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(Studio) Agriculture Department reports record wheat crop for year Is good news for consumers, not so for wheat farmers.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Sedgwick Cnty., Kansas) Wheat prices at Kansas City, Missouri, Board of Trade are same as in 1960's. Effects of low prices on farmers noted. Many plan to store wheat, use it as collateral to obtain government loans and never pay loan, leaving government owning wheat. [Farmer Hal WEBER - hates to see such stockpile, but difference in loan and market price per bushel has to be considered.] Congmen. from wheat states say there'll be government program to control wheat product next year
REPORTER: Mike Jackson
#494207
(Studio) General Foods says coffee profits for 2nd quarter will be below estimates because Americans have cut coffee consumption. Is evidence of consumer resistance to coffee prices; retail prices now coming down a bit.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(NYC) Reductions in coffee prices at A&P, Finast, Stop'n'Shop, Winn-Dixie and Safeway stores noted. Researcher of food sales information reports sales dropped dramatically after 1st of year Reduction in use by 2 shoppers noted. It's winter in Brazil and any indication of freeze may reverse downward trend.
REPORTER: Robert Hager
(Studio) There had been prediction of freeze in Brazil, but weather bureau there now says no serious frost expected.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) House Ways and Means Committee prepares to give President Carter more of energy plan requests on gas guzzler tax than has been given on other energy issues.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) Committee had set tax on gas guzzlers to begin in 1979, in overwhelming vote. Today, Chrysler Corporation lobbyist says company can't meet base m.p.g. rate with New Yorker model by 1979 and it's too late to change engines now. After debate,compromise is worked out; details noted. Committee to vote Friday Chairperson Al Ullman says it's compromise all can live with. Other auto. companies may not be happy with compromise.
REPORTER: John Cochran
(Studio) NBC News poll with regard to confidence in Congress and energy policy noted. Energy-consuming cars continue to be made, but fewer are real gas guzzlers.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Detroit, Michigan) Fade-out of big cars for smaller 1's, manufactured 1st in early 1960's by Ford Motors, General Motors Corporation and Chrysler, noted. Demand for big cars became even less with 1973 Arab oil embargo. In future, big cars will be made shorter and lighter, as General Motors Corporation did this year with Cadillacs and other big cars. [GM chairperson Thomas MURPHY - notes process will cost, but they'll do it to make cars smaller.] Ford Motors, like others, works on new engines for Fords and Lincoln-Continentals. [Ford Motors chief engineer Stewart FREY - describes Ford's experimental engine.] [Chrysler Vice President R. K. BROWN - doesn't think public will resist smaller cars.]
REPORTER: Eric Burns
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(Studio) Supreme Court rules prisoners have no legal right to join union, reversing decision in North Carolina.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Oklahoma authorities charge fugitive rapist with murders of 3 Girl Scouts in Locust Grove, Oklahoma. Suspect, Gene Leroy Hart escaped from prison 4 years ago.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(No location given) Hart had served time and escaped from Granite State Reformatory; was connected with Girl Scout case through photos, found near campsite, which had been taken by prison photographer, whom Hart assisted. [State investigator Dick WILKERSON - cites Hart's record and sentence.] Search returns to Camp Scott Friday, in attempt to find Hart, believed to be in area.
REPORTER: Brad Edwards (KTVY, Oklahoma City)
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(Studio) Akron, Ohio, is shaken by explosions this morning.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Akron, Ohio) Worst damage is done to cemetery, whose supervisor lives on grounds with family. [Fritz WARREN - describes experience.] Authorities say blasts caused by chemical, petrol naphtha, which came from rubber plant several mile away. Police say it was inside job of vandals opening valves to dump chemical; plant has been object of Teamsters strike for several weeks
REPORTER: Roger Wolfe
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(Studio) Belgrade conference remains stalled as USSR threatens to break down conf. Neutral and west cntries. want review of human rights situations and USSR doesn't.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) In Cleveland, Ohio, man who escaped from USSR is without country
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Cleveland, Ohio) Algirdas Brazinskas lives in Lithuanian community in Cleveland and meets each day with leaders who solicit aid for his attempt to stay in US. In 1970, he and father hijacked Soviet plane and escaped to West; he's wanted for murder in USSR , in connection with hijacking. [BRAZINSKAS - would rather die than be deported to Lithuania.] Fed. judge in Boston has said he should be returned to USSR ; Brazinskas and friends gather petitions to send to President Carter, asking for asylum for Brazinskas. Several senators and representatives also work to get aid for Brazinskas.
REPORTER: Bob Dotson
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(Studio) Report on riots in Soweto, South Africa. (Film shown.)
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Diplomats, with knowledge of situation, tell Richard Valeriani that there was some shooting in Kampala, Uganda, on Saturday, but reports of massacres are exaggerated and Idi Amin still sits as president of country
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Young jockey Steve Cauthen took spill from horse in May; is recovered and riding again.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Belmont Park, New York) Cauthen's accident, while riding Bay Streak, noted. Wasn't expected back so soon, but runs 1st race since recovery today at Belmont Park. Cauthen's ping pong game with fellow jockey, noted. In comeback, Cauthen rides Little Miracle and wins. [CAUTHEN - says winning was great.] [MAN - thinks Cauthen's got more guts than any rider there.]
REPORTER: Dick Schaap
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(Studio) Trials are in progress for American's representative in American's Cup sailboat race, off Newport, Rhode Island. Ted Turner's "Courageous" has been doing especially well.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Newport, Rhode Island) "Independence" and "Enterprise" with "Courageous" to represent US against yacht to be selected from challengers from Sweden, France and Australia. Ted Hood skippers "Independence;" was captain of "Courageous" when it won in 1974 and designed and built "Independence." Both boats owned by same investors. [HOOD - tells why "Independence" was built and details with regard to trials.] Race will be run in fall; constant practice has kept Cup in US hands since 1st award in 1851. [HOOD - talks of sailing procedure and its challenge.]
REPORTER: Lee McCarthy
#494223
(Studio) Little girl lay dying of mysterious ailment in London hospital several mos. ago. Nurse assigned to case was reading Agatha Christie's "The Pale Horse", associated child's symptom's to thallium poisoning case in book and child was saved.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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