The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, June 29, 1951, Image 2
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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
Empty meat cases and full corrals de
scribed the meat situation in the nation
last taeek.
SCANNING THE WEEK'S NEWS
of Main Street and the World
Cattlemen Withhold Beef in Protest
Of Government's Rollback Program
EMPTY MEAT CASES- Empty meat cases were beginning to show
lip across the nation as cattlemen continued to hold beef off the market
in protest to the government’s price rollback program of 8-to-10 cents
• pound by October 1. The shortage was being felt only in larger cities,
but the home town housewife can expect to feel the pinch if marketing
does not Increase within a short time.
President Truman and Price Stabilizer Michael V. DiSalle continued
to stick by their rollback decisions. DiSalle told reporters retreat now
might wreck the whole stabilization program. President Truman called
it a “good program” and
said he thought beef pro
ducers could be brought
around.
• While Truman and DiSalle
were making these state-
m e n t s, Chicago and other
cities reported nearly empty
cattle pens. Packing firms
continued to slaughter only
a trickle of their normal
quantity of cattle. Only 122,-
100 cattle were sent to mar
ket last week in the nation’s
12 biggest livestock centers.
In the corresponding week
a year ago 167,700 were mar
keted.
At the moment it seems
unlikely there will be a great
increase in slaughtering un
til after June 30. Cattlemen
are gambling that price con
trols will be lifted at the
end of this month.
The present situation is somewhat similar to the 1946 beef battle
whep cattlemen withheld beef in their successful attempt to kill the
^government’s price conU-ol program. It was argued at the time that
if price controls were lifted there would be an increase in production
and a decrease in price. There was an increase of production, but as
today’s prices testify there was no decrease in price. \
FAR EAST SPECULATION —The unexpected and unannounced visit
of George C. Marshall, secretary of defense, to Korea raised considerable
amount of speculation in the home towns of the nation. Was his visit
the first step toward a cease fire in Korea? Was sofne new military de
velopment about to be revealed?
Repeatedly, Marshall told reporters he did not expect any Chinese
peace move soon and that his visit was strictly military. He remained
silent after a series of guarded meetings with Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway,
U. N. supreme commander in the far east.
Of this much the home towner can be reasonably sure. Aging and
not too well Marshall did not make the long and tiresome trip to Korea as
a mailman’s holiday, so to speak. If the home towner is speculating,
the Kremlin and Pieping must be down right worried.
MACARTHUR INVESTIGATION—The Armed services and foreign
relations committees’ investigation of the dismissal of Gen. Douglas
MacArthur moved on its weary way with two new witnesses. For eight
days Secretary of State Dean Acheson testified. The committees then
called Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer.
Acheson’s testimony was remarkable in that during the eight days
there was no show of temper on the part of the witness or the investi
gators. In the minds of many, Acheson’s thorough coverage of all ques
tions asked was an attempt to justify the administration and the first
move toward his withdrawal as secretary of state.
Only on one point was his testimony different from that of other
administration witnesses. He asserted that MacArthur approved the
1946 attempt to bring the Chinese Reds and Nationalists together for a
“unified, democratic China.” MacArthur immediately issued a state
ment that he was the victim of a “fantastic” lie.
The other witness, Gen. Wedemeyer, backed and even went beyond
the Korean War proposals of Gen. MacArthur, but said President Truman
had the right to fire his old commander. Briefly, Wedemeyer would
withdraw American troops from Korea, break off relations with Russia,
go into full mobilization, and “go to the real perpetrator of all this.”
These would be drastic moves and a definite risk of war.
WHEAT CROP MAKES COMEBACK —The agriculture department
reported the nation’s wheat crop is making a comeback from bad weather
Conditions and now promises the eighth successive harvest of more than
a billion bushels. The June forecast is about 72 million bushels more
than forecast a month ago.
The new forecast indicated a wheat crop of 1,054,000,000 bushels, about
25 million bushels more than last year’s crop. Such a production would
be only about 96 million bushels short of the government’s production
goal /
Unfavorable weather, particularly drought in the southwest great
plains, and insects in the same area, coupled with cool, wet spring
weather, had put the crop prospects under a cloud a month ago. Con
ditions improved greatly in May to bring the overall farm-production
prospects up to normal by June 1.
THE SLOW ADVANCE—United Nations troops in Korea smashed
the Communist “Iron Triangle” and continued their slow advance north
ward. The Reds have put up stiff resistance in the last two weeks and
suffered an estimated 40,000 casualties in defense of the triangle.
The Communist were retreating slowly and orderly. There were
indications in some areas of enemy buildup, possibly in preparation for
renewed attacks. There was nothing in the over-all picture that indicated
a clear cut victory for United Nation troops.
United Nations troops continued their slow, steady advance
m Korea, inflicting thousands of casualties on Chinese Reds in
the "Iron Triangle"
INFLATION BATTLE-June 30, expiration date of the present de
fense production act, is only a few days away and there are several
indications that the administration is afraid new control laws won’t be
strong enough.
President Truman appeared worried and made three moves to get
• strengthened law through congress. He issued a public warning that
tile nation may see “an unmanageable torrent of inflation” unless eco
nomic controls are extended, he called in congressional leaders for a
get-the-controls-bill through conference, and he made a direct appeal
to the people "in a nationwide radio talk.
Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston, on radio and television shows,
has tried to arouse the people to the dangers of inflation. Neither
President Truman or Johnson have been very successful in their efforts.
DAY OF DECISION
Local Boards Must Pass on Students
There is going to be a buzz of ac
tion around home town draft boards
within a short time. Local boards
will start to receive any time now
results of recent college tests to
determine which college students
shall have their military service
deferred. On the results of these
tests local boards—3,853 of them—
must make their decisions.
Board members must determine
whether Joe College, who wants to
complete his education before don
ning a uniform, shall be classified
II-A (student deferment) or I-A
(eligible for induction).
In making this determination, they
may take into account his score on
the aptitude test, his scholastic
standing in his college class, and
his locally-known capabilities and
possible capacity for leadership.
WAF HEAD • . . Mary Jo Shelley,
Bennington, Vi., College, was
named new director of women in
the air force. She will succeed Col.
Geraldine P. May, who resigned
as head of the WAF’s. She is a
native of Grand Rapids, Mich.
WAF’s fill office jobs and release
men to fly the planes and main
tain them.
MOTHER, SON GRADS . . . Prise
picture for the family album is this
graduation day photograph of Mrs.
Sarah Blackman and her son, Bur
ton, 29, both of whom were among
the graduation class of New York
University at the recent June ex
ercises held at the university.
PULLING POP’S PINFEATHERS
... Gerald O’Neill takes hefty tug
at beard of his sire. Leading Sea
man Jim O’Neill, as they meet for
first time at Portsmouth, England,
on dad’s return from Korean
waters. He’s on carrier Theseus
which is back from war zone.
LONGEVITY REASONS . . . Hard
work, heavy eating, lots of sleep,
10 smokes a day and a little red
wine brought Quirino Ortiz, Rich
mond, Calif., to his 114th birthday.
He has three sons, two daughters
and 21 grandchildren.
FASHION FLASH . . . Nobody
knows better than Mary Martin,
star in “South Pacific” just
how the navy nurse’s hair should
be cut for Mary Martin bob, so she
cuts hair of Martha Wright, her
successor la role.
RECEIVES DAD’S D.S.C. • . . Mhjor General I. D. White, 1st army
chief of staff, pins distinguished service cross on Paul Weber, 3, whose
father, let Lt. Gerhardt H. Weber of Ridgewood, QueenA, N.Y., was
awarded the medal posthumously for extraordinary heroism in action
in Korea last August. Looking on are the widow, Mrs. Mary Jane
Weber, who is holding Karen, one-year-old, and Heidi, 2. The D.S.C. is
second only to the Congressional Medal of Honor.
KISS FOR OCTOGENARIAN BRIDEGROOM . . . The American movie
actress, Joan Fontaine, plants a kiss of congratulation upon the cheek
of Englishman, Sir Charles Mendl, in Pails, France recently. The con
gratulations were for his marriage to Yvonne Reilly in his Paris home.
The new Lady Mendl surveys the scene at right. Mendl’s bride is 37
years of age, compared with his 81. The new bridegroom is a former
ambassador to France from the British government.
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OFFERS MEAL TO G.I. . . . Part of her meal is offered by this little
Korean girl to Corporal Andrew G. Kuzina of Richmond Hill, N.Y.,
who led the child to the refugee camp behind U.N. lines, when he found
her In an embattled city. When she received food, the first bit of
nourishment she had seen in three days, the child offered part of her
meal to the American soldier, in gratitude for his having taken time
to care for her and take her to safety and shelter.
FLAME THROWER FIRES RED POSITION ... A member of the
royal Canadian brigade gives a Chinese Communist position In Korea a
heat treatment with his flame thrower, during attacks which carried
U.N. forces once more into North Korea. The, Red forces were giving
stubborn resistance, as they halted their retreat. The second spring of
fensive of the Chinese Communists in Korea ended in disaster for
them, with thousands of the Reds killed.
SHOPPER’S
CORNER
By DOROTHY BARCLAY
EARLY BIRD
W HAT DO you make of this roll
back on meat prices? What
does your butcher make out of it?
Not much—the quick buck, yes, but
at roll-back prices not so many
bucks, for his supply of meat is
sold for less and much faster—so
that there’s noth
ing left by Saturday
night! He can’t help
it. It’s up to you to
be an early-in-the-
week bird!
This is the -way
the roll-back is ex
plained. Suppose
your butcher can get 250 pounds of
hamburger a week, for instance.
Before roll-back, let’s say he can
sell it at 69c a pound. At that price
his supply will probably last till the
last Saturday night straggler leaves
the store, just before closing time.
Okay—but now how about next
week? He gets his same amount—
250 pounds, and he rolls back the
price to 59c. How long is that sup
ply going to last, do you think?
Along about Thursday afternoon
you’ll be outr of luck, or at the end
of a disappointed line of hamburger-
hunters!
Remember, it’s not your butcher’s
fault. He’s making his supply last
as well as he knows how, and sell
ing it very reasonably. Don’t take
it out on him, poor fellow! Just be
an early bird! *
It seems likely that meat will be
in short supply until after June 30
when the present price control laws
die. Congress, no doubt, will enact
new ones and then clear up the con
fusion in the meat industry.
MEAT THRIFT
Wouldn’t you be surprised to hear
that just 5.6 per cent of your money
is spent on meat? It’s true, ac
cording to statistics! As a nation
of meat-lovers, we are more con
scious of meat buys than of many
apparently unnecessary items which
are just as regularly bought. “That’s
where my money goes,” we say
when we leave the meat market. ‘
The statistics are revealing here,
too. This 5.6 per cent share of the
nation’s income amounts to about
235 million dollars a week, for 435
million pounds of meat. That is the
entire supply of veal, pork, lamb
and mutton left for civilian con
sumption after military needs are
filled. So every meat-eater has near
ly three pounds of meat a week—
about 145 pounds per year per per
son.
And what meats are you buying
for your three pounds a week? With
prices high, as well known, it’s
only for special occasion that you
squander on steak or rib roast. For
ordinary daily fare, your butcher
has thriftier cuts in all the meats,
and, cooperative fellow that he is,
he'll be happy to help you stretch
that 5.6 per cent meat budget of
yours.
In beef, the national Javorite,
you’ll find chuck, fore shank, short
ribs, brisket, flank steak and ox-
tails, for a variety every day at
little cost. As for lamb, what's
tastier than a lamb stew, made
like what they used to call “24-hour
soup”? Breast, shank or neck slices
are just right for that dish. And if
you must have a leg of lamb for
Sunday company, have your butcher
cut off the end chops for future use,
or for freezing for the remote fu
ture. Shoulder chops have as much
nutriment, and many more bites,
than the more luxurious loin or rib.
Veal, too, is an aconomical buy,
for you have your chops from the
roast and your shoulder and breast
for a braised delight. Pork ranks
high in vitamin B content, and is
rich and delicious when given plenty
of cooking time. The thrifty cuts of
pork are many: shoulder, end cut
chops, spare ribs, ham shank,
shoulder butt and shoulder steaks
and hocks.
The smart cook not only buys tne
thriftier cuts, but stretches her
meat as well as her budget. One
way is to use left-overs in pie, or
wrapped in biscuit-dough. A good
beef or lamb pie is a welcome echo
of last Sunday’s festive roast.
Balanced Farming Saves
Business in Small Town
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. —* Arka-
delphia bankers will tell you these
days that better farming practices
are responsible in a considerable
degree for a substantial increase in
the bank deposits in the community.
Ten years or more ago, a failure
of a cotton crop meant bad business
for the merchants of the town.
The over-all general program has
been to get away from the oae-
crop system.
BY...DREW PEARSON'
Peace Propaganda
S EN. BRIEN McMAHON of Con
necticut bumped into Justice
Felix Frankfurter, close friend of
Secretary of State Acheson, at a
cocktail party the other day and re
marked:
“What’s the matter with Dean?
Why is he so cautious? Here the
Russians are out promising the
moon to the world, and we sit With
our mouths shut like a bump on a
log.”
“I know it,” replied Frankfurter.
•It’s the English in Dean. He won’t
promise more than be can give.”
Frankfurter referred to the fact
that Acheson’s mother belonged to
the well-known Canadian Gooder-
ham family.
What Senator McMahon re
ferred to was the fact that
American propaganda abroad
has not always shown imagina
tion and initiative, and that we
have not pounded home the very
real fact that the American peo
ple want peace. •
Regardless of Acheson’s English
forebears, however, part of this fail
ure is probably more due to the
fact that the state department has
been so hounded by senatorial
critics that it is punch-drunk and
timid. Jt it makes any peace moves,
for instance, it immediately gets
tagged with the appeasement label.
Tgsts Popularity
General MacArthur’s trip to
Texas is much more than a visit to
admiring friends. Actually, it is a
carefully timed test of political
popularity to see whether the gen
eral’s backers should go any furth
er in their latent plans to push him
for-the presidency.
One of the men behind the Texas
trip is congressman A1 “Doc”
Miller of Nebraska, the same GOP
leader who promoted MacArthur for
president in 1948. It was partly on
Congressman Miller’s urging that
MacArthur watered the Wisconsin
and Nebraska primaries.
Both primaries proved a .disap
pointment, and MacArthur felt that
his Republican friends had let him
down. Earlier, in Tokyo, the general
had talked with optimistic visiting
politicians who predicted that the
American people would rise up al
most unanimously to ( draft him.
MacArthur had even told Lieut.
Gen. Robert Eichelberger, then in
Tokyo, that he expected to be sum
moned back to the United States
during the GOP convention in 1948
and that he, Eichelberger, should
be prepared to take over as com
mander of Japan.
However, MacArthur head
quarters during the 1948 con
vention proved to be the emp
tiest place in Philadelphia, and
MacArthur felt that the party
had taken him up on the high
mountain.
Since the visit to .Chicago was
disappointing, in that the general
failed to fill Soldiers' Field; and
since the trip to Murfreesboro,
Term., also failed to fill the local
stadium, the Texas visit will be ex
tremely important. Texas has prom
ised a tremendous ovation, and if
it goes over big, his close political
backers hope that MacArthur will
let his campaign cap be tossed into
the ring.
ElstRhow«r on Ethics
It has never been made public,
but General Eisenhower has written
“amen” to Senator Fulbright’s plan
for drawing up a moral code for
government conduct Ike sent the
Arkansas senator a letter, warmly
praising his “ethics in government”
speech.
“It would be difficult for me to
express the fullness of my agree
ment with your sentiments,” wrote
Eisenhower. “There are so many
specific points in your talk to which
I am moved to say ’amen’ that the
only thing I can say is that as a
citizen, I am truly grateful you
made your talk. As to the suspicion
that you may be called naive, I have
so often had this adjective applied
to myself and for such odd reasons,
that I have come to look upon it as
a very distinct compliment; at the
very least it would seem to imply
the opposite of deliberate racketeer
ing.”
Eisenhower also called Ful
bright’s attention to a New York
Times story:
“The rise in illegal border-
crossings by Mexican ’wetbacks*
to a current rate of more than
1,099,000 cases a year has been
accompanied by a curious re
laxation in ethical standards ex
tending all the way from the
farmer-exploiters of this contra
band labor to the highest levels
of the federal government.”
Washington Pipeline
Senators have turned down a re
quest from Vice President Barkley
for a new Cadillac limousine. They
decided he can get along on his old
one . . . The Dutch government
has made discreet inquiries to find
out whether it’s true that “Call Me
Madame” Perle Mesta may be the
next American ambassador to Hol
land. . . . The agriculture depart
ment has requested the national
production authority to tone down
its reduction of steel allocations for
farm machinery.
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