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WEDNESDAY, MAY 28. 1975
'DO YOU HAVE MEDICARE?'
Economic education
Gramm applauds efforts
Dr. W. Philip Gramm told the
United States Chamber of Com
merce at the Dallas-Fort Worth
Airport today that “you can’t get
something for nothing from gov
ernment. When somebody does get
something for nothing, then some
poor taxpayer gets nothing for
something.
Gramm, a Texas A&M economist
and international consultant, ap
plauded efforts to expand economic
education in schools and in busi
ness. He said that “ifwe can educate
the people, they will educate the
Congress and the President.
Gramm warned businessmen
that they must practice what they
preach. He said, “Too many Ameri
can businessmen are sunshine
capitalist. They want Free Enter
prise when business is good, but
they are quick to run to the govern
ment for help when business is bad.
Not only does such action make bus
iness look hypocritical but it gives
government more and more control
of industry. If you lie down with
dogs you get up with fleas.
“Today’s very real problems are
not the result of a failure of our
economic system, but instead are
the inevitable result of a slipshod
system of government regulation
and irresponsible government
spending. The American people
must understand the impact that
the government has on their lives if
they are to make wise choices as
citizens, Gramm said.
“Only by going to the schools, to
the businessmen and by using the
public forum for expression are we
going to cure what’s wrong with our
country,” said Gramm.
“Government expenditures and
federal programs did not make this
country great; the government did
not provide the food and clothing for
a whole nation of poor farmers and
ragtag businessmen. The govern
ment did not build a communica
tions network that is the envy of the
world. The government did not
cause a transportation revolution by
inventing the internal combustion
engine. It is through the fruits of our
Free Enterprise System that most
Americans have good food to eat, a
decent place to live and enjoy a chal
lenging and fruitful life,” Gramm
concluded.
Aquaculture no solution
to world food problem
An expert on food from the sea
says not to depend on there being
gold in them thar krills.
Krills are small, shrimp-like crea
tures important to the food chain of
the sea. They are also being eyed as
an alternate source of food, but Dr.
William S. Royce of the National
Marine Fisheries Service believes
assumptions that a gold mine of food
lies in aquaculture are misleading.
He made the statement at a
three-day workshop on food en
gineering at Texas A&M Univer
sity.
Royce asserted that while resear
chers are working on solutions to
the litany of aquaculture problems,
the world should not look to the
oceans as tomorrow’s food savior.
Fish catches in the northern
oceans are about at maximum level
to insure reproduciton. New areas
of exploitation should be the tropics
and southern seas.
Despite the sea’s enormous size,
most of the fish and supporting
plankton live in a relatively small
portion, perhaps as little as 10 per
cent of the total area.
Royce indicated such figures are
leading to reassessment of territor
ial water agreements by nations of
the world.
Most countries seem ready to
recognize both a 12-mile sovereign
limit and a 200-mile “economic”
boundary to control both fishing and
mineral resources. Problems will
also have to be smoothed over when
such limits overlap, he noted.
Another problem with current
sea fishing is the inefficiency of the
food chain.
About 1,000 tons of plankton are
needed to ultimately feed a single
ton of fish “big enough to keep.
Inefficiency of the fleets also adds
to waste, says Royce. In the Gulf of
Mexico alone, almost a million tons
of dead fish are thrown overboard
each year because the ships are not
equipped to handle smaller fish.
Non familiar species, such as the
krills, are being looked at as alter
nate human food sources. But capi
tal outlay will be large to pay for the
process that would include krills,
red crab and lantern fish, he notes.
Such species could account for 10
million tons of food a year.
Keeping stocks at the maximum
level while carefully maintaining
the right tfnvirqjmuuit..als'o crop up
as aquaeultural problems. The same
problems enter into the raising of
plankton or krills as fish food.
Confinement brings a dual prob
lem. Structures must face the viol
ence of the sea, points out Royce,
plus the pressure of using the pens
June, July or August Texas sun
plus a locked car equals instant
oven.
A lucky driver may find a shaded
parking space. Or he might risk
theft by leaving his car open.
Research by a Texas A&M Uni
versity team indicates two other
ways of helping hold down the heat.
The group led by Dr. Dennis Dris
coll recommends parking on a
east-west line. They also found that
light color cars heat up least.
Driscoll and assistants Gerald
Pregent of Keen, N. H., and Mark
Fridel of Bryan rotated parked,
closed Cadillacs through differenc
compass headings to find “cool
parking angles.
Temperature probes recorded
continuously on a six-channel re-
and the land around them for recre
ation or development. Areas just
offshore that could hold fish are also
where most pollution exists.
Disease control, diet and oxygen
levels are critical points in any
large-scale “fish farm" endeavors,
he advises.
TAM U s Aquatic Animal
Medicine Laboratory is doing basic
research in such areas, especially
disease control.
About a fourth of the world’s sup
ply of animal flesh is from beneath
the waves, says Royce.
corder were placed in a light blue
Eldorado, white Eldorado and
brown Coupe de Ville. Measure
ments were made Feb. 25 and 26.
With first-day outside tempera
ture hitting an 81-degree afternoon
high, readings inside the cars
peaked at 119 (white), 123 (blue)
and 126 (brown). They were parked
pointed southeast.
The next day, with a 77 high, the
Line Eldorado was faced south;
white Eldorado, northeast, and
brown Coupe de Ville, northwest.
Interior temperatures went up to
117, 110 and 115, respectively.
Driscoll, a TAMU meteorology
professor, said variations could
occur due to car make and sun
angle, due to latitude.
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by U.S. Senator for Texas
JOHN TOWER
Cold Turkey
WASHINGTON—Irresponsible meddling by Congress in
foreign affairs could cost the United States the support of
a vital ally, with drastic consequences for the entire Free
World.
A foreign policy calamity potentially more severe than
the catastrophe in Southeast Asia is brewing along the
“soft underbelly” of Western Europe.
All along the sunny Mediterranean Southern Flank of
NATO, the strategic position of the Western Alliance is
crumbling. If present trends are not soon reversed, our
Sixth Fleet will be left “flapping in the breeze” without a
Mediterranean port in which it would be welcome.
The most publicized blow to NATO has come from
Portugal, where the Communists are slowly but surely con
solidating their power. American bases in the Portuguese-
owned Azores are an important part of our antisubmarine
defense network, and made possible the resupply of Israel
during the Yom Kippur War.
Events in Portugal are being closely watched in Spain,
where the death or resignation of General Franco could
spark a similar political upheaval.
France already has withdrawn from the command struc
ture of NATO.
Italy is going through yet another of its innumerable
governmental and fiscal crises.
Greece has thrown the Sixth Fleet from its home port in
Athens, and withdrawn from NATO because of our re
fusal to take their side in the explosive Cyprus situation.
And now Congress, by precipitously and discriminatorily
cutting off military aid, may succeed in driving from NATO
the other disputant in the Cyprus conflict and our most
loyal and valuable ally in the Mediterranean—Turkey.
The Turks fought side by side with us in Korea, and
have remained steadfast friends ever since. Their friend
ship has been extremely valuable, for Turkey’s strategic
position is without parallel. Turkey borders on the Soviet
Union. It borders on Syria. It borders on Iraq. The Turks
control the vital straits of the Dardanelles, the narrow sea
passage through which Soviet warships must pass to reach
the Mediterranean.
But Congress seems prepared to discard this valuable
friend, to drive Turkey into the camp of the radical Mos
lems, to in effect mortgage the security of the Free World
for the sake of placating some ethnic emotions in the U.S.
Congress has dabbled too much in the formation and
implementaion of foreign policy, which is properly the
province of the Executive Branch. This meddling must
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