Show f c THE GARLAND SCANNING THE WEEK'S NEWS of Main Street and the MacArhur Given TIMES GARLAND PRODUCTION World Hero's Welcome Divided Nation Questions Issues AROUSED NATION— No one event In the recent history of the States has caused as much comment among the people on the Main Streets of the little towns and big towns of the nation as that of the dismissal of Gen Douglas MacArthur from his commands in the far east It was a shocked and angry nation that gathered on Main Street when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor It was a happy nation that demonstrated at the end of World War IL Bt it was a divided nation that questioned the removal of MacArthurl The storm raged from grocery store to filling station from harIndidware store to the courthouse gnation sorrow righteousness worry fear and hysteria found their way to the controversy The Issues of civil power vs military Europe vs Asia the personality of MacArthur vs Truman politics vs statecraft all entered into the story For a week It was violent and then the general came home for the first time in years to the acclaim of a grateful and sentimental nation But by now the first shock and anger of the President’s action had Sam’s foresters controversy This Is some of the reaction His (Maabroad: London—" removal was accepted as cArthur) an augury of peace" Paris— "The his dismissal French feel that Bonn— "Most Germans believe that means less chance of total war would involve the United at worst General MacArthur’i Impulsiveness States in a general war" of the national scene the home town press took THE ack a more temperate view of the incident than expressed by the thousands The home of telegrams that were received by senators and congressmen town editor were concerned about constitutional rights and which is more important to world peace Asia as believed by MacArthur or Europe as believed by Truman in the daily field showed this A survey of 78 leading newspapers division of opinion: Truman right 38 Truman wrong 26 neutral 14 The in the first dally press too was deeply concerned over Issues concealed blast of tempers THE CONGRESS— And while the controversy raged along the Main Streets of the nation the debate reached the boiling point in the house and senate It can be said with all truthfulness that the dispute reached the stage where those two bodies of men representing the people of the United States stripped themselves of what little dignity remained after three years of battling over domestic and foreign issues The debate for the most part was along party lines with the Repuband the Democrats plugging the President licans backing MacArthur Both sides hurled the label of "war party” at the other There were however that the two parties might get together for a sweepdications of the administration’s far eastern policy ing investigation LONG WAIT— while the nation talked of the ANOTHER the house passed Us version of a draft bill But controversy the mothers and fathers in the small towns of the nation appear in for other long wait before they learn the fate of their sons conference committee that The measure now goes to a has the senate version of a draft The conferees face a long and hard training features of the struggle to work out a compromise There two measures pose the greatest obstacle to quick agreement are however numerous other conflicts that will require time to adjust bill might At the moment It appears very likely that a compromise not become law much before July 8 the expiration date of the present selective service act FARM MACHINERY OUTPUT— The cutback in farm output is expected equipment during the next three months Industry spokesmen reported with production of about 73 per cent of the industry’s capacity Production of farm tractors for the first quarter of this year was higher than in 1950 but material shortages tre expected to duce schedules From January through March 152260 farm tractors were produce! In the corresponding months of 1950 the total was 147072 units The increase was attributed to use of materials stockpiled during last fall’s Accumulated materlali have been used up however and manstrikes ufacturers ere having difficulty aecuring quantities to keep pace with production schedules DEFENSE JOBS GO BEGGING— The people home towns nation are not rushing Into defense jobs as fast as some government of the lJ i ' of the desire Robert C Goodwin director of the bureau of employment security reported that 50000 unfilled jobs dog the rolls of state employment fices as the nation's defense program shifts into second gear The unfilled jobs are for workers in professional managerial skilled semiskilled service clerical and sale and unskilled fields states reported openings DECISION SOON— Since March 5 when deputies of Great Britain Russia and the United States began meetings In Paris in hope of France on an agenda for another foreign ministers’ conference the agreeing people in the home towps of America have waited patiently for an that perhaps the big tour could get together nouncement A decision should be reached any day now and the democratic nations believe the Soviet Union will agree to the conference US diplomats believe the Russians will agree for three reasons: (1) To stall or at least put a brake on the accelerated defense programs of the free tions of the Atlantic alliance (2) To exploit and widen whatever difference may still exist among the western powers and to divide them on 3) To use the proposed copolicy issues if possible and Important nference bound to be one of the most widely reported events In recent history as an organ of propaganda for Soviet "peace aims" FARM SrCVRfTY TAXES First Farm Social Security Report Due The first social security tax and information returns for farm snd household employees together with payment of taxes wai due on or fore April SO The social security tax and Information return cover the quarterly period of January February and March 1951 The farm and household employees involved 'those who wert brought into the federal old- 1 sge and survivors insurance system on January Whether or not a farm or housemployee's wages are subject to the taxes depends on the number of days worked for the employer and the amount of cash earnings If in doubt concerning taxes due farmers are urged to see the nearest internal revenue collector at once ehold 1 are work- ing harder than ever devising new waya to produce more timber for defense and to increase the forage of tha nation’s range production lands In 61 research centers 102 exforests and 14 experperimental imental ranges forest service research men are conducting many different studies At tha Fort Valley experimental forest in northern Arizona researchers discovered that the growth rate of ponderosa pine can be doubled if stands are cut lightto 10 20 rather than years ly every cut heavily every 40 to 60 years Kidding southern pine stands of hardwoods pays off overtopping the research center at Crossett Ark decided Ten years ago they cut or girdled all hardwoods two Inches and up tin diameter on an experimental plot Growth of there leased pines has been so rapid that a thinning out was made this 6 11 Muss of poetry Young sows 17 21 - "’L 23 27 V8 forest researchers report that bogs and disease take a far greater toll of timber than fire are la constant They search of means of protecting the nation’s forests BUGS AND DISEASE take a higger toll of timber than fire At the Institute of Forest Genetics hi Placervllle Calif geneticists are trees that will resist producing disease and insects They have a cross between the Jeffrey and Coulter pines that withstands attacks from the pine reproduction weevil A cross between eastern white pine and Himalayan pine show great resistance to blister rust In working toward a better range forest service technicians have taken abandoned farmland that was a dead loss and converted it to productive grazing land On idle fields near the Bitterroot Valley of Mon tana foresters used a preparatory crop method of seedbed preparation They planted wheat or barley the first year Then they towed !ESCRE crested wheatgrasa in the grain By INEZ GERHARD stubble This method of planting s controlled the troublesome Academy WHILE thisare year's that often causes failures in still news Parasuch ranges and also reseeding mount baa been holding advance a 55 an acre profit of $4 screenings for the press of "A netted Water runoff experiments have Place in the Sun" which will cerbeen conducted at many research tainly be among the strongest contenders for the best film of 1951 stations At the Coweeta experiElizabeth Taylor never more beau- mental station in North Carolina tiful Montgomery Clift giving a research men have studied the efperformance that could not be bet- fects of various types of timber tered and Shelly Winters head a cutting and land use on the flow of water have discovered They "WWW that the streamflow from a watershed can be materially increased trees which those by removing I f waste a great deal of water in transpiration They are also running a small farm to see what effect traditional hillside farming has on water runoff and soil erosion To aid industry the Forest ProdI ucts Laboratory at Madison Wise developed a new process for pulping hardwoods which is simpler and less costly than the chemical pulpA They found that overing processes timber infected mature Douglas-fi- r with a pitting called white pocket can be used for construction purWINTERS SHELLY poses Other forest service researchers cast Winters Miss wearing superb conduct surveys of forest lands to and rubbishy clothes no make-uis determine how much timber should easily walk away with the available in this country Their reOscar for the year’s best actress ports have been valuable to the and National Security Resources Board George Stevens’ production direction are outstanding "A Place in determining what forest resources in the Sun” will take Its place are available for national defense among the best motion pictures ever The reports have also aided wood produced here or abroad in finding suitable using industries locations near raw materials The work of the research forestThe day Gene Nelson left home to is vital ers not only in the defense begin work in Warners’ "Golddig-ger- s of Las Vegas" his wife gave program but also in everyday livhim a healthy kick and his small ing Their findings are the propson threw an old shoe st him— erty of the American people Rejust obeying an old theatrical su- search foresters welcome visitors and make perstition which is supposed to issue free publications their studies known through national bring the best of luck to tha vicextension forest administrators tim the Nelsons are show folk But "Miriam iwlngs service workers state agencies Industries and farm foresters a mean right” said Gene ruefully mallet Distance measure (Russ) Covert sarcasm 13 14 16 T ACROSS Mason’s 12 15 given way to considerable sober year The control of forest fires has For the first time the thinking people of Main Street got i look long been a part of the Forest Service research program Methods through the fog of personal grudges and politics at some of the deeper of determining the fire danger each issues Although it was a divided day have been worked out and are nation still hysteria' was abating used regularly by forest administrators to help them Judge how many but the There was still confusion calmneed to be on fire duty each men were Main Street people along er day and how many men they need And many of them realized that to send to the fires tiat occur they had witnessed a turning point in history Whether it would be for the best interests of the country and the world they could not decide— only time would tell THE WORLD— Although at first glance it seems a long way from the Main Streets of the small towns of the nation to Europe and Asia the majority of the hometowners today realize we live in "one world” and for that reason they were listening to what others had to say about the SIM Nation's Timber Forage Output Increased by Extensive Research Uncle AN United UTAH OF TIMBER lyric (Gr) Attempted River (Fr) Gifts of charity Despot cuckoo Oils Small hallway 8 River (FT) 6 Veterinary doctor (shortened) 7 Eccentric 8 Bar 9 Branch 10 Bushy clumps 4 18 (Eng) Radium (sym) Indeflnlts article 20 Negative reply 2L Exclams tlon 19 Dutch painter WEEKS LAST PUZZLE ANSWER Q 22 Seize 24 Favorite remedies 23 Apex 26 Cunning 28 Grooved 31 Sign of infinitive 32 Gulf (Sib) 33 Ruthenium (sym) 86 A spiced dish of birds or game roasted 87 Pant 38 Voided escutcheon 39 A child "X Ancient wine cups 42 Contradict 44 Varying weight (India) 43 Knave of clubs 29 Wind 30 One who 34 35 37 40 43 45 46 47 abets Enemy scout Hale Desert (Asia) Fortified city (W Rumania) Tapestry A long feather Kind of stone Capital of 48 One of the 49 Aposties Little miss DOWN 1 Pronged flshspears 2 Melody 3 Changeable 43 'c is Flannagan’s wake as recalled she hurried up the brownstone steps where leading to the apartment she and Paddy had lived since their marriage three years ago this very day smiled Kathy as she visualized the new spring outfit she would wear at the gath ering Paddy was proud of her dress too even if he didn't say so She knew he liked the her figure Of way lt emphasized course he had complained about the cost adding: "If you want to waste money on clothes you should have married a banker" “Your home" Patrick But the argument about the dress voice was not the real reason she had “Is through the thin partition left The breaking point was reached now?” it when Paddy had refused to buy the “Your home" Patrick darling bonnet displayed in Mur"Ridiculous I” he voice vibrated through the phy’s window said thin partition "Is it now? And only Ridiculous 7 How could a hat be this morning you were ready to for walk out of my house" when ridiculous every day "When I get my hands on that nearly a month she had stopped to look in the window and admire it stubborn neck of yours" Kathy O’ "I’ll Reaching the apartment door she Maddigan shouted turned the knob but the door re"Sure now" Paddy said "would she you be wanting to harm your bread fused to open Apprehensively turned the knob back and forth and butter?" but to no avail She was locked out "Open this door I sayl" Kathy blushed furiously with indig"In good time woman” Paddy nation replied "It’s your Irish temper that Then she exploded: has the best of you" shouted "A “Open this door! Do yon hesr "Temperl” Kathy me?" she shouted pounding fine one you ere to be talking of an frantically on the warped panels Irish temper Who was lt that woke "It’s not enough that work mythe neighbors with his carrying on self to the bone oo a body can in the wee hours of the morning?” have a decent home te live In No answer Ne I must be locked out of my "It was Patrick O’Maddlgan own home My home mind that’s who it was And all because ) you!" wanted the money to buy the hat" TOMORROW vibrated bit Stales Seek Method of Retaining Tideland Wells By Wright A Patterson SUPREME COURT decided the narrow margin of one vote that despite the practices of more than 100 years the tidelands from which vast quantities of oil are being extracted are the property of the federal government and not of the atatea Unless this decision is corrected by definite and unmistakable legislation by congress lt means a severe loss of revenue to several states Including California THE and Texaa The Ides originated In cialistic mind ef Harold the price woman I couldn't a week’s wages for a of lace end cloth” "Don’t you want your wife to be the best dressed lady at the wake tomorrow?" Krthy asked "That I do But could you not pur chase a hat that’s more reasonable In price?’ "I had my heart set on wearing that hat to the wake" Kathy said "Don’t you love me?" "It’s not a question of love" Paddy replied "it’s the money I’m thinking “Then you’ll not buy the hat fos BUT GRASSROOTS the soIckes and It was In keeping with welfare President Truman’s state program Congress passed the legislation needed to prevent the consummation of tbe aeisnre but tbe President vetoed It A new bin Is now before congress which If passed and vetoed can be paaaed ever a veto as more ef the states realise the tidelands selsnre te tbe may be efbut a prelude renatural ether aeisnre sources sts belonging te the states What la proposed In the Is te now before cengress bin give te the states a quit claim deed for aD the natural restorers within the boundaries of each Including tbe coastal waters so the federal government could sot repeat tbe steal lekee attempted and with the annpert of tbe supreme court has up te In putting this point ever succeeded Seizure of the tidelands is one of many moves In the socialization Back of it all has been program the hidden motive that hti domiof nated the President’s program socialization of the nation despite what be may have said to the contrary With gold silver coal iron and oil and other natural resources fedin the hands of a centralized things that were eral government never dreamed of by the drafters of we would be far the Constitution socialon our way to a centralized istic nation and only a step away from totalitarianism Tbe representatives ef the the mempeople in Washington bers ef both the senate and In house should not hesitate consummaa such preventing tion while there la yet time who ara Those In Washington promoting a aocialistle program know full wen that the great majority ef the people da net want It and for that reason they resort ta hidden methods to achieve their ends Proteo-tloagainst such methods lies with congress The states have leased these tideland oil fields to oil producing and the corporations corporations have Invested vast sums in their In plants and equipdevelopment ment Should such arrangements now be terminated and the federal now lease these fields government to other oil producing companies lt would result In a battle royal in courts the that would clog court calendars for years to come It Is a certainty that the present holders Of these oil leases made with the states In good faith snd in which and many millions for drilling equipment has been invested will not merely move out and sacrifice their Investments without a fight to the last court They can hope that the supreme court might change its narrow margin verdict should congress not pass the needthat would restore ed legislation those coast oil fields to their rightful owners the states Should congress not do so it is only a step to another socialistic seizure of state effecting practically all properties of the states It might be good politics for President Truman to dispense with of a tew who have the services profited from somt of the graft that has been uncovered ratber than to wait tor the Republicans to use “turn tha rascals out” as a campaign issue The stenographer has her mink coat and for the good of the cause could afford to step out of the White House picture So also could Paul Dawson who has enjoyed his hotel entertainment It would be a move toward morals and ethics of me?” Silence "Let pleaded into her me In Paddy" Kathy a pathetic note creeping ’’ voice "I'll be good were sounds of movement In the apartment Then Kathy heard key rattle in the lock Swiftly she stooped slipped a shoe off hei foot and straightened up with lt grasped firmly in one small hand She struck swiftly as the door wae opened suddenly But It was ae eudden that Kathy wae thrown off balance and the mo fnentnm carried her te tbe center of the room She landed oa her hand and knees ' Brushing aside a strand of halt that was tickling the tip of her nose she looked up at Paddy who wn standing beside tbe open door Ir his hand was a bit of Kelly greer and a little white veil with a pink and blue ribbon on the side "You did buy it Paddy But ” said you "1 meant to surprise you Kathy" Paddy explained "I couldn’t lei you down Have you forgotten oui wedding anniversary?" "Oh Paddy” she said tenderly There |