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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH CHARGES GENOCIDE . . . Msgr. Bcla Varga, president of Hungari-an government in exile, charges Communist Hungarians with de-porting 70,000 people, many of whom, he says, died in cattle cars. He charges "genocide by deporta-tion." I ' i (I !' $ 4 i HAPPY NEW YEAR May it be a howling success , i I t V ' ; n ) - a...--. i. -- :r'.. . . , , j IKE BOOM IN PHILLY . . . Members of the Americans-for-Eisen-how-committee cluster about a big photograph of the popular general as they met in Philadelphia to start the Eisenhower boom In the city of brotherly love. In the rear are Raymond Pitcairn (left) and Elkins Wetherill. In front (from left), J. R. Kintner, Rep. Hugh Scott, Jr., and Rodney Synnestvedt. Fire Fighters Designs Flying Water Wagon PORT SULPHUR, La. The Mississippi river is close at hand, but the Port Sulphur Vo-lunteer Fire Department takes no chances of being caught with-out water. Because the firemen frequent-ly respond to alarms from other communities, some of which are too far inland to make stringing of hose lines to the river feas-ible, they take their water sup-ply right with them. It's carried in a "flying water wagon," specially designed in the shops of Freeport Sulphur Company here. The apparatus consists of a n tank mounted on a truck and is oper-ated in conjunction with an-other mobile unit known as a "front pumper." The pump sends water from the tank through the hose at a rate of 400 gallons a minute. A area is served by the fire company, most of whose personnel are Freeport employ-ees who live with their families in a model townsite community developed by the company when it opened its nearby Grande Ecaille sulphur mine 18 years ago. r '' .''71 ADMITS PRINT JOB ... Ed-ward Witmcr, Canton, Ohio, has admitted printing 20,000 copies of a "private letter" to Ohio clergy-men, pointing out that Taft's op-ponent in senatorial campaign in 1950 was a "Roman Catholic candi-date." Many Holidays Mark Calendar In Various Regions With January 1, one of the most important holidays, just around the corner, did you ever stop to think than an unusual number of the 365 days of each year are public hol-idays? The number of holidays that you receive each year depends greatly upon the part of the country in which you live, for there are in-numerable sectional holidays in ad-dition to the accepted national ob-servances. Many of the Southern states, for example, still set aside a day to commemorate the Civil War. Columbus Day, October 12, is a holiday in 29 states. Kentucky and Tennessee are the only two states that observe both the birthdays of. Lee and Lincoln and Easter Mon-day is a legal holiday in Texas. Yet, we Americans are not the best, nor the worst, as far as the number of holidays per year are concerned. The largest number of holidays may be found in India, where 50 bank holidays are ob-served yearly to meet the preju-dices of the varied religions to be found there. The least number of holidays is found you guessed it in Russia. The U.S.S.R. celebrates but five holidays yearly, all Sundays having been abolished. SCANNING THE WEEK'S NEWS of Main Street and the World Cspeharf Amendment Allows Price Increases on Thousands of Hems HERE WE GO With a sigh of "here we go again", home town housewives across the nation learned the Capehart amendment to the controls law is effective immediately. The amendment opens the way for possible price increases on thousands of consumer items including .clothing, meat, foods, milk, butter, coal, gasoline, tobacco, beer, drugs and cosmetics. Under this amendment manufacturers and processors are allowed to use their a prices and add or subtract cost increases or decreases through last July 26 in computing new ceilings. Because application of the Capehart formula is optional, the general effect of the new order could not be adequately estimated. However, it was believed the particular effect will be to raise prices when- - ver an application for adjustment is granted. There is just one possible hope for the con- - l"AKV,H Or DllVicS sumer. Manufacturers are not required to seek '""tm' " new ceilings, but are allowed to do so. If any ; t : concern seeks higher prices for any line of goods, f ' any reductions required by the formula for other i'V5fi'i''t goods must be put into effect as well. The firm 3X?JiJIf cannot seek higher prices alone. mrWlHfr Among the items affected by the new order ilAWMyitUiM are wool and cotton yarns and fabrics, soft drinks, 'OU.i fejfe liquor and wine, lumber and millwork, crude oil. It canned and frozen fruits and vegetables, and many I f other processed foods, also many important chem-- 1 I icals, plastics, insecticides. Price Director Michael V. Di Salle has warned t . i . 1 congress that prices apparently are rising again JANUARY 231 and it would be a dangerous risk to decontrol any major item now. FOOD PRICES While the OPS was announcing possible future price increases, the Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed that its latest index n food prices indicated an increase of nearly 1 per cent since its previous report. The bureau pegged the price index at 231.2. That placed it 131.2 per cent above the 1935-3- 9 average and 14 per cent above June, 1950. Leading the advance were fruits and vegetables, and dairy products, including milk, chese and butter. Meats, poultry and fish declined, as did fats and oils. TRUCE TALKS The drawn-ou-t, frustrating Korean peace talks con-tinue with the two sides deadlocked over supervision of the truce and the Heds refusing to open discussions on the exchange of prisoners. Perhaps the most significant news from the truce talks is that the negotiations have entered the sixth month. It is almost inconceivable that two parties can talk for five months without agreement if there was good faith and a desire for peace on the part of all concerned. This fact alone has made the people in the home town of America pessimistic of the outcome. By the time this reaches print the December 27 deadline on the cease-fir- e line will have expired. If and armistice has not been agreed on, then a new cease fire line must be drawn before a final settle-ment. For this reason (since it appears unlikely an agreement will be reached) increased fighting can be expected on the batUefront as both sides attempt to improve their positions. TRUMAN President Truman cut short his Florida vacation and re-turned to Washington. The President hastened to assure the public that no sudden world emergency dictated his return. It was obvious two things were uppermost in the President's mind: 1) The deadlocked Korean truce talks, and (2) the tax scandals. It was considered unlikely there would be any public .announcement concerning decisions about the Korean situation until those1 decisions had been carried out. The tax scandal, however, was another matter. The President and those surrounding him have become more and more concerned with the developments (see blow) in the tax fix probe. White House intervention, even the calling in of J. Edgar Hoover, FBI chief, to conduct a sweeping investigation, appeared to be a likely pros-pect. MRS F.D.R. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, one of the most controversial figures to appear on the American scene, came under attack of Arch-bishop J. Francis A. Mclntyre for "assuming the role of an agnostic and fatalist". Mrs. Roosevelt said on a radio program recently: "I don't know whether I believe in a future life ... I came to feel that it didn't really matter very much because whatever the future held you'd have to face it when you came to it, just as whatever life holds you have to face it in exactly the same way. "I think I am pretty much of a fatalist. You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give." The archbishop said he considers it "a strange situation that one who as chairman of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, on the question of religion, assume the role of an agnostic and fatalist." DEFENSE Secretary of Defence Robert A. Lovett has announced that a provision for increasing the Air Force from 90- to 143 wings 126 of them combat will be in the 1953 fiscal year budget now being prepared and which will be presented to congress early next month. The actual size of the defense budget has not been announced, but it is believed to be within an informally set ceiling of $45,000,000,000 for the en-tire military establishment. Congress appropriated a total of $59,403,264,000 for the Army, Navy, Air Force and the Office of the Secretary of Defense for the present fiscal year, exclusive of foreign military aid. The present 90 wings of the Air Force their size varies from about 75 planes for fighter units to 30 for heavy bombers are not modernized since they are in many instances made up of aircraft such as the 9 and These planes are World War II vintage and must be replaced. TAX FIX The House Ways and Means subcommittee graft In the I Revenue Department was blown wide open by the charge of Abraham If Teitelbaum that two men claiming i 'I i , i f friendship with federal officials tried to shake him down for $500,000 with promises of a "tax fix". Teitelbaum, a wealthy Chicago lawyer, further identified as attorney , for the Capone family in some of their legal troubles, swore that Bert K. Naster, Hollywood, Fla., business-man, and Frank Nathan, Pittsburgh, led him to believe that they knew of a Washington clique which was on the lookout for "soft touches". Naster and Nathan both vigor-ously denied the charge, but At-torney General Howard McGrath ordered a grand jury investigation ABRAHAM TEITELBAUM of charges. As far as the people in the home towns are concerned, the charges shadow across the Internal and denials continue to throw a darker Revenue Bureau, under fire since the dismissal of J0 by President Truman. And the deeper digs the more dirt that is of this investigation will be heard There is no doubt now that the echo to the election campaign of 1952. I i i't ' i'j H COMMUNIST HOSPITALITY ... All over western Europe, the Com-munists, inspired by the Kremlin, are trying to get rid of the Americans so Communism can take over without a fight. They use every propa-ganda measure they can think of to make the Americans feel unwanted. Communists, trying to encourage Americans to leave Vienna and return to the United States, recently painted signs on pavements and bill-boards reading, "Ami, go home," such as this one. Delaware Towns Expand as U. S. Steel Constructs New Mill MORRISVILLE, Pa. Growing pains are bothering the small com-munities on the Delaware river be-tween Yardley and Bristol a short distance from the $400,000,000 steel mill being constructed by United States Steel company. The most pressing needs are in-creased traffic facilities, enlarged local government services, expand-ed school operations, hospital ac-commodations, new business cen-ters and more public transporta-tions. Two major development corpora-tions, currently engaged in con-structing towns for some 60,000 persons, are expected to keep pace with housing require-ments, barring a sudden influx of workers to the steel plant and al-lied industries in the area. One company will soon complete the first 1,100 home unit of Fairless Hills. The town is rising on 1,250 acres of rolling farm land at Oxford Valley, four miles west of the new steel plant. Ultimately it is to have from 3,500 to 4,000 prefabricated houses, plus more than a score of custom built dwellings. Another company is busy with the initial construction phase of "a complete city of 16,000 homes" on a 3,000 acre tract. Erection of the Fairless works, which began last March, has gone well. At present, some 6,800 con-struction workers are engaged in the project on the river front flat lands south of Morrisville. When completed next year, the plant will employ 6,000 persons and turn out 1,800,000 ingot tons of steel a year. The new community of Fairless Hills, when completed next year, will have at its hub a civic center, schools, modern shopping area, fire station, dispensary, parks, play-ground and swimming pool. In the same area, sites are being set aside for churches and the erection of a high school. The other modern Bucks county community will be known as Levit-tow- ' - - - H - ; y;j r l .; FAMILY DOCTOR OF YEAR . . . Dr. Albert C. Yoder, 84, Goshen, Ind., was chosen "family doctor of the year" by the A.M.A. at its con-vention in Los Angeles. He has spent the past 50 yea-,- practicing medicine in Goshen. Gift-Givin- g Is Old Custom in Scotland New Year's day is more generally celebrated as a day for gift giving than is Christmas in Scotland. A family on the eve of the New Year was quite a cere-mony in old Scotland. There would be the preparation of the "hot pint", a kettle filled with warm, spiced ale. At the stroke of 12, each mem-ber of the family would take a drink of the "hot pint" and there would be a general round of handshakes and good wishes. After good wishes and drinks had been passed around, the family eld-ers would take up the kettle and go out to visit the neighbors to offer them sips from the kettle. If they were the first to step into the house of a neighbor, it was deemed very important that they not come empty-hande- but with their hands well full, signifying the full year that lay ahead of the house's occupants. 'if.' . .V lf- - . ... . . . I v;.;v . - I - .... j POLIO POSTER BOY . . . Larry Jim Ross, 1952 March-of-Dim- poster boy, makes friends with a dog on his arrival in New York by plane from Wiesbaden, Germany. He is accompanied by his parents, Chief Warrant Officer and Mrs. Jim Gross. He came to the U.S. for the opening of the polio fund campaign on his seventh birthday, January 2. The lad, who has been battling polio for more than five years, has lived around army camps his whole life. His dad is attached to air force. I f VI, jj- - - , j - 1 r l , T . HUSBAND MURDERED . . . Mrs. Irene Yule, San Francisco, gazes at photo of her husband, Col. John Yule, who was found slashed to death in a Hong Kong hotel. He was on the way home from Indo-china. Mrs. Yule believes he was killed for money. Tiling Spades Are Made Exclusively in Iowa Town WEBSTER CITY, Iowa Three small towns in Iowa have been the home of the only tiling spade manu-facturer in the world. Today the only manufacturer of the implement is located in Web-ster City. It was invented over a half century ago near Anamosa, Iowa, tnd the first factory was located there. Later a plant was started in Perry, Iowa, and still later the plant it Webster City was started. According to A. G. Osmundson, head of the company manufactur-ing the spade, it is strictly an Iowa product a bar or skeleton type spade. It is used where the soil is wet, muddy and sticky, such as drainage of swamps and sloughs. Being a skeleton type, it is easier to push into the soil and there is less surface for the mud to cling to and the air gets behind the load so it is easier to release it. The first day of the year has been more generally observed over a longer period of time than any other holiday. Celebration of the New Year can be traced back to the Druids in Eng-land, and even to the Babylonians, when it was the season for a y celebration. The Druids celebrated the New Year on the shortest day of the year. They believed this to be the day that the sun, which journeyed away from the earth in the cold months, began the journey homeward bring-ing with it sunshine, warmth and good cheer. I ! , ! t .- -, .11 f t ""-C- - I I .vs. 4 h - IV I i f - . ' WATCH HOME BURN . . . Mr. and Mrs. Sol. Gertz watch in anguish as their home burns following crash of a 9 bomber into a residential section of East Denver, Colorado, recently. The Gertzes, with a daugh-ter, far right, and a friend, had just stepped from their home when the big plane shot through the air close to rooftops, striking and demolish-ing their house. The air force rushed every type of mobile first aid equipment to the neighborhood. WINS MEDAL . . . The marine corps has announced the award of the congressional medal to Sgt. James Johnson, Pocatello, Idaho, missing in action in Korea. He en-gaged the enemy in haod-to-han- d combat so platoon could escape. CRASS ROOTS MEDICINE Hoosier Receives A.M.A. Award for Year Dr. A. C. Yoder, Gosh-e- Ind., man has been named "Family Doctor of 1951" by the American Medical Association for "is exceptional service to his com-munity. He was chosen as repres-enting the untiring general pract-itioner whose devotion to duty mbolized the medical profession. Previously, he had been elected family doctor of the year in Indiana at the Indiana Medical Associa-tion convention. "I have done nothing outstan-dingnothing unusual-unl- ess this be an exception," he told his col-leagues. "I have interested myself in the grass roots of medicine, the county medical society." Dr Yoder was accorded the hon-or at the clinical session of the A.M.A. in Los Angeles. Town Wants U.S. Loan To Raise Employees' Pay ITHACA, N.Y. The mayor of Ithaca, Stanley C. Shaw, has asked President Truman for a million dollars to give city employees a wage boost. "Of course, this request is ridicu-lous," the mayor said in a letter to the president. "However, it is no more absurd than the report of a promised loan to a country (Iran) that is destroying one of the world's greatest sources of oil." "We also have been Informed that Prime Minister Churchill will be seeing you for the purpose of getting another loan for England," the letter said. He then asked for the loan to give the city employees a raise so they can meet the increase? Income tax that "you just had the congress to enact." New Year Late in U. S. By the time the United States welcoming of the New Year is ap-proaching the climactic stage, most of the world will have celebrated the advent of 1952 and quietly settled to rest. Geography puts the Western hemisphere at the end of the line for the approaching New Year. The reason for this is that the earth turns from west to east, and the time gets here last of all. |