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
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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,
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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
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