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Guilt Complex. In Madisonville, Tex., a local cattlemen's association launched a national "corrective campaign," hopefully offered a prize to the child of an out-of-state veteran (trained in Texas) who wrote the best letter on "Why My Daddy Is Wrong About Texas...
...Mexican virus, and if the government can persuade skeptical campesinos of the necessity of sticking a needle into their animals every six months, Mexico hopes at least to control aftosa. U.S. experts are bearish, point out that the quarantine-vaccination method has failed in Europe. Like most U.S. cattlemen, they believe that the only cure for aftosa is wholesale slaughter...
...Indiana's big steel center at Gary, he launched into a heated defense of the Taft-Hartley Act. Before a group of Omaha farmers and cattlemen, he stated firmly that farm support prices were too high...
...Williams would rather chin with old cronies than work, so he sometimes falls behind schedule, despite prodding from his wife. Then his old cartoons reappear, "redrawn by request." "I couldn't work without talking to people," says Williams defensively. "I always have people here-cattlemen from Texas, publishers from New York, workingmen from Detroit. They kid me when they see me in this big house-I'm pretty untidy and I wear sweaters and jackets. Looks funny to see someone like me in this place." And sometimes the cowhands get a little mad about Williams' making...
...starch, to save wheat. At any rate, we should waste less." But he does not think that renewed controls would increase the food supply, because "you don't get more food by restrictions." In the present atmosphere of uncertainty of what the Government intends to do about meat, cattlemen cannot plan ahead. "It takes four years to make a steer," said Kleberg. "That requires some long-range planning...