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SACRAMENTO. Calif. </P) —
The National Grange has rejected
the Brannan farm price support
program as "an internal cancer
that would ultimately destroy our
free enterprise system."
The resolution condemning the
farm program proposed by Secre
tary of agriculture Charles F.
Brannan was a highlight of the
closing session of the 12-day na
tional Grange convention Friday
night.
Delegates from 37 states took
part in installing Master Albert S.
Goss for his fifth- two-year term
just before passing the resolution
which said of the Brannan plan:
"The proposal has totally unde
sirable political implications.
Clearly, under such a system, that
party which would promise to
farmers the largest bonus out of
the treasury would gamer many
votes not obtainable on the basis
of an honest, sound platform.
“It would then become a race to
see which party would promise
most."
The resolution said that Bran
nan type of subsidy would make
farmers “public beggars for a fair
income” and destroy their char
acter and self reliance.
(The Brannan plan, shelved at
the recent Congress, calls for full
parity supports through purchas
es and loans, as at present, for
corn, cotton, wheat, rice, peanuts
and tobacco. For perishable pro
ducts the price would be permit
tedto seek its natural level in the
market place. The government
would determine a “fair price” in
advance and then pay the produc
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isolated from the southern inte
rior of the province as slides cov
ered the Fraser Canyon highway
and rains washed out a wide sec
tion of the new $12,000,000 Hope
Princeton highway two miles east
of Summit, B. C. A dredge car
rying $20,000 in placer gold was
torn from its moorings by logs
and debris and piled up in twisted
wreckage near Princeton.
Seven persons died in British
Columbia, six when their tugboat
capsized off Victoria and one
when he was swept into the rag
ing Capilano River.
KELSO, Wash., (A*)—A Ketchi
kan, Alaska, woman was fatally
injured and her husband badly
hurt Saturday night at the height
of the gale sweeping across west
ern Washington.
She was Mrs. I. C. Ransome, 68.
She and her husband were driv
ing on a vacation trip in the States
when their car struck a rain
loosened rock that had rolled onto
the Pacific Highway five miles
south of here.
The automobile swerved across
the road, out of control, and struck
an embankment. Mrs. Ransome
was thrown against the steering
column. She died of chest injuries
yesterday. Her husband was hos
pitalized for shock and multiple
injuries.
The Ransome’s had left Seattle
Saturday morning.
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ers the difference between that
price and the natural price, if it
were lower.)
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Disruss Statehood
i HONOLULU, l/P> — Alaska’s
Gov. Ernest Gruening will discuss
statohoori strategy here this week !
with Joseph R. Farrington. Hawa
iis’ Delegate to Congress.
"I am very hopeful that Con
gress will act on statehood for
both Territories at the next ses
sion." said Gruening. who arrived
Thursday with secretary of the
Treasury Snyder after a flying
Pacific tour.
Farrington, now touring Pacific
islands trust territory, with mem
bers of the House public lands
committee, is due to return to
Honolulu about Dec. 1.
Gruening said he would remain
until Dec. 8 for the discussions.
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a dog for the movies. Booked on ;
suspicion of drunkenness, Hull |
told officers that he can imitate 50 ;
breeds.
Fellow prisoners said he kept|
them awake all night proving it.j
WAVERLY, 111., «/P>—1The steak'
dinner given for the Waverly
high school football team Friday
! night by the Knights of Pythias
turned out pretty tough.
No one could eat the steaks.
Seems K. of P. cooks, in flouring
the plankers, used patching plas
ter.
Everybody ate ham.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman has named former Chi
cago industrialist Hurbert E. How
ard to be chairman of the defese
department’s munitions board.
) The appointment to the $14,000
a-year post was announced Fri
day. Hubert would be responsible
for advance planning for the in
dustrial mobilization of the nation
in case of another war. The posi
! tion had been vacant for many
months.
i SANTA ANA. Calif. (/P)—'Traf- j
fic officers, brimming with the
Christmas spirit, are ticketing ev- j
ery car parked downtown Satur- J
day afternoons during the holiday )
i season.
The tickets actually are Christ
mas greeting cords. Police Chief
B. A. Hershey bought 15,000 of
them. i
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WASHINGTON, I#*)—President
Truman left today for Key West,!
j Fla., where he will spend the next!
i three weeks resting and working.1
Virtually the full White House
staff was aboard the Presidential
plane "Independence.” as it took
off for the four-hour flight to Boca
Chica airport.
Presidential press secre t a r y
Charles G. Ross said in advance
that Mr. Truman expected to
"carry on business os usual” at
Key West.
WASHINGTON, <&)—The Na
tional farm committee including
two state agricultural commis
sioners, pleaded innocent today to
charges of violating the federal i
lobbyist registration law.
The pleas were entered by coun
sel for Tom Linder, George com
missioner of agriculture; James
E. McDonald, Texas commissioner
of agriculture; Ralph W. Moore of
Washington, Robert M. Harris of
New York and the National Farm
committee, a Texas corporation.
At the arraignment proceedings
in federal district court, Judge
Alexander Holtzoff scheduled the
trial for Feb. 13. He gave the de
fendants until Jan. 9 to file spe
cial motions.
Barkley Will
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1950 (lainpai^n
WASHINGTON i/P)—Vice Pres
ident Barkley starts this week in
a 1950 campaign warm-up enliv
ened by Republican talk of the
Truman program ns leading to a
“poorhouse state.”
New ly-wed Barkley, accom
panied by his bnde, is billed as
the principal speaker and chief
attraction at a Democratic fund
raising dinner in New York City
Friday night.
Barkley is an old hand at key
noting party drives. He may come
up with a Democratic answer to
the charges of Guy G. Gabrielson,
the Republican national chairman,
that the Truman administration is
spending the country into the kind
of doubtful security given poor
house inmates.
Gnbrielson teed off on the oppo
sition in a national broadcast last
night, declaring:
“If we continue under the pres
ent administration we are headed
for a poorhouse state and, while
the inmates of a poorhouse may
have a certain amount of so-called
security, their lot is not particu
larly enviable.”
It was a departure by the GOP
leader from the “welfare state”
phrase with which his party mem
bers have been describing what
President Truman calls his “Fair
Deal” program.
Gabrielson laid down some
broad charges against the Truman
administration, among them that
it is fostering unemployment.
During the week ending Novem
ber 12. he quoted labor depart
ment figures, 1,746.200 claims for
unemployment compensation were
pending. He said this compared
with 365.721 such claims in the
weeking ending Nov. 13. 1943,
when a Republican Congress was
in charge on Capitol Hill.
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—- A WEEKLY COLUMN —^
conducted by Claud C Rucb
ft/:,:atitiial ffirector. Childcraft
Adi nory Sert ice m Chicago
‘The pattern by which human
beings grow is as fixed as the
progress of the moon and the stars.
Every baby grows and becomes
bigger and better in the same or
derly way.”
That is the poetic but peitinent
observation made by Dr. and Mrs
C. Anderson Aldrich in their ar
ticle in Childcraft books on "Growth
and Development During the First
Year.”
(I)r. Aldrich is Director of the
Rochester Child Health Pro.jeeV
and he and Mrs. Aldrich are co
authors of numerous books and ar
ticles on child welfare.)
They point out that, although the
senses of touch, taste, and smell are
in good working order in the new
horn baby, he cannot see very
much. Rut, he will follow a mov
ing light with his eyes soon after
hi rth.
All of you mothers nave heard
babies start to cry suddenly, in a
frightened manner, at the sound of
a loud or startling noise. That is
because the infant has sensitive
hearing. He will respond just as
quickly in a favorable manner to
a soothing voice or soft, restful
music.
Knowledge of these simple facts
will provide many an anxious
young mother with ail the informa
tion she needs to stop the hysterical
screams of her baby. It also will
help her to understand what nor-’
mally to expect and what not to
expect in the way of early re
sponses from the very young ir
fant.
At birth, a normal baby’s brain
has acquired more than one-fourth
of its adult size. Retween birth and
» ghteen months of age, the size
of tlie brain doubles. Drain of the
six-year-old is nine-tenths the su*
of that of a full-grown adult.
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A BIG BOOM ON MINK
BOTH WILD AND RANCH
General opinion of the fur trade is that Mink will again be aa high
as last year. We say they will be higher. Many orders have already
been booked by MAAS * STEFFEN COMPANY of St. Louie S,
Missouri, at higher prices.
Marten... dark and brown colors are not lower in price. Pole
Marten show a lower trend.
Keep posted on fur prices, it will pay you this season to know what
the markets of the world can pay for Alaska furs.
A postcard will bring you all this information by air mail. free.
Wnte today to...
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