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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-03-10

Whopping big grain crops
around the world this year and
prospects for more of the same
in 1949 plus the old law of sup
ply and demand are largely res
ponsible for the recent slump in
wheat prices, a Washington State
college economist said today. ;
Karl Hobson, Washington State
colleges associate extension econ
on1ist in prices, attributed sagging
wheat. prices to the increasing
world supply of the bread grain,
generally favorable new crop
prospects, and current large do
nestle stocks. # @H
Cali these factors" he declared,
''just add up to a greater supply
than the demand will take at
present prices. It's just the old
economic laws at work" e@
Zone of the important changes
affecting price on the domestic
'front.'" he said, ''has been a drop
in the use of wheat for livestock
feeding" He pointed to the low
cost and plentiful supply of other
feed grains, principally corn, as
the chief reason for this develop
ment. AS an example, he explain
ed that hog producer in Iowa
can buy corn from his neighbor
for about $1.2O a bushel as COM
pared to the $1.90 a bushel a
Horse Heaven farmer would have
to pay his neighbor for wheat.
He added that corn has been
selling at about IS cents per hum
dred pounds under good feed
wheat in California markets.
Also on the home market, de-
mand from flour millers and
other types of wheat users has
been slow. Large wheat stocks
and the favorable new. crop pros
poets are causing buyers TO limit
purchasers to current needs.
Total u. S. wheat stock in all
positions On January / were 857
million bushels, or 81 percent
of the 1948 crop. These stocks
are 2 percent larger than a year
ago. Activity of the federal gov
eminent in the wheat market is
very important these days as
indicated by commodity credits
purchase and loan activities on
A percent Of the 1919 crop.
siaAs for those shrinking wheat
exports, Hobson pointed to. two
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-03-10
Many Meetings
Are Scheduled

There will be a Grange Gavel
meeting at Locust Grove tonight
On Saturday evening, March. p
Pomona Grange will be held at
Beuna Vista.
Twin City Navy Mothers club
will meet Monday, March IA at
the home of Mrs. w. r. Wiegand
Unity Study Group will meet
Thursday, March 10 at 2;3O at
the Episcopal Parish hall. All in.
terested persons are invited.
The Quota club is sponsoring a
rummage sale to be held Friday
and Saturday, March IL and IL
in the old J. c. Penney store
room.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-03-10
Christian Church Celebrates
4lst Anniversary; 100 Attend

voted to furnish chairs for the
chapel Of the new church building
each member buying d chain anc
the req to be raised by varlou,
projects. The class will sponsnr
the painting Of the wood work
and will call on various individ.
uals to contribute work.
Games for the social hour at The
meeting were supervised by MIR
and Mrs. r. Z. Crumrine. Fifteen
were present.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-03-10

The Kennewick council of Camp
Fire Girls will meet Tuesday,
March 8 at 8 p. m, in the office
of the Potlatch office. The new
president, Mrs. Paul Richmond,
will preside at the business meet
ing.
New officers for the council in
addition to Mrs. Richmond, are
Mrs. Larry Oliver, vice president;
Mrs. Dale Galloway, secretary;
Mrs. Sadie Wilson, treasurer.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-03-10

the home of Mr.. and Mrs. c. II.
Judd.
Bobby Hampton was a visitor
Of Bobby Carlson In Finley last
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. II. Pate Of
Pasco visited with their son and
wife Mr.. and Mrs. II. D. Pate
Saturday.
Benefit club will meet Wed
nesday. March is, with Mrs. Or
val Butterfield at loo pm.
sharp. Lesson win be on meat
cookery.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-03-10

in Yakima on a shopping trip
last week.
The Johnstons, who were ten
ants of the court for two weeks
have moved their trailer and are
continuing their trip.
Attending the Pasco ar meet
last Saturday and witnessing the
air show, were Charlie and Char
lottee McCuiston, Gussie Polling
Rose Hawn and Egla McCuiston.
The Paul Polings Sr's. Were
dinner guests of the Paul Polings
Jrs. last Friday evening at the
BortlettS Trailer Court.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-03-10
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IRENE sensitivity. Since the be-
/ ginning of the twentieth century,
no group of diseases have under
gone greater development than
those considered to be of allergic
origin. ~
Today, many diseases are clas-
sed as allergic diseases, including
hay fever, bronchial asthma, &C.
zema, migraine, serum sickness,
and others. 49,
It may well be that allergy
is one of the great mechandisms
of disease and that few. if any
diseases lack an allergic origin
somewhere in the background.
Certainly no more challenging
problem confronts the medical
profession than the subject of
allergy; no more fruitful form of
research or contribution to the
health and welfare of man is to
be found than the solution OF
this troubling condition.
Whenever a foreign substance,
such as a protein or carbohy-
drate, is introduced into the body,
the specific body defenses call
from the blood and body fluids
to destroy these foreign agents.
An intense form of inflam-
nation takes place at the site OF
the battle, characterized by swell
ling of the body tissues and the
outpouring Of fluids. This reac-
ton comes about very quickly,
so that an allergic response may
develop within minutes in some
instances.
The location Of the tissue In
volved denotes the type Of disease
of which the patient complains.
| II it is the mucous membrane OF
the nose, it is called hay fever;
the bronchial lining, asthma, the
skin, urticaria or giant hives.
Wherever the allergic reaction
is located, the essential tissue
changes are the same, namely,
swelling and weeping of body
fluid.
The specific causes of allergy
| fall into three large groups: I'D
those with which the Individual
comes into contact swith his en-
vironment; (2) those which are
developed within the body; and
CD allergy x unknown causes.
In the treatment of an allergic
disorder, your physician usually
makes every effort to discover
the cause of the allergy. If that
can be discovered and removed,
the allergy disappears promptly.
In detecting such causes, your
physician becomes something Of
a modern Sherlock Holmes.
The variety of conditions which
may cause allergy in everyday
life are truly amazing. In one
patient, it may be certain type
of wave set, in another, horse
danders from the riding academy,
in another, pet such as a cat,
in another, an occupational haz-
ard such as benzol or other dyes.
If the offending allergy can
be discovered but NOT removed,
your physician then follows two
lines Of treatment: desensitiza-
(, ton by the graduated injection
Iof the offending substances, and
the use of the new Notwithstanding
drugs. ~ -
The latter have received great
trial during the past four years
and it is now well established
that they are effective in certain
types of allergy, especially serum
sickness, drug reactions, skin dis
orders, hay fever and to lesser
deore<a i, byonchia1 asfhyna
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-03-10

The first ski club in the United
States was organized in 1882. It
was founded by Scandinavians in
Berlin; N. II.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-03-10

Madagascar's pitcher plant is a
shrub four feet high, bearing
jug-shaped, water-filled pitchers
in which it traps and digests I'M
wary insects.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-07-21

Housing Administration, houses for
sale can be financed by 40-year AZ
mortgages with the federal govern
ment under writing up to $4,000 of
the cost, and insuring 1907 Of
veterans investment or 90R Of a
non-veterans' investment.
3-The highest loan that can be
guaranteed for a low-cost house
purchase (between $1,000 to $4,000
price, now is $4,000 for two-bed-
room unit. This is raised to $6650,
and the amount guaranteed is rails
ed from 90 to 95R of the purchase
price. An additional $3.50 could be
loaned for houses with three and
four bedrooms.
4-For higher-priced homes for
sale, FILA would be authorized to
guarantee loans up to 95a6 on the
first $1,000 Of the purchase price,
and up to 70R on the balance,
with the total insured not to run
over $11, 900.
5-The FILA insurance program
is authorized to guarantee loans
on an additional one and one half
million dollars worth of home pur-
chases.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-07-21

some Of the incentives offered to
business under the proposal and
disappointed at its failure to in
clude authority for government ex-
pansion of plant capacity. Senator
Murray said he still believed that
"where big business and monopoly
insist upon restricting capacity" 1t
may be necessary for the govern
ment to engage indirect construc-
tion. He indicated he had left this
out Of the measure for the sake of
getting support, but would revive
the idea if the inducements offered
do not result in expansion.
Murray in introducing the bill
told the Senate:
"The sponsors of the bill believe
that an effort to protect and en-
large our $3.50 billion national
economy by appropriations that
might run up to 81 billion is not
high price to pay for the achieve
ment of the bills objectives.
The total program of recoverable
investment and grants or assist
ance under the bill comes to less
than our annual rate of expendi-
ture for national defense. Our first
line of national defense must be a
strong and stable and expanding
economy"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-07-21
FIops AS A Witness, Westbrook PegIer
Slams Again; Dubinsky Answers Scribe

Washington (LPA)-Westbrook
Pegler is back at his old stand. In
his role as a witness before a
House Labor subcommittee, he fell
far short of convincing the con-
gressmen that the labor movement
is a "gang of racketeers, teaches,
crooks, parasites, ETC."
So now he has returned to
smearing the motives of the sub
committees chairman, Rep. An
drew Jacobs Cd, Ind.), who had
subpoened him to testify.
In one of his latest columns of
bile, he whacked the hearings as
"ballyhoo for the (abor) rackets
themselves and for this fellows
(Jacobs') law practice" Then he
went on with 1900 words of attack
on Jacobs, along with sideswipes
at the union movement. Everybody
is wrong but Pegler, the column let
it be known.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-07-21

Replied Jacobs: II have come to
the conclusion that since Mr.. Peg
Ter endorsed lynching in 1888, and,
in effect, the Communist Party in
1886, he apparently, has no more
permanency of mind than he has
facts or information. But perhaps
he will be more stable in the future
because he has acquired calcifed
intellect"
Meantime, Pegler's attempt to
smear the Embarrassing activities
of the Int'l Ladies Garment Work
ers brought a ripsnorting come
back from David Dubinsky, the
unions president.
Pegler, in testimony before the
subcommittee, inferred there was
something "un-American" in the
unions collection of funds for re-
lief at home and abroad-particul-
arly for relief in Israel. Firing
back, Dubinsky declared that he
regarded his unions activities
along that line as a "badge of
honor"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-07-21
Some Operators
Lament, But Three
Day Week Sticks

Washington (LPA)-Some coal
operators walled and some con-
gressmen protested, but 350,000
soft coal miners, acting like a dis
ciplined team, are still sticking to
the three-day work week, decreed
by President John l.. Lewis of the
United Mine Workers to stabilize
the industry.
A few operators threatened
flight" to keep their mines open
longer. Also, several members of
Congress tossed I'm onopoly"
charges at Lewis. These attacks
failed to overawe the miners. They
called it a "week" after three days
in the pits, and then went off fish
ing, or to other tasks.
Lewis has announced he'll keep
the three-day schedule in opera
tion so long as negotiations are
under way for new contract.
Meantime, as coal surpluses above
ground melt down, Lewis counts
on his bargaining power increas-
ing. Most operators, anxious to
have prices bolstered, are putting
up little or no opposition to the
shorter week.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-07-21
COOP HOUSING AIDED
IN MIDDLE INCOME BILL

Washington (LPA)-The second
half of the national housing pro-
gram-aimed to help middle-in-
come families find decent houses
at prices they can afford-has been
placed before Congress by Demo-
cratic leaders in Senate and House.
The Senate Banking Committee,
which earlier held extensive hear
ings on middle income housing, is
expected to act this week on the
measure prepared by Chairman
John Sparkman Cd, Ala.) of its
Housing Subcommittee. Rep. Brent
Spence Cd, Ky) chairman of the
House Banking & Currency Com
mittee, is steering the bill in the
House.
Among other things, the bill
will provide that:
IA Cooperative Housing Ad-
ministration would be set up to
make direct loans up to one billion
dollars at Az 70 interest for as
long as go years, to coop or nom
profit housing corporations build
ing rental dwellings for families
Of moderate income" The rental
on these would run from $50 to
$50 a month.
2-Also under the Cooperative
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-07-21

they want and need they have a
perfect right to get it through
government, just as they demand
ed and got parcel post, and public
power.
Ernst warned against bigness in
business, asserting it was being
used not to provide more efficiency,
but to exercise power in the mar
ket place" in violation Of the prin-
ciples of free competition. He cited
studies showing middle sized COM
panies were more efficient than
the great big ones.
Supporting the antitrust laws,
but demanding bigger appropria-
tions for their enforcement, Ernst
said even this was not enough. He
called for a new approach" under
which the Secretary Of Commerce
would be the advocate and spokes-
man for farmers. He cited many
instances to back up an assertion
that the laws of the United States
have thousands of determinations
against small business and in favor
of big business.
When Ernst said single insur-
ance company has grown so big
today that it takes in more money
every year than 19 states, Celler
charged that an investigation of
the insurance companies had been
"stymied" by "the Vaccinations of
the insurance companies in the
rules committee of the Senate"
where his proposal for an investi-
cation was blocked.
On the opening day, Attorney
General Tom G. Clark said the
issue of monopoly is whether the
economy Of this country is to re-
main free and competitive or
whether it is to be subjected to
private RECOMMENDATION through h
control" He added that
"liberty is endangered when either
economic or political power is con-
centrated in the hands of the few"
The war, Clark warned, led to a
dangerous concentration of econ
omic power. Almost a quarter of
workers shifted to the
five per cent of the big manufac-
turers doing most of the business,
he said.
O'Mahoney told the committee
it had tackled "the biggest ques-
ton in the world" out of which
twill come the wars and peace of
the future" He said the control of
modern industrial production is
the control of citing the
General Electric Company's opera
tion of the plant for making atomic
bombs.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-07-21
Labor Wins Many
Battles In States

Washington (LPA)-Gains fol
labor outnumbered setbacks on the
state legislative fronts during the
past week.
In Missouri, Governor Forrest
Smith, Democrat, pounded the lasl
nail into the coffin of the states
"little Taft-Hartley act" by sign
ing repeater previously enacted
by the legislature in the stiffest
battle of the session. The act was
put through in 1947 by a Repubi-
can majority and knocked out this
year by a Democratic majority.
In Alabama, Governor James
Folsom vetoed a queer type OF
anti-strike law passed by the legis-
lature, but applying only to Wilcox
county. Officials of that county
has asked for the law as means
of attracting anti-union employers.
In tossing out the measure, Fol
som called it "the worst type of
class legislation"
In California, organized labor
won battle to liberalize the states
disability insurance law. They got
through an amendment which al
lots So day for payment OF hos
pital benefits to sick workers who
need disqualification.
The payments are to run for a
maximum of IL days, and will be
financed entirely out of a surplus
in the disability insurance fund,
without cost to the workers.
This achievement, the State
Federation of Labor said, repre-
sents tremendous victory over
the insurance companies which
have been trying desperately to
restrict any Improvement in the
disability insurance law in order
to protect their profits under the
voluntary plans"
In Illinois, labor won passage
of bill which puts municipal
laborers under civil service, with
out need of examinations, and en-
titles them to pension rights where
pension plans exist. Chief bene-
ficiaries of the measure are $500
laborers in Chicago represented by
an AFL local. Many of them had
been on the municipal payroll for
20 years, but were still classified
as temporary, without civil ser
vice protection or pension rights.
Now they will be blanketed in
under civil service.
In Wisconsin, the legislature ad-
journed with the defeat or guber-
material veto of all new anti-labor
bills. Among favorable measures
passed was one boosting benefits
under the workmen's compensation
act, and another placing all state
office employees on fve-day 40
hour week.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-07-21
Ohio Sfufe Federation of Labor
Convention Will Open August n

Columbus will play host to the
Gath Annual Convention of the
Ohio State Federation of Labor
commencing August %.
The Convention will officially
open Monday morning at 1000 in
the Grand Ballroom, Neil House.
Approximately 1000 delegates and
visitors are expected to attend.
The convention is expected to
discuss the 1850 elections, with the
defeat of Senator Robert A. Taft
as leading subject.
Other matters on the agenda in
clude a review of legislative hap
penings in Washington and CO.
lumbus by Secretary-Treasurer
Phil Hannah.
1t is expected that the highlight
of the convention will be an adj
dress by President William Green
of the American Federation of
Labor. Mr.. Green has indicated
that he will try to come to Colum-
bus from Washington to attend
the convention.
In addition to President Green,
O.S.F.L. President Michael Lyden
has invited the following persons
to address the delegates:
George Meany, Secretary-Treas-
urer of the American Federation of
Labor; Maurice ]. Tobin, Secre-
tary of the U. S. Department of
Labor; Ralph Wright, Assistant
Secretary of thesU. S. Department
of Labor; Joseph d. keenan,, Di-
rector of Labor's League for Po-
litical Education; James H. Fluker,
Superintendent of the Division of
Safety and Hygiene; Thomas j.
Duffy, Counsel for the Ohio State
Federation of Labor; w. t. Rob-
erts, Chairman, Board of Review,
Bureau of Unemployment Compen-
sation; Will T. Blake, Member of
the Industrial Commission of Ohio;
Walter Mason, National Legisla-
tive Representative of the A. F. of
L.; Albert Woldman, Director of
Industrial Relations; and James
Rhodes, Mayor of Columbus.
Heavy returns of credential dup
Iicates indicate that the Columbus
Convention will be we'll attended.
The State Building Trades Coun-
Ill will hold its meeting on August
I8 and 10 preceding the Conven-
ion.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-07-21
Senators Sponsor
Legislation To
Avert Depression

Washington (LPA) - Powerful
bipartisan blocs in the House and
Senate are pushing this week for
action on legislation introduced in
the Senate late last week designed
to carry out the promises of the
full employment law by using gov
ernment action to avert the threat
ening depression.
The legislation, based on Pres
ident Truman's economic message
to Congress, was introduced in the
Senate by group of Is liberal
Senators headed by Sen. James E.
Murray Cd, Mont). 1t is sponsored
in the House by similar bloc
headed by Chairman Wright Pat
man Cd, Tex Of the House Small
Business Committee.
Titled the Economic Expansion
Act Of 1949, the bill is designed to
avert the threat Of a depression by
positive action" as proposed by
President Truman to achieve with
in few years a total output Of
goods and services of $500 billion,
or 20 per cent more than now.
While introduced at the request Of
the President, the bill went furth-
er than Truman proposed in his
economic report to Congress last
week.
1t would authorize lending and
spending program Of SIS billion
dollars only four of which would
involve appropriations, to spur the
Of industry toward the
production goal of $500 billion, to
expand foreign investment, to ex-
pand consumer purchasing power,
to gear governmental fiscal policy
to an expanding economy, to de-
velop economic resources, and to
relieve unemployment.
Labor leaders were critical of
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-07-21

Washington (LPA)-Labor lead
! ers were watching Congress close
ly this week for indications Of the
effect of President Truman's forth
right economic report last week
and his subsequent warning to the
people in a fre-side chat that it
would be a "great blunder" to cut
government expenditures in the
facing of the current economic
downturn.
The President in his semi-annuai
economic report to Congress blast
ed at the idea that we are exper-
iencing a "healthy re-adjustment"
He told Congress "there is moth
ing healthy about more unemploy-
ment or less production. Such
trends can and must be reversed
by positive action, private and
public.
In fighting. mood, the President
carried his appeal for economic
sense to the people in a fire-side
chat that charging that the "sel-
fish interests" were trying to drive
the country into the ditch by en-
couraging the economy bloc to cut
expenditures at a time when it
would be disastrous.
"Selfsh interests, Truman said,
"were behind the tax reduction of
the S0th Congress. Now these same
selfish interests are urging us to
commit a third blunder. They are
now urging drastic cuts in Govern
ment expenditures = cuts which
would fall hardest on those expen-
ditures which are most important
to our domestic economy. The
people who unwisely urge that
Government expenditures be slash
ed are for the most part the very
same people who have long been
opposing our social programs and
our resources development pro-
grams"
The Presidents message and
speech brought some quick results
in Congress. Rep. Aime Forand
Cd, RID quickly introduced legis-
lation to carry out his tax recon-
mendations, and a group of Sena-
tors and Congressman headed by
Sen. James E. Murray Cd, Mont)
introduced broad economic legisla-
tion designed to provide other de
vices for averting a depression.
Without specifically mentioning
the healthy re-adjustment" phrase
used by the conservatives and the
Chairman of his own Council of
Economic Advisors, the President
said:
"The way to check decline in
business investment or production
is to take affirmative action that
will Lead to more investment and
more production. The way to check
an increase in unemployment is to
take affirmative action that will
provide more jobs. The way to pre-
vent our economy from shrinking
is to take affirmative action that
will help it to expand"
Mr.. Truman noted a number of
favorable factors in our economy
notably that employment levels
are still high-but said we should
not "be lulled into a false sense of
security by those favorable aspects