European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 02, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 b the stars and stripes tuesday april 2,1991 prime crops in by Diane Duston the associated press on Quarter of americans food and its fruits and vegetables Are grown in California. So in this fifth year of the longest drought in a Century its natural to wonder what will happen to Al those crops. Even with recent rain arid Snow the drought is still a pro blend but food experts say consumer items like pro Ducc and processed foods made from any of Canfor Niass 200 different crops wont be cutbacks will be in Rice Cotton and other annual Field crops that use a lot of water and Are less valuable than consumer items like fruits vegetables and nuts said Emil Loe of the state department of agriculture. A irrigation water will be used to protect those crops of higher value a Loe said. A we done to want to lose fruit Trees and growers of those consumer crops also May buy water from Cotton wheat Corn and Rice Farmers. The latter would get government compensation anyway if they can to Plant this year. There Are also other options including pumping Well deciding that this would be a Good year to drastically prune some Trees. Since most seasonal crops Arentt planted yet its too Early to Guage the drought s Impact for 1991. But National supermarket executives and Federal officials who Deal with droughts freezes and disease every year in one growing Region or another say the dry spell in California wont affect the abundance americans expect at their grocery stores. First the United states is unmatched when it comes to growing and transporting food. _. Second California has always depended on irrigation for farming and developed an extremely flexible system for getting water to crops and livestock. It allocates most of its fresh water to that purpose. \ cows for example Are big water users. Not Only do they drink 28 Gallons of water a Day and get washed with an additional 50 Gallons daily but they eat two of the thirst est crops grown a Alfalfa arid Cotton seed. California is the second largest producer of milk in the country and its herds Are the largest in the world. Experts say the Industry a water Supply is David Ikari Branch chief for the state Bureau of milk stabilization said there Are plenty of crops that cows can eat besides Alfalfa and Cotton. Quot v before the Rains even started the fruit and Vecta Bles growers said confidently that Consumers can expect Only Normal fluctuations in Price and Quality. Though fruit Trees Are Only in the blossoming stage now most Trees get their water from Wells and should be in decent shape claim agricultural specialists. Connecticut towns face loss of historic party line phones Woodbury architect Robert Keating is one of the approximately 100 customers who will lose their party lines. Woodbury Conn. Apr in the bucolic to is of Western Connecticut where farmhouses and anti is shops Dot the rolling Hills about 100 people Are hanging onto a piece of the past the Telephone party line. But As the Woodbury Telephone co. Starts to up Inlo the age of comp Grade its equipment this Spring the holdouts will All be switched to private fines forced ii Terizer telecommunications. Woodbury Telephone itself a relic from the Days of Small Independent phone companies has received per a Mission from state regulators to replace the last of its two and four party lines with private lines. A a Southern new England Telephone co., which serves 1.5 million customers compared with Woodbury s 16,000, eliminated its last party line in january. Around the nation the number of party lines has been steadily decreasing. But one study in 1987 by the United states Telephone association said there were still 2.8 million people on party lines. That a Down from about 4.6 million it 1985, the organization said. Although the party line is going the Way of hand cranked telephones j. Garry Mitchell Woodbury Tele phones president sees no reason to mourn. He Calls party lines old fashioned and has been trying to abolish them for two decades. Party lines were popular from 1910 until the Early l96 is he said. Customers share the same line but have separate Telephone even the people with party lines mostly older customers say they be put up with the occasional inconvenience of finding someone else already on the line More for Economy than out of a sense of 1961, Woodbury Telephone charged $6 a month for a two party line $4.95 for a four party line and $7.25 for a private line to this Day those costs Haven to risen More than 50 cents per month. A a Robert Keating a 61 year old Woodbury architect who grew up with a party line says he has one now because its the cheapest Way to have separate Telephone numbers for his Home and the business he operates out of his House. Still having party lines is a sort of Nice in a Way a he said. of keeps the town Rural. In previous times party the primary source of gossip for Many who did no to hesitate to eavesdrop on the conversations of their in new Yor Rescue canine from wire reports new York a a German Shepherd was rescued from Brooklyn a Gowan us canal by City. Workers who said the dogs eyes a seemed to say a please come save a. V a Quot a a a a a emergency service unit officers summoned at about 4 30 . Sunday found the dog in about a foot of water tinder a pier. But they said the tide was coming in and the animal would have been swept away if they had not arrived. The dog nicknamed a a Lucky by one of his rescuers was in Good condition after he was pulled from he water and was staying at a police facility in Brooklyn until a Home could be found for him. A the poor Mutt he turned around and looked at us with these eyes that so emed to say a please come save me a a said officer Joseph Zogbi Chicken Little award Maplewood . A the National anxiety centers a Chicken Little award has gone to Ibon Browning the scientist who predicted a catastrophic earthquake along the Midwest a new Madrid fault last year that never happened. Alan Caruba founder of the Maplewood Center explained the reason for the award a Browning managed to scare the daylights out of people in seven midwestern states provide one of the most dubious news stories of the year and demonstrate that anyone with a . Is Given free reign to create a High level of Public r a a a a a a a a a a a a a Caruba said astronomer Carl Sagan was Given honorable mention a for keeping everyone nervous with theories Afi out nuclear Winter global warming and even the possibility of being hit with an s body found in . Arcadia a authorities on sunday re covered the body of a Man who was swept away by a rain swollen Creek the Day before his wedding. Saul White jr., 28, disappeared after a car his Fiancee was driving Slid off a wet Road Friday night and plunged into Muddy Creek about 80 Miles West of Raleigh. _ _ his Fiancee Janet , 38, escaped out a car window and swam to safety authorities said. The two were to have married fired at movie Oklahoma City a two gunmen fired on a movie crowd leaving the drug gang thriller a new Jack City a injuring one person. No arrests were made by sunday in the shooting the night before said police sgt. Roger wag non a i have no idea if the shootings were gang related or if it was connected to the movie a wag non said. A a an unidentified Man suffered a minor gunshot wound when shots were fired in the movie theater sparking lot Wagnon said. A. A new Jack City opened March 8 around the United states. Violence broke out at the movies openings in several cities j the Warner Bros movie starring Welsey Snipes rapper ice to and Judd Nelson is showing in about 800 Heaters across the Chick hatched. Los Angeles a a 6-ounce California Condor Chick has chipped out of its Shell at the los Angeles zoo the second of the endangered species to Hatch this year. The Chick emerged from its bluish White Shell saturday night and dined sunday on minced mouse Puree said Mike Wallace the zoos Bird. Curator \ a a the Bird was named Pawko a Kawai Isu Indian word for Condor Wallace said. Its sex will be determined by blood tests in about three months. The hatching brings to 42 the number of California condors housed at the zoo and the san Diego wild animal Park including one that hatched at the zoo March 17. Zoo officials Hope to release some of the Birds to the wild later this year. J
