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New Navy Jet Plane Crashes in Flames
Patuxent, Md. (U.R) The
first model of a revolutionary
Navy jet bomber, considered the
potential forrunner of an atomic
powered airplane, exploded and
crashed in flames into Chesa
peake Bay Wednesday.
One crew member was killed.
Three others were missing and
presumed dead.
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The plane was the 600-mile-an-
hour Seamaster, powered by
four turbojet engines and only
recently ordered into produc
tion at the Glenn L. Martin Co.
of Baltimore.
Divers Seek Bodies
A salvage barge began pulling
wreckage from 55-foot-deep wa
ters of the bay today. Divers
searched for the bodies of the
missing men.
The Navy had fostered great
hopes for the new plane. It was
hailed as the world's first multi
jet seaplane and compared favor
ably in range and speed with
modern land-based bombers.
The Air Force was interested
in the Seamaster as possibly
being capable of carrying the
first atomic plane engine when
it is developed. An atomic plane
would require an extremely
heavy airframe and broad areas
for takeoff and landings. The
Seamaster would have almost
limitless ocean runways on which
to operate.
Nevy Probe Underway
Navy investigators began an
intensive effort to determine
why the first model crashed.
A second Seamaster, fitted out
with complete military equip
ment, will be ready to enter the
water for initial taxiing tests
near Martin's Baltimore plant
later this month. A. company
spokesman said he saw no im
mediate reason to postpone the
tests.
Maryland state police identi
fied the man whose body was
recovered as James Hentschel of
Baltimore, flight test engineer.
The Navy identified the miss
ing as Maurice Bernhard of
Towson, Md., the pilot; Herbert
Scudder of Chase, Md., senior
flight engineer, and Lt. Cmdr.
Victor Utgoff of the Patuxent
Naval Air Station, Navy project
officer.-
Hentschel was thrown clear of
the plane when it exploded. His
parachute opened as he fell but
his head apparently was crushed
when he was thrown from the
plane.
Routine Test Flight
The Seamaster crashed six
miles south of Point Lookout,
Md., just below where the Poto
mac river enters the bay. It was
on a routine test flight from the
Martin plant.
D. H. Buus, control tower op
erator at Webster Field, an aux
iliary field near Patuxent Naval
Air Base, said the huge seaplane
exploded at an altitude of about
Jury
Picked for Trial
Of Reyes at Corvallis
Corvallis (U.R) A jury of
nine men and three women was
chosen late yesterday in the trial
of Martin Reyes for the shoot
ing of James Appelgate, a Ben
ton county posseman.
The 12 jurors were selected
from an original panel of 82
names. A man alternate was se
lected from an additional list
of 20 names. The 13 were chosen
after 51 persons had been questioned.
RILEA'S KIN DIES
Portland (U.P.) Mrs.
Grace Coe Webster, 72, mother-in-law
of Oregon Adjutant
General Thomas J. Rilea, died
yesterday in a local hospital.
5,000 feet.
Buus, who watched through
field glasses, said:
"All of a sudden there was a
flash and then flames, sort of in
combination and right behind
the two starboard engines. They
had exploded. Then, almost right
after, the engines of the other
side blew up."
He said the plane then "just
nosed over and went straight
down."
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Parsons Herd Tops
November DHIA List
Owner of the top dairy herd
for the month of November -is
J. E. Parsons, according to fig
ures released Tuesday by the
Jackson Count' Dairy Herd Im
provement association.
Parsons' herd of 34 cows pro
duced an average of 40.6 pounds
of butterfat each and an average
of 755 pounds of milk.
Other top herds for Novem
ber were the P. K. Nelson herd
with 25 cows which produced
an average -of 40.3 pounds but
terfat and 698 pounds of milk;
the R. L. and Blanche Wyant
herd with 28 cows producing
40.2 pounds of butterfat and 633
pounds of milk; the J. H. Stan
ley herd, with 42 cows produc
ing 37.8 pounds of butterfat and
633 pounds of milk; and the E.
B. Poyer herd with 14 cows
producing 35.0 pounds of but
terfat and 591 pounds of milk.
The top cow of the month was
Shorty, owned by Minear Bro
thers. Shorty produced 106.9
pounds of butterfat and 1,425
pounds of milk during Novem
ber. Other top cows were owned
by Gilman's dairy farm, Straus
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High Food Costs,
Marketing Bill
Editor's Note: "If farm prices have
fallen so sharply that the govern
ment is taking emergency action to
help the farmers, why does food still
cost so much?" That question, in
many different forms, reflects a wide
spread puzzlement among housewives
and others about the "spread" be
tween farm prices and retail food
prices. The following dispatch ex
plains why the spread exists, how
great it is, and why it's likely to
grow even greater.
By GAYLORD P. GODWIN
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) The farm
er gets considerably less than
half of every dollar the house
wife spends -on food. And this
"price spread" is expected to
grow even wider.
Despite bumper crops and
lower prices to farmers, the
Agriculture Department pre
dicts that the housewife's food
bill in 1956 will average about
the same as in 1955. This poses
the question as to why retail
prices don't come down propor
tionately to the decrease in
farm prices.
The answer is in marketing
and processing charges. They in
clude labor, transportation, pro
cessing, wholesaling, retailing,
profits of firms making and sell
ing food products in short, all
me services connected with looa
handling. The cost of these serv
ices has increased steadily in
recent years and the outlook. for
next year is "further moderate
increases.
Consumer Pays Cost
The cost comes out of the con
sumer's food dollar. The market
ing bill for 1955 is estimated at
$28,000,000,000 dollars. This is
60 per cent of the $46,300,000,-
000 that housewives will spend
across- the grocery counter for
farm produced goods. Forty
cents for each food dollar goes
to the farmer.
The Department of Agricul
ture computes the farmer's
share and the marketing bill
through use of a "typical mar
ket basket" for average wage
earners or clerical workers .in
an urban community. The bas
ket contains all farm-produced
foods. Fish are excluded. In the
latest report July-September
all items of the market basket
cost at retail $983.35. Of this,
the farmer's share was $393.25,
or 4 per cent. The 60 per cent
marketing bill was $590.10.
The farmer does not get the
same per cent of return on all
items. For example, a pound
loaf of bread in the market bas
ket retails at 17.7 cents. The
bread contains 0.912 pounds of
wheat worth at the farm 2.5
cents, or 14 per cent of the cost
of the loaf. The marketing bill
which in this case includes mill
ing the wheat into flour, adding
other ingredients and baking it
into bread is 15.2 cents.
Sieer-on-lhe-Hoof
A pound of choice grade beef
retailing at 67.4 cents represents
2.16 pounds of choice grade
steer-on-the-hoof. The marketing
charge on the pound of beef is
26.5 cents, leaving the . farmer
40.9 cents, or 61 per cent.
Most of the marketinr costs
are fixed. They do not fluctuate
like the Drices received by
farmers. Therefore lower prices
at the farm do not bring any
where near as much of a reduc
tion at retail.
Furthermore, many consumers
have been willing to pay for the
convenience of getting foods al
ready prepared or partly pre
pared for the table, and the pro
cessing cost m these is oi course
proportionately higher.
Coast Crab Fishermen
Protest Cut in Prices
Charleston, Ore. (U.R) Crab
fishermen at Coos Bay, neeas
port and Newport tied up their
crab boats yesterday to protest,
a price cut by local crab dealers.
Fishermen voted 34-1 to halt
operations until local crab deal
ers pay 13 cents a pound for
their catch. Dealers cut prices
to 11 cents a pound following
a 2-cent drop by San Francisco
dealers.
Tillage in either fall or spring
to germinate and kill wild oats
should be shallow.
Bandit Escapes
In Portland Crowd
Portland (U.R) A bandit
escaped on foot through crowds
of Christmas shoppers laS yes
terday afternoon after holding
up a downtown loan company.
The bandit obtained $1070
from the Budget Industrial Loan
company.
Patty Schach, loan office cash
ier, said the bandit placed a
rumpled paper sack on her
counter and, keeping his hand
in his'pocket as if holding a gun,
demanded all her money.
He fled, on foot before she
could get help, Miss Schach said.
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