12 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Tuesday, March 21, 1950
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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. S. air force, said
Sunday that plants manufactur
ing vital military equipment
should be dispersed because "a
large section of the United States
is open to attack."
Gen. Spaatz arrived in Port
land for a meeting of the execu
tive board of the civil air patrol,
of which he is chairman.
"Whatever defenses we have
now are not adequate," Gen.
Spaatz said in a radio interview
for the Press Club of Oregon.
"The only way we .could avoid
putting our military forces on a
constant alert would be to have
an intelligence service able to
give us advance warning of air
attack."
Gen. Spaatz said the United
States was not strong enough
to meet the threat of war.
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Reading, Pa., March 21 (IP)
A student priest watched horri
fied as his father and another
man were killed in the crash of
a small plane at nearby Wer
nersville. The father, Charles W. Judge,
44, of Long Island City, N. Y.,
was just leaving to return home
after visiting his son, Kenneth,
a student at the Jesuit Novitiate
of St. Isaac Jogues.
The elder Judge was dead
when taken from the wreckage
of the small, two-passenger
plane.
Judge's companion, Richard G.
Gray, 44, of Williston Park, N.
Y., suffered burns of the entire
body and died later In Reading
General hospital.
Stanley Kramer, state police
aeronautics inspector, said the
left wing of the small plane
struck a tree during the take
off, crashed into a larger tree
an nosed into a tennis court.
Both men were strapped in
their seats for the take-off, Kra
mer said, but Gray somehow
worked himself loose and was
struggling to get clear of the
flaming wreckage when rescuers
reached him.
Residents of valley towns called
police and newspapers to report
rattling windows but there were
no reports of so much at a
cracked dish, although it waa
recorded in Berkeley as a fairly
strong quake.
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