European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 4, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes july hi77 Tom Wicker big surplus of wheat could sprout on six administrations and nearly three decades the Price of wheat was a Bushel earlier this in wheat Ell to a Given that Only about half what wheat was bringing in and less than third of the current a theres almost surely worse yet 19 come for the Farmer and the result could be political disaster for the democrats and a budget conscious Carter and this years wheat Harvest in Texas and Oklahoma is about file shed with each state bringing in us second largest crop in its harvesting is beginning in Kansas and and will move North through the wheat Bell throughout with great expectations by the Early of the wheat crap will be in and the Best predictions Are that it will be the second or third biggest in the nations but the carryover from ample crop already is about billion and with Good growing weather prevailing throughout the theres not much Hope of absorbing or significantly reducing this surplus on the inter William big auction time at the Acle the associated chess brings us an item on a recent fundraising auction in new Lei me relieve the suspense he auction was a it brought in about is the custom in such matters is for tradesmen to to invited to contribute items which Are then auctioned but the Acle deals in a different so that instead of collecting color television round trips to two ounce bottles of and dinner for two at it offered a smorgasbord of professional services from All Hose people who hover around the Acle taking advantage of the liberties it secures for the most exciting contribution the most one was t one tree that contribution by a practising abortionist a you will the supreme court has ruled that it is not required that states pay tar abortions out of lax and this has caused a great Hue and cry with the suggestion that rom now on Only Doris Duke can get an everyone else will need to go to the nearest snidely whiplash in a Grimy As in the movie the other Side of Midnight to a clothes spirited bidding in new Orleans resulted in a Selling Price of that must have disappointed the folks at the who it May have embarrassed the ii you male a grand gesture before on appreciative House the tradition Calls on the Bidden to be extra generous in their donations which Are usually Tai deductible then you normally get bloated but an taking this would authorise one of several the first and most obvious is that is the True free Market Maui for an abortion in new Orleans by a licensed it that is it teaches us a great Deal about the hysteria of those who have said with abortion no longer paid for by the govern it will be priced out of the popular just about everybody afford and since you cant have an abortion More often than once every couple of you can keep a special Piggy Bonk for the there to properly trained economist would the alternative explanation perhaps in new Orleans there is no demand for old problem of Selling refrigerators to but common sense suggests new Orleans being a City of passionate although heavily by no Means exclusively no it has got to be Fiat science has brought Down the Price of abortions to a very Low speaking of very Low another item auctioned by the Acle was a free i this went for f now understand ing this requires a Tittle More a licensed doctor administering an abortion is engaged in a pretty routine the objective is absolutely straightforward kit the but divorces to a certain artistic in there Are Alt those Little Points of and evidently the bidders at the Acle auction feared that the lawyer offering the free divorce was an Amu Lance chasing not up to looking after the sophisticated demands of such Classy people to attend Acle As much might explain Why free Legal services for driving while intoxicated brought Only f the explanation is not Only it is charitable the entire Price Structure of the Legal fraternity would collapse if divorces sold for Only and Drunken drive the leadership of the Acle has shown considerable next year it might auction a free defense for if they Man Euver the very Best lawyer in new Orleans into making that contrib then the successful bidder might figure he has in effect bought himself one free in the land of noblesse the same bidder might also buy the free abortion voucher which he could then stuff Down the dress of the the implications Are i do whether there Arent some problems Here the Acle Hast though suppose the intoxicated Driver runs Over the Guy with the free rape and abortion and they Are Dis covered among his who pays the estate lax the Acle but surely the Acle would thai if the Acle really wanted to jazz up its fund it should auction off the recons Titu Donau Patlon of prayer in the or would that demean the spirit of their auctions National Over from the two Doit Sweta somewhere near 2 billion busta plus that is bound to depress even in american fat Likely to seek increased Aid As Well As cheap Erncr Teafil s might therefore depress i eloping fins Traung forts to build up in tear own i even More american faced with Roc Bottom prices that them anything like a fair return on Ion costs about a to turn solidly against an Adin Onuf never to popular to begin with i lists on holding Down Federal its highest in the farm that Means the is Rallon is willing neither Iwu wheat support Price actually a loan i of a Bushel nor to invest an Ovate Grain Reserve that might help i Tain Market with so much wheat on i and in this is the right tune i the nation to begin rebuilding the j serves thai disappeared after 1 Ninon poured almost billion into areas in Advance of the 1971 Electo paying Farmers to 60 null acres of Grain land from 19 million tons of american Grain to 1 soviet Union in 1s72 and Roill acres out of production in the Carter administration noun cd its intention to create a naut Ujj Grain Reserve but one limited at Ujj outset to about 8 million ions of drop in the bucket to the surplus now w v Senate legislation has embody to this but in the farm j Lalion makes no mention at All of a i even the Senate Nally would provide an 1 out cute Reserve and leave far too much g James Weaver of Oregon has in troja diced separate legislation to establish Domestic Grain Reserve of to 35 mlle tons a Reserve of thai site would f about hold the wheat carryover to its t sent billion administration appears no More Likely accept the Weaver Bill than to agrees higher support and for tin reason it would Cost too much Money Fqy the budget cutters to accept 2 there Are nevertheless Why a National Grain Reserve ought in t developed such a Reserve c a Pye to Avert famines like t that so recently struck much of the to it could help keep Domestic food j from rising or falling Loo ant 1 could keep periods of oversupply leading to depressed and courage Cal of food production Abr Grain Reserve therefore could be Factor in fighting inflation and aiding both at Home and just this for i food experts convened by the no search Council reported to Carter that even though there were j rent 450 Nile on to one i the worlds remain underfed both in the Short run to Avert present danger of bad weather food shortages to and to Job run to eliminate the panel effective system of food and Grain r was As for the Way things t now in the farm some Region think the democrats stand Fqy Many As House seats next them West of the saw earned nothing in that Vicinity such a setback for his party would 1 be a Happy augur fur in in Obj mid ii1wmwuii