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...turns out, the net does catch a few apparently innocent fish. Aroostook County, Me.; Elmore County, Idaho; Apache County, Ariz., and the whole state of Alaska would be subject to federal control under the new bill because they, too, used literacy tests and failed to turn out 50% of their eligible voters in November. Says Katzenbach: "As far as I know, it may have snowed in Maine on Election Day, and that's why they had a low turnout." To get federal dispensation, these places would have only to show that they have not been guilty of discrimination...
...With Government approval, holding companies have been set up by two smaller lines, the Kansas City Southern and the Bangor & Aroostook. The I.C., eleventh biggest U.S. railroad, is the first major line to apply...
Potato farmers are pulling for the bulls. ("It would be nice to have a bit of a shortage just once," sighed one grower.) But eying the piles of stored potatoes in the barns of Aroostook County, few farmers anticipate a price increase anywhere near that expected by the rampaging bulls. Even if the bulls do win, the Agriculture Department predicts that there will be little immediate effect on retail prices. But by June or July, the department says, the overall U.S. potato supply will probably dwindle enough to raise supermarket prices of potatoes back to year-ago levels of about...
...other farming fields were far less productive. Around Aroostook, Me., because of oversupply, growers are getting $1.15 per barrel for potatoes that cost $2 to produce. "It's the worst I've ever seen," said one shipper. In Vermont, Dairy Farmer Harry R. Varney Jr. logged the worst year in seven for his 50-cow herd. Said Varney: "My investment is about $75,000, and it seems to me a man should be able to make about t $300 a month to live on and about 5% return on his investment. But I won't make that...
Maine's new Governor is a native son, scion of a prosperous potato-farming family in Aroostook County. Boyish-looking John Reed got into politics only five years ago, winning a seat in the state house of representatives on his first try for public office. Last year he won the presidency of the Republican-dominated state senate in a surprise victory over the entrenched Old Guard Republican incumbent. A middle-road Republican, Reed will serve as Governor for only one year unless he decides to run in the November election for the last two years of Clausen...