European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 18, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday november 18, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 1986 farm profits $52 billion us a says Washington a Farmers earned a record s52 billion in 1986, due mostly to declining is pc pcs. According loan annual report released Mon Day by the agriculture department. The us a economists also said that a further easing of production costs May help Send net Cash income up again this year to Sci when $54 billion and ji8 billion. Net Cash income is inc difference be tween Faizi Reccitti anti Umili expenses. One big reason for the decline in total farm expenses has been acreage cutbacks in major crops under the governments various commodity pro Grams. Last year the report said Farmers planted 328 million acres to major crops a decline of 5.6 million acres from i98s. Corn and Rice yields reached record High Levels but wheat yields fell to their lowest level since 1980," the report said. Total crop production fell an average of 8  Farmers paid less for feed feeder livestock fuels motor supplies fertilizer chemicals tractors and building and fencing the report said. The costs of capital replacement investment in build Ings and machinery also fell for most Farmers the report said. Most crop growers and some livestock produced -1 of Warrn states a Elj mated Nom Rof farms Obj uni 1, 19s7 Chogo Tab i cd Phi source . It Pitt we of however received lower Market  the Cost of feed which is produced by other farm ers declined 9.1 percent last year following a 14.5 percent decline in 1985. Analysis said thai Tor cow calf operations feed accounted for 64 percent of total variable costs in 1986 for Farrow to finish hogs 79 percent and for Dairy 63 percent. The drop in feed prices contributed heavily to lower livestock production costs the report said. By cause feed prices changed for grains and supplements hog Farmers benefited even More than cattle product  fuels and Energy costs declined about 20 percent particularly benefiting crap producers who depended on on farm drying and irrigation and Dairy operators. Interest rates stabilized at around 10 percent and we cup cited them to remain steady in the immediate future the report said. Actual interest expenses fell for All crop and livestock enterprises except  the report for 1986 included information collected in us a s annual farm costs and returns Survey which involves interviews with about 25,000 Farmers and ranchers each february and March. The information is used to compile nationwide estimates. Son of actress kills his wife 2 daughters himself. I 111 i _ �n.i,. Nam id u4ninn in Niit a to in Mari Irnel leave for about three acc Little Rock Ark. A an in vestment banker shot and killed his wife and two Young daughters and then look Hii own life monday possibly be cause of financial troubles police said. A rubber mask of an old Man s face was found near the body of John Mark be the 45-year-old son of Academy award winning actress Mercedes Mccambridge and probably was worn during some of the shooting police sol. Eddie Alexander said. Markle s wife. Chris 45, was found in her bed on the third floor of the House shot in the head and his iwo daughters Amy 13, and Suzanne 9. Were found in a bed on the second door police said. Amy had been shot in the head and Suzanne was shot in the head and twice in the Chest police said. All three were wearing nightgowns. Markle who was in Street clothes was shot in i in head. A arc speculating it May have been problems Al work ale incr said. We heard he May have had financial trouble and Are checking into  a two line Handwritten note was found on Markle s desk on the ground floor beside his body police said. They said the note said Markle had killed his wife and daughters and that no one else was involved but did not give a motive the scene is what you would expect to find when somebody s been shot at close Range with pretty High velocity pistols and we re having. To piece in together very carefully said Pulaski county Coroner Sieve Nawojczyk. He said As Many As three pistols two ,38-Calibcr and one .45-Caiibcr May have been used. Markle was a vice president of Stephens inc., an investment banking firm that Bills itself As the largest brokerage House off Wall str Cal. According to the securities Industry association year Book the company had capital of $418.8 million As of Jan. I making it the 15th largest investment House in the nation. Police said they had been told Mark lean economist who had been with the firm eight years had been fired or had resigned recently but company spokes Man Steve Stephens said he had been on medical t weeks. Stephens said he did nol know the reason for inc medical leave. A Stephens executive who asked nol to be named said Markle a i suffered major heart problems in the last couple of years and had undergone bypass sur Gery. Richard Lawrence a Friend of Mark be notified police after Markle called him at 4 a.m., said Iacre was an Emer gency at the House and to come Over and then Hung up. Mccambridge who won an Oscar in 19so As Best supporting actress for her role in All the King s men was Noti fied of the shootings and was flying to Little Rock by private plane Stephens said. Nurse admits Hupt Mann s widow won t give up he injected deadly drugs Appeal filed in Lindbergh baby Case Hauppauge . A a 25 year old nurse told authorities monday he injected Hospital patients with potentially lethal drugs so he could play hero and revive them said prosecutors investigating Al least 10 deaths. He thought he could always bring them Back. He knows in some cases he did to said assistant District attorney Edward Jablonski head of the homicide squad after the arrest of Richard Angelo. Angelo a registered nurse from the Long Island Community of Lindenhurst was arraigned on a single count of first degree assault and is id be held without ban while a grand jury investigates the Case and considers other charges. Bodies must be exhumed and autopsies performed before investigators can determine How Many deaths can be linked to the Case Jablonski said. Angelo was taken into custody sunday while m  for emergency medical technicians. According to authorities he told them that each week from september to mid october he administered either Paulon or Anestine through intravenous lines to one or two patients at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip where he had worked since april. The powerful paralysing drugs would induce respiratory arrest and Angelo would then use emergency apparatus to save the pal incl according to Suffolk county District attorney Patrick Henry. Trenton . Up the ailing elderly widow of Bruno Richard Haupl Mann executed for the Lindbergh baby kidnapping a half Century ago. Tiled an Appeal monday of a judge s rejection of her most recent Effort to Clear her Hus band s name. The Appeal seeking a hearing before the 3rd , circuit court of appeals in Philadelphia comes iwo months after a Federal judge in Trenton ruled the statute of limitations had Long ago run Oul on efforts to Force a reconsideration of Hauptmann Scase. Anna Hauptmann three Days Short of her 89th birthday said monday she at tended a news conference 10 announce the Appeal despite her failing health to demonstrate that she would nol give up Tiu i  the world must know thai my Hus band was innocent said Hauptmann whose husband was new cried in 1936 after being convicted in Hunter Don county of the 1932 kidnapping and Mur Der of the infant son of aviation Pioneer Charles Lindbergh. He died for a crime he did not com Mit and he did not know anything about Hauptman said slightly trem bling in a frail voice with a pronounced German accent. Hauptmann previously filed suit against the state of new Jersey in 1981, but lost that Case on the trial and Appel late Levels. The supreme court refused to consider an Appeal. Her latest suit filed last year is based largely on More than 22,000 pages of documents related to the Lindbergh Case discovered two years ago among the per Sonal effects of the late Harold o. Hoffman who was new Jersey s Gover nor at the time of the trial and execution. Robert Bryan a san Francisco attorney who has been pursuing the Case since 1981 without charging a fee said those documents and others he would enter into evidence describe repeated instances of prosecutor a bribing witnesses and us pressing documents in order to gain a conviction. . District judge Garrett e. Brownjr. Dismissed the second suit on technical grounds in september ruling among other Points that the statute of limitations had run out on Hauptmann s claim a rehash of Fth first. Bruno Hauptmann we arrested in 1934 after he was traced As the source of some of the $50,000 in Ransom Money paid by Lindbergh the aviator who was the first to Fly Solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The infant Charles Lindbergh or. Disappeared from his family s Home in Hopewell  on March 1, 1932, about five years after his father s pioneering flight. I body was found in May 1932. . To Cut distribution of free food Washington not the administration plans to reduce like free distribution of cheese milk Honey and Rice by 50 percent in the coming year Federal officials said monday. An average of 15 million to 18 Mil lion people now receive the free food every month according to the agric us lure department and inc House Agri culture committee. Officials of the department s food and nutrition service said the govern ment s inventory of surplus milk and cheese Hai been dramatically reduced As a result of payments to 14.000 Dairy Farmers to reduce their herds. In Addi Tion the government has reduced the support payments to Farmers. Department officials gave these Coli males for 1988 distribution cheese 210 million pounds Down from 420 million pounds in 1987 dry milk 48 million pounds Down from 96 million pounds this year Rice 40 million pounds Down from 180 million pounds and Honey 48 million pounds Down from 96 million pounds