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8:15 p.m. "The Good Doctor," S V Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre, adults $3.50. Movie listings on page UB 69fch Year No. 275 (iood Mormngl It s Wednesday Aug. 10. 1977 2 Sections 28 Pages 15 Cents minimi mm J n Who watches the watchers? By Randy McConnell Missourian staff writer It may be a case of letting the cat watch out for the interests of the mice. But the jury is still out. Fifteen state boards regulate the work of almost 150,000 professionals licensed in Missouri and, within legal limits, decide how much education and training are necessary to be licensed in more than two dozen vocations. But not one of 4.5 million consumers who buy these professional's services is represented on the licensing boards. State laws require all 77 men and woman on the boards to be licensed in the fields they regulate. Is the public interest served if the regulated are the regulators? Legislatures in California and other states recently disagreed, passing laws putting laymen on the boards. Legislation in Missouri to replace one member of each board with a consumer died quiet deaths in 1975 and 1976 because cf opposition from the professions and poor tuning, said former Rep. James Mulvaney, D-S- t. Louis County, the bills' first sponsor. Mulvaney, new State Public Service Commission chairman, said he in-troduced the legislation because "professionals might get themselves in a position that makes it difficult, very difficult to criticize someone in his own field. "I think a consumer could ask some pertinent questions. An outsider may bring things to their (board members') attention that they never would have thought about," he said. Mulvaney said the bills were filed late, after the legislative session began, and died on the House calendarjbeftotu. ibey could be' debated. The bills were not filed in this year's legislature. No board supported the bills. Most licensing boards' reactions to the legislation ranged from qualified to flat opposition. Several boards said they did not object to adding a con-sumer to the current membership, but balked at losing a professional member. Those who adamantly opposed the bills said the consumer member would lack the expertise needed to deal with board business. "We didn't feel a lay member would know anything about the problems we face," said Carlene Orr, executive secretary and former member of the cosmetology board. But the regulated fields do not always match the dictionary definition and popular image of a "profession," which suggests extensive training and education. Although such highly-skille- d persons as doctors, nurses, accountants, engineers, architects and veterinarians are regulated, the boards also license hairdressers and manicurists, animal technicians, hearing aid dealers, barbers, funeral home directors and real estate agents. (Missouri's lawyers are regulated by the State Supreme Court and the Missouri Bar, a court-supervis- ed organization.) The results of limiting beard mem-bership to professionals have been predictable. The typical board member is more than 50 years old, white and male. Although 16 board members are women, all but four are found on two boards nursing and cosmetology that govern predominantly female professions. Four blacks are members of various boards. Missouri's governors, who appoint me board members, recently have tried to erase the boards' images as white, male bastions. Only eight women and one black were board members in 1969. But the scarcity of prominent women and minority members in the professions has complicated the task. "When we had our last-- vacancy, (former Gov. Christopher) Bond said he wanted a minority or a girl," one board's executive secretary said. "We were lucky to get such a cracker-jac-k gal, considering how many we have (See LICENSING, page ISA) Changes in loop to be considered By Cberi Duncan Missourian staff writer Traffic islands on Broadway at Sixth and Tenth streets would be replaced with temporary barriers that would be erected during business hours only if the City Council approves a proposal of the Downtown Task Force. Task force member Dale Puckett suggested the moveable barriers at the group's meeting Tuesday, and the members unanimously approved a motion to recommend to the council use of the barriers between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. daily except Sunday. The proposal would not interfere with the intent of the loop because traffic still would be guided around the downtown area during peak traffic periods, task force member Tom Baumgardner said. "I think a lot of irritation would be eliminated by this," Puckett said, adding that there is no need to block traffic from direct travel on Broadway at night. Using Broadway as a through street after business hours would help bring back evening window shoppers, Puckett said. Merchants have com plained the loop is driving away window shoppers who are important to their businesses. City Planning Director Michael Bathke expressed reservations about moving the barriers twice daily. He added that if driver confusion is a problem on the loop now, the change might worsen that problem. But he said was not opposed to the plan. Public Works Director Ray Beck and City Manager Terry Novak attended the meeting but presented no opposition to the proposal. Former mayor Bob Pugh, a task force member, said he did not think confusion would be a problem because the University uses moveable barriers to block automobile entrances to the campus during school hours. He asked that the barriers be aesthetically pleasing, expressing dissatisfaction with the chains used by the University. The task force also will present to the council a proposal to open the in-tersections of Ninth and Locust streets and Eighth and Ash streets for direct exit from the interior of the loop area. The city will study opening the two (See OPINIONS, page ISA) Columbia man faces another DWI charge By George Mazurak Mlssonrian staff writer James Lee Acton, arrested nine times in the last 23 years on charges of driving while intoxicated, is expected to be charged today with being in-toxicated in the Boone County Court-house Friday as he showed up to serve a weekend in jail for his latest DWI conviction. Acton, 38, Crestvale Mobile Home Park, was convicted cf driving while intoxicated for the fourth time and was sentenced July 19 to serve 90 days in Boone County Jail. However, Magistrate Court Judge Temple Morgett suspended 60 days cf the sentence and allowed Acton to serve the remaining 30 days on weekends. Acton also was pieced on probation for two years. He will have to serve the 60 suspended days of his sentence if he is convicted of a DWI violation during the probationary period or if he fails to serve one of his weekends in jail. Although the July DWI conviction was Acton's fourth, for purposes cf determining whether it was a felony it only counted as his second. A third DWI conviction is a felony. Because the July conviction was not a felony, the maximum sentence was one year in jail. Had it been counted as a felony, the maximum possible sentence would have been two to five years in the state penitentiary.' Acton paid a $100 fine, the minimum amount, for a 1975 DWI conviction because it technically was considered (See ACTON, page MA) ftelief """'" Lupe Gomez, 12, and his friend, Jesus Vasquez, 9, both of Austin, Tex., beat the heat by romping through a snakelike length of sprinkler. "Thunderstorms thrash counts By Jim Stern and Vidd Alien Misscsrian staff writers Severe thunderstorms pommeled Boone County about 9 p.m. Tuesday, downing power lines, causing some minor flooding and starting several minor fires. Fire and police officials reported no storm-relate- d injuries. Unofficial reports indicated up to 2 inches (5 centimeters) of rain fell on parts of Columbia in a one-ha- lf hour period, but the National Weather Service at Columbia Regional Airport reported only a trace of rain there. Electricity was reported out in large parts of west and southwest Columbia, and power lines felled by lightning caused failures throughout the city. Officials said almost all the city was without power at some point during the storm. Water and Light Department officials said 20 per cent of the electricity distribution system was still knocked out at 11 p.m. In rural areas, the Bcone Electric Cooperative reported several power failures concentrated in an area north of Columbia. A spokesman said power was expected to be restored by 1 or 2 a.m. today. Rural areas reported without power included the Route PP area, Waterloo Drive area, Sun Valley Estates and the Sturgeon area. The Columbia Fire Department was kept busy with 18 calls for a number of minor fires and downed power lines. Lightning caused a number of short-circuit- ed fire alarms, fire officials said. Among locations where power lines were reported down in the city were at Broadway and Scott Boulevard, at Sunrise Drive and Rockhill Road, at Range Line Street and Wilkes Boulevard, on Christian College Avenue, in the 900 block of Stewart Road, and on West Parkway Drive. A minor electricity transformer fire was reported at U.S. 63 North and grasshoppers and serious trouble," said Wilfred Craig, University en-tomology professor, because of the dry weather there. Most of the damage near Columbia has been done around the borders of crops and in small crop plots, Kimmel said. The best way to control grasshoppers is to spray insecticide when they are small, but most farm-ers do not find the time to spray, Kim-mel said. When the grasshoppers get larger, they scatter and are difficult to control, Kimmel said. Grasshoppers, unlike many other insects, are unpredictable, Kimmel said, so farmers cannot control them before they hatch. Factors affecting the grasshopper population include weather, disease and parasites, Craig said. Dry weather increases their population. If there is disease following a wet season when the grasshoppers are young, it is "unlikely the young hoppers will make it through," Craig said. . , Han0an"nvvaanilnillllHIIBHIiaHiai'a"""aaaBaMMMMaa FEA proposes lifting gasoline price controls Vandiver Drive. General Telephone Co. service manager Holland Hopwood said there were no reports of interrupted telephone service. KFRU radio was off the air for several brief periods because of power failures, and KBIA-F- M was off the air for about five minutes starting at 10:28 p.m. after lightning struck near its transmitter at the KOMU-T- V station south of Columbia. At the height of the storm water was reported running 2 feet (60 cen-timeters) deep down Broadway in the downtown area. Flooding was reported to have delayed traffic on U.S. 63 South. 'Hoppers eat weeds, leave crops alone ByKathyMcComb Missourian staff writer Local grasshoppers and farmers both are happy about the recent rain. Grasshoppers are happy because rain means more green foliage to eat. Farmers are happy because the grasshoppers can eat more of the foilage and less of their crops. This year there are a lot of grasshoppers because they hatched early in June when the weather was - dry, said Ray Kimmel, area agronomy specialist for the University Extension Division. The dry weather gave the grasshoppers a "good healthy start," Kimmel said. In years when there is a heavy rain, Kimmel said, grasshopper egg sacks are drowned, reducing their number. Even though the number of grasshoppers this year is large, local crops have not been damaged badly, Kimmel said, because the rains have provided more foilage for them to eat. However northwest Missouri is experiencing "great numbers of WASHINGTON (UPI) The Federal Energy Administration, spurred by reports of ample fuel supplies, Tuesday proposed lifting mandatory price controls from gasoline at the end of the summer driving season. FEA said the nation has enough gasoline now to supply motorists through the end of 1979 and removal of controls would increase competition by letting independent marketers shop around for the best price from sup-pliers. An FEA report predicted little change in consumer prices through the end of 1979 as a result of dropping the controls which have held prices to what they were during the 1973 oil embargo plus adjustments for current crude prices and a few other factors such as labor costs. The report said investments in new refineries to meet higher demand might drive prices up to one cent a gallon above the level currently allowed. The report said FEA rejected an industry argument that decontrol would add seven cents to the price of a gallon of gas. Another FEA report issued Tuesday said existing plans for new refineries would raise total U.S. fuel oil produc-tion to 1.9 million barrels a day. The energy plan sees a cut in demand from 3.6 million barrels to 2 million barrels a day, so "the addition of 1 million barrels per day would suffice to meet 1985 demand at reasonable upper limits of refinery utilization" Lifting the controls, FEA said, should not harm the economy. "With current adequate supplies of motor gasoline and the industry operating at an adequate level of profitability, motor gasoline prices are not experiencing any strong upward pressure," the report said. "Competition and market forces are therefore adequate to protect con-sumers and as long as supplies remain adequate. It is not anticipated that exempting motor gasoline from regulation will result in inequitable prices for any class of consumer." FEA even suggested that deregulation "may, in fact, stimulate production and should not adversely affect supply." The price of gasoline has been con-trolled since an original freeze of Aug. 15, 1971. Both price and supply were strictly controlled during the Arab oil embargo that was imposed during the 1973 Middle East war. In the deregulation proposal, the FEA revived a controversial plan proposed by former President Gerald Ford and then withdrawn in the early days of President Carter's ad-ministration. Ford, who ealier had removed the controls from most other petroleum products, asked Congress to decontrol gasoline prices during the closing days of his adminstration. Carter withdrew the Ford proposal almost as soon as he took office, saying he wanted his energy experts to study it. Got crickets? The worst is yet to come By Kathy McComb Miscourian staff writer . "Jimminy Cricket!" Little field crickets have invaded Columbia. Most are in fields, but they also are 'congregating in the city around doors I and hallways, said Wilfred Craig, University professor of entomology. Craig said the crickets, in and around Columbia this time nearly every year, are not a serious pest. "They're a nuisance more than anything," said Jim Keys of Orkin Exterminating Co., 1400 U.S. 40 W. A large number of them, however, can cause damage to fabrics such as linen, rayon and furs, Keys said. The crickets mostly feed on plant material dry or green but prefer dry plants, Craig said, so they cause , no serious crop damage. The crickets also like light, which attracts them to doors and hallways, Craig said. Sheer numbers mean some crickets will find their way indoors, Keys said. In two or three weeks the crickets will get large and there will be more, said Keys, who already has had many calls about them. The crickets out now are primarily young ones, Keys said. "We've been predicting this is going to be a big year for crickets, end I don't think we'll be disappointed." 1 '
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Title | Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1977-08-10 |
Description | Vol. 69, No. 275 |
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Item.Transcript | 8:15 p.m. "The Good Doctor," S V Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre, adults $3.50. Movie listings on page UB 69fch Year No. 275 (iood Mormngl It s Wednesday Aug. 10. 1977 2 Sections 28 Pages 15 Cents minimi mm J n Who watches the watchers? By Randy McConnell Missourian staff writer It may be a case of letting the cat watch out for the interests of the mice. But the jury is still out. Fifteen state boards regulate the work of almost 150,000 professionals licensed in Missouri and, within legal limits, decide how much education and training are necessary to be licensed in more than two dozen vocations. But not one of 4.5 million consumers who buy these professional's services is represented on the licensing boards. State laws require all 77 men and woman on the boards to be licensed in the fields they regulate. Is the public interest served if the regulated are the regulators? Legislatures in California and other states recently disagreed, passing laws putting laymen on the boards. Legislation in Missouri to replace one member of each board with a consumer died quiet deaths in 1975 and 1976 because cf opposition from the professions and poor tuning, said former Rep. James Mulvaney, D-S- t. Louis County, the bills' first sponsor. Mulvaney, new State Public Service Commission chairman, said he in-troduced the legislation because "professionals might get themselves in a position that makes it difficult, very difficult to criticize someone in his own field. "I think a consumer could ask some pertinent questions. An outsider may bring things to their (board members') attention that they never would have thought about," he said. Mulvaney said the bills were filed late, after the legislative session began, and died on the House calendarjbeftotu. ibey could be' debated. The bills were not filed in this year's legislature. No board supported the bills. Most licensing boards' reactions to the legislation ranged from qualified to flat opposition. Several boards said they did not object to adding a con-sumer to the current membership, but balked at losing a professional member. Those who adamantly opposed the bills said the consumer member would lack the expertise needed to deal with board business. "We didn't feel a lay member would know anything about the problems we face," said Carlene Orr, executive secretary and former member of the cosmetology board. But the regulated fields do not always match the dictionary definition and popular image of a "profession," which suggests extensive training and education. Although such highly-skille- d persons as doctors, nurses, accountants, engineers, architects and veterinarians are regulated, the boards also license hairdressers and manicurists, animal technicians, hearing aid dealers, barbers, funeral home directors and real estate agents. (Missouri's lawyers are regulated by the State Supreme Court and the Missouri Bar, a court-supervis- ed organization.) The results of limiting beard mem-bership to professionals have been predictable. The typical board member is more than 50 years old, white and male. Although 16 board members are women, all but four are found on two boards nursing and cosmetology that govern predominantly female professions. Four blacks are members of various boards. Missouri's governors, who appoint me board members, recently have tried to erase the boards' images as white, male bastions. Only eight women and one black were board members in 1969. But the scarcity of prominent women and minority members in the professions has complicated the task. "When we had our last-- vacancy, (former Gov. Christopher) Bond said he wanted a minority or a girl," one board's executive secretary said. "We were lucky to get such a cracker-jac-k gal, considering how many we have (See LICENSING, page ISA) Changes in loop to be considered By Cberi Duncan Missourian staff writer Traffic islands on Broadway at Sixth and Tenth streets would be replaced with temporary barriers that would be erected during business hours only if the City Council approves a proposal of the Downtown Task Force. Task force member Dale Puckett suggested the moveable barriers at the group's meeting Tuesday, and the members unanimously approved a motion to recommend to the council use of the barriers between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. daily except Sunday. The proposal would not interfere with the intent of the loop because traffic still would be guided around the downtown area during peak traffic periods, task force member Tom Baumgardner said. "I think a lot of irritation would be eliminated by this," Puckett said, adding that there is no need to block traffic from direct travel on Broadway at night. Using Broadway as a through street after business hours would help bring back evening window shoppers, Puckett said. Merchants have com plained the loop is driving away window shoppers who are important to their businesses. City Planning Director Michael Bathke expressed reservations about moving the barriers twice daily. He added that if driver confusion is a problem on the loop now, the change might worsen that problem. But he said was not opposed to the plan. Public Works Director Ray Beck and City Manager Terry Novak attended the meeting but presented no opposition to the proposal. Former mayor Bob Pugh, a task force member, said he did not think confusion would be a problem because the University uses moveable barriers to block automobile entrances to the campus during school hours. He asked that the barriers be aesthetically pleasing, expressing dissatisfaction with the chains used by the University. The task force also will present to the council a proposal to open the in-tersections of Ninth and Locust streets and Eighth and Ash streets for direct exit from the interior of the loop area. The city will study opening the two (See OPINIONS, page ISA) Columbia man faces another DWI charge By George Mazurak Mlssonrian staff writer James Lee Acton, arrested nine times in the last 23 years on charges of driving while intoxicated, is expected to be charged today with being in-toxicated in the Boone County Court-house Friday as he showed up to serve a weekend in jail for his latest DWI conviction. Acton, 38, Crestvale Mobile Home Park, was convicted cf driving while intoxicated for the fourth time and was sentenced July 19 to serve 90 days in Boone County Jail. However, Magistrate Court Judge Temple Morgett suspended 60 days cf the sentence and allowed Acton to serve the remaining 30 days on weekends. Acton also was pieced on probation for two years. He will have to serve the 60 suspended days of his sentence if he is convicted of a DWI violation during the probationary period or if he fails to serve one of his weekends in jail. Although the July DWI conviction was Acton's fourth, for purposes cf determining whether it was a felony it only counted as his second. A third DWI conviction is a felony. Because the July conviction was not a felony, the maximum sentence was one year in jail. Had it been counted as a felony, the maximum possible sentence would have been two to five years in the state penitentiary.' Acton paid a $100 fine, the minimum amount, for a 1975 DWI conviction because it technically was considered (See ACTON, page MA) ftelief """'" Lupe Gomez, 12, and his friend, Jesus Vasquez, 9, both of Austin, Tex., beat the heat by romping through a snakelike length of sprinkler. "Thunderstorms thrash counts By Jim Stern and Vidd Alien Misscsrian staff writers Severe thunderstorms pommeled Boone County about 9 p.m. Tuesday, downing power lines, causing some minor flooding and starting several minor fires. Fire and police officials reported no storm-relate- d injuries. Unofficial reports indicated up to 2 inches (5 centimeters) of rain fell on parts of Columbia in a one-ha- lf hour period, but the National Weather Service at Columbia Regional Airport reported only a trace of rain there. Electricity was reported out in large parts of west and southwest Columbia, and power lines felled by lightning caused failures throughout the city. Officials said almost all the city was without power at some point during the storm. Water and Light Department officials said 20 per cent of the electricity distribution system was still knocked out at 11 p.m. In rural areas, the Bcone Electric Cooperative reported several power failures concentrated in an area north of Columbia. A spokesman said power was expected to be restored by 1 or 2 a.m. today. Rural areas reported without power included the Route PP area, Waterloo Drive area, Sun Valley Estates and the Sturgeon area. The Columbia Fire Department was kept busy with 18 calls for a number of minor fires and downed power lines. Lightning caused a number of short-circuit- ed fire alarms, fire officials said. Among locations where power lines were reported down in the city were at Broadway and Scott Boulevard, at Sunrise Drive and Rockhill Road, at Range Line Street and Wilkes Boulevard, on Christian College Avenue, in the 900 block of Stewart Road, and on West Parkway Drive. A minor electricity transformer fire was reported at U.S. 63 North and grasshoppers and serious trouble," said Wilfred Craig, University en-tomology professor, because of the dry weather there. Most of the damage near Columbia has been done around the borders of crops and in small crop plots, Kimmel said. The best way to control grasshoppers is to spray insecticide when they are small, but most farm-ers do not find the time to spray, Kim-mel said. When the grasshoppers get larger, they scatter and are difficult to control, Kimmel said. Grasshoppers, unlike many other insects, are unpredictable, Kimmel said, so farmers cannot control them before they hatch. Factors affecting the grasshopper population include weather, disease and parasites, Craig said. Dry weather increases their population. If there is disease following a wet season when the grasshoppers are young, it is "unlikely the young hoppers will make it through," Craig said. . , Han0an"nvvaanilnillllHIIBHIiaHiai'a"""aaaBaMMMMaa FEA proposes lifting gasoline price controls Vandiver Drive. General Telephone Co. service manager Holland Hopwood said there were no reports of interrupted telephone service. KFRU radio was off the air for several brief periods because of power failures, and KBIA-F- M was off the air for about five minutes starting at 10:28 p.m. after lightning struck near its transmitter at the KOMU-T- V station south of Columbia. At the height of the storm water was reported running 2 feet (60 cen-timeters) deep down Broadway in the downtown area. Flooding was reported to have delayed traffic on U.S. 63 South. 'Hoppers eat weeds, leave crops alone ByKathyMcComb Missourian staff writer Local grasshoppers and farmers both are happy about the recent rain. Grasshoppers are happy because rain means more green foliage to eat. Farmers are happy because the grasshoppers can eat more of the foilage and less of their crops. This year there are a lot of grasshoppers because they hatched early in June when the weather was - dry, said Ray Kimmel, area agronomy specialist for the University Extension Division. The dry weather gave the grasshoppers a "good healthy start," Kimmel said. In years when there is a heavy rain, Kimmel said, grasshopper egg sacks are drowned, reducing their number. Even though the number of grasshoppers this year is large, local crops have not been damaged badly, Kimmel said, because the rains have provided more foilage for them to eat. However northwest Missouri is experiencing "great numbers of WASHINGTON (UPI) The Federal Energy Administration, spurred by reports of ample fuel supplies, Tuesday proposed lifting mandatory price controls from gasoline at the end of the summer driving season. FEA said the nation has enough gasoline now to supply motorists through the end of 1979 and removal of controls would increase competition by letting independent marketers shop around for the best price from sup-pliers. An FEA report predicted little change in consumer prices through the end of 1979 as a result of dropping the controls which have held prices to what they were during the 1973 oil embargo plus adjustments for current crude prices and a few other factors such as labor costs. The report said investments in new refineries to meet higher demand might drive prices up to one cent a gallon above the level currently allowed. The report said FEA rejected an industry argument that decontrol would add seven cents to the price of a gallon of gas. Another FEA report issued Tuesday said existing plans for new refineries would raise total U.S. fuel oil produc-tion to 1.9 million barrels a day. The energy plan sees a cut in demand from 3.6 million barrels to 2 million barrels a day, so "the addition of 1 million barrels per day would suffice to meet 1985 demand at reasonable upper limits of refinery utilization" Lifting the controls, FEA said, should not harm the economy. "With current adequate supplies of motor gasoline and the industry operating at an adequate level of profitability, motor gasoline prices are not experiencing any strong upward pressure," the report said. "Competition and market forces are therefore adequate to protect con-sumers and as long as supplies remain adequate. It is not anticipated that exempting motor gasoline from regulation will result in inequitable prices for any class of consumer." FEA even suggested that deregulation "may, in fact, stimulate production and should not adversely affect supply." The price of gasoline has been con-trolled since an original freeze of Aug. 15, 1971. Both price and supply were strictly controlled during the Arab oil embargo that was imposed during the 1973 Middle East war. In the deregulation proposal, the FEA revived a controversial plan proposed by former President Gerald Ford and then withdrawn in the early days of President Carter's ad-ministration. Ford, who ealier had removed the controls from most other petroleum products, asked Congress to decontrol gasoline prices during the closing days of his adminstration. Carter withdrew the Ford proposal almost as soon as he took office, saying he wanted his energy experts to study it. Got crickets? The worst is yet to come By Kathy McComb Miscourian staff writer . "Jimminy Cricket!" Little field crickets have invaded Columbia. Most are in fields, but they also are 'congregating in the city around doors I and hallways, said Wilfred Craig, University professor of entomology. Craig said the crickets, in and around Columbia this time nearly every year, are not a serious pest. "They're a nuisance more than anything," said Jim Keys of Orkin Exterminating Co., 1400 U.S. 40 W. A large number of them, however, can cause damage to fabrics such as linen, rayon and furs, Keys said. The crickets mostly feed on plant material dry or green but prefer dry plants, Craig said, so they cause , no serious crop damage. The crickets also like light, which attracts them to doors and hallways, Craig said. Sheer numbers mean some crickets will find their way indoors, Keys said. In two or three weeks the crickets will get large and there will be more, said Keys, who already has had many calls about them. The crickets out now are primarily young ones, Keys said. "We've been predicting this is going to be a big year for crickets, end I don't think we'll be disappointed." 1 ' |