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U.S. agriculture has
hard future ahead
By LINDA ROWLAND
Reporter
Agriculture in the United
States must plan tor a difficult fu
ture, the senior deputy governor
of the Farm Credit Administra
tion said Wednesday.
Terry Fredrickson presented
the Farm Credit System’s 1995
study to members of a graduate
agricultural finance seminar.
“The financial outlook for ag
riculture will be less optimistic in
the future than it was in the ’70s,”
he said.
The study shows that the fed
eral deficit will increase at a rate
of 5 percent of the gross national
product each year until 1995.
T he Farm Credit Administra
tion is an independent federal
agency which supervises the cat-
operative Farm C Ted it System.
This system makes loans to fann
ers, ranchers, commercial fisher
men, rural homeowners and
farm-related businesses.
Fredrickson said the study fo
cuses on three areas: forecasts of
Terry Fredricks
future agricultural environment,
implications of this environment
for the Farm Credit System, and
alternatives and strategies it must
employ to cope with this new en
vironment.
“T he study is an attempt by the
Farm Credit System to forecast
the operating environment for
agriculture and the business of
agricultural finance by 1995, Fre
drickson said. It hopes to discern
some significant trends and im
pacts on the agricultural finance
industry.”
In the last three years, tire
growth rate of the agricultural in-
clustry has declined, reversing a
20-year trend. This decline will
continue into the future, he said.
Fredrickson also said that by
the end of 1981 the FCS’scumu
lative loan losses amounted to lea
than $250 million. For 1981
alone, the loss is expected tube
about $800 million.
“We anticipate, and not opii-
mistically, that the loss pattern
will continue to be about $31
million dollars each year on into
the future,” he said.
He said the study also predicts
a significant reduction in tbe
number of agricultural firms in
commeu ial production.
Agricultural management per
sonnel must attain strong finance
and marketing skills, becaust
eventually these will becomevittl
to corporations’ survival, Fre
drickson said.
Professors: Crisis ended
with deregulation of oil
By DARYL DAVIDSON
Reporter
Two Texas A&M professors be
lieve the best way to deal with eco
nomic crises is to keep the govern
ment from intervening.
Professors Charles Maurice and
Charles W. Smithson, in their new
book, “The Doomsday Myth: 10,000
Years of Economic Crisis,” cite his
torical crises as evidence that man
kind has faced and survived other
events seemingly as important as the
oil crisis of the late 70’s.
In the book, the two economists
use the oil industry and the auto
makers as prime indicators of the fu
ture trends in the prices of oil.
“When we predict, it’s not really
us predicting,” Smithson says. “It’s
those people that have the most to
lose.”
Maurice notes that American oil
companies no longer depend on for
eign oil to meet domestic demands.
During the first four months of
Sports
1982, the big oil companies scrapped
35 large crude "s compared to
38 in all of 1981.
“Exxon recently sold live super
tankers for scrap at $3 million to $4
million each,” Maurice says. “It
would cost $90 million each to re
place those ships. Obviously, Exxon
doesn’t think the demand for Mid
dle Eastern oil is going to increase.”
Maurice and Smithson attribute
the end of the oil crisis to the gov
ernment’s decision to deregulate the
oil industry.
The book also deals with crises in
the past that have affected people in
a similar manner.
“This behavior that we saw during
the energy crisis is not anything
new,” Smithson says.
He says that previous economic
problems arose dealing with whale
oil, timber and crude rubber.
“As long as the government does
not get in and regulate them, as long
as the market is allowed to work, the
(i isrs disappear by themselves.
"We lielieve in it (the marked
cause u s worked. It’s worked i
1 (),()()() years or more and there'si
reason to expect that, forsomert
son, tomorrow it will stop working
Maurice and Smithson sayd
idea for the book came tothenuda
teaching classes during theoiloi
of the 70’s.
Maurice says students “were be
ing about how unique it (the era
was and that it had never happ
and that we needed thegoveiw
to get us out.”
So the two economists beear.
look around for examples ofotli
crises to see if the oil crisis wastn
unique. T hey found history t
loaded with situations whereslw
ages of economic goods weresoh
wit hou t government intervention
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problem that arises in the future*
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Football player applauds student suppa
says team 'playing hard' with few breaks
By PATRICIA FLINT
Staff Writer
someone
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shouted from the audience.
“To the Cotton Bowl, still,” said
Texas A&M linebacker Todd How
ard. “If we play as good as we did
last week, maybe we can win the rest
of the games.”
Howard, a sophomore in business
management, was the student leader
at this week’s Sully’s Sympsosium,
sponsored by the sophomore honor
society, Lambda Sigma. Howard was
the only one of three scheduled foot
ball players to show for the forum.
Howard said after the sympo
sium, “I think we played hard
enough to win. I guess we just didn’t
get the breaks.”
Howard said knowing they have
the support of the students takes
some of the pressure off of the play
ers.
Howard came to A&M because he
thought it had the best athletic facili
ties, and he said he saw how the stu
dent body supports the football
team, even when the team loses.
“I’m glad to see all of you people
do go to the games because we really
need your support,” he said.
He said dial the football players
can hear the students cheering from
the stands.
“Ya’ll help us a lot,” he said. “So
metimes, if you can’t win for your
self, you want to win for your stu
dent body.”
A student athlete in the audience
said that the players are good, it’s
coaching mistakes are causing the
team to lose.
Is Jackie Sherrill the right coach
for A&M?
“I think he’s a good coach,” How
ard said. “I can’t answer that in
depth. Being on the defense, I’m not
around him as much as the offense.
We respect him, though.”
Elephant has disorder
United Press International
DALLAS — A 6-year-old African
elephant, dying of a rare blood defi
ciency at the Dallas Zoo, was pre
pared f
he
jared for exploratory surgery, while
ter elephant friend kept vigil, zoo
officials said Wednesday.
Veterinarians have failed twice to
give the 1,400-pound Mbili a 3-gal-
lon blood transfusion and said an ex
ploratory surgery is their last resort.
Despite her deadly condition
brought on by a steadily falling red
blood cell count in the past week,
Mbili has refused to die and contin
ues to have a voracious appetite for
her favorite carrots, cabbage and
apples, said zoo spokesman Bill
Stewart.
Moja, another female elephant
and the best friend of Mbili, has
been keeping a constant vigil on her
dying friend.
“They both came here in 1981
from Zimbabwe,” Stewart said.
“Moja is about a year older. We just
cannot separate them anymore with
out getting both of them extremely
upset.
Howard said TCU Jim Wads
a “crazy guy” who inspires hist:
ers. jackie Sherrill is moreofa
plinarian who tries to get
“timed out," that is, he keeps
lice at a constant tempo, he said
“TCU plays dirty,” Howards
“We don’t play like gentlemen
we don’t play like TCU—era)
Howard said an injury reallyo
hurt him too much now because
main goal was getting a scholaii
and going to school, bothobl
he’s achieved.
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school is pretty rough," he»
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“If anything happens to Mbili, we
don’t know how Moja will react.
Moja is very intent on what is hap
pening to her friend. For her salce
too, we want Mbili to survive.”
Medical personnel twice at
tempted transfusion of three gallons
of blood taken from another el
ephant but Mbili could not be held
steady.
“We couldn’t completely anesthe
tize her because then sometime they
don’t get up at all,” Stewart said. “So
we sedated her and attempted the
transfusion through the ear with her
standing. She was extremely cooper
ative, but because of her condition
she kept swaying and kept moving
her ears. Last night we attempted
the transfusion through her abdomi
nal cavity, but they couldn’t locate
the correct spot.
“Her blood count has gone down
couple of more points since then and
it is now at about eight, when it
should be between 30 to 35. So the
transfusion has been abandoned and
the veterinarians are now consid
ering exploratory surgery as a final!
step.”
Police beat i
The following incidents « t:
reported to the University F” :
Department through Weito
day.
MISDEMEANOR THEFf:
• A blue Sears 10-speedb
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• A brown Continental
speed bicycle was stolen lroBi iV ;
side a student’s apartment. ^
• A red Rampar Ifl-speijj
cycle was stolen from the ^
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• Art IBM Professional*
putet system was stolen 1
435-A Biological Sciences.
• An IBM Professionalt-
puter system was stolen!
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• University Police retd
several reports of dumpsW 1
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