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...MIDWEST. Carter is solid in Minnesota, West Virginia and Oklahoma as well as Kentucky, although the Playboy interview has hurt him in that state. He holds a narrow lead in Missouri. South Dakota and Ohio are leaning slightly to Ford; Carter is hurt in the Buckeye State by voter apathy and Eugene McCarthy. The President has more solid margins in Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska and North Dakota. Illinois, Wisconsin and now Iowa-where Ford lost a thin lead last week because of the Butz affair-are rated tossups...
...show's curator, Ralph T. Coe of Kansas City's Nelson Gallery of Art, is not an anthropologist but an art historian who uncovered the 850 artifacts in obscure collections from South Dakota to south Bavaria. The exhibit, which has been praised by London's art critics, is loosely organized by geography, with scholarly gloss held to a welcome minimum. Prehistoric stone carvings from the southeastern forests immortalize a puma or a hawk in onyx and a snake in a slithering s of shiny mica. The ochers and sharp abstractions of the Southwest desert dominate the region...
...MIDWEST: Carter is out front in Minnesota, Kentucky, Oklahoma and West Virginia. He barely holds Missouri. Ford has respectable margins in North Dakota, Nebraska and Indiana. He is well ahead back home in Michigan, and hangs on-but just by his fingertips-in Iowa and Bob Dole's Kansas. South Dakota is seen as a tossup. So are the region's three richest electoral prizes: Illinois, Ohio and Wisconsin...
Small Help. Primarily through the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration, South Dakota farmers and ranchers stand to receive about $3 million in hay and transportation subsidies. But federal funds can do little to offset the deeper impact of the drought. According to the University of South Dakota's Business Research Bureau, the cash-crop losses could wipe out 47,500 jobs during the next year, as farms and related businesses lose sales or cut back services. If that happens, the state's unemployment rate could jump from 4.7% now to nearly 20%. Local schools may suffer, since they rely...
Still, dispirited ranchers continue bringing their cattle to auction each week. As Ron Nelson, a cattleman up from Iowa to look over the South Dakota stock, observed recently in Miller, "If this were the first year of the drought, a lot of these boys would take a loan, buy some hay and hold on. But it's been too bad, too long...