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Page 10 THE BATTALION FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1978 Protesters to pack seal s islands Sit-in planned for seal pup United Press International KIRKWALL, Scotland — The government has refused to call off its seal slaughter in the Orkney Is lands, but animal lovers think they can save the lives of 5,000 pups and cows with a sit-in on the barren rocks where the gray seals live. Bruce Millan, the British gov ernment’s secretary for Scotland, re jected a late appeal Wednesday to TAMU MSC TOWN HALL SERIES ATTRACTION #2 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20 8:00 P.M. G. ROLLIE WHITE COLISEUM save the creatures because he does not believe there is a scientific case for calling off the hunt. Fishery experts say the gray seals gobble up $40 million worth of fish every year, enough to keep three Scottish fishing ports in business. The government has approved a cull of about one-twelfth of the herd of 60,000 seals. No firm date has been fixed for the slaughter, however, and the conservationists still think they can win. Millan said he will not risk con frontation with the protesters and endanger human life. So the seals’ main champions, members of the California-based Greenpeace Or ganization, hope they can prevent the slaughter by occupying the bar ren and uninhabited rocky outcrops off northern Scotland. “If the sealers are ordered not to go on any island where there are protesters, we will pack every one of them,” said Greenpeace spokesman Pete Wilkinson. “What will they do then? “I honestly believe we can stop the cull going ahead.” The government’s hired crew of Norwegian marksmen have been ordered to shoot 4,000 seal pups and 1,000 breeding seals. The hunters say many of the seals would starve and die anyway be cause there are no longer enough fish to feed them all. Newspaper and television pic tures of cuddly baby seals with pleading brown eyes have provoked a national outcry by animal lovers. As both sides waited for action, a tag match continued between the government’s sharpshooters, cruis ing the North Sea in their bright red ketch Kvitungen, and the conser vationists aboard Rainbow Warrior, a green trawler with a rainbow painted on its side. A caravan of reporters and camera crews followed the vessels in the chilly waters. iiii MW K 1 contil lother | nds < Call| ded, ivo strel ity oHltl subsif the Counl Hr 1 A Nature Conservancy official aboard the Kvitungen said the fuss was doing the seals no good at all. Reporters and conservationists who landed on the seals’ normally unin habited islands have frightened off many cows, who then deserted their pups to starve and die, he con tended. An old familiar face soon to be missed As machines are taking over all aspects of life, so it is with Fred Norcross. Norcross’ friendly smile will be missed next year as electric equipment will replace the men who check jelwin dinato| [) pron m rsday. pplied| ipulati' son, rtson Rhodel zos Col 97 subl Stationl of the f juld til V I ricia F^ted, HI Station! assistail coin books at each of Texas A&M University’s li- | e d a bou brary exits. Norcross has worked 10 years at Ling '' the door and said he will spend more time on his hobby, woodcarving, from now on. A&M Student Non- Student Date General Public General Admission FREE w/ticket 3.00 4.00 Reserved I 4.00/ 4.50 4.00/ 4.50 6.00/ 6.50 Tickets and Info: ^►MSC Box Office 845-2916 County agents celebrate birthday 'I ■ity of H litenancfl its, Calhl Ities bul pit low-incl United Press International TERRELL, Texas — In 1903 an Iowa researcher on a federal mission “to promote agriculture in the South,” thought his ideas could rev olutionize farming if he only could persuade Texas farmers to adopt some of his new techniques. When Seaman A. Knapp made his pitch in a crowded community meeting, Walter C. Porter stood and volunteered 70 acres of land for a demonstration plot contingent upon a guarantee his income would not be reduced. When local businessmen agreed to place $450 in a bank to cover any loss the Porter family might suffer, Knapp, a special agent with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, initiated the historic project. On Thursday farm demonstration cele brated its diamond anniversary in ceremonies attracting 600 national, state and foreign leaders. ARKANSAS FOOTBALL TRIP NOVEMBER 18 & 19 TVISC TRAVEL $50 INCLUDES: CHARTER BUS TRANSPORTATION ONE NIGHTS LODGING STUDENT GAME TICKET SIGN-UP OCTOBER 16 9:00A.M. IN ROOM216 MSC $25 DEPOSIT On a farm planted to cotton and corn for 28 years without commer cial fertilizer and without rotating crops, Knapp applied his idea that farmers would adopt new farming techniques if he could just “demon strate results they could see with their own eyes on their own farms. ” The 70-acre field on the Porter farm was divided into plots to dem onstrate use of more intensive til lage, commercial fertilizer and crop rotation. Despite boll weevil dam age to cotton in 1903 being the worst in 25 years, Knapp was able to demonstrate good results on Por ter’s test plot. On one plot he produced 166 pounds per acre by planting and farming it the way Porter always had grown cotton and second plot he produced 326 pounds per acre with intensive cultivation, application of 200 pounds of commercial fertilizer per acre and planting the cotton with 18 inches between the rows. On a third plot, he produced 414 pounds per acre using the same cul tivation techniques but with the added benefit of growing the cotton in a field which had been planted to nitrogen-producing cowpeas the previous year. Porter and his neighbors watched the plot all summer and were per suaded by the demonstration. As a result of the increased production from his 70-acre volunteer plot. Por ter was paid $700 more than he normally would have received from the local cotton gin. From that beginning on the Por ter farm, Knapp’s work spread quickly as private and localsuj provided funds for 33 “agent work with farmers in 1904 and farmers planted “demonstrali| plots” on their farms so tii neighbors could see the results United AtlSTWT Congress became interestM the technique and passed eX p Smith-Lever Act in 1914, estilB w h 0 opi ing the Cooperative ExtensionS^Aransas ice which today has a staff of l®his wee professionals serving the pwe’re from approximately 3,150coun:| e K en £ fie® 5 - Ipyrefuj The 800-acre Porter farm iiMCoast, operated by Walter’s son |P lautum grandson and still is visited rera crane by county agents. «£•» »f- vL* vL* *sL» «sL* sL* ■*X* *sLf '•X-* ✓Js. -T* 'T* 'T* -T* *T* "T* zT* PIPES SNUFF SPITTONS PIPE RACKS ROLLING PAPER CIGARS - IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC LIGHTERS/FLUID IMPORTED CIGARETTES CUSTOM BLENDED TOBACCO * Get ’Em While They’re At The Hot ling 5 it wing sj; tionally isolated mystique Irama of 'gle for K than 1C s of the re expect FREE FRENCH FRIES With Every Hamburger 3600 S. 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