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...West and the South, the drought still parches farmland, dries up the rivers and lakes. Denver has now joined the growing number of cities that have mandatory water rationing. In eastern Oregon, the state has opened its creeks and rivers to unlimited fishing, on the theory that most of the trout will be killed by drought before the end of the summer anyway...
...these crops also are as bright as spring sunshine. All this is the best of news to inflation-pinched consumers, who can now count on relatively moderate increases in food prices. Despite the big winter run-up in fruit and vegetable prices, caused by Eastern freeze and Western drought, the Government predicts that food prices this year will rise somewhere between 4% and 6%, v. painful leaps of 14.5% in 1973 and again...
Pangs of Plenty. The biggest headache for farmers is the growing glut of wheat. Last week the Agriculture Department forecast that despite last winter's drought and destructive winds, this year's winter wheat crop would come to 1.53 billion bu., only about 3% less than last year's mammoth harvest. The total crop, including spring wheat (harvested in the fall), is expected to be about 2 billion bu. That would be slightly less than the record 2.15 billion bu. crop in 1976-but still more than U.S. and foreign buyers combined are likely...
...relief of the farmers around Charleston, rain began falling the day before the festival, ending a six-week drought. To the relief of Menotti and his colleagues, the rain stopped just before the opening outdoor ceremony at noon the first day. From a temporary stage erected in the courtyard of the two-century-old College of Charleston, a crowd of 3,000 heard the Festival Brass Quintet begin with the Star-Spangled Banner and a brief new piece written for the occasion by Menotti, Fanfare for Charleston. Earnest speakers followed, talking of "commitment to excellence" and "art must be part...
...water-supply outlook for Nevada, Arizona, Utah, eastern Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming is "gloomy to grim." In the Columbia River Basin of the Pacific Northwest the outlook is "bleak and becoming bleaker." In parched California the National Weather Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration noted that the drought, "nearly two years old, is expected to reduce river levels this summer to the lowest ever recorded." Further, in the Great Plains area of eastern Montana, eastern Wyoming, the Dakotas and Nebraska, the water supply is 40% to 60% below normal. Ski resort operators in nine Western states earlier reported...