog producers' sales receipts totaled about $7 billion, down 7.

per cent from almost $7.5 billion in 1973. Prices averaged $34.20 per 100 pounds, down from $38.40 in 1973. Sheep and lambs brought $366 million, a 6 per cent decline. WASHINGTON (AP) Another of the oil-rich Middle East countries, Iraq, has turned into a rapidly growing market for U.S. farm products, an Agriculture Department expert said today.

Sales of commodities to Iraq in the fiscal year to end June 30 could total $160 million, John B. Parker Jr. of the department's Economic Research Service, said. southern Minnesota, where he like the hassles of city life. The deal of discretion in come to see them accepted." great Gay People Like The Rural Life IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) also runs a small farm with an- farmer may not like our gay small towns.

But if we don't Some of America's homosex- other man. lifestyle, but he chooses to ig- force our homosexuality on uals are forsaking the anonym- He was one of approximately nore it. If I'm trying to farm people, they don't hassle us ity of the big cities for the tran- 400 persons attending the Mid- and ask his advice how to about it, and for the most part quility of the farm lands. west Gay Pride Conference at mend a fence, how to raise we're just like everybody else. They say that among their the University of Iowa in the goats or plant a crop he re- We're accepted as human new farm and small town heart of the nation's farm belt sponds.

He accepts me for my beings," Brungard said. thay are enjoying a this past weekend. abilities as a person and for "I've watched the civil rights neighbors and acceptance of them- what I'm trying to accom- and I peace "In the find Kern added. movement, now see more selves as human beings that cities, you plish," blacks in positions of they never knew in in numbers," he said. "As don't have to to New York and stature," said a 26-year-old the bustle reinforcement of your lifestyle "Gay people are finding they authority of cosmopolitan living.

felt op- go wherever Kansas woman, who declined pressed people, we we or Chicago or to surneeded that reinforcement. But vive," said Fred Brungard, 28, use of her name. "Now there's "They judge us by our garourselves a conference organizer and the women's movement and dens. We talk about our horses, as we come to accept the weather, the crops," said for what we are, we ask why television station production as- we're beginning to see more Alan Kern. we should have to retreat and sistant who lives in a rural women in government.

As the Kern said. area outside of Iowa City. public becomes educated, as we Kern, 30, teaches psychology hide," at Mankato State College in like the country. I don't "You still have to maintain demystify gay a people, we will Health Foods Have Wide Appeal LOS ANGELES (AP)-A 1 Los Angeles behavior research firm says the typical, health food store patron is far from being a nut. Instead, he is between 30 and 50 years of age, he has a good education and he is concerned about his diet and nutrition in an era of preservatives and artificial flavoring and coloring.

A spokesman for J.D Power and Associates said its nationwide, survey of nearly 20,000 health food store patrons showed some 13 million households visit health food stores an average of about eight times a year and they spend $8 each per trip. "Our survey proves that health foods have a wider appeal than may have been suspected," said Barry Robertson, executive vice president of the firm. Fischer Talks Of Chess Match MANILA, Philippines (AP) Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer says he wants to talk with his successor, Anatoly Karpov of the Soviet Union, about a match between them, a Philippine chess official reported today. Florencio Campomanes, deputy president of FIDE, the International Chess Federation, told newsmen Fischer telephoned him from his home in Pasadena, early today and said he wanted "to talk the matter over seriously with Mr. Camporanes said the 32- year-old American chess wizard was responding to a report that Karpov was challenging him to a match under rules to be decided between them personally.

The Filipino said Fischer told him: "It's a fine gesture. I want a serious discussion with him (but) I don't want to fall into a propaganda trap." The Russians and FIDE agreed to Fischer's demand that victory in the title match would go to the first player to win 10 games. But when they rejected his demand that he keep the title if a 9-9 tie was reached, Fischer forfeited the crown to Karpov. The championship match was to have started in Manila in June, and the Philippine government was putting up $5 million to be divided between the two players. 10-GARDENING LANDSCAPING BILL SOBERANES authors of a new book on mental retardation published this year by Random House.

Dr. Richard Koch was born, raised and received his grade school and high school education in Petaluma. The book authored by Dr. and Mrs. Richard Koch, Understanding the Mentally Retarded Child, is written in lay language, and it is the hope of the authors that it will help clarify the picture for many families that are affected by the problem of mental retardation and that it will help dispel the fear and apprehension 1 with which the average person has viewed the mentally retarded in the past.

Authors-Dr. and Mrs. Richard Koch DR. AND. MRS.

RICHARD KOCH of Los Angeles are the About Mental Retardation THE BOOK explains the cause and treatment of many forms of mental retardation, and the authors emphasize the fact that mental retardation is no longer the hopeless problem it once was. Probably one of the most meaningful chapters in the book is the one on prevention of retardation. Dr. and Mrs. Koch stress that, if all the knowledge now available to the medical profession were applied, the incidence of mental retardation in the United States could be cut in half.

They have also dealt with such subjects as abortion for prevention of the birth of mentally retarded babies versus 1 the position of the Catholic Church, and the normalization concept which could even include marriage for the mentally retarded. There is probably no other medical field aside from that of cancer treatment in which desperate people are preyed upon by unscrupulous practitioners promising miraculous results from so-called cure and treatments which are usually expensive and often worthless, than the field of mental retardation. The last chapter deals with the legal rights and responsibilities of the retarded, and there is a list of 70 organizations and publications that are dedicated to helping the mentally retarded. In addition, the book includes a glossary of medical terms explained in lay language. DR.

KOCH is a director of the Child Development Division of Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles and is professor of pediatrics at the University of Southern California Medical School. He is also director of the Regional Center for the Developmentally Disabled at Childrens Hospital and is on the Research Advisory Board for the National Association for Retarded Children. Dr. Koch was director of the Child Development Traveling Clinic project at Childrens Hospital from 1960 to 1971. During this period diagnostic services for retarded children were started in every county in Southern California.

Their clinic served to develop the basic groundwork for the establishment of the Regional Center system in California. About The Kochs THE KOCHS have five children and two grandchildren. They have been active in the YMCA and church work in their of the Westchester Human Relations Council and is an active volunteer with the Westside Fair Housing Council. The Kochs are also active in the Sierra Club, being leaders in the efforts of that organization to prevent the commercialization of Mineral King in Sequoia National Forest. In their spare time, the Kochs enjoy skiing, hiking and backpacking.

In recent years, they have taken up ski touring, which is rather like backpacking on skis. To keep in condition, they jog every morning while the coffee perks. (PICTURED AT THE TOP OF TODAY'S COLUMN DR. AND MRS. RICHARD KOCH) The Traveling Kochs IN 1970 Dr.

Koch had a sabbatical leave, and the family spent a year in Peru, where Dr. Koch was affiliated with a land-based operation of Project Hope. They were in Trujillo in the northern part of the country in the area which was struck by a tragic earthquake in 1970. One third of the buildings in Trujillo were seriously damaged, and Dr. Koch went up into the Andes by helicopter with a medical team from Project Hope where they went from village to village by horseback for several days giving medical aid to the earthquake victims.

Later he spent several weeks in Huaraz, the largest city in the Andes, which was leveled by the earthquake. At that time, help in the form of medical supplies and personnel, food and tents was arriving from all over the world. Most of the people in Huaraz had never been more than a few miles from their birthpiace, yet they were suddenly with an international community. The Kochs would be approached on the street and asked, "Are you Russians? or "Are you from Germany?" The experience was fascinating, and certainly educating and humbling. Says Dr.

saddening Koch, "There is nothing that deflates your sense of selfconfidence as much as suddenly finding yourself in a country where you can neither understand nor speak the language, and knowing that you'd jolly well better learn to speak and understand the language because you're going to be there for a year, and you are expected to accomplish Trujillo is about 300 miles from Lima, and unlike Lima has few English speaking people. The Koch children attended very Spanish speaking school, and Dr. and Mrs. Koch quickly learned to communicate in Spanish, in rather clumsy Gringo fashion. While in Trujillo, Dr.

Koch did much of the work on another book which he edited with Dr. James Dobson called "The Mentally Retarded Child and His Family. This book is for the professional working in the field of mental retardation and is now being revised for a second edition. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING RATES 3 Day Rate 3 Lines $4.00 6 Day Rate 3 Lines $6.00 30 Day Rate 3 Lines $14.00 Minimum Ad 3 Lines CASH DISCOUNT $1.00 Discount allowed if paid in advance or within 5 days. OFFICE HOURS 8:30 A.M.

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estimate that over eight million homemakers buy health food items in supermarkets, almost as many as who buy in specialized food stores." The survey showed about 55 per cent of health food store patrons also buy vitamins. About 4,500 health food stores are estimated to be in business nationwide with 20 per cent of them located in California besides natural or health food branches established by large food corporations to produce cereals, fruits and similar products. This compares with a 1972 survey by the Bank of America in San Francisco which showed some 3,000 health food stores nationwide and 250 manufacturers and distributors reported total sales of an estimated $400 million. Current health food sales nationwide are set by some industry sources at $2 billion, but Robertson said this seemed too high. "We think the figure is closer to $1 billion because inflation has taken its toll of independent health food operators," he said.

Pacific Cruise For Sub Salvage Vessel LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) The Glomar Explorer, which reportedly recovered part of a sunken Soviet submarine under a CIA contract last year, plans another excursion into the Pacific later this month, acording to a spokesman for the operators of the vessel. Corbett U. Allen, a vice president of Global Marine, said Sunday a giant barge, which is supposed to be a key element of the salvage operation, will accompany the deepsea exploration ship when it sails from Long Beach. President Ford, according to earlier published reports, had authorized another voyage of the Explorer this summer to complete the salvage attempt and to try to recover nuclear warheads believed aboard.

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Allen, to whom the story in Monday editions of the Los Angeles Times was attributed, would not comment on the possibility of further salvage attempts. 'Am I Going Thursday Talk Topic "Am I Going Crazy?" will be Dr. Martin Bauman's subject at the monthly Mental Health Association Forum on April 17. The public is invited to the discussion which begins at 7:30 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church in Santa Rosa: Dr.

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