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12 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Tuesday, March 21, 1950 xta... li'lvtnw Knat Thi ic tho 77-fnnt-wM tail & of the 148-foot-long flying Boat Deing duiu at Lowes, r,ngianu to carry 105 passengers and seven tons of freight. New Agricultural Plan Is Urged to End Price Support "A sensible, honest, radically new agricultural act . . . that will gradually ease the price-control' falsework from under the farm economy" is urged in an article in the April Reader's Di eest. condensed from Fortune. Declaring that the government's price-support program has erected a set of bogus values and that the price structure would collapse if supports were suddenly removed the article holds that this program is forc ing farmers to produce "wildly in excess" of any reasonable American capacity to consume. It is responsible for most of the $1.8 billion deficit in the last fiscal year. After 17 years, the price-support program "is coming full circle to its preposterous con clusion" as one of our most po tent inflationary influences, the article states. The government's recent wholesale destruction and dis tress sale of surplus potatoes, a price-supporting move, cost tax payers $204 million. "That is a fair illustration of what happens when the government helps a special group maintain or in crease its share of the national income regardless of the group's contribution to that income." Commodity Credit Corporation has a current investment of near ly $3 billion In farm commodity loans, purchases and agreements to purchase. Last year CCC took over 21 percent of the wheat harvest, 26 per cent of the cotton crop and enormous stocks of other com modities. Having disposed of minor quantities, It is left with a $2Vi billion inventory, including: Nearly five million bales of cotton, 600 million bushels of corn and 400 million bushels of wheat enough wheat for a loaf of bread a week for everyone in the U. S. throughout a full year. Millions of pounds of dried eggs, butter, tobacco, wool, soybeans and other commodities are held by CCC. This Immense inventory, the article states, would feed and clothe millions of poor people, were it not that CCC is forced by statute to price the products so high that poor people cannot possibly buy them. Present farm policies are cer tain to increase rather than liquidate this inventory Follow ing a bumper corn crop in 1940, hundreds of millions of bushels of new corn will probably be put under loan. With prices of hogs at three year lows, CCC may soon sup port hog prices by buying pork on a grand scale Wheat promises another giant harvest with fur ther government loans and pur chases indicated. Surplus farm commodities are being stored in oil tanks, han gars, schoolroom is and even laid up ships, the article says. At least $80 million is being spent on additional storage space this fiscal year. . The agricultural planners pro pose two solutions: (1) to dump surplus abroad and to cut prices in the open market (against the policy of the State Department); (2) to limit output by curtailing planted acreage. Despite smaller acreage, out put may well be maintained at recent levels by better seed and Unionvale District Club Program Offered Unionvale About 50 patrons of the Unionvale district at tended the Community club March meeting held Friday evening. The president, Adolph Hraba, gave one reel of moving pictures of fire prevention and two reels of comic pictures for the child ren. Refreshments were served. A pie social and amateur pro gram will be features of the next meeting. more fertilizer And acreage tak en out of restricted crops will be shifted to other crops, causing new gluts, The average taxpayer mysti fied by the intricacies of the farm price-support program, has remained inarticulate. But the time has come, the article con cludes, for the politicians to pay attention not only to the farm or ganizations but to the rest of the people as well. of the rioting symbolized the direction of the violence. Indo-China Politics Flare As Visiting Navy Withdraws (Editor' note: A V. 8. navy ahow of atrrnith In gallon, ley city in rratlva acithfaat Aala, aft off communist-led rioting which left aome two acore casualties and headachea aplenty today. What waa behind the riotinc and how It aifected the touchy political altuation there ia related in the foliowlnc dispatch by Robert C. Miller of the United Preaa, recently aent to aoutheaat Aala to cover Juat auch trouble In danger apota.l By ROBERT C. MILLER Unltd Preaa Staff Correspondent Saigon, Indo-China, March 21 (U.R) Communist-led rioting against a show of strength by the U. S. navy left three persons dead and a witches' brew of political frictions boiling briskly today. The American destroyers Stickell and Anderson, whose visit touched off the bloody rioting,- were outbound down the Me kong river. French troops pa trolled the banks, alert for any further demonstrations against the U. S. warships. Police said the rioting caused three deaths. Two students were killed by gunfire, and a child was run over by a truck during the tumult in which 10 civili ans and 25 policemen were wounded. Students in all Saigon schools went on strike Monday in pro test against police action in the rioting. Police patroled the streets as groups of students and workers held angry protest meetings. Sunday some 3000 students and 1000 workers sympathetic to Moscow-trained Ho Chi-Minh set fire to the central market place and rioted there and else where in Saigon before police bullets and tear gas scattered them. Fifteen persons were under arrest. Among them was Nguyen Huu Tho, a lawyer and alleged fomenter of the manifestation against the first visit of the U. S. navy to Saigon in 15 years. Although no Americans were injured in the rioting, it was an ugly mess. Perhaps 4000 work ers and students ran wild. They threw stones, set fire to build ings, wrecked automobiles, and fought with anybody In their paths. The best estimate of dam age was $250,000. French officials said commu nist agitators took over a peace ful demonstration by hundreds of students, and worked them into a fury of rioting against the show of strength by the Am erican desroyers. The burning of an American flag at one stage The students were on their way to nearby Cholon to re build native houses destroyed In a recent fire. The communists detoured them toward the wa terfront to protest against the presence of the U. S. warships. About the same time trouble started at scattered spots all over the city One riot raged near the docks where the de stroyers were tied up. Police charged . the rioters, and were charged in return. Fi nally the rioters fell back, loot ing and burning as they retreat ed. They scattered leaflets say ing "Down with American im perialism and French colonial ism. What is the American fleet doing here?" Today the riot torn streets were quiet. But the political feuding back of the trouble fed on the new fuel. Authoritative quarters viewed the rioting as evidence that the Viet Nam government might not be able, after all, to maintain the security of the capital city. And many thought that the events showed the communists to be even stronger here than had been thought. In any event, the trouble em barrassed the Viet Namese, who only recently took over the po lice system, retaining French ex ecutives merely as advisers. Hubbard Aid Called Hubbard The Ladies Aid of the Hubbard Community church (Congregational) will meet on Wednesday afternoon in the home of Mrs. A. L. Murphy. r Priest Honored Rev. Al cuin Heibel, pastor of Sacred Heart church of Tillamook and former pastor at Mt. Angel, has been honored by Pope Pius XII with the order of Pro Ec clesie et Pontifice for his work as president of the central European relief committee. Presentation was made to Rev. Romuald Edenhofer, OSC, in Rome in connection with the pontificial secretariate. Plant Dispersion Favored by Spaatz Portland, Ore., March 21 (U.R) Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, retired chief of the U. 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