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Sunfrag journal anfr Star Action Line P.O. Box 81689 Ph: 477-2121 Action Lin. g.l.oniw.r,, cut, red tape stands up for your rights and Inv.ttiootes complaints! 2 te P0 816 9 6850). Other contacts refused. Include your name, town and choose Journal, Star or Sunday Journal and Star.

will be withheld from publ.cation upon request unless the inquiry crit.cues a person or a private business by name. Volume prohibits answering questions not printed in 30 days. Save the Species What animals in the United States are becoming extinct? --Karen Heckman, Milford ACTION LINE: "Save the Species" is the battle cry for 109 animals fighting to stay alive in the United States, says Ross Lock, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission wild game specialist. For a complete listing of the species on the verge of extinction, write Lock at the Game and Parks office, 2200 No. 33rd St.

68503. Five on the list are currently in Nebraska's danger zone, he said. They are the whoping crane, peregrin falcon, black-footed ferret, swift fox and lake sturgeon. Bridge 0' Gold Recently I had a yellow-gold bridge removed from my teeth. The part pulled constituted a whole missing tooth plus the cap on a supporting tooth.

What's the approximate value of this hardware? --Melvin Hubka, Diller ACTION LINE: Better not plan a burgeoning bank account from that bridge o' gold, Melvin. A local certified dental laboratory technician estimated your dental ordeal netted three pennyweights of scrap gold, not worth any more than $20. An ounce equals 20 pennyweights under the Troy system of measuring gold. Off Beat In June I ordered a "rhythm master" to use while giving piano lessons. I've paid the $100 price tag but am still waiting for delivery from the American Interstate Corp.

in Mundelein, HI. Please help me find out what happened? --Mrs. Jack R. Snider, Lincoln ACTION LINE: Larry Sutton. customer service coordinator for Grolier Enterprises Danbury, Conn apologizes for your off-beat experience and promises your money will be refunded within the week.

Why a reply from Grolier? The Americana Interstate Corp. you dealt with has gone out of business Grolier is picking up the pieces of Americana's final business deals. Sutton says you'll have to find another company from which to order the rhythm device. Tickling News Is there a business in town that renews feather pillows? --Ellen Fowler, Lincoln ACTION LINE: Mr. J's pillow service, 1047 South St.

(in the old Orthepedic Hospital), has some tickling news for the feather pillow lover. They'll clean, sterilize, deorderize and put your regular-sized pillow in new ticking for $2.50. It'll cost you S5 for a king or queen-sized pillow. Mr. J's is open from 8 a.m.

to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Stomach Upsetter ACTION TIP: The Federal Drug Administration reports that Hunt-Wesson Foods is recalling its Blue Plate Foods brand of salad dressing. The dressing, suspected of being yeast contaminated, may cause mild stomach upset. Consumers are asked to return the product--Blue Plate Salad Dressing in 32-oz.

jars, Lot Number 01224 B--to the supermarket where it was purchased. Hey, Give Women, men and youth are needed by the nonprofit Volunteer Bureau. Address responses to Rm. 225, Lincoln Center 215 So. 15th, Lincoln, Neb.

68508. Do You Care? Enough to give time occasionally to help with minimal repairs and winterizing on homes of low income persons? This is an ideal individual or group project. Many volunteers are needed. Do You Care? Enough to help provide transportation work in local community centers which provide well-balanced noon meals for senior citizens? Several volunteers are needed. Do You Care? Enough to help with a swimming project for mentally retarded children who need assistance on a one-to-one basis? No special swimming skills are necessary, only the desire to help retarded children.

Several volunteers are needed. Eight volunteers registered at the Volunteer Bureau of the Lincoln Area last week, according to Ms. Susan Jackson, director. They have been referred to Madonna Professional Care Center, Lancaster County Health Red Cross Friendly Visitor Program, Lincoln Foundation Juvenile Court, Youth Service System, and Southeast Nebraska Health Planning Council. V.N.

Official Keynotes Omaha Conference World Food Problem Solutions Suggested October 20, 1974, OH ebraska By Dominick Costelio Farm Editor Omaha Solutions to world food problems suggested at a College of St. Mary conference Saturday ranged from advocation of breast feeding of infants to save milk to finding ways to get more consumer food money to the people who are actually producing food. The Conference on the World Food Crisis, called by Omaha Association of Clergy and Laity for Peace, was the first of what the sponsors hope will be a series of conferences dealing with various aspects of food production, consumption and distribution, according to Sister Norita Cooney, conference hostess. Charles Weitz, director of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO; liaison office at the United Nations, was the keynote speaker. Weitz blamed the world's food shortage on "the 'benign neglect of agriculture by the governments of the world." "In nearly every nation of the world, the agricultural minister is at or near the bottom of the peck order in the cabinet.

Agriculture has never had the economic resources allotted to it that it needed," Weitz declared. 26-Day Supply "FAO now calculates the world's Lincoln General City Council To Discuss Rate Setting The City Council will take public testimony Monday afternoon on two proposals to change the rate-setting procedure at Lincoln General Hospital (LGH). One, introduced by Councilman Bob Sikyta, would delegate sole rate-setting power to the LGH Board of Trustees The other, introduced by Council Chairman Helen Boosalis, would make City Council action mandatory for either acceptance or rejection of LGH rate proposals. The Mrs. Boosalis ordinance is patterned after the recent recommendations of the Lancaster County Health Planning Council.

Those recommendations and Mrs. Boosalis's proposal would require the LGH board to submit rate changes for review to the Nebraska Hospital Reimbursement Plan Rate Review Committee. The committee, sponsored by the Nebraska Hospital would have 30 days to submit its findings to the city clerk. The City Council would then be required to conduct a public hearing and take action on the rate change within 60 days of the review by the committee. Continued: Page 2B, Col.

4 available food supply at about 26 days, compared to some 97 days' supply back when the surplus of grain in North America was at its greatest. "The world always knew it could count on that surplus as a source of food so they didn't really worry about getting much food produced. We had some bad weather in several areas of the world in the last few years and the surplus is gone." To build a new world food supply would require two years of good crops to refill grain storage facilities, Weitz said. What to do about the problem drew a lot of suggestions from panel members and from persons attending the conference. Maxine Burch, chief nutritionist at Creighton Medical School, suggested that American food programs are a part of the problem with today's shortages.

"We distribute tons of powdered milk and got people to feed babies from a bottle. They had sanitary problems, children died and women became pregnant because they weren't nursing children," she said. "We are overlooking a natural method of birth control by eliminating breast feeding. It prevents a second child arriving too soon. All women are equipped with this birth control device, so there is no distribution or training problem.

All religions in the world favor it, and it involves no new technology. Besides, it conserves millions of gallons of milk that would otherwise be wasted." Top Users During the discussion of population control efforts, Dr. Bert Evans, a University of Nebraska economist who also operates a farm, noted that "Americans use much more of the world's resources. One American is much more of a threat to the world's supply of food and resources than 500 people in India or China." Evans suggested that the obvious solution is to get rid of Americans, not Indians or Chinese. "We are a nation that wastes things because it's the way to get rich," he said.

"The company that exploits the most resources is the one that makes money. Look at the streamlined tractor as an example. You don't need to streamline a tractor that travels 10 m.p.h., yet we farmers buy the dumb things." Dr. Arnold Schaefer of the Swanson Center for Nutrition reported that during his trips to underdeveloped nations he found that children are a means of social security for parents. "Until you can improve health conditions to the point where the parents are sure their first two children will survive to care for them in their old age, you won't succeed in getting them to practice any kind of family limitation program," he warned.

Schaefer estimated it would take at least 10 years to make an adequate health program effective if it were begun immediately. Dr. Connie Kies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln food technologist, said she doubts that many Americans realize the effects of the wasteful use of the world's resources. "The enemy is us," she said. Gov.

J. J. Exon rides across the Golden Link tions of the highway. It marks the spot where on 1-80 to officially open the 455-mile the last load of concrete was poured. In photo superhighway in Nebraska.

The link is a strip at right, the sun gleams on the Golden Link, of brass, six inches wide, spanning both sec- Exon Hails Completion of 1-80 As 5,000 Attend Ceremonies Special to The Sunday Journal and Star Sidney "It is the end of a long, long trail for dedicated people who worked on the 1-80 project in Nebraska," Gov. J. J. Exon said Saturday. Exon addressed a crowd of 5,000 during the unveiling of a 'Golden Link' plaque marking completion of Interstate 80 in Nebraska.

The Golden link celebration was reminiscent of the 1869 Golden Spike ceremony at Promontory Point, Utah, marking the completion of the nation's transcontinental rail line. A piece of brass was imbedded in I-80's concrete roadway at the site to symbolize the theme. "Some say it is a historic day, and I agree that it is a most historic day, and it is an event we can be proud of," Exon said. "We will remember it for a long time because it links the state east and west and soon Nebraskans will see another link, the East Coast with the West Coast. "It is another first for Nebraska as the first state to complete its mainline Interstate system." John Kemp, regional administrator for the Federal Highway Administration, complimented the State Roads Dept.

for completing Nebraska's segment of 1-80 and said: "Highways are and always will be a dominant means of transportation. "The Department of Roads has done a tremendous job You have a wonderful highway, use it safely and enjoy it." Said Doyle: "With the joining of the east and west borders of Nebraska, we can now call the Interstate the Main Street of Nebraska. It is an engineering wonder and the most costly undertaking for the state. "The people of Nebraska have been very cooperative and are the real builders of the highway," Doyle said. "They demanded it and were willing to pay for it." Nebraska's share of the nationwide route totals 455 3 miles.

The total cost was $390 million, with federal highway funds paying of it. Cattle Missing in KC Mishap Stolen? Kansas City (AP) A trucking firm official believes people have stolen 14 head of cattle that have been missing since a livestock truck overturned at the south edge of Kansas City Wednesday night. The truck was hauling 79 head of cattle from Springfield, to Omaha. Owned by J. B.

Cattle Co. of Falls City, the animals were valued at $200 each. Eighteen animals died in the crash and 46 were recaptured. Another was shot to death Thursday in an apparent theft attempt, police said. Joe Gregg, 37, of East Lynne, told police he saw four men trying to lift the carcass into a pickup truck in a field.

The animal had been shot and its throat slashed, Gregg said. Conrad O'Dell, president of Branson Truck Lines, owner of the wrecked truck, said men on horseback have been scouring the countryside for the missing steers, but he believes they have been stolen and slaughtered. Dog Meat Supply Bangkok (UPI) Thai police raided an illegal slaughterhouse which they said had been supplying dog meat to hotels and restaurants for the past two years. Spokesmen said the carcasses of 63 dogs were found on the premises as well as two large baskets of meat. They said the meat was passed off.

to restaurant customers as steak or meat balls served with noodles. There's 70 Billion Tons of Virgin Coal in the West By Peter J. Bernstein Newhouse News Service Sheridan, Wyo. Beneath the green prairies and red-capped ridges of the West lie what many believe is the best answer to the nation's energy squeeze: at least 70 billion tons of easily recoverable coal. Running north from Arizona's canyonlands through Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado and the Dakotas are the biggest contiguous deposits of virgin coal in the world deposits estimated to contain more than four times the energy of all the oil in the Middle East.

But at the moment it is far from certain that enough coal can be brought to the surface in the next few years to provide that energy without mutilating and polluting the country's last relatively unspoiled natural region. The coal companies are removing the coal by strip mining, the environmentally destructive method by which they roll AP NEWSFEATURES PHOTO An 18-cubic-yard licit scoops coal from a strip-mining operation near Rock Springs, Wyo. back the earth and strip the coal, one acre after another, dumping the unwanted earth in geometrically perfect windrows of spoil banks. The coal is being gouged out of the open prairie to fuel a vast energy complex: mine-mouth electric power plants, coal gasification and liquefaction facilities, and long-range railroad and pipeline systems for transporting coal to the East and West. Some of this is operating now, some is on the drawing boards.

Western strip mining, spurred by the availability of public coal leases at bargain prices, has skyrocketed more than since 1965, from 7.5 to 45.7 million tons annually. But the stripping represents only the most visible part of the mining industry's operations. As of November 1970, the industry possessed western coal leases covering more than 2,600,000 acres, including 773,000 acres leased by the Interior Dept. Altogether more than 22 billion tons of coal are now under lease. Policy Criticized This leasing policy has come under sharp criticism from the Ford Foundation's Energy Policy Project, headquartered in Washington, D.C.

The Ford Foundation group said in a report that the leasing policy has not adequately protected the public interest. "There is no assurance that the resources are being developed at a time and price which correspond to the national needs; vast amounts have been released with a grossly inadequate return to the public treasury; and the environment has been poorly served," the report said. The report said that so much coal has already been transferred to private hands at little or no cost, and with inadequate provision to restore the land that it sees no present need for further coal leasing. Major industries, usually not associated in the public mind with coal development, are transforming the face of the West. The changes are evident on ranchlands 20 miles north of here, just over the Montana line, where a huge green and yellow dragline rears against the sky like a prehistoric monster, tearing up the earth so that smaller shovels can get at the underlying coal seam.

The mechanized claws that do the stripping at the Decker Co. mine uc an essential feature of mining methods in the Northern Plains and the Southwest. This year the Decker shovels will remove more than 7 million tons of low-sulfur, sub-bituminous coal for shipment by rail as far east as Chicago and Detroit to produce electricity. Remote-Control Mining Using a system that is safer and more economical than conventional underground mining, the owners of the Decker mine (Pacific Power and Light Co. and Peter Kiewit Sons' Co.

of Omaha, Neb.) have turned coal mining into a remote-control operation. Their mine is now the largest in the world. While a group of visitors watched from a distance, one miner operating a giant walking dragline scooped out 25 tons of dirt and rock at one time -enough to fill four railroad boxcars. In minutes, the dragline, standing nearly 300 feet high and weighing 13,000 tons, had exposed a coal seam that was not only unusually thick (52 feet in contrast to four or five feet in Appalachian mines), but also good-quality, relatively nonpolluting coal. The exposed coal then was blasted loose from the seam with dynamite.

Power shovels scooped up the shattered Continued: Page 2B, Col. 1.