DEFINITION OF PEANU TS
Goober Described in Congressional
Bill for Purpose of Legislation
By DICK WEST
Washington - IUPD - The
Mouse Agriculture Committee
held a hearing last week on
a bill whose
heading I had
to read twice
to make cer
tain it wasn't
a myopical il
lusion.
A c c ording
to its title,
the measure
would "amend
t h A Affripnl.
tural Adjustment Act of 1938,
as amended, to extend lor two
years the definition of pea
nuts." Well, sir, I have been
around Washington since the
Truman administration and I
am not easily nonplussed. But
this bill, I'll admit, had me
temporarily flabbergasted. ,
I couldn't figure out any
logical reason why Congress
should be involved in the def
inition of peanuts. Under our
free enterprise system, that
sort of thing is usually left
to the dictionaries.
Explains Bill
It was Rep.' D. R. (Billy)
Matthews, a Florida Democrat
and peanut connoisseur, who,
eventually enabled me to see
the light.
In writing farm legislation,
Matthews explained, Congress
does not necessarily go along
with Webster, who defines the
peanut as "an erect Brazilian
herb with bijugate leaves',
hairy stem, and bright-yellow
flowers."
For price support purposes,
he said, peanuts are defined
as all peanuts produced ex
,cept those produced for "con
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sumption exclusively as boiled
peanuts.
The purpose of defining pea-
nuts in this manner is to
exempt boiled peanuts from
acreage controls.
Southern Delicacy
In the South, Matthews con
tinued, boiled peanuts are re
garded as a "delicious deli-
c a c y." Many southerners
think they are even superior
to cracklings as snacks or ap
petizers.
Peanut farmers have found,
however, that they can make
more money by growing pea
nuts for roasting, or for use
in peanut candy, peanut but
ter and peanut oil.
So what they do is plant
their entire acreage allotments
in peanuts for these uses.
Then, taking advantage of the
congressional definition of
peanuts, they plant a few
unallotted acres to satisfy the
regional craving for the boiled
variety.
That cleared that up, but
it left me puzzled on another
point. Although I lived in
Georgia and Florida for sev
eral years and thought I had
sampled every southern dish
known to man or mammy, I
never even heard of boiled
peanuts before.
Small Town Belle
I asked my wife about this
and she said it probably was
because I lived in big cities.
My wife used to be the belle
of Siloam, Ga., which is down
the road apiece from Social
Circle.
She concurred in Matthews'
opinion that boiled peanuts
are delicious beyond descrip
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had her taste buds whistling
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Civil Rights
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Washington IUPD Demo
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duce - at President Kennedy's
request - six joint bills in the
Senate and House aimed at
carrying out the civil rights
pledges of the 1960 Democrat
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Sen. Joseph S. Clark CD
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boards operating racially seg
regated public schools to sub
mit a plan for desegregation,
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civil rights commission due to
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attorney general to initiate
civil injunction suits in feder
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Ashland - All-number call
ing arrived in Ashland Satur
day at 11 p.m. after a count
down befitting the most care
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precisely on the scheduled
minute.
And it was over in a mat
ter of seconds when techni
cians pulled a series of strings
releasing blocking plugs from
the gleaming number 5 cross
bar switching equipment.
The first official call on
the new system was complet
ed by Mayor R. L. Neill to
Elmo Stevenson, president of
Southern Oregon college, at
his home.
The order to put Pacific
Telephone Northwest's $730,-
000 central office system into
operation was given by Sid
Shaw, supervising wire chief
from Medford.
His voice was heard over
loudspeaker in each of
three vital locations. The old
central office at 111 Oak st.,
the Medford phone building
and the new central office
at East Main and Sixth sts.
in Ashland.
Go-Ahead ,
Shaw gave the go-ahead
after a last minute check with
the cutover coordinator How
ard Rickman, Medford chief
switchman, who was in the
Medford test center. Rickman
was connected by special lines
to the long distance units
where Chief Operator Valerie
Perdue had made sure there
were no Ashland customers
making emergency long dis
tance calls.
The last big outside task
in the overall program began
HELD ON DOPE CHARGE Mrs. Betty Caroline Taylor, 61,
has been jailed in Los Angeles and accused of running a
state-wide dope peddling operation. The widow of a one
time, deputy police chief Is being held after sheriff's and
federal narcotics officers allegedly purchased three ounces of
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Nothing Deters the Hardy
Shell Collector from His Task
One of the most dedicated
collectors is the so-called pack
rat. He has no particular
choice in what he collects;
he takes anything he can car
ry. The crow is nearly as bad;
anything that is bright and
shiny takes his eye, and he
desires it. Blue jays will col
lect plant labels from garden
shrubs, carefully unwinding
the wires that attach the la
bel to the plant; later he hides
the labels in some convenient
bark-crevice.
Raccoons are avid collec
tors, as are many other species
of animals; all apparently de
rive a great deal of satisfac
tion in assembling many ob
jects in one place.
The human collector is lit
tle different; he may concen
trate on one particular item,
such as stamps, syrup pitchers,
collar buttons or sea shells,
and he is motivated by t h e
same consuming urge that
drives the pack rat, raccoon
or blue jay.
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The installers worked till
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Small Worlds
Around Us
By Lynn M. Watkins
(Register and Tribune syndicate.
1961)
The hardy shell collector is j
afraid of neither hard work;
nor early rising. Burning sun,
aching backs, cold winds, wet j
feet and long walks without
food or water are as much a
part of his equipment as the
urge itself.
Keen Eyesight
These determined ones are
combining exercise with
knowledge and acquiring an
eyesight as keen as a hawk's.
1 There are sections of the
U. S. that border the sea
where great numbers of shells
come ashore, that play host
to human shell collectors who
hunt with flashlight. They
literally "burn the candle at
both ends," by pursuing their
hobby at night. They present
an eerie sight; dots of flashing
light bobbing along a desert
ed beach when the tide is
right. I The serious collector
watches the calendar, he
gauges his activities by the
moon; full moon and new
moon are the times when the
tide is lowest. That's the time
to be afield, and that's the
time he will be there with
his collector's bag and his de
termination. Has Language
As could be expected, the,
true shell collector has a lan-;
guage of sorts and phrases i
that describe his actions. It is !
slogan among professional
collectors that their "coat of
arms" is decorated with the I
outline of two probing fingers !
and an arched back. I
Even the "once-in-a-while"
collector Hs treading on dan
gerous ground, for after he
has found a few choice shells
he, too, is a fit subject for
the "collecting bug" to nibble
on him. He may think he can
overcome the urge and turn
his back, but the chances are
he will look forward to many
other walks along the ocean's
edge; once the camel gets his
head in the tent, he will push
his way inside. ; .
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New York - (UPD, - Traffic
Jams in New York are liable
to become expensive as well
as irritating. Poli-e Commis
sioner Michael J. Murphy
over the week end called a
new campaign against honk
ing auto horns unnecessarily.
A rarely-enforced traffic law
sets up fines of $2 to $10 for
first offenders but the last
time the law was revived to
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