The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 30 August 1965 — Page 5
On The U. S. Farm Front
By Gaylord P. Godwin
WASHINGTON UPI — The Agriculture Department said today the bill for marketing: U. S. farm-produced foods to Chilian consumers in 1964 totaled a whopping 547.3 billion. This was 52 billion, or 4 per cent, above the 1963 bill and equal to the annual rise during the preceding 10 years. In a review of the marketing and transportation situation, the department said the marketing bill for farm-originated foods has increased eyery year since 1950. From 1954 to 1964 it rose about 58 per cent, or 517 billion. The department said growth in volume accounted for about $10 billion of the increase, and rising unit marketing changes for the remainder. The marketing bill is the difference between the total expenditures by civilian consumers for domestic farm food products and the farm value or returns that farmers received for
the equivalent farm products. It is an estimate of the total charges for transportation, processing. wholesale, and retailing farm goods. Foods sold in the form of meals in restaurants and other eating places and those sold at less than retail prices are valued at the point of sale. Civiliai. consumers paid out $69.8 billion for U. S. farmoriginated foods in 1964. Thisminus the marketing bill of 547.3 billion, left a farm value of 522.5 billion for the foods The total civilian expenditures were up almost 53 billion from 1963. In 1954 the total outlay was 348.4 billion. > 4 . The farm value of the farm originated foods sold in 1964 was 4 per cent, or 3900 million more than 1963. The farm value in 1964 was |18.4 billion. The department said much of the rise from 1963 to 1964 resulted from increased marketings of each of the commodity groups.
Club Preserves School Tips Films Of Comics Prove Helpful
NEW YORK (UPI) — Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy would have approved the antics of The Sons of the Desert, a small, but nevertheless international club, dedicated to preserving their humor and their films. “When we set up the club,” explains Chuck McCann, a 30-year-old New York City television (WPDD comedian, “Stan was still alive and he told us that if we were going to form a club, he just wanted us to get together now and then and get stoned." McCann and the other founding fathers of the Sons of the Desert took Laurel at his word. Article 8 of the club’s constitution specifies the order of business for the club's annual meetings. Drinks are to be served during eight of the nine events on the agenda. In between the imbibing of alcoholic beverages, the club members are serious. McCann, who first saw a Laurel and Hardy film when he was 8 years old. and the other founding fathers consider Laurel and Hardy master comedians, men who set the format for present day comedy. Because many Laurel and Hardy films have been lost or have disintegrated, the club members spend their non-drink-ing moments rounding up what can be found and making fresh, preservable prints of old film. McCann met his hero Stan Laurel, through comedian Jerry Lewis, back in 1959. McCann visited Laurel at his Los Angeles apartment and spent “a glorious day.” The two corresponded until Laurel's death and Laurel, aware that The Sons of the Desert was in the making, helped write the club constitution. The Sons of the Desert is named after a Laurel and Hardy movie and local groups are called “tents.” Members in the New York tent include Orson Bean, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dick Van Dyke. Jonathan Winters, Jerry Lewis and people who just like Laurel and Hardy. Cartoonist A1 Kilgore designed the Sons of the Desert crest which carries in Latin the club's motto: “Two Minds Without a Single Thought.”
“PEACEMAKER"- Jacob James Israel, “public relations” man in Montgomery, Ala, denies that accepting money for negotiating racial peace in Dixie is blackmail He has received 51.500 of a 53.000 fee from businessmen of Demopolis, Ala, a city of 7,500. Civil rights demonstrations stopped there last spring after three weeks of strife. Israel has quite a police record and has served time la prison.
CHICAGO (UPI) — Make the grade as an ideal parent by putting yourself and the children through the preliminaries guaranteeing a good sendoff to school. To do bo. the National Congress of Parents and Teachers suggests you clip and heed this checklist of pre-school preparations. It has been tested by PTA's nationwide. —Schedule a pre-school physical check-up. Especially important for the child just about to enter first grade, the visit to a doctor should be routine, however. for offspring through high school age. Records of the preschool visits are useful guides to ‘ keeping children healthy throughout the academic year. —Arrange for a dental examination. too. Ditto for eye ahead for it. Working mothers, for example, might have to arrange for an after-school sitter to arrive early if the opening day is a short one. If it is the school's practice to give children a list of needed supplies, make sure your youngster has time and money to buy them promptly. —Look into the possibilities for parent participation in activities of your childs’ school. Is there a PTA study-discussion group in which you can learn more about your child and his school? Could you lend a hand, through playground monitoring duty? Assist in the library? Help supervise study halls? —Is there a wider horizons program in your high school? Through these, parents are invited to discuss their careers for the information of the students. Such a program gives you a chance to share your ad* vice with your own and other children. —Work out the safe route to school or to the school bus stop. Walk through a few practice trips if your child is a first grader. Parents of older children may check with safety authorities about the location of guarded crossings. Even teenagers who cycle or drive to school can benefit from a parent's warning about a dangerous intersection. —Learn your scnool's policy about consultation with teachers. In many communities, the season’s first PTA meeting includes a get-acquainted session In which parents can meet their children’s teachers and find out how, later, to reach them in case of a clasroom problem. —Inquire about school lunch facilities. If your child cannot come home for lunch, how much money will he need for a hot meal? Can he buy beverages to round out a homepacked lunch? —Find out precisely what is expected of your child on the opening day of school and plan
SCHOOL HURT BY DROPOUTS NEW YORK (UPI — Which came first: the student dropout problem or the teacher's flight from the classroom? Robert N. Bush, Stanford University education professor, says the high dropout rate among teachers must be reduced before the student dropout problem can be solved. Bush, speaking at the New York Conference of the national Commission on Teachers Education and Professional Standards, noted that more than half the teachers who received teaching certificates last June will not be teaching two years hence.
IPS THE GEMINI-5 ROCKET—Sailors secure the first stage of the Titan-2 rocket that started Gemini-5 toward orbit on the deck of the destroyer Dumont. The rocket section was picked up in the Atlantic 640 miles from Bermuda after being sighted from a plane.
PROGRESS
CHICAGO (UPI) — Three fourths of all drugs, antibiotics and vaccines in hospitals used today were unknown 10 years ago, the American Hospital As-
sociation reports.
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They Call Her Madame Boss HOUSTON UPI — The boss around First Pasadena State Bank and Heights Savings Association Is “Madame Boss,” Mrs. Marcella Perry. This petite woman has had a title in the banking business for 16 years and is one of a few women in Texas who hold high jobs in banks or savings institutions. She is chairman of the board of the Pasadena Bank and president of the Savings Association. Mrs. Perry, nearly five feet tall and weighing a little over
100 pounds, gave up a career as a dancer, dance instructor and actress to go into banking. After her days at Rice University, she went on stage. Later she taught dancing in Houston many years. When her father’s health began to fail, she decided that as an only child she needed a better job. She took a training course in banking. It Included courses from the American Institute of Banking and on-the-job training at the old First National Bank of Houston. She got her start near the top—as a member of the board of directors of Reagan State Bank. Later, she expanded her interests to the Pasadena Bank and the Savings Association. “I’ll have to admit,” she said, "that there’s something about being a woman in banking. I
don’t know that it’s exactly » hurdle and I don’t think it s resentment. But I find that men see the name ‘Marcella Perry' on a letterhead and it startles them.” Bank meetings are lonely things for Mrs. Perry. “The chairman of the meeting will get up and say, ‘Gentlemen . . .’ i “Then he will look around and it dawns on him there is a W’oman there, too.”
THOMAS RECOVERING HOUSTON UPI — Rep. Albert Thomas, D-Tex., is recovering “just marvelously” from surgery to remove a tumor in Aug. 7 operation. Thomas, 67, has undergone three previous operations and frequent treatment for cancer.
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