The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-07-08

Monday-and realize anew that many
of these things which we lightly &C
cept are high privileges for which
countless generations Of men have
fought and died.
Curbstone gossip-they say the
aim Of airgun-toting youngsters isn't
too good-three panes shattered in
windows of the First Mennonite
church and one in the Methodist
church Med and Dode Murray
riding in one Of those new cars in
Saturday nights parade billed as the
towns oldest residents-and what's
more remarkable is that they are
twin brothers-the two survivors of
the Murray triplets and that 1910
Ford which chuggcd down the street
in the parade under its own power
was brought over from Lima where
it is preserved as curio and
speaking of autos, some of Ohio's
license tags, just three months old,
originally a lemon color are bleach
ing out to a dirty white-they say
this is occurring on the aluminium
plates which the state had to use
when it ran out of steel.
Even announcers must have their
little jests now and then-and Mon
day afternoons crowd at the airshow
got a thrill when the loudspeaker
blared out that a P-80, one of the
army's super-speed jobs was enroute
from Dayton and would land at the
field in a few minutes. Just when
everyone was anxiously scanning the
sky one of the airport's training
planes labeled P-80 appeared over
the trees and TAXED down the rum
way.
Word from the Chas. Laubys who
are spending the summer in Van
Nuys, Calf, saying that southern
California is overpopulated with re-
sulting heavy highway traffic-cars
travelling at so to IS mile gait in |
four lanes four abreast =. vegetables |
are of poor quality and high priced |
in the markets . and orange trees |
are being uprooted because of disease.
What's this parity bill that congress
enacted just before it shut up shop
a fellow asked us the other day. We |
didn't know, so we asked farmer
friend who We figured should know
all about it-well, he didn't but he
said he would look it up.
Day or two after he came in with |
a farm publication which wasn't too
happy over the whole situation, look
ing back over the history of govern
ment price support programs. Here
is it's summary:
"If there is to be a price support
program for agriculture, and there
certainly should be one based on
sound planning, it should be worded
so clearly that even an eighth grade
child can understand what it means.
It should not be left to bureaucrats to
interpret it as as they see fit, chang
ing the rules in the middle of the
game as has been done with the Stea-
gall amendment on hog support
prices.
"1f the new parity formula and
price support law has any similarity
to the Steagall amendment, we can
tell you now the new law will be inter
preted by the bureaucrats when they
get hold of it.
Figure this out if you can: Hogs
will be supported at 90 percent of
parity during the year of 1949 on the
same seasonal price variation as was
in effect in 1948.
"Of course, before any prices are
computed, the average of the average
flow of water over Niagara Falls |
must equal the average flow of the
tide at any given point. Add these
factors together and divide by num-
Der from one to ten. This result must
be added to the distance from the
barn to the fence on the north 80
nearest the hog house. Then walk
four PAGES to the left and divide by
.015. If the answer is less than you
expect, multiply by the age of the
oldest man in your community and the
number nearest the estimated dis
tance to the moon will then be twice
the average of spats in South Africa
and therefore must be the sum total