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Th« Dally Banner, Graancastla, Indiana Thursday, March 23, 1967

On The Farm Front

By Lurry D. Hatfield WASHINGTON UPI — The prospect for a record wheat crop this year is becoming; bleaker as a serious drought continues to grip the important winter wheat areas in the southern Great Plains. The Department of Agriculture, in a planting forecast issued this week, said expected plantings of winter and spring wheat will total 88 million acres. With normal conditions, the department said, that acreage would produce a record crop of 1.8 billion bushels, allowing the United States to replenish some of Its depleted reserves. Hie forecast hinged largely on weather conditions, however, and government weather ex-

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Weather and erop expert Wayne Palmer of the Environmental Data Service said today that the drought picture in the lower Midwest has not changed much in the last week except for some rain along the southcentral Oklahoma border. It is "perhaps Just a little worse” than a week ago, Palmer said. He said there had not been much further wind erosion during the week, but neither had there been much growth in the winter wheat crop. In its crop production report, the Agriculture Department said winter precipitation over most of the central and southern Great Plains was less than half normal.

Extremely dry top soils limited plant development and has permitted some damage from wind erosion. Nebraska, South Dakota and the northern mountain states suffered some wind damage because of inadequate snow cover and dry stopsoil, the report said. It added that although wheat generally is in good condition, soil moisture reserves now are considered short in parts of Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and the northern Plains. Elsewhere, winter grain prospects are somewhat more encouraging. Winter damage from low temperatures is about normal. A January ice storm in parts of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois caused concern, but government farm officials said it is still too early to gauge the extent of possible damage.

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llfilf Second grade students in Mrs. Spicer’s room at Miller School have been studying Hawaii with Miss Gail Ujiki, a student teacher from Hawaii and Thursday afternoon, the students are going to present a program for their classmates and public. Miss Ujiki’s parents furnished genuine leis, fortune cookies, Japanese coconut candies, rice cookies and macadamia nuts from Hawaii for the occasion. Front row, left to right, Patty Phillips, Leah Gaston,

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Kathy Kiger, Barbara Dean, Darline May, Pam Bond, Alice Detro, Anne Lear, Kathy Patrick. Back row, left to right. Miss Gail Ujiki, student teacher, Sharon Bridges, Cindy Schlegel, Ralph Rogers, Mike Morrill, John Richardson, Mark Stoelting, Kim Gorham, Jeff McCarter, Robert Albright, Brenda Greenlee, Ronnie Knauer, Clint Inman, Janet Hardwick, Burl Clark, Principal, and Mrs. Hilda Spicer, teacher. Banner Photo—Don Whitehead

Foreign News Comment

By HENRY SHAPIRO MOSCOW UPI—The Chinese cultural revolution with its vicious anti-Soviet campaign ap-

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pears to have had at least one positive effect from a Soviet point of view. It has set back if not entirely obliterated efforts to halt the process of de-Stalinization here and rehabilitation of the late Soviet ruler Josef V. Stalin. The Russians have had another good look at the evils of the "personality cult” in the person of Chinese dictator Mao Tse-tung and are saying “never again here.” Actually the decision to let the dead Stalin lie and not refurbish his image was made at the 23rd Communist party congress in March 1966—the first post-Khrushchev congress. Stalin was then entirely ignored and his name not mentioned wtih one notable exception. Moscow party Secretary Nikolai Yegorichev in a major address to the congress declared “we shall never return to Stalinism.” However, the movement to rehabilitate Stalin did not entirely abate then. Some writers on World aWr II made a particular effort, if not to glarify Stalin, at least to rebut Nikita S. Khrushchev’s charges that the Soviet generalissimo was an ignorant, incompetent and bungling comman-der-in-chief. But came the Chinese cultural revolution and the antics of Mao Tse-tung which in some respects went beyond anything Stalin had done. Mao was portrayed by Soviet propaganda as the “personality cultist” of all times and his idolatry bitterly and sharply condemned. Comparisons with Stalin were not made publicly but they were there inevitably in the peoples’ minds. Articles and memoirs mildly praising Stalin were dicontinued. A conference of Moscow’s most eminent historians last

The Lighter Side

year almost unanimously condemned the atrocities of the Stalin era and his conduct of the war. The comments on Stalin’s pre-war role and on his work in the beginning of the war were still negative. If there is any lingering sentiment for the reassessment of Stalin’s deeds, it will be dissipated by the defection of his daughter Svetlana to the West Officially all that has been said about Svetlana is that she left to bury her husband and how long she stays abroad is per private business. Bu in addition to the effective grapevine in existence here, there are millions of Russians who listen to foreign broadcasts and who know everything that has come out of Zurich, Rome, New Delhi, and Washington about Svetlana.

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By DICK WEST WASHINGTON UPI — President Johnson has asked Congress to make the Selective Service System fairer by filling draft quotas through the lottery

method.

Meanwhile, Rep. Paul A. Fino, R-N. Y., is once again pressing his one-man campaign to have Congress approve a national lottery as a revenue-

producing device.

Thus far, at least to my knowledge, nobody has suggested the next logical step, which is to put these two plans together. This oversight is

difficult to understand.

The two proposals dovetail, or rather hawktail, beautifully. By wrapping them both into a

Defray Expenses Proceeds from the lottery would be used to defray U. S. expenses in Vietnam. At last count, there were 33,909,985 persons registered for the draft. So each lottery would bring in millions of dollars. National lottery and Selective Service headquarters would, of course, be located In Las Vegas, where there Is a large pool of experienced personnel available to help operate it Here’s a little gimmick that would make the lottery draft even more fair than it would be otherwise: Each registrant would receive a free lottery ticket bearing his number. If, therefore, he should be

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single bill, Congress could unluck y enough to lose in the provide funds for the Vietnam he would automatically war and the men to fight it at wkl * n ^ ie lottery,

the same time.

NEW YORK UPI — Bache & Co. says the Dow Jones industrial average is presently in a position for a major assault on the 900 level although it does not envision a straight path since the market must still cope with some economic dislocation. The company, however, feels that the market seems to have adjusted to the current economic level so that unfavorable economic news will not have a major impact on prices.

Kenneth Ward of Hayden, Stone, Incs., says even though the business background leaves much to be desired and a number of unfavorable actualities and possibilities hang over the market causing uncertainty, investor confidence continues to improve, reserve buying power remains large and the daily oddlot ratio is favorable. The analyst believes that in view of the almost straight climb in recent sessions, a pause right now would seem logical.

Newton D. Zinder of E. F. Hutton A Co. says recent market action has proved that the sluggish blue chips could join in the market upswing. The analyst believes recent gains in the blue chips also has dispelled some growing doubts about the quality of market leadership.

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As Envisioned As I envision it, the combined national lottery and Selective Service System would operate something like this: All young men of draft age would be assigned a number. The numbers would then be placed into groups of one thousand ea c h, as follows: Group I 1-1000; Group H 1001 - 2000; Group HI 2001 - 3000, and so on. Lottery tickets, each bearing one of the numbers, would be printed and sold to the public for $1 each. A lottery would be conducted each time the armed forces needed an additional 1,000 men. All of the numbered groups would be placed in a fishbowl and one would be drawn out by Shirley Temple, or some other appropriate personage whom everybody trusts. The 1,000 men whose numbers were in that group would immediately be drafted. And all of the people who had lottery tickets in that group would win a prize.

Life in the army might not be highly desirable, but it’s better

if you’re rich.

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