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Show Page 22 - THE HERALD, Provo, Utah. Sunday, December 7. 1986 Whale rescuers succeed in pushing some back fo sea EASTHAM, Mass. (AP) were thrashing around on white sand and gasping for air. Prescott said a pod of 100 whales has been living in Cape Cod Bay for the past three to four months About 25 pilot whales who beached themselves along Cape Cod were pushed back into tho safety of deeper water, but about U others died late this week, either naturally or from lethal injections administered to end their suffering. Scores of the whales began beaching themselves Wednesday, and scientists and volunteers struggled through the night to try to save the mammals, some of which weighed up to two tons. Scientists decided to put most of the surviving beached whales to death Thursday, and the injections brought to about about 22 the number of whales to die in the latest of the mysterious suicidal beachings by the species. Of the approximately 50 whales - vv ml MidCHAMPAIGN, 111. (AP) western agricultural bankers for-se- e more farmers being forced to 'sell off assets or go out of business because of heavy debt burdens, a I the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago found. The survey of 530 bankers in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin also found the banks have an ample supply of money to : 139! ft. i i i fit jj Volunteer worker Liza Deacon holds wet blanket on a beached pilot whale. It was later moved to a nearby pond where workers were hoping it would recover and return to the open sea. S as she said they followed the whale swam out to the ocean. Bianca was believed to be one of the two whales whose status was listed as unknown. Earlier in the day, Robert Prescott, director of the Massachusetts Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, had heralded the return of about 25 whales to deep water as a breakthrough in keeping the animals from killing themselves. Other scientists applauded the effort but were reserved about the future of the whales kept from the beach. lend and interest rates are falling, but demand among farmers remains low as many struggle to repay existing loans. "More than half the respondents forsee an increase in forced sales or liquidation of farm capital assets ... suggesting that the process of adjustment in the farm sector that has been under way for some time has not run its course," said JUST Dr. James Meade, curator of marine mammals at the U.S. National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution, said, "A lot of stranded whales have been released at sea alive, but we don't know what happened to them. There's no case I know of where a stranded whale has been proven to be saved." Most of the whales, which averaged 15 to 20 feet in length and weighed as much as two tons, were in the vicinity of First Encounter Beach here. Tests were being performed on Federal Reserve Bank spokesman Peter Heffernan. His bank surveyed agricultural lenders in the five states about credit conditions during the third quarter of 1986. Demand for new farm loans was up marginally from the previous quarter but well below the level of a year ago, the survey indicated. "The weak loan demand ... re SSSSl 1 the dead whales Thursday. Two calves were pulled out of marshes Wednesday and trucked to the New England Aquarium in Boston, where workers tried to feed them. One had devoured 10 pounds of herring but the other one wasn't eating. Of the other whales involved in the beaching, five had suffocated, and biologists used lethal injections to kill six others. of the whales were Thirty-eigh- t initially spotted at First Encounter Beach. Volunteers helped roll back many of the black whales, which flects the general contraction SALE S5t MM 1 (Vll IWnl. lt SALE II SIOQ of CMJCrCMXiMo sector over the last several years," said Heffernan. 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Marilyn Schmidt, a volunteer from Centerville who spent the night with a whale nicknamed Bianca, said, "We got eye contact from her, we talked to her and she was doing OK. Let's give her a chance. This is ridiculous." Mrs. Schmidt, 51, said about a dozen volunteers rolled a tarpaulin under Bianca. As veterinarians discussed killing her for humanitarian reasons, the group pulled her free jnto the channel at 3:30 p.m. She by beaching themselves. GREAT I CHRISTMAS I GIVING ! l Cocktail or End X'MC um, two were being cared for in a small body of water called Salt Pond and the status of two others was unknown, said Andrea Conley, an aquarium spokeswoman. Neither she nor other officials could say exactly how many whales died late this week. The lethal injections were the "most humane solution" for the whales, which suffer out of water of and heavy rains, and started I that stranded themselves, two were at the New England Aquari- under the crush feeding on squid. 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