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Show LAYTON JOURNAL, LAYTON, UTAH, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1949 UKE Lady Sheriff WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Truman Signs Bill for Extension Of European Aid Another 15 Months; U. S. Launches Bond Sale Brive Huge Turtle Spurs Search CHURUBUSCO, Ind. Churubuico was all excited about the monster turtle in Fulks lake. Dozens of farm era and e treked to the lake for a look or with nets and grappling hooka to help catch it. Those who claimed they saw said it had a head aa big as two fists doubled together and must weigh 400 to 500 pound. ' The hunt was spurred by reports that the Cincinnati zoo was interested in buying the reptile for EDIIUR'S NOTE: When opinion! art Vectors Newspaper Union' i new analyst in the column, they rt those oi expr!I and not nacciiarlijr of Uii nvpper.) Rtmimborid by Mall 4f The men who for little old who Kathy Flscux, died In a California well ahaft, were being remembered all over the nation. More than 2,200 letters had a been received by the Kathy rescue fund from virtually every state In the union. Mayor Clark E. Bell, San Marino, chairman of the fund committee, said the first envelopes opened contained 11,020 an average contribution of (5.10. Donations ranged from 10 cents to ISO. It was pointed out that if the average continued, It would mean a total of mere than 111,000 for the men who worked for 52 hours to reach the child who fell to her death 92 feet down the well pipe, Fia-eo- AID BILL: Has Truman Okay A bill to give 5.58 billion dollars to the European recovery program over the next 15 months with one billion available at once was signed by President Truman. MR. TRUMAN, as la a Quaint capital custom in auch matters, signed the bill with several pens eight, in fact Even Mr, Truman, himself, was moved to observe jest ingly that "this will probably look like s forgery, but it really isnt" The bill which Mr. Truman signed of the allot! more than entire budget of the United States to foreign aid. Mr. Truman, ever a meticulous man, carefully wiped the points of the pens, handed one each to (even Witnesses to tha signing, and kept one for Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, Who was unable to attend. THERE WAS a check and balance in the bill, however. With the billion dollars to be made available at once, aid could be kept flowing to the Marshall plan countries of western Europe until congress votes the rest of the cash later. one-eight- towna-peopl- BOND DRIVE: Min Who Found Kathy h Plan lor Security Kick-of- f speaker at the opening of the "Opportunity Bond Drive, in which the government hopes to ell one billion, 40 million dollars worth of U.S. savings bonds to Its people. President Truman keyed his remark to the need lor national security. HE PICTURED the bond drive as providing another opportunity for purchaser! to assure security for themselves and their country. Among other things, the President said: "We know that we cannot have a Sound and secure nation unless security is the common possession of our people. Farmer, factory worker, banker, merchant, school teacher, housewife all are buying security for themselves and eath other when they buy savings bonds." He added that "every bond they have bought has given them much more reason to feel secure about the future their own and their , country. THE PRESIDENT aald the kick- off dinner was to honor three mil- lion volunteers in the bond sales program, and declared they would be Joined by another 250,000 newsboys who would ring the nation's doorbells, bringing the message of the Opportunity Bond Drive into 12 million American homes. Top question plaguing bond officials was the recession In employment, lower prices and less consumer cash Interfering with the bond drives reaching its goaL OASI COST: In Billions the-turtl- e 1,-8- Mrs. Barkley Graham, weighing only 95 pounds, has become the first woman sheriff of Me- -. Cracken county, Kentucky, birthAlben W, place of Barkley. She succeeded her husband who resigned to become Paducahs chief of police. Vlce-Ireslde- nt know. The muddy, seven-acrlake, 90 feet deep at its center, is on Harris May Hasten Subsidy farm and has become the focal The administrations farm ex- point for eager searchers. Harris said, "We had him trapped perts weren't being too subtle in a movement to hasten payment of in a net but he slithered away to direct subsidies to farmers. They the right and dived down into the were pointing out in the capital water." of pork and that an Used Wire Net milk expected within the next two The searchers were using a months, may require President chicken-wir- e net about four feet Truman to ask immediate authority long attached to two fenceposts. for such action. Men in a row boat crisscrossed the SECRETARY of Agriculture lake searching for the turtle in Brannan said he already had dis- order to drop the net on it Helpers cussed such a proposal with the on shore held ropes attached to the, President. At the present time the fenceposts to pull the turtle ashore government is committed to sup- if it showed itself. port prices of those commodities "Theres no doubt its there," by buying any surplus and taking Mrs. Harris said. She said her it off the market. This is supposed husband and her son, Vaughn, 12 to keep the retail price up. had seen it. So had her brother, Farm legislation passed by the Charles Wilson, and bis Harris said the reptile appeared 80th congress authorized direct payments to farmers for pork and to be an ordinary snapping turtle, milk, but this law does not go into but much overgrown. Other snappers in the area are seldom more effect until January 1, 1950. than 14 or pounds, he said. Meanwhile, the agriculture secreClifford H. Pope, In Chicago, tary said consumer prices on pork curator of at the Field mureptiles and milk probably would fall if the the said record weight for a admisistration was allowed to make seum, ia 86 pounds. He said only snapper direct subsidy payments to produan alligator turtle from the south cers. could run as high as 200 pounds. DESPITE much sentiment to the Seen Last Sommer contrary, Brannan said his departHarris said her brother Mr. ment has had a "quite favorable first saw the turtle last Charley reaction to the proposed farm prosummer, but then it disappeared gram which, briefly, would let farm from view until recently, when both products find their own price level her husband and son saw It swimthrough aupply and demand, with ming across the lake. the government paying the farmer She said two investigators from the difference in this and the sup- the Cincinnati zoo came to verify port price in cash. that the turtle was there. She said Congressional critics of the farm the wasnt sura whether they saw program declare its cost will run it, but that they "seemed satisinto billions of dollars and that it fied." will benefit neither the farmer nor The $1,800 price has been circuthe taxpayer, because, in the end, lating around the area, but probthe farmer and the taxpayer will be ably has "grown by rumor," paying additional taxes to finance chuckled. the program. over-suppl- e y 1-- can-cer- ." Uni-versi- pros-tatl- t j j Rural Housing Off ' Noted Hope was indicated that the appalling toll of death and injury on U.S. streets and highways might be lessened. The National Safety Council reported that 92 cities of more than 10,000 population went through all of 1948 without a traffic death. The council reported that Medford, Mass., with a population of 67,477, was tho largest city no-dea- th last year. k These photographs, some of the great pictures of 1949, were selected among the best of the sixth annual "News Pictures of the Year" competition, jointly sponsored by the Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the Year and the University of Missouri school of journalism. At the top is "Ice" by Ira Spring. It was taken shortly after sunrise at about 12,000 feet on Emmons glacier on Mt. Rainier. show in son-in-la- . Fewer Another report said the turtle had ventured from its home in the lake near here onto a surrounding farm and that some cattle bad mysteriously disappeared. "But that aint so," farmer Gale Harris said, "That turtles never been out of the lake, far as wa FARM SURPLUS: American taxpayers in covered employment would have to dig into their pockets to the tune of 3.75 billion dollars by 1955 to finance old age and survivors insurance under the proposals advanced by President Truman and, his administration. BY THE YEAR 2.000-w- hen the program Is expected to hit its peak the proposed cost would have to approximately 13 bilmounted CHURCHMEN: lion dollars. UN Asks Facts This estimate, made by the ReThe United Nations wasnt heed- search Council for Economic' Seing protests of Hungary and Bul- curity, Chicago, is based on a regaria against its consideration of port from the advisory council on the trials of Cardinal Mindszenty social security to the 80th congress. Of a labor force of over 60 miland Protestant churchmen. Instead, tha UN Invited the two Soviet lion, OASI now covers about 35 satellite countries to tell their million, or roughly three out of five atories of the imprisonment of the jobs. Coverage is now limited to persons employed in industry and Cardinal and other clergymen. THE RUSSIAN delegation indi- commerce. It is proposed that the cated the two nations would disre- system be extended to cover the CANCER: entire labor force. gard the invitation, since both HunIn presenting both aides of the Progress Seen gary and Bulgaria have contended The men in white who wage an the trials were internal matters and question, the councils report includes a full page of pros and cons. unceasing battle against cancer no business of the UN. Each side might be summarized caught a glimmer of hope they The world organization, however, 89 follows: felt sure they had discovered, as voted 30 to 7 to put the church ON THE ONE HAND, if emthey put it, what is for all practo on cases on Its agenda and go ployees of commerce and industry tical purposes a simple, cheap and with a full discussion of them. are entitled to this protection, why sure blood test for U. S. delegate Benjamin V. Cohen not employees on the farm and In reasonably argued the committee should delay the household? If the goal of the THE ANNOUNCEMENT was inviting any nations or churches to system Is to provide even a minisend spokesmen until it decides mum of subsistence, benefits must made with the customary caution how It wants to deal with the ques- be raised now to keep in step with and restraint of the men who work with test tubes reasonably sure tion. living costs. An adequate OASI was how described the test they indiRussia's Jacob A, Malik system will reduce substantially the But If they had made such a discated the two Russian satellites iieavy burden of old age assistance. it was a great stride forcovery, On the other hand, opponents of would reject such an invitation and ward toward victory over the terriUN the proposed extension point out accused Bolivia of violating the charter by seeking,, to invite re- that of those excluded, the majority ble disease. are either protected by other According to the announcement ligious organizations. to or for are able comparative studies at the provide To the casual observer, the entire systems of Chicago of the blood inwhile the lowest themselves, temmatter was even less than a too serum of cancer patients and norcome classes are employed UN the a in tea Whatever pot. pest mal and other Indi.might find as a result of rehashing irregularly to earn Insured status viduals had revealed of under the If significant co?t any program. of the churchmen the convictions what could UN do about It? The iving is a valid reason for raising differences that led to the state.force of UN in world peace reten- benefits now, then logically the ment of the new cancer blood test tion efforts has been so meager as whole system should be geared to Report of the university findings ' to cause critics to begin comparing the cost of living, fluctuating down was made by Professor Charles B. It already with the old League of as well as up. The bigger the Huggins, who 10 years ago origiNations which died of impotency. system, the better the promises of nated a new treatment for cancer which has kept more jigger and better pensions. than 25 per cent of the victims alive and well for more than eight years. DISCUSSING the new test he said that tests on almost 300 individuals equally divided into cancer patients, apparently healthy persons. and patients with diseases proved positive foi all cancer cases, negative for aE normal persons and negative for all others tested, except those with and massive lung tuberculosis COMPARATIVE BENEFITS . . Under present provision of the social . acute infections. security law it is assumed the worker has 10 years of coverage. Under inInasmuch as tuberculosis and i proposed provisions, however, menthly benefits would not be affected can be readprocesses flammatory by length of time spent in covered employment. Chart, prepared by ily diagnosed, it was explained, the Research Connell for Economic Security, offers comparison of present test was not expected to confounc' benefit scales with those proposed in the administration program. cancer with other conditions. ACCIDENTS: MONSTER According to Senator Fear (D., Del.) some of the nations worst housing conditions still exist in rural areas a conclusion familiar already to many, many Americans. The senators statement was made during a hearing by a senate committee on the housing bill pending in congress. There has been little talk of rural needs in discussion of the housing problem to date, although that need is as pressing, almost, as any other. multi-billion-doll- KIWI: Rare Chick Nature lovers In New Zealanc rejoiced. A sturdy male kiwi chick was hatched at the Hawkes Bay game farm, bringing to six the only known existing family of this nocturnal, flightless bird which wai thought to be extinct until a few years ago. The male bird spent 81 days or the latest egg before the newcomei burst through the thick shell. ty c "A Kiss for Snippet" (above, left) was shot Chris Ware at an English farm where a by West Highland terrier was a pal of the cows. "Me a Criminal?" (above) by Larry Miller of the Los Angeles Examiner shows a woman denying her criminal past to a reporter though her record showed 31 arrests and five prison terms since 1910. Mrs-Harr- is Pilot Chops Through Floor To Fix Plano Landing Gear BEDFORD, MASS. An air force captain chopped through the cockpit floor of a training bomber to repair a disabled landing gear so the plane could land safely with only a few minutes gasoline left. His hands cut and bleeding, C a p t, Francis G. McLaughlin hacked his way through the floor with an emergency ax, a screw driver and a hammer to reach the balky mechanism. He used his navigation books to wedge up the floor boards. As McLaughlin worked against time to repair the faulty gear, Lt. J. E. Whitley circled the field repeatedly while shouting periodically the amount of gasoline remaining in the tank. The planes radio had gone dead Just as the two fliers were bringing it over the field but the control tower was able to signal to them that their landing gear had not locked. McLaughlin first tried to work the wheels into position with an auxiliary hand crank. When that failed he began chopping through the floor. When' he had made a hole big enough to push his hands through he pushed the landing clutch Into position by using the ax handle as a lever. Later, the fliers told base officials that when they brought the plane down they were not sure whether the wheels were locked. They knew only that they were , "Fallen Star" (above) by Herbert Scharf-ma- n of International News Photos was made at Madison Square Garden and shows Browning Ross of Villanova in a bad spill. The classic "Farewell to No. 3" by Harry Harris of AP speaks for itself with overwhelming poignancy. It was taken two months before Babe Ruth's death. down. Selintists.Learn Humans Stand Severe Cold Can WASHINGTON. Scientists from the University of Washington, cooperating with the air force, have learned that man can stand up to o temperatures better than expected. Heat loss to the body from inatmosphere, the haling below-zer- o air force announced today in telling of tests made in arctic regions, is much less than formerly believed. Radiations from even a weak midwinter Alaskan sun was found to have had a marked effect on reducing body heat loss. Insulated Especially designed clothing, equipped with wires and tubes to check temperatures at various points over the body, were worn in weather in making the testa. sub-zer- i "Bath Time" (above, left), token by George Konig, shows Britain' graphic models, Margaret Harding, 3, and her sister Elizabeth, Th for Peace" (right) by William Smith of AP is the cathedral at BoaSS Secretary of State George Marshall attended services before the American conference. openina of . J0n9eS T thetmn i1 'nt k |