Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 December 1947 — Page 5

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. To Renew Slaughtering Program 2 ' By MARSHALL McNEIL, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer { WASHINGTON, Dec. 5—A major calamity threatens our food supply. | This is the belief of cattlemen who fear that unless the slaughtering of cattle in Mexico. infected with foot and mouth sdisease is resumed ' promptly, the malady will cross the Rio Grande into our herds, Result:

2 . . : : It would cost tens of thousands of cattle and tens of millions of dollars t to lick the disease here, The slaughtering program, Which our experts contend is the only sure way to ————————— : stamp out the disease, has been June there were infected animals |stopped in Mexico upon insistence in 334 Mexican municipalities. In \ of that govern- - ] six months this figure jumped to

ment. ~ 455. i But representa- "{N | Then the Mexican government,

¢ tives of Mexico § whose top officials, though sympaand the U. 8S. are thetic with the program, were harto meet here Sun- ried by farm and other domestic

1 day to try to work \ {troubles, stepped in. They said to out a substitute campaign. ? Ifcattlemen have their way, a

{continue the slaughtering would be {too great an impact on their economy. So it was stopped. The Mexi-| Zor Your ’ / , cans proposed, instead, that cattle oung special House-. = be vaccinated. Our veteranarians [Senate committee 3 said this course would not be effec created to watch Mr. McNeil tive and besides we had no vaccine. Py progress of ‘the fight against the It must come from Denmark, Swit

disease may insist that our State zerland or England. Department demand the right to go| If the Mexicans are adamant, and

. ahead with the slaughter program. fo cannot be resumed, our The disease was discovered in|veterinarians believe they must not . yr ® Mexico last year. Our government quit Mexico, but try to maintain the . 2 immediately imposed an embargo 750-mile quarantine line over rugged against importation of any Mexi- terrain down about the center of the

can cattle, sheep or ‘swine. BY|country. And some Congressmen are | early summer, Congress agreed it advocating construction of two high Field C 1.00 was cheaper and safer to fight the|fences on our side of the border—| 8 BPssrssesassernsensssansonres disease in Mexico than to risk in- barriers about 10 miles apart—to Shitksenisasiirsrirscerinnsnssrerases SBS fection of our herds. It appro- keep the disease out of the U. 8. | | Trousors,sessssveresnsssrannnsavense 450 priated millions to finance the| treme a——

fight, including indemnities to own- Belt. vesEEt EE tats stants racnsnens SOG - B ers of slaughtered Mexican cattle. Sun Eases Electric Soke se isiniiirtnrirrirernniiinenes 550 Mexico agreed to pay for slaugh-| Neckerchief.................. T5cand 860 - tered small animals, and to use its | army to help maintain a quaran- | ‘Bombing’ of Earth ‘ y

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{science with indications today that Shirt 2.65 Fails in Hinterlands th 4 ttRssrtsusaavana nanan etosinians ol ithe sun is beginning to abate its Long Trouser 4.25 But in hearings before the spe 9 Bree vrutnsiies senses sores

"|electronic bombardment of the SHOP 9:00 to 5:25 A ST ee ER as . . men charged these reports had earth. : ;

Neckerchief.........000ne been deliberately misleading. And| That is good news for communi-/ e inseransiree §50 Dr. B. T. Simms, head of the bu- cations engineers, Time and again! reau of animal industry, conceded in recent years they have had to they had been “too rosy.” stand by helplessly while radio FOR ALL BOYS

Monday thru Saturday Mexico endeavored to ince telegraph dispatches were re-

ea, peons, mostly illiterate, that they duced to gibberish by sunspot in- : : had to co-operate in the slaughter trfrnc. Official Scout Equipment campaign. Mules were promised to] Dr. Alvin G. McNish of the Na-| Cook Kil: caeeveiio.sconiibamne sees 280

take the place of slaughtered oxen. tional Bureau of Standards said a But a determined minority con-icheck on solar activities, made by tinued a well-organized fight against bouncing radio waves off electrithe Yankees. Cattle owners in the fied layers of the upper -atmoscentral part of Mexico began to phere, suggests that the sunspot refuse to bring their animals in for maximum has passed. slaughter. Mules weren't available] Sunspots wax and wane in cycles when oxen were killed. of about 11 years. From now until There wasY armed conflict. A [the next period of minimum activ- : Mexican veterinarian and his army ity, expected in 1955, communiecaM 0 R E escort were massacred. tions conditions should gradually Lb Infections increased greatly. In!improve.

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