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Vol. CXIX, No. 160.
More Flood Damage Seen As
Mississippi Waters Mount
Stricken Areas
To Receive
Government Aid
KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 18—
(AP)—The Mississippi river’s tur
bulent waters mounted steadily at
t. Louis and along the eastern
edge of Missouri today, threaten
ing additional widespread damage.
The river already bas caused an
estimated $750,000 damage in, the
3t. Louis waterfront,
At the same time the federal
government rushed efforts to help
Tehabilitate vast areas of Missouri,
i ansas and Oklahoma already de
sastated by flood waters.
President Truman made an 800-
mile aerial tour of the disaster
area yesterday ana pledged quick
sction. He called the flood “the
corst thing I have ever seen.”
The Missouri river, which
«nread over thousands of acres in
nliscouri, was pouring a torrent of
vater inte the Mississippi. The
tw oreat rivers join north of St.
Louils.
Much of the water was the run
off of Missouri and Kansas rivers
that earlier had inundated an es
dmated 2,000,000 acres in the two
tates. ‘
St. Louis Scene ‘
st. Louis waterfront business
houses had their employes sand
hagging and moving merchandise
to higher ground.
North of St. Louis residents of
the threatened areas of West Al
ton, Mo., and Kaskaskia Island
near Chester, 111., had been warned
to evacuate.
The Mississippi already has
caused an estimated $1,000,000
damage downstream from St.
Louis to Cape Giradeau in South
east Missouri.
Mr. Truman’s flight yesterday
was over Kansas, Missouri and
Oklahoma. In "his party was
Charles E. Wilson, Defense Mobil
ization chief.
Wilson said key federal agen
cies m!r‘ould work swiftly to allevi(—l
ate “the aw cow the floo
has causi&.sw R
The President said n his return
to Washington last night that he
would sign an emergency bill pro
viding funds for Midwest flood te
lief as soon as it gets to him.
Congress has voted a $25,000,000
fund. Mr. Truman said this was
only preliminary money to meet
the immediate situation.
During his aerial trip the Presi
dent saw at least 1,000,000 acres
that were inundated or had been
under water. His plane flew over
looded industrial districts, wreck
'd bridges, smashed residental
reas and ruined farms.
$750 Million Dameages
Damage in Missouri and Kansas
llone hag been estimated in excess
f $750,000,000—an receding wa
lers are uncovering additional
losses daily. The death toll is 23.
~ High waters continued to drop
in the Kansas City area, and in
flooded eastern and central Kan
sas and northeastern Oklahoma.
_ But the swollen Missouri and
Mississippi rivers still pounded
central and eastern Missouri.
The Missouri empties into the
Mississippi north of St. Louis. Al
though the Missouri is cascading
tons of water into the swollen
Mississippi now, its crest is only
about halfway across the state.
_ln the Kansas City area and in
Kansas, the cleanup job is under
way in sections free or partially
free of water.
An emergency ban on non-es
sential businesses in Kansas City,
Mo., has been lifted and many
normal operations were resumed
today,
_ There still was a water shortage.
Flood waters knocked out the
¢ity’s main pumping station.
Certain traffic restrictions re
mained in effect. Bridges ren
jk“‘fwl inoperative during the flood
brew a heavy load on the two
nain links still open and caused
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vas revealed. In the nation’s second largest stockyards, which was completely inun
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in the Argentine industrial district of Kansas City, Kas.
| Flood damage in Kansas and Missouri is estimated at
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Money Problem Stumps
Education Department
ATLANTA, July 18.— (AP) —The State Department of
Education has a $24,000,000 problem and, like a man with
a bull by the tail, can’t decide whether to hang on or let
£O. )
Mainly the problem is where to get the additional money
demanded by the Minimum Foundation of Education Pro
gram, but the chief hope seems to lie in the direction of the
citizen and taxpayer. 3 i Gy
3 Found Guilty
0f Manslaughter
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., July 18
(AP) — A recommendation of
“punishment for a misdemeanor”
was made last night by a superior
court jury which convicted three
attendants at the State Hospital
for the Insane here of involuntary
manslaughter in the death of an
inmate.
After hearing testimony of re
volting brutality leading up to the
death of the patient, Lloyd Hooks,
23, the jury took a little over two
and a half hours to return & ver
dict of guilty.
Judge George S. Carpenter said
he would sentence the three at
tendants at 2 p. m. (EST) today.
The three attendants, C. W. Bec
kum, Alton Lingold and J. A.
Huff, were tried jointly in the
March 1 death of Hooks whose
body was found in a hospital
washroom with a handkerchief
stuffed in his throat. Their at
torney, Milton ~Gardner, argued
Hooks ended his own life or died
an accidental death.
A state witness, H. O. Fountain,
58, an attendant at the hospital,
testified he saw Huff and Beckum
beat and curse Hooks. He said
on the day of Hook’s death he saw
the three defendants force the in
mate to lick vomit off the floor.
They then forced Hooks to eat a
handkerchief, Fountain said, and
when he began to choke Beckum
and Huff took him to a toilet to
try to remove the handkerchief.
A short time later, Fountain
said, he saw Hooks lying on the
floor apparently dead.
Dr. R. W. Bradford, assistant
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SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST CEORGIA OVER A CENTURY,
m;p ang lficase‘,v& seem:;i likely that
e problery will be aired. w
the “Eoart T Hacaionbestn
discussing its budgetary prohlems
July 2&
. On the first of this month Geor
‘gia launched a $207,505,000 ex
panded service program—s6B,3o9,-
000 more than last year.
State Auditor B. E. Thrasher
has estimated that to finamce this
program in full, the new, three
percent sales tax will have to
produce $110,000,000 annually.
Included in the expanded figure
for education is $81,649,000 for
the current fiscal year, while $83,~
055,000 is set aside for the next
fiscal year.
Budget Balances
t present the Education De
pi ent’s budget balances for the
next two years against appropria-
S.
F‘geginning, however, with the
1953-54 fiscal year the projected
budget 1 $93,591,000, whereas the
budget for 1954-55 is $96,743,000.
The difference between the
budget for the next two years and
the following two years is roughly
$24,000,000.
But since the high rate of spend
ing, predicated on $110,000,000
from the sales tax, is considered
likely to carry over into the 1953-
55 period, that leaves $24,000,000
to be raised elsewhere.
Most of this $24,000,000 is taken
up by teacher pay increases, sal
ary equalization for white and
negro teachers and improved
transportation.
The Department estimates the
peak need for the new money will
be hit by 1955 and thereafter the
demand will level off.
Assuming that the University
Systemr in this period will require
no more than the $12,500,000 now
appropriated, that would make the
state’s education bill by 1955 ap
proximately $109,243,000.
This would represent, therefore,
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ATHENS, GA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1951.
Millionaire Red
And Buddies
Back In Prison
NEW YORK, July 18—(AP)—
Millionaire Leftist Frederick Van
derbilt Field was back in jail to
day, for an indefinite stay.
But unilke his first trip behind
bars earlier this month, the great
great grandson of Commodore
Cornelius Vanderbilt had company
in the case of the “bail angels” for
four fugitives convicted top Com
munists.
Two of his fellow trustees for the
Civil Rights congress Ball Fund—
mystery writer Dashiell Hammett
and W. Alphaeus Hunton — also
languished in cells as involuntary
guests of the federal government.
In addition, they had the com
pany of 11 second-string Red lead
ers whose Civil Rights Congress
bail was revoked Monday.
Rosy Red Prospects
For the Reds, the prospects of
release were rosier. They could
obtain their freedom as soon as
they supplied bail acceptable to|
%governmmt. They needed a
1o of $140,000 “untainted” bail
money.
- But for Field, Hammett and
Hunton, their confinement on con
tempt of court sentences had in
dications of being extended. Their
temporary bail, pending appeal,
was canceled yesterday by federal
appeals judges.
- Chief Judge Thomas W. Swan,
of the Second U. S. Circuit Court
of Appeals, said a full panel of
judges would hear the case of the
imprisoned trustees ‘“as soon as
counsel can prepare briefs and be
ready for argument.” it
The three trustees had been
sentenced to jail for contempt by
Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan
after they refused to tell who con
tributed %o the bail fund of the
Congress.
Field had been free in SIO,OOO
bail pending appear of his 90 day
sentence. He returned to jail from
his Winsted, Conn., summer home
last night after Judge Swan re
versed his previous bail order.
Jailed Men
Hunton and Hammett, author of
the “Thin Man” stories, had been
unsuccessful in atttempts to post
|slo,ooo bail each in their six
month jail sentences. Federal Ap~
peals Judge Learned Hand, re
versing himself, revoked this bond
vesterday as the two were in their
second week behind bars. Judge
Swan—with Judge Hand coneur
ring—ruled that the trustees had
lnot cooper, with the 2
niént as they shotild have.™ Judge
Swan explained that forfeiture of
bail money does not end a bonds
man’s obligation, but that a bonds
man must help to find a fugitive.
In sentencing the three trustees,
Judge Ryan held that identities of
contributors to the Congress bail
fund might provide a clue to the
four fugitives. |
Herdsmen Short
Course Thursday
Georgeia cattle breeders will be
in Athens Thursday and Friday
for the University of Georgia’s
third anniual Herdsmen’s Short
Course.
The course, expected to attract
several hundred cattle enthusiasts
to the campus, wlil open omorrow
morning at 9 a. m. All sessions will
be held in Hardman Hall on the
South Campus. e -
Course lectures and demonstra
tions will be given by recoginzed
authorities on the breeding and
showing of prize Aberdeen-Angus
and Hereford cattle.
Subjects to be covered in the
course cover all phases of cattle
production from mixing a ration to
proper clipping, washing, and
grooming procedures. %
Among the course speakers will
be W. Tapeohmctt, director,
Agricultural Development, Central
of Georgia Railway, Savannah;
Ralph W. Cammack, manager,
Georgia, Hereford Association, At
lanta; D. W. Chittenden, excutive
secretary, American Polled Here
ford Association, Kansas City, Mo.;
Hubert Claybrooke, field repre
sentative, American Aberdeen-
Angus Breeders’ Association, Kan
sas City, Mo; Hubert Claybrooke,
field representative, American Ab
erdeen-Angus Breeders’ Associa
tion, Chicago; George W. Gibson,
executive secretary, Georgia Aber
deen-Angus Association, Rome;
and Forrest McClain, Southeastern
Field Representative, American
Hereford Association, Kansas City,
Mo.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy and continued
hot tonight and Thursday, with
scattered afternoon thunder
showers. Low tonight 74. High
tomorrow 92. Sun sets 7:44 and
rises tomorrow 5:34.
GEORGIA - Partly cloudy
and continued hot through
Thursday; scattered thunder
showers this afternoon and eve=
ing and again Thursday after
noon, occurring mostly over
south and central portions.
TEMPERATURE :
Banaet LR
Wt L i e v i
MERES 5-c.04 cisvs iy mges »rrs Bl
NOFIORE ol ko ot (R
RAINFALIL
Inches last 24 hours ~ +.. 00
Total since July 1 .., .. .. 405
Excess since July 1 ... .. .., 1.09
Average July rainfall ~ .. 5.01
Total sinec January I°.. ..24.50
Deficit - since January 1 % .. 414
Peace Talks Slowed By
Key Point Disagreement
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Cicero, lllinois Back
In National Spotlight
BY WILLIAM J. CONWAY
CICERO, 111, July 18.—(AP)—Cicero seldom lands on
page one—but, when it does, it’s with a bang.
The town at the western edge of Chicago goes about its
business for years in the obscuring shadow of its big urban
neighbor. Then it is seized by a spasm of violence, and it's
in the bright light of national attention.
The spotlight swung back to Ci
cero last week. Harvey E. Clark,
a negro bus driver who says he
didn’t know that that no negroes
lived in the community, tried to
move into an apartmen there.
A series of disorders by rock
heaving mobs eruped into a riot.
National guard troops and police
have put an end to the demonstra
tions, but they’re still patrolling
the battered aparment building.
News of the sensational sort be
gan to come out of Cicero in 1925.
“Scarface Al” Capone made it the
capital of his whiskey-women-and
gambling empire.
- Capone established his G.H.Q.
in the Hawthorne Arms Hotel. Ear
ly one morning three auto loads
of gunners raked the place with
machine gun fire. The number of
bullets was estimated, in round
numbers, at 1,000. None of them-
T
Similar Effects
Citizens heard similar sound ef
fect on other occassions. But none
had a more shocking impact on
law-abiding citizens than the sput
tering eh-eh-eh-eh that issued
from a gun barrel on the night of
April 27, 1926,
This was the scene:
Three men were on the sidewalk
in front as the Pony Inn. A tour
ing car rolled up. a Tommy gun
was thrust through the curtains.
It let go with a shray of slugs.
The three human targets were
killed. : N
One of them was Jimmy Doher
ty, a beer runner. Another was
Thomas “Red” Duffy, a minor Chi
cago politician, The third victim
was Assistant Stafe’s “Attorney
William H. MeSwiggin. A
McSwiggin was known as “The
hanging prosecutor” because of his
success in obtaining convictions
in murder trials. His death touched
off a resounding hue and cry. The
question—“ Who killed McSwiggin
and why?”—was raised. The an
swer never has been written in the
official records. :
There has been little more vio
lence other than occassional poli
tical squabbles in Cicero from the
time Al Capone moved back to
Chicago until Harvey Clark tried
to move into Cicero.
Cicero’s history and statistics
are pretty much in the normal
groove. ; T
Cicero now has a population of
70,000, a gain of some 5,000 in the
past decade. most of the citizens
own their homes. A high percent
age of them are skilled craftsmen.
The town includes 115 factories
and 21 churches. i
The townsfolk have a reputa
tion for thrift. This attribute may
explain, as well as anything, why
Al Capone’s brother, Ralph, quit
operating a Cicero night club.
There is another statistic that
may be significant. If you run
down the list of 64 men and youths
who were arrested as a result of
last Thursday night’s riot, you will
find: 19 live in Cicero. The others
live in Cicago (29) and other com
muniiies.
VAN FLEET, RIDGWAY TEAM
TOKYO, July 18 — (AP) — Van
Fleet and Ridgway are foxhole
buddies in the Seventh Division in
Korea, No kin to the generals,
though. It's Pvt. Earl Van Fleet,
Hawthorne, Calif., mortarman, and
Pvt. John A. Ridgway, Decatur,
Ala., automatic rifleman.
HAPPY COUPLE
- MARION, ILL., July 18—(AP)
A 16-year-old bride was keeping
house today for her new husband
who is more than four times her
age.
George Hardin, 68, a well-to-do
farmer, married May Sue Haydon
last Saturday. Arthur Hayden, the
girl’s father, gave his written con
sent.
Lake Is Proposed For
Athens Memorial Park
Henry M. Rosenthal, Chairman
of the Athens Recreation and
Parks Board, has announced preli
minary surveying for a proposed
lake to be situated on Memorial
Park grounds. With the help of the
Soil Conservation Service, the Re
creation and Parks Department
‘has already started staking out
the shoreline, with the head of
the lake to begin where the con
crete bridge crosses the Park road
near Little Branch Picnic Areas.
. The pienic areas will not be
flooded, but will be on the shore
line of the proposed lake. From the
head of the lake the shoreline
will be about seven hundred feet
down the valley, where the dam
will be situated. The dam will be
approximately 200 feet long, with
the lake covering about three acres.
_ This lake should make Memor~
Georgia Power
Substation
Additions Noted
Completion of extensive addi
tions to the Athens 110,000 volt
substation is expected by the end
of July, accordh:ig to L. M. Shad
gett, vice president and Athens
division manager of the Georgia
Power Company. This relatively
new substation, located on Oneta
street next to the new plant of the
Southeastern Rubber Company,
will be the terminal of three 110,-
000 volt transmission lines bring
ing electric power into the Athens
area.
Two of these high tension trans
mission lines (one from Com
merce and one from the Augusta
area) have recently been com
pleted, but due to a shortage of
steel and electrical equipment, the
installation of the neeéssary
switchgear and other terminal
equipment at the substation was
delayed.
Future plans for this 110,000
volt substation include the eon
struction of a building to serve as
headquarters for the Power Com+
pany’s Chief Division Operator and
his staff. These Division Opera
t(;ri; hr;o;z haveclzfadquarter;ém
of ower any’s b
‘on Boulevard. ?;’mtgk':s. Adams is
Chief Division Operator for the
Power Company.
Superior Courf
Is Confinued
A verdict of not guilty was reached
by the Jury which heard the cage:
of the State vs. Shackelford at the
morning session of Clarke Super
ior Court today. The Shackleford
case involved the cutting of James
Whitehead by Shackelford at the
Co-op Cab after an argument be
tween Mr. Shackelford and Mr.
Whitehead over the payment of a
bill owned by Mr. Shaekelford
whd wasg driving a cab. The bill
was for gas that was in Mr.
Shackelford’s car.
Previous trial of the case ended
in a mistrial.
The jury on the case of the State
vs. Nelson Wood was mot able to
reach a verdict and that case was
this morning declared a mistrial.
Mr. Wood’s ex-wife, Mrs. E. B.
Moore, testified yesterday that
she had received less than SBO a
year for the support of her two
children, aged 10 and 14.
Hearing began today on a lottery
offense case with testimony from
two city poilce officers. The two
officers, Hardy and Mec Kinnon,
reported picking up John Brock
Lay, colore, with a bag of money
and lottery tickets in his posses
sion.
CHATTAHOOCHEE BRIDGE
COLUMBUS, GA., July 18—
(AP)—Georgia is ready with its
share of the funds needed to start
planning and surveys for a bridge
over the Chattahoochee between
Georgia and Alabama.
George McDonald, executive Se
cretary of the State Highway
board, said this state has $25,000
available if Alabama will contri
bute a like sum. The U. S. Bureau
of public roads would match the
$50,000.
ial Park more suitable for better
!picnics, and it is likely that more
| pienic areas will be placed around
| the lake, if it is built,” said Wayne
| R. Shields, Superintendent of Re
| creation and Parks Department.
! He added that the primary pur
'pose of the lake will be for fish
ing and boating. .
Mr. Shields stated that if the
lake is built is would help with all
programs that the Recreation De
partment has all ready in opera
tion. In the Day Camp Program,
which is already a reality, Mr.
Shields said, the Recreation De
partment could add {fishing and
boating, which competent instruc
tors teaching the children the cor
rect fundamentals of angling, and
angling rodeos scheduled at var
ious times. ‘ :
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Iradc Area
Agreement Reached On Several
Issues, U. N. Report Reveals
BY ROBERT EUNSON
SEOUL, Korea, July 18.—(AP)—Negotiators for a Ko
rean war cease-fire have agreed on some points, the Army
announced tonight. But at least one major issue remains t 6
be ironed out for a “mutually acceptable agenda.”
Vice Admiral C. Hurner Joy, chief United Nations dele
gate at the Kaesong truce conferences, accepted Commu
nist wording for two agenda items to speed the slow-mov-
ing discussions.
A U. N. announcement, issued
night after the sixth day of nego
tiations, did not disclose either the
points agreed upon or the major
stumbling block holding up pro-.
gress. It said: {
At least one major issue re
mained unsolved when the con-
NO COMBAT DEATHS
TUESDAY
WASHINGTON, July 18 —
(AP) — No U. SB, soldier was
killed in Korea in the 24 hours
ending at 5 p. m. Korean time
yesterday—the first day with
out a combat death since the
first American was killed July
7, 1950.
Announcing this yesterday,
the Army said a small number
of soldiers were wounded. Com-~
bat deaths by direct enemy ac
tion have averaged more than 30
daily during the first year of
fighting in Korea.
ference recessed for the day.
“Agreement on the key point is
essential to the successful com
pletion of the first phase of the
negotiation.”
Observers speculated that the
key question was whether to dis
cuss withdrawal of foreign troops
from Korea. The Communists
want this on the agenda. The
United Nations negotiators do not.
They are still trying to agree on
the scope of actual cease-fire
talks.
“In order to hasten the con
ferences to their wultimate goal,”
the U. N, announcement said, “The
United Nations senior delegate
(Admiral Joy) accegtld two points
presented bi' the Communists on
the phraseology of agenda items,
after placing on the record the
United Nations understanding of
their basic intent.”
Additional Progress
‘Some additional progress” was
made at Wednesday’'s sessions
which lasted two hours and 50
minutes, the army said.
The seventh day’s meeting was
scheduled for 11 a. m. Thursday
(8 p. m. EST Wednesday).
“Today’s meting moved rather
ponderously, as had the previous
meetings, due to hnsuqe diffi
culties,” the army said.
Observers on the outer fringe of
the closely guarded conference
chamber at Kaesong were talking
about the possibility of a compro=-
mise to break the deadlock over
the agenda. That is delaying ac
tual cease-fire discussions.
Although no one has said so of
ficially, it is presumed the Com=-
munist desire to discuss withdraw
al of foreign troops from Korea is
holding up completion of the
agenda, r
Observers say that should the
point come to an impasse, a pos~
sible compromise might be for
both sides to agree to a “limited
withdrawal,” involving the re
moval from Korea of part of the
U. N. forces and a proportionate
number of Chinese.
250,000 Reds
Best Eighth Army estimates
place about 250,000 Chinese sol
diers in the front lines or in im=-
mediate reserve. Another 250,000
are estimated to be farther back
along the Korea-Manchuria bor
er.
United Nations forces are about
the same size. The bulk of Allied
forces is composed of American
infantry units and the Fifth Air
Force.
In Washington the Army an
nounced ng American soldiers
were killed Tuesday, up to 5 p. m.
It was the first such day since U.
S§ troops entered the war July 17,
1950.
Allied troops kept a close watch
on a Red buildup northeast of the
Kaesong conference site, Seven
U. N. armored patrols probed.
Communist lines Tuesday.
Reds in the Kaesong area have
kept clear of the five-mile neutral
zone, observers report. There has
been no suggestion that the build
up in the region has reached
threatening proportions.
Night flying Allied planes, in
their second successive night of
heavy strikes, reported considera=
ble Red traffic on the highways.
Marine planes and B-26 bombers
pummeled them by the light of
flares.
The total of 830 air sorties Tues
day included 118 at night. B-29
superforts continued the attack
Wednesday, hitting North Korean
rail yards,
Destroyer Battle
Three American destroyers
fought a three hour battle with
Red shore batteries ‘Tuesday night
in the 152nd consecutive day of
bombarding Wonsan, east coast
port,
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Curbs Extension
WASHINGTON, July 18—(AP)
Administration forces in the
House, having salvaged the ten
per cent beef price rollback with
strong Republican backing, drove
today for quick passage of an
economic controls extension.
But rough ground lay ahead.
Still due for a decision—Dpossibly
today—is a proposal to curb the
labor disputes powers of the Wage
Stabilization Board, and to revive
it so as to place the public mem-~
bers in the majority over labor
and industry. Most unions op
pose the idea.
Administration leaders were
frankly uncertain of the outcome
of the Wage Board amendment.
At best, they predicted a close vote
either way.
With the bitter price control
fight out of the way, leaders put
on the heat to wind utfi debate by
tomorrow and send the measure
to conference with the Senate,
which passed a different bill,
Door Left Open
The vote to keep the beef roll
back left the door open to similar
rollbacks of some other agricul
tural prices and would place no
restrictions on the government’s
gou:r to turn industrial prices
ack.
It was a last-minute win for
administration Democrats, the big
city Republicans over farm ptate
members and those Republicans
and Southern Demoerats who want
to kill rollbacks altogether.
The unrecorded vote was 207
to 123. It is subject to a Jater
roll-call, as are all House actions
on the bill taken so far.
“The consumer won & vVietory
today,” was the interpretation put
on the House action by Rep.
Spence (D.-Ky), House mug:
of the bill and chairman of
Banking Committee.
Fconomic Stabilizer Eric John
ston also said the rollbacks vote
was “good news for the consum
er.” But he called, in a statement,
for the House to reverse itself and
approve slaughter quotas, and also
to leave the Wage Board as is.
As the House bill now stands, it
is still far short of President Tru
man’s request for stronger price
control authority. s
While it 11-:lrc=,»serves the ten per
cent beef rollback, it prohibits two
additional 4% per cent cuts in the
price of live beef projected for
August and October. Price Stabil
izer Michael V. DiSalle said these
were necessary to make lower
meat prices felt at the consumer
level,
Price Rollback
The House-voted authorix to
roll agricultural prices back is
subject to existing bans on cutting
farm prices below parity, or under
the prevailing prices of June, 1950.
An Agriculture Department of
ficial said last night that besides
beef cattle, farm products now
selling above parity include veal,
calves, lambs, sheep, cotton, eot
ton seed and wool. Parity is a
price formula for farm products
defined by law as equally fair to
farmer and consumer. :
Before finally accepting the
rollbacks compromise, the House
turned down three other propos
als which would have killed roli
backs altogether or limited them
sharply.
In successive actions the House:
1. Defeated, 129 to 65, a Repub
lican-backed proposal by Rep.
Wolcott (R.-Mich.) which weuld
have continued price rollbacks al=-
ready in effect, including the ten
percent beef rollback, but would
have banned all future farm price
rollbacks. It also would have in
corporated a provision of the Sen
ate-passed controls bill banning
industrial price rollbacks except
where changes in produetion costs
permitted adjustment of price
ceilings.
2. Voted 147 to 89 against an
amendment by Rep. Cox (D.-Ga.)
to prohibit rollbacks of any kind
on any product.
3. \;oted 217 to 124 l*inn, an
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