Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, February 24, 19'13 ....,........,o~........ THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, February 24, 1913 'Famine in Michigan, possible by2000 LANSING (UPI) - A famine in the year 2000 in Michigan "is a possibility" unless more land is quickly converted into cropland, according to a Michigan Agriculture Department report. The report, released today, says Michigan will need eight million acres of agricultural land for food production by the turn of the century compared with the 6.5 million acres in production now. "It is of absolutely critical concern that conversions of agricul- tural crop lands to other uses be stopped immediately," said Agri- culture Director Dale Ball. According to the report if trends in land use in Michigan since World War II continue, the state will have only 2.5 million acres left for crop production by 2000. Using what it termed "very conservative estimates" on such fac- tors as population, consumer habits and economic changes, the report said crop land is dwindling at an alarming rate and heading for a 1,358,636-acre deficit by 2000. "Does this mean that the Michigan Department of Agriculture believes there will be famine in Michigan in 2000? This is a possibility, and we view the situation with utmost concern." It is essential, the report continued, that land use plans for Michigan be tailored so they do not further reduce land available for intensive agricultural production. Six factors might develop between now and 2000 to "forestall pro- tracted and widespread food shortages," the report said: -Relaxation of constraints on technology including those re- straints which are currently imposed to protect the environment. -A shift in food habits away from meat as a protein source to vegetables as a protein source or less protein altogether. -More reliance on agricultural imports from other states, assum- ing that other states have the food products to share. -A trend to even lower birth rates than projected and a halt to migration into Michigan. -An unexpected war or catastrophe which might diminish the population which must be fed in 2000. -Use of land now considered unfarmable for crops. )lunge 4 in London. The Dutch central bank w a s1 fnrt-dthuv t bu $2 u 4 26 million in The Residential College Players Present: 2 ONE-ACT PLAYS THE LESSON by IONESCO AND SOMETHING UNSPOKEN by WILLIAMS 8:00 p.m. Feb. 23-25 EAST QUAD AUD. $1.00 Donation' 1} C~4 it Mediatrics SHAFT 7 and 9:30 p.m. Friday & Saturday Nat. Sci. Aud. Only 75c Tickets on sale at 6 p.m. i P12?A LOY'S S JBMARINES 30 Different Kinds PIZZA SICILIAN PASTEES WHOLE WHEAT' Dorm Delivery FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY 663-7721' 333 E. HURON OPEN DAILY AT 12:45 SHOWS AT 1:10-3-5-7-9 P.M. i e.r , a .IIe'. MIDWEST PREMIERE ENGAGEMENT! "EXCELLENT. handsomely and sensitively film- ed . . . endowed with a moody, menacin' atmosphere. Excel- lent performances abound." --Variety Asrr e.,ank... a game nobody won AP Photo Kennedy criticized Joseph Kennedy III, son of the late Sen. Robert Kennedy, responds to tough questions fired at him at a news conference yesterday in the office of San Francisco's mayor Joseph Alioto. Kennedy was recently hired as a temporary coordinator of social and health programs in a poor section of the city, and immediately came under fire from a city official who questioned his qualifications. GELD PRICES SETTLE: Dollar By AP and Reuters the United States dollar ral- ed from earlier falls on m o s t European foreign exchange mar- kets today, while the price of gold,,which had been setfing re- .cordsall last week, settled back at the close of trading. Gold jumped to a startling price of 93/95 dollars an ounce shortly after the bullion market opened in Zurich but dropped to 87/89 dollars shortly before the close. On the Frankfurt foreign -ex- change market the West German central bank was forced to re- verse its sales of dollars earlier this week and buy again - al- though in nothing like the quani- tities which preceded the 10 per cent devaluation of the dollar rallies against the price of gold two weeks ago. A government spokesman in Bonn said the bank's purchases totalled less than 10 million dol- lars. A leading London dealer com- mented: "You cannot run an international money system with a permanent Friday crisis. Something has to be done." The dealer explained that "no one wanted to hold dollars over a weekend," apparently fear- ing international monetary meas- ures that might send the value of the American money even lower. One such measure, widely forecast in the exchanges, could be a decision by Common Mar- ket countries to free their cur- after I rencies for a joint float In rela- tion to the dollar. In that event, the E rnnan ciir rnsr. o uld v Offering Coi etorion M e Soups & Sa made Bread4 Herb Teas 4 tural, Nutric -d implete Veg- a I s, Speciol lads, Home- s & Desserts, & Other Na- :ious Foods. ne r UrpIean u rUF1GU WUI U UUY Up 0'.U111 be likely to rise in dollar value. a vain effort to lift the Britain's chancellor of the ex- lar off its floor level of chequer, Anthony Barber, in Lon- guilders. don's House of Commons and Dr. Dr. J. M. Van den Brink, Guido Carli, president of Italy's ident of the Amsterdam-I National Bank, in an interview dam Bank, told a news c in Rome, both hinted at such ence the Netherlands ma an e v e n t u a 1 i ,t y. Carli said to float the guilder alone a it was hard to i m a g i n e the dollar if the monetar any other solution to the crisis moil continues for long. and Barber said the technicali- The Swedish state bank t ties of a joint float were being about $12 million and th studied. gian, British and French Few dealers believed the two were believed to have 1 statements were entirely respon- similar amounts. A spok sible for the wild first hour of for the Swiss bank said th trading that sent the dollar plum- lar was supported briefly meting on the exchanges and day, even though the Swiss gold soaring $7 to $94 an ounce has been floating for mort __._'_' a month, but not since tl e dol- 2.8545 Pres- Rotter- confer- y have against y tur- 'ook in e Bel- banks bought esman he dol- Tues- franc - than then. I PANAVISIONO G NI1ETROCOI 09 G Y)7WL IFOOD5 )SJJYUVWT .5 SA7T( SZANN AI'BOP1% 16-7118' 1 i i Strikeemts coe Special to The Daily "to force a resolution to the strike as soon as BENTON HARBOR - Striking teachers at Lake Michigan Community College have been joined by students in a class boycott here. The teachers, members of the American Fed- eration of Teachers (AFT) Local 1755, walked out Feb. 15, in a contract dispute with the school's administration. The teachers are demanding a 5.5 per cent cost of living wage increase and a shortened school year. -:A spokeswoman for the Ad-hoc Student Com- mittee, which is co-ordinating the student boy- cott, yesterday described the student porticon of the walk-out as "at least 99 per cent effective.' Shesaid students at the college walked out possible." Beginning Monday, she said, classes will re- open in so-called "Freedom Schools" set up by teachers and students, if the strike has not been settled. Freedom school classes will be conducted off- campus, in the homes of teachers and students. Local businesses are being asked to donate office space for classrooms as well. Negotiations will continue during the weekend, with the next session called for this afternoon. A -mediator was called into the contract dispute ear- lier this week. "We are making progress," a member of the AFT negotiating team said. Library of Congress The Michigan Daily, edited and man- I " unique style ... aged by students at the University of impeccable taste. Michigan. News phone: 764-0562. Second N.Y Times Class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Mich- igan. 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104. Published daily Tues- 141 i/ISIEE clay through Sunday morning Univer- sity year. Subscription rates: $10 by carrier (campus area); $11 local mail in Mich. or Ohio); $13 non-local mail (other states and foreign). Summer Session published Tuesday through Saturday morning. 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