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Earlier this month 500-h.p. diesel tractors, brand-named Big Bud 525 and Steiger Panther, pushed 60-ft.-wide chisel plows into the gentle prairie around the hamlet of Winnett, Mont., quickly transforming what once was Wayne Bratten's 28,000-acre ranch into a raw wound of overturned earth. Eastern Colorado Wheat Farmer Emmett Linnebur became a part owner of the Crow Rock Ranch near Miles City, Mont., and used a fleet of ten supertractors to tear into 50,000 of its acres for wheat planting. In recent years, tractors have bulldozed some 6.4 million acres of marginal...
Currently, the diesel emission of the plant's power generators have undergone tests but the results are not yet available. David M. Rosen, director of public relations, said yesterday...
Although the plant's steam and chilled water facilities are operating, local residents, citing the potential health hazards, have repeatedly opposed operation of the huge diesel engines...
...program is worthless unless there is something for the worker to do once it is over. Unfortunately, that is seldom the case, as former Rubber Worker Russell Silcox, 56, knows well. He has not held a permanent job in 4½ years despite taking a 40-week course in diesel mechanics and spending six weeks in a Government-funded program making plastic coat hangers. Earlier this month he began a twelve-month training program as a heavy-equipment mechanic. His family of four is just getting by on his unemployment benefits and his wife's nursing-home...
...tasks are necessary since there is little date on the links between diesel emissions and cancer...