Show - -- - - 2A The Salt Lake Tribune Monday June 27 - - - Drought May Dry Up- US Economy Continued From A-- I was one of the worst in our history" said Jay Humphreys a Forest Service spokesman Fire destroyed almost 13 million acres of forest last year causing losses of more than WO million "After the fire's out you have a serious problem with erosion which strips the land bare and then silts into the creeks" Humphreys said Erosion already has been a problem in much of the Farm Belt as valuable topsoil blew away So much dust accumulated in the ditches of a farmer near Alverado Minn that he used a snowblower to push it back in the fields — City and state government From Los Angeles to Sioux Falls SD to small towns in Kentucky communities have had to deal with shrinking water supplies Los Angeles and San Francisco both have conservation efforts under way to cut water use By Oct 13 everyone in Los Angeles will be required to use new high efficiency shower heads the city now is distributing Sioux Falls a city of about 100000 had to begin taking water from the Big Sioux River for the first time in history to meet its needs In Kentucky several small communities now have enough water to last only for the next two or three weeks unless strict conservation efforts are implemented said Leon Smothers water resources manager for the state "We're trying to drive home how serious this is because its virtually impossible to deal with an outage for communities of this size — to make sure that everybody there gets bottled water can be almost impossible" Smothers said The hardest hit states also are experiencing a dramatic change in their economies In North Dakota where as much as 70 percent of the grain crop may have been destroyed by the drought the tax department faces the prospect of shrinking revenues Heidi Heitkamp state tax commissioner said the state might face cutting government services to keep the budget balanced "Whatever we're going to get in federal aid isn't going to replace what's been lost in crop damage" she said She noted that the drought hit just as the Farm Belt had started to struggle out of a prolonged farm depression "You have farmers who've had ' -- e- - --''- "-7- -- 4' 1- - -— - -- ' months- - - 4 7 4 ''t e 4 k 1 4 'P ) - e 4''' 4 --- — — - - - -4 - -— iM6iia100 - - --- ''' m-44- --- 1 -0 - — '''''''1 e A4- - ---- -- — - - — --- i ! — - - - -- - -- i ' - ---- -- - f 4 re' -- - ' - 1 4 "' 7: 'i i A v' 4 - ' 77-0g' 4"44 1 ''' 4 ''- - -'''" '—' 40- - " - '-- Z L:4p: - --- - I - 4' 4 '4'44- "I -'7- -A - ' - - '" ' ' 4' it At - 40 -- iee-- - f:' 0' ' - 1 ii ' 'A ' oltisom0 "— ' ''' '4 - 4 e 4 - '4''''-- - - -r --- 7 (: ' - 4 ' - - -- - ' A " Sv 04 - ' " "---- t:- "'' 'Aor - 4' le114''' l ' ' ' -- - - - At "4"e""b--ri - ' A AS - tr 4 ' - ' - ' 04: -- 42 4 -- ' ' s - s - f t - t'l fo' - 0 - 04 1 4 4 0 -- )' "1 vo —Associated Press Laserphoto Receding Mississippi has left desert in its wake near Memphis Tenn where more than 1000 barges are backed up difficult times for seven years and thought they saw the light at the end of the tunnel" she said "And then it doesn't rain It's damn unfair" — Transportation The Mississippi and Ohio Rivers still form the most important shipping route through and barges America's heartland have been backing up by the hundreds at various spots as water levels fall Robert Page head of the Army Corps of Engineers said the Corps expects to be able to keep the rivers open throughout the year but officials on the spot have not been as confident "I can't keep the river ppen Mother Nature is going to make that decision for us" said Coast Guard Cmdr Michael Donohoe when more than 1000 barges backed up behind a silted part of the Mississippi at Memphis Tenn "We've been dealing with a shortage of railroad cars for some r""" - I t Itlk N t 1 4 1 e i- - ' f' r ! ! '" 41 c '1 - N d e4 1 tv 4w141' '''''''' ' e k 71'317 ' 44t 7”' A 1101:41 0 40'''Nli - ' 0 7°''''''' 4 ) N Shocked French spectators view smoke of cloud emanating from billowing air-sho- w 41 i— 'k 1''(1' v- - f - BROOKLINE Mass couple who camped in a hospital lounge while their ailing daughter awaited a liver transplant opened a house Sunday to help other families avoid that same ordeal Charles and Marilyn Fiske held an open house Sunday at The Family Inn a renovated structure here with room for 10 families The families can stay at the house located near area hospitals for $10 per night The child who is ill is pretty well taken care of" Fiske said as dozens of neighbors builders and sponsors WASIIINGTON (AP) 'Meese plastered building walls and traffic signal boxes in the nation's capital has turned into a thriving enterprise that can't keep up with demand calling for the ouster of Attorney General Edwin Meese item HI are the hottest-sellinever stocked by Common Concerns a downtown Washington bookstore manager David Marcuse says Ile estimated that about 1000 of them have been sold so g far 'S o) ft - ' of the project toured the rambling home -- It's the rest of the fanily that can't understand why its going on It's just overwhelming If they can come some place put their feet ud and have their families come on weekends it doesnl make it go away but it just puts it in perspec- tive" The house has a large kitchen extra bathrooms several pay phones a laundry in the basement and a den with a television In the fall of 1982 a family in Alpine Utah saw a television report of - ii- - —UPI Petite' Photo dren dren a speech made by Charles Fiske at a New York pediatrician's convention pleading for help Four days later the Utah family lost their son in an accident The boys liver was transplanted into Jamie in an operation Nov 5 1982 in Minneapolis Marilyn Fiske had her hands full Sunday making sure daughter Jamie didn't make a clean sweep of a cookie tray set out for visitors Now 6 Jamie was running jumping and playing along with other youngsters at the open house a DC Fashion Fad The are produced by a group of about 60 punk rock musicians and fans who say they got into the business after they were arrested for putting up posters with the "Meese is a Pig- - slogan in places where no posting is allowed Group members say they decided to sell to get out their message in another way and to raise money to cover their legal expenses "We weren't intending to become a fashion fad" said Mark Andersen spokesman for the group t? --- 4 Depart- - - r- - - t )0010 -- 4 - I I - -- ---1 Ie' 4 - - I't - 1- 1 - LNI 7-- i s- I - -- i -- -- 4 t :-7- :z r- - 011 4a 410Illnomaksw I Uf j 1 bid bbl'''''A I 1 1 4 j -- " e i Robert Mitchum John Landis Ella Fitzgerald t i I ' 1 1 0 4 4 : 1L 7 - P 4 I eo-- — I ''''''':"-- A i - Al -- 10 I S f I k Amet' 041 e k A 1 I 4 1 rs' ment spokesman David Lane "If the river traffic gets stuck do we have enough rail cars and trucks to haul grain south and fuel and other things North? sure" — Business community Farm processing plants in the Dakotas have already shut down or cut back production because of the drought If rain doesn't fall the economic impact is expected to spread throughout much of the Farm Belt In Eureka SD (pop 1300) all the businesses on Main Street were closed at 3 pm Friday as townspeople gathered at the square to pray for rain "This fall when there's no grain to sell nothing to harvest no business at the elevator its going to be really tough" said Mayor Me II Geist "You hear a lot about the programs coming for the farmers but there's nothing coming for the businessman" Beyond that higher crop prices and shortages could cut grain exports by as much as 25 percent next year because of the drought according to Agriculture Department economists The drought which stretches from Southern California through the Midwest to the Southeast shows little sign of dissipating The government forecasts for the next week predict more hot and dry weather Steady rains within the next two weeks over the Corn Belt states of Iowa Indiana Illinois and Ohio could ease the drought in that region still saving much of the corn and soybean crop Agriculture Department officials say But they say every hot dry day brings a further reduction in final crop yields While the victims may find little comfort in this the drought has produced some scattered blessings Farmers in Kansas and other places that have escaped the worst of the drought will sell their grain in a booming market The Forest Service noted that the illegal marijuana crop raised deep in the national forests has been sharply reduced by the hot dry weather Finally fishing apparently has never been better in the Great Plains George Vendel an official with the South Dakota Fish and Wildlife Department said a record season is under way "Whenever you've got less water to chase the fish around in the fishing is just going to be better" Vendel said "Quite honestly we're just having a gangbuster's year" Continued From A-- I were making their first flight At such air shows spectators are invited to participate in an "air baptisin" or take their first flight for a small fee The plane made six flights on Saturday The A320 built in Toulouse France by a European consortium went into service in April for Air France and British Airways It was conceived and certified for flight by a crew eliminating the navigator Early this year pilots and flight engineers of Air Inter the largest French airline called a series of strikes to protest the use of only two cockpit members in A320s saying it was nnsafe In London British Airways suspended service on its two A320 aircraft as a precautionary measure pending information on the cause of the accident in Habsheim which is just outside Mulhouse and 250 miles east of Paris Air France President Jacques Friedman said that as a precaution the airline was replacing an A320 due to fly to Dusseldorf and Berlin on Sunday night with a Boeing 737 and cancelling a flight French Transport Minister Louis Mermez said a commission of inquiry would begin work Monday The Airbus A320 can carry 168 passengers Airbus Indusrie its Paris-Zuric- r- jet that clipped trees and crashed into clearing 230 miles southeast of Paris T-Shirts is a Pig" a slogan first on construction fences I T new Inn Opens for Families en (AP) — A - -: 7------- aliTismP jazzEflelsatiFyailtzingNeireawlydolrokokTedhigsrtaimndemsoltimheartnydtbseexlyasitnt suit she was more in Lena gray gown and a sparkling orange pants Home's category concert at Carnegie Hall thrilled Saturday night's JVC Jazz Festival in their 20s and 30s musicalto be seemed mostly audience which the ovations and cheering at ly as well There were spontaneous standing imitations of Louis scat growling of bits singing particularly telling notes Armstrong and triumphant high slim pants suit after interThe audience getting its first look at the -Tell lines Lizzy Arden to leave me the mission whistled and cheered alone my shape is my own" in her kickoff tune "The Lady Is a Tramp" House Is Not a Fitzgerald sang a bossa nova in Portuguese did "A Home- - when somebody yelled a request for it scatted and did some dance steps to a swinging "Stomping at the Savoy" The audience didn't want to let her go and she came back for several encores — "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" "Mack the Knife" and "I Only Have Eyes for You" She told the cheering audience she'd like to take them with her to the next gig the audience was ready to go John Landis the director who was cleared of manslaughter charges in the "Twilight Zone" movie set deaths of three actors invited the jury that found him innocent to a preview of his latest film The jurors said Landis told them to bring as many guests as they wanted to the preview of the new Eddie Murphy comedy "Coming To America" on Saturday at Paramount Studios in Hollywood "1 thought it was a really nice thing considering that he don't owe us anything" said juror Roger Aker Juror Wilbert Fisher a retired bank officer said he thought the entire jury panel attended with their families Landis apparently invited all 12 jurors and four alternates were found innocent last year in the Landis and four 1982 deaths on the set of "Twilight Zone: The Movie" Actor Vic Morrow and two child actors were killed by a crashing helicopter sequence during a Landis-directe- d Robert Mitchum famed for his "tough guy" Hollywood roles gave audiences at Portugal's leading film festival a view of acting "You turn up at the right time say the lines you're told to then go home" Mitchum 71 replied to a question last week on how he interpreted a role Then he elaborated "Sometimes they ask you to say the lines louder or softer" he added at a news conference at the fourth annual Troia Film Festival at a resort about 30 miles south of Lisbon Danny Houston son of the late American director John Houston also attended the festival for the screening of "Mr North" his debut as a feature film director The film stars Mitchum in a role that was to have been played by John Houston down-to-eart- h New French Jetliner US to Limit Jet Life Crashes at Air Show Say Officials o 1 - said Agriculture - Spotlight 1988 To date only one member of the group is making the shirts and Andersen said that "he goes to sleep gets up and makes goes to sleep gets up and makes The business got some free publicity last week after a bicycle messenger reported that he had not been admitted into the Justice Department because he was wearing the shirt But by the end of the week the Justice Department said it would allow people wearing the shirt inside the building h manufacturer has orders saddened— g said Airbus press! spokesman Robert Alizart in Toulouse He said it was the first crash of an A320 Alizart said it was too early to say whether the future of the aircraft which received its certification Feb 26 could be in doubt The plane has a range of about 3700 miles and consumes 40 percent less fuel than similar two or three engine jets It is the first civilian airliner equipped with a fully computerized flight-contrsystem the manufacturer says permits safer electronically controlled flight Instead of the old control column in front of the pilot there is a "pistol-grip- " side stick linked to five computers that modify and relay the pilot's directions to wing and tail flaps t I II iEbt CLIP AND SAVE Effects of eat Magnetic Solar Storm al t gakt Zribunt Cake Ztribunt 1t (usps 143 478)6000) South Main Dial TELEPHONE NUMBERS DENVER (AP) — Effects of a magnetic storm set off by a major solar flare last week and expected to reach Earth Monday won't be nearly as severe as first predicted federal scientists said Sunday night "We've dropped our forecast further still" said Norm Cohen of the Space Environment Laboratory part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration based in Boulder Colo Initially arrival of the magnetic storm was expected to cause major disruptions to electrical transmission and to shortwave and other communications including contact be Do you need information want sports scores have a news story or feature you want to talk abaci? 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