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government Will Stop
Issuing Forecasts of
Production Goals
By the Associated Press
The Agriculture Department has
decided to be a little more secretive
about its forecasts of market de
mands for farm products.
In 1950 it will drope a decade
long practcie of announcing—
ahead of the production season—
a set of goals for various com
modities, together with its basis for
determining those goals.
It is hoped this will save officials
from red faces when their fore
casts turn out wrong.
Several times this year officials
had some embarrassing moments
when congressional committees
called attention to the fact that
goals either overshot their marks
or that department forecasts were
too optimistic.
Set Forth in Handbook.
Early in the war the department
started the practice of setting up
production goals for virtually every
farm commodity. These goals
were set forth in a “goals hand
book” giving a detailed explana
tion of the market outlook for
various products, price prospects,
etc.
These handbooks were dis
tributed among State and local
farm officials and leaders. They
served as “bibles” in the wartime
campaign to get maximum output
of food.
But the 1949 handbook is
destined to be the last.
A top-ranking official says it
didn’t matter very much during
the war if the calculations went
astray. There was need for all
that could be produced, regardless
of the goal or prior forecasts. But
now that foreign markets are de
clining and farm surpluses are
beginning to accumulate, it is dif
ferent.
rj Won’t Release Calculations.
"Wary of a new farm surplus
problem, members of Congress and
farmers are more critical now, he
said, when the department misses
on its calculations.
This does not mean the depart
ment will stop making forecasts
and setting production goals. But
it will keep its calculations to it
self.
Goals will find public expression
only in programs designed to ac
complish the unannounced goal.
There will be a few exceptions
to this general rule. In the case
of crops subject to production and
marketing controls, goals will be
announced. Crops coming under
this class include wheat, corn,
tobacco, cotton, peanuts and pos
sibly rice.___
Party Leader Faces Trial
For Disrespect to Peron
By th« Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina,
Sept. 30.—Ricardo Balbin, ma
jority floor leader in the Chamber
of Deputies, has been stripped of
his congressional immunity and
faces a federal court trial on
charges of being disrespectful to
President Juan D. Peron.
The Chamber of Deputies voted,
109 to 49, yesterday to disallow
the Radical Party leader’s con
gressional immunity.
Mr. Balbin is charged with
being disrespectful to Gen. Peron
in a speech he made before a farm
group at Rosario a month ago.
He has frequently criticized the
administration.
Two other Radical Party lead
ers recently chose exile rather
than face trial on political
charges.
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HOLLYWOOD.—“BLUE BABY” TO INTRODUCE PRESIDENT—
Lynda Harper, 8, of Santa Monica, Calif., will step to a micro
phone tonight and introduce President Truman to open this
year’s Community Chest campaign. Lynda, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. William Harper, was born a “blue baby,” with a heart
ailment that makes normal breathing Impossible. An operation
at Children’s Hospital, under Community Chest auspices, two
years ago made her a normal, healthy girl. She is shown with
Ethel Barrymore, who will tell Lynda’s story on the program.
Other entertainers on the kickoff show include Jack Benny,
Fred MacMurray, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, Ann Sothern and
Ralph Edwards. —AP Wirephoto.
Mrs. Bowen Named lo Head
Camp Fire Girls Council
Mrs. Esther Haskins Bowen has
been named executive director of
the Potomac Area Council of the
Camp Fire Girls, it was announced
today.
Mrs. Bowen,
who was for
merly field di
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gomery County,
will now head
all units in the
District and
nearby Mary
land and Vir
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| Noronic Bellboy Says
He Roused Crewmen,
But Not Passengers
By the Associated Press
TORONTO, Sept, 30.—A ship’s
bellboy yesterday told a Federal
commission inquiring into the
Noronic disaster that he roused
other members of the crew after
locating fire in a linen closet, out
he failed to do the same for any
passengers.
Garth O’Neill, 19 - year - old
former truck driver from Mont
real, testified a passenger reported
to him the fire in the C deck
closet. When attempts to put it
out failed, he went off to rouse
five other bellboys he knew were
sleeping one deck below.
Evidence of district chiefs ot
Toronto’s fire department in
dicated passengers were trapped
and burned alive in their state
rooms and that 139 "units”—
bodies or parts of bodies—were
removed from the ship to an im
provised morgue. Bodies of 96
of the 130 or so dead have been
identified.
Bulkheads Exempted.
District Chief James Stevens
described the September 17 blaze
as the "hottest fire I'vp ever seen.
* * * Water turned into steam in
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hopeless from the time firemen
arrived on the scene and that they
were “lucky to save the dock.”
James Moffat of Toronto, super
visor of marine inspection of the
Federal Transport Board, .testified
that the Canada Steamship Lines
ship had an exemption from a re
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1948. _
Girl, 13, Is Found Insane
In Slaying of Boy Playmate
By th* Auociattd Prut
JOLIET, HI.. Sept. 30.—Diana
Allen, 13-year-old slayer of a
boy playmate, was ordered sent
to a mental hospital yesterday
after she was found insane by a
Circuit Court jury.
Diana, who signed a statement
that she drowned Charles Johnson,
7, to satisfy an “urge to kill,” made
an unsuccessful attempt to escape
after the verdict. She broke awav
from a matron as she was being
led across the street from the
Will County courthouse to the
County jail. She was caught by
a deputy sheriff after a short
chase down the street.
The girl had been in jail for
five months. She admitted drown
ing the Johnson boy in a drainage
ditch April 30.
Both State and defense lawyers
recommended a veridict of not
guilty by reason of insanity. Three
psychiatrists testified that Diana
is a victim of schizophrenia (split
personality).
Diana was admitted to the H
linois State Hospital for the In
sane at nearby Elgin three hours
after her committment was
ordered by Circuit Judge James
V. Bartley._
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