Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 299, Decatur, Adams County, 20 December 1956 — Page 14

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(Editor's note: Following is one of a series of articles by leaders of the nation on their views of the outlook for 1957 in their various fields). By EZRA TAFT BENSON - Secretary of Agriculture Written for United Press Better times are ahead for American farmers. Net farm income rose slightly in 1956 after a long downward slide- The prospect is for further increase in 1957. received by farmers, now taming ahead at a year ago, are expcv«.-u to average higher in 1957 than in 1956. During this present marketing year, surplus stocks of cotton, rice and wheat are being reduced. We appear to have passed the peak of government holdings of farm products. Total farm output in 1956 was a record high. With the soil bank in full swing next year, this volume should come down. Prices May Go Up Hie foreign market took nearly a fifth more farm products in 1955-56 marketing years. A record export volume is in prospect for

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1956-57. Population continues to grow. Consumer incomes are expected to rise further in the coming year. The domestic market for farm products is expected to be strong in the year ahead. Prices of articles farmers buy may creep up somewhat during 1957, particularly for manufactured items. But with acreage reductions under the soil bank program, total production costs may change little. Total receipts ate expected to rise and result in an increase in net income. Hog prices are expected to average higher than in 1956. Cattle slaughter will probably be much the same as in 1966, with no marked price change expected. Abundant Feed Supplies Milk production will probably go up, and cash receipts from dairy products are expected to increase moderately. Poultry production is likely to be at record levels. With the exception of broilers, prices of these products are likely to average a little lower than in 1956. Feed supplies will be abundant everywhere except in the drought area. Prices this winter should average a little above last year.

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The outlook for farm people, while nbt as rosy as we would like to see it, is nevertheless encouraging. Prices have risen. Surpluses are declining. Markets are expanding at home and abroad. We are moving in the direction of a prosperous, expanding and free agriculture. * SCHOOL REPORTER It’s Christmas everywhere at Monmouth. Almost every room has been decorated to fit the holiday mood. All of toe classes of the upper six grades have exchanged names, and as you go through toe halls you catch snatches of hurried conversation such as, “Whose name do you have?” and “What do you think I should get her?” The exchange will be held Friday when all Monmouth students “get out” for toe holidays. Also on the agenda for Friday is the annual Christmas program, which is being sponsored by the student council this year. —M.H.S.— Mrs. Eloise Andrew’s room has taken on a festive appearance, recently. “Snowflakes” decorate the windows and the bulletin board displays a singing angel. A poem, “The Tiniest Angel” is displayed also. Pretty Christmas cards, I which are set up all around the room, add to the holiday decor. —M.H.S.— Let’s visit the typing room now. Mrs. Agnes Yager’s typing students have found a new use for their typewriters. Some very pretty and unusual Christmas cards have been designed and are now on display. Two huge pine cones tied together with a bright red ribbon hang abovt the blackboard, and when you see the words “Merry Christmas” written below in colored chalk, you know that Mrs. Yager’s students are ready for Christmas. —M.H.S.— Busiest of all has been the art class. This group has taken charge of decorating the halls and the study hall. Just outside the office in the hall is a large Christmas tree which has been decorated with colored balls and other trinkets which were — made by the eighth graders. Mr. Jones’ office window has been decorated in a pretty and unusual way with sten* cils. In the study hall the blackboard has been sketched with colored chalk to picture a scene of the town of Bethlehem and the Shepherds in the field. All of the bulletin boards are edged in holiday decorations and you will find evergreens and the traditional red bows hanging above doors. All in all, it may be said that the art class has done a very good job of decorating the school. —M.H.S.— One look at the grade rooms shows that these students have gone “all out” to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. As you walk into this part of the building, the first door you come to will be Mrs. Alice Martin’s first grade room. There you will be greeted by a jolly Santa Claus, and as you go into the room the Santa’s sleigh and reindeer (all eight) above the blackboard are sure to catch your

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eye. On each desk is a white sheet of paper, for all the children are making manger scenes of their pwn. To complete the festive appearance in this room, the windows are decorated with gay Santas and red paper chains. —M.H.S.— Now you are in Mrs. Jesteen Cole’s room. Here the windows are artfully decorated with Christmas trees, Angels, and candy canes. “Merry Christmas” in large red letters has been strung along the back of the room. Pictures in keeping with the season, which were colored -by the students, complete the Christmas theme of the room. —M.H.S.— Next stop — Mrs. Clyde Harris’ second grade room. You are sure to stand outside the door for a mintue and admire the Christmas cards which frame the door. Inside you will see wreaths and Christmas trees on the windows and pictures which werc\ colored by the children to give this room a very “Christmasie” appearance. —M.H.S.— Mrs. Mary Myer’s room, toe last one you will visit upstairs, greets you with the merry face of a Santa Claus on the door. There are Christmas pictures along the wall, and a scene showing the coming of toe Three Wise Men on the bulletin board. Various window scenes such ad a house, a church, angels, and carolers provide the finishing touches to this room’s decorations. —M.H.S.— Now downstairs you go to Mr. Dawaid's room, where you see pictures made by the fifth and sixth graders on the bulletin board. There is a small but lifelike nativity scene in the back of the room. A chain of stars with the words “Merry Christmas” has been placed above the blackboard. As you go out the door, you will notice its gay holiday decorations. After this tour of toe school you;are sure to be in a happy Christmas mood. M.H.S.— Say, graduation really is getting closer. This week the seniors ordered their caps and gowns. Some of the students were called upon to model toe different types of these, and they certainly looked very dignified, just as a senior should. —M.H.S.— Everyone connected with the band agrees that a big "thank you” is in order for Root-Preble township farmers’ institute association. This organization has found that within the last few years, interest in a farmers’ institute has diminished, so it has been decided to discontinue the association. However, there was slOl left over from other years and the organization very generously decided to give this money to toe Monmouth band uniform fund. Now toe band fund contains at least SI6OO. However, there is still some money to be raised and your donations will be appreciated. —M.H.S.— Tonight the annual PTA Christmas program will be presented by Monmouth school. The first six graders will give toe play, “When Love; Lights toe Tree.” All of toe play- is over, grades will have part in toe program. After the play is over, the first rhythm band will show off its skill. Everyone in toe community is invited to this program. —M.H.S.— On Friday afternoon, toe day school is “out,”* a Christmas program will be presented to the students. The student council is in charge of this event, and the band and chorus will take part in the program. After this, toe class “exchanges” will be held and then it’s “home for toe holidays.” -M.H.S.— Yesterday morning the student council sponsored a drive for toe Red Cross during which all MHS students were contacted and urged to give money to this worthy cause. This morning a drive for CARE was held and all Monmouth students agree that even though everyone is a little “hard pressed” during the holiday rush, he will have a merrier Christmas if he

does good for others. —M.H.S.— MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!! See you in 1957! —M.H.S.— Most Hoosier Lawmakers for Gas Tax Boost Legislators Voice Need For Increase In Gasoline Tax (First in a series of stories based on a poll of legislators on some of the issnes in Ahe 1957 Indiana General Assembly). I By SAM NEWLUND ■ United Press Staff Correspondent INDIANAPOLIS (UP)-One of , the few issues many members of the 1957 Indiana Legislature seem to be agreed on is the need for an , increase in the state gasoline tax. It probably would mean the pergallon tax bill for Hoosiers would be 9 cents instead of 7—6 cents to the state and 3 to the federal government. Os the 68 lawmakers who an- ■ swered a United Press question--1 naire on issues in the session bei ginning Jan. 10, 55 said the state tax should be increased. Only five disagreed and eight failed to answer or gave indefinite answers. Os course, all that could change. After further study, opinions could be reversed, and party leadership during the session may change some minds. Sentiment also was strong for another tax proposal—repeal of the 15-cent state property tax to allow communities to collect it instead. Forty-five senators and representatives saicf “yes,” and 13 “no.” Both proposals have the okay of Gov.-elect Harold Handley. With Republicans in control of the House 76-24 and the Senate 33-17 chances appeared good for passage. Advocates of the gas tax increase argue that Indiana’s present 4-cent rate 7 is one of the nation’s lowest and the state will lose millions of dollars of federal highway funds unless -new matching funds are produced. Besides, they say, only 53 per cent of gas tax and other highway funds actually goes to the Highway Department where they can be used as matching money. - r ™ Os the 55 who favored the increase, 39 said the new tax should be 6 cents. That would mean about 32 cents more for every tank of gas. Four lawmakers said the tax should be raised to “6 or 7 cents.” Another commented: “I don’t think we should raise it so high that it would drive the gasoline business out of the state. We would then lose our income.” Legislators were more evenly divided on whether motor vehicle registration fees, another source of highway funds, should tie increased. The “vote” was 35 for, 27 against, and the rest indefinite. Money Is Distributed At present, gas tax money and registration and vehicle license fees collected by the state are distributed on this formula: 53 per cent to the Highway Department, 32 per cent to counties and 15 per cent to cities and towns. Asked if the formula should be changed to give local communities a larger share for road building, 40 said “no,” 9 “yes,” and 19 were i indefinite. Os property taxes collected locally, 15 cents of each SIOO dollars evaluation goes to the state. Handley has said repeatedly Indi- , ana should keep hands off that 15 cents and let local units keep it if [ they like as a means of solving I their critical financing problems.

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life.” But it hasn’t been a free ride. Moons, a successful fanner in Holland, was dissatisfied with his first job as a tenant farmer. A daughter took a domestic service job she didn’t like. All the Moons, except Tom, 21, and Mary. 20, were struggling with the language. Moons quit the farm and moved his large brood to Des Moines. He bought a big house and supplied it with modern American furniture, including aTV set—so his children wouldn’t impose on neighbors with TV. Now Moons is working at an Experimental farm at* Ankeny, lowa. Five of the older children are working. The family feels it is making out "better than some Americans” thanks to i|s Dutch frugabt”. Nothing but Kindness Tom Moons said the family no longer felt homesick for Holland and would, only want to. go back for a visit. Mary, an insurance company file clerk, noted “it takes three weeks’ pay to buy a wintry coat in Holland but you can buy a nice one here for one week’s pay” The Moons advised Hungarian refugees to seek out a friend who knows their native tongue and English as well. Mr. and Mrs. Moons and the three older children are taking adult education courses in English. “There has been nothing but

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kindness since we got here," Mary said* Mrs. Moons said she had some wrong ideas about this country. She thought there might be a lack of food and she might have to “scrub clothes in a stream, in Holland each child needed four blankets to keep warm, and she brought along this unneeded supply. She likes being a “city woman ” “She used to get up at 3 or 4 in the morning on the farm,” Mary said. "Now she stays in bed until 5:45." Backward < BOSTON — W — A marked lack of progress is evident in Boston. Sum dials are generally replaced by clocks, but Mayor John Hynes says the clock on the Old State House will be replaced by a sun dial as part of a remodeling program. "Death" Anniversary BEACON. N. Y. - W ~ **P uty Sheriff John Yaccarine of Osborne Hill recently celebrated anniversary of his “death. He was erroneously reported killed in action in Germany during World War I. He has the official ’ death certificate" hanging on a wall in his