The Altus Times-Democrat (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 44, No. 254, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 27, 1970 Page: 3 of 10
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plants to be used for human
food.
The semidwarf wheat that led
to his Nobel Prize was a result
of a number of developments
following World War II. As
Louis P. Reitz, head of wheat
investigations for USDA, told it
in a 1968 article, it all began in
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based on 50 per cent of the ac-
tual market value of the swine.
The higher limits, however, will
enable more flexibility as mar-
ket values increase, officials
said.
20 Per Cent Discount
Christmas Cards Ordered
Before November 15th
dickson stationery
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Total cotton use—domestic Alarm Didn't Work
consumption plus exports—may
total between 11 million and 11.5
WASHINGTON ( AP) - The
Agriculture Department wants
to cut down on the huge volume
of crop and livestock reports it
issues at the rate of more than
two per working day each year.
One of the main targets is the
monthly crop report showing
acreage and production esti-
mates for major—and many mi-
nor-commodities ranging from
the acreage for harvest, yield -
per acre and production for
crops of winter wheat, spring '
wheat, oats, barley, rye and
flue-cured tobacco.
The traditional first estimate
of the year's corn production
will be eliminated in the July .
report
Also missing will be estimates
on acres for harvest of soybeans
and sorghum grain.
These all will be included in
the August production report
the SRS said, and will include
estimated acreages, yields per
acre and output forecasts.
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I became acquainted with Tom Steed in 1948 at an
American Legion Convention. I noticed that since he is a
veteran, he is always interested in war veterans and war
widows. He also shows a great concern in our national
preparedness.
I’d rather trust Tom Steed than some newcomer,
especially with regard to Altus Air Force Base and the
Mountain Park project.
It is essential that we retain Tom Steed on the Ap-
propriations Committee in order to assure a continued
growth of these projects.
There are those that take, and those that give and Tom
Steed has given, by serving his country in time of war. He
also had a son who gave his life in World War II.
Since he has been in Congress, Tom Steed has done much to
aid every constituent he serves. When you have a good horse,
ride him. Let’s keep Tom Steed as our Fourth District
Congressman.
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Classing Office at Altus last
week issued its first classing
report of the season, showing a
total of 4,000 bales classed
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Three months
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Other than above
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through Oct 23rd.
C. E. Cox, in charge of the
Altus Classing Office, reported
that while the major portion of
the classing territory has not yet
NWAsHINGTON-(AP- The begun harvesting, the total corn and wheat to broomcorn
National Farmers Union not classed to date is nearly three and hops.
only wantsAgriculture Secre- times that reported last year at The overhaul technically is
tary Elifford.M. Hardin to re- the 531116 date. only in the talking stage, but
ou I i h waging an all-out Cotton classed for farmers of sources say most of the pro-
bill hitnha ethesomnibus farm Jackson County totaled 2,600 posed revisions are likely to
turned back in the Senate bales, or about two-thirds of all come about within the next cou-
NFU President Tony T. De- the cotton classed so far this ple of years.
chant told newsmen Friday that season. Officials made public Thurs-
people are just now beginning to Cox said that apparently the day an outline of the proposals
understand what is in the farm cotton being harvested now is affecting field crops and fruit
bill and that doubts appear to be 1116 earlier planted picker-type and nut production. Similar pro-
increasing. cottons from the Jackson County posals, they said, will be forth-
But Dechant would not predict Irrigation District ' coming for livestock, poultry,
the Senate would reject the Cotton classed so far this year dairy farm prices and farm la-
House-Senate conference report averaged 66 per cent in the white bor statistics.
when it comes back to work on grades, mostly middling and , he reports are handled by
Nov. 16. He strongly implied, strict low middling 1-1-16 and 1-3- thestatistical Reporting Service
however, the NFU is using the 32 inches, and about 25 per cent headed by Dr. Harry C' Trelo-
election recess to muster forces light spotted, with most being 8 AL . enn m • .
for a last-ditch attempt against middling light spotted and strict eh ytamoorrepos are issued
the bill low.middling light spotted, and underrnvsewdrrhthe
in staple lenths ranging from 29- past year to determine which
32 to 1-3-32 inches. can be weeded out, reduced in
Micronaire averages showed size or otherwise streamlined
60 per cent in the premium range Trelogan told a reporter he
of 3.5 to 4.9 Most of the does not know how much the re-
ers for destruction of grade scientist he was committed to
sows and gilts under federal- finding new or better types of
state hog cholera control pro- plants to be used for human
grams, food.
The new maximum will be The semidwarf wheat that led
$100 per head, compared with to his Nobel Prize was a result
the previous limit of $50 for of a number of developments
grade sows and gilts. The new following World War II. As one called Norin 10 was used
ceiling now is the same as the Louis P. Reitz, head of wheat by an ARS plant breeder Or
maximum for registered pure- investigations for USDA, told it viUe A. Voge, in Washington
bred, inbred or hybrid animals, in a I968 article, it all began in state tests. Eventually this
Federal payments will still be Japan. work and others led to a wheat
“S. C. Salmon, an Agricultural variety called Gaines, popular
Research Service scientist help- in the Pacific Northwest and
ing Japan get back on her feet, one of the highest-yielding types
observed in 1946 that Japanese
farmers were growing a num- e . . A ■ , .
ber of remarkably stiff, short (Otton K + A e k m ile C
stemmed wheat varieties,” 5VI•II •IV-rUIIU>
Reitz said. 1
This wheat was named “No- 4 X Pl • I
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seed were brought to the United
States and made available to WASHINGTON (AP) — The
plant breeders. nation’s stockpile of cotton is
expected to continue shrinking
and may total only 5.25 million
bales by next Aug. 1, says the
Agriculture Department.
This would be about 500,000
fewer bales than the carryover
this year, despite a large crop
expected in 1970. The reason for
the continued drop in reserves
is that cotton usage has picked
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“Long before Gaines was
born," Reitz said, “news of the
new short-strawed germ plasm
(seed) reached Norman A. Bor-
laug, a Rockefeller Foundation
Research scientist in Mexico.
"He obtained some of the ear-
ly crosses and breeding lines
from Vogel in 1954. Crossing
these lines with Mexican and
Colombian wheats," Reitz said,
"he combined the required ad-
aptation and disease resistance
with the short straw.”
In the mid-1960s something
called the "Green Revolution”
was born. It had to do with im-
proved seeds, including a new
“miracle rice” developed in the
Philippines and the semidwarf
wheat bred by Borlaug.
The revolution simply meant
that food impoverished coun- Meantime, Dechant has writ-
tries began to have hope better ten President Nixon asking for
seeds could bring them more to Hardin’s resignation This is not
eat. There have been encourag- new for secretaries of agricul-
mg signs—more wheat and rice ture over the years but it is -----------------
tr ,1 * in Pakistan and India are exam- Hardin’s first real baptism in remainder has been in the high port workload would be reduced
» t i. £ pies—that the Green Revolution scalp hunting. mike (discount) range of 5.0 and if all the proposed revisions
I $-da%. is here to stay, above. were put into effect
DR.BORLONG Rm Dechant said he was disillu- Pressley readings showed An objective, he said, is to
„eIz summedit uP this way: sioned with Hardin. The admin- fiber strength averaging 87,000 provide greater accuracy and ti-
„ r neshort Wheat romVo istration's support of the farm pounds per square inch, with meliness in the reports. Another
nrlt and Eorlaug s breeding bill was only the last straw, about 90 per cent of the readings reason is that costs have been
P 8 d s did something to peo- The argument that Dechant falling betweenso, 000 and 94,000, rising.
pie that was perhaps more im- uses may be persuasive: The Trelogan says the SRS wants
Portant than mere development farm bill, as he sees it, freezes A: 1 to hear from users of the statis-
of plant forms: They challenged government support programs AQrI Club deal information about the pro-
men to hope for and achieve to present levels. As inflation - posed changes by Dec 1
new plateaus of food produc- continues and farm expenses T~mc cL:, As it stands, beginning next
—on rise, farmers will get only 1970- ' • I 1I C T S July 1 the monthly crop report
durihgate'remthregoyearene PonAProphehgsuperintendent tnefesrpomor
= “ilrinctadeestmates ony on
benefits and that farmers can U. ,
, . benefit more from the free mar- Robert Reeder will be
per cent from last season s 10.8 ket under the plan program chairman assisted by
million, a 31-year low, officials Dechant says more guaran- Ray Murrell and Bob
Id: c . „ tees are needed in a new law to Clinkscales.
Major factors affecting insure farm income will keep Wash Howard will continue as
domestic null use include the pace with inflation. secretary.
current slowdown ingeneral “If this bill becomes law-and The election was completed
economic activity, a high level it appears that it might,” De- last Tuesday at a regular
of textile imports, reduced mili- chant said “it will cost the monthly meeting of the club,
tary purchases and continuing farmers of this nation at least New officers will take their posts
stiff competition from manmade $1.3 billion in real net income in December,
fibers, the department said in during the next three years."
a report Administration forces, howev-
er, are confident the Senate
leadership will live up to its
PORTOLA VALLEY, Calif, promise before the recess and
(AP) — Burglars got $9,000 act swiftly in approving the
worth of clothing and a $135 farm bill next month,
typewriterat the Country Vogue
Boutique because the burglar
alarm didn’t work, reported the
San Mateo County sheriff's of-
fice.
They also took the $300 bur-
glar alarm
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cCnTTON HAR VESTissin full swing in Jackson activity. In the above pictures the Process of
gins are beginning to show continuous removing the cotton from trailers via a suction tube is
Alfalfa Seed Nobel Prize Emphasizes
Washington ap, PL Role of Food for Peace'
1970 alfalfa seed crop is the 5 H - 1 F1
largest in several years, says WASHINGTON (AP)
theAgriculture Department. Award oiFthe 19% NOAP Peace
Produc ml cleaned a Prize to Dr Norman Borlaug
Pa nor at million pounds, for his pioneering work on im
and 11 more han last year proved wheat varieties drama-
and 11 per cent more than 1968 tized the role of food as an in-
II ....... strument for peace, says Agri-
rgest production—5.65 culture Secretary Clifford M
million pounds—was reported Hardin
for southDakota. This is about Borlaug's selection, an-
other 161969 crop. nounced Wednesday, was for his
aptherssubstantia increases in contributions to the develop-
seed output this year in- ment of a short-strawed, sturdy
Nudedi Kansas, up 7 per cent; type of wheat that has proved
North Dakota 63 per cent; Mon- adaptable to many of the
tana 34 per cent California 26 world’s hungriest countries,
per. • i,W ashing ton 25 per Hardin said of Borlaug: “No
e . am 24 per cent individual has been more in the
Indemnity Doubles niques of science for the over-
coming of world hunger. He is
rfir Rraro Cnwe one of the foremost 'hunger
I Ul UI dUC •UW> fighters’ of our generation."
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Borlaug has worked for al-
Agriculture Department has most a quarter of a century in
doubled the maximum federal Mexico for the Rockefeller
indemnity ceiling allowed farm- Foundation. As a research
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Gilmore, Robert K. & Goforth, Don. The Altus Times-Democrat (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 44, No. 254, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 27, 1970, newspaper, October 27, 1970; Altus, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2120417/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.