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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.
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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.”
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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
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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. They
were treated at a Shreveport
hospital and released.
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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.
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for resisting a goverWorkTir
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