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Evening star., 1947-10-27
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president. Hotel Association Of District q
school cemmittse-Dr. Hobart NJ, Gem.
and Dr. Garnet wiikinson ssstsssnt s,a SUPER
cennissss@cliaera aisaon q Il. s.~s. presiasn'
OF Federation Of citizens Associations.
Women's Clubs Commi:tee-Mrs. Edward
Women's Clubs. and Mrs. 3. g Tsnklns,
president Of District OF colI:nJia consress
OF Parents-Teachers, co-chairr1sn.
WOOD presdsnt Ad1.Iti.ns cus
Civic Associations Committee-Woolse
W. Hall, Federstion Of Civic A.socistion
Preller. president. washinEton Central La
D0 Frstsrn:, ors.nizstions committse-c,
-. dovernment Assneies committssz-J;;
y Wesshts ane
Veterans :, Organisations COMMITTEE
Owen, c. Holleran. department commander,
A%Tsispa inaspendsat s0a and Chain stores Commit;
Isaac jacobson, Independent Food Distrih-
Speakers Buresl commIttee-Joseph ,.
Scott. Municipal Court. and James S. Beat
tiee, president Junior Board Of Commerce,
-. Parochial Schools committee-Ths Rev:
DR.. Leo j. Mccormick. superintendent of
Parochial Schools, Archdiocese Of WASH
ington and Baltimore.
Service ORGANIZATIONS Committee -
George 2. Muth, president, Rotary club.
Home Economics Committee-Mrs. Mari
ana T. Nelson, president d. c. Home
Economics Association, and Mrs. M. 2.
Miles, head OF the nutrition service. D. C.
chapter. American Red Cross, co-chair-
men; and 4 Colleges Committe which con-
sists Of representatives from all colleges
students consume meals on the campus.
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a year ago but meat. dairy products
and potatoes will be slightly lower. ="
4. In terms of calories, however.
world food production in 1947-8 will
not be as far below prewar" as the
above figures would indicate "be-
cause a larger proportion of the
grain crops will be used for direct
human consumption rather than in
the form of livestock products At
a press conference, Mr.. Fitzgerald
estimated the caloric drop from the
prewar level at from to 10 per cent.
S. To maintain the relative levels
of food production that existed last
year" as much as 20 per cent more
food would have to move in inter-
national trade because the nations
normally dependent on imports have
suffered the biggest production
losses. But due to both physical and
financial reasons, the volume of
food moved may be little. If any,
larger" than last year and "conse-
quently the utmost difnculty will be
encountered in maintaining even
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Mountain
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of the peak where they had left
their horses. One of the women
lost her footing in the snow and
slid several hundred feet down an
ice-covered old rockslide.
She was reported badly bruised in
the fall.
The other woman and Mr.. Martin
went down to aid the one who had
fallen. She had lodged just above q
canyon. They were unable to move
her. Mr.. Martin gathered flrewood
for the two women and left about
midnight Saturday to get help.
State police were called in, arriv-
ing yesterday. at noon. Mr.. Martinez
said they returned from the scene to
his store and had purchased ap-
proximately 5000 feet Of rope and
other supplies to air in the work.
At Los Alamos, ofncials reported a
relief detachment for the soldiers
sent yesterday had been dispatched
early this morning and that special
car was standing by to rush to the
scene with doctors or whatever
might be needed.
Experienced mountain climbers
said the Los Alamos soldiers pre-
sumaply followed an old sawmill
road about z miles beyond Truchas
and were forced to leave their radio
equipped cars there for & Smile hike
through the foothills. 1t was not
known how much farther they had
to travel
Harold Walter of Santa Fe, an
authority on the terrain, said it was
q 81 -hour climb from roads end
to mountain top. but the approach
was not regarded as. particularly
hazardous.
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donesian troops have continued,
despite . council. cease-fire order.
DR.. P. p. Pillai of India. participate
l. ing in the discussions without vote,
and Poland's Juiiusz Katz-Such
were scheduled rs opening speakers.
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last years level Of food consump-
ton in many countries" y
The following table is Mr.. Fitz-
gerald's forecast of world food pro-
duction, 1s47-4S. crop by crop, COM
pared (f1rst column to pre-war
production and second column to
the 1946-47 crop year:
'41-'4s '47.'4S
asa per as . per
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day, and Andrew Drance and Fran
els Browne. trustees.
Oficers who were reelected were
the Rev. Thomas p. Scannell, chap
lain: Sam DeGrazia, treasurer, and
DR.. Landon Cant, medical officer.
Onicers of the newly formed
ladies auxiliary Of the post to be
installed will include Mrs. Emily B
Moore, president; Mrs. Mary F.
Madigan, first vice president: Mrs
Florence F. Jackson, second vice
president; Mrs. Regina F. Delaney,
third vice president; Mrs. Catherine
Hoffman. secretary; Mrs. Ann De
Grazia, treasurer; Mrs. Elizabeth
F. Hughes, welfare officer: Mrs
Helen F. Harnett, officer of the day:
Miss Evelyn Brooks, historian. and
Miss Corita Scoane and Mrs. Con-
stance Mason, trustees.
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Foreign Aid
Continued From First Page.)

Committee, and Senator Malone,
Republican, Of Nevada who voted
against most Of the foreign policy
issues Senator Connally supported
last session.
"If we try to debate the so-called
long-range Marshall plan, we'll
never get through" Senator Con-
nally told a reporter. Il think Con-
gress will be in a mood to give
prompt attention to any stopgap
plan and pass
Unless this is done. Senator Con-
nally said. the special session
probably will just run along for six
weeks right into the regular Janu-
ary meeting" ' g..
Senator Malone said he wants
"this feeding program" separated
from other proposals so as not to
confuse the people and the issues" :"
The Nevada Senator said much
public confusion now exists be-
cause feeding hungry people, re-
Mobilization of foreign industry, and
opposition to Communism" have
been talked of simultaneously.
Malone Supports Program.
Senator Malone said he will sup
port a program for feeding hungry
people if we are not just acquiring
q permanent group of hungry
boarders for the next IS or 20
years"
The 19-member Hartman COM
mittee signed to weigh the impact
Of the Marshall plan on the domes-
tic economy was said to have con-
cluded at q weekend meeting that
the 81, ,400, ,000, 900 estimate Of aid
submitted by Is Western European
nations cannot be greatly trimmed.
There will be revisions but these
will be both upward and downward,
Secretary Hartman reported OF the
sums listed as necessary to carry
out Europe's own program OF eco
nomic recovery.
The Commerce Secretary is the
only Government Official repre-
sented on the group, which set
November to complete its findings.
Several members Of the Hartman
group were among those asked to
the White House today.
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Father Sheehy 10 Speak
To Catholic War Veterans

The Rev. Maurice S. sheehy, head
OF the department of religious edu-
cation, Catholic University. will
speak at an INSTALLATION meeting of
officers Of the John F. Madigan
Post, Catholic War Veterans, at
$3.50 pm. tomorrow in St. Thomas
More School Hall, Lee boulevard and
N. Thomas street, Arlington.
! Newly-elected officers to be in
stalled are Joseph M. Dawson, COM
mander; Stephen Ryan, first vice
commander; Gustave Thomas, Sec
ond vice commander; Joseph Nc
Mahon, third vice commander; Jo-
seph McGuier. adjutant; Francis j.
Ortman. judge advocate; Miss Toby
Kerr, historian; Nicholas Sturm,
welfare director; Sergt. Wilfred
Vienneau, u. S. M. c., officer of the
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pointed out that spiritually small
proportion of people are attending
church. A prediction was made that
Europe's recovery probably would
be quicker materialistically than
otherwise.
+ DR.. Otto Dibelius, Lutheran bishop
of Berlin and Bradenburg, was
scheduled to address the union
later in the day.
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THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c. *** As
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What makes the food position SO
much worse this year than last,
the forecast says, even though total
food production is only slightly be-
low last year, is its geographical
distribution. particularly the geo.
graphical distribution of this years
production of bread grains"
Compared to last year and ex-
Guiding the Soviet Union. wheat and
rye production in Europe has drop
ped more than 100000 tons but
has increased corresponding
amount for North America as
whole despite a 500, 900 drop in the
Canadian wheat crop. The Soviet
Union, incidentally, makes no figures
available to the food council but
its production is included in world
figures Mr.. FITZGERALD said "a
Guesstimate with a capital c. is
used.
Delegates from IS member ma
tions of the food council received
Mr.. FitzGerald's report when they
gathered this morning.
! On the agenda is the question of
dissolution of the council and trans
| fer of its functions to the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations as recommended by
| the FAO's September meeting in
Geneva.
Less Meat Predicted.
Meanwhile, the prospect OF less
meat next year was seen by the
Agriculture Department, even as the
packing industry reported sharp
reduction" in wholesale prices for
current supplies.
These were the other develop
ments In the food and prices situ-
| alton:
/. Representative Bender. Repub-
lican. of Ohio said he expects the
Senate House Economic Committee
will come up November IA with
definite program to meet the high
price situation ''in the absence OF
any program on the part of Presi-
dent Truman"
2. Chairman Charles Luckman of
the Citizens Food Committee an
nounced it has taken over sponsor
ship of q friendship train" of freight
cars which will leave Los Angeles
November and travel to New York,
collecting gifts of food for Europe
at stops along the way.
/ 8. The United States Chamber of
Commerce reported: 8. With rising
prices and increased consumer re-
sistance, many small retailers have
already seen a drop in their sales
and are preparing themselves for
the end of the sellers market and
the stiff competition of buyers
market"
Supplies Expected to Drop.
The Agriculture Department pre-
dicted that next years meat supplies
will be about per cent below this
years and that little improvement
is likely before late in 1949.
It said the 1948 per capita supply
is expected to average about 146
pounds, compared with 156 this year.
The prewar average was about 127
pounds. All classes Of meat are ex-
pected to be less next year.
The explanation offered was that
America has been eating meat
faster than it has been producing
meat animals, particularly beef
cattle, and this years feed crops
were smaller than last yeaS.
The American Meat Institute re-
ported at Chicago that sharp re-
duction in wholesale meat prices
has accompanied an increased sea-
sonal production which started In
mid September.
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Arlington Woman Elected

HANGCHOW, China, Oct. 27 lR.-
The World Council of the Young
Women's Christian Association. con-
cluding its first session since before
the war, elected Miss Lilace r.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-01-31
Dredge Leaf River

A Hattiesburg civic club has proposed the
dredging of Leaf River down to its point of
junction with Pascagoula river in order to-
make it navigable for barge traffic. Those in
the know expect the Hattiesburg area to be-
come the center of another rich oil field in
Mississippi and the opening of navigable
waterway would facilitate the transportation
of petroleum This of course would help de-
velop the entire Pascagoula river valley and
increase the Importance OF our own port. This
is prime opportunity for the whole territory
between here and Hattiesburg and we feel
that our civic clubs and other leaders should
study and push the possibility of the Leaf
river development to the utmost
Such a project would also increase the
feasibility of an oil refinery at Pascagoula
where crude supplies from throughout the
state could be refined and shipped aboard
tankers to the world markets. We do not
say that Paseagoula is the only possible site
for refinery in the state, but we believe it
is one of the most logical places AT any event
we have had oil flowing out of Mississippi
wells long enough now to justify the develop
ment of the refinery industry. instead of
continuing to pump all but a small portion
of our raw material into other sections to be
proeessed and converted into the more prof
liable finished products
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-01-31
For The Future

Last week members of the jackson Coun-
ty Board of Supervisors asked the architect
for the proposed new court house to revise
his original plans in order to allow for nor
NAL growth in population in this county dur
ing the next fifty years
We commend the board for their foresight
IN this matter.
Although ii will require additional funds
over the original four hundred thousand
dollars bond issue for that purpose we be-
lieve the officials wise in preparing for the
future for we believe in the future of Jack
son County.
The development of our port. the possibili-
ty of oil. and increased industrialization all
point toward our future growth in con-
crete way. but we are equally impressed by
the general inclination of industries and
citizens in the east and north to come south
just as rapidly as they can arrange it.
One day last week, it was twenty-four de-
grees below zero in International Falls,
MINI, and we walked around in our back
yard in shirt sleeves in perfect comfort It
takes something less than genius to figure
that only economic necessity keeps people
living in that kind of climate when we have
room and to spare. And increased costs from
snow storms, heating systems, and insula-
ton against such climatic conditions makes
it economically sound to pull up roots and
head south.
We firmly believe that the migration
south is assured and the chambers of COM
merce have only to engage in an educational
campaign to speed the exodus from the large
industrial centers.
Jackson County's population increased
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-01-31

Two of the greatest needs confronting the
people of Mississippi, in our opinion. are a
national law providing federal aid for educa-
ton, and larger state appropriation for
schools from the huge surplus which is now
somewhere around $3O0O0,00O
The average pay for Mississippi teachers
is $7g0 year There in the proverbial nut
shell is the story of what is wrong with ed
ucation in our state, and it also goes long
way to explain why Mississippi is at the bot
tom of the list in many fields Of health, in
come, training and similar fields.
Potentially our state is not poor, but
fich. Potentially our people are neither ig-
norant or backward, but a strong and per-
serving group who can achieve wonders
WHEN given the opportunity. We have seen
that right here In Pascagoula during the
war, where many thousands OF our people
have been trsined into skilled industrial
workers and have sent some of the finest
ships ever built out to the battles and to
the trading routes Of world competition.
We have seen our young people. many of
whom were given decent educational op-
postunities for the first time. take TO 1t
like ducks to water and achieve relatively
high educational standard which might
nersr have been possible In their lives back
In The poor country school systems which
thsY would attend but for the war.
WIZ do we have good schools here in
Jackson county? The chief reason is that we
have had federal aid for education Our
yearly grant from the federal government in
PascaFoula alone. for the past few years, has
been about $97 900. Without that money. and
without the million dollars in new school
buildings that were erected by the govern
ment during the war. our school system
would have been swamped by the influx of
war workers.
We got that aid as wartime measure
Other lections of the state and country which
did not have shipyard, a tank factory. or
some type of war industry, got no federal
aid. We say it is time now to recognize that
If the proper care training and education of
children is necessary to the maintenance of
a wartime community, it is necessary to
peace time also. And 1t is time to recognize
that in poor states like Mississippi we do not
provide anything like adequate education.
We read protests from time to time that
Mississippi will sacrifice its independence if
it permits the federal government to help
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-01-31

wouldn't have been used in
the days when they were cut
ting heart pine. One wonders
how long it will be before this
new ring of growth will take
on the patina of age like the
rest of the town. and also be-
come part of the past. and
a part of the individuality of
the place.
In he fields surrounding the
town. the old forests are gone,
only the stumpage is left. And
this too Is beginning to disap-
pear. here. as elsewhere
throughout the state, as the tur-
pentine factories consume
trueklaad after truekload with
the passing years.
Man leaves definite tracks
when he goes by.
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Federal Aid For Education!

pay the educational cost We read with some
disgust an editorial from upstate not long
ago saying that to accept federal aid would
"sell our birth-right for sorry mess of pot
tage." People who talk this way, in our opin-
ion, do not know the facts
We have had federal aid to education in
this wartime community for number of
years These funds are administered by the
local authorities. The only control the
federal government has exercised has been
to send It's auditor for an annual audit to
mike sure the money has been spent for
the projects and purposes for which 1t was
requested. That of course Is the way 1t
should be, and does not constitute federal
control" And this is the way II would be
under a peace time federal aid bill. Local
control Is written in all OF these bills.
We are for this program 100 percent. and
we think any native Mississippian who gives
II any thought and who has the genuine well
fare of the state at heart will be for the bill
too. The average teachers salary in the ma
tion is $1.728 in New York il is $2,726 in
Mississippi $3.50. 1t is also fact that one
reason a state like New York is rich and
state like Mississippi is poor, is that much of
the wealth we create with our labor is fun
neled into the centers like New York
II is only logical and fair that we should
get some help in educating our children.
We understand that Senator Taft, who is
now chairman of the education and labor
committee of the Senate, is going to push
federal aid bill i'm the present session Such
bill was defeated in the last session, largely
by our own politicians We think the South
ern people should bypass the politicians and
send word to Taft to go to it. We need that
money. Let anyone who is in doubt about it
talk to some good native born Mississippi
school teacher and get the story that the
politicians have failed to tell us.
AS for our own state surplus, somewhere
in the neighborhood of $30.000000 for the
last two bienniums. we say as we said last
year during the legislative session that it
was disgrace to appropriate $15.000,000 for
highways-five million of which was an out
right pork-barrel split-up for the counties
while at the same time only $3,000,000 was
added to the school budget
We understand Governor Wright is con-
sidering a special session ostensibly to add
$4,000, 900 for the next bennium That is only
one-tenth of the surplus, and it is not enough
for education. We shall discuss our reason
for thinking so in an editorial next week
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-01-31
You're Telling Me!
BY WILLIAM RIFT
Central Press Writer

AS airplanes bring the two
coasts closer and closer togeth-
er, Main street becomes Just a
narrow streak of paint separat-
ing those famous traffic lanes
Hollywood Boulevard and
Broadway. -
Seeing headline about the
Balfour Declaration. Zadek
Dumkopf wants to know who
is playing baseball this time
of year.
Huge puffs of smoke are issu-
ing from Popocatepetl. Mexico's
ancient but long dormant vol
eano. Juat another chain
smoker?
Until Popocatepetl's eruption,
Mexico's newest volcano. Para
cutin got the headlines. Now it
looks just like another case of
an old timer trying to put the
younger generation in its prop
er place.
A new cloth is guaranteed to
give moths the stomachache.
So now, in addition to running
our suits, the little pests will
be running up doctors bills on
us
The nvala, we read. is
striped antelope. A critter. no
doubt, which couldn't make up
its mind whether to be a ze-
bra or a deer.
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Desk

the records. He ,trusteth not
to the memory of man, nor to
the five senses. He wants it
notarized. He is the he-eoon
of the river bank, the bull of
the woods; and let no one for
get it.
So 1t is much more reward
ing to study the tracks of the
man animal, than any other
kind of wild life. The butter
fly hunter needs a net, the
bird student a pair of binocu-
lars; the taxidermist needs a
gun ana a bottle of chemicals.
All the student of human ma
ture needs is his eyes--and
perhaps a dime store mirror.
But we started out to talk
about the town.
The most interesting thing
to us was the fact that YOU
really could see the equival-
ent of rings of growth in this
settlement. Passing by on the
highway you look down quiet,
sleepy little main street some
three or four blocks to the
front of large old-fashioned
courthouse. 1t is not a rich
town. There are few rich
towns in our part of the world.
The paved street is full of
red mud that the farm horses
have dragged in. The little
frame shops need paint and
look dusty. Here and there one
sees an exeeption-a brightly
painted grocery store, or the
shining window of some enter
prising little merchant. There
are one or two buildings of
obvious age on the main sthreet,
and within a radius of block
or so of the courthouse there
are even a few old log-cabins.
These are the oldest ring Of
growth. These places, one feels
quite sure, were built not long
after the first saWmill blade
sang down the first yellow
pine log sixty or eighty years
ago. Ore imagines that some
of the first two-byfours and
plankS from the little mill went
into the older store buildings,
and in the first substantial
residences. These few log resi-
denees are old now; some are
we'll kept, but most need paint.
The big courthouse was built
in 1907. That was another
ring of growth. One can see
this section growing prosper
Gus with the numbering, and
finally the bill passed in the
legislature creating the new
county and county seat. Then
the big courthouse. It looks
old now. But 1907 is only for
tv years ago. They were rid
ing high then, running the
mills at eapacity-and cutting
the timber beyond capacity.
In the residential section
there are other houses which
seem to rate from about this
period-the best houses in
town, until the new ones be-
gan to go up with the pros
perity of World War II and
under the stimulus of CT loans.
One can see that the town
didn't grow much after the
building of the courthouse.
Perhaps it even declined. as
did SO many Mississippi lun1-
Der towns when the lang-leaf
forests which once seemed in
exhaustible became exhaust
ed. The courthouse even looks
a little too big for the town,
as though thev built it on flu
ture expectations which never
quite developed.
But around the older town.
and sometimes interspersed in
between the older buildings.
there is the new ring of growth
the houses Of the present
boom. They are new and shiny;
one or two show signs that
real money has been made
as It must have been il the
old davs. Some are Ton boXs
like and harsh, and one feels
that the lumber and the ma
terials that went in them