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r,tf r., ~l;tftrtl > +II'l 'Iq( r- t I( l > ':-)'tIrt,'::)/I,--':, f ')I~'je V2 ~t)rl,J::llt. 'tri, l p" I! j gl 'V Vol. No. 10 Moscow, .Idaho Friday, Feb. P 7 t 190 ea ~ sy> .. ae ..g .S 10 a I'aaisa Ieeaae l I'lag(S iII:fi..t;I'at;e canna >II' started to catch on isn't By ELAINE AMBROSE and as common as Argonaut Staff Writer grass. Chemicals, including reds, speed and acids. are hard to get but available. Blotter acid As spring approaches, kites won't be the only comes in hundred-hit quantities and sells for $1 things getting high around campus. This spring per hit. The latest thing in piHs is from hundreds of students will invest thousands of southern California. They are blue and dollars getting stoned. equivalent to three reds (downers). According to sources, the drug scene at Idaho Few Hassles has increased rapidly this year. Drugs of all Cocaine isn't used too often. A pinch of it can kinds are being brought in from Seattle, be purchased for $10. Spokane, Portland and Salt Lake. More is There have been no major hassles with expected after. spring vacation with students officials, advisors, or other students returning from southern California and the concerning drug users. Students know which East. rooms can be used for smoking dope. One girl Drugs aren't limited to the arboretum or the received complaints for smoking in her room. ad lawn as much as last year. Walk down the She had come from an eastern college where halls of many living groups and look for towels they "shoot up in the student lounge." n stuffed around the doors. Chances are, the Pushers aren*t stereotyped as shifty little ' e, occupants inside are high, or there. guys giving dope to sixth-graders. e getting Some I campus I Marijuana is the easiest and cheapest drug to pushers are working their way through get on campus. Lids sell for $10 for normal- school. Others come from bigger places where i grass. Extra special grass, like Panama Red, they have greater access to cheaper drugs. The i pushers ( sells for $20. usually seem to just stick with the e Hash Scarce campus. The high school has its own pushers, e . )';r Marijuana can be obtained from according to sources. many places and in various quantities. One source reported Although the drug scene has boomed at t,'-.)',: i getting a lid from a four-pound sack. That' Idaho, not many people are getting too excited about It's / $600 worth of grass. it. getting so that you can' a f] 'I s Hash is harder to get than marijuana. It distinguish someone with a hangover from J). usually sells for $12.50 a gram. Hash has just someone who's burnt out. ~ i C [af j I II lI ll Moscow Baker smal.l. business ]I y: II II By Mary Welland Argoaaut Stan Writer ll I still Lack of snoro may hurt Pa)ouse working hard. One half block from Main Street, stands an establishm ent that is probably one of of wheat has to be reseeded or I this winter, Futter said, the wheat seed complete the oldest in Moscow. Since1909, that has been thesite of the Moscow Bakery. For crops have been lost-it'l hurt them." By MARY SOCHINSKY may have been damaged and possibly the last twenty-four years, Bill and Lois Scheaffer ha ve provided a variety of I Futter went on to say that the Palouse Argonaut Feature Writer killed by the extreme cold This means goodies that would frustrate any weight-watcher. I area and this part of the Northwest has ;nx'Wi,; Ihip":))tetI(tft()r that many acres of wheat)and may have Mr. Sheaffer has been baking "since he was so small h e had to stand on pans to of acres of wheat)and Skiers are not the only people who like to be replanted to replace the wheat that many thousands reach the oven." His father was a baker in southern Idah o, so baking has been an which are the livelihood of hundreds I to see a lot of snow during the winter- has been damaged or killed. of intergral part of his entire life. He continued to work in hi s father's shop until 1949, families. wheat ranchers like to see it too. Wheat Hard Hit when he moved to Moscow and bought the bakery from Cha rlie Schroeder. With him "If this area would be struck a bad )I The problem is that there has not been Futter went on to say that wheat will be by 'I he brought several special recipes for bread that his father originated "but we crop year because of a lack of much snowfall in the pa)ouse area as well the crop hit hardest by the lack of snow never reveal those, of course." I snowcoverings or as in a large part of the Pacific cover. precipitation, it will hurt our economy a little," he said. "But Northwest. "Fall wheat crops will be hurt the Baking Begins Early there is a good chance that we'l more "The biggest effect of the lack of most," he said, "mostly because this part get (, A baker's day begins at 1 a, m. to bake for the coming d ay. With his helper, Mr. II precipitation in the next few months." snowfall is that there may be a lot of of the country has more of it than any Scheffer makes everything that he sells himself: He h as standing orders with Yearly decline I injury to fall wheat," said Homer Futter, other type of grain and it is the heaviest several restaurants, the University library, and some of the houses on campus, According to a pamphlet published I Latah County Extension Agent. "Fall producing crop that requires a lot of by besides what he keeps in the store for the public. Mrs. Shea ffer acts as a "jack of all the University of Idaho Agriculture I wheat needs a blanket of snow to act as an moisture and snowcover." trades." She gets Mr. Sheaffer up in the morning, does th e bookkeeping, frosts the Department, there has been a trend I insulator to keep the seeds from freezing Futter'dded that other grain crops maple bars and does what ever else needs to be done. Th e amounts that they'bake towards decreasing amounts of snowfall during the cold months. In the Pa)ouse similar to wheat-such as fall planted varies a great deal over the week but on the average they make enough dough to use I for the past 70 years. It states that in the area, there are a lot of places where no barley and hay-may also have been one hundred sacks of flour, at one hundred pounds each, per month. decade between 1900 and 1910, an snow has covered the ground this winter. damaged from exposure to cold weather. average, The bakery sees all kinds of clientele, from housewive s to University students. snowfall of 58 inches fell during a winter. I think that this is happening all over The fields may need to be replanted, a I Many youngsters and older people come in to buy a sing le doughnut to eat while By the 1960's, the average snowfall Idaho and much of the wheat-growing move which will cost the farmers money. shopping or before class. They reauy miss the students in summer, according to decreased to 36 inches. I Northwest." Affects Hundreds 'I Mrs.Sheaffer. When bakeries appeared in the grocery sto res, it definitely affected Dale Everson, professor of agriculture t Without this snow cover and with the "This could really put a stress on the their business. However, most of their old customers hav e returned and they do a 't the university, said that less snow has 'I I temperatures dropping below -10 degrees farmers," Futter said. "If large amounts thriving business, Their gross sales are the same as eve r. Over the years, their fallen this winter than last year. prices have just about doubled as inflation has forced the rise to allow them to make a "Last year at this time we had 71.3 any kind of profit. The prices have remained constant for a long time now, in spite inches through the end of so you January of rising costs, but unfortunately, they can't afford it any longer, and on March 1 can see there is a marked difference. " II they, too, will show a mQk-up. Mr. Scheffer says that, for example, raisins have Effects? I gone up in price to the poit) t that it's almost too expensive to put more than four in a ll Besides being an insolator for the seeds, I loaf of bread.:: the layer of snow provides moisture that I The Sheafft)rs'er(Ip)oy six people altogether. This includes one helper who - is absorbed and held in the soil until the ~I bakes, a frier'and sales,pe()p)e. One sales lady, Grace Weinmann has been I plants need it during the summer months. there, for twenty-two years.&he started working afternoons w hen her little boy was tn "We usually have a pretty stable annua) kindergarten. She never quit and her boy is now married an d with a child of his own precipitation-around 22 inches," Futter They'e had three boys from the University who work eti there all four years I, said.

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