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Wednesday, September 4, 1985
Daily Nebraskan
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By Todd von Kampen
Senior Reporter
The U.S. government Averted promot
ing the metric system about 10 years some industries, Malone said. Distilled
ago, dui Americans nave not accepted liquors are sold mostly in metric units.
lished under the act, was closed by the director. Unless the federal govern
Reagan administration Sept. 30, 1982, ment requires the changethe state is
he said. . , "not anxious to spend the money" on
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the new measurement system, a state
official said
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"To the general public, it's kind of
died down a lot," said Steve Malone of
the Nebraska Department of Agricul
ture's weights and measures division.
"Not many people are talking about it."
Although the 1975 Metric Conver
sion Act encouraged U.S. citizens and
businesses to convert to metrics, the
federal government never has made a
changoever mandatory, Malone said.
Federal interest has dwindled since
the U.S. Metric Board which was estab-
he said, while the soft drink industry
includes one- and two-liter bottles in
its packaging.
"Something in any shape or form in
your automobile will be metric," he
said. "You'd better have a set of metric
tools."
Other industries use both systems to
serve domestic and international needs.
Andy Riffe, grain merchant for the
Omaha office of Cargill, Inc., said his
company uses bushel measurements
with farmers but converts to metric
tons when selling to export companies,
since most other countries use the
metric system. Conversion costs the
company nothing, he said.
"It's much easier to do it in bushels,"
Riffe said, "both in the way the farmer
understands the market and the way
the domestic markets understand it."
Although many people understand
metric units because they learned them
in school, most are unlikely to want
metric measurements used in everyday
matters such as driving, Malone said.
"People are familiar with 55 miles
an hour and 125 miles to Kearney, and
they don't see any reason to change,"
he said.
The Nebraska Department of Roads
has no plans to add metric distances to
its road signs, said Louis Lamberty,
Malone said he thinks the U.S. met
ric movement ran its course and farther
conversion is unlikely.
"I don't see this happening in my
lifetime," he said, "and I've got a few
years to go."
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