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SIX MJEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, December 8, 195S arm Problems Also Exist on ike's Pennsylvania Acres. By. LYLE C. WILSON United Fresi Correspondent Gettysburg, Pa. U.P.) The farm problem now agitating po liticians, and farmers is about the V huumiA it . . O Lyle C. Wilson same on Presidtnt E i s enhower's tightly-policed Pennsyivan i a acres as else where, but with a differ ence. Several dif ferences, per haps. Thamain difference probably is that Mr. Eisenhower isn't a farmer. Everyone knows mat, or course, aui pernaps everyone doesn't know that the President's 189 cres actually . are leased for operation to a couple of friends who have oth er neighboring acres. The whole, including the President's patch, O Ordinary Day For Air Cadets Gets Early Start Denver (U.R) An ordinary day in the life of a cadet at the new Air Force Academy begins at 5:50 a.n An electronic IBM clock sounds a buzzer that ushers in the pew day for these 296 future airmen. In each of the academy's 13 barracks, an Air Training Of ficer makes sure all ofchis men are up promptly. The men have Q exactly 10 minutes after reveille to assemble outside in "breakfast formation." After this hastf beginning, things slow down considerably at breakfast, for which an hour is allotted. But, it isn't likely any cadtj wig doze off. Each man sits in a "brace" and main tains that position throughout the meal. The cadets can eat as much as they want, but all requests must go through the "head man" the A.T.O. offi cer who serves as an upperclass- finan and sits at the head of each Table. - Special Lingo Ail requests have to be in Air irc lirtgo. For example, if a njw dish of potatoes has been ' placed on the table, one of the cadets must advise the "head man'Q that "the potatoes have met their E.T.O. and are on the ramp, sir." The cadets have 20 minutes to straighten up things at their rooms before falling out for classes. Classes start t 8 a.m. and generally wind up at 3 p.m. The men have two free periods for studying between those hours. There's another study period be tween 7 and 9 p.m. All such periods are compulsory. The Air Force has no con fused outlook on education; it knows what it wants in its new institution. The cadets were told on opening day that they would make better .ir Force men if they would "learn the material rather than just make good grades." Freshmen carry seven subjects English, mathematics, history, philosophy, geography, chemis try and graphics. They attend classes every day except Sun Reveille on Sunday is at 7:30, breakfast at 8. For the academy classes, a number of learning devices have been built to (further the cadets' . learnings-potential. For instance, (gjere's a special analytical bal ance device, designed for the cadet. by Christian Becker of New York. Call Them "Mister" All of the instructors are offi cers! and most of them hold masters' degrees. The recreation obegins at 3 p.m. every day. Some 65 cadets are trying out for the academy's first football" te.am. The others par!:ipate in intramural sports of various kgids. The cadets are addressed as "mister" everywhere, including the football field. Here, too, Air Force lingo has been substituted for "civilian" phrases. As an example, the head coach, Bob Whitfow, told his squad that his men will no longer "tackle" an opponent. In Air ForPe talk? they "shoot him down." He told them to "always 0 keep your wheels down," mean 3 ing "stay on your feet." Lights-out comes at 9:30 p.m., earlier than at either West Point or Annapolis. It's the academy's belief that th men at the other military institutions "don't get enough rest," so curfew was stepped up half an hour. O or most of the cadets, lights it is a welcome, because it's ) been quite a day. runs up to about 600 acres and is operated by a partnership. The partners are P. G. Byars, a Tyler, Tex., oil man, and George E. Allen, one-time South ern football star at Cumberland University and author of a book, "Presidents Who Have Known Me." The partners do not exactly farm the property, either. Brig. Gen. Arthur Kevins is in charge of overall operations, with spe cial attention to the beautifica tion of the Eisenhower acres. Nevins is a long time Eisen hower intimate. And, then, there are the actual farmers to tend the stock and crops. Small Town Boy Allen is a small town boy, himself, but no farmer. This week when the President's own brown Swiss was having trouble calving, Allen fled the scene al though the President stood by -with considerable i n t e r e.s t. Mother and calf both are doing well. Most of the stock on the four farms making up the 600 acres belong to the partnership. But the several hogs, beef cattle and such presented personally to the President are his although they are tended and marketed, if for sale, by the partnership. The partners and the Presi dent with respect to his few hogs have something in com mon this year with the corn-hog farmers who are raising consid erable cain with the Republican Party about prices. The part ners and the President are not going to make any money on their hogs. Chances are they will sell at a loss if they sell at all. They probably won't get back the cost of the feed. One reason for that, however, is that the partnership and . Ei senhower hogs are being fed a special scientific diet. There is a solid report here that Mr. Ei senhower is convinced that his hogs could be fed for a darn sight less and, maybe, bring a profit. But they are getting the special diet, just the same. The Aberdeen Angus beef cattle which have had the most publicity among the livestock on the Eisenhower and associated acres should show a profit this year. The President and the Partners will keep one or two good bulls, ke"ep the best heifers, and market the steers and any heifers which might be less than tops. If Mr. Eisenhower were able to get out and circulate among his Adams county neighbors, he would find that things were not going quite as well for them as the financially-buttressed 600 acres among which he lives and which his partners operate. The Adams county farm agent reports the area now to be suf fering from a general agricul tural slump. Adams county farmers are reported generally dissatisfied. The county market ed 20,000 hogs in 1954 for a total of S683,913. The price ranged from $2.50 to $2.60 a hundred. The 1955 price has slumped to S1.60. Farmers say they are lucky if they can get that. Adams county cherries are down in a year from 11 to seven cents a pound; apples from $5 per hundred pounds to about $2.50. The county's dairy indus try is doing the best of the lot, though off a bit from last year. There are hints that the Presi dent's neighbors have invested too much in farm machinery. They are hit by higher factory wages which make hands more expensive or hard to get. Adams, York and Cumberland counties comprise Pennsylvan ia's 19th congressional district, presently represented in the U.S. House of Representatives by a Democrat, who licked a Repub lican in 1954. The 19th was his torically Republican until 1932. It has been an in and outer since then with the Democrats more often in than out. But reg istered Republicans outnumber registered Democrats in Adams county. Dissatisfeid Adams county farmers may be, but they .are little interested in government subsidies. Only six per cent of eligible wheat producers and WE GUARANTEE OUR SHOP, WORK! INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER Company, Located in Cullen Building, 2232 Bidclle Rd. erence only one per cent of eligible corn farmers signed up for gov ernment loans. They are small producers and unwilling to bother with the loan red tape. 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