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Ozone level
subject of
research
United Press International
HOUSTON — A government
scientist wants to conduct stu
dies in Houston and the Missis
sippi Delta to substantiate labor
atory tests that show ozone pol
lution can reduce cotton yields
by up to 15 percent.
Plant pathologist Howard E.
Heggestad, with the Agricultural
Research Center, in Beltsville,
Md., said although cotton is not
a major crop around Houston,
the city does have high ozone
levels that are carefully re
corded and could be used in the
research.
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Claude Riley hasn
gh ozone Experts say too good to last
“In rural areas, we do not
have good information on what
the ozone levels really are,” Heg
gestad said. Major crops in the
area, such as soybeans and rice,
however, are sensitive to ozone
pollution, he said.
The major cotton-growing
areas in the country are in
Texas, California and Missis-
sippi.
Studies done in the San Joa
quin Valley of California
showed several strains of cotton
decreased in yield by about 15
percent in areas where there is
ozone pollution, Heggestad
said.
Inflation low in January
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The scientist said that in his
own studies, he found the Cali
fornia cotton showed significant
leaf loss and changed lint and
seed quality when exposed to
ozone.
However, he cautioned that
blaming ozone for leaf loss in
cotton plants is tricky. He said
E lant damage could be caused
y some other pollutant, such as
sulfur dioxide.
United Preis International
WASHINGTON — Cheaper
transportation and clothing
costs held inflation to an ex
tremely moderate 0.3 percent
last month — the smallest climb
in a year and a half, the Labor
Department reported
Wednesday.
Only twice in nearly six years
has the Consumer Price Index
been lower than January’s fi
gure — in July 1980, and in
April 1976, department analysts
said.
If January’s moderate price
hikes were repeated for 12 con
secutive montns, the annual rate
of increase only would be 3.5
percent, the Labor Department
said. That would be tar below
last year’s average of 8.9 per
cent.
Most striking in the new fi-
)rices for
gures was the drop m pr
transportation, the first since
April of last year, and the second
drop in clotning prices in three
months.
A substantial decline in gaso
line prices was primarily respon
sible for the transportation price
decline, the department said.
Prices for new cars also went
down, while used car prices went
up by the smallest amount in 19
months.
The gains on the inflation
front for January, February and
March are especially significant,
since they determine the annual
cost-of-living increase that So
cial Security recipients receive in
July. Last year’s adjustment of
11.2 percent cost the govern
ment $37 billion in additional
payments. This year’s adjust
ment could be far less.
The Consumer Price Index
was set at 282.5 for January,
which meant it cost $282.50 to
buy the same sample market
basket of goods and services that
could be purchased for $100 in
1967.
Of the seven major categories
of prices, only three increased
over December, when the
monthly hike in the overall in
dex was 0.4 percent.
Transportation costs went
down 0.2 percent. Clothing
prices dropped 0.1 percent.
Housing costs climbed 0.3
K ercent, as the heavily weighted
ome ownership costs went
down, partially offsetting in
creases in the price of fuel oil for
heat.
The cost of buying a house
went down 0.4 percent, offset
ting a 0.2 percent increase in
Bftthe 6-10 Texa
ard, who has led tl
Soring all season
ut really expec
I masterful perfc
Kthat day.
Riley showed tl
ougars that ought
Mfaon to him in
^g a career-hig
mortgage interestratesfc^ "up; 77 '
months. §^ e , s ^' 77 ,
Incontrast,astillu [ A S ^ 0Li I s|;;;; h<
tal price index that wil , make
’t have that kii
rents for home ownerstil
went upOIpeKent^U when the
the otticial index.
jk Cougars in He
Food prices climbedifn at 2:10 p.m.
in January, up 0.7 perctrl* hat game, I
highest rate of increast mething like that
months. ipffn,” Riley sai<
Large price hikes kien and started
vegetables and fruits kots.
way. Prices went up lotj'They’re going t<
cereal, pork, fish and ious of me this
products, while beef aisivetwo people clc
got less expensive. until our gu
■I’ll have somec
The medical care Qtphole game. I
climbed the most, 0.8 and
keeping up the skyrodtep have to get
creases of the past yeat, e ”
have amounted toa 12,If jhe Cougars hi
inflation rate for healtbit phes in a row sir
e Aggies and has
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — Demo
crats on the Congressional Joint
Economic Committee answered
a challenge from President
Reagan Wednesday by propos
ing an easing of monetary poli
cy, delay of 1983 tax cuts and
conservation of credit.
ut
“The president told us to p
' ‘ sd to
up or shut up, and we decidec
put up,” Rep. Henry Reuss, D-
Wis., the committee chairman,
said Thursday in an interview
on NBC’s “Today” program. He
referred to a remark Reagan di
rected to critics of his economic
program during a Midwest trip
just after release of the adminis
tration’s 1983 budget blueprint.
The Democrats’ plan, as it
was outlined Thursday, in
cludes:
— Stop the administration
and the Federal Reserve from
further tightening the money
supply
— Defer the 10 percent cut in
individual income tax rates now
scheduled for July 1983. (They
proposed no change in the 10
percent cut scheduled for this
July)
— Repeal the indexing of
taxes, now scheduled to start in
1985, under which inflation no
longer would push people into
higher brackets
— Defer further “deep reduc
tions in spending for social
programs” until after the reces
sion ends and extend unemploy
ment insurance coverage so it
would run for 39 weeks in all
states
— “Conservation” of credit.
The administration and Federal
Reserve would encourage banks
to channel loans to productive
rei
uses, including small ta
farmers, housing and fp:-:
live investment, ratherfe by Frank L
productive uses such asc® Sports 1
rate take-overs and spcctflkch Snelby
in commodities. piirsday that r
— Launch an “incomaBfe Thomas, w
cy,” under which the ;lte floor and o
ment, labor and businesi'Vhite Coliseum
strike a national baijay’s game with
voluntarily slow inflaikHteam and h
wages ana prices. DemtraHed” for his c
the committee have niilhomas had t
proposal in past years, ensive assigni
Republicans responiffond half of
urging: ory, prompting
— Further efforts to Pmout for pur
the federal budget dd'^g the mistakes
additional spending redcPas left the co
not by tax increases ln d knocked do
— Consideration otac^ay out.
al tax measures to entJpetcalf said:
saving, investment andr^t with the <
tivity captains and it’s
— Redoubling effort; fatten,
move burdensome fedtrik “Things hapi
ulations l||le. The nev
— A renewed commilimife who make
the Federal ReserevetotjFy,
non-inflationary rf Metcalf wou
tain
growth.
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