Farmers say production
of wheat controls needed
United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Mid
western grain farmers say if the Car
ter administration abandons wheat
production controls, “fence-row-to-
fence-row planting could become
widespread and likely initiate a
price crash to rival that of the mid-
1970s.
"Just look at past history,’ said
farmer Gary Henderson of Anthony,
Kan.
“Farmers have obligations to
their landlords, themselves and to
their banks (to plant as much wheat
as possible). You can’t shut the
door.
The Senate, apparently con
cerned about possible wheat
surpluses and a collapse of prices,
passed a resolution Monday urging
the Carter administration to offer
farmers price supports in exchange
for a voluntary 5 percent wheat set-
aside program.
The 20 percent voluntary wheat
set-aside has been in effect since
1978, and many farmers credit the
program with helping boost farm
prices.
But with prices this month reach
ing their highest levels in five years,
there has been pressure within the
adminstration to chop the wheat
program altogether. Since there has
been little hope of saving the pres
ent 20 percent set-aside, farm or
ganizations have been shooting for
only 5 percent.
Even at that, officials acknowl
edge there is a good chance there
will be no set-aside come Aug. 15.
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The wheat set-aside established a
wheat reserve, which kept the grain
off the free market until prices hit a
specific target. Combined with a
tremendous growth in export de
mand this summer, wheat prices hit
thi highest prices since 1974-75.
But many farmers fear history will
repeat itself. A set aside program in
the early 1970s was discontinued in
1973 wben prices hit record levels.
Without any restraint on produc
tion, prices plummeted downward,
reaching lows in 1977.
And many farmers fear their
neighbors “have not learned their
lesson.”
“There would be some individu
als who would increase their acre
age,” said Wendell Ebright, presi
dent of the Kansas Association of
Wheat Growers, and a farmer him
self in Hutchinson, Kan.
“We may work our way back in to
the same sort of quandary that we
just worked out of. It would take a
tremendous export demand to sup
port an increased crop,” Ebright
said.
Jim Allison, executive assistant
for the Texas Wheat Producers, said
the impact of the loss of a set-aside
program could be tremendous.
“If you put all those acres back
into wheat production which have
been taken out the last couple of
years, you could bring another 500
million bushels back into the sup
ply, sitting on top of what already
you got,” he said.
However, Jack D. Craig, com
missioner of the Oklahoma Depart
ment of Agriculture, said farmers
might have learned their lesson.
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Opj^onents espouse^ ‘propaganda^
Physicist says nuclear power
needed to protect democracy
United Press International
NEW YORK — Physicist Dr. Edward Teller said in a two-page
advertisement published Tuesday that despite the “propaganda” by
opponents such as Jane Fonda and Ralph Nader, both the H-bomb
and nuclear power are needed to safeguard democracy.
In a two page ad published in the Wall Street Journal, underwrit
ten by Dresser Industries of Dallas, Teller insisted that nuclear reac
tors were not dangerous and that nuclear power was the main answer
to the nation’s energy shortages.
Teller, the so-called “father of the H-bomb, said he had worked
both on the hydrogen bomb and the safety of nuclear reactors and “I
did both for the same reasons. Both are needed for the survival of a
free society.”
Americans are just beginning to feel the impact of the energy
shortage. Teller said, but the irritation caused by long gasoline lines,
brownouts and escalating prices were mild compared to what could
happen in the future.
“In a struggle for survival, politics, law and even humanity may be
forgotten. When the objective is to stay alive, the end may seem to
justify the means. In that event the world may indeed return to the
‘simple life’ of the past, but millions of us will not be alive to discover
its disadvantages,” Teller said.
In a point-by-point reply to questions raised by anti-nuclear forces
Teller said:
— “It is absolutely impossible for a nuclear power plant to exploc
For this to happen, the laws of nature would have to be n
— The chances of being hurt by a nuclear accident for pen*
living within 50 miles of a reactor were “about the same as being
by a falling meteor.”
— Ways exist to disppose of nuclear wastes. “What we have
had is a decision by our government on which way to go. \%
disposal is a political problem, not a technical problem.”
— Terrorists can find ways to terrorize the nation in ways safe
himself than using plutonium. “The answer is not to get rii
reactors — let’s get rid of the terrorists.”
Teller said that although the accident at Three-Mile Island has
$500 million, not a single life was lost and no one was injured
“We must pay for safety,” he said, “and even after we havepaidl
it, nuclear energy is the cheapest source of electrical power.”
“When our existence is at stake,” he said, “we cannot afford tote
our backs on any source of energy. We need them all.”
Teller said that a few weeks after the accident at Three-Milelslani
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House overwhelmingly passes
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House
voted overwhelmingly Tuesday in
favor of a resolution of censure of
Rep. Charles Diggs Jr., D-Mich.,
Congress’ senior black member, for
padding his payroll and taking
kickbacks from his staff in the mid-
1970s.
The vote was 414-0 with four
members voting “present.”
Reps. Parren Mitchell, D-Md.,
and Robert Garcia, D-N.Y., voted
“nay” but changed their votes to
“present.” Also voting “present
were Rep. Augustus Hawkins,
D-Calif., and Diggs himself.
After the vote, Diggs stood in the
well of the House while Speaker
Thomas O’Neill Jr. read, slowly and
solemnly, a resolution of censure
approved by the House Ethics
Committee.
When O’Neill finished reading,
several members joined Diggs in
the well. One patted him on the
shoulder. O’Neill called for the next
House business and ordered the
well cleared.
The House resumed its usual
noisiness and the censure of Diggs
became a matter of history.
Diggs, now in his 13th House
term, became the second member
.to be censured in this century. Rep.
Thomas Blanton of Texas was cen
sured in 1921 for causing improper
language to be printed in the Con
gressional Record.
During a solemn debate in which
no orator opposed the censure reso
lution, Diggs — wearing matching
suit, necktie and shirt of light blue,
sat on a front row with a brief case in
his lap. He occasionally took notes.
The strongest point made against
Diggs was a statement by Richard
Cheney, R-Wyo., that he believed
the Michigan congressman, already
stripped of committee and sub
committee chairmanships, should
have resigned long ago.
"Resignation is the only honora
ble course of action,” Cheney said.
“I believe he should have resigned
long ago and should consider doing
so now.
But Ceney joined other debaters
in saying the committee’s recom
mendation of censure was appropri
ate.
The debate was brief and set
O’Neill called the movean
to “short circuit the Houses
tisan disciplinary procedure
relies heavily on investigatioj
its Ethics Committee. O'Neil
he was surprised the movefai
the narrow margin of 2(8
Monday.
Manufacturer issues
warning on Darvon
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it is abused.
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more severe drowsiness and dizziness.”
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York for the company’s new corpo
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other parts of the country, says
Gene Overbeck, senior vice presi
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While some employees have not
yet made a decision, about 350
opted not to make the move, mostly
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