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Council favors cotton research
Associated Press
DALLAS — A National Cotton
ouncil official says that a proposed
increase in cotton producer as-
iessments to add funds for industry
research and marketing promotion
‘has the support” to be approved.
Herman Propst of Anson, Tex.,
the vice-chairman of the Producers
Steering Committee for the Cotton
Council, said Tuesday, “I feel the
proposed additional funding has the
support to pass.”
. Propst and about 45 other cotton
industry spokesmen told a Depart
ment of Agriculture hearing Tuesday
that cotton is beginning to regain its
share of the textile market, but more
money is needed to retain and ex
pand it.
The hearings are part of an effort
by the US DA to hear cotton growers’
comments on the possibility of an
increased producer assessment.
Depending on the growers’ opin
ion, the USDA may call for a re
ferendum late this year on the pro
posed assessment of four tenths of
one per cent of the gross sale price of
each bale.
Another industry spokesman,
Donnell Echols of Lamesa, Tex.,
said, “The producers are very much
in favor of the added funding. It’s
somewhat of a foregone conclusion
that we should increase the amount
of the assessment.”
He added, “The only question is
the amount of the rate and whether it
is a percentage or another flat rate
per bale assessment.”
If the assessment is approved, cot
ton growers will continue to pay the
$1 per bale that now goes for promo
tion and research, Echols said.
Echols said the proposed
additional assessment of four-tenths
of one per cent on the gross sale price
of each bale is favored by producers.
Others in the cotton industry, such
as merchants, might favor another
fixed figure per bale assessment.
Billy W. Golden of Seymour,
Tex., treasurer of the Cotton Board,,
testified that cotton’s “most compel
ling problem is to hold and fill its
market.”
He pointed out that the cotton in
dustry is far behind the synthetic
fabrics industry when it comes to re
search, advertising and promotion.
He said the synthetic fabrics in
dustry last year spent $60 million in
advertising while the cotton industry
spent only $3.4 million. Synthetics
also spent $230 million in research
while cotton research was limited to
$5.4 million.
E. Hervey Evans Jr., of
Laurinburg, N.C., testified that
the additional income would expand
all levels of research and marketing
programs with agricultural textile
research getting an important share
of the funds.
Cotton currently accounts for 30
per cent of the textile market, an
increase of one per cent over the
previous year, officials said.
They said the higher prices of oil
products needed in the production
of synthetic fabrics have helped cot
ton expand its share of the market.
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Greek sororities booming
Party to honor former prof
Almost 550 women students are
now joining or belong to one of the
nine Greek sorority chapters in Col
lege Station.
Mrs. Rayford Anthony, past col
legiate Panhellenic advisor, said the
pledge class of each sorority more
than doubles each year. Of the 245
women who registered for formal
rush this year, 190 are now pledging.
Eight decided not to and 45 dropped
out before pledge time.
The pledge class is the group of
women seeking membership in the
sorority. Members of the sorority are
called actives.
“We’re still not recognized by the
Texas A&M administration. But I
want to make it clear that we haven’t
asked for recognition,” Anthony
said.
“If they decided to change their
position, I don’t know if the
sororities would accept recognition.
We would have to have a lot of dis
cussion,” she added.
Anthony said that recognition by
the administration would mean the
sororities could meet in university
facilities and they would have to let
the University control their finances
Congress
rushing
to adjourn
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Congress,
rushing to adjourn by this weekend
and head to the political campaigns,
is deciding a wide variety of issues
ranging from dams on the Missis
sippi to matters of war and peace in
the Middle East.
Early this morning the House
voted 307 to 31 for a bill that would
require lobbyists to make public who
they work for and how much money
they spend trying to influence
Congress and federal agencies. Pre
sent law requires only that lobbyists
report their income and expendi
tures twice a year.
Sponsors of the lobbying bill,
which now goes to a Senate-House
conference committee, said they
were concerned that the measure
might have been doomed by a last-
minute amendment requiring dis
closure of big financial contributors
to lobbying groups. They said the
amendment might lead some groups
to withdraw their support for the
over-all bill.
The Senate today was to take up a
bill that would increase unemploy
ment taxes.
The lawmakers’ schedule might
gain another work item today if Pres
ident Ford decides to veto a $3.7-
billion money bill for public works
construction.
Ford promised congressional
leaders yesterday that he would
make his decision today to allow time
for Congress to attempt a veto over
ride before adjourning Friday or
Saturday.
Following are some of the items
that Congress acted on yesterday:
CHEMICAL SAFETY
Chemical manufacturers will have
to test new chemical products for
their effects on humans and the envi
ronment, according to legislation
sent to President Ford by Congress.
The bill requires chemical makers
to submit information on new chem
ical substances to the Environmental
Protection Agency 90 days before
the company plans to market them.
DISASTER AID
The Senate approved a measure
appropriating $334 million to repair
government facilities and compen
sate victims of disasters in Idaho and
Guam. Idaho was hit by a flood June
5 after the Teton Dam collapsed.
Guam was hit by Typhoon Pamela
earlier this year. The measure goes
to the House which has not voted on
Idaho relief.
CIA PAYMENTS
The Senate Foreign Relations
Committee killed a resolution that
would have vetoed the sale of 650
air-to-ground Maverick missiles to
Saudi Arabia. The panel acted after
Secretary of State Henry A. Kis
singer made a personal plea that the
sale be allowed.
and banking.
“We’ve made it so far without rec
ognition and I don’t know if the girls
would want to handle their banking
through the school,” she said.
The first sorority chapter in Col
lege Station, Delta Zeta, was estab
lished in December 1974. This fall
nine chapters.participated in rush
week: Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Gamma
Delta and Alpha Phi.
Also, Chi Omega, Delta Zeta and
Kappa Alpha Theta. Others were
Kappa Kappa Gamma, Phi Mu and
Zeta Tau Alpha.
Formal rush week began August
26 at the College Station Ramada Inn
and ended August 31.
Clifford H. Ransdell, former assis
tant dean of engineering and profes
sor of engineering graphics, will be
honored with a retirement reception
Oct. 1.
The reception will be held in the
Dean of Engineering Office on the
second floor of the Zachry Engineer
ing Center from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Professor Ransdell retired this
summer after 39 years on the faculty
and staff at Texas A&M University.
He has received the Charles W.
Crawford Award for distinguished
service to the College of Engineer
ing and the outstanding service
award from the national society of
Phi Eta Sigma honor society for en
gineering.
Ransdell is a member of the
American Society of Mechanical En
gineers, American Society for En
gineering Education, Phi Delta
Kappa, and Phi Eta Sigma.
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Final congressional approval was
given to a bill to pay $750,000 to the
family of an Army scientist who
leaped to his death in 1953 after
being given LSD without his knowl
edge as part of an experiment.
The Senate had voted $1,250,000
for the family of Frank Olson of
Frederick, Md., but the House cut it
to $750,000. The Senate agreed.
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