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Page 6rThe BattalionATuesday, February 21, 1984 Most of 1983 Texas cotton crop sold United Press International LUBBOCK — Most of the 1.3 million bales of cotton pro duced on the High Plains last year was of good quality and al ready has been sold only a few months since harvest was com pleted, industry spokesmen said. “We’ve had an excellent ex port demand,” said Bert Kyle, Plains Cotton Cooperative As sociation sales manager. “For one thing the countries that tra ditionally compete with us aren’t offering cotton for sale.” Carl Anderson, extension cotton specialist from College Station, said Monday much of the 1983 Texas cotton crop showed good Fiber quality de spite a summer drought fol lowed by heavy rains just as the harvest started. Kyle estimated that only about 75,000 bales remained to be sold of the Texas and Okla homa cotton offered through the PCCA Telcot marketing sys tem. That Figure included the 1983 crop, Payment-In-Kind entitlements and older cotton. PCCA usually represents about half of the cotton sold in area, Kyle said. time of year,” he said. “But I can sure say that we’ve never seen the end of February come and have the crop virtually all gone.” “Looking back through the 1980s, we’ve always had 500,000 or more bales at this The High Plains for the past 10 years has accounted for nearly 60 percent of the cotton planted in Texas. Last year some 1.3 million bales were pro duced in a 25-county area sur rounding Lubbock. “Nationally cotton has been selling somewhat like it has been here, but other growing areas had a higher quality cot ton that was not as much in de mand as was ours,” Kyle said. But Anderson said reports indicated much of the state’s last cotton crop had good spin ning properties even though Texas traditionally is labeled as a low-quality cotton area. 1 F 19 Li me FBI investigates helicopter theft IS BEST ON HARWOOD stmt ms TOP QUALITY ESCORTED CO-ED FUN GROUPS 16-41 Days 4-1 1 Countries From $1 295 plus air Nationally Acclaimed Since 1 959 See Your Travel Agent or Write: ImrtriHui 2428 GUADALUPE f AUSTIN, TX 78705 United Press International LEESVILLE, La. — Authori ties investigating the theft of a military payroll by helicopter ing bank robbers said Monday they have “active leads,” but had not identified or located the five suspects. “We are pursuing this acti vely,” FBI spokesman Cliff An derson said in New Orleans. “All investigative agencies have active leads.” The FBI, state police and Vernon Parish sherifFs office were investigating Wednesday’s armed robbery of $160,000 from Merchants and Farmers Bank & Trust Co. Five heavily armed men stole a maroon-and-white helicopter in Galveston and flewto Loui siana, robbed the bank of nearby Fort Polk’s payroll and fled, authorities said. No shots were fired and no one was in jured. A sherifFs spokesman said officers were trying to confirm seven or eight reported sight ings of the helicopter. One of the earliest reported sightings was in Marshall where he helic have landed to refuel about an hour after the robbery. FBI spokesman Max Geiman in Kansas City, Mo., Monday said the helicopter also stopped at Point Lookout, Mo., where the robbers tried to buyjet fuel. Geiman said the airport was too small to stock jet fuel, so the robbers bought 40 gallons of regular aviation fuel and left. 75 to 80 gallons of jet fuel. State police Lt. Ronnie Jones last week said each investigating agency was working around the clock in an attempt to head off public tendencies to turn the bank robbers into folk heroes. the helicopter was believed to Geiman said the robbers also were sighted at the Aurora, Mo., airport, where they bought “There’s probably some de gree of public admiration that a group like that was able to pull off such a flashy robbery,” he said. “I’m sure there is some ro mance of some type, no matter how strange that romance might be.” 1 ! PI NISSAN ■——■■COUPON—" CAR CARE PRODUCTS WITH MUCH MORE SERVICE FOR DATSUN CARS ONLY mm:\ We Will Be Open Thursday Nights Till 8 PM ) pei Sta starting Jan. 5th. BRAKE JOB FRONT DISC BRAKES 18-wheeler slams into 2 rigs spilling 40,000 pound load $4433 REPLACE DISC PADS WITH OUR BEST PADS. INSPECT ROTORS, CALIPERS AND LUBRICATE HARDWARE ROAD TEST. PARTS, LABOR & TAX MUCH MORE PRICE OLD PRICE WAS $60.08 EXPIRES JAN. 20,1984 United Press International An GALLERY DATSUN H § GREENWOOD, La. — 18-wheel tractor trailer ran a stop sign Monday, hit a pickup truck, slammed into two parked 18 wheelers and toppled onto two more truck rigs, spilling 40,000 pounds of oven cleaner and injuring three people. ish sherifFs spokesman Richard Dunn. The truck clipped a pickup and veered into Kelly’s parking lot, where it hit two other 18- wheel rigs and overturned onto two others. The collision split open Watkins’ trailer, dumping the load of Easy Off cleaner' onto the parking lot. Robert Watkins of Taccoa, Ga., was arrested on eight charges in the incident. Watkins ran a stop sign as he exited In terstate 20 toward the truck stop, just west of the Louisiana- Texas border, said Caddo Par- Jerry Segars, of Toccoa, Ga., a passenger in Watkins’ truck and Richard G. Smith of Gates- ville, Texas, suffered minor in juries in the accident. 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Come See For Yourself Why Hoffbrau Is So Popular -- ^ steak-s^^ "Great Steaks And More" Monday - Saturday 11 a.m. - 10 p.m.; Sunday 1130 a.m. - 10 p.m. 317 South College in the Skaggs Center, 260-9172 Around tom Political Forum to go to Washington ByC MSC Political Forum is sponsoring its annual IripitB Texa Washington D.C.. Cost for the trip is $525 which include live acti round-trip air fare, lodging at the Capital Hilton and sera I M. Lopi meals. The trip is open to all Texas A&M students, I and staff. A deposit of $250 is due Feb. 23. Formoreii malion contact Lauri May in the Student Programs 0 at 845-1515. goals is Utlice in Affir eral pre nate tlu Health scholarships available ■ i ih affect si Applications for the Julia Ball Lee and the H.R. Lew Scholarships are currently available to undergraduait health science majors. The Julia Ball Lee Scholarshipisi maximum $500 scholarship awarded to biological scieitt majors with high achievement and evidence of fmanoal need. The H.R. Lewis Scholarship also is a minimumfl scholarship presented to undergraduate health science© jors with high academic achievement. Applications for the scholarships are available in ik Scholarship Office on the second floor of the Pavilionaml in 313 Biological Sciences. Deadline for applications March 1. miut says. I n< linoriti jJ\&M wi she say: ^idll be ik ilents a “Getti Ige tha dices is i :i says ialize tl ys, but Wellness Network to organize The Student Wellness Network will have an organi/M nal meeting tonight in 274 East Kyle at 6 p.m. Studenthc! ness includes items such as academic and social stress,I etary and exercise habits and emotional and spiritm! outlooks. The meeting is open to all Texas A&M student faculty and staff. ,u in Law scholarships to be awarded AUS1 onfesse ,ee Luc Tulane Law School and the Texas Aggie Bar Assotii tion will award scholarships to students interested inla« The Tulane Law School of fers selected undergraduate in stitulions the opportunity to nominate students forthelj I Lucas lane Law School Regional Scholarships. The recipients wi ient cor receive $4,000 for tuition and fees during the first yearof lering law study. The awards are renewable for two years as lonjiCharged as the student maintains a 3.0 grade point averageinb thedeatl coursework. The nominee must be a graduating senioraml male hiti must have applied to Tulane Law School by March I Dead Hailowe Uniti One-eyec der trial own du set for T line is March 15. The Texas Aggie Bar Association will award threeJI 1 1 to Texas A&M students entering law school in 1984. Appf* cations are available to any student who has completedmos or all of his pre-law work at Texas A&M. Deadline is Matd 17. Students interested in either scholarship should cottiati Hillary Jessup, Acadmic services, 101 Academic Building. The f< reported lice Dep; Liberal arts accepting nommefim) misd ■ A The Liberal Arts Student Council is now accepting® dent nominations for Teaching Excellence Awards intkj'™ ue sw College of Liberal Arts. Any student, regardless of majtt,B om may nominate any liberal arts faculty member for tk ln l * ie ^ award. Nomination forms are available in 802 Harringt ler or in any liberal arts department office. Forms aredueFA®* ^ 27. To submit an item for this column, come by The office in 216 Reed McDonald. taining h dent ID; was stole _ • A g( a Bullov; World hunger called ‘indecent’ by farmers wanting price controls lew from the worn G. Rollie • The ]hevrok Annex 2' • Twc ers were Pontiac it United Press International TEXARKANA, Ark. — Farmers from four Southern states Monday petitioned fed eral lawmakers to fix “mini mum wage” type price controls for crops and renew a foreign aid food giveaway program. “I’ve been around farmers all my life,” said Roger Beall, a Louisiana farmer. “But I don’t understand the simple fact that millions of people worldwide starve while American farmers don’t know what to do with their food. “It’s downright indecent,” he said. Beall said the government should renew its “food for peace” foreign aid program, based on cheap credit and tied to future farm product mar kets. But policymakers at an agri cultural forum for farmers from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkan sas and Louisiana balked at adding to the deficit. “Cheap credit won't problem,” said Bob i Carter administration secitfl of agriculture. “That's we’re in trouble with Mi Brazil, Poland and “But it’s this nation’sre[ sbility to set positive exac u n j ver and we should think inter'- x exar a new food for peace prop] eve n if A spokesman for the L rea |iy ar can Agriculture MovemeF tj cs Congress must legislate; 1 , \ nev of crops in an across-the’i [he Tea system of controls. “Just tell me how pounds, bushels or d have to produce and I'l/c job,” said Wayne Cryts.tf the size c spoken leader of Ms geograp! AAM who was jailed las ; nificance for resisting a goverWorkTir grain storage policy. I “Hooc Brown Jt David Senter, national 1 1928,” i: spokesman, said farm March 1! must be restructured anjUniverst government must est>l It was mandatory price subsidies by Dr. h pry pro I press tra ground :riod b rtance (jet Jfeady lo Dance fTexas The til m thr stuous Ian’s hc ice-ele wc/i 2 JVTusic by ihf Debonair^