Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 17, 1972 Page: 16 of 16
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CONGRESSMAN
KIKA de la GARZA
Reports
RIO GRANDE HERALD Thursday, February 17,1972 Page 16
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Texas
Is exceedingly fortunate in the
number of House committee
chairmanships held by Repre-
sentatives from our State.
There are twenty-one of these
committees, and four of them
are headed by Texans. No other
state holds as many chairman-
ships. In fact, only two--
California and New York —
hold even half as many. Furth-
ermore, the committees headed
by Texans are among the most
Important in the House.
Certainly that is true of the
Agriculture Committee, one of
the two committees on which I
serve; its chairman is Bob
Poage of Waco. (My other com-
mittee is Merchant Marine and
Fisheries, of which I am the
only Texas member.) The highly
powerful Appropriations Com-
mittee has as its chairman a
West Texan, George Mahon of
Lubbock. Wright Patman of
Texarkana, dean of the Texas
delegation, heads the Banking
and Currency Committee, and
Clin Teague, who comes from
College Station, is chairman of
the Veterans' Affairs Commit-
tee.
That's a potent lineup and
goes a long way toward explain-
ing the force the Texas delega-
tion can wield up here. Other
Texans are sprinkled through
nearly all the remaining com-
mittees.
I consider it a real honor to
have been selected by such an
outstanding group to serve this
year as chairman of the Texas
delegation. Incidentally, I am
still president of the Texas
State Society of Washington. My
term expires next month, and
we are planning one more grand
affair before I go out of office.
It's something special - more
later.
*
Kika
hails
committee
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep.
Kika de la Garza today hailed
the action of his Committee on
Agriculture for its approval of
the Rural Development legisla-
tion promising to improve the
standard of living of millions
of American farm families and
rural small town residents.
Rep. de la Garza was co-
sponsor of this legislation in-
troduced by the Agriculture
Committee Chairman Bob
Poage of Waco.
Basically, according to the
South Texan, the bill would
broaden the credit services of
the Farmers Home Adminis-
tration (FHA), emphasize rural
development, and give greater
emphasis to the community
development and environmental
aspects of the Small Watershed
and Resource, Conservation and
Development Programs admin-
istered \,f rhe*U.S. Department
,0? Agriculture.
The South Texas Congress-
man explained that the measure
for the first time would autho-
rize aid to finance pollution
abatement and control pro-
grams in rural areas. The
measure" would also authorize
grants to smaller communities
which are not now available.
This is another of the ef-
forts de la Garza is making to
interest urban congressmen in
the plight of the rural areas. On
14 April 1971 the South Texan
made a speech on the floor of
the House on this problem ~
and re-emphasized today.
RUBY REDS IN LONDON «
Lucky residents of London,
England, have had the opportu-
nity to enjoy the taste delight
of Ruby Red grapefruit from
the Valley. Thanks to the ima-
ginativeness of South Texas
shippers in turning to the air,
a fully chartered plane load of
the luscious fruit went off to
London, where buyers had Just
completed a tour of the U. S.
fruit and vegetable production
areas and were anxious to have
a supply of Rubs Reds for trial
marketing. Help was given at
the Texas end by the Agricul-
ture Department's field station
of the Transportation and
Facilities Research Division
and in England by the Division's
Rotterdam field station.
The fruit was trucked to New
York and transloaded in air-
line "igloos" and covered with
protective tarpaulins and nylon
webbing to prevent shifting. It
arrived in excellent condition
and was placed on sale in re-
tail stores, selling side by side
with fruit from Israel. The
Texas fruit sold for twenty-nine
cents each, the Israeli fruit for
twenty-five cents. And reports
from the sales personnel indi-
cated that our Texas product
was outselling the one from
Israel.
That's not all. Two weeks
after the air shipment, five
refrigerated van containers
with 5,250 cartons of Texas
grapefruit were shipped from
the Port of Houston. Again, the
shipment arrived In top condi-
tion and promptly went Into
retail stores. Acceptance of the
fruit left nothing to be desired.
Agriculture Department re-
search and service to U. S.
growers and shippers to dem-
onstrate transport and packag-
ing techniques which will assure
good condition on arrival and
help hold down costs have re-
sulted in sizeable export mar-
kets for several products. The
purpose of the efforts In South
Texas is to give the U. S. a
good strong market In Europe
for T°xas grapefruit. Good for
consumers there, good for our
area.
* *
U.S. - MEXICO TRADE —
Again this year, for the sev-
enth consecutive time, I have
been named by the Speaker of
the House as a member of the
U.S. - Mexico Inter-Parliamen-
tary Group. This panel, made
up of members of the United
States and Mexico legislative
bodies, meets to discuss border
problems in general, and this
year the stress will be on mat-
ters concerning trade between
the two countries. The subject
Is, of course, vastly important
to our South Texas area, and I
welcome the opportunity to take
part in the discussions. No date
for the meeting, which will be
held in Washington, has been
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Trejo, Raul. Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 17, 1972, newspaper, February 17, 1972; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth194343/m1/16/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rio Grande City Public Library.