| Show - a J U 4'83111 7' 4- - - ur 7' - ' - " 4- - - iA7i21 But Seeds of Change Are Taking Root : A9 The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday January 21 1990 - Enviromnental Battles Crop Up on Farms The will never be the same President Bush whisked into :thi Orlando Fla Convention Center on Jan 9 to address the annual con' vention of the American Farm BuAfter taking pot : reau Federation shots at Congress he got serious : Citing the problems of pesticides in : back-fort- y ( ' WIP Alston ttgi 1 Se Chase ' foodstuffs and declining rural painted as the enemy" Manig explained Feeling plowed under by environmental hysteria they complain that laws protecting riverbanks and wetlands and restricting pesticides are too severe and that farmers are the scapegoats To some extent they are right Agriculture is not the only source of source pollution And while the dangers of pesticides must be taken seriously regulations regarding these substances are inconsistent and sometimes unreasonable But in many ecological matters farmers have been reaping a dirty harvest Profligate and sloppy irrigation practices deplete groundwater supplies and salinize millions of acres And although they have non-poi- ' future crops without chemicals They are fighting federal regulation on wetlands riparian land manage- ment wild and scenic rivers pesticides hormones and a host of other areas They are targets of environmentalists over water use and grazing allotments on federal lands And suddenly they are being blamed for a whole new series of problems from contamination to air ground-wate- r pollution The shift of concern from factories to farms is occurring almost overnight For years regulators focused on "point sources" of pollution such as commercial waste dumps because they are easy to find Now officials are becoming increasingly concerned about "non-poin- t source pollution" — poisons entering our environment from widely dispersed and less obvious sources American charge from which they must be decoupled Rather than relying on pesticides and herbicides they must find more ways to control weeds and pests biologically And they should take organic agricultural techniques more seriously But this transition will not be accomplished through conventional regulation Prohibiting certain chemicals and monitoring and fining polluters did not work well for point source pollution and will fail disassources The trously for United States cannot station an inspector behind every cornstalk By driving up the cost of agriculture it will put more small farms out of business arid invite cheating Rather the solution must lie in environmental education of both farm non-poi- 9)51-6149-8- 4 ft TAtilt115 0C: m11-13-25-3- APR 20 MAY 20 7 5V GgmlNi 20 4- frp48-68-80-9- 0 CANClit 21 SAAVUHE 22 W LEO IQ1: 1 VIRG!) AUG itA -? 2Y1 SEPi 22 1 (t-- Lead Story 0 In December a bus company under contract to the Edison Comprehensive Gifted School in Chicago disciplined a driver after she had become frustrated at getting lost one afternoon taking kids home and returned the kids to the school which was by that time locked for the day When asked by an eighth-grade- r what she was doing the driver replied "You're gifted You figure out how to get home" The Entrepreneurial Spirit — The Philippine Broadcasters' Association fined station ABS-CB$11600 for a 1988 incident in which it sandwiched the Mike Spinks boxing match with one hour of commercials — DM Institute for Canine Therapy in San Lobo Calif claims that DM (dog meditation) will cure dogs of "unsightly sniffing urges" "humping" and "hydrant sharing" "With DM your loving friend will always be there to fetch your cosmic farms regulators are major sources of this Tyson-Micha- that worrisome levels of 20 commonly used pesticides have shown up in the ground water of many states So Uncle Sam is coming down hard The EPA has established a disource vision dealing with pollution and has created the position of "farmer adviser" on its staff The National Research Council has been conducting studies on pesticides in water supplies : Many growers too are deeply concerned about these problems "You Cannot name an environmental sub-:fewe're not involved with on a State and federal basis" said Herb Manig the Farm Bureau's assistant director of natural and environmental resources But the force of the onslaught has caught their community by surprise 'For years farmers thought of themselves as conservationists Now they are shocked to see themselves non-poi- bone" — In August Cinema International Corp shipped live snakes in pro- Animalens Inc ' 4 l'"-- - l Ntt- News of A the Weird i - JChuck ': spokesman said the lenses will improductivity prove world by $600 million a year — This year Hammacher Schlemmer offered "The French Chateau Doghouse" at $2950 not counting such options as a marble floor and down-fillecushions — From Tot° Ltd of Japan comes the Sound Princess whose only function is to emit the sound of flushing water so that modest public restroom-users who flush to mask the sound of their activity will not have to waste water — S&B Shokuhin of Japan markets a gum to analyze the chewer's egg-layin- g d !' 1111i'-11- Wellesley 4 - - '1'S :i- ' ' ''' "11'''1- rt N You A 6411 1 CAPRICORN Your Changes Feeling 78 Argument 79 Most 80 Some 81 Nice 82 Take Others Quiet To Gathering Right Plans Someone Else Friendly DEC 22 JA4 19 4 t It AQUARIUS 114 JAN 20 I it FED 83 Of 64 Enjoyable 85 Alley 86 GM 87 Cover 68 Today 89Contentment 3- - 4 8-- 3 4 10 PISCES 01 Have Meditation 60 Contemplate 90 Calls FEB 19 MAR 20 121'90 qtt I ' ' ' 10 '4 '3' 3 i y 7- N —-- - t " k 1 1 '' 0 r 11 - 1U - k id 1' : ' - - dol : lf ' ' : a milk' ' - d: 10 t Jo - i73--- -' 71 11 3 w - Queen ' ! : 00000 I N: tsLr:p f I 1 b ( 4e ) ‘ ) 1 Price tnaudec headboard 07713 itattns Tnyn s::e not at allable corer and rads ' - : ft ' gi11Iv ''''' -- :- 2 1:" ': - v ' - 7 '' 7'7- z I ti ' '''''' k 7 ( - - 40-- 10 t 4 4 2 i 4 r - 91 set 2 pc i 'ft One Week Only S159 t - $249 -" - - - - A t2itim':' SL'1" - - iitlc:1 04- X ' - r-- 0 Aristocrat -1- 71-1- ' ' 5 year warranty 400 rr::' ts ci Queen 2 pc set $299 $399 King 3 pc set Ignit" '001i ' ' Full 2 pc set - 061 deVA0W-41t1 '- q Win 4 :' I ' '' ' Hotel Deluxe - 4" - : 'c'''' -1 ' ----- 1 - Iy i VwrIlr 1St cZ r v cs! t1 1:tt- - : 1 (e1 ' - 4 Twin illb t IX"? 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SAGITTARIUS ' Ar- 562-944- 2C-- - ' 0 A Caube 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 23 NOV 455778 Better Have 73 74 75 76 77 Family Admiration state-of-the-a- rt : 0 owo Shown 51 OCT 71 You 72 You 41 Is 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 pj SCORPIO 66 Made 67 Chat 68 Make 69 Fun 70 Future 36 Tell 37 Day 38 In 39 Way 40 Planning of the Air Force recently contracted with Litton Industries to build 173 fax machines for $421000 each In so doing it rejected a $15000 Magnavox machine built to the same military specifications (except that it would transmit newspaper-quality pages rather than the Litton machine's magazine-qualit- --- ?kft s Invite Time 22 Ar Ti 62 Make - WEE - Its of overcrowding — The Department ' --- 34 Be 35 For 63 By 64 Up 65 Offering rt 23 06 r markets red contact lenses for chickens (at 20 cents a pair) pointing to medical studies showing that chickens seeing red during the day are happier and eat less food A Mass — lip 61 Is : stress level by the color it turns within three minutes of chewing Turning pink or yellow is good but remaining green indicates an excess of acidity in the saliva — In September Valentine and Carol Kwiatkowski awaiting trial for murdering Valentine's daughter Anna (allegedly because she was overweight and therefore a drain on family finances) held a yard sale to raise money for their legal defense Included were some mementos of Anna Government in Action — Frank Washington 32 a Pittsburgh burglary suspect who had eluded police for months was captured in May but had to be released two days later because of a federal court order to reduce jail overcrowding A similar order freed Ronnie Fisher from Fulton County (Ga) jail but he was rearrested less than an hour later for armed robbery Los Angeles County jail critics estimate that 100000 defendants were released prematurely in 1988 because A - stir © Universal Press Synclioate i motional kits for a voodoo movie called "The Serpent and the Rainbow" and sent them to 700 video stores in England Animal protection activists complained that the instructions incorrectly stated that the snakes did not have to be fed for the month they were to be on display et ' Follow 20 Smooth 21 Running 22 Event 23 Over 24 Will 25 Active 26 Time 27 Heads 28 Your 29 Be 30 Love 22321 JAUtil 31 Day 32 Shows 33 Is 16 May Big 18 Trouble 9 To 11'14-26-38-4- 9 1 Someone Envious Through 9 With 13 Cultural 11 Another 12 Nature 13 Socially 14 Spend 15 Neighbor MAY 21 E Elder 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 iti) LIBRA t According to the Stars To develop message for SundoY reod words corresponding to numbers of your Zodioc birth sign 19 breaks and perhaps subsidies for sustainable — and cleaner — agriculture The education part has already begun The Farm Bureau has a "massive" food safety program Manig said to forestall more Alar controversies It has developed a self-hel- p kit for farms to test the purity of drinking water It has started an "Adopt a Scientist" project whereby scholars come to live with farmers for the benefit of both It is promoting "integrated pest management" — an ecological approach that minimizes use of pesticides And together with the Society for Range Management it is launching the Coordinated Resource Management Program intended to promote wise land use through cooperation between landowners state and federal agencies academics environmentalists and civic leaders Agriculture with its long tradition of conservation is entering the age of ecology By CLAY R POLLAN Your Doily Activity Guide A11 Ix Lost Bus Driver Tells Gifted Pupils to Find Own Way Home contamination Pesticides herbicides and nutrients from fertilizers and other agrichemicals are leeching into the watershed The Environmental Protection Agency reports ' ARIES MAR 21 er and public and in developing market incentives through tax long fought soil erosion many growers ignored or minimized possible downsides to pesticides and water pollution They believed too much of what Monsanto and Exxon told — and sold — them They still hitch their wagon too closely to chemical petroleum and pharmaceutical industries quality he planted the seeds for more environmental regu: lation of the barnyard But the president's message to this group representing 38 million farm : families was one it knew already: America's farmers are on the front : lines of a whole new war The na tion's environmental agenda is mov: ing from the smokestacks to the milking barn and agribusiness finds itself fighting a number of battles Farmers are besieged by animal-right- s advocates who want to liberate pigs chickens and calves They are reeling from the Alar scare of last year wondering how they will grow : ground-wate- r ' S TAR GAZE le D V A S State Street Across from Fashion Place Call Toll Free Open Daily LE 10-- 6 Sun 12-- 6 El i El t ( Sat 10-- 9 268-356- 3 V 1 I eparrreittemttw'r"4""1""f"coqrerrkwrrtrT'Inegw'"iite x1Ptc!7mnArow - - --i |
