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When A«ort 31, the found action c Presidential reque maining, however, highly controversial la* to adjournment ithe perennial controversy foreign aid program, a rider bill which is known as the field-Dirkseu propose to “'stays of Federal court the request of State eapportio lems, and a medical can plan that has since been attached to.tbft-gen* ;ate version of the • House-passed social security amendment bill. Legislative battles have arises .over each of these questions. Bal 5f these issues have formed a hur dle for adjourment, appropriate bills'have moved along much mort rapidly than last year. Only on< regular and one supplemental ap propriation hill require further ac tion. Those are the formgttf aid appropriation and the catchall" sup plemental appropriation for agen cies showing emergency needs not provided in the regular appropria tion measures. The eleven regular and four sup plemental disaster appropriation hills which have cleared both hous •es provide funds totaling $89.7 bil lion for the fiscal year 1965. For eign aid, when acted upon, will complete the regular appropriations As matters stand nosw, it'appearl that this year’s appropriations art like to approximate last year’s. The first session of the 88th Congresi made regular and. supplemental ap propriations of $92.4 billion. Tht totals for the same appropriation categories this session are likely to he around $93.0 billion assuming that fmalaotkJn oa-tbe ^teign aid bill approximates the bouse figure Not .reflected in these amount! is the item of interest on the na tional debt which is embraced in a separate category which is called "Treasury disbursements of perma nent funds.” In 1963, this item amounted to $10.1 billion. This year ate item is expected to riSei sharply to $11.1 billion. The rise in national debt interest costs is significant, and will Represent a major budget problem for the foreseeable future, Senate-House differences ovei medical care under the social se curity program and state legislative ' reapportionment represent the 'yet unresolved questions of the session Even with these issues settled, for eign aid is still of such controversial nature that in could trigger a long debate to keep Congress in session for a considerably period. OTHER EDITORS SAY . THE SOUTHEASTERN MILLER Contrast In Wheat Areas Canada attracted worldwide At tention last year by harvesting the largest wheat crop in its history and selling unprecedented quanti ties of wheat and flour to Russia. Today the Dominion is receiving added attention owing to the fact that the Dominion Bureau of Sta tistics has revealed that the prairies provinces have planted a total of 29,080,000 acres to spring wheat this year, a new all-time high. ThOi area compares with 26,996,000 acres in the previous year and shows an increase of 21 per cent from the 1952-61 average of 23,448,400. Prior to this year the peak in prairie wheat plantings was 27,750,000'acres in 1940. The new high mark is of particular interest to the United States because here, under the wheat production controls enacted by Congress, the last report of the Department of Agriculture showed only 49,041,000 acres for harvest, whereas back in 1949 the harvested area was 75,900,000 acres, the peak for this country. The contrast between Canadian and American wheat acreage trends thus revealed is not surprising un der the producing conditions of the two countries so far as governmen tal intervention is concerned. Tht Canadian growers have been advis ed in the last year that markets car be found for all of the wheat whicl they raise, with no acreage limita tions. On the other hand, drastfc controls on plantings are in effect in the United States, with the na tional acreage allotment 49,500,00( acres, the minimum permissible un der the present law. The largest ares ever planted to wheat in the United States is 83,905,000 acres, for th< 1949 crop. Owing to extreme variations ir the weather of Canada, including drought over extensive areas, es pecially in Saskatchewan, the 196* Dominion prairie wheat crop'is pri vately estimated at only 500,000,00( to 592,000,000 bushels in face of th< larger acreage. The recrod produc tion of the Dominion provinces Iasi year was 730,000,000 bushels. Witl 'its carryover from the record croi after the huge sales to Russia, th( Dominion will still be in a positiol to export heavily in the coming year. . The American wheat and" flou trade has reason for some concert over the diverse trend in whea WHEN YOU NEED AMBULANCE SERVICE , CALL Earner’s Funeral Home DIAL JA 3-2124 or JA 3-2125 '•%' - Ambulance Equipped With Oxygen ° - For Emergency Use msm»i wmimmil m mm SO WHO’S BOEED?—Puppies, especially whep they’re only 10 weeks old, haven’t much to do other than get into trouble and sleep. These pups, part collie and shep herd, plan some snoozing. They live at a Schenectady, N.Y., animal shelter. y acreages here and in Canada. The concern is intensified J>y. the fact i that Argentina and Australia are credited with some increases in plantings. Population expansion ov :r the world is leading to an even tual situation wherein all of the wheat every country can produce will find 'a ready market. In the meantime, the United States should not be alone in adjusting supplies to the effective demand. mm
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