The Chickasha Daily Express (Chickasha, Okla.), Vol. 88, No. 9, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 9, 1980 Page: 5 of 28
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Beef prices have been good, in no position to demand any
he said, but the oversupply of prices. Until such time he
pork soon will affect beef organizes to do that he'll be in
sales. He remembers back in the same situation."
1972 when most of his neigh-
bors had 30 to 40 breeder
cows.
"By 1976, they were all out
of the business. Moat are
strictly grain farmers," said
Hunt.
He hopes things will be
better for his son, who is
young and rarely counts the
hours or measures the hard
labor.
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People aren't kidding when Since 1962, we haven’t taken a
they say there’s 4 cents worth 14-day consecutive vacation.
of wheat in a loaf of bread. "You work to live and you
“We furnish our own table work to pay off the losses.
with our own meat. We have Regardless of what anybody
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Hunt hopes things will get
better before his son's en-
thusiasm dies. His son got his
degree in agriculture
business in January at a
junior college in Arkansas
City, Kan., so he could im-
prove life on the family farm.
“The pay isn't worth it,"
the younger Hunt admitted.
“And hauling manure is not
real fun. Nor are the long
hours.
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enough so that hundreds of whole device is made of
circuits can be connected in a beryllium copper, brass and
few square inches and must gold. It costs 50 to 100 times as
require almost no mechnical much as an ordinary elec-
force to make the con- trical connector.
nection." The electronic connectors
There are many types of are turned out in a
connectors. Offerman's firm bewildering array of
makes one it calls Hypertac assemblies and multilayer
in which the receptacle has a boards incorporating enough
network of wires inside connectors for anywhere
resembling an hourglass. The from a handful to several
wires are gold-plated at the hundred circuits.
waist of the hourglass and the They are used in aircraft,
pin of the plug is gold-plated missiles, military “secured
at the point where it will mate communications systems,"
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devices with an esoteric prestige that British, French
sounding name but really just and German companies have
a very sophisticated version been trying to buy some of the
of an ordinary electric plug American companies, ac-
and wall socket, cording to Michael Offerman,
Their combined sales chief technical officer for
probably are not much over Industrial Electronic Hard-
1100 million annually, but the ware Corp., New York, one of
industry is growing rapidly: the leaders in the field.
its product is vital to national Offerman said the
defense, the space effort and Europeans so far have not
the computer industry. been able to buy any com-
The connectors also are pany large enough to be a
made in several other ad- market factor. Possibly, he
vanced countries but the said, the American firms feel
American technology in the federal government
making them enjoys so much would step in to block any
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HAVEN, Kan. (UPI) — wonders if it's even worth it to But they are like most million tons of wheat and corn His 22-year-old daughter
Kansas farmer Thaine Hunt try. Americans today, even those to boost grain prices above Vicki is conducting seminars
questions the wisdom of en- So why is Hunt losing his living in the city. They want levels farmers were getting on alcohol fuel for the
couraging his 21-year-old son arguments with Kevin to to be freed of today's inflated before the embargo, but Hunt Department of Energy at
to go into the business he has leave the land for a good- prices and the pressure of still is irked by the move. Southwest Minnesota State
loved for almost a half cen- paying job in the city? wondering if their lifestyle "What burns me is to hear University. Hunt reads every
tury. Because, he says, his son may be cut short sometime in the government say they’ll piece of information he can,
There is much to "loves the life.” the future. They just want to never use the grain embargo hoping there soon will be
discourage a person from “It's been his life goal to be enjoy simple, country-living again, and they probably another energy alternative —
choosing to become a farmer a farmer, and he’s never again. will," he said. “It takes too an inexpensive one.
these days. Hunt knows first deviated," said Hunt, 49, who Harvest time arrives at many long hours in farming Hunt is too prixid to discuss
hand. raises wheat and cattle on his midJune. The tall, lanky not to be able to make a his yearly income. And
Taxes are on the rise. 1,000-acre farm about 40 farmer wonders whether profit." proper people don't ask a
Interest on bank loans are miles south of Wichita. "those people who have so Today's inflated prices are farmer how much he is worth,
higher than Hunt can ever "If you didn’t like the way little consideration for forcing many farmers to give But Hunt admits that this
remember. Farm machinery of life you sure wouldn’t anyone etoe” will call a up, he said. year was the first time he has
prices are caught up in the stay." The Hunts, including railroad strike at harvest "With interest rates up to 20 made "a little money" since
inflationary spiral. That the wife and two daughters, time. percent, there’ll be fewer the middle of the 1970s. He
makes bank loans almost are proud of their in- "Unless we can sell it, it farmers around next year," said he borrowed more
mandatory, dependent life, of being able does no good to produce it," said Hunt. “Most of this thing money between 1974 and 1978
The threat of a railroad to take care of themselves, to he said. (farming) runs on credit” "than the land was worth
strike and the fate of the live off the land. Then there is President Prices for diesel fuel and prior to that."
bankrupt Rock Island Line They are hooked on driving Carter’s decision to embargo farm machinery continue to -----
makes him wonder if he can tractors. Happiness is getting grain shipments to Russia in rise. He figures the "only “Still the biggest problem
get his crop to market even if up at the crack of dawn to retaliation to the invasion of salvation we’ll have to a way for everybody is the cost of
it survives drought, work in rain, dust, heat and Afghanistan. The govern- alcohol can work. I think the food," he said. “It's getting
grasAhoppers and disease. cold to farm their I*™1 seven ment recently announced time will come when we’ll and will get more expensive
With flunctunting prices, he days a week every year, plans to purchase up to 13 burn pure alcohol.” from the basic producer to
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CINCINNATI (UPI) -
Nostalgia brought back
ceiling fans and the energy
crisis is helping increase
their popularity — and not
just in hot weather.
In cool or cold weather,
room heat rising to the
ceiling, along with fuel bills,
can be forced back down to
living areas by turning on a
paddle fan, says J. William
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Scovill’s NuTone division. In
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Contemporary ceiling fans
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Drew, Charles C. The Chickasha Daily Express (Chickasha, Okla.), Vol. 88, No. 9, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 9, 1980, newspaper, April 9, 1980; Chickasha, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1869109/m1/5/: accessed July 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.