| Show LQ drouth effects many living in a section where there is plenty of water ample feed and no possibility of a drouth it is difficult at it tunes times to envision what it moans means when other sections of the west are burning up for lack of moisture in many ways it ii has just about as serious effect as if it were happening af atheme home iia the thoi drouth in texas southeastern colorado and otard other parts part a of tho the area was in a largo measure responsible for tho the big pig drop in cattle prices n i cea last year it buea when livestock li rowers forced to send their cattle and sheep to market because there bisno is no feed the in market brot becomes glutted and the price slumps 8 so while whilo we wo glory our green hils hills and meadows the shadow of the iho drouth stricken areas anas hangs over us in w a great gnat degree I 1 11 1 even government action jn in providing emergency feed food products catinat lesson the effect it has on our live stock industry at home ath tho drou ghio a a disaster that reaches far b beyond the confines odthe stricken gt it ricken aren area steamboat pilot f aliat can wool problem fsr fi yi ia t donin asmin stringfellow has been work A ing hard on n behalf of the domestico dome stio wool austry dr AMA 4 t ak 0 fixing I 1 the plight 1 of the geatal geere yvere iq bobb congress and members of tha the executive it ie departments i t tho the young lawmaker has bas a bill in congress to 6 encourage domestic production conof of wool by more favorable tariff 11 arrangements arrangements and has intervened president eisenhower Elsen hower iwo who id Is ex expected to order ordo r a federal C commission the complex si tuition under the tho agricultural adjustment act higher tariffs can be impose dif the tariff com L holds that tha foreign imports of any agricultural product are endangering I 1 tho support price j program mr land anc other delegates I 1 0 a arg u ig that funds n bo made available from fria import fees from woo ar research thesis A research program to 1 develop no now and ald broader brogdo i uses for foi wool brodu products i ato ia is needed wool isa f ol 01 being victimize dby many developments 81 V Y notably a historic his torio I 1 revolution in the textile industry be do i carusd cacao of otibe the stiff competition from the balled ia miracle iracle i r fibers tho the any action that increases the price if of wool and wool products threatens to depress todo pross the mar S ket for wool csc especially for hp apparel parel thin this situation greatly complicates the tariff picture t j The need d for more ae equitable adjustments was cm em 1 K bydon by don clyde president atthe of the utah uth v wool growers assod association 1 aaion 0 he o cointa pointe 0 o out Q t thai industry indu 8 itry receives tariff protection on manufactured goods that t the he i farmer and wool producer use but the grower doe snot receive comparable protection why he asked should gre aso wool I 1 have a ridiculously low tariff of 10 cont a c v pound yat cloth must pay a 87 37 centea benta plus 25 per cent of the value t why s should hould carpet carpit wool come into absolutely freo jet wooi carpets bear beara i 4 30 ncr ent cent butyl are aro 1 being eing protected by 1 l such tarie sT why ia is it that whenever 6 any manufacturing ar or fabrication is applied to the products of agriculture the 1 tariff skyrockets sky rockets to a point where oom competition pe is stifled stifle dt and BO so forth r ta the textile industry in fights any move to lower tariffs on imported fabrics but at tho same amo time it strongly bip 0 p 1 l poses post 8 increases in duties on raw wool the beate agriculture ta committee has been studying a pro proposal po sil to set sil t up a feasible system of fin import po A fees to prevent sale in the V U EL for foi forel foreign i agn wool at less than full fall parity pried price of free wool governor aronson of montana told wa the committee committe e a few weeks ago that sucha system would cut out unfair com petition anfor for sheep men anaw and wool growing would again be come prof profitable itolo I 1 but the 60 wool textile interests eay say legislation sou sought gh t ers would be another blow to their rick sick industry weakening more th oprice position of wool in eom oom P petition with they claim that raw wool enjoys adequate protection under government price supports 00 90 per cent of parity t and the buy american act this I 1 sheep mefi men deny j the solution ocho the wool problem lemwill will not bo be easy vie of wool in in apparel has been 0 0 n declining kee linin for nearly two decader eil BO so states doea does not produce i af l focient wool for ita its dom dome eatlo tAie needs the V U EL shorn wool production total in 1952 waa was 2233 million pounds combar cd ed mill with wool consumption of 91 million pounds can be no an AA exten extensive sivo re search program such sich as advocated by y fag congressman stringfellow coupled witha promotion program to dem estrate ns jho of wool it could pro prova tho most means of patting putting wool in a stronger position n competition with wi th other fibern deseret |
