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thursday, September 21, 1978
page 10
daily nebraskan
Neither rain, nor wind, nor dark deters card sharks
Charity work is keeping a bunch
of college students up all night in the
rain playing pitch, spades and even
lesser-known card games.
Members of the Alpha Delta Pi
sorority and Lambda Chi Alpha fra
ternity are "playing for money" in
a green tent east of Andrews Hall at
the second annual Alpha Delta Pi
Card-a-thon. The proceeds will go to
the All University Fund.
"Sometimes it gets kind of windy,
but that's why we have a tent," said
Greg Bailey, a Lambda Chi Alpha
freshman, who got caught in the rain
Tuesday night. "It's fun".
The marathon card game began at
noon on Tuesday and will continue
until noon Friday. According to Kim
Weiland, Alpha Delta Pi philanthro
pic chairman, the rules are simple.
"You can play anything you want
to as long as all four people know
how to play." And if they don't?
"You teach them real fast," she
replied.
She said members of both houses
collected pledges from local business
es as well as students and the general
public.
Alpha Delta Pi netted more than
$2,200 during last year's Card-a-thon,
and won the Madelaine Gerald
Philanthropy Award given to the
Greek organization donating the
most money to charity.
"We hope to get at least as much
as last year," she said.
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"Where Value is Always on Sale!"
By Jeff linger
The 1978 grain harvest has begun in
parts of Nebraska, haloed by predictions of
a record crop yield. But some say all is not
well.
A large, quick harvest could drop prices,
overflow grain bins and cause storage
problems, they say.
Dr. Mike Turner, UNL agricultural
economist, said some farmers have already
started to harvest and that as soon as the
fields dry up, harvesting would begin on a
larger scale.
He said he is anticipating some storage
and transportation problems that have
been faced in the past. He said the price
level of grain depends on the speed of the
harvest.
"Price depends on how the harvest
precedes," he said. "If the weather is good,
prices may slip to the $1.60 range for corn
or lower. If the harvest is delayed by the
weather , many are hopeful prices won't
below $1.90 per bushel."
Turner said there will be two prices paid
for grain this year: the government price
and the market price.
The government price is paid to those
farmers who complied with the 1978 farm
program, he said. Those in compliance
were required to plant 20 percent less than
last year, and by doing so they would be
eligible for government loans and for a
guaranteed government support price of
nearly $2.10 per bushel for corn.
He said, however, that it is not the
government price that is used to form the
sales and market prices. Those prices are
the ones being paid to farmers who didn't
comply.
He said non-compliance farmers are not
eligible for government loans and that
many will be forced to sell their grain at
the lower market price in order to meet
expenses.
The Nebraska Crop and livestock
Reporting Service is predicting that
Nebraska's corn farmers will harvest nearly
107 bushels per acre, according to Bill
Dobbs of the service.
He said this is hot a record for all
irrigated and non-irrigated corn, but that it
is average.
The all-time record was set for irrigated
corn in 1972 when, with 48 percent of the
fields irrigated, farmers harvested 124.1
bushels per acre. That same year, non
irrigated corn yielded 85.4 bushels, making
an average yield of 104 bushels.
This year, irrigated corn is predicted to
yield 120 bushels and non-irrigated 85.4.
Dobbs said the number of irrigated fields
has risen to 71 percent this year and that
accounts for the predicted record yield.
He also predicted a record per acre
sorghum yield, but said that less sorghum
was planted this year than last.
Storing the predicted 674 million
bushels of corn seems to be a minor prob
lem this year, according to Dr. Don
Hanway, a UNL agronomist.
'The general Nebraska picture appears
that we will have as much storage as we
need," he said. "But as is often the case, it
might not be where it's needed."
He said some farmers may temporarily
be forced to store grain on the ground this
year but that the situation should be no
worse than in past years.
Transportation will be the big problem.
Hanway said the problem will be "serious
for us in Nebraska."
He said railroads will be slow in moving
the grain.
"The Burlington is not even up to
schedule now with sales made in the past,"
he said.
Hanway said that Nebraskans want a
good use and export year, but that price
will be affected if the grain has to be piled
up because of transportation problems.
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