Page 8/The Battalion/Wednesday, August 10,1983
Use old corn, says White
United Press International
AUSTIN — Gov. Mark White
suggested Monday that the U.S.
Department of Agriculture use
some of the corn it has stock
piled since the 1980 grain
embargo to help drought-
plagued West Texas farmers
and ranchers.
White said in a letter to U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture John
Block that he was “very dis
appointed” that Block had re
fused to extend assistance to
agricultural producers in the 27-
county area through the federal
Emergency Feed Program.
Along with Texas Agricul
ture Commissioner Jim High
tower, the governor had sought
a subsidy to help ranchers pro
vide feed for their livestock.
tie prospect of improvement
since August, September and
October are usually very hot and
dry months,” White said.
Most of the 47,927-square-
mile area has had less than 2 in
ches of rain in 1983, and some
counties have received less than
one-half inch.
White suggested Block con
sider using the “large stockpiles”
of corn stored by the USD A in
the Texas Panhandle since the
grain embargo of 1980. White
said he understood much of the
corn was beginning to deterio
rate and would be unfit for hu-
“As the days get hotter and
the ground gets dryer, the situa
tion continues to worsen with lit-
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Because the dry conditions
have left ranges with little or no
grass to feed livestock, many
ranchers have been forced to sell
their cattle and sheep herds or
moved them into New Mexico
and Colorado.
The 18-month drought has
been so severe that some ran
chers have reported using blow
torches to burn thorns off prick
ly pear cactuses so cattle could
eat them.
man consumption.
Texas Farmers Union presi
dent Mike Moeller of Waco also
joined White in criticizing
Block’s decision. He said the
West Texas area is “slowly but
surely turning into a new Dust
Bowl.”
“It’s already too late to save
most of the crops this year, but
we can still save some of the
family farmers and ranchers
from going out of business en
tirely by granting the emergency
aid,” said Moeller.
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Woman named to hea
Jewish congregation
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ST. LOUIS — Even while
keeping up her battle to enter a
male bastion of the Conservative
branch of Judaism, Rabbi Be
verly W. Magidson will become
the first woman to head a con
gregation of the Jewish group.
Magidson has been
appointed to lead the 105-family
Congregation Beth Shalom in
Clifton Park, N.Y., a suburb of
Albany.
But her ultimate desire is to
become the first woman admit
ted to the Rabbinical Assembly,
which is the Conservative
branch’s association of rabbis. In
April, she came within four
votes of being granted member
ship in the group.
Magidson Monday said she
had been appointed to head a
Conservative congregation
without being a member of the
rabbinical group because there
is a shortage of Conservative
rabbis in the United States.
Magidson said she would
continue to seek admission to
the rabbinical organization,
adding she believes her applica
tion eventually will be suc
cessful.
Her applicationtoil(|
nical Assembly was c
Jews is how they approach J<
ish law," she said. “The Refo
Magidson was ordained as a
Reform rabbi in 1979, although
she considers herself to be a
Conservative Jew.
“The major difference be
tween Reform and Conservative
ew-
orm
branch considers itself outside
ewish law. The Conservative
ranch believes one should
observe Jewish law.”
Before becoming a chaplain
at Jewish Hospital, she served as
associate director of B’nai B’rith
Hillel Foundation at Washing
ton University.
in April at a meetinginl
the Conservative a,
She received 210 of;
votes required by the!
Ix*r rabbis.
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Nativity scene to re mi
on county-owned land
United Press International
HOUSTON — The Amer
ican Civil Liberties Union said it
plans to appeal a federal ruling
that says Harris County may
continue placing Nativity scenes
on county property duping the
Christmas season.
A written order by U.S. Dis
trict Judge George Cire Monday
denied an ACLU motion filed
last December which sought to
stop the county from putting the
Christmas scenes on the lawns of
two county buildings.
The lawsuit claimed the
scenes were religious symbols
and the county should not be
involved in promoting religion.
“We will appeal the decision,”
said Stefan Presser, ACLU
attorney.
The ACLU cited a similar
case from Pawtucket, R.I., in
which the city was enjoined from
sponsoring Nativity scenes in
public buildings. The case is
pending before the U.S. Sup
reme Court.
T. Gerald Treece, hired to
represent Harris County in the
lawsuit, praised the ruling.
“The ACLU seems to think
that every time the government
has any involvement with reli
gion that would violate the First
Amendment command on
separation of church and state.
In fact, we have a rich American
cultural heritage and part of
that is based on our religion,”
Treece said.
Cire quoted from the dissent
ing opinion of First Cl
Judge Levin CampW|
Rhode Island case tow
ruling in the Houstoni
“The First An
would plainly noli
to pay for Christman
public park or thelikj
Nativity scene hast
the accepted Christa
holism.
“When seasonally
without accompanying
ceremonies or messapt
think it can be said
religion any more
ing in of carols or si:
ties having a re!i|
which our society
accept as part and pai
Christmas season."
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Colorado bus manufactureiCoi
filing lawsuit against MTA
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BOULDER, Colo. — A Col
orado bus manufacturer said
Tuesday it has prepared a $3.9
million lawsuit against Hous
ton’s public transit agency,
which is accused of terminating
an agreement to buy 50 "articu-
lated” buses after the Texas Leg
islature called on it to deal only
with an in-state company.
The suit was prepared for
i U.o. District
filing Tuesday in
Court in Houston by Neoplan
USA of Lamar, Colo.
The company accuses the
Metropolitan Transit Authority
of Harris County of breaching a
legal contract, “bowing to poli
tical pressure” and “fishing fora
lower bid.” ■ United P,
Neoplan has requestYOl
damages of $1.9 ^ alcohol have
punitive damages of {Inspected lin
The case began Af jeer, says the
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purchase of 50 artio
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suppliers who wouldajj No ass
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