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...face of it, the rhetoric and general aims of Reagan officials appear laudable. "Indian tribes must become more self-sufficient and less dependent on the federal government," says assistant secretary of the Interior Kenneth L. Wasco, who is a Wasco Indian from Oregon himself. "Sometimes when, you're pressed, that's when you make your best decision." While that new power has meant hard choices, for some tribes Reagan's four years have been successful...
...Whether with black coffee or enforced abstinence, sobering up an intoxicated alcoholic is a slow process that usually takes anywhere from eight to 48 hours. Now a team of Lynn, Mass., emergency-room physicians has found a way to do the job faster. Drs. Louis Kunian, James Wasco and Lawrence Hulefeld of Lynn Hospital report in Emergency Medicine that intravenous infusions of fructose, a sugar found in fruit, can sober up a drunk with unusual speed. However the fructose works-the doctors speculate that it may inhibit alcohol's effects on the nervous system -the sugar is undoubtedly efficient...
...steer calves, uses $40,000 worth of feed. Once, it bought 40 acres of sagebrush land, leveled it, tested its soil, built up its fertility, then gave it to the district as a $35,000 gift. The boys have proved such able businessmen, in fact, that the Wasco bank thinks little about making them loans. One boy-the son of a Swiss immigrant who works for $1.37 an hour-has borrowed and repaid...
Barbecues & Banquets. Wasco's steers command prices of 1? to 1½? Ib. more than those at the Los Angeles stockyards...
...hogs have won more top prizes in the past ten years than those of any other California high school, and in 1951, Wasco's livestock won $60,000 in prizes and sales at the Great Western Livestock Show. In the last 15 years, P.D.'s students have won seven Armour Trophies, five Swift Trophies, nine Safeway Stores Trophies. Their activities, however, go far beyond taking prizes. Each year they have staged a rodeo, a community barbecue, and an annual parents-and-sons banquet for about 400 guests...