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L U.. Newsmen Find EJuss Farm (Production Lags (Because People IKIave Mo Incentives (Editor's Note: Marshall Formby and Robert Dix were among a group of American newsmen who have just visited the Soviet Union while on a lour of Europe. They have written their views on some aspects of the Soviet scene in the following dispatch written while in Moscow last April 3. Formby owns several radio stations in Texas and Dix is a Ravenna, Ohio, newspaper publisher.) By ROBERT DIX and MARSHALL FORMBY Written For The United Press Moscow (U.R) If a collect ive farm manager ever asks you to tea at his house, be prepared for a sumptuous banquet. Our group of American news paper editors learned this at first hand when we were taken to farm manager Ivan Morozov's house after touring part of his collective farm in the village of Vihino, near Moscow. It was a cold day, for winter still holds this harsh land in its grip. The hogs in the barn were huddled together to keep warm. Even the cows were lying down. So when Ivan suggested after our frigid walk that we have tea, we readily accepted. Located in the heart of a rus tic village of frame and log-cabin type homes, his house was mod est but adequate. And the feast which his wife, Marie, and' their daughter had prepared for us consisted of a half dozen differ ent foods supported with ample portions of vodka and wine. Inherited Home The home was his. He inherit ed it from his father, he told us. As manager of this 1,600-acre farm, he earns in money and kind about 45,000 rubles a year. About 600 persons work on the farm 400 women and 200 men. Each is paid by a compli cated formula of work days. On the average, each earns about 2,000 rubles in money and kind.. There are no privately-owned farms in Russia as we have in the United States. 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To help solve it, the government adopted an abrupt change of policy in 1954. It raised the amount paid to the farms for their products 12 times. Ivan has many medals, includ ing the Order of Lenin for his Seven News Editors Back From Behind Reds' Iron Curtain New York (U.R) Seven news editors who spent nearly two weeks behind the Iron Cur tain returned to the United States Saturday. The group left here Feb. 23 on a tour organized by James Wick of the Wick Newspapers, New York City. They spent four days in Moscow, two in Warsaw, Po land, three in Leningrad and two in Prague Czechoslovakia. Foresee No War They said the returned with the feeling that the countries behind the Iron Curtain have so many domestic problems, that they are not planning to launch any war. They found women doing a great deal of the heavy work, in cluding street cleaning, foundry work and other tasks normally done by men in other countries. They said they felt more opti mistic about the chances for peace since their visit to the -Communist dominated countries Seventeen other members of the group remained abroad for further sightseeing and study, J Us MODELS AT efficient farm management. Many other workers on the farm also wear government medals. Sewage Water Some of the acres of the farm are irrigated, he said, with the water from the sewage disposal plant to increase their fertility. They also use a great deal of chemical fertilizer, he said. A farm never looks its best on a cold winter day but the build ings and equipment which we saw appeared to be in good con dition. The cows looked like our Holsteins and the pigs were big and healthy. After the state takes its share, for which it pays at the rate of Plan To Give Winnie U.S. Citizenship Apt To Prove Troublesome Washington (U.R) Congres - sional proposals to grant Sir Winston Churchill honorary U. S. citizenship might do more harm than good, administration Warning From SEC Admitted by Helser In Court Testimony San Francisco (U.R) J. Henry Helser, charged by the government with fraud and mis management of client funds by his investment firm, admitted in Federal Court Friday he had been warned by the Securities and Exchange Commission as early as 1950 the company was under investigation. The government tried to prove that Helser wrote a letter to cli ents after the government brought its charges last fall, which said: "At no time until now has the Securities and Exchange Com mission indicated that we are operating in any way contrary to their rules and regulations." Admits Letter Helser admitted under ques tioning that he wrote the letter, but said he retracted it as soon as his attorneys pointed out that the SEC had, in 1950, called his attention to possible "fraud and deceit" by his firm. It was a hot time for Helser Friday. Under prodding by As sistant U.S. Attorney Frank E. Kennamer Jr., he admitted that at one time his investment com pany kept seriously impaired ac counts in a 'hospital" file. Helser said the company no longer keeps a file of sick ac counts but that the accounts are still segregated. The "hospital" file was intro duced as evidence by Kennamer Friday. Read From Manual He read from a Helser basic policy manual which said all ac counts having special problems should go into the file, including those in which a client's equity was impaired. Kennamer then introduced note from the record sheet which indicated that the account of Mrs. Fannie Marmette suffered a large decline and "needed more help." Another notation on Mrs. Louise Algood read, "Please place this in your hospital file. The account it under water by $2576." The SEC hat asked Federal Judge Louis E. Goodman to Is sue a permanent Injunction against the company. The hearing was recessed early for Good Friday and will continue Monday. Samuel Brannan announced the discovery of gold at Coloma in San Francisco on March 15, 1848. FEED NOW nth IN THE WEST ITS SsSOL d7 I 75 per cent of the going price, the farm can sell the rest "of its produce to cooperatives. And the farmers can sell what they receive in kind on the free mar ket, which they do. Typically old-Russians, the homes in the area had a sort of back - mountain - country look. Many had earth packed up around the sides to keep out the always formidable Russian win ter. The food production per man is very low compared to our standards, mostly because gov ernment ownership and control has taken away the incentive for once-independent farmers. , off icials said Saturday. They were far from opposed to the idea of this nation's show ing its appreciation for Church ill's services to the free world during his long career. But there were definite misgivings about risking legislative debates and a possible legal inquiry by the Supreme Court into the consti tutionality of any move to give Churchill citizenship. "What everybody has in mind is something like giving Church ill the keys to the city on a gradiose scale," one informant said. "That would be safer than the citizenship move. It would be too bad to start a big controver sy that could wind up embarras sing Churchill." Plan Legislation Sen. George A. Smathers (D Fla.) and Rep. Hale Boggs fD-La.) have announced plans to intro duce legislation to grant the former British prime minister honorary citizenship. The Library of Congress has no record of any previous con gressional action to grant honor ary citizenship to a foreigner. The State Department, offi cials said, isn't taking any initia tive one way or the other on the citizenship - for- Churchill cam paign. 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