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Show Earth to Fcrl Effects 'f iH1 ' fx ! ? V'f i W ifx: " p" y S." ' v ' ' y N't oxv '' V x V' 4 yy AM A .''' V ' ' Associated Press Leserphoto Cowboys working for rancher Wayne Besler of Bison, S.D., herded 4,500 steers over 80 miles to stockyard at St. Onge, S.D. Besler said it saved money, but caused a lot of headaches. i'lif Sail Lake Tribune. Tucsd., New York Times Scr ic A weather report for NEW YORK the solar system this week might read something like this. Fair, light winds, but gathering storms The sun, in fact, is relatively quiet these days insofar as an inferno of thermonuclear reactions can be quiet but it is entering a period that scientists predict could be one of the most turbulent on record, a time of roiling magnetic forces, twisting and knotting just beneath the surface, with menacing blemishes like storm clouds on the surface, and great explosions that spew hot gases and intense radia tions out into interplanetary space Effects on Earth And when the sun is stormy the effects can be seen and heard on Earth When the flares of solar gases and radiation reach Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere, they can cause severe distruptions in radio and television communications, surges m power transmission lines, blaming auroral displays extending far from the polar regions, possible radiation danger to g airplanes and passengers of possible reductions in the orbiting lifetimes of spacecraft. Some scientists suspect that increased solar activit.v also influences earth's weather. Newts Scene Race Violence Erupts at East School - fight between black and white students inside Charlestown High School was the only major incident reported at any of the citys desegregated public schools Monday the first day of stepped-u- p security. seven black and Thirteen students six white were suspended for three days after the incident, said school department spokesman Fred Foye. No injuries were reported in the fight on the fourth floor shortly before classes were to begin. All I know is that there was a fight on the fourth floor between blacks and whites, said Charlestown Police Capt. Joseph McCormack. BOSTON OJP1) A high-flyin- In one of natures many cycles, tlic-times of maximum solar activity occur every 11 years and last for main months. The current solar maximum, as it is called, is expected to reach its eak early in 1980. But already some 4X) scientists from the United States and 17 other countries are combining their talents and observational resources to study the sun during this period in an attempt to understand the nature and causes of two most obvious e Workers Strike A statweide HONOLULU (UPI) strike by 7,700 state and county government blue collar workers halted garbage collections Monday and disrupted some other services. A court order preented 15,850 other public employees from joining the United Public Workers Union walkout. About 200 Hawaii Natioal Guard troops called out by acting Governor Jean King were posted outside the state prison and other correctional facilities. They were prepared to take over food handling, housekeeping chores and guarding of inmates if prison personnel joined the walkout. Police Hunt Sniper Police (AP) that they still had no motive or suspects in a sniping that killed a couple in a crowded shopping center parking lot as the womans three OKLAHOMA said Monday CITY children watched. Were just checking out anything and everything trying to establish a motive and a suspect. said Sgl. Mike Heath. We dont have any suspects or a motive yet. Detectives questioned witnesses who man leave said they saw a blond-haire- d the area in a dark sedan after the said shooting Sunday. Investigators they believe the man might be the sniper. Jesse Eugene Taylor, 42, and Marion Vira Bresette, 31, were loading grocery bags into a car shortly before 5 p.m. when someone opened fire with a rifle from across the street. d Train Derailment The derailOFFERLE, Kan. (AP) ment of three Amtrak sleeper cars Monday, injuring 24 persons, was the second derailment of Amlrak's Southwest Limited in Kansas this month. The derailment occurred after an angle bar, which is used to hold two allowpieces of rail together, broke to of rails sections the separate, ing railroad investigators said. Santa Fe Railway spokesman Richard Bradley said the stretch of track had been inspected visually Friday and no flaws were reported. Benjamin Dies R. MANHASSET, N Y, (AP)-Rob- erts. Benjamin, former chairman of United Artist Corp. and a long-tim- e lawyer and movie executive, died Monday at North Shore University Hospital. He was 70, Benjamin, a resident of Kings Point, wa active in Democratic national pohtie ad aorvod at one time as U.S. ambassador to the U rated Nations am I i UunMixlai native ol Mew fork City, Benjamin began ht caroer as an office boy for the New Yank Flint Baaed of Trade inl924 A atop horses to drive their cattle across the windswept South Dakota prairies, just as their grandfathers did at the turn of the century. We went through a period when energy was too cheap, said Y?rn It was Rausch, a Hoven rancher. cheaper than lalxir. Now the situation is reversing and energy is worth more than our time again. So well spend the time trailing the cattle rather than burning the energy, he said. First Major Drive Clair Smith ran the first major drive tills year, herding some 1,500 cattle 75 miles to Belle Fourche in western South Dakota early in September. The biggest drive in local memory, got under way two weeks later when rancher Wayne Smiths brother-in-laBesler of Bison, enlisted 70 cowboys to herd 4,500 steers as far as 75 miles to a stockyard in St. Onge, just north of Deadwood. I decided when I got those 4,500 cattle together that I probably had more guts than brains, Besler said. That was one hell of a bunch of cattle. It stretched out five or six miles at times. The biggest problem was getting permission to cross private land then cutting and repairing fences as the herd passed through, he said. Besler chewed antacid ( j t tablets throughout the drive and worried about getting an ulcer, but he said the run was profitable. I felt we saved quite a lot of money doing it, he said. It would have cost us $15,000 to ship them and I figured we saved $10,000 or $12,000 of that. And we may have saved enough energy to heat a small town, he added, "because those big trucks don't go very far on a gallon of fuel. Besler said his steers lost some trek, but weight during the week-lon- g gained it back in two days rest at the stockyards. The labor cost was almost minimal, he said. Everyone who went along volunteered for the privilege of doing it. Of the 70 cowboys, I only paid four of them because they knew the country and I knew I had to have them. Tickled to Death The rest were volunteers who were tickled to death to be doing it, he said. Id guess my major expense was food. "And booze, a lot of booze interjected Chuck Bellman, a Wecota rancher who will head three smaller drives this fall. People who sleep out overnight need a lot of something to keep them warm. Bellman plans to drive about 1,000 cattle east from their summer pasture near Seneca to his ranch for the winter. That's becoming more frequent,; he said. Ten years ago, when the price of diesel was much lower, you could1 afford to ship these cattle around. Most of the truckers didnt charge very much because they knew we were losing ) money. Now that were getting a little more for our livestock, they feel free to charge us a little more too, he added. Cattle were selling Monday for $65 to $66 per hundredweight, a fairly attractive price to many cattlemen although each rancher has a different breakeven point. At that price, a single owner could make about a $75 profit (per steer), which is opposed to the $200 to $250 losses in 1975-76said Rausch, who began two years ago the practice of driving his 500 cattle 20 miles home to his Hoven ranch. Its exciting for cattlemen to see this," he said, "although its going to take a few years of mending (to recoup past losses). The cattle market is pretty good right now," agreed state Agriculture Secretary Clint Robert.,. "But theyre ball right now, and playing catch-u- p every cent they can get goes toward notes." paying back-du- e run . sgOsiw 0 ," Savings Most Important Rausch estimates that transportation costs are only 10 percent of the cost of producing a cow, that can be important in a tightly competitive market. Bellmans partner, for instance, for two years has driven about 1,000 yearlings from pastures near Seneca about 40 miles northwest to his Hoven ranch. Bellman estimated the driving cost at $0. The cost of shipping would be nearly $2,588 each time. On occasion, we used hi drive them home when R wasnt convenient to get thorn on the trucks, Bellman said. "But now we're driving them all home you don't have to think twice today Although Stop by Auerbach's on Tuesdays youll double your savings! Tuesday is Double Eagle Stamp Day which means you get twenty Eagle Stamps with every dollar purchase at Auerbachs, twice as many as the ten you receive on other days. When you shop at Auerbachs on Tuesdays, you fill your books doubly fast. A filled book is redeemable for 3.00 in Auerbachs Credit Offices at Fashion Place and Cottonwood Mall and you can use it to buy any merchandise at Auerbachs, whether regularly priced or on sale. Shopping at Auerbachs on Tuesdays (and every other day) is a doubly good way to save money! Y aspects of solar storms, sunspots and solar flares SHar Maximum Year They are .nvolved in a program known as the Solar Maximum Year, which actually will last 19 months It started Aug 1 and will continue through February 1981 The principal suppoi! for the research effort is provided by the National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration A number of telescopes around the world and remote sensors on spacecraft at various locations throughout the solar system will he tracking the solar storms and their effects In February. NASA plans to launeh its Solar Maximum Mission, a spacecraft with six telescopes for observing from Earth orbit different kinds of radiations related to solar storms (Copy right As Fuel Costs Soar U.S. 23, 1979 Sim Entering Period of T urbulence Cattle Drives Revived By Eric Newhouse Associated Press Writer Down home on the PIERRE, S.D. range, the discouraging word is diesel Ainid rising fuel prices, ranchers used to herding their cattle onto trucks for the drive to market are organizing a different kind of drive these days the cattle drive. To save shipping costs, some ranchers are rounding up extra cowhands, stocking a chuckwagon and climbing Oetohcr i |
