Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 201, Decatur, Adams County, 26 August 1963 — Page 4

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For Wives and Mothers Sen. Vance Hartke sat down this past Friday evening with a dozen or so editors, and for more than two hours gave us inside information on a variety of subjects. It was very informal, and our senior senator was more relaxed than we had ever seen him. Your editor asked Sen. Hartke about the limited nuclear test ban treaty which is now being considered by the U. 8. Senate. His face immediately lit up — he stated that in the past two months, in all of his speeches, conversations, and question periods, this was the first time he had been asked about his view on this vital subject. And just how serious Sen. Hartke considers this treaty he made amply clear. This is not another futile anti-war gesture, Sen. Hartke warns, although there are many who feel this way. Neither Russia nor the United States are agreeing on this to stop war, or to try to gain time, or position, in the cold war. In fact, Khrushchev is agreeing to this treaty, in spite of U. S. nuclear leadership, in spite of the obvious immediate U. S. military advantage. The real reason for the limited test ban treaty, with plenty of protection to prevent violation of the treaty, is the terrible effect that atomic radiation from atmosphere tests will have on our present children, and unborn children. It probably will have little direct effects on adults. Radiation, from nuclear explosions, directly effects children three ways. 1. It causes changes in chromosomes which cause mutations, or abnormal births. (Such as two heads, no ears, four eyes, etc.) 2. It damages blood-forming cells, causing leukemia. 3. It damages bone surface cells, causing bone tumors. Now it is quite true that natural cosmic forces are already doing this very thing, on a small scale. Each of us is bombarded daily by these forces. These forces were responsible for all of the damage from these sources before man started investigating x-rays, atom bombs, etc. Canadian doctors, in a report released In that country, maintain that their research shows that the last series of atmosphere nuclear tests in 1961 increased natural birth defects by 11%, leukemia, by 15%, and bone tumors by 23%. If we want our children to suffer increasingly from these types of defects, we should oppose the testban treaty. But, if we want our children to be born as normal and healthy children, we should write Sen. R. Vance Hartke, Senate Building, Washington, D. C., and Sen. Birch Bayh, «at the same address, immediately. At the present time, those who do not understand the nature of danger from atomic fallout, but fear that the Russians will “break” the treaty (although there are ample safeguards, and we are immediately ready for further tests, if they are necessary, and it will not keep us from testing rockets or underground explosions, where no dan- . ger can result) are writing to the Senator at a ratio of six to one. Sen. Hartke favors the test ban, because it endangers his, and your, children but he would like the people at home to understand this problem, and back him up. Why not write him a letter, and confirm his stand in favor of a normal life for future generations?

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WANE-TV Channel IS MONDAY renlng 0:00—Bachelor Father S:3o—Early Evening News o:4s—Walter Cronkite — Neva 7:oo—Shotgun Slade 7:30—T0 Tell the Truth 8:00—I’Ve Got A Secret 3:3o—Vacation Playhou.se 9:oo—Jack Benny Special 9:3o—Andy Griffith 10 .*oo—Pass word 10:30—Stump the Stars 11:00—Late News 11:30 Golf Tips 11:25—Award Theater TUESDAY Morning 7:ls—Daily Word 7:20—80b Carlin — News 7:2s—College of the Air 7:55—80b Carlin—. News 8;00 —Captain Kangaroo 9:oo—Adventurer In Paradis* 10:00—-Sounding Board 10:30—1 Love Lucy 11:00—The McCoys 11:30—Pete and Gladys Afters ooa 12:00 Love of Life 12:25 CBS News 12:30 Search for Tomorrow 12:45 Guiding Light 1:00 Ann. Colone Show 1:25 News 1:30 As the World Turns 2:00 Password 2:3o—Houseparty 3:00 To Tell the Truth 3:25 CBS News 3:3o—Edge of Night 4:oo—Secret Storm 4:30—Millionaire s:oo—Jack Powell Show 31 renin* 3::oo—Bachelor Father 5:30 —Early Evening News I:4s—Walter Cronkite — News 7:oo—Sugarfoot si,ow s:3o—Picture This 10:00—Keefe Brasselle Show 11:00 —Late News 11:15—Sports 11:20—Golf Tins 11:25—Award Theater WKJG-TV Channel 33 MONDAY Bvenlng . o:ls—Gatesway to Sport* s:2s—News -a- Jack Gray 3:4o—The Weatherman s:4s—Huntley-Brinkley Report 7:oo —Bea Hunt 7:30 —Monday Night Movie 9:3o—Special 10:00—Special , 10:30—'Putt and Take 11:00 —News A Weather 11:15—Sports Today 11:20 —Tonight Show TUESDAY Xday Show o:oo—Engineer John o:3o—Coffee Break o:so—Faith To Live By 10:0*—Say When 10:35—NBC News 10:20 —Play Teur Hunch

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1963 ASC COMMITTEE ELECTIONS: Community committee elections will be held from September 9 through September 13. An election will be held in each township. Three farmers will be elected to serve as regular community committeemen and two alternates will also be elected. Eligible farmers will soon receive a notice giving the time, date and place of the election in their respective townships. A farmer who farms in more than one township should vote in the township in which he resides. Any farmer who is taking part in one of the ASC programs or is eligible to take part in a program, is of legal voting age and has an interest in a farm as owner, operator or tenant is eligible to vote in the community election. Or if he is not of legal voting age, but is in charge of an entire farm's operations, he is eligiblt to vote. This is the opportunity to have a voice in this important farm program action. Programs administered by the ASC county and community committees include the agricultural conservation program, acreage allotments, marketing quotas, commodity loans, the feed grain program, the sugar act program, the national wool program, farm storage facility loans, and others as assigned by the secretary of agriculture. FARMER COMMITTEE SYSTEM IS 30 YEARS OLD: Farmers who cast ballots for ASC community committeemen will be marking the 30th anniversary of tht farmer-committe system—a unique method of administering farm programs started when the original agricultural adjustment programs were first authorized in 1933. The election procedure itself was provided by legislation 5 years later—in 1938, so the voters will be carrying on a democratic process followed by farmers each year for almost a generation. The department of agriculture is charged with responsibility for na-tion-wide “action” programs which each year are carried out on millions of farms throughout the country. These programs range from long-established and continuing measures to special emergency assignments. Each was developed in response to a particular need which farmers individually could not solve. Each calls for cooperative action by many individuals toward a common purpost. Since the effectiveness of these “joint action” programs depends upon close contact between farmers and government, it was necessary- to have an administrative system which would reach as directly as possible from the farm to the national office and vice-versa. This the farmer-elected committee system does. The committees have provided the spark and imagination as well as the judgment needed in locally adapting and running ASCS farm programs. They have merited their neighbors’ confidence by doing their job in away that is best for the farmers, the county and the country as a whole. Starting at the farm community, farmers put the committee election' machinery into motion by choosing from their neighbors, persons to serve as community committeemen. The newly elected committeemen — chairman, vice chairman, and regular member—then act respectively as delegate and first and second alternate delegates to a county convention, where the ASC county committee is chosen. The offices maintained by the county committee are the farmers’ local contact for business connected with participation in various farmaction programs. These county committees report to a state committee composed of from 3 to 5 members appointed by the secretary of agriculture to see that the various programs are administered properly and effectively within the area. Through the years, the duties of tht farmer-committees have been many and varied. In wartime, the committees headed up the local production goals program, appointed and worked with farm machinery rationing committees, allocated scarce supplies and equipment, boards, recommended on-farm conadvised local price and rationing struction involving the use of critical materials, appointed farm transportation committees which helped farmers obtain transportation facilities, as well as many other important tasks. In peacetime, they have administered the conservation programs, acreage allotments and marketing quotas, price supports, storage construction loans, sugar and wool programs, wheat stabilization and feed grain programs. The farmer-elected committee system provides the individual farmer with a chance to have his say in how ASCS fram programs are run locally. It Supplies the mechanism for transipitting ideas on policies and programs from the grassroots. It insures that ASC prqgrams will continue to be the farmers’ programs, based on experienced farm leadership and reflecting and adapted to the needs of producers themselves. The farmers’ ballot, cast for the man of his choice, is the key to making the system work.

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WHEAT GROWERS URGED TO CONSIDER ’64 FEED GRAIN PROGRAM: Wheat producers are urged to consider how their wheat plantings may affect their participation in the 1964 feed grain program. Many wheat growers in the county are also feed grain producers and as a result are eligible to participate in the 1964 feed grain program by diverting feed grain acreage out of production. Wheat growers should consider the drop in the 1964 wheat prices as reflected by the present wheat futures market. Currently, the judgment of the market is a July, 1964, Kansas City wheat futures price of around $1.55 per bushel. This price, adjusted to a farm level, reflectes a wheat price of about $1.25 to $1.30 per bushel. A 1964 crpp in excess of current disappearance of about 1.3 billion bushels for domestic and export use will undoubtedly put heavy downward pressure on wheat prices probably forcing prices down to a feed price level as the supply seeds a consumption outlet. The 1964 feed grain program has been designed to reduce possible expansion of overall grain acreage. The program provides an efective guide for farmers to follow in keeping their overall crop acreages in 1964 reasonably in line with expected needs. While the program provides flexibility in enabling farmers to shift acreages among crops not directly under the feed grain program, it also provides for maintaining soilconserving acreage, on participating farmers at the 1959-60 levels. This will tend to limit overall acreexpansion, particularly if substantial numbers of wheat-feed grain producers participate in the program. At the same time, payments for diverting feed grain acreage to a constrving use, price-support ■payments on the acreage seeded, and the availability of price support will help maintain income. An added incentive to keep overall grain acreage in check is the boost in the payments to be made for diversion of maximum acreages under the program. Even though the feed grain signup will not be until early next year, farmers who plan to participate will need to keep their fall-seeded acreage in line with total crop acreage permitted on their farms under the feed grain program. FEED GRAIN EXPORTS EXPAND SHARPLY: Last year, U.S. feed grain shipments hit a record 14.7 million metric tons, or about 600 million bushels, assistant secretary of agriculture, Roland R. Renne, recently told a feed grains council group meeting in Minneapolis. That was an increase of almost 125 per cent from the 1956-57 level and a new high record, he pointed out. A short 6 years ago, in fiscal 1956-57, the U.S. exported only about 270 million bushels. Then exports began to pick up, and feed grains, which had been a sort of drug on overseas markets, were eagerly sought to meet foreign feed needs. Demand has continued strong. The upswing continues, though at a somewhat reduced rate. Figures for the first 11 month of the 1962-63 fiscal year show exports ahead of the same period a year earlier. It appears that for the full 1962-63 year U.S. feed grain .exports will be over 15 million tons, for another record. To put the coarse grain export picture into better penspective, the assistant secretary gives these graphic comparisons: Our 1962-63 feed grain exports of 15 million tons would fill 1,500 ships .... .If loaded into boxcars, this volume of grain would make a single train over 3,000 miles in length...... A train that long would stretch all the way across the country from Seattle, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest, to New York City, on the Atlantic seaboard. Except for wheat and flour, feed grain exports now have a bigger value than any other U.S. commodity export category. Exports average over $2 million worth of feed grains evtry day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. It is estimated that about $750 million worth of feed grains will moVe into foreign consumption in 196263. In 1961-62, over four-fifths of U.S. feed grain shipments went to the Western European countries, Canada and Japan. These and some other importing countries pay for which is important for two reasons. First, it is U.S. policy to emphasize to the utmost export sales of U.S. farm products for dollars. As a matter of fact, any free-enter-prise country could hardly have any other policy — The second reason dollar sales are important Is because they help in a Very material way to solve U.S. balance of payments difficulties. Feed grains exported consisted of— corn — 71 per cent of 1961-62 U.S. feed grain shipments, grain sorghum — 15 per cent; barley — 12 per cent; and oats — 2 per cent. EFFECT OF OVERPLANTING A FARM WHEAT ALLOTMENT IN 1964 UNDER LAY NOT IN EFFECT: Apparently, there is wide misunderstanding about the provision of the wheat program under which the farm wheat allotment will be

reduced in future years if the allotment is overplanted in 1864. Here are the facts: Under present provisions of law, a farm wheat acreage allotment will be reduced starting with the 1966 allotment if the allotment is overplanted in 1964 because the wheat acreage history tor the farm for 1964 (instead of the higher base acreage). This provision was passed, by the Congress and was signed into law by President Eisenhower on April 4, 1958. It read as follows: “Agricultural adjustment act of 1938, as amended (P. L. 85-366, April 4, 1958) Section 334 (c) (1) The allotment to the county shall be apportioned by the secretary through the local committees, among the farms within the county on the basis of past acreage of wheat, tillable acres, crop-rotation practices, type of soil and topography. . .For the purpose of establishing farm acreage allotment. . . the past acreage of wheat for 1959 and any subsequent year shall be the wheat acreage on the farm which is not in excess of the farm wheat acreage allotment, plus, in the case of any farm which is in compliance with its farm wheat acreage allotment, the acreage diverted under such wheat allotment program... Thus the use of the acreage history in cases where a wheat allotment is overplanted is directed by law. It has been in effect since April .4, 1958. The quoted section of law contents acreage allotments; it applies to, the operation of the wheat allotment program whether or not marketing quotas are in effect for the wheat crop. In regard to storage of excess production, when quotas are in effect the same section provides: x' “Section 334 (c) (1)... .Provided that for 1959 and subsequent years in the case of any farm on which the entire amount of the farm marketing excess is delivered to the secretary or stored in accordance with applicable regulations to avoid or postpone the payment of the penalty, the past acreage of wheat for the year in which such farm marketing excess is so delivered or stored shall be the farm base acreage of wheat determined for the farm under the regulations issued by the Secretary for determining farm wheat acreage allotments for such year....” “Section 334 (d) For the purposes of subsection (a), (b), and (c) of this section, any farm — (1) to which a wheat marketing quota is applicable; and (2) on which the acreage planted to wheat exceeds the farm wheat acreage allotment; and (3) on which the farm marketing excess is zero shall be regarded as a farm on which the entire

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amount of the farm marketing excess has been delivered to the secretary or stored in acordance with applicable regulations to avoid er postpone the payment of toe penalty. This subsection shall be applicable in establishing the the past acreage of wheat for 1959 acreage seeded and diverted and and subsequent years in toe apportionmnet so allotments beginning with the 1961 crop of wheat. . . ’’ The only difference so far as the future allotment is concerned — under quotas or not under quotas—is that the producer has an opportunity under quotas to avoid the loss of history credit for his “overplanted” farm. Since the exceptions cannot apply when marketing quotas are not in effect — as for the 1964 wheat crop — since no farm marketing excess can be determined far any farm. Under the present provisions of law and regulations, noncompliance with the 1964 farm wheat allotment will have an adverse effect on toe 1966 and future wheat allotments. It will not have any effect on the 1965 allotment since the 1964 wheat acreage will not be available when such allotments are determined. Complying farms (with allotments of 15 acres or more) will receive their base acreage as history for future allotments. Excess farms (with allotments of 15 acres or more) will receive their 1964 alloted acres as history. Since the 1964 farm allotment is approximately 60 per cent of the farm base, this could, have the net effect of having the farm allotment on such noncomplying farm reduced 6 to 7 per cent beginning with the 1966 allotmtnt. For further information, citations of law governing various provisions of the 1964 wheat allotment and price support programs are as follows: Food and Agriculture Act of 1962: Section 107 (4) the level of price support for any crop of wheat for which a national marketing quota is not proclaimed or far which marketing quotas have been disapproved by producers shall be as provided in section 101. . . Agricultural Act of 1949: Section 101 (d) (3) the level of price support to cooperators for any crop of a basic agricultural commodity, except tobacco, for which marketing quotas have been disapproved by producers shall be 50 per cent of the parity price of such commodity (In the case of tobacco no price support is available when marketing quotas are voted out). Food and Agriculture Act of 1962: Section 107(5) If marketing quotas are riot in effect for the crop of wheat, a “cooperator” with respect to any crop of wheat produced on a farm shall be a producer who does not knowingly exceed the farm acreage allotment

0 ( 20 Years Ago Today 0 — 0 Aug. 26, 1943 — Lyman L. Hann, Adams county school superintendent, reports only two vacancies in teaching staffs of tot county schools, a coach at Pleasant Mills and a commerce teacher at Kirkland. Changes have been announced in school facilities in Kirkland township. Seventh and eigth grade students will attend classes at he high school, first, second and third grade students ’at toe Election school, and fourth, fifth and sixth grades at the Hower school. 1 Rev. Geogre ‘Lozier of Mishawaka, former pastor of the First Evangelical chuhch in Decatur, visits friends in this city. The keystone railway and air center of Foggia, On the Italian boot, is wrecked by Allied bombers. The Philadelphia Athletics broke a 20-games losing streak with 8-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox. Real Estate Deals Announced Today Alpha Barkley has sold his home in St. Mary’s township to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rawley, William F. Schnepf, local broker, said this morning. Schnepf also handled the transaction Os selling the Ray Thomas apartment. The Thomas apartment, located on Third St., was purchased by Roger Litchfield. for wheat. SAFETY NOTES: Don’t be a candidate for professional driving’s “hall of Blame” Making no mistakes yourself and being constantly alert for the mistakes of other drivers helps you prevent accidents. INSTALL SAFETY BELTS. .... KEEP THEM FASTENED.

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Certain Types Os Mailing Violation According to postmaster John Boch, the variety of items that people send — or try to send — through the mails Is amazing. From form notices and trinkets of little consequence to social and business transactions of incalculable value, most everything makes grist for the biggest business on earth. But not all that is deposited is welcorpe. Certain types of letters and packages are in violation of law. Violations can bring penalties of up to $5,000 in fines and five yehrs of imprisonment, or both. One of the better known non-mailable items is chain letters. Others are lottery advertising and lottery tickets, sweepstakes tickets, obscene matter, articles relating to birth prevention, liquor, firearms, explosives, matches, caustic acids, treasonable statements, poisons, and poisonous reptiles. The postmaster says that “In general, any articles, compositions, or materials which may kill on injure another, or injure the mails or other property, are non-mail-able. Primary purpose of the law is to protect the mails against damage, to protect those who handle them against personal harm and to protect the public against fraud. Some items ordinarily prohibited may be sent through the mails if they conform to sepcial regulations as to preparation and packaging and if they are not outwardly dangerous, or of their own force dangerous or injurious to life, health, or property.” The burden rests with the mailer to insure that he has complied with the law. “So if you are in doubt call 3-3205. The more helpful we can be to our patrons on these and other matters, the greater the profit eventually to both them and us," concludes the postmaster.