28 War Veterans
Get Homesteads
i AKIMA (/P)—Luck of the draw
g - e 23 war veterans new hope to
day for a prosperous future as
rr. dern “homesteaders” on the
Ya .ima-Roza irrigation project.
They were the winners yesterday
in a "fishbowl” drawing by the
T-' S. Reclamation bureau from a
hst of 1,272 approved applicants.
They represent eight states and
walks of life—but one of the
e .. sites for qualification was a
b rkground of farm experience to
give them a running start for their
: ew opportunity.
>. \V. Lindgren, acting superin
t n :ent of the Yakima reclamation
project, said that, except for a
small government homestead fee,
the “promised land” will be theirs
without cost, but they will have to
pay for future irrigation and con
. t'jction costs. Lindgren said de
velopment was estimated to cost
them an average of $260 an acre,
with the payment to be interest
free over a 40-year period.
One of the requirements was
tha* each veteran have $3,000 of
capital or credit for the start of
their farming venture.
ritorial, political and ideological
expansion by the Soviet Union.
The United States is poweful
enough to serve as the rallying
point of a coalition of independent
states determined to remain inde
pendent. That is precisely why all
the vials of Soviet wrath are being
heaped on Uncle Sam at this time.
That is why in his efforts to get
Russia to join with this country,
Great Britain and France in a sol
emn agreement to keep Germany
disarmed and demilitarzed, aims
which the Russians insist are their
aims General Marshall has so*far
got nowhere.
Halibut Fleet
Sails North
•
VANCOUVER, B. C„ </P)—'The
first boats of Vancouver’s 300-boat
halibut fleet sailed Sunday for the
north ‘Pacific fishing banks for
opening of the season May 1
The international halibut com
mission has set a catch quota of
53,000,000 pounds which would
normally* be reached by the Cana
dian and American fleets in five
weeks, officials estimated. How
ever, Seattle and Puget Sound
fishermen are still involved in a
dispute with boat owners over di
vision of “shares” of the catch and
no boats have sailed. The halibut
“harvest” last year was worth
$9,000,000 to the fleets of the two
countries.
Labor Situation
At A Glanre
(Continued from Page One'
The agreement between the
Maryland Federation of Telephone
Workers and the Chesapeake and
notomac Telephone company of
Baltimore provides for local arbi
• ration of five major issues, includ
ing a general wage increase.
Henry Foster, president of the
MFTW said his group was with
drawing from the national federa
tion.
?-!eanwhile, Senator Taft <R.
Ohio> expressed belief four amend
ment? further restricting union ac
‘ivities would be attached to a
measure now in the Senate.
“I rather think we’ve got the
votes,” said Taft, who is support
ing the amendments.
Senator Ellender (D.-La.), allied
with a group determined to fight
of ihe amendments, said “we’ve
got a chance to beat them.”
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CHUCKLES
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new customer walked into a !
butcher shop and asked the but
•<?r how many chickens he had.
She was told that there w’ere six
chickens in the icebox. “I keep
orders who are always com
plaining,” she explained, “so will
u p.ck me out the three tough-!
est chickens you huve^”
The delighted butcher quickly i
put all six chickens on the counter
and selected the three toughest.
T irmly the customer placed her
h?ni on the three tender chickens.
“I'll take these,” she said coolly.
%
E-pecially annoyed at the slow
ness of a new buck-private, the j
sergeant-major strode up to him
and barked, “What was your job i
in civilian life?”
“Bank clerk,” replied the pri
vate.
"I suppose,” sneered the veter
an sergeant “you dusted the desks,
•cashed the ink wells and made
nice cups of tea for the man
ager.”
“Oh, no,” was the reply, “we
kept an old ex-sergeant-major for
that job.”
Rookie—Do you know how to
throw a screwball?
Pitcher—Certainly. You want t'
I wrestle?
Woman—A husband like yours
must have been hard to find.
Neighbor—He still is when I
want him!
A wife is a woman who goes
back to mother on Monday—and
is scared stiff if she doesn’t get
a letter on Tuesday' morning.
A government of checks and
balances means that when the gov
ernment gets your check your b'
ance disappears.
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Gasoline Tanker
Explodes, Burns
VALPARAISO. Chile. i/P)—F f
teen members of the 33-man c ew
of the 824-ton gasodne-laden Chil
ean coastal steamer Montema
were believed drowned or burned
to death when the vessel explode r
Friday off the coast south of C -
quimbo.
Eighteen members of the r-r*
were rescued by another co,;‘
steamer, the Lunin, which also r -
covered four bodies. Port author -
ties expressed the hope that some
of the 11 men missing manage 1 to
swim to the nearest point of land,
about five miles from the scene or
the explosion.
The Montema r was enrouie
from San Antonio, Chile, to Co
quimbo. It was listed as carryir
425 tons of gasoline and 160 tons
of fuel oil.
BLUFFER
CHICAGO, uP)—Eugene Sten
derson, manager of a currency ex
change, is grateful to an unidenti
fied small boy who left a toy pis
tol at the exchange.
Shortly after the boy disappear
ed, a man approached the ex
change, leveled a gun at Stender
son and announced a holdup. Sten
derson seized the toy and leveled
it at the gunman who fled.
Viet-Namese Kill
Two Ministers
PARIS, uri—rrench dspatches
.'rum Indo China said Saturday
• - it 44 person-, including tw > min
i s of he Cochin-China govern
ment. were killed Friday when
Yiet-Xamese forces ambushed a
c >nvoy 40 miles south of Saigon.
Tne advices -aid the act; m. near
*'>' on the Mekong River, was
m ■* imp riant attack by the
et Xam.e e s'nce hostilities be
■i n Inlo-ChiBa last December.
T-e two officials—Truong Yinh
Ko:;hn, education minister, and
7 ' .p Quang Dong, under-.-r "etary
of -tale—were killed when a road
mine blow up their automobile.
Mortar shells smashed in > the
convoy which was escorting them.
NO BOAT?
LEXINGTON, Va. i/P) — The
first delegate to reigster for the
18th annual convention of the
southern interscholastic press as
sociation. currently in session on
the Washington and Lee campus
and sponsored by the Robert E.
Lee journalism foundation was—
Robert E. Lee. Young Lee says he
-imposes he is a descendant of the
famed Confederate general, but he
doesn’t know for sure. He is stay
ing at the Robert E. Lee hotel.
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