The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 18 April 1968 — Page 8
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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana
Thursday April 18, 1968
| On the Farm Front j Uiiendmg mail can be curbed
UPI Farm Editor WASHINGTON (UPI) - Corn growers who enrolled in the government acreage control program this year may get a 19 to 20 per cent bonus in return for each bushel they produce. An Agriculture Department report today indicates the bonus in recent years has ranged from 13 to 20 per cent. Last year it was 19 per cent, and this year it may increase if production drops as expected while government payment rates to farmers remain unchanged. Under the government’s feed grain program, farmers who comply with acreage controls are entitled to federal price support payments. In 1967, for example, producers received support payments averaging 20 cents for each bushel produced by participants in the program. Farmers who ignored the con. trol program in 1967 received, according to government estimates, an average market price of $1.07 for each bushel of corn they produced. Farmers who complied with controls, however, received the $1.07 market price plus the 20cent government payment for a total of $1.27, or 19 per cent above returns to growers who remained outside the control program. In 1966, a government study shows producers who limited their output received $1.24 per bushel for corn from the open market plus an average of 25 cents in government support payments for a $1.49 total. This was 20 per cent more than the $1.24 return to growers who did not comply with controls. For 1968, the gap between returns to farmers with or without the support payments was considered likely to be somewhere between the 1966 and 1967 figures. This is because planted acreage is down this year and may result in a smaller crop with market prices between the 1966 and 1967 levels.
The Agriculture Department said today dairy farmers in almost all milksheds regulated by federal milk marketing orders will be asked to vote soon on a government proposal to keep minimum fluid milk prices at current levels through April, 1969. The proposal, initially announced March 20, would keep in effect a 20 cent increase in price differentials for bottling milk in all federal order milksheds except those in Florida. The Florida price situation is being considered separately. Approval of the proposal was considered a virtual certainty since rejection would allow the 20 cent increase to expire and 'thus would lead to lower prices for farmers. The Agriculture Department had said the higher price levels were needed to help farmers meet rising costs. In contact UNITED NATIONS (UPI)— U.N. Secretary General Thant is in contact with the Hanoi government, presumably to help select a site for preliminary peace talks, his spokesman said today. Thant, widely suggested as a possible third party to seek agreement on a site, discussed the situation at length with U.S. Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg Tuesday, the spokesman said. Thant told newsmen last Saturday he had mentioned Paris along with Geneva, New Delhi, Rangoon, Vientiane and Phnom Penh during his talks in Paris last week with Mai Van Bo, North Vietnam’s ranking diplomat in the West. The spokesman said Thant “is in touch” with Hanoi through “the usual channels” which the secretary general has never disclosed. * * • More than 42,000 operas are known to have been composed.
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Mail patrons offended by pandering advertisements can now take steps to curb such mail. Postmaster C.T. Albin said today in announcing plans for administering a new law which gives each family the right to decide that an ad is “erotically arousing or sexually provarousing or sexually provocative.” When an advertisement sent through the mail is offensive on these grounds, a patron can now ask the post office to direct the mailer to send no more mail to him and to remove immediately the patron’s name from all mailing lists he owns, controls or rents. To assist patrons, the Post Office Department has published a brief pamphlet—“How You Can Curb Pandering Advertisements” which is now available at the Greencastle post office. In addition to explaining how the law works, the pocket-size leaflet contains a form letter one can use when sending his complaint to the post office. The pamphlet explains that when a patron receives an advertisement which is, in his opinion, pandering, he must send the ad, its envelope and the form letter, or one which includes its language, to his post office with the words, “Request for prohibitory order” on the face of the envelope. Postmaster Albin said: “This new law should give some protection to American families offended by advertisements they believe to be morally harmful, particularly to their children. “Last year the Post Office Department received some 140, 000 complaints from those offended by pandering advertisements. While in most cases the ads were not legally obscene and were therefore mailable, they are often offensive and are usually not the type of material | lighter | side v v. v V* By DICK WEST WASHINGTON (UPI)-As vices go, smoking is for most of the world a fairly modern foible, dating only back to the 16th Century. Evidence recently uncovered in a prehistoric cave in Wyoming shows, however, that American Indians were smoking pipes 4,000 years ago. According to the National Geographic Society, which helped finance the excavation, “experts are trying to determine whether tobacco or some other plant was burned in the pipes.” "Indians traditionally smoked red willow, slippery elm bark, and kinnikinnick— the bark and leaves of sumac or dogwood,” the society says. Who Was First After I read this item, I lit up a cigar, which smelled a bit like burning sumac, and soon found myself musing over a question the answer to which is lost forever in the mists of antiquity — namely, how did those Indians happen to start smoking in the first place? Smoking, as you know, is an acquired habit rather than a natural function. Someone had to be the first to try it, and all subsequent smokers have him to blame. What could have caused him to take that fateful first puff? The most logical supposition is that it came about accidentally. A couple of Indians were sitting around a campfire and one of them picked up a slippery elm twig that was smouldering on one end. He put the other end in his mouth to dislodge a piece of buffalo meat that was stuck between his teeth, and in doing so he chanced to inhale some of the smoke. “Say,” he exclaimed, taking another drag, “That’s what I call springtime fresh!” Competition Arises His curious behavior was observed by the second Indian, who then pulled a sumac branch from the fire, stripped off a piece of bark and lighted it with a hot coal. “Ummmmmn,” he said. “Sumac tastes good like kinnikinnick should.” They puffed along in silence for seven minutes, then the first Indian turned to his companion and asked: “Why don’t you try some of that dogwood?” "Us sumac smokers would rather fight than switch,” the second Indian said. “Well,” the first Indian said, “I find that I’ve been smoking more but enjoying it less. So I think I’ll change to red willow. It’s a silly millimeter longer.” “The length doesn’t matter,” the second Indian said. “It’s what’s up front that counts.” When last seen, the first Indian was walking a mile for a willow limb.
one would want his children to read,” Postmaster Albin said. He added that “because the law gives a mail patron the sole right to decide what is offensive, and does not deny others the right to receive the same mail, the Congress felt it does not violate Constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech.” While the patron’s complaint will only be directed to the sender, Postmaster Albin be-
lieves that one or two complaints will provide substantial protection because “the great bulk of this advertising comes from fewer than 20 so-called “smut dealers” who are frequently swapping mailing lists.” If a mailer does not strike a complainants name from his mailing list, and the patron receives a second mailing 30 days after the firm has received the prohibitory order, he may bring
the matter to the attention of the postmaster issuing the initial order by writing him and enclosing the second pandering ad with its envelope. If the mailer still fails to respect the order, the Postmaster General may ask the Attorney General to apply for a Federal Court order directing compliance. Failure to respect the order may be punishable by a fine or imprisonment.
Sees no sign of U.S. de-escalation
WASHINGTON (UPI)Defense Secretary Clark M. Clifford said today he has seen “no indications” of any Communist de-escalation of the war since the United States curtailed its bombing of North Vietnam. Since President Johnson’s March 31 speech placing most of North Vietnam—including Hanoi and Haiphong—off limits to U.S. warplanes, U.S. officials have watched for any sign of a reduction in Communist military activities. “I know of no indications of any de-escalation on their part up to this time,” Clifford told newsmen at Andrews Air Force Base before leaving for a NATO conference at The Hague. Clifford said he believed Hanoi was forced to reduce the size of its force in the Khe Sanh area because the pressure of U.S. air and fire power was making the siege “wholly untenable.” Asked about reports that in Four are murdered DEL RIO, Tex. (UPI)—Four persons were found dead along a two-mile stretch of highway today in what the Texas Department of Public Safety called apparent mass murder. Two children, one shot and one stabbed, were found alive but in critical condition and officers said a seventh person was missing. The Val Verde County sheriff’s office at Del Rio said the bodies of a man, two women and a baby, beaten and stabbed, were discovered about 8 a.m. about 58 miles north of Del Rio and south of Sonora, Tex. The area is in southwest Texas near the Mexican border. The two surviving children were found with the fourth body near U.S. Highway 277 at the entrance to the Lee Whitehead Ranch. Officers said another woman was believed to have been with the group but was still missing. the Del Rio DPS office said a hitchhiker was picked up several hours later but was not considered a suspect. County and state officers including Texas Rangers, had roadblocks up throughout the area.
the last few days Khe Sanh has again come under enemy fire, Clifford said: “Gen. (William) Westmoreland has the situation under control.” Clifford also said there are no plans to bring more U.S. troops home from Europe than the
34,000 scheduled to return this year. "It is possible in the future that we will want to consider other changes but I believe that for the time being that’s the only decision that has been made,” he said.
CONTRACT BRIDGE
By B. Jay Becker (Top Record-Holder in Masters' Individual Championship Flay)
South dealer. Both sides vulnerable. NORTH *K54 V J63 ♦ KQ1054 4 10 6 WEST EAST + A92 +QJ f K Q 10 9 9 8 7 5 4 2 ♦ J987 ♦32 ♦ 852 ♦974 SOUTH ♦ 10 8 7 6 3 V A ♦ A6 ♦ A K Q J 3 Final contract—six spades. Opening lead—king of hearts. I was playing in a rubber bridge game many years ago with one of the best known players in the world as my partner, and we suffered the humiliation of winning only one trump trick although we had the A-K-J-9 of trumps between us. I know this sounds impossible, but, actually, the trump setup was such that the same thing could have happened to anyone. Declarer had six trumps to the eight and dummy had the Q-10-x. When declarer led a low trump toward dummy, my illustrious partner, who had the K-J-9 and shall be nameless, played the king. I was forced to
win the king with the ace, and that was the only trump trick we got. I am reminded of this by today’s hand where declarer lost only one trump trick with the opponents having the A-Q-J-9-2 of trumps! I am much impressed by the hand because it seems to me that the declarer in this case scored an even more colorful victory than my opponent accomplished against me lo! these many years ago. Be that as it may, South arrived at six spades, as the result of a bidding sequence too dreadful to publish. West led the king of hearts and South was faced with the impossible task of making six spades. But declarer, not one to give up easily, concocted a clever scheme that brought home the bacon. He won the heart lead with the ace and cashed the ace of diamonds, acting very much like a man with the singleton ace. He then led a low trump towards dummy at trick three. West could not bear the thought of South’s getting rid of his (presumed) heart losers on dummy’s K-Q of diamonds, so he climbed up with the ace of trumps and tried to cash his queen of hearts. South ruffed, and that was the end of the party. A good time was had by all.
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Five military men are charged with spying
MOSCOW (UPI>— Five U.S. military attaches have been caught spying to gather intelligence data near a Soviet army camp and shipyard, the government newspaper Izvestia said tonight. It said a tall Canadian who could peek over fences as a
lookout was implicated.
Both the American and Canadian embassies disputed the charges. A U.S. statement said the Izvestia article was “replete with distortions and inaccuracies” and violated the accepted international norms
for the treatment of diplomats. irnm u n i t y.
Canada called the charge
“unfounded.”
The U.S. embassy disclosed It had formally protested Monday to the Soviet Foreign Ministry against the incident. The Canadian embassy said it received an official protest from the Foreign Ministry today complaining about the activities of one of its Royal Canadian Air
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