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Summer Session Kansan
Friday, July 31, 1964
Dollar Sales in Exports Below $6.1 Billion Total
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— President Johnson's recent announcement of record exports of $6.1 billion worth of U.S. farm products in fiscal 1964 did not mean that American exporters collected that much of the commodities sold overseas.
Agriculture Department records show that actual dollar sales—cash on the barrelhead—accounted for $4.6 billion of the fiscal 1964 farm exports, a record total for cash receipts.
Five members of the School of Journalism faculty will attend the convention of the Association for Education in Journalism at the University of Texas, Austin. Aug. 26-30.
SALES UNDER the "Food-for-Peace" program accounted for slightly more than $1.5 billion worth of commodities. The foods exported under this program were for foreign currency, or were outright donations for famine or other emergency relief, barter, or long-term credit sales.
5 Faculty to Attend Journalism Meeting
In comparison, fiscal 1963 farm
One of them, Calder M. Pickett, professor, will present a paper in the historical research session, "A Paper for the Doughboys: Stars and Stripes in World War I."
Other members attending will be Dean Burton W. Marvin; Elmer F. Beth, professor, and Mel Adams and Gale Adkins, associate professors.
exports totaled $5 billion—$3.5 billion represented dollar sales, and about $1.5 billion government-financed sales.
The $6.1 billion value of U.S. farm exports in fiscal 1964 was the world market value—the value of the commodities at the shipping port. The world price is considerably below the U.S. price for some commodities, principally wheat and cotton.
IN THE PAST 15 years, the United States has had a favorable balance of trade in agricultural products seven times and an unfavorable balance eight times.
The department estimated the trade balance between the United States and the rest of the world for farm products for fiscal 1964 would be more than $2 billion in the United States's favor, the largest on record in 50 years. The trade balance is the difference between total sales and total purchases, regardless of dollar sales or government-financed programs.
PITTSBURGH—(UPI)—The newest group of "researchers" at the Westinghouse Electric laboratories are children ranging from 3 to 8 years of age.
The machine, a sophisticated "talking typewriter," has shown remarkable ability to teach young children to read and type.
SLATE has three main systems—an electric typewriter operated by the student; a teacher-supervised control system overseeing the typewriter's functions; and a voice storage and playback system for pronouncing letters and words typed on the keyboard.
The machine was designed and built by Westinghouse physicists after a Yale University study indicated that such a machine teaches language skills to pre-school children better than conventional methods.
The children are helping to test a new learning machine called SLATE for simulated learning by automated typewriter environment
MOBILE. Ala.—(UPI)—It may not be long before products of the sunflower—the state flower of Kansas—form an important part of the American diet.
scientists come to know of the plant's potential.
The seed has more protein than soybeans or cottonseed. It also contains vitamin D, calcium, thiamine and niacin. When pressed, the seed yields oil for cooking, margarine and salad. Ground up, it produces flour.
Kids vs. Machine In Learning Test
This is the opinion of the Rev. Robert Owens-Howard, a Jesuit biologist, who says the once-rejected sunflower is enjoying a new vogue.
FATHER OWENS-HOWARD says Americans have chewed the nut-like seed for years without realizing its food value. Only recently have
State Flower Is Boomed As Potential Food Giant
THE SUNFLOWER, if properly cultivated and efficiently harvested,
“is a highly nourishing and potentially great food source,” says Father Owens-Howard. And it tastes good, too.
The Jesuit, who has made special studies of the plant, found there are nutritional benefits to be derived from almost every part of the sunflower.
The sunflower has no waste. The stalks can be made into food or processed into paper or fertilizer; the roots of one variety can be used for baking or in salads. There are more than 100 varieties of sunflower plants.
At present there is no mechanical equipment to harvest it. He thinks industry could develop new and adequate equipment or scientisis could develop a smaller plant.
"In a generation or so," Father Owens-Howard said, "the plant could be one of the world's most important food crops, especially since it grows almost anywhere the sun can reach it and the temperature does not get too cold."
"The time may come," he says, "when the United States can offer a handful of sunflower seed to an impoverished country rather than millions of U.S. dollars."
ACTUALLY, THE JESUIT says, the sunflower is too much of a good thing. It's difficult to handle commercially because of its size, often more than six feet tall.
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