Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 9

CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER Wed Aug 13 1969 9A' European Market Awaiting Revival Of Farm Program US LOWERS EXPORT PRICES FOR WHEAT WASHINGTON (AP) The United States announced Tuesday substantial cuts In the export price of wheat shipped to South America and the Far East thereby extending a reduction made last month for European markets The Agriculture Department said the price reduction was effective at 2:31 pm CDT At west coast penis white wheat was reduced 10 cents a bushel hud red winter wheat of protein 9 cents and hard red winter wheat of 13 per cent protein 2 cents a bushel The department also extended to South American markets a price cut of 12 cents a bushel made July 18 for wheat shipped from Gulf ports to Europe The action was regarded as a move by the United States to maintain a competitive position in the world wheat market A number of exporting nations primarily the European Common Market have recently offered wheat in areas considered traditional US markets Huge world supplies in the major exporting countries have caused cut rate price competition among most exporting areas FOREGTASTl Kfurn Shaw High Tamparaturti bpaciarf Par Paytlma Wadnt4ay Ualatad Praripiiariaa Nal lodicBfd-CohiuIi laial Ftrtuir Total Crop Production Record Due WASHINGTON III Total US crop production this year is forecast as a record by the Agriculture Department despite some decline from 1968 for several major crops The Crop Reporting Board said Monday the production Index for all arm crops on Aug was 121 per cent of the 1957-59 average 2 per cent more than last record Improved prospects for non-citrus fruit peanuts flaxseed and cotton helped offset slumps in other crops officials said Less Than Last Year The 1969 corn crop was estimated at 43 billion bushels up slightly from the July forecast but 1 per cent less than 1968 and 9 per cent below 1967 Wheat production was estimated at 15 billion bushels a of 2 per cent from July but per cent less than the record crop of last year Officials said output of the four major livestock feedgralns -corn oats barley and sorghum grains-Avas estimated at 167 million tons 1 per cent less than last year and 5 per cent below the 1967 record Grains Ip Total food grains Including wheat rice nnd rye were estimated at nearly 50 million tons a gain of 2 per cent from the VFLT1IKI! Showers are predicted Wednesday along the south Atlantic Coast along a front stretching from Arizona through Colorado Kansas' Nebraska to Minnesota Showers are also predicted in the Pacific Northwest (AP Wirophoto Map) Now York Tima Nawa torvlca BRUSSELS The European Common Market has just burled its joint farm pricing program and Is awaiting the resurrection Dawn had broken over the gray slabs of the Palais des Congres in Brussels as a haggard Dutch minister emerging from an 18 hour council session delivered himself of this observation The Council of Finance nnd Agricultural Ministers called into a crisis session because of the French devaluation had just decided to Isolate the French farm market from the community market thereby suspending uniform support levels for farm prices and setting back the dock on one of the most significant and mast controversial accomplishments France Shielded France is shielded from some of the forces unleashed by the weekend currency change This gives her a better chance to gain the competitive advantages of the cheaper franc by selling for example more Feugeots and perfumes abroad and buying fewer Voikswagens and Italian refrigerators The community recognized that economic health was more Important than the jointly agreed rules on agriculture It was the first time it had had to consider the common program In light of a devaluation Commitment Refusal Vexed by refusal to honor a prior commitment to consult with partners before announcing devaluation and troubled by the eroskm of community principles the Dutch held off approving the dispensation until shortly before am Tuesday They had suggested an alternative plan far less attractive for France A point that was not lost on anyone was that if France could get the rules suspended then perhaps Britain if she finally makes a third attempt to join the community would find It a little easier to negotiate terms that would ease the Immense burdens she would for Instance sharply higher food in accepting community farm policies WEATHER SUMMARY BATA FDRNISHCO DV UI WRATNRR BURRAU larger acreage and flaxseed output was forecast 25 per cent more Waalhar ot 7 A-m COT Higtml tafnmr-ntiirt tauf If hour Lmnt tamparnlura TIIE MOON Nm Flnf Qtr Full Loll Qtr SHIP NEWS July forecast but 7 per cent less than last year's record Soybean production was indicated at more than 1 billion bushels slightly less than last record despite a peak acreage Officials said the crop suffered from too much rain In sections of the north and too little moisture in some southern areas But production of cotton seed was estimated to rise 8 per cent from last year due mainly to a Gulf Oil Car to Port Arthur IMHraNr Lyhaa Brea to Moo la Ala la part ton arm Maru No I (Jopantit) of Fraducora Elavatar Nona ItbrandtMn of OH DncR 7 tolno-E-lamatl (Paklitoml at Cars IS Au IS Aim II 17 too 1 Maanrlw 7:14 am Moomat f4l ft i i Shut AoadoM (Rrltiitil fa SouffwnutarB BackS BOATING CONDITIONS INLAND BAYS AND LAKE CORPUS CHRISTI -Waters will be smooth at night and choppy during the daytime through tomorrow Winds will he south and southeast at 10 to 20 miles an hour during the day diminishing to less than 10 at night through tomorrow Water temperature at Port Aransas is 82 degrees Ileal-Weary Stale Due No Respite By The Associated Press Texas burned through still another of August's "dog days" Tuesday with even the lowest temperatures at smoking sweltering levels The maximum thermometer readings ranged frm blistering 109-degree readings at Waco and Childress hundreds of miles apart down to a sultry 87 at Galveston What rain nr-wred did nothing to dent the late summer heat wave and amounted to very little College Station reported 63 of an inch during the 24-hour period ending at 7 pm The only other rain measured was a scant 01 at Houston Other maximum temperatures included San Angelo's 107 degrees and 106 at Cot la and Beeville Additional readings at the century mark or above included: 103 at Laredo and Abilene 104 at Mineral Weils and San Antonio 103 at Alice Austin Big Spring Del Rio and Wichita Kalis 102 at Lufkin 101 at Wink Victoria Midland Dallas and College Station and 100 at Amarillo Dalhart Paso Fort Worth Houston Lubbock and Tyler Even In long-range forecasts there appeared no relief in sight for the seared heat-weary state A forecast for the period through next Monday called for continuing above-normal temperatures and little or no rain except in the state's northeast corner where scattered showers were expected Late Tuesday thundershowers covering less than 10 per tent of a 30- to 40-mile-wide line stretched from near Brownwood to Hamilton to 20 miles east-southeast of Palestine An Isolated thunderstorm was centered between Dlney and Seymour Others hit in an area about 40 miles north of Abilene Light decreasing showers fell between College Station and Lufkin About the same kind of weather was expected Wednesday 14 Langvlaw T7 74 I uhhork IN 4 Lufkin 1BR FA Moffo 1 Si 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probably would continue to decrease in force as it moved eastward But we expect tt to mill be an organized storm when makes its if it he said Meanwhile a tropical wave was spotted Tuesday near the Lesser Antilles and the Virgin Islands just west of the tropical storm spawning ground where Blanche as born The wave reported moving west northwest at 20 mph was expected to intensify Into a tropical depression by Wednesday ping lanes with gales and 70 mile-an-hour winds Tuesday and turned to a more easterly course that would take her across open sea to the British Isles and southern France don't thinx she offers any threat to the United States any said John Hqpe a forecaster at the National Hurricane Center in Miami a chance the storm will cause a good bit of weather in France and Blanche Moves Eastward Hope said Blanche the season's first Atlantic hurricane was centered about 200 miles west of the southern tip of Newfoundland driving eats-northeast at 45 mph Due to the cool water of the north Atlantic the storm's highest winds had dropped from 00 mph to about 70 mph with Smith Naim Six To Polygraph Hoard AUSTIN' Gov Preston Smith made six appointments Tuesday to the newly created state Polygraph Examiners Board The appointers are William lvdgo Starchcr of Lubbock Dee Wheeler of Fort Worth Bobby Jfarvel Musser of Houston James David Williams of Dallas Hydro Allen Alljcrt of Austin and Gene Ralph Danish of San Antonio The board will give examina-tku and will license applicants who qualify as operators of poly-grap or so-called lie detector instruments used by state and local law enforcement agencies and some private businesses When the on-Ride it out with Reddy! 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