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Pag-e a—See. II THE BATTALION Thursday, February 8, 1955 Congressman Teague Reports Cotton Acreage Allotment Is Causing Great Concern Bq OLIN E. TEAGUE WASHINGTON, D.C. — A sub committee of the House Committee on Agriculture held its first hear ings on the cotton acreage allot ment question. This matter has caused a great amount of concern throughout the country, especially within the historical cotton glow ing counties in Texas and the South. Several representatives of farm bureaus and lending institu tions from the Southwest were heard together with representatifes of the Department of Agriculture. Members of the farm bureau have consistently taken the stand that the national acreage should not be increased. Certainly we do not want a surplus, or faced with a carry over which would be above normal but at the same time, no plausible solutions have been of fered as to how best to meet the problem without increasing the national acreage. Nevertheless, some assistance must be given to our cotton farmers. There is one point in the cotton acreage program which has result ed in an important issue so far as the cotton farmers in our area are concerned. This is the adjustments made by the state committee for “trends in acreage”. The State Committee of Texas used 62% of the state reserve for such adjust ments. Within the Sixth District we contributed 56,747 acres to the state reserve and got back only 14,031 for trend adjustment. The balance of the acreage we contri buted went for adjustments in the the Secretary of Agriculture. In rest of the state. If this practice' is continued, the Sixth District which has been a consistent histor ical cotton producing area, could fee “adjusted” but of the cotton growing business. At the present time, our immediate area of the. state : is not represented on the' State Committee, the membership being comprised of men from the West and the Valley section. 1 believe there is a movement afoot to secure some representation for our part of the country on this committee, and I will certainly support such a move. To make the situation worse, the trend adjustments were figured on a formula in which the highest of the 1952 or 1953^ plantings to cot ton was used in relation to the five yegr base period. In 1953, the cot ton farmers took a voluntary re duction in cotton acreage at the re quest of the Department of Agri culture for the purpose of reduc ing the national surplus, and the formula used has resulted in an unyeajistic figure which has mater ially hurt the average farmer. One of my colleagues, the Hon orable Thomas Abernathy who rep- resented a historical cotton pro ducing area in Mississippi has told me that a similar situation exists within his state, with the exception that his state committee used the entire reserve for trend adjust ments. The, sub-committee at the pres ent time has under consideration approximately sixteen bills intro duced by various members repre- septing cotton areas. Working on the bijisis that the only way to as sist tpe average farmer would be to increase the national acreage, 1 introduced on the first day of Con gress a bill which would guarantee to any county which had been des ignated as a production disaster County by the Secretary of Agri culture under i'L 38, 81st Con gress, an acreage allotment equal to that acreage which it would have received had the State Com mittee not withheld the 10% as it was required to do by directive of addition, my bill would go one step farther than many of the bills along this line would do; and that is that it would disallow those counties who received the large ad ditional acreage for trend adjust ment to figure this extra acreage m computing future cotton history. I think this only fair inasmuch as the additional acreage they re ceived was by pure interpretation of a regulation and not founded on law. As I stated in answer to the many letters I received regarding this situation, 1 could not give Greek Dowry Debate Precedes Marriages ATHENS—— Suppose you have a daughter of marriageable age. She’s pretty, knows how to cook, speaks two languages. She’s not looking for a professional ca reer. All she wants to do is get married and raise a family. And there are several young- men who want to marry her. Under these circumstances your normal worry would be over her se lection of the man. But not in Greece. Since the golden age of Pericles, Daddy has had to rack his brain and resour ces to find enough cash and where- Astronomy Group Holds First Meet Dr. J. H. Rush of Teyas Tech was elected 1955-56 chairman of the Astronomical Society of the Southwest at its first meeing here last weekend. Dr. Frank N. Ed monds jr., of the University of Texas, .was elected executive-sec-, retary. The meeting icluded representa tives from New Mexico, Louisiana and Texas and the next meeting will be held in Lubbock in Febiu- ary, 1956. Tho Society will meet yearly. Sponsored by tine A&M Physics Department, with Jack T. Kent of the mathematics department as general chairman, the meeting was attended by 28 astronomers. In cluded was a group of nihe repre senting the American Astronomical League, a national amateur organi- zation, representing the southwest division. At the meeting here technical papers covering practically all pha ses of the field of astronomy were read. withal to get some young Greek to take the daughter off his hands. Few marriages in Greece are con tracted without a dowry. Every overture of marriage by a male is accompanied by a third party who handles the delicate question of how much Pop is will ing- to paf. Once these details are arranged, the couple goes through the wedding ceremony. The payoff may range from sev- eral hundred thousands of dollars doyn to a cow or perhaps a bed room suite. Maidens lacking dowries are in creasing throughout Greece. The situation has become so ac ute that in 17 districts in central Greece the girls and rural officials have officially asked Queen Fred- erika to do something about it. They want the dowry system elim inated. It would take some doing, even by Queen Frederika> because the system is written into the church law and by precedent implied in civil law. The church law, which comes down from the Byzantine period, says the dowry is a relief from the burden of marriage. Influenza Leads Influenza continued to lead all communicable diseases in the Col lege Station-Bryan ai'ea for the week ending Jan. 29 with 35 cases repoi'ted. Chicken pox was the second leading disease with 24 cases reported and diarrhea was third with 15 cases, while mumps was fourth. Pneumonia, strept throat a n d measles followed in that order. A purple flame may be produced if lithium salts are sprinkled on a fire. any guarantee that the Congress would take action in this matter, and as yet I can stil offer no as surance that it will. I believe however that the fact the House Committee on Agriculture author- i/ed one of its sub-committees to bold hearings is indicative of how it feels on this matter. In addi tion thex-e seems to be a rather large backing with i - espect to a bill introduced by Abernethy of Mis- sippi, H. Res. 126 which would x-e- quixe the Secretaxy of Agi-icultuxe to estimate the number of acx - es which would not be planted to cot ton and then require him to reallo cate this acxeage to the States on the same basis that the authorized national acxeage was broken down. The State Committees are then to use this additional acreage for hardship cases. NAMED LINE COACH— A. M. (Mike) Michalske above, has been named line coach at the University of Texas. A Penn State grad uate and a former pro football player, he was head coach at Iowa State for five years. He has also served as line coach at Baylor and A&M. Resources Confab Scheduled AUSTIN—Col. Guy H. Kissing- er, USMC, a member of the faculty of the Industrial College of the Aimed Forces in Washington and advance officer for the National Resources conference, conferred hex-e with Col. Albex-t A. Horner, Chief, Texas Military District, con cerning the conference to be held May 16-27 at the University of Texas. The conference will be co-spon sored by the Ai med Forces and the Austin Chamber of Commerce. Horner stated that the National Resources conference is organized to highlight the interrelated mili tary and economic problems inher ent in mobilizing human and ma- texial resources for national secur ity. The problems which will con front the country in a mobilization Of the national economy fox- war and the mthods and procedures for making the best use of national re sources will be discussed during the conference. The confex-ence is presented by a team of Aimy, Navy, Marine and Air Foi-ce ofifeers from the facul ty of the Industrial College of the Aimed Forces located at Fort Les lie J. McNair in Washington. A state-wide assembly of con ferees will include key men from Texas’ business and industxy and from educational and professional groups and selected reserve offi cers of the Aimed Forces and se- Gerloff Graduates Don G. Gerloff was i-ecently graduated from the U.S. Naval Pre-Flight school in Pensacola, Fla. with the rank of Naval Avia tion Cadet. Gexloff, who attended A&M be fore entexing the Naval Aviation Cadet program through the U.S. Naval Air Station at Dallas, has been assigned to the Whiting Field Air Station in Milton, Fla., for pid- maiy flight training. 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