Hutchinson News (Newspaper) - January 24, 1974, Hutchinson, Kansas The Hutchinson News 02nd Year No. 205 20 January 24, 1974 Kansas Or Weigh dropping import quotas Will we run out of wheat before By Seth S. King mi Times Strike CHICAGO - Supplies of wheat now held in American elevators will be drawn down to dangerously low levels before the harvest of the 1974 crop begins in But middle western grain dealers insisted this week that there was no reason to expect a serious shortage of flour or bread between now and early though the price of both may rise again by In this time of when such items as toilet tissue are being market analysts are not advising consumers to go fill their freezers with 45-cents-a-loaf have as much wheat for sale now as any time in the past 10 said Jim Kansas City Board of Trade representative for Union Equity Cooperative one of the largest handlers of winter wheat in the Before June -is a possibility of using almost all the winter wheat we have before leaving us with little But I think it will be impossible to run clear the price for it is high and if it goes up any it will ration The flour millers can still buy as much as they are willing to pay the price he said in a telephone interview last Consumers were startled last week by warnings from the American Bakers Association that wheat was and bread might go to a loaf before The association demanded export which would halt shipments of wheat abroad and bring down the domestic The Agriculture Department quickly discounted any possibility of bread prices rising that With wheat at a bushel last there was roughly 7 cents worth of wheat in a loaf of a 45-cent At a wheat would have to reach more than a which no one here could USDA effort department By Leroy Towns Kansas Correspondent TOPEKA - A Joint Committee on Conservation and Natural Resources Wednesday got both sides of the controversy surrounding a proposed dam on the Arkansas River west of Opponents branded the dam unfeasible and said the U.S. Corps of Engineers left gapping holes in its justification for the Proponents said the dam is needed to control provide storage for irrigation water and bring a new recreation facility to Southwest The 1974 Legislature is studying whether to include Kendall Dam and Reservoir in the state water a first step toward eventual dam is vital for Southwest said Duane West of Garden chairman of the Committee on Damming the Arkansas River greatest need is for flood West was followed by seven other Southwest Kansans in favor of the Kendall Dam Wiley speaks Deane P. Garden City told the joint session of the House and Senate committees Garden City has tried for years to protect itself against periodic acknowledge that local effort is insufficient until total river control measures of the Arkansas River valley in Western Kansas have been he West said the proposed dam will provide flood protection along the river for eight counties stretched from Hamilton County to Great dam has been talked about since 1921," he Opposition was led by Syracuse rancher who is chairman of People Against Damming the Arkansas River Wood said Corps of Engineers figures justifying the project show an expected Weather KANSAS - Clear to partly cloudy with a warming trend through High Thursday upper 50s southwest to upper 40s Low Thursday night upper 20s to mid 30s. High Friday mid 60s southwest to upper 50s HUTCHINSON Wednesday's high 49 from p.m. to 5 low 29 from 6:25 a.m. to 7:15 a.m. Record high 71 in 1909; record low in 1963. 0-5 28.60, Sunset 6:46 p.m. Sunrise 8:42 a.m. yearly return of million as contrasted with yearly cost projections of Wood's view decrease in values derived from benefits or an increase in construction costs could easily place this project below the 1-1 break-even point required by federal Wood He charged the Corps of Engineers offered no explanation for raising projections of benefits expected on the project between last summer and Corps of Engineers said they applied new It is our feeling this substantial increase merits closer Wood He charged the corps has been unable to come up with figures showing the effect of the fuel crisis on the Wood gave the committees a statement by the Kansas Fish and Game Commission warning that because of water expected at the reservoir fish and wildlife management would be The statement was critical of wildlife habitat which will be if the reservoir is built and said only trash fish could survive the expected water County opposition Wood also presented a from Hamilton County Commissioners opposing the project because it would remove 16,000 acres from the tax He said a survey of Hamilton County Farm Bureau members showed 69 per cent opposed to building the Kendall John a Dodge City said he is in favor of the dam for flood don't want to intimidate he adding he is unconcerned about the site as long as a dam is Ed of representing said that water tables in the area are declining that ground water wells will become supplemental to river water for He said checks of the river at the Kansas - Colorado border show adequate water is collected below John Martin Dam to fill a reservoir on the Arkansas River in Witnesses favoring the dam were introduced by Rep. David Heinemann is author of a to put Kendall Dam and Reservoir in the state water Others appearing in favor of the dam were Wiley Gray County Norman Kearny County Don and Jim Williams of the Dodge City Chamber of Photo by Frank ire prairie like the giant elevator east of running out of Some Kansans say there is plenty of wheal officials conceded that they were seeking to end United States quotas on Canadian wheat in the hope that imports would fill any Despite these the Agriculture Department is still estimating that there will be about 200 million bushels of roughly equivalent to a domestic and export left over the 1973 crop at the time 1974 crop starts coming in. While some middle western grain dealers believed this estimate was too they said they were certain that there would be enough to last through the 1973 crop not going to run out of said Joe Gregg of Gregg & a Kansas company that operates grain elevators in parts of Nebraska and Kendall Dam plans aired Sam for you Mr. Demos want hearings WASHINGTON - In its first party line the Senate Watergate committee decided Wednesday to hold two weeks of hearings on President Nixon's campaign contributions from billionaire Howard Hughes and dairy industry Nixon's C. G. might be called to Chairman Sam J. Ervin emerged from a three-hour closed meeting to announce the committee had voted 4 to 3 to resume public hearings next The four Democrats on the committee voted in favor of resuming the hearings and the three Republicans voted against first such party line vote in the committee's year-long New list Ervin said the committee staff would draw up a new witness list and that he hoped Rebozo would be called to Rebozo has acknowledged accepting in campaign contributions from which he later Sen. Howard H. Baker the committee vice told reporters outside the committee room he wanted the panel to end its work and turn over its findings to the House Judiciary now studying the possibility of impeaching matter compelling the attention of the American people at this time is Baker political fever in this country is for getting on with the business at hand I have grave doubts what we can do in these six days Responding to Baker's Ervin think it essential for it to be Asked if he felt the Democrats were using the hearings for partisan Baker avoided Ervin also announced that the committee had voted unanimously to ask again for a meeting with Nixon at the White If he does not agree by this Ervin the committee may submit written questions to of our elevators near Kansas City have pretty much sold out their Gregg in the big farm country in Northwest they have about the same amount as last Many farmers in those areas are still holding their 1973 wheat to sell it this year and pay 1974 taxes on it. That wheat will be available for sale when they think the price is if the supply drop down much below 200 million bushels by early it will mean the wheat is scattered in a lot of smaller elevators and it may be harder for a miller to he went we certainly won't have run May scatter Even mentioning the encouragement of imports is ironic to anyone involved in raising and selling The U.S. is the world's largest exporter of wheat for In 1973, American farmers raised the largest wheat crop on Based on winter wheat plantings already in the ground and spring wheat plantings expected - and assuming the weather is near normal - the total 1974 crop is now estimated at 2 billion about 16 per cent more than was grown in 1973. Good moisture got good moisture here in Kansas right now and we should have a good crop in provided it don't start blowing too soon this because what I planted in October is not up so good as said John a wheat farmer near Kan. Hillard said there was more wheat left in country elevators near Pratt than there was at this time in 1973. After farmers harvest their they place it in elevators or store it on their own From there it is sold to dealers and who resell it to American millers or export it. At commodity ex- changes in Kansas and contracts for future delivery of wheat are sold and bought by and users Virtually all wheat grown is milled for Hour for human A small portion is kept for seed or used as animal Crop year For several domestic consumption of wheat as flour has hovered around 525 million bushels during a from July to The roughly two-thirds remaining is exported or in In the last two crop wheat exports have the carryover has been drastically and the price of wheat and flour has shot After the Soviet Union and other countries began buying hard winter wheat in the summer of 1972, the price rose from less than to a It has now jumped to a record at Kansas in New has risen to a A year ago it was at pig question in Topeka Did money go to Kan. - Gov. Robert Docking said he doesn't know what happened to and doubted it got into his 1972 re-election Atty. Gen. Vern Miller said there is no evidence it actually got into campaign two years Members of a special legislative investigating committee said they want to know what happened to and plan to look into it. The money in question is that which allegedly was given to Richard L. former appointments secretary to by the architects who received the planning and design contract for the University of Kansas Medical Center at Kansas expansion work in May 1972. Allege scheme Shawnee County grand jury indictments handed down Tuesday allege a scheme to kick back 6 per or to help finance campaign was arranged among Malloy and the Docking told a news conference Wednesday he has no knowledge of any of the money from the architects going into his campaign fund of 1972. He said he is certain it would have come to his attention had the money been I don't know of the receipt of any of this money which has been alleged to have been Docking told reporters and a television audience. not sure it was I don't know that it ever came Miller's view who launched an investigation some months ago into allegations of impropriety in the award of the medical center then called Smoke reform is urged WASHINGTON - The Federal Trade Commission told Congress Wednesday it should strengthen the printed warning on and add a warning to little to let smokers know they may be running the risk of heart disease and other It also recommended the government start an advertising campaign on radio and television and in print to discourage especially among young and launch a research program to develop a The present health warning on cigarette packages The Surgeon General has determined that cigarette smoking is dangerous to your an inquisition and took his information to the grand jury beginning in said of the money allegedly given to Malloy by the have no evidence to indicate that it went farther than The evidence that I have does not indicate that the money went into the gubernatorial Records do not indicate there have been contributions of this amount reaching the state Sen. Ross chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee and a member of the legislature's special architectural contracts investigating thinks convinced it went into the Doyen going to take some effort to put it But I think they spent a hell of a lot more in the 1972 campaign than they Doyen said he believes a check of all amounts of money spent by the Docking for Governor Club on radio and newspaper would show Docking spent more than the the club reported spending in 1972. Doyen said he is convinced such a detailed tabulation of expenditures would show there was more than and the might be the just don't think the attorney general has gotten into it in the depth he should Doyen Crude rollback in WASHINGTON - Federal energy director William E. Simon was reported Wednesday to be considering a mandatory rollback in the rising price of new domestic crude but he opposed any punitive windfall profits tax as Simon's views surfaced after a White House briefing on President Nixon's special energy message asking Congress for billion next year to develop shale nuclear power and other alternatives to Sen. Henry M. who has urged a sharp crackdown on tax advantages enjoyed by the U.S. oil said that although Simon made no he was thinking about forcing a cutback in the price of domestic crude produced at higher than 1972 The current price of this called allowed to follow prices on the world is a Simon told reporters after the briefing he thought a barrel would be a reasonable Simon urged support for the administration version of a windfall profits tax that would require the industry to funnel excess profits into exploratory He rejected as and the version now before Congress that would provide for rebates to consumers through gasoline price Secretary Rogers C. B. Morton signed the right of way permit for the Alaskan and the Pipeline Service Co. said the three-year construction project begin this N. president of the American Petroleum objected strongly to President Nixon's proposal to reduce tax breaks for the oil but said oil firms might go along with some form of excess profits Frank announced his subcommittee on multinational corporations will begin Jan. 30 on the inner workings of the international oil director Alvin J. Arnett testified at a Senate hearing that poor families are unable to obtain home heating oil because some distributors are requiring minimum 200gallon orders and payment in Arnett complained that his proposals for helping the poor were not having a on Simon's Federal Energy At hearings of his Senate Permanent Investigations OIL gas restrictions and speed limits don't concern the police camel Using only the officers patrol 60,000 square miles of the Desert - an area about size of Heart progress told MARCO Fla. - Tests with eight baboons show they can raise their blood pressure and heart rate at will in response to food or electric a Baltimore researcher reported The experiments may help discover how various lifestyles contribute to high blood the mysterious of Dr. Alan H. Harris told an American Heart Association an assistant professor of behavioral said the tests with the baboons clearly showed that environmental factors played a key role in elevating their blood Harris was careful not to relate behavior directly to But he said the hope is the primate tests can help show if an individual can learn to change his own lifestyle and behavior to control elevated blood pressures without having to resort to drug In another Dr. Burton E. director of the cardiovascular medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. said a blood test is being developed to predict the extent of damage that will occur from a heart attack in time to let doctors try to save some of the endangered heart Jackson said three days of testimony had not established any evidence of oil company collusion to create energy But Jackson said is clear that ' they benefit the nation's distress is extremely profitable to the oil Jackson said he was convinced more than ever of the need for tax fuel price rollbacks and complete and credible information about the energy 1 of message WASHINGTON - Here are the highlights of President Nixon's legislative proposals contained in an energy message to Congress of the 22 per cent foreign depletion allowances and modification of the system of foreign tax credits for U.S. oil firms producing -A two-year delay in the stringent auto emission control standards scheduled to go into effect in 1975. 9 labeling of all appliances and automobiles sold in the United States to indicate their -A windfall profits tax on oil A levy of up to 85 per cent on profits above a ceiling set by the Cost of Living Council last extra unemployment benefits for persons put out of work by the energy billion for energy research and development in 1975, nearly double last year's Intercepted Letter DIGGER PHELPS Basketball Coach Notre Dame Dear Only the hardy - and the lucky - survive Kansas Hutch
