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Show i ! ! f 'L 0) fXrnX jpJmd. 3 t V Illustrated By Peanut Politics " .OSSt hTW By IETt.R EDSOV E. Washington Correspondent (NEA) New WASHINGTON, farm legislation which Congress has finally worried through is another patohwoik job. In this or jerr) built bill are bins amendments for cotton, potatoes and peanuts. A wheat amendment or two was but finally knocked out. The rigid cotton acreage allotment formula which Congress passed two years ago proved absolutely unworkable m llH9. Something had to be done about it. But cotton planting has already begun in deepest Texas. So the new amendment was rushed through practically without hearings. It will add about 1,200,000 acres onto the 21,000,000 cotton acrege floor approved last year. As that floor produced more cotton than the country could the new amendment consume, means only that the government will have to pile up still bigger surpluses. The cost is estimated by Sen. Clinton Anderson of New -- J & . y-- 4.Vjf " &' d, 1r ' i y -- -. t 1 Ns, . ' -i 2.J , Ji i- vhf " i'-- nr"' ' H si&f IV jbwW, v ? A ' NEA Telephoto) - Ambassador-at-larg- e Philip Jessup (right, foreground) tells the Senate foreign DENIES CHARGE relations subcommittee In Washington that Senator Joseph R McCarthy's charges against him are false. Left to right at table Senators Millard E. Tydings (D Md.) chairman; Theodore Green (D.. R. i ), Bnen McMahon D Conn and Tom Connolly (D., Tex.). Between Tydings and Green, in second row, )6 Senator McCarthy. Behind Senator McMahon (wearing black hat) is Alice Roosevelt Longworth. u- - sw ' "g"1 S.xr & ;, .v 'y. $ 5 i)s ' 5 t Mexico f , X V rf rff-a-? V- v f - & . tela - , '- T; -,- ff 5 t - - 40 "'' ' 0 x v-Uss-s at provided price supports tor edible peanuts In 1938, when they were declared, a "basic crop, along with wneat, cotton, corn and tobacco. Then by the famous Steagall amendment of wartime, peanuts crushed for oil were declared a "nonbasic crop. This permitted the secretary of agriculture to apply price supports it needed to encourage production. The wartime demand for peanut oil was so great, however, that soon the this v. flw tot) NEA Telephoto) DEATH OF A HIPPO HERD when nature'! cycle of weather is disrupted, man build dams, constructs But lower creatures are helpless experiments. Irrigation projects and calls on scientists for More the whim of clouds and wind and neat. In the Rift Valley of Tanganyika Territory, Africa, lies Lake Aulcwa, where Ufe became a desperate struggle for a herd of hippopotami when, for two years, the Paine didnt fall and the lake's 12 feet of water gradually dried. Here, trapped in muddy ooxe, the living rams tame this winter kAppes hnddie with dead mates, too weak to struggle from the muddy Wap. and covered ths skeleton of the beasts. rain-maki- lb i S I .i , -- if ' T of 1,000,000 tons, and Uncle Sam stood on the hot deck this past year, buying peanuts by the million peck. The crop Isn't all marketed, but the loss is expected to be about $40,000,000. .... In this situation, along conus the George amendment. It Is so complicated that only a peanut politician can understand it. In e effect it sets up a system for edible and oil nuts. It requires the governments Commodit r Credit Corporation to support edible peanut prices at 90 per cent of parity, which is now $212 a ton. This applies to all quota acreage peanuts. The George amendment then provides that all peanuts grown in addition to the quota acreage crop shall be supported at the price of peanuts sold for crush two-pric- ' , , , 111 Wheie tins ment would t. 4 b pi down can bp srn example. Suppm, , peanut ''l'1'1' v b quot $212 price i to c If he weie or sell peanuts from areas $85 to cc w totheKn,, $100 , r tor H hs at tro inr k n,ht'0u,l) '"7 ton 10 tub pure I ew''t' honest he could hue k,h f dist Jan sell n peanut c at wha'overf could get for the ori 'he ope acreage A market. il! o v s. . . Smi nil 0 Fnn 1 for tirda CARLOAD OF CEILING PAPER 0 Bt he die To Be Given Away Absolutely FREE During April iliac Case Salt Mi ofRi 1 years STARTS Then to throw good money after bad, another amendment was added. It will permit the government to pay freight on the surplus potatoes it has to give welfare away to o -- m FREE- child Mr illt 4ms Saturday CEILING i C who sill ( leki PAPER A ' WITH APRIL Thun EVERY tierk' Derar Betty WALLPAPER 1st. oil Hr. Qirk itma ORDER THIS CARLOAD OF CEILING PAPERS WILL BE GIVEN AWAY FREE1 PEANUTS HAVE lorn pren Haim A LONG HISTORY of I a wui The peanut amendment was proposed for last years farm bill by Rep. Stephen Pace of Geogia, but it was killed at the last minute. Sen. Walter F. George of Georgia was more successful this year. In effect, his amendment would put In a two-pric-e support system which would be almost Impossible to administer. And It would take off all acreage restriction! on peanuts grown for 9e n Gnfflt this The history peanut politics is an amazing example of how balled up farm legislation can become. Congress first - FREE Ceilings With Every Room of Wallpaper v When Purchased Resumes Work r After VI ts,. Briefest Edward P. Larsen Sr., is again ' working in his profession a a toolsmith and blacksmith. He Is now located with the Logan Weld' & C US? At V f and Blacksmith Shop as man" ing ? ager, located at 1040 North Main, Logan. Av Jk Mr. Larsen recently returned JL V i v, from Denmark ss a missionary for If ,?& Jz, the LDS church. He was born and raised in Denmark, coming to this TARGET OF REDS IRE Here is the French aircraft carrier Dixmude as she sailed from country hi 1908. Mr. Larsen received his apprenticeship training in Norfolk, Va., with a cargo of 48 American fighter and bomber planes, the first shipment in the Denmark as a toolsmith and blackprogram to ream Western Europe. Before the Dixmude sailed, French Premier Georges Bidault smith and has been working in charged that the Communists have trained "commando' squads to sabotage the arms shipments. this profession for the past 50 years. He worked for the Ogden Portcounty, Oklahoma, every day or so. The gritty clouds have spread land Cement company as chief across the entire southwest and blacksmith vrom 1909 to 1920, and middlewest a few times but they nee that time has worked on form more frequently here. many large projects as toolsmith The dunes of drifting topsoil and blacksmith such as the Cutler encroach on Lanes farmyard, dam located oa the Bear River. Mr. Larsen started his own busipiling around Ms outbuildings like snowbanks. In some places the ness in 1932 and when the war of a bowl' (SdUors Note: Deserts ars middle "potential dust dunes are drifting from eroded started he went to work as maon tfce march again ia the south- which government agencies say land onto growing crops of ad- chinist foreman in the Lot Angeles west. la one county of Okla- extends over 150,000 acres of joining farina shipyards. Ha was weU recognized homa 60,000 acres of southwestern Oklahoma The area Roads in the area are choked in his field or work Me was given farm land he barren Md hasnt had a soaking rain 1m six with the powder-lik- e soU. Many a bonus and special recognition An forlorn at the merry of the months. wind are lm passable. unceasing for his invenUon of a device for winds. The United Preu sent gnaws at Lanes farm, spreading the speeding up of the installation Carter Bradley, manager of its a cancerous growth of dunes and LOTS OF EGO of radar equipment on board Navy Oklahoma City Bureau, into the kicking up dirt clouds that swirl WEST PLAINS, Mo. (UF Haxel veeeels. "potential dust bowl for a close-u- far acroi country. Micks claims one of her hens set Mr. Larsen has a family of three Lane vies the desolation of his a local record when she view. In talking with dozens deposited boys and four girls. The boys, Edof persons he learned why the farm as an act of God. Ha pras an inches ward J., W&ldman A and Ray Elegg measuring 8 dust is blowing and what can be for relief lor ram. around the middle and 11 inches don, are all recoghlxed in their skill done to stop it.) About 350 farmers within a as welders and machinists. around its length. radius of Lane's place share his longing for ram but many , By CARTER BRADLEY United Frees Staff Correspondent of them are better off than he. Only a few hundred yards from (UP) An ANADARKO, Okla., Lanes devastated farm are growelderly farmer squinted grimly into a biting, blinding sandstorm ing crops, lush and green in amazing contrast. which pushed dunes of dirty-pin- k That land has been handled by across his farm. topsoil modern conservation methods not said J. "Im A different soilfrom giving up, practices of the Lane. Dust and drouth came be- 82- ear-ol- d Lane, who has worked fore and we licked it. We can lick the si. ne land sirce 1907. It again. Lane knows that dry weather Lanes farm lies In the isnt the basic caue of his trouble. 1 was just unlucky, he told WEHDENES me. "We didn't get anything plantSHOE REPAIR ed as a cover crop before the last Has MovmI To good ram. My land is naked. It doesnt have any protection from 62 West 1st North the winds Net to Gom Theater Local dust storms rise over a 60,000 square mile area in Caddo 14 at Our Regular Low Prices n ioul RWl iwd The Dust Clouds Are Heavy Again In Midwestern U. S. ! le i Tea Ths It tube ail i' Septen Hundreds of New Patterns to Choose From Dr., p'eu Ire , Cedar rtatloi KJegt lent be Yes, APRIL is Wallpaper Month WE TRIM YOUR PAPER MARK YOUR ROOM SIZE ON CHART AND FREE BRING IT TO US Social W. f the CoTipa, mnty aeli i Will at f A tV'it bom M STATE HARDWARE n tbi 27 NORTH MAIN LOGAN oi "one frone fepr HARDWARE CO. " The p 10-mi- le isite artmi Kite f v4 r j onee-ferti- 1 ih"' ' pin nor Logan Toolsmith P vf ,t 1 if' r v suppose he plan ri , could sell the r, ml,, f a '"n" ,, , Toyd, ir Tptr The result was a national crop 31, ,1950 ing, If marketed The prue (f r,, runs from $Si t0 lf)0 Having to buv up p ' plus oil peanu's j uni estt uteri ally ,Ilrj' age w here the pm ,, take its teinfu CCC. fii The potato section provides both acreage and marketing quotas on the 1951 crop. An amendment to apply these controls on the 1950 crop was introduced last October. If passed. It might have saved $80,000,000 $100,000,000 on crop. - - nil $75,000,000. to y 2,- 100,000. price of oil peanuts shot up to the edible peanut level. From 1943 to 1947 all peanuts were treated as "basic" and received the same price suppoit. Peanut acreage rose above the 3 000 000 mark. But the Army demand was so great that the government lost no money on its peanut operations. Peanut acreage In 1949 was ordered it about 22 per cent. Even so, it was Impossible to keer supply under demand. Instead of leaving acreage reduction up to the Department of Agriculture, however, Congress tacked a ider onto the cotton bill which specified that in 1949 no state could be cut below 60 per cent of its 1948 peanut acreage, and that the national L.i. agencies. ! Friday, March Confusion In Farm Legislation Afvr acreage, should not be under THE LOGAN, UTAH HERALD JOURNAL Washington Column 27 North Main Wallpaper Store Phone 81 forth ?iltiet In. V.V, ' Drl Logan, Utah U wiw It i k J J tierto IMlt lh Id, 111,,; lid ntr Aim mb! Wv, 160-ac- re 541y' t h Tli Sari t kole Fresh Cracked linei CRAD DIMMERS Friday, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. hzjzn) i i t fQyc |