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T I Pa^e Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, February 12, 1953 Assurance For Farmers Asked To Ease Anxiety Dulles Ends Trip To Europe With Warning To Pool Resources <• Luxembourg, Feb. 8.—U. S. Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles ended his swing through seven West ern European states today with a warning they must unite or be en gulfed in war. Climaxing his nine-day foreign policy survey which began a week ago Saturday in Rome, the secretary urged Schuman Plan officials to push on to greater unification if they timated cost of manning the sta tions on a 24-hour basis from July through November will be about $100,000, he said. States participating in the pro gram will send either men or mon ey to the three states bordering Texas, the Louisiana commissioner explained, basing their share of the costs on 1 1-2 cents for each bale of cotton their states produced season. In addition, the confer.*es agreed, the Federal government will be asked to share half the cost of the control program by making new funds available to the U. S., Depart ment of Agriculture’s Bureau of last' Entomology and Plant Quarantine. The stations, seven of which were established by Louisiana last season, are to inspect all cars and trucks and cotton-pi eking equip ment leaving Texas to prevent tourists and pickers from carrying the pink bolliworm into non-infest- ed areas. Delegates to the conference are college extension workers on the staffs of experiment stations; coun ty agents, and other agricultural leaders. Washington, Feb. 8.—Sen. Karl E. Mundt urged Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft (Benson today to case the ' serious, growing anxiety” over de clining farm •prices by publicly as suring farmers the government will ^..ke ‘‘positive steps” to help them. The South Dakota Republican, a member ot the Senate Agriculture Committee, said that "if the anxiety o. farmers grows great enough, pan ic could develop" and they might start dumping crops in fear of fur- want to maintain world peace "Lher price drops. I Dulles, accompanied by Mutual j He said the farm situation, which Security Administrator Harold Stas- Iready is causing headaches for the sen and other officials, took off from f isenhower administration, probably | Luxembourg Airport at 5:05 p. im could be eased considerably if the, (12:05 p.m. EST) for Washington^ government would step its com mod- where he said he would repbjrt di- *y buying for overseas use. rectly to President Eisenhower. In a brief iSublic session with lead- ers of the six-nation steel and coal Dulles praised their merger ot French, West German* 1 Mundt .'iJtd 'farm belt concern over! :ling prices, especially in cattle and - neat, ‘‘is reaching a serious situa- in.” But, he added, “a few words assurance” from Benson and a few (positive steps” would help -really. Benson has been criticized by some Lu:m state senators for refusing to -ay whether he favors continuation • f mandatory 90 per cent of parity price supports on basic farm crops. The present law expires in 1954. Mundt said he believes Benson is considering additional government purchases for overseas shipment in the hope that they will eliminate the Italian, Belgian, Dutch and Luxem bourg basic industries as the “first practical beginning” of European Union. He added: “The American people and our government are convinced that world peace can be safeguarded only by creative efforts which equal the magnitude of the perils threatening peace.” The. secretary called for “concrete actions” which would lead to a “fu sion of essential interests" instead of continual strife. “We believe,” he said, “that Eu- need of direct price supports on live- j rope can be built only by concrete ‘''• oclc - j actions creating a real solidarity and 1 actors Responsible a common basis for economic devel- Meanwhile, the Agriculture De- \ opment which will enable its produc- partment reported that record crops i tion to expand and its standard of ast year and a reduced foreign de-I living to rise. mand were the major factors respon-[ “We believe that the European >ible for the decline in agricultural nations must substitute for their his- ..rices during the last five months, j toric rivalries a fusion of their es- The Bureau of Agricultural Eco-, sential interests, must establish a nomics said farm prices dropped an foundation of a broader and deqper average of nine per cent during the ! community among their peoples who !ast six months of 1952 and now are have been divided too long, and fin- bout 11 per cent below a year age. j ally must create institutions capable - ■ said price decline occurred de-! of giving directions to their future -pile a strong domestic demand for'common destiny.” : .rm products. j The secretary also warned that The bureau said t£at the decline isian “organized contribution” by Eu- ended ropeans is indispensible to the joint effort to prevent war. He praised 13 Boy Scouts Moke Report io President war. the Schuman Plan High Authority for combining the six nations into ! one in their most important economic ! sectors. House Monday to report to head scoutmaster, Dwight D. en bower. Their report, delivered for the nation’s 3,183,266 scouts, said en rollment is the highest in the Scouts’ 48-year history. When Eisenhower ■became Presi dent of the U. S. on Jan. 20, he ThirteeniN' 06 Cotton Producing the'* Washington, Feb. 9.— Boy Scouts dropped in at the White] States Map Fight Eis Again Bollworm New Orleans, Feb. 9.—Represen- ,tatives of nine cotton producing states today agreed on concerted action to combat the northward and eastward spread of the pink boll worm. ,, , Dave L. Pearce, Louisiana Com- 111 o honorary ; missioner of Agriculture, who call ed the conference, said he expected ©resident of the Boy Scouts, too And since this is National Scout Week, it was time for the annual summing up. Scouting has 12 districts, and one boy was here from each area. The spare. No. 13, was the small est of the group, Sammy Tyler of Elodrado, 111. Somebody figured out that 15-yearold Sammy was other states would join a program of border patrol stations around in fested areas of Texas. States represented included Lou isiana. South Carolina, Texas, Ala bama, Florida, Oklahoma and Geor gia. Ten stations will be required on the Louisiana-Texas border, Pearce the three millionth active Boy' sa id, while Arkansas will require Scout, so he got the trip, too. three and Oklahoma two. The es- When the Scouts were ushered j into Eisenhower’s office, the Presi- dent,” he said. dent looked squarely at Sammy j The Scouts then made their re- and asked: ; port and trooped out. “What are you here for?” It was a big day all around for As one of 12 children in the Tyler, the Scouts, family, Sammy is used to speaking. They started it with a breakfast up. 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