Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 92, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 21, 1978 Page: 8 of 12
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Page 8 Seminole (Texas! Sentinel, Sept. 21, 1978
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‘Unity’ stressed at ag meeting
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E. L. Short, E. D. Holcomb and
Jerry Sims all hdd their say with
the local chapter of the American
Agricultural Movement Monday
night at the Gaines County Park
Party House.
And, all three preached the
same thing, "unity,” to the
packed house of area farmers.
Hut more than anything else,
the meeting allowed the farmers
the opportunity to come together
to discuss their problems and
what’s being done to solve them.
Of course, the American
Agricultural Movement is an
organized effort on the part of
farmers across the country to get
100 per cent parity for their
products and thus help ensure a
reasonable return on their
investments.
The movement began in
Colorado in December 1977 and
since has spread across the nation
gaining momentum as farmers
Jiave gotten up in arms for the
first time in the nation's history as
a collective unit.
Short, a candidate for the state
28th Senatorial District, was the
first of the three speakers and he
wanted to "impress the import-
ance of staying together” to the
farmers. —--■—--—--
Short was followed to the
microphone by Holcomb, a
farmer from Stanton * and the
District II representative to
Washington, D C. Holcomb
commented that he has been to
the nation’s capitol on five
different occasions in the past
year and although nothing definite
has been done to help the farmer.
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some progress has been made.
Sims, an area farmer who
attended the state Democratic
Convention in Fort Worth, stated,
"the number one thing we have to
do is support the American
Agricultural Movement no matter
what it said—we can’t be split.”
Sims also commented that the
"agricultural movement can win
through the Democratic process—
it’s slow—but it will take time.”
Although neither spoke, Mr and
Mrs. Jim Batson, delegates from
Gaines County, attended the state
GOP Convention in Dallas
recently and they reported that
several resolutions were passed to
help the farmer.
However, those resolutions still
must be approved on the national
level. The resolutions are as
follows:
—whereas an economic crisis
exists in rural America where
farmers and ranchers are caught
between falling prices and
skyrocketing production costs
such that many farmers and
ranchers are unable to recover
their cost" of production and
receive a fair return on their,
investment;
whereas the economic prob-
lems of farmers and ranchers are
spreading to other agri-business
enterprises and will spread
further;
whereas, the Carter Admin is
tration and Democrat Congress
have tailed to take effective
action;
— whereas, Texas farmers and
ranchers need help now.
Therefor, be it resolved
1) that the Republican Parti, of
Texas supports the legislative
initiatives of Senator John Tower
to furnish farmers and ranchers
with the necessary means to
continue to meet the food and
fiber demands of all our people;
2) that we also support Senator
Tower's current legislature to
restrict the importation ol meat
and meat products and require
the labeling of such imports for
the health and economic benefit of
consumers and producers.
3) that we support farmer's
efforts to obtain parity prices for
then products in the market place*
by developing laws and enforcing
existing laws against unfair trade
practices pertaining to both
imports and exports;------
4) that all commodities pur-
chased for food reserves be
contracted at a price providing
producers
production
with the cost of
plus a reasonable
return on investments;
5) that we create a board of
productive farmers to be a part of
the U.S.D.A.
K I. Short, a candidate for the stale 28th
Luest speaker
Senatorial District, delivers a speech to
the loeal chapter of the \merman
\grieultura! Movement at a meeting
Monday night at the (James'County Dark
Party House Short, along-with'E D
Holcomb and-Jerry'Slips. ..spoke to the
local organization
Sentinel publisher tops
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.Sentinel .Publisher Marshall
Day after a miserable showing
the opening week of the contest
moved into the lead in the
Peerless f* i g skm-Pn >g ra >stic a tor '>
a Eth a 1-2*2 shflrtW uii! he-'
weekend
Ifay,.- who was the winner of the
PPP contest a year ago, regained
the lead from first week leader
Roy Rinnans who finished 8 8 over
the weekend 1 >ay now leads the
five member panel with a 19 0
mark, followed lo David Horn
stein at 18-10, Romans at 17 1]
and Phyllis Humans and (’had
Ferguson at Hi 12
Day s only, two misses came m
tlu^ Florida loss to Southern
Method is! 4 rover m4 v . and the
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and Dallas over I.o- \ngeh-s
4’ohsensus,also missed the same
games as did Bnrnstcm
Ferguson missed five games
that included the same- four as
fiornstem plus the Detroit loss to
Chicago
Mrs Ruirtahs missed the
Frenship loss to Spearman the
Sweetwater loss to Colorado Ditv,
the Monahans loss to Snyder, tin*
Bay lor loss to-Georgia-and. the
Dallas loss to 1 .os Angeles' •
Humans erred on the same five
games as his wife, plus he missed
thy;Buffalo lns> to Miami
For the season on percentages
Day has a *>7mark, followed by
Rornstem at 843, Humans at 807,
and Mrs Humans and Ferguson
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Day, Marshall. Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 92, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 21, 1978, newspaper, September 21, 1978; Seminole, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1097185/m1/8/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gaines County Library.