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...property back from the new, absentee owners and working for them as tenant farmers. When farm children grow up, they must sometimes seek other occupations, because land prices are so high that they cannot afford the life their parents led. Complains Vernon Conrad, vice president of California's Fresno County farm bureau: "Buying by outsiders is taking away the family-based farming communities that have helped make this country what it is." Laws preventing or limiting foreign ownership of land have been enacted in Nebraska, Indiana and Iowa, and the Illinois legislature this week will consider a prohibition...
...enormous lobbying campaign against enforcement, complete with full page ads in the Washington Post. They went to court and argued that an environmental impact statement (which would delay enforcement by at least a year) was required before the rules could be carried out. A federal district court in Fresno, California ruled in their favor. Taylor, a champion of the 160-acre restriction since the 1920's, has dismissed the lawsuit as "another one of their delaying tactics. If you include human beings in the environmental impact, the result is clear," he said recently...
Whatever the merits of the suit, it appears that the Carter administration has taken this opportunity to soften its support of the original law. Andrus now maintains that "a statement should be prepared whether required by the law or not. For that reason, we will not appeal the Fresno decision." And during his recent trip to the Rockies Vice President Walter Mondale told the recalcitrant landowners that Carter will ask Congress to approve a sliding scale of acreage limitations based on the type of land and the crops grown on it. However Mondale did not specify to what extent...
...might also have added: How many preachers can produce 1,285 new church members in a week's work? Graham's results, moreover, are far better than those from Bill Bright's much ballyhooed "Here's Life, America" campaign. In a study of Indianapolis and Fresno, Arn's institute found that a dismal 97% of the people who made "decisions to accept Christ" over the telephone never joined a church...
Another major concern among Hispanics is that the provision for $1,000 fines for those hiring illegals without work permits will prompt many employers to protect themselves by not hiring anyone of Hispanic descent. At their convention in Fresno, Calif., Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers union condemned the program as an attempt "to promote wholesale discrimination in employment against all workers who have dark skins and speak languages other than English...