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to run Commodity Commissioi
By Jeff Pollard
Staff Writer
After she built her reputation by
tearing through the red tape in the
President’s Office of Mangement
and Budget, President Reagan has
nominated former Texas A&M eco
nomics professor Wendy Lee
Gramm to head the Commodities
Futures Trading Commission.
man, resisgned the position to re
turn to education.
At her confirmation hearing be
fore the Senate Agriculture Com
mittee, several committee members
expressed their support for Gramm
but also experessed their concern
that her inexperience could be dan
gerous at this time.
Gramm, who is the wife of Sen
ator Phil Gramm, R-Texas, has been
with the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs in the OMB since
1985 and will Fill the chair that has
been vacant since last July.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the
chairman of the Agriculture Com
mittee, said that he has “. . . serious
concerns regarding your (Gramm’s)
lack of experience in either the Fi
nancial or commodities markets, es
pecially at such a crucial time.”
past success, the senators “ought to
take the gamble.”
Both senators said they plan to
recommend Gramm’s nomination to
the full Senate for comfirmation.
The committee is expected to vote
on the matter sometime next week.
The CFTC is the commodities
couterpart to the Seruriries an/I Fv.
change Commission and controls the
buying and selling of commodities at
future prices.
people that the two commissi)
combined to make regulating
efficient.
When asked at her hearing
supported this proposed mt
Gramm said the CFTC shoiii;
main the primary regulator oh
index futures.
Susan Philips, the previous chair-
Sen. Thomas Daschle, D-S.D., ex
pressing the same reservations, went
on the say that, given her ability and
The CFTC also oversees the ex
change of stock futures, a new type
of futures trading based on tne
stock-market index and changes in
stock prices.
Because of its close ties to the se
curities market, which the SEC regu
lates, it has been suggested by many
“I don’t believe that any mere
any sort is necessary or even a:;
priate at this time,” Grammail
Since leaving the economic
partment in 1978, Gramm lu
reeled a Reagan task forceoni|
latory relief, run the Bum
Economics at the Federal Ii
Commission and served as thei
taut director of the FTC’s di»:
consumer protection.
Senate OKs emergency bills
for student election revisions
By Jeff Pollard
Staff Writer
In two emergency bills voted on
and passed by the Student Senate on
Wednesday night, last minute
changes in regulations and Final
dates for student government elec
tions were approved for the spring.
Additions made to the election
regulations include several house
keeping chores, definition of terms
involved and shorter length of the
campaign from nine to seven days.
The filing period for candidates
begins on Feb. 25 and lasts through
March 4. A meeting for those who
filed was scheduled for March 8 and
the campaign officially begins on
March 20. The bill set the election
for March 30 and the run-off, if
needed, for April 4.
The two bills had to be introduced
on emergency status because elec
tion regulations require that revi
sions be made at least 15 days before
Filing for office begins. Wednesday
was the 15th day before the start of
the filing period.
The Faculty Senate’s smoking res
olution was discussed. The resolu
tion banning smoking on campus is
being studied by the Student Serv
ices Committee and members are
asking people on campus for input.
Melinda Moore, chairman of the
Student Services Committee, said
that it will probably endorse all parts
of the resolution except those that
ban smoking at Kyle Field, Olsen
Field and in dorms.
Other items discussed include:
• The committee reviewing aca
demic advising had its First meeting
last week. Kristen Hay, chairman of
the committee, said that it is review
ing the policies of advising groups in
the different colleges and will make
recommendations for improving the
system.
• The subcommittee looking into
extending the Q-drop period re
ported that Faculty Senate members
were against the idea. Daniel Sparks,
chaiman of the subcommittee, said
the faculty felt that extending the Q-
drops period would allow students
to fall behind in their degree plans
and cause more problems than
needed. The committee is now
looking at allowing students to drop
tht
under approval of an adviser or
dean.
• Crime Prevention Week, spon
sored by the Student Services Com
mittee, is next week (Feb. 15-18).
Scheduled activities include visits
from P.C., a robot police car from
the Bryan Police Department and
McGruff the crime dog, a speaker
night on Wednesday and a security
fair on Wednesday and Thursday.
Speakers for speaker night include
members of the Bryan and College
Station police departments, a rep
resentative of Brazos County Crime
Stoppers and Bob Wiatt, director of
the University Police Department.
• It was announced that GTE is
planning to donate 2 cellular tele
phones to the school for emergency
use in remote parking lots. The of
fice of Student Affairs at A&M,
which is in charge of setting up the
service, is currently taking recom
mendations as to which two parking
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lots will be supplied the telephones.
after the Q-drop deadline but only
• Other important dates to re
member include the spring blood
eek of March
drive during the first week
(Mar. 1-4) and Big Event on Mar. 5.
Texas citrus industry fails
in fight to ban Florida fruit
HARLINGEN (AP) — The gov
ernment’s decision to lift a 3-year-
old ban on shipments of Florida cit
rus fruit Tuesday surprised leaders
of the Texas citrus industry, who
-have fought to keep Florida fruit out
of the state.
“It’s taken us aback. We’re kind of
in shock,” said Les Whitlock, admin
istrator of the TexaSweet citrus mar
keting organization.
“It very definitely appears that the
USD A has bent to the threat of a suit
and a suit already filed against it,”
said Whitlock, who also serves as
general manager of the Texas Valley
Citrus Committee, a federal market
ing order.
The U.S. Department of Agricul
ture on Tuesday lifted the ban that
had been placed on shipments of
Florida citrus to other citrus-produc
ing states after a nursery strain of
the bacterial citrus canker disease
was discovered in Florida in August
1984.
The disease weakens trees and
mars fruit.
The USD A ruling, effective
Thursday, is estimated to mean $25
million in annual sales to Florida’s
citrus industry.
Florida officials had urged a lift
ing of the USDA shipping ban, say
ing the nursery strain was not a
threat.
A USDA spokesman said Tuesday
the new rule was based on a proposal
the USDA published in September
to lift the restrictions. That proposal
was later withdrawn after more cases
of the disease were discovered in
Florida nurseries.
A Florida company filed suit ag-
inst the department last week, con
tending that the ban unfairly preju
diced the Florida crop.
Whitlock blamed the suit for the
decision. “I think it was not a deci
sion made by the regulators in the
trenches, but by the lawyers in
Washington,” he said.
Andy Welch, a spokesman for the
Texas Department of Agriculture in
Austin, said the state will fight the
entry of Florida citrus, and said one
possibility would be a court injunc
tion.
“They have bowed to the pressure
of Florida citrus producers, totally
ignoring the threat that the canker
could cause, the tremendous threat
to the citrus industry.”
The Texas citrus industry is con
centrated on about 30,000 acres in
the state’s three southernmost coun
ties, with the highest concentration
in Hidalgo County.
Texas growers say they are finally
recovering from a 1983 freeze that
devastated the industry. This year’s
Texas crop is estimated at $55 mil
lion to $05 million.
Mike Martin, whose family oper
ates Warehouse Farms Inc. in Mis
sion, the lower Rio Grande Valley’s
largest citrus shipper, said the
USDA provided no advance notice
of Tuesday’s action.
“I really don’t know how they
slipped it in, to tell you the truth,”
Martin said.
In addition to the threat to the
Texas crop, because of its concentra
tion in a small area, Martin said the
state’s growers could lose some of its
market share in California.
Nancy Robinson of the USDA’s
Animal & Plant Health Inspection
Service said the small Gulf Coast
area of Florida will remain under
the shipping ban.
Officials plai
elk transfer
to West Texai
EL PASO (AP) — State win
officials announced pi;
Wednesday to transferupioi
elk from Oregon to the 11
Texas mountains to try to
tablish the wild herds
roamed the rugged area a
tury ago.
If the animals thrive,
someday might allow elk hm
said Charles Allen, will
tor of the Texas Parks
life Department.
Oregon Game and
partment officials are schedi
to begin corralling 50 to
Rocky Mountain elk I
near LaGrande, a town
surrounded by national forest 1
the northeastern part of the
Elk are overpopulated i
area and have been eating
haystacks and fields of produte.
“They’re basically nui
elk,” Allen said.
Texas is trading
Grande turkeys for the el
said.
The elk will be trucked tok
Horn, Texas, this month and*
he split into two herds,
group will be released in the I 1
lie Mountains east of Van H
and the other will be placedin
Davis Mountains northofMarf)
Elk used to range alloverW
'Texas, but hunters, aggress
predators and diseases
duced from domestic livesti
contributed to the animals
mise in the late 19th century,
Parks and Wildlife spokes®
David Cottom.
“This is just to restore a lost
of Texas heritage,” he said.
The animals will vary in a|
and sex, and some will
with transmitters that will al
wildlife of ficials to track tl)
and learn about their eating,!
aging and reproductive habits
Allen said the transfer is
signed to determine how
will fare in the WestTexasmi
tains. There is some doubt
cause the Rocky Mountain elk
not identical to the Merriams
that once grazed West Texas
The Davis Mountains arei
ered with poderosa pine and
considerably lusher than
brown Wylie Mountains, ml
are more open and covered
brush.
We’ve got a proven track
cord in other states that they’ll
well (in the Davis Mountain!
Allen said, adding that he hoi
the animals can adapt to
lies.
“If they don’t, they mi
migrate to the Davis Mou
he said. “It’s notthatfar.”
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