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Rockefeller Heads into Wisconsin:
Delivers Major Talk on Farm Policy
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THE BATTALION
Tuesday, December 15, 1959
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Pulitzer
Prize-winner Reiman Morin is
accompanying Gov. Rockefeller
on his curreAt visit to the Mid
dle West, Southwest and South.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Gov.
Nelson A. Rockefeller headed into
Wisconsin today after urging, in
a major speech on farm policy,
that 60 million acres of land be
taken out of agricultural cultiva
tion.
“The chief problem of the low-
income farmers,” he said, “is
poverty.”
Rockefeller is making a swing
through the Middle West, helping
decide whether to try for the Re
publican nomination in 1960.
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trip, he visited Indiana, Missouri
and Minnesota — in all of which
Vice-President Richard M. Nixon
is considered to have the support
of most Republican leaders for the
nomination.
The governor chose Minneapolis
as the spot to deliver his views
on the way to solve the farm prob
lem.
“The farmers are dissatisfied,”
he said. “The taxpayers .are up in
arms. And we have bigger sur-
pulses hanging over the market
than ever before. I think the time
has come to take a fresh look.”
He outlined a four-point pro
gram :
1. Long-term rental of farms by
the federal government.
2. “Stabilization supports based
on production costs and net in-
AGC Chapter Sets
Banquet Tuesday
The A&M Chapter of Associa
ted General Contractors will hold
its 10th anniversary banquet Tues
day night in the Memorial Student
Center with Joseph Baxter of Bax
ter Construction Corp. as guest
speaker.
Special guests at the banquet
will be various members of A.G.C.
chapters throughout the state.
All students of architectural con
struction and civil engineering are
invited to attend, according to Bob
Underwood, local chapter reporter.
Tickets may be obtained from of
ficers and members of the student
chapter, Underwood said.
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come factors under modern agri
cultural conditions.”
3. “Vigorous” market develop
ment for farm products.
4. A job-opportunity program
“for farmers who want to shift
to other activities.”
He divided the farm population
into three groups and devoted
most of his speech to two, whom
he called “commercial farmers,”
and “low income farmers.”
The first group, he said, is com
posed of 2.1 million families who
produce 90 per cent of the market
ed crops. The second numbers 1.2
million families who produce less
than 10 per cent of the total crops.
“Trying to help both groups
with a single approach based on
price supports has not solved the
problem for either group,” he
said. “The recent compromises be
tween high, fixed supports and
more flexible supports has not
solved the problem, either.”
He did not go into detail on
what he would consider the proper
and most efficient “stabilization
supports.”
On his major point, federal land
rental, he said, “I recommend that
as a start we double these land
rental programs by putting at
least 60 million acres of our farm
land to such uses as reforestation
and conservation.”
Rockefeller said there are about
450 million acres now under cul
tivation.
The rental plan, he said, would
be cheaper than federal subsidies.
He said it would put the land into
reforestation, wildlife and fishery
preserves, and make it available
for recreation.
Rockefeller made the proposals
in a speech before well over 1,000
guests at a Junior Chamber of
Commerce dinner in Minneapolis.
Some called it “definitive” and
“something that needed to be dis
cussed openly.”
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that once it was a hideout for
horse thieves and other shady
characters.
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Roommates resent these common faults in
roommates: Staring at my girl's picture.
Not staring at my girl’s picture. Studying
when I’m not. Having a homely sister.
Having no sister at all. Only one thing is
more annoying than having a roommate
who always runs out of Luckies: Having a
roommate who doesn’t smoke Luckies.
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ANY OTHER REGULAR!
When it comes to choosing their regular smoke,
college students head right for fine tobacco.
Result: Lucky Strike tops every other regular
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Science Academy Officer
Dr. Grady P. Parker head of the Department of Education
and Psychology here, has been elected vice president, Sec
tion III, Social Science Section, Texas Academy of Science
and also to the Executive Council of the Academy for 1960.
The Academy met in Austin Dec. 11-12. He was elected for
three year terms secretary-treasurer of the Academy,
member of the Executive Council, the Board of Directors,
Board of Development and the Board of Science Education.
Secretarial
Course Offered
In Local Area
The Education Committee of the
Bryan-College Station Chapter of
the National Secretaries Assn, has
developed a “Professional Devel
opment Course” to be offered to
secretaries in the local area.
Beginning- Feb. 4 and ending
April 21, this course will cover the
areas of personal adjustment, hu
man relations, business law, busi
ness administration and secretarial
accounting. Meetings will be held
on the A&M campus in the Busi
ness Administration Building on
Thursday evenings from 7-10 p.m.
A registration fee of $15 for the
12 week course will cover all ma
terials used during the sessions and
enrollment will be limited to 30
people so that maximum benefits
may be obtained. Jan. 15 has been
set as the deadline for registra
tions so the instructors may pre
pare the materials needed for the
courses.
Mrs. Beverly M. Shelley, pub
licity chairman, said, “We feel very
fortunate in obtaining the services
of Lloyd H. Taylor, T. D. Letbetter
and John L. Sandstedt fx-om the
Division of Business Administra
tion at A&M.
. “If there is a satisfactory re-
I'sponse to this endeavor, courses in
other subject-matter ai-eas will be
given in the future. We urge par
ticipation of secretaries in the
Bryan-College Station area, not
only for your personal impx-ove-
ment but for the impi-ovement of
the profession.
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sile and space exploi-ation pro
grams.
Pointing pei’haps the most con
troversial issue raised at this con
ference, Lawrence spoke of the
Wednesday evening address by The
Hon. R. S. S. Gunewax-dene, Cey
lon’s Ambassador to the United
States.
“The issue was one of the Am
bassador’s plea for the admission
of Red China to the United Na
tions, I suppose if this wex-e to be
done, it would lead to recognition
of Red China by the United
States,” said Lawrence.
Going further into the subject,
the New Yox-k Times correspondent
said, “This is, I submit, a great
question; which unhappily has been
little debated in this country, either
by Democrats or by Republicans,
and hardly ever from the stand
point of presenting two alternative
courses of action with a measure
ment made of the pros and the
cons on either side.
“It is, of course, a highly emo
tional political subject, and the
climate perhaps never has been
right for an objective discussion of
the merits.”
In closing, Lawrence admitted,
“We have not, of course, in these
four days solved any of these ma
jor px-oblems, but by focusing our
attention upon them, and thex-eby,
to some extent bringing them to
public attention we have made a
contribution.”
Before the question and answer
period that followed his talk, Law
rence clarified his position by say
ing,“I conclude by adding the ob
servation that I am a reporter, and
not a crusader.”
Principal speakers who headed
the agenda with Lawrence which
began Wednesday were General
Medaris and Ambassador Gune-
wardene; Dr. Howard Bowen, one
of the ten top economists in the
United States and president of
Grinnell College in Iowa; and Sir
Leslie Munx-o, United Nations Spe
cial Repi’esentative to the State of
Hungary and former Ambassador
of New Zealand to the United
States.
The conference, sponsored in its
entirety by students of Texas A&M
College, was formed five years ago
to promote a genex-ation of respon
sible leaders in the fields of na
tional and international affairs.
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Cushing Library will maintain
the following schedule during the
Chi’istmas vacation peidod:
Dec. 18—8 a.nx.-5 p.m.
Dec. 19—8 a.m.-xxoon
Dec. 20—Closed
Dec. 21—8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Dec. 22-27—Closed
Dec. 28-31—8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Jan. 1—Closed
Jan. 2—8 a.m.-nooxx
Jan. 3—Closed
Jan. 4—Regular Schedule.
Burgess to Speak
To Houston Group
A. R. Burgess, professor in the
Department of Industrial Engi
neering, will address the Houston
chapter of the American Institute
of Industrial Engineers Wednes
day.
He will talk on “Simulation of
Techniques.”
He addressed a joint meeting
of the Indianapolis chapters of
the American Institute of Indus
trial Engineers and the American
Society for Quality Control on
“Quality Economic Decisions”
Tuesday.
Burgess is a senior member of
the American Institute of Indus
trial Engineers and a Fellow of
the American Society for Quality
Control and has been an active of
ficer in the affairs of both organi
zations, being past regional vice
president of the American Insti-
tue of Industrial Engineers and
one of the founders of the South
Texas Section of the American
Society for Quality Control.
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