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I Pftfe Eight THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, August 24, 1M 4 As Washington Sees It. .. THE NATIONAL SCENE 4V««•• V# «v «#•#«••♦«#«♦♦#«♦♦♦*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•♦••*•*•*• Special to The Chronicle. Washington. Aug. 23—More than e month late the senate has finally passed the omnibus appropriations bill for fiscal 1951 which started July 1. 1950. carrying a total of some $35,- 000.000.000. The final figure was made indefinite by adoption of an amendment to require a 10 per cent cut in all but postal, military and foreign economic aid funds, tl is pos sible the 10 per cent cut will lop off approximately a billion dollars. However, none of the senate action icvas .certai n tn bo in the hill which, is to be sent to the President, since the house several weeks ago passed a bill carrying $28,893,694,668, but not including foreign aid. The two bills now go to conference. In the. meantime, the President has asked for $10.5 billion in 1951 supplemental military appropriations and for an other S4 billion for military aid abroad. . _ ~__t According to Sen. Scott Lucas of Illinois. Democratic majority leader, the omnibus measure approach to the appropriations proved a flop and it is the thought of congress to go back to tie old method of passing separate b.lls for appropriations for each de partment of the government. The senate finally beat down all attempts by opponents to slash BCA appropriations, one attempt by Sena tor Kem of Missouri, two by Sen. 1 Kenneth Wherry of Nebraska, and actually they increase ECA funds when Sen. Carl Hayden of Arizona got through an amendment to pro- vide $2,745,000 to aid Arab refugees fresn Palestine, bringing the total in the bill for that activity to $27,450,- f00 In addition, the senate went fur ther and approved a $100,000,000 loan for Spain by the export-import bank and upped the ECA funds by another $58,000^00. In t^e meantime, the house and senate were highlighted by a raging' fight on what economic controls to give to President Truman in the Ko rean war effort. Both branches of congress passed and reversed them selves. tne house twice, on measures t 1, r this purpose and finally wound up just where they started. In the meantime, the President informed congress he would accept a measure 1 tal.mg for mure powers including standby-rationing, wage and other controls, providing he is given dis-, cretion when and how to use them. The administration was definitely op posed to the measure offered by Con gressman Clinton D. McKinnon of j California providing for these con- ■ tre.s, but putting them on an auto matic basis after a 5 per cent jump; in the cost of living beyond a cer-1 tain date It was pointed out that ^ there was nothing to prevent those j who have power to up prices to peg them at a fraction short of the 5 per 1 cent and holdifig them there inde-1 finitely, thus effectively halting thCj Pres.dent from instituting controls, i The house accepted this bill once,! Den reversed itself and defeated it. j Tne atom; ■ energy commission has i announced that the E. 1 Dxi Pont de j Nemours corporation of Delaware haSj been selected to build and operate' plants tor the production of the hy drogen bomb. Along the same line Sen. Brien McMahon of Connecticut,! <hairmar\-of the joint atomic energy; commission, held a closed hearing j witn defeme Secretary Louis John-i son and Gen. Omar Bradley, chair man of the joint chiefs of staff, and announced “there is no question in! rr.y mind but what our atomic stock-| ; he is the chief deterrent to expand- ( ed Soviet aggression.” He indicated! he meant both atomic and hydrogen; bombs. Earlier the A EC had sub-j rr.itted a report to congress in which i it said that plutonium and uranium-' 235. the explosives of the atomic bomb, were produced at the highest rate in history in the first half of 1950. Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan has asked something like $8 5 billion dollars for a 30-year soil' conservation and improvement pro-1 gram for the entire Missouri river | valley., A special agricultural com- ■ mittee^has been named to study the. program. Secretary Brannan told; the committee that his program would ( tie-.n with* Pood control, navigatibn. Clemson Farmers' Week Successful Event, Largely Attended Clemson, Aug. 19—The. annual Farmers’ Week at Clemson August 14-18 was a very successful event. The attendance was good; the talks, demonstrations, and tours presented ' much timely and helpful informa tion; the entertainment features and music were enjoyable; and a splend id spirit of fellowship prevailed. Particular interest was manifested throughout the week in the programs dealing with all forms of livestock, pastures, grazing crops, and the pro duction and conservation of foods and feeds; in the production and conservation of fruits and vegetables both for home use and for markets; in the conservation of soils and oth er natural resources; in improved practices and equipment for the home; in improved forestry prac tices; in insect control; in improved markets: and in mechanization. The farm machinery and the varied com mercial exhibits were centers of at traction throughout the week. The rural church conference and discussions of agricultural ecenomics and rural sociology brought much helpful information to the groups at tending. Attendance and interest at the Seedmen’s Short Course, Corn Mil lers program, Palmetto State Bee keepers Short Course, South Caro lina Turkey Federation Day, South Carolina Soil Conservation District Supervisors Midyear meeting. Poul try Flock Testing and Pullorum Test ing Short Course, and the USDA Council meeting were good in every instance and those responsible for these events are well pleased. One of the largest assembly aud iences of the week honored the South Carolina Master Farm Families, and the Soil Conservation District Sup ervisors honored their first president, the late E. C. McArthur, who at the time of his death was president of the National District Supervisors As sociation, by presenting a portrait of him to Clemson college. affecting farm life and international relations. The maid of cotton style show fea turing Miss Elizabeth McGee, 1950 'National Maid of Cotton, drew the largest audience of the week. Because ot tne week’s program thousands of South Carolina farm i people now have a better understand ing of their problem^ in a changing agriculture and of the information and equipment available to help them meet these problems. Teacher Exam Defrauders Start Terms gtiiwia* speakers, Mrs. Ben Wailes, Sweet Briar, Va.; Lyman Carrier, Blacksburg. Va.; C. A. Woodrum. Washington; and Dean Rusk, Washington, brought timely and helpful messages on problems Laurens. Aug. 19—Three Negroes convicted in the June term of court here of conspiracy to defraud the state began serving their terms on the Laurens county chaingang. Sher iff C. W. Weir said today that the three men, John D. Sweeny of Lau- ; rens, his brother, Ulysses S. Grant L UM BURR ouALrry 4 "j tt - OB Qn IT WILL LAST TWICE AS LONG IF IT'S GOOD PAINT. 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