Laurel outlook. [volume], February 20, 1946, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3

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Farms to Face
Guarantee Cut
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Government Support Prices
Will Be at Minimum as
Fixed by Law.
WASHINGTON. — Government
price guarantees to farmers will be
generally lower in 1946, it was dis
closed in an address by H. B. B.
Boyd, agriculture department price
director, to a conference of state
agricultural extension service offi
cials here.
Boyd told the meeting, called to
outline the department's 1946 farm
production program, that govern
ment support prices for most com
modities will be at the minimum au
thorized by law. This, except for
cotton, is 90 per cent of parity. In
the case of cotton, the law requires
support of 92.5 per cent.
During the war, prices of many
farm products were supported—by
means of government guarantees—
above parity levels in order to en
courage the greatest possible pro
duction.
(Parity is a theoretical price
deemed by the government to be
equally fair for producers and con
sumers. It is designed to give farm
commodities as much buying power,
in terms of non-farm goods and
services, as they had in a favorable
base period, usually 1909-'14.)
Few Get Top Support.
Boyd said the only commodities
likely to be supported above the 90
per cent level next year are sugar
beets, sugar cane, flaxseed, soy
beans and dried beans. The pros
pective need for these commodities
is greater, he explained, than pro
duction a 90 per cent parity guar
antee likely would bring.
The fact that price supports for
most commodities will be lowered
from the 1945 level does not neces
sarily mean that farm prices will
drop to this level.
Undersecretary of Agriculture J.
B. Hutson told the conference he ex
pects domestic and foreign require
ments in 1946 to hold prices fairly
close to present levels. He added,
however, that 1946 farm production
goals — calling for near wartime
levels of food production — assume
that between 8 and 10 per cent of
the output will be exported.
Adds Warning Nate.
But whether that amount actually
is shipped abroad will depend, he
said, upon funds made available for
foreign relief and extension of
American credits to Great Britain
and other countries wanting Ameri
can food. Should inadequate financial
arrangements be made, the result
might well be surpluses and prices
depressed to support levels.
Looking beyond 1947, Hutson
said the United States, with a farm
productive plant capable of produc
ing 25 per cent more than before
the war, faces three possible farm
programs: (1) expansion of domes
tic consumption to the level of
the increased production; (2) main
tenance of farm exports at wartime
levels; oc-13) a system of rigid pro
duction controls.
"We want to avoid the control
program if at all possible," he said.
Building Trades Warned
Of Illegal Wage Boosts
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Stabiliza
tion Director John C. Collet said re
cently that the War Labor board
would act to halt illegal wage in
creases in the building and con
struction industry.
After conferences of the WLB's
wage stabilization unit and the con
struction industry's wage adjus # t
ment board with Collet, the latter
said he had assurance that régula
tions governing wage payments
would be enforced. The WLB said |
a nation-wide checkup indicated un- j
stabilizing wage increases were be- J
ing given.
The penalty for unauthorized
w'age payments lies in the bureau
of internal revenue, which can re
fuse to accept them as deductible
items of cost in the employer's tax
returns.
Tenant Ends 10-Hour
Siege; Lays Down Rifle
WOODBURY, N. J. — After re
pelling police for 10 hours with a
.30-30 caliber rifle, Wilbert Stanton
accepted the pleas of a local minis
ter and gave up his battle against
eviction from his second-floor apart
ment.
Stanton, 42, who barricaded him
self and his family when constables
attempted to enforce an eviction or
der, was held in $500 bail on
charges of assault and intent to kill.
Police Chief George Carey said
that when he arrived Stanton
dangled a rifle shell tied to the end
of a string from the window and
shouted :
"If you don't get away from here
and leave me alone, you'll wish you
had."
Teacher Captured by
Japanese Gels Pay
Etta
Jones, described by the interior
department as the only white
woman known Jo have been cap
tured by the enemy on American
soil in Worjd War II, has collect
ed $7,374 back pay.
The 62-year-old Indian office
teacher was serving on Attu when
the Japs landed there.
WASHINGTON. - Mrs.
I Church At Park City
Is Being Redecorated
j The Woman's Society of Chris
tian Service working with the of
ficial board of the Methodist church
1 in Park City is making extensive
plans for redecorating the entire
church within the next few weeks.
The vestibule has already received
attention. Walls and ceiling of the
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auditorium will be redecorated, and
I * he floor Wl11 be mee] y refinished.
The pews are to be sanded and rè
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varnished, new lighting fixtures m
stalled, and the entire front of the
j church rebuilt for installation of a
divided chancel, altar table, cross
| an 4 candles,
Most of the work will be done by
members and friends of the church,
reports Rev. M. J. Wilcox, pastor.
The board has also been consid
ering the project of pointing up the
stone structure
painting the roof and the windows
this spring when outside work can
be done.
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Miss Peggy Russell is spending
the week in Billings, the guest of
Miss Lena Gesuale.
A telegram was received Monday
by Mrs. William Fly of Billings
saying that her sister, Mrs, Bertha
Reed of Bozeitian, had died and that
the funeral would be Tuesday, Mr.
and Mrs. Fly and Mrs. Fly's sister
Mrs. Agnes Walker attended the
funeral. Three of Mrs. Fly's sis
ters have died in less than a year.
Surviving brothers and sisters are
Mrs. Fly, who formerlv lived here,
D. A. Kamp of Hardin and Mrs.
Agnes Walker of Worden.
Kamp's health did rot permit him
tc attend the funeral in Bozeman.
Mr.
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j to Laurel Friday from San Diego,
Calif., where they went by car two
weeks ago. They were accompanied
home by their son-in-law and
I daughter, Mr. and Mrs. O. L.
I Spoon and the Spoons' daughter,
Pamela Jane. Mrs. Spoon in the
former Jean Price. Mr. Spoon re
cently completed six years in the
I navy ' and will assist in the opéra
j tion of the Price farm south of
j Laurel,
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Capt. Russell E. Packard, on
j terminal leave from the army, and
I Mrs. Packard left Tuesday for a
j northern trip. At Sidney they will
) be the • guests of Capt. Packard's
I aunt, Mrs. E. A. Anderson, and
during their trip they plan to visit
at Miles City and at points in
northern Montana and in Canada.
Mr. and Mrs. Don McKinney were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Rus
sell Saturday at an evening of
cards.
Mrs. Glenn Dawson and daughter,
Glenda of Powell, Wyo., were guests
last week of Mrs. Dawson's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Dickson.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Nelson of
Livingston were guests last week of
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Bundy and
Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Bundy.
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MASTER-MIND OF THE AIK
WAVES . . . Maj. Edwin H. Arm
strong, 55, former Columbia univer
I sity professor of electrical engineer
*ng, and inventor of frequency mod
ulaticn, as well as other basic radio
patents, who is credited with ra
dar's trip to the moon. Since 1930
be has won many awards for out
standing radio and radar develop
ment,
Armstrong also served in
Work! War I.
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UNO SECRETARY-GENERAL . . .
3y a big majority. Dr. Trygve Hal
voan Lie, 43, Norwegian foreign
minister, was chosen by delegates
to be United Nations secretary-gen
His salary will be $20,090 a
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j Wilson, Starke, Fla., demonstrates that loss of hands and feet is no bar to
driving an automobile. He is shown (right) at New York City as he was
greeted by city council president, Vincent Impellitcri (left), and Bess Myer
Miss America cf 1945.
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Mr. and Mrs, Sam Strand had as
guests their son-in-laW and daugh
ter, Mr. and Mrs. Omund Ossen of
Big Timber.
Mrs. C. C. Ferguson has as her
guests her daughter, Mrs. Gordon
Allen and children of Glasgow.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen are moving to
Laurel to make their home.
Miss Bertha Corner of Billings
spent several days last week with
her mother, Mrs. Katie Corner,
while convalescing from a tonsil
ectomy.
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days last week in Billings, the guest
of Mr. Easton's sister-in-law,
C. A. Olson, who luld just returned
from an extended visit in Everson, |
Wash.
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Orr received |
a message from their son, Charles j
Orr at Kilmer, N. J., advising them |
of his return from service in the
army in German, France and other
parts of Europe.
Mr. and Mrs. John Allwin are the
parents of a son, bom Tuesday,
Feb. 12, at the St. Vincent hospital
in Billings.
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