The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 23 September 1965 — Page 6
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6 Th« Daily Bannar, Greancastla, Indiana Thursday, Saptambar 23, 1965 The Lighter Side by Dick West
Good Selections 'soviet press full of complaints
In Food Buys
WASHINGTON UPI—Weekend shoppers will generally find good supplies and good selection of seasoned fruits and vegetables, with plentiful quantities of poultry and special cuts of meats at their shopping
Russia Admits Collective Farm System Is In Need Of Drastic Changes In Methods
By Richard C. Longworth
WASHINGTON UPI-Wh.n | on a bill dealing »1U, the •'ad- market MOSCOW UPI-For the secGina Lollobrigida's measure- measurement" of ships having ^ , he meat sectlon , shoppers ond ^ ^ ^ Rus5la
ments were considered at a re- two or more decks. Since Miss g^ould find the best buys in cent House Rules Committee | Lollobrigida herself has two or | roas t Si and steaks. Pork buys
hearing, the members took a firm stand in favor of leaving
measurements and admeasure-
ments.
An expert in marine law ex-
them as they are.
Miss Lollobrigida's dimensions figured in a discussion of whether the United States should study the feasibility of converting to the metric system of weights and measures. Someone pointed out that under the metric system, using centimeters instead of inches, Gina s vital statistics would be 93-75-93, rather than 37-25-37. This may have been one of the reasons why the committee
voted unanimously to defer ac- j admeasurement of tion on the metric study. If so, based on “detailed
has been forced to buy millions
„ -of tons of wheat abroad,
more decks, admeasuring her • are ham and roast and lamb The Soviet press ig full of would be no problem. | buys are chops . complaints about poor farm At the hearing, Sen. E. L. Broiler-fryers and turkeys planning, careless machinery Bartlett, D-Alaska, wanted to continue to be plentiful and maintenance, crops rotting in
know the difference between good main dish selections for ^ the field.
An American farm delegation returned from the Soviet countryside talking of stunted
state farms—is believed to be under discussion. If this solution is accepted, it may come to be known as “zhulinism," after V. Zhulin, an obscure Kazakh agronomist who first proposed it in public. It must be stressed that Zhu-
obscure economist, Prof. Yevsei Liberman. That’s why observers of the Soviet scene took sharp notice last month when Zhulin’s proposals appeared in a front page article in Komosomolskaya Pravda, the No. 2 Communist
lin's proposals—which amount | Party newspaper.
to nothing less than a dismantling of the state-owned farms that Stalin built at a huge cost in blood and property—are far
Western experts have said often that the only solution to Russia’s farm problems is to break up the collective farms,
budget-minded consumers. Green beans, beets, cabbage,
carrots, celery, com, cucum- countryside talking of stunted from an accomplished fact, though they have said it would
plained that admeasurement bers are first on the list for , corn growing “where corn nev- Even if they are accepted, farm j never happen. This is what
means “breaking it up into pro-1 buys in most vegetable centers, er should be planted.” experts here believe it will be Zhulin wants to do.
portions.’’ That, of course, is But onions, lettuce, pepers, po- Even the Soviet government! years before they can be put 1 To many persons here—Rusthe key factor in my proposal, tatoes, squash, sweet potatoes agrees that something is se- ; into full effect. sians as well as foreigners—his
Proportioning is probably and tomatoes continue to be in j riously wrong with this nation’s But the proposal to make plan appears too drastic to win
even more important to the fe- good supply and favorably pric- vast collectivized farm system, profit a key indicator of Soviet acceptance. But the fact that it male figure than it is to ships, ed. There is as yet no sign of industrial efficiency—now gen- was given prominent display in
Bartlett was told that the When shopping in the fruit agreement on a cure, but the erally accepted and being im- a major party paper indicates a ship is area, check for apples, bananas, most drastic solution of all—a plemented — was made only that somebody up there in the on "detailed physical lemons, oranges, plums and breakup of the collective and three years ago by an equally Kremlin likes the idea.
I can understand why. | measurement of the hull and ; watermelons. All are in good Regarding Miss Lollobrigida j deck structures,” plus certain supply and usually, they are the
in terms of centimeters obviously would require a big adjustment on our part.
calculations by "methods of in- best buys in most areas of the tegral calculus.” country. At present, only the hull and Nationally fish stick and por-
Nevertheless, there is, I be- deck structures of beauty tions are the most favorably
lieve, a better means of contemplating Miss Lollobrigida than by the present standards that we employ. In fact. I think we should adopt an entire new statistical method of appraising the feminine form divine. Rather than measure movie stars, beauty contestants and other fair damsels at strategic points to see how they stack up, we should “admeasure” them.
I got this idea from a Senate | changed Commerce Committee hearing 1 “she.”
queens are measured. I'm sure priced you will agree that integral calculus would make the statistics more interesting and
meaningful.
Further more
Blood Donors
WASHINGTON UPI —President Johnson is urging all fed-
admeasuring eral employes to donate blood
pretty girls, as u'ell as ships, ! through Red Cross blood cenwould be entirely appropriate ters and community blood
from the standpoint of gender, banks.
When Bartlett noted that a The President sent a memorship was referred to in the bill andum Wednesday to all deas “it,” he had the pronoun partment and agency heads to the traditional calling on employes to partici-
; pate.
Drug Smuggler Fares 10 To 40 Year Ifliteli
LAREDO, Texas UPI — Lu-1 guilty of conspiracy to smuggle.
cien Rivard, whose international narcotics smuggling case once nearly toppled the Canadian government, faced a possible prison sentence of 10 to 40 years today for pipelining S200 million in heroin into the United States.
The all-male jury deliberated three hours and five minutes before returning the verdicts at the conclusion of a seven-day trial. U.S. District Judge Ben Conally delayed sentencing until the Department of Justice can
Rivard, 50, a Montreal resort j prepare a record of the defendoperator, was convicted in fed- 1 ants’ past records. He said it eral court here of smuggling j might take 30 to 40 days.
and conspiracy to smuggle narcotics for directing what was described as the biggest heroin operation ever discovered in this country. Three associates, also Canadians, were found
Also convicted were Charles Groleau. 56; Julien Gagnon, 36 and Joseph Raymond Jones, 28.
to toppling the government of j Prime Minister Lester B. Pear- |
son.
A high Canadian immigration official was charged with j offering a $200,000 bribe to the | lawyer representing the United States at Rivard's extradition hearing. There w’ere also numerous charges the jailers aided in Rivard’s escape and that some Canadian officials tried to get him freed on bond after his recapture. The charges resulted In a
They faced possible sentences ! parliamentary investigation of of five to twenty years. 1 the Pearson government’s role
The Rivard case came close I in the Rivard case.
Arrested After Military Bribe INDIANAPOLIS UPI — A 22-year-old machinist was arrested on a charge of trying to get his brother rejected for military service by offering a $500 bribe to an Army recruiting sergeant. Calvin B. Howard, special agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said Lawrence Allen Denney, Indianapolis, was arrested shortly after he tendered the bribe to an unidentified sergeant at the Army recruiting station here. The offer took place, Howard said, when Denney's brother appeared for a physical examination. Howard said the sergeant immediately reported the offer and “cooperated fully in the investigation.”
General Motors To Lower Prices
DETROIT UPI — General Motors Corp., the giant of the auto industry, apparently quieti ed a storm of controversy over i auto prices by announcing ; slightly lower prices for its 1966 models, i The announcement WednesI day by GM, which produces J more than half of the nation’s automobiles, made it apparent ! the industry as a whole would not follow Chrysler's lead in boosting the retail cost of new ! cars. Ford and American Motors have not yet announced 1966 prices. GM said it was passing on to 1 the consumer the entire three per cent federal excise tax reduction and was reducing the cost of six items of safety
i equipment being installed as standard equipment. The reduced prices of the items installed as standard equipment. The reduced prices of the items formerly offered as optional extras now are built into the overall cost of a new car. The result, when compared to 1965 models with comparable 1 equipment, was price reductions ranging from a kw of 46 cents on a Pontiac Tempest Le Mans sport coupe to $36 for the Chevrolet Caprice V-8 four-door custom sedan. Most price re- ! ductions ran from $2 to $12, for the rest of the Chevrolet line, Pontiac, Oldsmobile and | Buick lines. The price on most Cadillacs was reduced $1.43.
Frof. Fu Will Present Paper LAFAYETTE UPI — Prof. K mg-Sun Fu of the Purdue University electrical engineering school wnll present a technical paper on “An Adaptive Pattern Recognition Machine l'sing BiPolar Threshold Logic Device” at a national conference in Chicago Oct. 26. What Professor Fu is going to tell the electronics experts at ! the conference is that he and doctoral candidate Wen C. Lin | have designed and built a new “patter - recognition computer” which can read and respond to handwriting. Fu and Lin claims they have devised a computer with such intricate circuitry it can respond to “a great variety of handwritten or hand - printed letters made by many people from first - graders to doctors of philosophy.” In laboratory performance tests, Fu said, the experimental computer is so good “it has successfully read and responded to instructions written in Chinese.”
TRYING TO GET THE CHICKEN POX—Mrs. Sharon Evans, Ventura, Calif, has been exposing her daughter. Joy Ann, 4, to youngsters with the chicken pox in the hope that Joy Ann will get the disease. The youngster is a victim of leukemia, and Mrs. Evans said medical research indicates that some leukemia patients' lives have been prolonged after having a wane of rJ iicke.n dox. „
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