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Agricultural Exports
While many facets of the United States economy are struggling, agricultural exports are thriving and
WASHINGTON, D.C. — JudgeEdmund M. Reggie of Crowley, will officiate as moderator of The White House Conference on Library and Information Services held this week-end in the nation's capital.
Judge Reggie, long associated with the public library system, served as Modera tor of the Governor's Conference on Libraries held last y ear in prepara tion for the national event.
The White House Conference was called by President Gerald Ford in 1976 for occurence now and President Jimmie Carter has implemented the call for November 15-19 in
projections into the 1980s are for continued growth, says Dr. J. Norman Efferson, chancellor of LSU's
Washington.
Purpose and goal of The White House Conference is to bring Americans from all 50 states together to develop recommendations for further improvement of the nation's libraries and information centers and their use by the public in light d new achievements in technology which offer a potential for libraries to serve more people more fully, economically and expeditiously.
Judge Reggie is a past State Chairman of Louisiana Library Week and is the Executive Counsel to the Governor of Louisiana
Center for Agricultural Sciences and Rural Development.
Writing in the November 5 issue of the journal Business America, Efferson notes that agricultural exports are a major growth sector in the economy of the nation, that farm exports sustain more than one million jobs and that one of every four dollars earned by U.S. farmers comes from export sales.
Prospects for fiscal 1980 are for a total export value
WASHINGTON (UPI) —There were two key differences between European and American gas stations last spring: Prices were twice as high at the European pumps — and there were no lines of waiting cars.
The differences were noted by Sen. Bennett Johnston, D-La., in an interview on sudden new interest in a consumption-busting gasoline tax to help cope with the Iranian oil stoppage.
A gas tax proposal has now appeared on a list d emergency conservation measures drafted by Deputy Energy Secretary John Sawhill. And Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, D-Conn., has commented that the cutoff created an ideal climate for administration conservation proposals.
"If there's gang to be a chance in the next couple of years, I think now's the time," said Johnston. "If nobody gets killed in this Iranian deal, this could be a great blessing for the country."
But Johnston, who his proposed a 50-cent gas tax phased in at the ra to of a dime a year said, "As a practical matter, the measure would have to
originate with the president."
Colleagues who wanted no
of farm products worth $3 to $40 billion, with a I percent increase in th agricultural trade surplus I a level of $20 billion.
ferson sees stroa possibilities for continuatia d this trend into the 198l
He sees production a creases beyond currei levels coming main) from three sources:
1–Increased yields pi acre;
2–Development of nal lands; and
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part of his bill when it wa introduced last summer tell him they'd back it now if i had Carter's support.
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Judge Reggie To
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