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Show THE TIMES- - NEWS. NEPHI. UTAH PAGE TWO -- WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS- RUSSIA: - Huge Crop Surpluses May Bring On Widespread Federal Farm Controls; Three Pact Nations Unify Defense eolntniia, thrj r rwnlTOR'S VOTE; Whm phtlont arc eiprewed In h newspaper.) Weitem Newspaper Unloa'a new aaalyeU and not neceeearlljr el CROP REPORT: Raps Big Steel Punitive Plenty Iff It was an ironical twist that American farmers, by producing 1 i in 1949 the second largest crop in all U.S. history, may have shackled themselves with broad government controls for years to come. The year's harvest acreage was the largest since 1932 when depression-ridden farmers sought to offset declining prices by expanding production. Except for bad weather during the growing season in some sections of the nation, the 1949 crop total might easily have set a new record. Even so, the harvest was so large that the U.S. department - WutJ E nee S itm it i it i.w in of agriculture felt called upon to varinvoke production controls of execuEverett Kassarow, ious kinds to reduce the volume tive secretary of the CIO, tells next year. These controls proba congressional committee that ably would extend to cotton, peabig steel's hiking the price of nuts, major types of tobacco, rice, steel Is a "scandalous situaand potatoes soybeans. tion" and asks the committee The agriculture department said to investigate it. In the recent the huge harvest was the result price raise, the steel industry ' of uniformly large production of said recent welfare and penmost crops, rather than record sion concessions to labor made volumes of a few individual ones. the increase necessary. Records were marked up only for rice, dry beans and peas. PACT DEFENSE: The figures: One Broad Pattern Corn, three billion, 378 million 126 livestock bushels; Probably pointing the way tomillion tons; vegetable ward a general North Atlantic soybeans, flaxseed, peanuts, pact policy, the United States, -seed, 15.33 million tons; tobacGreat Britain and Canada have co, two billion pounds; fruit proworked out procedures for pracduction, nine million, 800 thousand tically a complete exchange of intons. formation concerning Yields per acre were above avweapons and fighting techniques most crops, although each country develops. erage for were wheat, flaxseed and dry peas THE OFFICIAL announcement notable exceptions. Nearly 163 to that effect was a guarded one, million tons of the eight grains but defense department spokeswere harvested during the year. men said the three nations will pool all data on just about everyCOMIC BOOKS: thing in the way of conventional weapons used by their respective Get Last Laugh fighting forces and together will There may not be any laughs In study such advanced weapons as current comic books as so many puided missiles. There was no inpsychologists, psychiatrists, . educa- dication of the atomic bomb in tors and ministers have charged th's deal. But there was certainly more than The goal, according to the anan abdominal chuckle for the com nouncement, was to make not only ic book entrepreneurs, themselves, standard weapons interchangein a spectacular respectability reable, but to draw on the incentive cently accorded their products. of scientists and the For, as amazing as it may seem, techniques dethe U.S. state department was to "operational procedures" veloped by military planners. techthe comic book incorporate THE STEP, in any manner of nique in its latest bid for the minds speaking, was a prudent one if the w of Asiatics. are convinced that WITH THEIR THEMES based democracies on the lives of American heroes, among the best avenues of peace is one that leads to the ultimate 260.000 copies of the picture-serie- s books had been scheduled for de- in preparedness. There is a most plausible school livery early in January. The books were to be sent to of thought among international South Korea, Thailand; French diplomats, that if a consolidation a The of sufficient strength is mustered and Indonesia. by the western powers, there need hope was that through circulation information about be no fear of World War III. no the history and background of the matter how much the Russians United States would be spread might desire one. For whatever widely in areas under strong Com- else may be said of Russia's munist pressure but which, as yet, Stalin, he has never been branded as a complete idiot. ha not capitulated. After Stalin, of course, anything THE SERIES was to include books of the lives of George might happen, for ambitious men Thomas Jefferson, ofttimes let their ambition cloud Washington, Walt Whitman. Abraham Lincoln, their vision to the extent that they Andrew Carnegie, Jane Addams, can't see where they are going. Thomas A. Edison, and George Give such men enough power, and the war everyone fears might well Washington Carver. Libraries and other agencies of be in the making. the state department's public affairs division, already on the TOP 10'MEN: scene, would distribute the books Rated Outstanding at public showings of American More than 1.500 newspapermen documentary films and other such occasions. American libraries op- had been called upon to choose, in erate in all countries where the their opinion, the 10 outstanding men of the world during 1949. At books are to be distributed. first blush that would appear to be a staggering assignment, but PANCAKE DAY: there is no newsman worthy the Idea Spreading name who won't give you an opinA familiar and popular event In ion on anything at any time. THE TEN "outstanding men of some United States communities, unknown in many more, National the year," as announced in the Pancake day is beginning to catch 1949 Year News Annual were: Dr. Albert Schweitzer, religion: on in many localities. Dean Acheson. U.S. Secretary of An ancient as far as internationDr. Ralph al observance goes, the event has state, statesmanship; been observed elsewhere in the Bunche, world peace; Dr. Charles world for hundreds of years. No Seymour, Yale university presiartificial "Johnny - come lately" dent, education; Walter Reuther, idea, the day has long been ob- president of the CIOUAW. labor; served In Great Britain and many Jackie Robinson. Brooklyn Dodgers sports; Serge other countries in Europe always second baseman, Boston Koiissevitsky, symphony en the day before Lent begins. THE NEXT Pancake day falls orchestra, music; Arthur Miller, on February 21. 1950. when here, "Death of A Salesman," drama; Stanley Kramer, producer of the in the United States, some communities will mark the day in city-wid- e movie "Home of The Brave," movies; Milton Bcrle, radio and celebration, a sort of midwinter fair at which everyone eats television. CRITICS of these selections pancakes. In many other communities, church groups (frequently might charge that the selectors let Episcopalians) have long observed the headlines of the year, rather the day with quiet breakfasts, than the gentlemen's accomplishluncheons and suppers all of ments, get in their eyes when they made their choices. which feature pancakes. feed-grai- s: cotton- military "share-the-know-ho- ( Indo-Chin- hand-to-han- d UMBRELLA: 'II New Probe Asked For Amphitheatre Most everyone has speculated Whatever else might occupy conbout if and when it would come, gressmen, there appeared to be no but now, apparently, it has ar- lacking of probe subjects. For Ing rived a revolutionary stance, Representative Buchanan umbrella for an amphitheatre. (D., Pa.) announced that a special According to the designers, it house lobbying investigating comcan cover the amphitheatre In two mittee would begin looking into f and minutes at the flick real estate and medics) issues. of a switch. The device isn't actualBuchanan is chairman of the ly on the market yet. but will be committee which will do the lookbuilt next fall to house activities ing. The committee also will inof the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera. vestigate "other-'id?Inhhvin. rain-defyin- one-hal- " 1.950 BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET to Sea Palne's phrase, Going Tom Thursday, January 5, "sunshine patriot," might well apply to any segment of the Russian army. since the Soviets have no warm water port for winter operations; but if the authoritative publication, Jane's Fighting Ships, was to be- By BILLY ROSE believed, the Russians must be planning to change all that Today, Td like to tell you about a talk I had with a doctor who is doing research work at one of the New York cancer clinics. ACCORDING to the article, He made me promise not to use his name because he was afraid Russia is building three 35,000-to- n he might be blacklisted by the foundation which pays his salary. battleships equipped to fire career. I began by asking him to sketch in bis aerial torpedoes. It "The usual grind," he said. "Four years of college, four said the Soviet navy also is speedmore at medical school, a year as intern, and a year in residency training construction on a fleet of 1,000 submarines including a type "with ing." "What made you go into research?" a great range and a very high submerged speed." "Like a lot of young doctors," he How did Jane's penetrate the iron "I couldn't get used to sitting to settle for the money, but my said, curtain to a degree necessary to wife wouldn't hear of it she went while a patient by glean that information? eut and got an office job and made, died simply because The publication itself says merely me stick to my test tubes." didn't know anyI that a "hitherto reliable source" else I could thing relayed the report, and added that do for him. Every "HOW LONG did you work for it passed along "with reserve . . . time I looked up free?" conflicting information in the in"About a year," said the doctor, into the eyes of formant's report" that one of the relatives gathered "and then the head of the medical three battleships is still in the around the bed of a center a very decent guy squeezed me onto the payroll at $28.87 a yards, but "two others of the same man in the last class are believed to be in comweek." of cancer, I stages mission." Jane's emphasized that told myself that "You could have earned more Rose Billy it had "no substantiation of this washing dishes." my Job wasn t to techreport." go on using the "We managed to get by," said THE ARTICLE noted that the niques but to get into a laboratory' the medico, "but the following United States and Great Britain and help find the real cure." year my wife bad a baby and bad have only one battleship in service "How did you go about getting to quit ber job. After that, it was between them and that is the started?" Pretty rugged. As, for instance, U.S.S. Missouri. But, it added, "I made the usual applications," we couldn't afford to buy a crib, "there are signs that new fleets said the M.D., "but I soon found the youngster had to sleep and are in the making." in a donated baby carriage. the hospitals and universities had no funds to hire research men, Continuing, the article declared: "Somehow, though, we pulled our "Warships are being designed not and that I couldn't get a Job unless and by the end of the as improvements or developments a foundation paid my salary. To way through, I had gotten a couple of previous classes, but from first complicate things, most foundations following year of research pieces published. With principles for a specific role of won't give you a fellowship unless these to back me up, I applied for countering a potential enemy type. you first have a Job. In addition, In the next few years we are likely it's almost impossible to get a a fellowship paying $3,000 a year." "Minus withholding tax, I preto see . . . the atomic-bombcargrant until you've published a cercontrol tain number of scientific papers sume." rier, the guided-missil- e "It may not sound like much, command and, of course, you can't publish vessel, the task-forc- e ship, the cruiser, such papers until you've worked but I felt like John D., Jr. when the g rocket destroyers, fast, in a laboratory and had a chance grant came through," said the "Last year, I went through frigates and ships." - to do research worth writing about. doctor. ' Which would indicate that the application rigmarole again "It finally boiled down to this the navy hasn't been as dormant as I could work for nothing in a can- 275 typed pages and this time I got the air force might have liked it to cer laboratory, or I could take a job the full $3,600. appear in the unification rows in paying $120 a week doing research "WHAT DO YOU DO to earn all congress. for a cosmetic outfit. Well, I had Just gotten married and was ready that money?" I said. Too Little for Brains' Idea Is Hindering Research Medicine "IF radio-controll- ARE YOU QUIET" ar ANol - GRACE NOLL "There's always the job in the industrial lab." I said. "It may come to that," said the S Af. D "but 1 hope not. No mat-ter what it pays, I want to keep seminars." plugging away on cancer. It seems a a lot more important than de--v "Any chance of raise?" el oping a new shade of face "I'm afraid not," said the doctor, powder , , "and, as far as fellowships are conThe day after our talk, I hapcerned, I'm getting near the end of the line. I'm 29 now, and the founda- pened to pass the medical skytions don't like to make grants to scraper in which the young doctor men over 30." works, and I noticed that an additional wing was under construction. Dozens of steel workers, bricklayers and carpenters all averaging around a hundred a week1 were By getting in each other's way. Over the entrance Richard H. Wilkinson was a space which looked as if it might eventually be filled with a block of marble on which a fitting inscription would be carved. "I know what it ought to be," I the girl and propose said to myself. " Too much for marriage. That, he decided, was bricks, too little for brains.' " the only manly thing to do, and Basil had suddenly become a man. So with his father Basil went to the hotel where the meeting had been arranged. Mrs. Mortimer and Elaine received them in their suite of rooms. Basil took one look at Elaine and almost collapsed. She had red hair and freckles and buck teeth. She was abont the homeliest looking creature STAGE : SCR EE Basil had ever seen. Moreover, she giggled. BY INEZ GERHARD Basil didn't wait for the dinner to get under way. He made his speech MORTON DOWNEY says "I've then and there, then headed for the mileage out of my door. His father accompanied him voice than any other singer in the into the corridor. He probably has; it business." "Son," said the old man, "for- was in 1919 that Paul Whiteman, give me. I didn't know what I was discovered him, singing in a small getting you into. Go marry your movie theater and looking "like an redhead. She couldn't be any worse unfrocked choir boy." Bing Crosthan that." by says the only difference now is "Thanks, Dad," said Basil. And he went off and kept his date with the whose name, it proved, was Mary Smith. He proposed and she accepted and they lived happily ever after. low-lyin- HOUSING: middle-i- Talks for Hiss r. V! , X: tor us f" Francis U.S. B. assistant " Sayre, Fiction Corner BASIL Winthrop's father had made bis decisions; bad conducted the boy's affairs, organized his life, superintended his doings. Basil was an only child. e( His mother was Fiction dead, and because he had inherited his moth er's mildness of manner, and because his father was a domineering type, Basil, following the line ef least resistance, had allowed these things to happen. His father was wealthy and generous, so why not let the old man run the show? Basil thought. He ceased to think thus when he met the girl with the red hair and blue eyes. She was selling kisses at a charity bazaar. Five dollars a kiss. Basil only had $30 in his pocket, but he stretched out the six kisses that amount would buy so that other customers got tired of waiting. After the bazaar, he drove the girl with the red hair to the hotel where she was staying. He didn't ask her name; she didn't volunteer it. But they made a date for the next night As he entered the front hall his father called to him. Basil hesitated, then squared his shoulders and went toward the voice. Winthrop, senior, seemed in a good mood. "I've just met an old friend of mine, son. Sarah Mortimer. She and her daughter, Elaine, are spending a few days in town. Son, I want you to meet them. Nothing would please me more than to see you and Sarah's daugh3-Minut- former of state, testified that Alger Hiss former state department attache who rs on trial for perjury In connection with stolen secret documents, had a "very good" reputation for Integrity and veracity In 1938 when Ilisi was Sayre's "right band man." DIPLOMACY: Clotse for Japs As part of the policy of speeding readmission of Japan into the world family of nations, U.S. state department officials have disclosed that this nation soon will start training more "Important" Japanese diplomats to aid In that effort. It was disclosed at the came time that plans have been made to bring several hundred Japanese members of psrlirrent. newsmen, government officials, and students. manhood warming his blood. Instead of attending the dinner party, he held a clandestine meeting with the redhead. They had a swell time together. By mutual and silent agreement they decided pot, to .confide to each other their identity. Afterward, Basil had some regrets. His father was a powerful influence. He could make of be was penniless. Winthrop, senior, arranged another meeting with Sarah Mortimer and daughter. It was. he decided, to be the test. If Basil refused to follow his wishes this time well, he'd have to get under way in taking his drastic steps. When Basil beard about the arranged meeting he came to a decision. He would meet this Elaine and tell her in front of his father that he loved another. Then he would keep an appointment with ACROSS 1. Kind of duck 6. ill Ail TIE between 16. High card 19. River DOWN 1. Ancient (Eur.) 20. Help 21. Obscure 23. To caution 24. A flourish country, Basil stared. This, he thooght was the payoff. Ilia father bad arranged everything else In his life, bnt by golly be wasn't going to pick his wife! "Dad, you're taking too much for granted. I can't marry Elaine. I I'm in love with someone else." "Someone else? Who?" frame 12. Teutonic god 13. Senior 14. Onward 2. Masculine 15. apricot 5. On an equal ny insect 16. Goddess of mischief River (Chin.) 18. Afoot 2L Demand, as payment 22. Perish 23. Telegraph 24. Dis- S. Arab. S. name Kind of of trumpets 25. Foolish shrub 4. Japanese 8. Sweep of the scythe in mowing 32. Fuss Upbraid t i i ' A I" mil ioiw V T SjT Olg fti TIT CL Tel aJm IjA Tgjs N usj t jjo iwes 111 33. Correct 84. Values 26. Facts 89. Dancer's , cymbals 40. Cry of a crow 41. Luzon native N. 7 S 27. Domesti- cates St 9 28. Jewish if K a- - Basil continued to see the redheaded girl, and each time be saw her he loved her more. "I er don't know her name. ' "I see." Winthrop, senior, rose and patted his son on the arm. "I've arranged a dinner party for tomorrow. You'll meet Elaine then BUT BASIL didn't meet Elaine For the first time in his bfe he felt the electrifying qualities month 29. A sailor 30. Pinch 31. A Uble In a store 85. Folio 38. (abbr.) A son of mztim 44 2 I S Bib.) 87. Hindu froddess 88. Oil of rose amend for 44. Notoriety WTfrTZs W4Z22i 22 petal 40. Young man in military school 42. Lariat 43. Make My i " Jacob m "-1- 11 j tij w-- charged MORTON Lit ho jJT a; weight Unit of weight Aniline; family of England k e e WZs 26. Knock 27. Greek letter 29. A heavy 81. 7. Rod 8. 9. Ui locomotives hospitals points 17. ri ANSWER 45. Divisions In 10. Railroad Interval Honey-gatherl- WEEK'S LAST 1HA 11. Kind of ,.,rsi red-hea- PUZZLE ter married." ;US 2 uncomfortgirl who, apparently, had been nsed , to nice things, might not be so interested in him if she knew red-bead- ' j half-finishe- d d things decidedly able. And the SSWORD ' m BASIL BEC0MES A j t secretary The CROWELL "I'm in charge of three cancer projects and help on half a dozen others. On the side, I run a throat clinic, work in the wards and give gas-turbi- 'Forgotten' : And I, who needed much to learn the things That he had learned, sat down beside him there On the low doorstep in the scented dusk, He smiled his gentle smile, he touched my hair, He said- "My child, 1, too, was reStless once, I, too, was hurt by life, and blind and dumb I groped my way, then a wise one said these words. If you are quiet, so will help come Twas an old folk saying from an old loved land. I listened to its teaching, listened long, And learned its secret. He who truSts in God, And who goes quietly, he will grow Strong." er According to an impression prevalent in the capital. President Truman intends to press congress for some action to spur construction of medium-price- d housing. And, as must have been inevitable, the "forgotten man" was again brought into the picture. The capital sources mentioned that Mr. would Truman's administration recommend that this housing be "fordesigned to help the gotten man" in housing the ncome worker of the nation to own his own home or get better, 'rental accdmmodations. " IF ANYTHING can be done in that respect, the "forgotten man" would surely , be most grateful but the manner in which the housing problem has been kicked around in Washington could be blamed if the "forgotten man" adopted an attitude of "I'll believe it when I see it." The uew housing program, according to reports, will be on the "must" list of early consideration by the lawmakers, but that "must" isn't as formidable as it sounds, for most Americans will remember that Mr. Truman was unable to get any action on a lot of "must" legislation in the first session of the 81st congress. However, no one could be ruled out for trying, and if any successful housing venture should result, there would probably be an air of forgiveness all 'round. THE LEGISLATION which the President is reported as ready to sponsor is said to rely mainly on private industry to do the Job. I done, He had a look about him of release. ss For man sat one evening by his door, face was tranquil, in his eyes was peace, hands were Still, his long life work was I Imir DOWNEY that "he looks like the oldest choir boy in the world." He has sung everywhere church socials, night clubs, Hollywood, on the air, radio and now on television, too. A solid business man, he is director of three companies, of one. And he has found time to be a fine father; Mike, Lorelle, Sean. Tony and Kevin are proof of that. After 30 years of acting on the stage. In silent and talking pictures and in guest shots on the air Ronald Colman has embarked on bis own radio series (NBC Friday evenings). The applause he and Benita Hume Colman received after their tour appearances on Jack Benny's show pursuaded them. "The Halls of Ivy" presents them as a college president and his wife. Stars of movies and radio are giving so generously of their time to aid the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation that eventually you'll hear practically all of them. Geraldine Fitzgerald, Sammy Kaye, Arthur Godfrey, Morton Abe and Burrows are Downey among the many who already have broadcast in aid of the current drive for two million dollars for the foundation. "Kilroy Returns" is the current Path release of the "This is America" series. It is the story ol I who revisits th a typical Normandy beaches, Paris, Luxembourg and Germany with his wife. RKO ex-G- ' ( |