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12 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1981
National
Senate knocks down
milk price supports
United Press International
' WASHINGTON—The Senate
Agriculture Committee Tuesday
approved a stopgap bill to roll
'sack higher milk price supports.
Which took effect last week when
^:he old farm bill expired.
> , The committee sent the
jHouse-pased bill to the full Se
nate without a recorded vote.
| ^ens. Edward Zorinsky, D-Neb.,
md Rudy Boschwitz, R-Minn.,
.said they would have voted no if a
tally had been taken.
Committee chairman Jesse
Helms, R-N. C., said he hoped
the Senate could act on the mea
sure as early as today, although
Senate Republican leader How
ard Baker had warned it might
not be taken up until next week.
Baker tried to get quick consid
eration of the bill last week by the
full Senate without sending it to
the Senate Agriculture Commit
tee, but Sen. William Proxmire,
D.-Wis., blocked consideration.
The Agriculture Department
estimated that failure to pass the
bill would cost $1 million a day in
higher payments to dairy produc
ers. Deputy Agriculture Secre
tary Richard Lyng told the Senate
committee that passage of the
measure this week would help
the Reagan administration “avoid
hardly any purchases at the high
er price.”
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an animated film from Ralph Baleshi
inspired by JRR Tolkien’s famous ad
venture — fantasy trilogy.
Thurs., Oct. 8
7:30 and 10:00 p.m.
Rudder Theatre *1.50
MSC Cepheid Variable
Taking advantage of last Saturday’s beautiful weather,
Texas A&M University senior Jon Heidtke washes his
motorcycle. Heidtke, 22, is the weekend sports anchor
man at KBTX-TV in Bryan.
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Odd Brazilian cattle brought
to boost US beef industry
On Sale all
week at MSC,
Sbisa &
Quad area
This Thursday at Hall
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bonnaires. Get in for $1
when you wear your
Howdy shirt. (18 yr.
olds welcome!)
United Press International
Strange-looking cattle import
ed under U.S. Agriculture De
partment supervision from Brazil
don’t bother U.S. cattle breeders.
The breeders hope the zebu
will boost beef production in the
United States and particularly the
hot southwest by providing a re
sistance to tick infestation, hot
weather and certain diseases.
When bred with American cattle
these traits will be passed on to
the calves.
The zebu looks different from
U.S. breeds: a darkly pigmented
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loose hide, thick hair, long horns
and humped back. A large fold
underneath the neck is called the
“dewlap.”
Texas breeder-importer Walk
er Wilson brought 54 head of the
first shipment to Overton last
year.
“These cattle are pure blood
and very fertile,” said Marilyn
Gounah of Wilson’s office.
“They are pure bred from the
Indian brahma so we get a lot of
interest from the brangus and
brahma breeders. New blood
means greater fertility and hybrid
vigor.”
Hybrid vigor is the ratio of
pounds of feed consumed to
pounds gained. The more pounds
gained per pound of feed, the
greater the hybrid vigor.
“The breed will help the com
mercial rancher by providing cat
tle that produce more meat quic
ker at less cost,” Gounah said.
Zebus were first brought into
the U.S. only a year ago because
of a law banning cattle imports
from countries with infestations of
rinderpest foot-and-mouth dis
ease and other diseases not occur
ring in the United States.
Rinderpest causes high fever
and inflammation of the digestive
tract and a high death rate in
cattle. Foot-and-mouth disease
causes blisters and sloughing in
the mouth and nose and on the
feet of cattle, sheep goats, and
swine, resulting in major eco
nomic losses.
Breeding stock of the zebu that
have been imported are under 11
months old and first were quaram
tined for 60 days on the Brazilian
ranches where they were
selected.
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After that, tests were per
formed by Agriculture Depart
ment scientists to determine
whether the animals had been ex
posed to a specific list of diseases.
Cattle passing these tests were,
transported and tested again at
Canacia Quarantine Station out-1
side the Brazilian mainland.* r
Those that passed were shippedjBl/l
to the Harry S. Truman Animalj 1 fX
Import Center, located on anis-1
land off Key West Fla., wheref Uni
they remained under strict WASH
quarantine for more tests for xploring
about 150 days. oorbys
After passing the final tests, the ttssiblr
Zebus were released to the U.S. fflcentn
mainlan'd. Of the 744 animals letals w<
selected in Brazil, 141 were im- bn.
ported into the United States in | Dr, Ah
two shipments. The entire listof the
quarantine procedure took eight finounce
months for each shipment.
Three Americans hurt
in Sadat assassination
luesday
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — Three
American military observers were
among those wounded in the hail
of gunfire and grenade explosions
that left Egyptian President An
war Sadat fatally wounded
Tuesday.
A State Department spokes
man said none of the officers were
seriously hurt.
The three were identified as:
— Air Force Lt. Col. Charles
Loney, 42, of Austin, attached to
headquarters in Washington — a
flesh wound in the shoulder.
said
— Air Force Capt. Christopher
Ryan, 34, of Sacramento, Calif,
attached to the U.S. European
Command in Stuttgart, West
Germany — shot in the foot.
— Marine Maj. Jerald Agen-
broad, 36, of Bruneau, Idaho, at
tached to MacDill Air Force
Base, Fla. — shot in the leg.
A Pentagon spokesman
Loney was treated lay doctors at
the U.S. Embassy. Ryan and _
Agenbroad were taken to Maadi Jl) l
Armed Forces Hospital, where T
Sadat died about two hours after
the attack.
The Pentagon said two other top-
ranking U.S. military officers
were on the reviewing stand at
the Armed Forces Day parade
when the attack occurred but
were not hurt.
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