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.
He is the son of O. A. Gerloff
of Temple.
Tropical birds often lay fewer
eggs than similar species in tem
perate zones.
lected offieexs of the Army and
Air Force National Guard.
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