Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 17, Decatur, Adams County, 21 January 1954 — Page 8

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Dual Purpose Bill On Cotton, Potato Bill Compromise By House, Senate WASHINGTON UP — A dual purpose bill to increase this year's eotton acreage and provide potato growers with limited government price protection came up for almost certain passage in the house today. The senate-approved measure may become the fleet major legislation to be enacted at the new session. The senate will have to pass on house changes in the bilL but the measure may go to the White House Friday. _ _ The measure, a compromise between earlier house and senate versions, - was drafted by a-con-ference committee Wednesday night. It trbuld: 1. Increase the national cotton allotment for this years controlled crops by 3,458,854 acres, a 15 per--cent reduetion from lass year’s uncontrolled’ crop instead of 30 per icent origtoillly ordered by the Department of Agriculture. 2. Permit the department to use price support funds to> buy up a limited amount of surplus potatoes for use in school lunch and similar programs. * Congress banned all price supports on potatoes several years ago after government losses on the crop passed the 500-million dollar mark. Secretary of agriculture Ezra T. Benson endorsed both the botton and potato phases of the bill. The potato provision was added to the bill to aid growers who are getting about 82 cdhts a bushel for this year's crop compared to >1.99 a year ago. .It calls for limited government purchases of surpluses and would not return to the former program of guaranteed support prices. — Another provision in the biM "would boost planting allotments

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' V ''^ X R ■ i" 9BKR MRS. OVETA CULP HOBBY, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, tell* reporter! Ln Washington that the Eisenhower Administration has proposed a Social Security and legislative program that “fits the times and me?ta the needs of the people.' She envisions a three and one-half percent social security tax on each employee and employer from 1970 on. (International Soundphoto) for duram wheat, a special variety grown in North Dakota and other north central states and tised in making macaroni. There is no surplus of this kind of wheat. If you have something to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad. It brings results.

Reaction Varies On Eisenhower Budget Democrats Charge Renege On-Promise WASHINGTON UP — Democrats in Congress charged today that President Eisenhower has reneged on the GOP campaign promise to balance the budget. But Republican senators and representatives said the fiscal 1955 budget reflected good progress in cutting federal spending. Comments included: Speaker Joseph W. iMartin Jr., RlMass. — "The President’s budget message is a masterpiece of statesmanship, it is the best possible news for .\mericans because it hows the way tatfard still more tax reductions simultaneously with a continuing substantial buildup in our national security.? House Democratic Leader Sam Rayburn Tex. — “In view of the campaign promises of the Republicans to balance the budget, I wonder when they are going to do -.it By next June (the end of the 1955 fiscal year) they will have had 18 months in office." Rep. Clarence Cannon Mo.. ranking Demcorat on the house appropriations committee — "Obviously. this budget was drafted in an attempt to cover up the failure of the Republicans to keep their campaign promise to balance the budget ... I am happy to see that the Republicans have<Carried over some items from the New Deal and the Fair Deal which the GOP had condemned so loudly in the past.” . House GOP leader Charles A. Halleck Ind. — "The President’s budget indicates a determination to reduce the cost of the federal operation by every means possible needs. The proposals lay thejoundation for further tax reductions in the future."

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Sen. Harry F. Byrd I>Va. — "They’ve mad*' commendable progress, but 1 think they should go a step further and balance the With further economies, they could go ahead and balance it . . . This convinces me more than ever that we don’t need' to increase the- debt limit." Sen. Bour||{f* B. Hickenlooper R-lowa— "Generally, lam pleased to see the cutting down of government expenditures.” V - Sen. Homer Ferguson R-Mich. — “1 think the requests for foreign aid wit ineed strong proof to congress of the need . . . only in rare instances will congress go alone with outright economic aid." Berne Church Plans Education Building •' - z ' - The congregation of the Berne Cross Evangelical and Reformed church voted to build, a. tllOJlflO. - educational building, $5,000 for furnishings and SIO,OOO for repairs to the present curch. The addition will be 36 feet feet and the main entrance will face the east. Fall From Haymow Is Fatal To Farmer NOBLESVILLE, Ind.. UP — William Morris, 63. died in Riverside Hospital Wednesday night of injuries and exposure caused by a fall from a haymow on his farm. Morris lay injured and unattended for hours in his barn after the fall. - - I —lll »■ — Clean Breast NEW HAVEN. Conn., UP — Police w-ere startled when, after questioning Richard H. Lewis about a minor theft, they asked the routine question, “Have you any more to say?”, and he confessed to eight unsolved burglaries dating back five months. “I didn’t want anybody to serve time for something I did," Lewis explained. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

Temperatures Fall: Before Arctic Air Cold Wave Spreads To Southern Texas BY UNITED PR.ES3 Icy arctic air from the winter's worst cold wave spread ah the way to southern Texas today and sent temperantres there plunging 50 degreds" in l 24 hours. <1 Snow vAs forecast as far south as Mississippi and Alabama as the cold wave -spread into the’ tower Mississippi valley. , The giant mass of frigid air spread was due to snap a spell of unseasonably warm weather along the Atlantic Coast, ‘ j- / Bitter cold continued inAho midwost and great plains. Tn Montana, where a low, of 53 degrees below waa recorded' at Tiber Dam early WedneSdUY,' W* lowest this morning a comparatively mild 37 below at Havre. Bemidji. Minn., recorded a low of 44 below early today, and apparently was the coldest spot io the nation. It was 4(f below at International Falla, Minn., 31 below at Mobridge. S. D.. 34 below at Grantsburg, Wis., and 25 below at Lone Rock, lowa. Except for one brief period, temperatures in North Dakota have been below zero throughout the state since Jan. 16. The lowest last night was 39 below- at Williston and Parshall. The Milwaukee Road's streamliner. Olympian Hiawatha, arrived In Chicago early today 13 hours late/ The train was slowed by temperatures of 36 degrees below zero’ in South Dakota and by'snowdrtfts in Wisconsin. Many deaths were attributed to the cold. Several persons died in fires, from overheated stoves and furnaces, and others in traffic accidents on slick highways. Four-year-old Uomer Carlson froze to deattnrear Tankton, S. D., and a 57-year-old transient died of exposure near the railroad tracks at Oklahoma City.

Stulls' Condition Is Reported Satisfactory • John Stults, former mayor of Decatur, who suffered a heart attack several weeks ago, was taken to Adams county memorial hospital this morning for examination. Stults was returned to his home this afternoon where it la understood be will be confined for some time yet. His condition is said to be satisfactory. ( Air Force Academy Urged At Atterbury WASHINGTON UP'' Re ?' William G. Bray R-Ind. said today wheX a bill authorizing an air force academy becomes law. he will urge that it be formed at Camp Atterbury. Ind. The basß now being closed by the ai«hy'would be an excellent tocayon, he said, because the government already owns the land and utllitx lipes are In. JWQUSE, GROUP Fjdfa vx* owe) arm?(i services? ” The temporary ceiling to? the three services combined—which Would be continued — is five million. The permanent ceiling 2,095,882. Academy: The house passed and sent to the senate a bill to permit the air force to establish its own service academy. The academy may cost as much as 175-milllon dollars. KYLE RESIGNS (Continued From Page One) vote of the commission on action in a group of "discrimination” cases before the commission was ‘‘contrary to the governor’s bpinion as to how the law should be administered.” Kyle sold he had ’’received the plaudits of every branch" of the industry and “hundreds of others If you have sometntng to sell r rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad. It brings results.

for the Manner in which 1 performed my duties,’’. He said even "church and temperance groups” complimented him. "The state bus a good liquor law and if properly administered ft will please the greatest number of our citizens,’* he said. The, “discrimination” cases Kyle referred to were a series of charges that beverage makers and distributors permitted wholesale permit holders io have monopolies

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