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THE RIO GRANDE HERALD PAGE 12 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1975
Tower Honors Due At
Southwestern University
USDA Proposes New
Food Stamp Amendment
GEORGETOWN - Senator
John Tower will be honored and
Senate Republican Leader
Hugh Scott will be among those
honoring him when South-
western University inaugurates
the John Goodwin Tower Chair
in Political Science here Feb.
28.
Senator Scott will be the
keynote speaker at the Con-
vocation to be held in the Alma
Thomas Fine Arts Center at
Southwestern at 11:30 a.m., and
Senator Tower will be the
featured speaker at a luncheon
to follow in the University
Commons.
Almost 400 individuals,
corporations and foundations
donated $450,000 endowment for
the chair. Interest from these
gifts will provide the salary for
a distinguished scholar in
political science to teach at
Southwestern, according to
University President Dr.
Durwood Fleming.
That distinguished scholar,
President Fleming announced
this week, is Dr. Francis
O'Brien, who is presently
director of Academic
Program^ Hoover Presidential
library, West Branch, Iowa.
Dr. O'Brien has taught at
Georgetown University, the
University de Fribourg, Seattle
University, Aix-en-Provence,
France; Universite de
Lausanne, Emery University,
and Rockford College and has
written five books and
numerous articles in the fields
of government, law and
philosophy.
Also taking part in the
inauguration will be Am-
bassador Ed Clark, United
Methodist Bishops Paul
CONGRESSMAN
KIKA de la GARZA
torts
The Committee on Merchant
Marine and Fisheries, of which
I have been a member for four
years, named me to the Sub-
committees on Fisheries and
Wildlife Conservation and the
Environment, Coast Guard and
Navigation, and Oceanography
I was eligible to become
chairman of the Coast Guard
and Navigation Subcommittee
except for a new rule per-
mitting a House member to
serve as chairman of only one
major panel. I choose to con-
tinue as chairman of the
Agriculture Subcommittee,
having held that position for the
past six years. USDA is a key
Federal Department so far as
our area is concerned and I
want to keep closely in touch
with its operations.
YOUR CAR - Most of us drive
cars or ride in them, but a great
many of us know less than we
should about keeping them in
tip-top running order. A new
Government publication en-
titled "Car Care and Service"
offers tips that may help to
avoid expensive automobile
repairs.
What if you're in a hurry and
the car won't start? This
booklet says the cause may be
the carburetor, the battery, the
ignition system, or several
other things.
"Car Care and Service" is
published in both English and
Spanish. The booklet is
available for 35 cents from
Consumer Information, Pueblo,
Colorado, 81009.
INTERESTING INTEREST -
- Interest payments to finance
the Government's huge and
growing public debt will ac-
count for more than one-tenth of
tiie $349.4 billion in Federal
expenditures projected for the
fiscal year 1976, which begins
next July 1. This means the
Government will pay out nearly
as much in interest-$36 billion—
as it took in from taxes only 26
years ago. Federal revenues in
fiscal 1950 totaled $39.5 billion.
Like wow!
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Cotton
acreage prospects are sharply
down for this year, according to
information I have received
from the U.S. Department of
Agriculture. Plantings of nearly
4.5 million bales less than in
1974 are predicted. The smaller
planned acreage is said to be
due to weak demand and
relatively low prices in relation
to competing crops, par-
ticularly grain sorghum and
soybeans.
The decline in the general
economy has reduced the use of
all fiber. Cotton consumption
during December dropped to
the lowest level in 40 years.
However, cotton's share of the
textile market remained steady
at about 29 percent of total fiber
consumption.
The reduced acreage planned
by cotton growers points to
smaller production, but the
Department of Agriculture says
U.S. supplies should be
adequate to meet domestic and
export demand during 1975-76.
MY COMMITTEES - Again
this year I have been named
chairman of the House
Agriculture Subcommittee that
oversees all functions of the
U.S. Department of
Agriculture. The respon-
sibilities for my subcommittee
have been enlarged to include
jurisdiction over all foreign
agriculture programs, general
oversight over complete USDA
operations, analysis of func-
tions of proposed programs and
regulations, and jurisdictional
investigation of Government
policies affecting agricultural
matters.
Agriculture Committee
members also named me to the
Cotton Subcommittee, which
has jurisdiction over proposed
legislation concerning this
important South Texas staple,
and to the Conservation and
Credit Subcommittee, which
deals with soil and water
conservation, small watershed
programs and agricultural
credit in general.
Galloway and O. Eugene Slater,
Board of Trustees Chairman
Dr. Charles Prothro and Vice
Chairman A. Frank Smith Jr.
Senator Tower, a 1948
graduate of Southwestern
University with a bachelor of
arts degree in political science,
was awarded the honorary
Doctor of Laws degree by his
alma mater in 1964 and was
given the Distinguished
Alumnus Award by the South-
western Alumni Association in
1969.
Senator Tower is also a
trustee of Southwestern
University.
The senior Texas Senator has
made his mark in Washington
since his election in 1961. When
first elected at age 35, he was
the Senate's youngest member.
He now ranks 40th in seniority
among the 100 Senators and 12th
among the 43 Republicans.
Tower was the first
Republican elected to the
Senate from Texas since 1870
and the first since Recon-
struction from any of the for-
mer Confederate states.
In the Senate, Tower is senior
Republican on the Committee
on Banking, Housing and Urban
Affairs. He is second ranking
Republican on the Armed
Services Committee.
State agencies would be
required to take effective
"outreach" action, using a full-
time State Outreach Coor-
dinator, under an amendment
to the Food Stamp Program
Regulations proposed for
comments today by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture
(USDA).
States now have Outreach
Programs, and submit annual
Outreach plans. But court suits
have been filed against 19 states
and USDA, alleging that
programs in those states are
ineffective.
Judge Miles Lord of the U.S.
District Court of Minnesota
ordered the Department to
review all State Outreach
Plans, assess their im-
plementation, and provide
remedial action where
necessary. USDA's review and
assessment of the States' Plans
demonstrate the desirability of
having a State Outreach
Coordinator who spends most of
his time on the Outreach effort.
Kika Attempts To Reinstate
Sugar Prograam Program
WASHINGTON, D.C. - - Rep.
iCika de la Garza on Tuesday
introduced in the House of
Representatives a bill to
reinstate the U.S. sugar
program that died at the end of
1974.
The legislation is a revam-
ping of a former sugar act
under which for many years the
U.S. operated with a system of
sugar imports and some minor
domestic subsidies. All planting
allocations are removed in
Congressman de la Garza's bill.
"I regard this as a vehicle
under which we can begin a
return to a system that will
insure stability in the world
sugar market," the South Texas
Congressman said. "Whatever
changes may be made in the
bill, unless action is taken to
restore stability, our country
may find itself up against the
same kind of situation that we
are now experiencing in oil. We
could be placed at the mercy of
the principal sugar producing
countries."
The bill was referred to the
House Committee on
Agriculture of which
Congressman de la Garza is the
ranking member.
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Van Nest, Lloyd A. Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 27, 1975, newspaper, February 27, 1975; Rio Grande City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth194498/m1/12/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rio Grande City Public Library.