The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 6

'fig-- 6 THE KANSAS CITY STAR Monday July 10 1072 Farm Bloc Loses Its Clout 1 2r One proposal called tbe family farm act would force huge corporations to get out of agricultural operations within three years That measure introduced Initially by Sen Gaylord Nelson (D-Wls) la stalled In Jgtel appropriations Earl Butz mm By Don Kendall Washington (AP) The farmers are still court ed vigorously by Democrats and Republicans alike but the farm bloc what it used to be In 1920 32 million Americans one-third of the popula tion lived on farms Farm issues played a major role in political campaigns at both local and national levels Today only 10 million persona 1ms than 5 per cent of the population are farm people And says one GOP farm strategist farmers will cast their votes this year like the rest of the on the basis of such issues as Vietnam and the economy rather than clear-cut farm issues Even such farm advocates as Rep Pcage (D-Tex) chairman of the House Agriculture Committee concede the political muscle has withered doubt if farmers by themselves could even elect a county attorney in most Poage says Economics has small farms out and today fewer producing more and more That trend appears certain to continue The larger and more efficient producers are getting bigger and more efficient The small producers are going out of business Nearly one-third or approximately 1 million of the farms sell $2500 or less in products annually Government analysts say many of these farms are part-time operations run by semi-retired persons who prefer to live on the land Collectively they produce less than 3 per cent of the nation's food and fiber More than half of the US agricultural output comes from fewer than 250000 farms most of them family-owned and operated from which sales total at least $40000 a year Ninety per cent of the farm output comes from one-third of the those with annual sales of $10000 or more Thus nearly two-thirds of the farms account for only 10 per cent of the output Jk Fl Jobs in town have become a way of life and survival partic- ularly for smaller farmers The farms with $2500 or less In sales net an average of $1000 a year while nonfarm jobs at factories and other businesses are providing an average of $8-000 a year to each of these small-farm families This year according to Agriculture Department projections farm families may take home $18 billion or more from nonfarm jobs more than the record $175 billion predicted by administration officials as farm income income is not only the best farm crop it is better then all the farm crops combined plus all the livestock plus all the government says Dr Don Paarl-berg director of economics for the Agriculture Department Thus rural development in the form of federal programs aimed at improving job opportunities and income for all people in the countryside is an essential part of 1972 political talk for both parties The forecast is for a continued decline in farm numbers By 1980 according to one USDA projection nearly 1 million more farms will be absorbed into larger units By then says one report about 95-000 super farms will be producing more than half the food and fiber The growth of corporation-type farms has disturbed many However the Agriculture Department says all but a handful are family-owned and operated and that the huge conglomerates financed by outside capital do not pose a serious threat to family farming Congress has looked into the corporate farming situation periodically but with little substantive reaction i wzyti In a House bearing Secretary of the Agriculture Department was asked If he thought the Sowth of giant farms is a salthy development depends on your philosophy about the agricultural Butz replied all want family farms in America I want family farms but I want that family farm frozen in size I wsnt it to be able to Democratic farm strategists hope to make farming rural development farm prices administration policies for controlling production and farm income election year Issues Clayton Yeutter farm director for the Committee for the Re-Election of the President said: think farm issues are going to be important they always are But I just think these other issues will be more important that be overriding I think what happens on Vietnam between now and November will be of much greater importance in the votes of all Americans including farmers position of the administration would be in essence that what can be done for agriculture by government this year has been done and has been rather successful any question farmers as well off as the administration would like to see them but as much progress as can reasonably be expected has been made to Flood Rates and Sen George McGovern The oldsters were calling for an end to legislative age discriminations Two of several thousand elderly persons who attended a rally in Flamingo Park listened to speeches from Sen Frank Church of Idaho Elderly Rally Cut State Insurance Rate Cut Urged Improved Bumpers es are reduced by more than 10 per cent even further savings will be passed on to the that ISO sets members and He explained rates for subscribers changes proposed by auto insurers including several major companies that are not ISO affiliates would require departmental approval New federal standards mandating bumpers that prevent damage to headlights door latches fuel and cooling systems and other equipment are credited with reducing the cost of repairs ISO reported that Saab MG and Mercedes-Benz incorporated the 1973 standards into their 1972 models making owners eligible for the suggested 10 per cent discount who are affiliated with us as well as those who are not who go along with Savage said spokesman for the New York State Department of Insurance was cautious in assessing the potential impact of the ISO recommendation all they can do is make an advisory he said that many companies use the advisory Savage said ISO would file the advisory rate with the department Any actual rate New York The Insurance Services Office has recommended to its member companies a 10 per cent cut in collision insurance on 1973 cars because of improved bumpers Richard Savage vice-president of the advisory organization said hundreds of insurance companies affiliated with the office are expected to put the lower rates into effect with a potential saving to consumers of $20 million impact is on 1973 Savage said the improved bumpers show that loss gram is administered and funded according to requirements set by the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the insurance industry An association spokesman providing examples of rate reductions said a single-family residence valued at $17500 can now be insured against floods for $10000 at a cost of $25 a year The old rate was $40 The coverage is available in amounts of up to $17500 for 1-family homes $30000 for 2-to 4-family homes and small business buildings and $5000 for contents Areas in Missouri where residents and businessmen are eligible for the rate reductions: Branson Clayton Columbia Crystal City DeSoto Excelsior Springs Fenton Festus Flat River Hannibal Independence Jackson Joplin Kansas City Ladue La-Grange Summit Maplewood Mexico Newburg North Kansas City Paris Pleasant Hill Princeton St Peters Sike-ston Smithville Springfield and Steelville Also included are the unincor-ported areas of Clay St Charles and St Louis counties the major number of states we file in their he' said But in states such as New York and California he said each company determines its own premium charges may be companies Plea in Massacre Rejected KANSAS CITY SHOWING EMPEROR GRANDFATHER CLOCKS TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY JULY 11 12 13 HOLIDAY INN (SOUTHEAST) 8500 BLUE PKWY New York Residents and businessmen in 32 Missouri areas are eligible for new flood insurance rates with reductions of nearly 40 per cent the National Flood Insurance Association reports The lower rates sold under the emergency provisions of a program established by the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 went into effect today The insurers association which is composed of nearly 100 private insurance comanies nationwide said the reductions are an effort to encourage wider purchase of flood insurance by persons living in flood-prone communities The special pro Promoter Reports Robbery An entertainment promoter reported to police he was robbed of $2500 about 12:40 am today in front of the Holiday Inn 13th and Wyandotte Bobby Baker 28 who gave an address of 1216 Broadway told police he and a friend had gone to Record Salon 2205 31st to obtain the money to Day an entertainment group at the Holiday Inn When they returned to the hotel a dark model car containing two men pulled up behind them Baker said The men on the passenger side got out of the Car holding a handgun he said After the man seized a money bag Baker was holding the two men fled in the car Baker said Aly Khan's Remains Flown to Damascus Cannes France (AP) The body of Prince Aly Khan killed in a car accident in Paris in 1960 was flown today to Damascus for reburial in a special mausoleum according to his wishes Arrangements for transfer of the body was made by Prince Karim Aga Khan eldest son and head of the Ismaili Moslem sect Although Okamoto pleaded guilty he disputed some of the facts The tribunal recessed to weigh the plea and the defense request for an examination by a panel of psychiatrists The ruling was a novel twist on routine Israeli legal procedure Had the court accepted the guilty plea it would have automatically been forced to convict Okamoto exposing him to a possible death sentence The prosecution will not try to prove its case beyond doubt The court deliberated for almost two hours before its president Lt Col Abraham Frish announced the decisons on the examination request and the guilty plea by Okamoto The chief defense attorney Max Kirtzman said he did not contend Okamoto was now insane he should have an examination to determine if he was sane at the time of the commission of the offense or whether he was under some irreversible influence or under the influence of Kirtzman said he had no material yet convince you of the mental but added the circumstances and in the behavior since leaving his homeland for a faraway country with which he had no connections we see that the facts speak for themselves The opening of the trial was delayed 55 minutes by strict security checks Many of those at the trial stood in line for more Lod Israel The Japanese terrorist who survived the Tel Aviv airport massacre pleaded guilty at the opening of his trial today but the Israeli military court rejected the plea The court also postponed decision on a request by the defense that the terrorist Kozo Okamo-to 24 be given a mental examination want an the defendant shouted want an The rejection of the plea means the prosecution will have to present its case Okamoto is accused in the murder of 26 persons at Lod Airport May 30 Two other Japanese were killed and 67 other persons were wounded in the machine-gun attack May 30 1 PM til 9 PM Pick for No 2 Miami Beach AP The i National Political Cau- cus today selected Rep Shirley Chisholm (D-NY) as its choice! for the Democratic vice-presi-1 dential nomination woman should be nominat- ed for vice-president and has a good chance of Betty Friedan caucus leader told a cheering throng of about 1000 female delegates is where we are going for real political she said in urging support for Mrs Chisholm a declared candidate for the presidential than two hours before they could enter the courtroom about four miles southwest of Lod Airport Wearing a red shirt and dark slacks the small solemn defendant stood in a waist-high wooden enclosure manacled to two husky policemen as the cheif prosecutor Lt Col David Israeli read the four charges against him Asked if he understood Okamoto replied quietly Asked how he pleaded to the charges Okamoto replied: the 30th of May 1972 I discharged firearms with two other persons I forget their names I do not know how many people I killed have many things I want to say in court I fired arms not only at tourists but at a policeman as well Then he pleaded guilty British Actor Dies In South Africa Johannesburg South Africa Emrys Jones 56 a British actor was found dead in his apartment here today Jones 8-DAY MOVEMENT BRASS MOVEMENTS STEEL PINIONS SOLID HARDWOOD LIFETIME LUBRICATION FULLY GUARANTEED 1-YEAR 7 Technicians Take Turn Before First Chess Move Reykjavik Iceland Si- The first board Helgason iotrs Dial 221-5500 to place your Star Want Ads Save 5 cents a line each day by placing the ads for 3 or more consecutive days Adv apparently was a heart attack victim He was portraying Winston Churchill in the stage production Man and His gurdur Helgason cuts up his days into neat marble squares A stone mason whose business usually runs to gravestones Helgason has been in the chess board trade the last few weeks MODEL 300 Buck Wtlnut SEE OUR COMPLETE FREE GRANDFATHER LINE AT THIS CLOCK SHOW CORRECTION made was too shiny for Fridrik Olofsson an Icelandic grandmaster acting as technical adviser to the organizers The second was considered too light Helgason said It lacked the proper contrast The third Today on his fourth chess seemed a11 riht until yterday board the one on which Bobby Then the Russians came to Fischer and Boris Spassky will the 2500-seat sports hall where play for $300000 in prizes Jthe 24-game world champion- Candidate Backs Personal Contact Gerald (Jerry) Herrin Democratic candidate for the Jackson County Legislature heinL UN secretary-general from the 3rd district said and Gunnar Jarring Swedish Saturday night that the role of diplomat today continued their the average voter is his great-j discussion of the possibilities of Latest US Government figures show ship series will begin tomorrow and Yefim 1 1 said the squares were too big Bobby Fischer showed up at 1 this morning to see for himself The American spent an hour pivoting around in a leather chair in front of the playing table It was the chair he sat in to beat a Russian Tigran Petrosian and gain the right to play the world champion Spassky another Russian Fischer hunched over the board waved a long arm and concurred with the Russians The squares would have to be smaller workmen today were cutting Italian marble into 2V4-inch squares with a wet saw The squares on board No 3 were inches on each side a quarter-inch too big for the grandmasters hope this one is all Helgason said with a worried look got much Light gray marble will serve or the white squares on the board Helgason used green Lancashire slate for the black Nothing was right for Fischer early today Overhead lights which cost $5500 to install had to be changed he said The mahogany table which cost another $2000 had to be shortened by Ragnar Haraldsson the carpenter who made it But despite these last-minute problems minor compered with the disputes that nearly wrecked the match last everything apparently is set tor Spassky to make the first move at noon tomorrow (Kansas City time) reviving UN peacemaking efforts in the Middle East Jarring the Swedish ambassador to Moscow is also the special UN envoy to seek peace in the Middle East He and Waldheim met first July 3 7 The air conditioner ad in Sunday Star Page 10 contained an error is description The $228 air conditioner should have been described as an 18000 BTU air conditioner We do not have a 24000 BTU air conditioner for sale We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you The Emperor Clock Company reduces the heretofore high cost of quality grandfather clocks to a popular price range Wood cut from hard solid Honduras mahogany and black walnut under the skill of southern furniture craftsmen and clock movements imported from West Germany give Emperor clocks a warm rich beauty and lasting dependability as a timekeeping instrument SPECIAL SALE DURING ENTIRE SHOW Emperor Grandfather Clocks are sold three 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The Metropolitan Housing Coalition of the Greater Kansas City Housing Information Cen-Kennett Mo John ter has asked the Justice de-Dalton governor of Missouri ipartment to take action against from 1961 to 1965 was buried to p' 1 it orn aaai day at Oak Ridge Cemetery in bis home town here Mrs Ruth Shechter center Dalton died Friday of cancer director said profiteering by a few is injuring poor people and resulting in high costs to at the age of 71 JCPenney The values are here every day PALI MALL BOLD 00 lit" II mg mctliM 13 mg Bill tilling IrtUi king "lr" JO -rntotmt 1 1 mg 0) HI krtnkl Iowan 1 mg mcotrnt 01 mg 18 mg 13 mg nicotm per cigirttn PTC Rtport APRIL 72 As 1 i I.