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Students’ opinions
sought in survey
by Stephanie M. Ross
Battalion Staff
| To find out how students
fed about various issues, a
questionnaire will be sent out
this week to 1,000 students by
the Student Government.
I The survey, conducted by
the Census and Research
Committee, is composed of
questions on which the sena
tors would like to get student
opinion. The questions con
cern issues such as shuttle bus
service, academic advising
plans and lighting on campus.
1 Also on the survey is a
space where students can
write opinions on issues that
are not on the questionnaire
that they feel the Student Gov
ernment should address.
The survey was compiled
after topics were given to the
committee by the senators.
The questions were designed
to have as little bias as possible,
Jana Nelson, co-chairman of
the committee, said.
Students on the mailing list
for the survey were chosen in
a computerized random sam
ple conducted by the reg
istrar’s office.
Nelson and Mickail Sharp,
chairmen of the committee,
were recommended by statis
tics professor Dr. Laurel
Smith to conduct the survey.
To obtain accurate results,
the committee wants at least
650 responses. If that many
responses are not returned
within three weeks, the survey
will be completed by phone.
Nelson said she doesn’t ex
pect problems with the re
sponse because the survey is
snort, anonymous, and gives
students a chance to tell Stu
dent Government how they
feel about various issues.
The survey should be com
plete with results in three
weeks, Nelson and Sharp said.
A report of the results will be
given to the Student Govern
ment by Thanksgiving.
Cotton producers to meet
foreign textile leaders in Lubbock
United Press International
LUBBOCK, — High Plains
cotton producers got a chance
this week to meet 30 textile lead
ers from nine Far Eastern coun
tries on a tour of cotton produc
tion, processing and merchan
dising operations.
The U.S. Agriculture De
partment sponsored the tour
along with the National Cotton
Council, Cotton Council Inter
national and other cotton-
related groups.
The Plains Cotton Growers
Inc. of Lubbock coordinated the
tour’s activities in Lubbock, offi
cials said. The nine countries
bought 62 percent of the U.S.
cotton exports in the 1980-81
crop year.
“Over 90 percent of this cot
ton was in the short to medium
staple categories produced here
on the Plains,” Donald Johnson,
executive vice president of the
Plains Cotton Growers, said
Tuesday.
Japan, Korea, Bangladesh,
Malaysia, Hong Kong, Philip
pines, Thailand, Indonesia and
Taiwan were each represented
by two to seven officials. The
representatives arrived in Lub
bock Monday night and planned
to leave Wednesday.
“PCG’s involvement with
these people is an effort to put
more of our cotton into their
markets,” Johnson added.
His association coordinated
the activities for the Lubbock
visit, which is part of an annual
U.S. Cotton Orientation Tour.
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United Press International
HEL PASO — The Reagan
administration is unnecessarily
S delaying the release of 22.6 mil
lion bushels of corn to help
drought-stricken West Texas
h ranchers feed their livestock,
||rexas Agriculture Commission
er) im Hightower said Tuesday.
■ He said the government has
spent more than $22 million in
stprage fees to grain elevator
operators in Plainview, while
udufct catile are dying because of the
drought in more than 30 Texas
he fa;L counties.
:4%[i-H”U.S. Commissioner ofAgri-
hohaiiv culture John Block said last
tardi, week he will no longer oppose
leameclthe legislation to force him to sell
iday, kJthe corn to the ranchers,” High-
• imt- tower said
was inn Hightower said a member of
a ten his staff delivered a letter to
an a toinack Tuesday, calling on the
'Agriculture Department to re
tie pt lelse the grain immediately.
.“Wren “At the rate that corn is fol
low, of k| ting, if the government doesn’t
iday) antHease it soon, they’ll have to dig
ling c ahole and bury it,” he said. “The
It's pro Reogan administration is mixing
up its economic theories with
his you farming and they’re not making
iied thdaiot of sense.”
sago.Htsfei Hightower said the drought
io had sen hi West Texas was the worst in
nines, the history of the state,
ely,didmBCorn stored in the grain ele-
lithingii vators in Plainviev. sufficient
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to feed all the cattle, sheep and
other livestock in the draught
area for the entire winter, High
tower said.
“There have been some rains
in the area, and that means there
will be grazing in the spring,” he
said. “The ranchers who are
down to their breeding stock,
are relying on that government
corn to get them through the
winter so they can build their
herds back up.”
Hightower said the pending
legislation would force the Agri
culture Department to sell the
corn at discount prices to ran
chers.
“This administration makes
Scrooge look generous,” he said.
Hightower, in his letter to
Block, cited several sections of
federal law which give Block the
authority to release the corn
without further action by Con
gress.
Block recently said that he
does not have the authority to
release the corn until Congress
passes legislation specifically
directing him to do so.
Hightower said the West
Texas area recently received a
three-day soaking rain that con
siderably brightens the picture
for improved grass on the range
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^Sunday, Oct. 30—11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Barbecued Chicken and
Sausage Dinner
11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
dults—$4 Children under 12—$2.50
Plus Meals “To Go”
Games Raffle Talent Show
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next spring. hold onto as many of their
“The improved outlook breeding stock as possible
makes it all the more important through the winter,” Hightower
that our ranchers are able to said.
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