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Show ? Current Events ? yon haven't been spending all your evenings taking the dog for a walk or fixing bo"'e' chances are you've been read'ng about some of the events on which the following five questions are based. Can you answer them. 1. The United Nations general assembly recently convened in Paris for a 10 or 12-week fall session. What is the name of the elaborate building in which the assembly is meeting? 2. The American, British and French ambassadors who have been csnferring with Molotov recently re-cently took their leave of Moscow. Mos-cow. Can yon name them? 3. This year, 16 years after he soared 10 miles into the stratosphere strato-sphere in a baUoon, a Belgian scientist-explorer plans to plunge two miles under water to investigate investi-gate the deep sea world. Who is he? 4. Who is the man who took the assassinated Count Bernadotte's place as U. N. mediator in Palestine? Pal-estine? 5. Princess Elizabeth of England Eng-land was in the world spotlight when she got married last November. No-vember. Now she is in the news again for a different reason. What is it? ANSWERS 1. Palais de Chaillot. 2. Walter Bedell Smith (U. S), Frank Roberts (British), Yves Cha-taigneau Cha-taigneau (French). 3. Prof. Auguste Piccard. 4. Ralph Bunche, an American, Bernadotte's assistant. 5. She is expecting a baby In November. No-vember. PRICE AID: Sure Thing One thing is dead sure about the coming election: No matter "who gets into office, farm price supports will be continued. Governor Dewey is on record as favoring the Hope-Aiken law passed by congress last June, and President Presi-dent Truman says he is in favor of farm price supports and has been all along. BOTH SIDES have promised their, help to the nation's farmers. As a result of the growing amount of light that has been shed upon the idea of price supports there has been a lot of argument as to whether wheth-er they keep up costs of living in( the city and, hence, contribute gen-, erally toward Inflation. The system was started in the 1930s to save farmers from bank-, ruptcy caused by surplus production1 and lack of consumer buying. It accomplished that end. IT WAS CHANGED during the war to make farmers produce more food than the country needed to feed less fortunate nations who were, fighting the Axis. It did that. After the war this incentive sys- tem was continued to keep greater, amounts of food flowing into desti-l tute areas abroad. It was success- j ful in that, also. Now, however, as a result of this artificial stimulation, production is beginning to pile up in the U. S. The wartime pattern of price sup-' port no longer fits the American' market. THE POTATO situation is a case in point. As the government con-1 tinues to stimulate the production of potatoes the guaranteed prices1 keep consumers from getting thei surplus crops at bargain prices, and at the same time the system keeps farmers growing too many potatoes. Congress this year elected to re-, vise the price support program, effective ef-fective in 1950, by providing new parity prices based on modern farm practices and by allowing a fluctu-' ation in support levels to conform with general economic conditions. Dewey and Eggs : - ' i In sharp contrast to Henry Wallace's Wal-lace's unsavory experience with eggs in the South, the product of the hen brought nothing but good to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, GOP presidential candidate. At his Pawling, N. T., farm he was made honorary member of the national "Good Egg" club and was presented pre-sented with an egg-bedecked plaque by Hobart Creighton (left) , GOP nominee for governor of Indiana In-diana and president of the Poultry Poul-try and Egg national board. ANSWER MAN: Brannan When it comes to questions Secretary Secre-tary of Agriculture Charles Bran-nan Bran-nan gets all kinds, many of which have nothing to do with farming. Pouring in at the rate of 3,000 a day, the queries vary from: "How do I bury cats in the ground?" to "What was Little Eva's last name in the play, "Uncle Tom's Cabin?'" and "Can yon recommend a lonely hearts club? Three of us girls are interested.' |