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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1974
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‘Shooting of 600 calves not a national program’
SAUNA, Kan. (AP) — A Na-
ional Farmers Organization of-
cial said Tuesday the NFO has
ried to discourage its mem-
ers from shooting calves as a
rotest against depressed farm
rices.
Max Barnett, representing
he NFO meat department,
jld the annual Kansas NFO
onvention that last week’s
hooting of more than 600 baby
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National Farmers Organization considers killings immature
a national prog- publicity on the problem of try. Barnett said the cause of food policy” to please consum- We ve got to get
calves is not a national prog
ram.
We hope this doesn’t
spread, ” Barnett told about 300
persons at Salina’s Memorial
Auditorium. “We’re a mature
organization and we don’t think
we need to shoot calves to get
attention.”
Barnett added the protest
staged by Wisconsin NFO
members produced national
publicity on the problem of
high farm production costs and
low prices paid to farmers. But
he said the NFO leadership
had discussed the protest with
the Wisconsin farmers and at
tempted to head off the calf
shooting.
We did get a lot of public
ity, so it wasn’t all bad,” Bar
nett said. “But we hope this
doesn’t spread across the coun
try.” Barnett said the cause of
such protests is the near
bankrupt condition of the U. S.
cattle industry, which he said
has lost $250 million a month
for the past year.
The NFO meat expert said
he expects cattle markets to get
worse before prices paid to
farmers turn up again. He
blamed Congress and the ad
ministration for the “cheap
food policy” to pleas
ers at the expense of farmers.
“They will break every
American farmer to have that
policy,” Barnett told the con
vention. “We can’t let that
happen,” he said.
Barnett appealed to Kansas
NFO members to join a
nationwide effort to pool farm
production and force up prices
paid for live cattle.
‘We’ve got to get every ani
mal we can going through the
NFO collection and marketing
system,” he said. “We want to
move 3,000 cows a week and, if
we can do that, we ll control
the market.”
Farmers now have excessive
numbers of cows, which pro
vide most of the nation’s ham
burger and are, therefore, a
key to the U. S. meat market,
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Barnett explained.
The NFO announced a plan
last week to use its 200 collec
tion points for gathering the
products of NFO members and
shipping them to market under
contracts.
The NFO official said 30 per
cent of the nation’s cattle feed
ers are bankrupt or on the
verge of bankruptcy, while
eastern investors also are with
drawing funds from the beef
industry.
We ve had ups and downs
in agriculture since the depres
sion, but this is the first time
we’ve run out of money,” Bar
nett said.
Panelists
discuss
mining
A public forum on strip mining
will be held Thursday at 8 p.m. in
the Medallion Room of the Bryan
Utilities Building.
Dr. Earl Cook, dean of Geosci
ences, who is considered a national
authority on energy and natural re
sources, will be among the speak
ers. He will lead discussion on water
contamination, fertile soil, reclama
tion standards and appearance of
the land after mining.
Almost 2,500 acres of land in
Brazos County has been leased by
Dow Chemical Co. in its search for
mineable lignite deposits.
Dr. Chris Mathewson, a
specialist in engineering geology
and Dr. Lloyd Hossner, a soil scien
tist who has done research at the
Fairfield strip mine, will also ans
wer questions.
Forum
to sponsor
State Rep
Political Forum will sponsor a
program by State Representative
Craig Washington of Houston at
12:30 p.m. in Room 701 of the Rud
der Tower, Thursday.
Rep. Washington will speak on
the Texas criminal and penal sys
tem.
During the abortive Constitu
tional Convention, Washington
chaired the Committee on Local
Government. He is also chairman of
the Texas House’s select committee
to investigate Prairie View A&M. A
member of the Black Caucus,
Washington also served on the
Criminal Jurisprudence, Judiciary
and Rules Committees of the House
of Representatives.
The Political Forum speaker also
taught law and was an assistant dean
at Texas Southern University Law
School, his alma mater, before en
tering private practice in 1970.
Washington was originally
elected to the state legislature in
1972. He represents the 86th Dis
trict, which is located in Harris
County. Currently, he is running
for re-election in November.
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