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Directed by Luis Bu...
...BU Trombone Ensemble presents seasonal brass music including 16th century, contemporary and jazz works, conducted by Ronald Barron. 855 Comm Ave Monday...
Also on Monday, a program of contemporary songs at BU. Guest artist Margarita Scack, soprano, sings works of Stelarc, Beurle, Copelent and Cage. Jacob Sleeper Hall, 871 Comm Ave. The recital begins at 8 p.m. For information, call...
...these days of depressed grain prices, many American farmers consider themselves lucky if they can cover their production costs. But one eastern Montana farmer, Gene Voss, did better-if on a small scale. With his winter wheat selling for less than $2 per bu. and costing $3.50 per bu. to produce, Voss proposed a barter deal to William Roesgen, editor of the Billings Gazette. "I believe wheat should be $6 per bu.," wrote Voss. "I would gladly bring you 9¼ bu. for one of your subscriptions...
...year, Roesgen accepted the offer as a way of dramatizing the farmers' plight. Then, sowing the seeds of a new kind of circulation campaign, he ran a front-page headline announcing that the paper would swap print for wheat at the federal support price of $3.05 per bu. (Meanwhile, the subscription price was raised to $61-or 20 bu. of wheat.) In ten days the Gazette had exchanged 100 new subscriptions for 2,000 bu. of wheat, which it stored in a parking lot next to the newspaper building and then sold for $2.10 per bu...