Wednesday, September 24, 1975
pag 14
daily nebrastan
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President Ford has asked all parties
opposed to U.S. grain sales to Russia to
"cool it," according to Nebraska State Sen.
Loran Schmit, chairman of the Legisla
ture's Agriculture and Environment Com
mittee. The President made the request in
accordance with attempts being made by
state governments and farmer's groups to
lift the bocott imposed by longshoremen
who refuse to load the grain onto ships.
The state Agriculture Committee met in
in a public hearing Tuesday to discuss the
problems in grain marketing and to listen
to testimony from farmers and stock
growers.
Grain backed up
The International Longshoremen's
Association (ILA) has boycotted the grain
loading for several months. According to
Harry Jordan, representative of the
Nebraska Grain Feed Dealer's Associa
tion, the grain is backed up in train ter
minal storage "from the Gulf to Topeka,
Kan."
"A car shortage is inevitable," said
Jordan in his address to the committee. "A
workable substitution of trucks for the
grain (as opposed to railcars) has yet to be
effected," he said.
State Sen. John DeCamp, committee
vice chairman, said several committee
members, including he and Schmidt, have
investigated laws in regard to Farm Bureau .
members and representatives loading the
grain for shipment themselves.
DeCamp said he telegrammed a request
to Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz to
"confer with the National Labor Rela
tions Board (NLRB) to determine whether
the Farm Bureau members could load the
grain on the ships themselves." Only the
United States, attorney general or the
NLRB have the power to authorize such s
move, DeCamp said.
Not shut up
Schmit said he received a letter last
December . from Meany concerning the
longshoremen's refusal to load the grain to
, be shipped to Russia. According to Schmit,
Meany said in the letter that grain is being
loaded on the ships now, and that they
were looking for a satisfactory solution to
the problem.
-According to Schmit, Ford and Meany
have had several meetings concerning the
ILA boycott that excluded Secretary Butz.
Schmit said he asked Butz to discharge
himself from his post if he could not be 4
better representative.
"I feel that the secretary should resign if
he can't support the 200,000 farmers and
ranchers he is supposed to represent,"
Schmit said. "He supports them while he's
in the Midwest," said Schmit, adding he.
wasn't certain what position Butz held
while in Washington.
Interference opposed
Calvin Colter representative of the
Nebraska Stock Grower's Association,
testified to the committee that the NSGA
was "opposed to union Interference in the
grain sales. The ILA is not justified in
attempting to set up U.S. export policy,"
he said.
"The livestock people see problems for
themselves," said Colter, "especially if the
government itself becomes a grain dealer,
or if an excessive amount of grain is
dumped on the market."
Colter recommended the return to a
free market system in grain export trade
without union or government interference.
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Alcohol on campus? The Nebraska
Wesleyan University (NWU) student senate
and Board of Governors do not advocate it,
but they have passed a policy change grant
ing NWU students the right to it.
A bill approved by the school's Student
Affairs Senate (SAS), a faculty committee
and the governing board now allows
consumption of alcohol beverages in resi
dence hall rooms.
The measure, passed Sept. 1 1 , includes a
statement that neither the senate nor the
NWU administration advocate the use of
alcohol, said Charming Dutton, SAS presi
dent. "What we wanted to do was acknow
ledge the fact that the students were
adults, with the ability to make their own
choice concerning alcohol " Dutton said.
Before the policy change was passed by
the Board of Governors, alcohol was pro
hibited in NWU residence halls and at
Weskyan-sponsored functions, he said.
Dutton cited a NWU dance in February as
the impetus for a seven-month study of the
old policy.
Liquor was served at the dance, Dutton
said, and the campus group that sponsored
the function subsequently was "called on
the carpet." He aaid the incident drew
attention to "a fallacy between what the
rules said and what was being allowed."
He said NWU administrators had not
been enforcing the no-alcohol policy in
residence halls. Under the new policy,
alcohol is permitted in rooms, but still
prohibited in halls and lounges.
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