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Washington -0IPI)- The 1062
crop will be harvested from
the smallest total acreage in
53 years, the Agriculture De
partment has announced in its
first big production report ol
the year.
Although the department
delayed until next month an
estimate of a production in
dex, indications were that
this year's output of food and
feed would be abundant. Crop
prospects of good to excel
lent" were reported for many
major producing areas, crop
development appeared to be
ahead of last year's, and
yields of major crops were es
timated to be close to the
high yields of a year ago,
The department estimated
the harvested acreage this
year would be 288 million
acres - 8 million or 3 per
cent 1cm than the 1961 total
and the smallest since 1909
The planted acreage of 300
million acres is 10 million
le?s than last year and the
lowest since 1929.
The reductions are the re
sult of government efforts to
reduce output of surplus
crops, chiefly wheat and corn,
LAY MISSIONARIES
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ant Episcopal church is study,
ing the possibility of enlist
ing Americans living abroad
as lay missionaries. The Rev.
Samuel Van Culin Jr., assist
ant secretary of the denomi
nation s overseas department,
said: "The question is how to
make these lay people, in the
international community
through government, b u s I
ness and educational ex
change, more attentive to
their roles as missionaries."
and the ability of the Amer
ican farmer to produce effi
ciently and abundantly on
fewer acres.
The 1962 corn crop - re
cently planted - was esthna
ted at 3.5 billion bushels
This is 3 per cent less than
in 1961, primarily because of
a 2 per cent reduction In acre
age. The prospective yield of
61.2 bushels an acre is second
only to last year's record 61.8
bushels and is 15.5 bushels
above the 1951-60 acreage,
The corn crops last year and
this were planted under
program which called for
large acreage reductions to
clear away the surplus.
Department officials said
corn consumption during the
current feeding year would
total about 3.9 billion bush
els. Production last year was
3.62 billion bushels. This
means the current carryover
will be down about 300 mil
lion bushels. Tuesday's esti
mate of the 19G2 crops .ippar.
ently means that the 1962-63
feeding season will cut an
other 300 million bushels
from the corn carryover, as
suming there will be little or
no change in consumption
volume.
Less Wheat Carryortr
The 1962 wheat crop, est.
mated at about 1.05 billion
bushels, means the wheat car.
ryover next July will be
down 150-200 million bush
els.
The acreage reductions this
year about equally divided
between the food and feed
grain groups. Corn, oats, and
barley show smaller acreages
than last year while a small
expansion of all sorghums
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'VISIT U.S.A.' A TRICKLE OF SUCCESS
un us urst ornciai birthday, the "Visit U.S.A." program
designed to increase the number of foreign visitors to this
country from a trickle to a flood so we can earn a lot more
from tourism and thereby help cut the deficit in our inter
national financial accounts is still in the "trickle" stage.
The program is alive, it's getting results in several direc
tions, which is encouraging for the long range but it's a
success on only the most modest of scales. Yet today the
need for giving the program a great forward push is greater
than ever.
It was a year ago that Congress passed the International
Travel Act of 1961 and set up our government's first official
travel promotion agency the U.S. Travel Service under the
Dept. of Commers. Many lofty motives were given for the
step such as "promoting understanding and good will
among people of foreign countries and of the United States"
but the primary motive was strictly money.
lor tne difference between what Americans spent as
foreign tourists and what foreigners spent as U.S. tourists
(including the costs of their tickets) came to a towering $1.1
Diuion in 1901 alone.
This "travol gap" raproitntad approximately 40 per
cent of the total deficit in our balance of payment!. Obvi
ously if tourism here could bo yaitly expanded doubled,
tripled, quadrupled the favorable impact en our balance
of payments position could be enormous.
Thus, the USTS was created with a first-year budget of
$2.5 million peanuts compared with what other countries
spend to promote tourism within their borders. Now what
has happened and is happening to tourism?
In the first four months of 1962, overseas visitors to the
U.S. rose 16 per cent over the comparable 1961 period to a
total of 147,000. They spent an average of $520 each to give
us a total revenue of $76.4 million. Visitors from France
climbed 52 per cent; from Switzerland, 25 per cent; from
the United Kingdom, 11 per cent; from Germany, 9 per cent.
On the other hand, visitors from Japan fell off 14 per
cent, even though the USTS has set up an office in Tokyo.
Japan's currency restrictions virtually prohibit all but busi
nessmen from traveling here, however; so spending time and
money promoting U.S. travel to those who cou'dn't come no
matter what their desires seems rather futile.
It's hardly an inipiring record, despite the fact that
Voit Gilmore, USTS director, insiits on itreiting "the long
rang nature" of the program. But there have boon ac
complishments. The USTS has opened eight offices with multi-lingual
taffi in London, Paris, Frankturt. Rome. Sao Paulo,
Mexico City, Tokyo, Sydnoy, and it will open ona in
Bogota soon.
It has distributed 4.5 million pieces of literature all over
the globe, in seven languages, and has started an advertising
program aimed at convincing foreigners "that traveling here
can be inexpensive. This program has been sharply attacked
as not only misleading but also dishonest. Sample from a
recent ad in the Times of London: "Expenses for a party
of four traveling by car come to less than $12 a day. That
includes food, sightseeing, and lodging in motels with swim
ming pools." Four people traveling by car getting all that
in this country for less than $12 a day? Other samples from
the ad: you will sleep at "Indian trading posts . . . Photograph
bald eagles on the wing . . . For lunch, catch your own
Chinook salmon and cut-throat trout ... Go maplc-sugering
. Watch an ox-pull . . . Eat Apple Pan Dowdy . .
Oh, well, Gilmore says that travel experts agreed a "block
buster of a campaign was needed to convince the British
they could afford to come here," and they are receiving 300
inquiries a day at their London office.
Most Importantly, it has sparked additional "Visit U.S.A."
promotions and special economy deals by commercial organ
izations, it Is spurring hotels, stores and banks throughout
the U.S. to develop multi-linguHl staffs for foreign tourists
and it is making headway In slashing the red tape which
repels foreigners from the start. i
Says Gilmore, "World travel habits cannot be changed
In one season and the U.S. has much homework still to
do for the proper handling of our rising tide of visitors."
Correction, Mr. Gilmore: "It's a rising trickle now. That
rising tide'' is yet to come, and farther off still is the flood.
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acreage is expected. In the
food grains, acreages of win
ter wheat and spring wheat
other than durum are down
from 1961, more than offset
ting increases in durum
wheat, rye, and rice. A new
record high soybean acreage
and an expansion of flaxseed
acreage from the drought-
shortened 1961 crop more
than offset declines in cotton
and peanuts in the oilseeds
groups. Total hay acreage is
slightly below last year. To
bacco, sugar crops, drv bean.i.
and sweet potato acreages tn
creased, but declines are ;ndi
cated for each seasonal group
of potatoes.
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