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Medical School and hospital officials contacted yesterday were unsure if the Spaulding would become an official teaching hospital. Hospital spokesman Jean Yokum said becoming a teaching hospital was a "very long process," and that any discussions about affiliation were very long term...
Capp's Dogpatch was home not only for wide-eyed, molasses-brained Abner Yokum, but for his scrappy, pipe-smoking Mammy, his Pappy and his wonderfully curvaceous inamorata, Daisy...
Costs have risen sharply as prices have fallen. When Yokum first started farming on his own in 1970, his total operating expenses were about the same as the one bill he gets today for the natural gas to run his irrigation-well motors. At the same time, Yokum's property taxes are soaring; in the past year, they jumped 40% after a reassessment. Yokum has exhausted his credit. He is behind in a $10,000 payment to the federal land bank, and he is supposed to make another such payment this spring. Says Yokum: "They have been very good...
...Yokum sees it, he may as well go on strike as try to keep farming. Even if he does not plant his 1978 crops, he can apply for a price-support loan on his current grain. He would get $2.04 per bu. of corn as opposed to the market price of $1.80. He would get $2.12 per bu. of wheat instead of $2.01, the current local price. "This will give us some of the capital we'll need," he admits, but he feels it is only a temporary reprieve...
...Yokum goes broke, he says he will follow countless other farmers and go to a big city to look for a job. "Of course, I'd rather not do it. I really hope to continue farming." He cannot help wondering, however, whether he will be able to avoid the fate of his brother, a Texas farmer who went bankrupt last year...