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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-08
Marriage Of Miss
Walker And Mr..
Keefe Announced

Mr.. and Mrs. x. L. Walker of
Pascagoula announce the mar
riage of their daughter, Joan, to
Mr.. Paul Keefe of Mobile at Gulf
port Saturday afternoon Oc-
tober 2.
Mrs. Keefe, who is a graduate
of the Pascagoula high school
was secretary at ingalls, for five
years.
Mr.. Keefe, who is now con-
nected with the Alabama Dry
Docks, resided in Pascagoula for
two and a half or three years dur
ing which time he was head of
industrial relations at ingalls,. He
is from Boston, Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs. Keefe are now
residing at IL McPhilips avenue,
Mobile.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-08
BY ROBERT E. GEIGER

WASHINGTON - The price of
food is high, and yet the govern
ment is guaranteeing the farmer
a minimum price for 20 major
crops.
Most farmers understand the
principles behind the price sup
ports but not so all the city folks
with grocery bills to meet.
The farmers know, for instance,
that while the government was
guaranteeing a certain price for
some crops in the past few years,
it was seldom that the market
price fell below the guaranteed
price. So the government SCI
dom had to step in with heavy
support.
Attempts TO stabilize crop
prices by artificial means date
back many years. At first farm
ers tried to do by cooperative
methods, by agreeing to withhold
products from markets so there
would be a scarcity and prices
would stay up.
During the Hoover administra-
ton the Agricultural Marketing
Act of 1929 was passed in an eff
fort to keep prices. from falling
because of farm SURPRISES.
The government bought grain
in an effort to keep up the farm
ers' prices. Then the Democrats
came to power and passed the
Agricultural Adjustment Act of
1888. Farmers agreed to limit
the size of crops in return for
benefit payments. The govern
ment attempted to finance these
payments through taxes levied
against food professors, but this
was held unconstitutional in 1886.
The government then began
paying the farmers out, of gen.
eral revenues raised by taxation
and other means.
Before the war the problem
was to limit crops to prevent
market gluts and declining prices.
In wartime the government guar
anteed prices to encourage the
farmers to produce all the food
possible. That's one reason the
u. S. had as much food as it did.
Thus price support plus crop con
trolls - limiting acreages - have
been used by the government at
one time to limit production,
and price supports have been
used at another time to increase
production.
What's happened now is this:
We have moved once more
from a situation in which "a scar
city Of food was threatened, as
during the war, into one in which
SURPRISES may occur
We have bumper crops and a
declining market. Many agri-
culture experts estimate the gov
eminent will have to put out
around $1,000, 000, 900 (bJ to keep
prices on l948 crops from fall
ing below levels fixed by law.
Some experts are saying price
supports must be cut in the face
of this record production.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-08
THIS WEEK
in Other Years

FIVE YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK, Army engineers conduct
ed hearing here on 30 foot channel
to Horn Island Restrictions
placed on truck deliveries by OPA
Fourteen filed damage suits
against Masonite for stream pol
luton and death of fish No
editorial carried.
FOUR YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK, 100 pipe welders returned
to work at ingalls, after pay rate
difference seth vessel launch
ed at ingalls, Curfew adopted
in Moss Point for youth under
l8 years Death of Mrs. Stone
McInnis occurred in Moss Point
=. Front page editorial, in sup
port of War and Recreation Fund
drive.
=
THREE YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK, APP newsmen flew here to
tour ingalls, at start of big recon-
version program =. Coast Guard
base ordered closed Pasca-
goula Civic Council endorsed pub
lie subscription plan for recrea-
ton program Death of Cliff
ton McKelly Williams in action
over Hamburg, Germany report
ed Robert Dethloff, former
prisoner of war, returned to his
home in Escatawpa Editorial:
Governor Bailey's medical school
visionary, first things must
come first.
TWO YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK, Game and fish commits
sion refused to issue compliance
certificate to Masonite New
drainage canal culverts for East
lawn canal at Polk and Lincoln
-. Barbara Comber, sponsor of
Dredge Comber, youngest spon-
sor in IS launchings held at In
gals Advertiser and Sales
company founded EDITORIAL:
Nazis and Nuremberg: warns that
the verdict does not wipe out the
Nazi philosophy.
ONE YEAR AGO THIS WEEK,
Tank production. steel fabriea-
ton is planned as supplement at
ingalls, -. New Woman's Club
organized at Gautier, Mrs. Phillip
Chestnut president Many
families enjoyed meeting at New
Prospect Camp Grounds
Contracts let for school work in
Moss Point.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-08

The leaders OF the States
Rights movement, including j.
Strom Thurmond, candidate for
president on the Dixiecrat ticket,
are still talking about garnering
more electoral votes than the ma
tional Democratic party and
throwing the election for presi-
dent into the House of Represen-
tatives where, they claim, the
Dixiecrat ticket will have a good
chance of being elected. Just
what the reasoning and logic be-
hind this is, we don't know, but
it looks to us like it is made up
of the dream stuff that Senator
Jim Eastland has been smoking
in that pipe of his. II was Sena-
tor Eastland who originally adj
vanced this theory in a speech be-
fore a joint session of the Mis-
sissippi Legislature shortly after
the first of the year. His reason
ing at the time went something
like this. The States Rights party
would garner enough electoral
votes so that no presidential can
didate would receive a majority.
The election would then be
thrown into the House of Rep
resentatives. Northern Demo-
Gratis in the House would rather
see a Southern Democrat elected
than a Republican. By the same
token, Mr.. Eastland said, the Re-
publican representatives would
rather see a Southern Democrat
elected than a Northern Demo-
crat. Southern Democrats, of
course, want to see a Southern
Democrat elected. Consequently
everybody votes for the States
Rights nominee. Prestoi That's
all there is to it. The Dixiecrats
win in a walk and everybody's
happy.
That's a beautiful theory, but
we're afraid it just isn't prae-
tical politics, In the first place
the Republicans control the
House of Representatives and will
undoubtedly continue that con-
troll when Congress convenes
next year. We may be naive, but
we're inclined to the opinion that
the Republicans don't want to see
a Democrat elected president an
der any circumstances, be he
Southern or Northern. That be-
lief, in turn, leads us to the opin-
ion that the Republicans would
cast their votes for a member of
their own party even perhaps
Tom Dewey. This also being true,
then logic again slaps us right
smack in the face and up pops
the opinion that, if the majority
of states represented in the House
are Republican controlled. then
they might reasonably be expect
ed to be successful in their eff
forts to elect a member of their
own party president.
=
Then, too, we are somewhat
inclined to disagree with the as
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-08

sumption that the Northern Tor
renegade) wing of the Democratic
party, is going to feel kindly to-
wards the Dixiecrat party after
the November election. It's some
what like turning the other cheek
fine in theory, but not often
practiced. We even believe that
they might be a little mad at us.
and the Individual representatives
a little hesitant about casting
their states vote for the Thur
mond- Wright ticket. AS a matter
of fact, il doesn't stretch our i'm
agination too much to believe
that they might want to stick
with the party nominee. And it
might even develop that some of
those renegade Northern Demo-
Gratis might not want to vote for
the Dixiecrat ticket under any
circumstances. This may sound
far fetched, but strange things do
happen.
At this point we hasten to say
that we're no fellow traveller. We
reject completely, finally and
without reservation the radical
teachings of Tom Dewey, Earl
Warren, Bob Taft, Joe Martin,
Jesse Wollcott, John Taber and
the rest of that crew, as well as
those of Harry Truman, Alben
Barley (he's not of the renegade
Northern wing of the Democratic
party, but he's still plain Old
Kaintucky poison, Jesse Byrd
(the old turncoat) and the rest of
that crew, too. Henry Wallace
and his believing bolos, of course,
simply don't count, and after the
November election the leaders of
this movement will scatter back
to the dark cracks and crevices
which form the normal base for
their shady operations.
On the other hand Git might be
a weak stomach) we just can't
seem to swallow the brand of
Democracy preached and prac-
ticed by those stalwart and emf
nent leaders and practitioners of
their own peculiar brand of ON
stitutional government as exem-
plified in the flesh by such men
as Leander Perez of Louisiana
and Herman Talmadge of Geor-
gia, who have. largely assumed
the Dixicrat leadership in those
two states, and Boss Crump of
Memphis. who recently had his
elective ears pinned back, and
now endorses the Dixiecrats.
However, Crump's representative
in the u. S. Senate, Kenneth Nc
kellar, at the time of his last
statement stood four-square with
the Northern renegades, so it
looks like the Crump machine has
torn a page out of the political
book of Earl Long of Louisi-
ana, and is playing both sides of
the fence so as to be sure and feed
where the grass is green and lush.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-08
Whot 1t Means -.
Attempts To Stabilize Farm Prices By
Artificial Means Dates Back MANY Years

ket price at the time the farmer
sells to government agencies at
the guaranteed price.
Thus the government has ac-
quired large quantities of COM
modities. 1t disposes of these
commodities at the most favor
able price it can. 1t may take
a loss or it may make a profit.
Here's what the books of the
Commodity Credit Cooperation
show:
Between 1888 and June 80, 1913
the corporation had a net loss
of $l,968, 848.550. But included
in the was a loss of So, 104, 301 that
was paid out in consumer SUBJ
sides.
These consumer subsidy losses
occurred during the war. At that
time there were price ceilings on
many articles. Some of these
articles couldn't be sold at the
ceiling price if the producer was
to make a reasonable return. So
the government held the ceiling
price at which goods were sold
to the public, but the producer
received a higher price than the
retail ceiling justified. The gov
eminent suffered the loss. Gov
eminent officials say this can
not be considered a farm price
support transaction.
S%ubtracting the consumer SUBJ
sidy losses, the corporation comes
out with a $135,343,7 ISL profit on
its other transactions, including
price support items.
CCC officials say it is diff
cult to set an exact figure on total
government price support opera
tions.
The corporation bought and
sold commodities for lend-lease
and performed other transactions.
But the officials say their break
down of transactions is as ac-
curate and fair as it is possible to
make.
These officials acknowledge
they have lost some substantial
sums while supporting the prices
of some commodities, notably
potatoes. On the other hand,
they have made substantial pro-
fits on some articles, notably cot
ton.
The government balance sheet
showing a profit of $135, 343, Isl
for the CCC includes all the costs
of administering the program.
1t also includes a deduction of
$50, 458, 054 as a reserve to pay
losses on inventories on hand
June 80, 1948.
There is another item of $685.
768,386 included in the profit.
This is due from the secretary
of the treasury on the Economic
Administration marshall Palm
program. Corporation officials
say these ECA operations should
not be considered as part of the
price support program but as a
function of ECA.
If this $55, 768,386 item is writ
ten off as price support it still
leaves the corporation with a
profit of 9,575,36
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-08
NAPLES PORT GETTING BACK
TO NORMAL

NAPLES-(AP)-Italy's worst
wardamaged port will be back to
normal within eight or ten
months. That is the opinion of
DR.. Gaetano Basso. engineer in
charge of Naples harbor recon-
struction, who has already car
ried out repairs which enabled the
port to operate at 80 per cent of
pre-war capacity.
Germans retreating northward
in l943 gave their demolition
teehniques a full workout at
Naples. When the allies arrived,
they found three-fourth of the
piers out of use for months to
come, nearly $50 vessels sunk
and and all elvators and rail-
way tracks destroyed.
U. S. Army engineers impro-
vised hasty repairs so the port
could supply Allied armies as
they moved north, but left most
permanent reconstruction for the
Italians.
"Our job started when the AL
lied forces handed back the port
to Italian civil authorities" Bias
so said. "In the two years since,
the port has resumed its peace
time aspect. Piers and ware
houses have been rebuilt, electric
water plants and cranes have
been restored to normal service
and the finishing touches are be-
ing given to the much bombed
maritime station"
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-08
N ACCIDENT

Slight damage was done to the
automobile of Edward Braun. ST..
of Cincinnati, O., about 1890 am.
Thursday when the car and a
county asphalt truck collided on
Highway 90 at the Jackson creek
road turn off, State Highway Pa
trolman w. G. Gray said. The
truck was driven by B. j. Nelson
of Pascagoula and as it made a
left turn into the road off the
highway the Ohio car struck the
rear with its right front fender.
Little damage was done to the
car. Mrs. Braun was in the car
with her husband. There were no
injuries.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-08
DINNER PARTY

The regular END of the month
dinner for employees of the Mer-
chant Marine bank took a little
different form last Thursday
night when the group joined for
dinner at the Longfellow House.
Mrs. E. J. Granger. who has left
the employ of the bank, was
guest of honor and other guests
were Mrs. H. D. Cudabac. Jr.,
Miss Mable Walker. Mrs. H. NJ.
Mason. Mrs. Tom Kelley and Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Bush.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-08
E eager. roo

CINCINNATI = Ap = Cinein-
nati's flashy rookie shortstop,
Virgil Stallcup, is an accom-
plished basketball player and
coach. The brick-topped short
fielder coached an industrial
quintet to a championship in his
native Honea Patch. S. c., last
winter and formerly coached a
high school team.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-08
d


The Fairview Ladies Auxiliary
met at the home of Mrs. Chapius,
this week with the hostess voic-
ing the opening prayer.
The devotional was led by Mrs.
5. Linder and the Bible study
Types of Christ was taught by
Mrs. Jorden.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-08
U. 8. Has Most Powerful
Airplans Engine in World
Special to Central Press

WASHINGTON - The recent
mountaineering speed flight of
an Air Force fighter proved be-
yond much possibility of doubt
that this country has gained one
vital edge militarily - possession
Of the most powerful plane en-
CINE in the world.
The North American F-86
which Mai. Richard L. Johnson
flew TO the new unofficial record
of $50 miles an hour at Cleveland
gave the General Electric To
100 its first real workout. This
torpedo-shaped jet propulsion
power plant develops the sensa-
tional total of 10000 horsepower.
Before the war the most pow
erful engine in the world turned
up about 1000 horsepower, and
was as big and bulky as the 100.
General Electric has spent IL
million dollars since VJ-Day de-
veloping the new power behe-
moth. Its predecessor, the TG-
$50, powers 10 Air Force and
Navy fighters and bombers. The
100 doubtless will be substituted
in all 10.
The 1905 success would indi-
cate that the United States is out
in front in the race to develop a
metal strong enough to Withstand
the terrific temperatures thrown
off by jet engines. The jet prin-
ciple in itself is simple. All coun-
tries know it. But only American
metallurgists apparently have
been able to perfect a new alloy
which can take the heat without
cracking.
One of the witnesses questioned
by the House un-American ac-
tivities committee in the Com
munist spy probe has figured out
what he considers to be proper
revenge.
He is going to make the COM
mittee contribute-indireetly, of
course-to the Wallace third par
ty movement.
The witness eonfided his plan
to newsmen after a grilling at
the committees hand in secret
session.
His scheme is simple:
He plans to take the check he
receives from the committee for
appearing as a witness and en-
dorse il over to the Wallace par
ty. It will make a tidy contribu-
ton, since he receives six dollars
for one day as a witness plus
transportation from New York to
Washington and back.
Secretary of State George c.
Marshall has a Marshall Plan"
of his own TO speed up operations
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-08
LIT. H. w. HAGUE

1t. 6g) H. W. Hague, USN, son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. G. B. Hague of
Paseagoula, Miss, is serving
aboard the attack cargo USS
Seminole, which is participating
IN the amphibious training exer-
cises IN Southern California I'M
der the command of Rear Admir-
al b. J. Rodgers. USN, Command
er, Amphibious Force, Pacific
Fleet.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-08
BERwANcER FIRST DRAFTEE

NEW YORK -AP-T The first
player to be drafted by the teams
of the National pro Football
League when that circuit began
the draft system of choosing
players in 1886 was Jay Berwan-
ger. the great All-American back
from the University of Chicago.
Berwanger was chosen by the
Philadelphia Eagles.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-08
EDWARD

Edward Chaplin Terrell Sin
gleton, 10, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
B. F. Singleton of 210 Welch
street, Moss Point was accepted
for a three year enlistment in the
Regular Navy on the 9th of Sep
TENDER and is now on his way to
San Diego, Calf, where he will
receive his recruit training. Be
fore enlistment Singleton attend
ed the Moss Point high school.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-08

The main causes of farm fires
include lightning, defective Chin
neys, sparks on roofs, stoves and
furnaces. hot ashes. spontaneous
ignition of hay, misuse of cleo
tricity, matches and smoking.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-08

WASHINGTON - How much
has the government price sup
port program cost you, or saved
you, as a taxpayer and consum-
er?
This has become one of the con-
troversial questions of the presi-
dental campaign. Political
Speechmakers are attempting to
relate the program to the price
of a can of bean or a sack o
spuds.
Nobody has an accurate an
swer. Here's why:
The Commodity Credit Cor
poration (CCC), which handles
the price support program, shows
a profit of $135,343,75 since
l943 Excluding consumer sub
Sides, of which more later.)
But the corporation handles
other commodities besides those
it acquires in price support pro-
grams, and until recently ac-
counted weren't separated. Bill
lions of dollars worth of com
modities have been handled since
1888, when CCC was set up. :
One top executive says it's his
best estimate that if all the trans
actions that were definitely price
support operations could be sep
arated out the government would
just about break even on them.
AS the price support program
now operates it guarantees the
farmer, before his crop is plant
ed, a price estimated to net him
a reasonable return. If the mar
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-08

The droplets of water in a cloud
are electrically charged.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-08

But in the closing hours of
Congress this year a bill a S
passed which continued the pre-
sent supports through 1949. Any
new changes would have to be
Congress, and Congress won't
meet until January. That's too
late to have effect on some 1949
crops, like winter wheat.
After next year the law pro-
vides the support may be lower
ed, in most cases.
The price at which the govern
ment supports crops is based on
a complicated formula. In gen.
eral this formula attempts to tie
crop prices with the farmers cost
of living. If the prices of the
things he has to buy go up, so
do the support prices. If farm
ers' costs 60 down., so do support
prices.
After 1949 the law also pro-
vides that the more abundant
the crop. the less the support the
farmers will receive, as far as
most crops are concerned. This
will tend to reduce unreasonable
SURPRISES, agriculture experts
say.
Agriculture experts say price
supports aren't responsible - or
at least entirely responsible -
for high prices. They point out
that most market prices have
been higher than the government
support price. This. they say,
has encouraged production. And
high production, they add, is the
best way to bring down prices.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-08

Secretary of State George c.
Marshall has a Marshall Plan"
of his own TO speed up operations
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1948-09-18
SECURITY LIFE
Continued from Page One)

He is dean of Tougaloo College,
having served that institution as act
ing president at one time. He has
the B. A. Degree from Hampton
Institute and the M. A. degree from
Harvard. He has done graduate
work at the University of Wiscon-
sin, The University of Chicago and
Harvard University He has served
on the board and with the company
since it was first organized.
DR.. ]. A. Allen, Member of Board
He has the most progressive drug
business of any Negro pharmacist
in the state. He is an alumnus of
Alcorn College and received his Phi.
c degree from Meharry. He is a
member of the Board of Directors of
the Tri-State Bank og Memphis, a
stakeholder of the UNIVERSAL Life
Insurance Company and has hold
ings in other businesses and real
estate in Mississippi
MIR. p. A. Christian, Member
Of The Board of Directors
Mr.. Christian is one of the best
known business men in the city of
Laurel Miss. He is an established
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1948-09-18

These boys and girls were selected
on the basis of outstanding work
accomplished in project achieve
ment and leadership
The following farm and home a.
gents and others from Mississippi
were present at some time during
the week: B. H. Cooper and Geneva
Edwards, Coahoma County; Daisy
Anderson, Holmes County; Halle
L. Gray, jeff Davis County; Bes-
sic r. Gay, Leflore County; Vera
S. Rainey and ct. j. Williams, club
LEADER, Bolivar County: A. Marks.
Pike County; j. C. Dunbar Clai-
borne County, accompanied by his
wife; Sadie G. Hill, Lincoln County.
who brought delegation of % wo-
men and girls; F. L. Thames and
EsteH Young, Lauderdale County.