European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago in column the stars and stripes Friday october 24. Future turning sour in sugar City Brand Rooney sugar City Colo. It in l often a columnist gels to put a sugar City dateline on a Story but that s where i am As i write. Sugar City is a Little East of Ordway and North of Rocky Ford. Otherwise it s out in the Middle of Miles and Miles of not much of anything in the Plain of Southeastern Colorado. If sugar City were a patient in a Hospital doctor would list it at critical. America is facing a death inthe family. The patient on the critical list is the Amer ican Fanner and if the Farmer goes so Wilt the hundreds of Little Arm towns like this one. We might As we face the sad fact that the Tanner is a disappearing Breed. Every Farmer Hai a theory about what wrong. There s something Hue about every theory but the prob Lem is bigger than any one of them and none of the theories mailers anyway. All that matters is thai Roost of the Farmers Are going broke. They re going to have to abandon their farms. There s no sense rating they la have to sell their farms because there Are no buyer the big cities like Colorado Springs Are gobbling up the Farmers water in this area and once Desper ate Farmer sell his water rights to pay his debts he can forget farming. If Norman Rockwell had been looking for a Model american Farmer for the cover of the old saturday evening Post be could have used albeit Siegfried of sugar City. Albert and Hilda Siegfried Are in Good shape compared id most he s a Good and careful Farmer and Hilda brings in Money working As an accountant while he s in the Fields. Albert works his 1 0 acres alone because he can Tel anyone to help him 10 he worries a lot about getting old. He Stin can do the work because he Bat lot of heavy farm equipment but he s Given up grow ing anything thai has to be picked by band. He Baa gone into the cattle business and what he grow most now is com and Alfalfa for the animals. Albert buy 400 head of Youn every Spring. Each weighs about Callie at auction pounds when he gets in an the pay perhaps 72 cents a Pound Oral 15,000 for All 400. He takes care of the cattle and feeds them for is months until they weigh 600 to too pounds. Then he Seils them to a feed lot. The heavier an animal is the toss it brings per Pound to be Only gets 62 Cen i but they each weigh 200 to 300 Pound More so Albert might collect $174,000 when he Selb if All goes right that s the catch a 1976 All went wrong wifi the Price of beef and he lost $28,000. He still has t recovered. Even if All goes right and he collects $60,000 More than he paid for the cattle he has to run his farm before he has anything for himself. A growing steer eat so pounds of food a Day Fields need fertilizer tractors require fuel and maintenance. Money. I did t ask but i la bet it s a satire actor year when Albert has $10,000 left after expense. I would hate to think what his hourly wages Are with the hours he Pun in. We go to bed at night pretty depressed some times be says. Yon wonder Why you re doing all1hi work for nothing but then you get up in the morning and go right Back at in because that s what you be always the Siegfried were Able to put their two boy through College and they come Home to help some on the farm but they re both teaching now. Imagine me having two sons teaching in College Albert says laughing. Farmers like Albert Siegfried who have sons who Leavitte farm Are sad to fee them go but they u Nde stand. Sugar City is a microcosm it s difficult to believe Obi civilization cant organize its Way out of Tobii Mem and save two cultures in the process. In one Comer of the Earth people Are starving to death for tack of food i this Comer death comes to the pm from too much. Everyone wants to get in the act Byah Buchwald for the past week i have been trying to find out who was responsible for the c-123 cargo plane that was Shol Down Over Nicaragua. Everyone seem to be taking credit far in. The White House folks say that the Reagan administration was Don t approve of air planes that Fly Over marxist countries we have Diplo Matic relations with but we re always willing to make an . If we can t violate the Laws of Congress to wage a secret War then we have no right to Call of undies the White who helped you do the Job the Abraham Lincoln brigade. They fought on the loyalist Side during the Spanish civil War and they we reaching for action again. What gets you mad u that maj. Gen. be did it All with his who is Gen. Sia Glaubit herons bed timed for the centres in h i went to see Gen. Singlaub. Are you involve with the plane hat was downed in Nicaragua i did t know plane had been Shol Down but if there was Well take credit for it was one of ours not one of you mean one of mine. No plane flies Over Nicaragua without my then the Cia had nothing to do with itt they always brag about being part of t Covert operation whether they ire or not. Maybe i should a William Casey. His footprint re All Over Central when i Cabot and asked for Casey i was told he was t there. Where is be i inquired. He s on the Hill idling everyone that the Cia we up to its ears in Monkey Dusini in Managua. He afraid someone else will get the you would think he d want to deny it since it u against the Covert operations eels you nowhere. Be sides we Tuscon Lect most of our work in Central America and if u leaked out that we did t do our own illegal air drops the press might think we re up to no spite of what you re telling me i assume you do have a cover Story denying any involvement in this our cover Story i that the Pilot of the c-123, whom we did t know took Oft from Miami which we be never heard of on a crop spraying flight to Green Bay wis. The plane ran into bad weather t and,.to save fuel dumped All the guns and ammunition it was carrying Over what be thought was , Tome Alabama Duck Hunten fired on the plane forcing it Down Over is that the be the of can come of with it did sound better in the briefing Damn responsibility for the c-123 plane even vice president George he s always loved Covert called Bush. Or. 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