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Evening star., 1949-11-06
BRIDGE Calendar

TONIGHT. Arthur walker Club, 1911
y. quincy. Arlington. rating point game.
roMoRRow-Federal Bridge League.
1900 New Hampshire avenue NV,
team f-four End open pair rating
point, 8 pm. La Sale studio, 1923
Connecticut avenue N.Ws open pair
TUESDAY-Agriculture Club, 1855 Euclid
street NV. rating point, 7:46 pm.
Glebe road, Arlington. open pair 1ating
point, 7:46 pm. Count Club, 1914
!. Seventeenth street NV. open pair
master point, 8 Pm. ...s$s. +
Stephan Studio, 1855 Eu-
cid street N.W... open pair rattnl point,
1 pm. Waxhinston Bridge League,
Roosevelt Hotel open pair rAting point,
7:30 and s. p.ra.; monthly winners
THuRsDiY1Ia H1s;si salls Studio. OPEN pair
rating point. / pm. Chess Club, Cor
don Hotel, rAttug point, 7!46 pm.
Riyerside Bridge Club, Arlington Farms.
rating point, 1:46 pm. i. &
ton .on Hotsi. ITO Vermont avenue NV, Nv
sATURD0AY-stephan Studio. open pair
ratins point, pm. Chess Club, rat
Ing point. 7:46 pm. Walsh Club,
TWenty-second and streets NV,
3mNSter 1oint. n .s40 nm. ~
Evening star., 1949-01-29
Severe Cold Snap Could Ruin
Plants Shrubs Here Experts Soy

Unusually mild, weather this
month has thrown many plants,
shrubs and trees so far of sched-
ule here that sudden severe cold
snap might seriously retard, If not
ruin their growth, Agriculture De-
partment experts said today.
Cherry trees at the tidal basin
are developing almost too fast for
safety but should be able to with
stand sharp temperature drops, the
officials reported.
But another few days with tenn
peratures as high as. we had yes
terday would cause real trouble" "
they added.
Unseasonal January weather in
the Washington area has lot hurt
small grains. Major fruit produc-
|tioa sections in Virginia and Mary
land also have not been seriously
threatened as yet.
"A prolonged mild spell in late
Evening star., 1949-01-29

February Or early March, followed
by a sudden cold, Is much more to
be feared according to an official
at the Beltsville experimental sta
ton of the Agriculture Department.
ForSythia, crocus and tulips, as
well rs various types of shrubs
and trees in general are feeling the
principal effects of the mild
weather.
"It is making them too ambi-
tious," a Department expert said
They are coming along faster than
they should. I've noticed them in
Evening star., 1949-01-29

street Is known locally as the slave
market" because jobless men habit
uauy line up there to take odd jobs
as offered by passersby. They've set
their own minimum wage standard
-$1.25 an hour.
Evening star., 1949-01-29

my own front yard, and we have
many reports Of the same kind. A
quick cold snap could do real
damage"
Evening star., 1949-01-29

Stoves Get $1.25 on Hour
LOS ANGELES (P.-The corner
Of La Brea avenue and West Third
Evening star., 1949-01-29

Streetcar employees Of Adelaide,
Australia, have been forbidden to
whistle.
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1949-07-02
Contractors
Seek Housing

The construction of the Kodi-
ak Ice and Cold Storage Com.
pany's new building on the city
dock will depend on obtaining
housing for between rs and 100
men, AL Long, in charge OF driv
ing the piling, said Yesterday,
Bids for the construction of
the plant are due to be opened
In Juneau, Thursday.
In a letter to Long. one of the
bidding contractors asked him
to list rooming houses where
men could get board and lodg-
ing
Long can be contacted at
Ralph Shupp's residence.
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1949-07-02
Coast Guard Phys
Find Missing Boats

Two Kodiak, based Coast
Guard Phys located two dis.
abled and drifting fishing boats
this week.
Tuesday the purse seiner J. o.
Edwards was sighted off Sitka
by Pilot W. II. Schmidt after q
6 hour search and the &C Gut.
ter Cahoone took it in tow
Early yesterday another PLY
pile ted by Fl. W Wooley sighted
the Zephyr. with 2 men aboard,
after a 5 hour search. The z phi
yr was "a hours overdue at the
Swikshak cannery, and WAS drift
ing 10 the center OF Shelkof
Straits.
The fishing boat Tiger, direct.
ed by the plane to the drifting
Ze. hyr, towed it I" Kukak
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1949-07-02
Gibbons Gorgeous Garbage
Gatherer Won't Go To Dump!

John Gibbons new garbage
truck will make the 1un to the
city dump under its own power
after all, as soon as Blackie Pat
terson gets it repaired
The truck, consigned to Pat
terson's Service Station and
scheduled for delivery to Glib
bons, was damaged during I'M
loading operations from the
Alaska Steamship freighter
Square Knot. Tuesday at the
city dock.
Dropped TO the deck of the
freighter. when a preventer guy
broke on two different attempts
to lift it. the vehicle was finally
lowered to the dock on the third
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1949-07-02

attempt.
The truck weighs 1850
pounds and costs around $1,000
landed he Q.
Mechanism of the truck was
damaged but Patterson, after
inspe citing it, SAID it could be re-
pared. The Alaska Steamship
Co will pay for repairs.
Gibbons said he expects to
have the truck in about two
weeks but is disappointed be
can't enter it in the July 4th pa
rade. Il had planned to have
girls in bathing suits ride on it
and even had the bathing beau.
ties lined up he moaned.
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1949-07-02
Special Jeep Charms
Mails off Street

Fiat tires, due to nail punct-
Hres, should be reduced to a
minimum since Willard Hall, city
employee, ma lie a pick up of all
nails, pieces of wires and elivers
at metal on Kodiak's streets this
week.
Using a yellow jeep with an Ell.
ectric magnet near the ground
On the rear end, he made a com.
plete coverage OF all roads from
the Marine gate on Shelikoff
Highway. out Mill Bay, down
Brooklyn avenue along Mi ;sion
road and all over town
Loaned to the Alaska Road
Commission by the Naval Oper.
ating Base, the super..duper.
nail. picker.,loper" collected q
'sheck of a lot OF nails" accord.
ing to Mill Vokacek, city street
superintendent.
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1949-07-02
Special Deputy Here

Paul Gottier arrived here
from Anchorage on Tuesdays
plane, and was sworn in as a
Special Deputy Marshal and be.
gan his duties Wednesday morn
ing.
He has had experience. N 20
lice work and will assist U. S.
Deputy Marshal Clarence Dig
Dey here.
Gottier's home is in Williams
vile. New York
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1949-07-02
q Teachers
Are AIMED

-Four teachers have been offered
sontracts by the local Independ
sna School Board for the coming
school year and Gene Marlar,
secretary Of the board, said they
will probably accept
Edward T. Roqan, a teacher
Ut history, math and Spanish is
spending the summer in Kenai
working for the Alaska Road
Gommisson and will come to Ko.
diak this fall.
Miss Isabelle Goldthorpe, Of
Milledgeville. ILL.,, will teach
home economics and chemistry.
Charles E Ande SOD, Pittsburg,
Kan will teach math and shop,
and Howard Carpenter. of Arma'
Kansas, will be basketball coach
and teach commercial subjects
Ivor A Schott, hired as super.
Intendent last spring, was mar
aed On June %, in Los Angeles
and will arrive with his wife q.
sound the middle of August,
Marlar said. Mrs. Schott taught
sst year in the Hawaiian Islands
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1949-07-02
Building Weirs
At karIuk

A9 HA0B EUM
Work on the installation of q
permanent two way weir below
Karluk lake is continuing slowly,
Dick Shuman, representative of
the Fish and Wildlife service and
in charge of the project, said this
week.
"We had hoped to complete
he project by the end OF SUM.
mer but it won't be done until
next year," he said
A two-way weir, he explained
enables the service to obtain an
accurate count Of the number Of
salmon that 60 up the karluk
river, into the lake and then on
into the tributaries of the lake
to spawn.
After three or four years Shu,
man continued, the young SAL
mon make their re urn to the sea
and another count is obtained
Information on the fertilization
program now under way in an
effort to increase the salmon, Is
obtained and scientific know.
ledge Of the spawning habits of
the fish is compiled.
All materials and supplies for
the construction of the weirs are
being flown from Larsen Bay to
Karluk Lake III two engined
FWS plane.
An experiment in fertilization
on a lake at Afoqnak I,land IS
due to begin in about two weeks,
Shuman said.
The physical characteristics oi
the lake on Afognak are similar
to those of a lake at the lower
end of Kodiak Island, where tie
experiment was or ginally to be
conducted. To obtain accurate
information on the results of the
fertilization program, the smaller
lake ct Afognak was chosen.
Figures for the salmon run at
Kar nix and + ed River, through
June rs, are as follows. acco d.
ing to the local Fish and Wild
life Office: Karluk catch, LA 94l !;
escapement, 302, 576; Red River
catch. 1876 escapement,
32,7SO
Red River figu es a,e about
BS3, 600 below last years for the
same period
Karluk il about 100000 below
last years total run to the
same date
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1949-07-02

Washington (-P)- Judith
Coplon was convicted this week
on two counts of being spy for
Russia. A jury convicted her on
both counts OF the indictment
She faces a maximum sentence
of Is years in prison, a fine OF
S12 900
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1949-07-02
OFFICIAL WEEKEND PROGRAM

OFFICIAL WEEKEND PROGRAM
Saturday July z
9pm Dance Community Center
Sunday July 3
2to4 pm Riddle Carnival Center grounds
pm to IL Carnival Community Center
to S pm Open House CGC Cedar City Dock
9 pm to 12 Taxi dancing Community Center
Mondoy July a
loan Grand parade with army,
navy marines, Judging floats
costumes Krats to School
1915 am Flag raising Schoolgrounds
1890 am Chdrens games, races pie Front of Fielder Bldg
eating, penny scramble etc.
Noon Junior marathon from bank out Mission road
back to bank.
1890 pm Bike race from base Ends at Bert's
pm Base to town marathon Finish at Berts
to pm Open house, Cedar City Dock
a pm to IL Carnival Community Center
4pm Tug o. War
6:l5 pm Boat Donneley & Acheson
z to 9 pm Square dancing Community Center
pm to - Taxi dance Community Center
Midnight PRIZES
1915 Fireworks Near Island
l to am Dancing Community Center
oorists requested to schoogrounds for parking
after pm)
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1949-07-02
Holiday Plans Complete;
Program Has Everything

&@
Kodiak's Biggest Weekend is
here and set to go. A free dance
at 9 pm tonight at the commuD-
ity center wall raise the curtain
on the weekend.
The gstes at the carnival
grounds will be thrown open at
2 pm tomorrow for children IN
der IA years of age and admis,
sion will be free. Booths and con-
cessions will be operated at re-
duced prices and at 4 pm adults
will be admitted.
The annual grand parade will
start at 10 am, July 4th, and
will march from Kraft's grocery
store, up Alaska Way, past the
reviewing stand and to the
school ground Led by parade
marshal John Gibbons, the color
full procession will feature march
ing units from Fort Greedy.
MOB and Marine Corpe
A color guard, floats decor
ated bicycles, baby buggies,
members Of the WV, American
Legion and Elks Club will parti-
CHI ate.
Following the parade and flag
raising ceremonies at the school,
grounds the games, races and
contests will get underway,
Free transportation for child
rem at MOB will be provided by
the Tagura Transit System
Buses will leave Bells Flats at
8:45 am and the Civilian Cafe
te.ia at 9 am, Burl Clymer said
The VIII z Fish Company will
send a teuder to OuMnkie to
bring the chlldreo and their par.
ents to the celebI ration
Following the big surprise g.
vent at midnight July 4tb, a dis
play of fireworks will be held.
The annual base to town mar.
athon is set for / pm Monday
and the runners will attempt to
break the record set last year
by Robert Haskill who took As
minutes and ~ seconds for tho
course. The race will terminate
in front of BcI,'s Drug Store.
The base to town bicycle race
Monday. will also finish in front
of the drug store
More messages from the
clouds will float down to town
today and Ray Martin is urging
everyone to examine them close.
~ as many of them will prove Of
value around m; dMght when the
big surprise vent" takes place
Dance ate also scheduled at
the Log on Club and at the Cas-
inc this weekend
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1949-07-02

A sn oideIing pan OF dish rags.
set on tn stove to bo J. at John
Ha, s. residence sent he Kodiak
fite trucks screaming to the scene
yesterday.
The alarm sounded at 2:52
pm. Only damage was a scoreh~
ed pan.
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1949-07-02

"a The Kodiak Garden Club and
members from the MOB club
will meet at the home OF MRS
Charles Graft Wednesday even.
ing.
The program for the evening
will be a discussion of flower
arrangement and every member
will be asked to participate. The
meeting will start at 8 pm.
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1949-07-02

otorists requested schoolgrounds for parking
after pm
, 1949-04-01

It is hereby brought to pub
lie notice that the Government
of the Virgin Islands of the
United States has this date
authorized the Reverend John
Gallagher of the Roman Cath
olic Church to perform civil
religious ceremonies in the
Virgin Islands.
March 4, 1949
Government Of the Virgin Is
lands of the United States,
st. Thomas
Morris f. de Castro
Government Secretary
, 1949-04-01
BY the Governor
of the
Virgin Islands of the u. S.
A RECLAMATION
Army Day : 1919

The President of the United
States has proclaimed We'd
nesday, April s, 1949, as Army
Day. The President has stated
in his proclamation that "the
Army of the United States is
a bulWark of the Nations de-
Tense in war and a faithful ser
want of the people in time of
peace"
WHEREFORE, / WILLIAM
H. HASTE, Governor Of the
Virgin Islands of the United
States, do hereby call upon the
people of the Virgin Islands
to observe ednesday, April 6,
1949 as Army Day, and to
render appropriate honor to
the Army of the United States
and to Army veterans who
have returned to civilian life.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, 1
have hereunto set my hand
and caused the Seal of the
Government of the Virgin Is
lands to be affixed at Char
lotte Amalie, st. Thomas, Vir-
gin Islands of the United
States, this seventeenth day of
March A. D., 1949.
WILLIAM H. HASTE
Governor
(SEAL)
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-05-01
Fair Income With Minimum Regulation

these restrictions would have to be consid-
erably more drastic than those in effect in
the prewar era of AAA regulation.
There was very little actual production
control through the acreage allotment sys-
tenn as administered in the '30s. Generally
speaking the land taken out of production
then was the most unproductive acreage
on the farm. Production was maintained
at about normal levels by better tillage and
other improved practices on the remaining
acreage. That is why it is conceded that any
production control in the future would nave
to be accompanied by strict marketing
quotas. And rigid enforcement of market
ing quota regulations would be extremely
difficult. 1t would require a great deal of
government red tape and an army of super
visors.
The kind of support program that most
farmers and stockgrowers want is one that
will maintain income at levels that will give
producers equitable buying power with a
minimum of regulation. That is the ques-
ton to which congress will be trying to find
the answer in the months ahead.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-05-01

on wheat farms as well as on irrigated
farms, and that is where future increases
seem likely to materialize.
A member of Montana Farmer-Stock-
mans editorial staff interviewed a number
of central Montana farmers recently and
asked them what they planned to do with
excess wheat land in case a wheat surplus
situation develops. Almost invariably the
answer was Crested wheat grass" And
when asked what they planned to do with
the crested wheat grass, they replied cattle"
There is also increasing interest in some
parts of the state in a corn-hog combination
now that some of the new hybrid strains
lave demonstrated their adaptability to
Montana conditions. Barley is also receiving
increasing consideration as a feed crop.
Important factors in the growing inter-
est in greater livestock production in Mon
tana are the improved local marketing situa-
ton and the strong demand for livestock
from the urban centers of the west coast
area.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-05-01
The Editors Page

TNHE real headache in the administra-
Il ton of any farm income support pro-
gram will come when production control be-
comes necessary. That is why the depart
ment of agriculture has been exploring all
possibilities of increasing consumption.
If actual market prices of food commod-
tiles are relatively low will be
able to buy more of these agricultural prod
ucts. And if more acreage of basic crops
can be diverted to livestock production the
surplus problem will be lessened to that
extent.
These are the principal reasons behind
the provisions in the newly proposed farm
program for permitting agricultural mar
kets to seek their own level while farm in
comes are maintained through compensa-
tory payments.
If outlets for surplus farm commodities
annot be provided through increased con-
sumption by humans, animals and for in
dustrial purposes then profitable income
levels can be maintained only through pro-
duction controls and marketing quotas. And
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-05-01
Montana's Growing Livestock Industry

T LIVESTOCK numbers showed a substan-
IL tial increase in Montana in 1948 and
there are indications that this upward trend
will continue. The federal agricultural sta
t~istician for Montana reported that cattle
numbers totaled 1895, 900 head on Jan. l,
1949, 8 percent over the year previous and
80 percent greater than the 10-year average,
1938-47.
Montana registered the largest gain in
cattle numbers during the past year of all
states excepting Iowa and Kansas. Texas
showed the greatest loss with a reduction
of 1872, 900. In swine numbers Montana also
made a gain of IS percent over the year
before, with a total of 229, 900 as compared
with 1874, 900 in 1948.
The ranges are probably stocked to
normal carrying capacity now and it is
doubtful whether there will be much further
increase in cattle on the regularly estab-
lished stock ranches during the ext few
years. With a return Of normal grass years
there may be some reduction. But some of
the increase in cattle numbers has occurred
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-05-01

COMETIME in the next go days the secre-
tary of agriculture must decide whether
it will be necessary to apply marketing
quotas and acreage allotments with respect
to wheat. Under the law he must proclaim
marketing quotas by July l and acreage
allotments by July Is if they are to be car
ried out with respect to next years produc-
ton.
The prospective supply of wheat is just
about at the level that would require the
announcement of quotas and the holding of
a producer referendum to see whether such
controls would be approved. If crop con-
ditions in the wheat region should deterio-
rate to any marked degree during the next
@Moy l, 1919
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-05-01
Wheat Quotas and Allotments?

few weeks quotas would be avoided. They
might be avoided anyway if the administra-
ton should make a rather liberal estimate
of consumption during the next marketing
year.
But if crop conditions should improve it
would be difficult to dodge the quota an
nouncement. And if it were avoided by
fancy pencil work still more serious surplus
problems might result a year from now.
Administrative work is under way in
Montana and other important wheat pro-
ducing states so that the quota or allotment
program, or both, can be put into effect
without delay if that decision is reached.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-05-01
Montana Farmer-Stockman

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OFFICE: 11 4th st. N, Great Falls, Montana.
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LARRY Gill u g o . . Livestock Editor
Department Editors: AMY MARTIN, Rural Homes Depart
ment; DIR. HOWARD WEIGH, Veterinary Department.;
RALPH D. MERCER, Soils and Crops; H. E. CUSHMAN,
Poultry; l. w. DICKERSON, Farm Mechanics; DIR. JOHN
W. HOLLAND, Thoughts on Lifei GILBERT GUSLER.
Market Analyst.
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Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-05-01
Straws in the Wind

~ AWO-R8A(G oYSACAA " COlh lid DCCl
in effect since last October. The u. S. farm
price for corn averaged $1.20 a bushel from
November through February. This was "a
cents a bushel below the corn loan rate.
Heavy exports have kept the wheat market
price about even with the loan rate. But
market observers predict a two-price system
for wheat next fall, with the local market
at least several cents a bushel under the
loan basis. Better have enough farm stor-
age space to take full advantage of the loan
plan.
When the 1850 census is taken farmers
and ranchers will be asked to fill out the
agricultural schedules before the census
taker arrives. The qu~estionnaires will be
mailed in advance of April l, 1850. The CEN
sus bureau believes this method will be
more convenient for rural people and that
the information secured will be more accu-
rate because the farmer will nave time to
consult his records more carefully. When
the taker arrives he will pick up the agri-
cultural schedule and at the same time fill
out the form for the population census.
y y X
1t is understood that the unit limitation
in the new Brannan farm income support
plan designed to curb large-scale producers
has been dropped. The secretary and his
associates came to the conclusion that it
would be too difficult to administer, would
leave too much production out of the con-
troll program and might be declared uncon-
stitutional by the supreme court.
Most economists now agree that the re-
cession will be Of moderate degree because
there are so many supporting factors-in the
economic picture such as stabilized wage
scales, farm support program, rearmament
activity, social security payments and per-
manent increase in consumer demand due
to larger population. Economists don't al
ways guess right but they have considerable
basis for their present forecasts.
Wheat losses due to black stem rust
nave been reduced so percent since the
barberry eradication program was started
in 1913. The annua saving that has resulted
amounts to about $40, DOC, 900. This is more
than the total cost of the barberry campaign
during the entire period since 1918.
Montana ranked 5th among the states
in acreage planted to wheat in 1913 with
a total of 4,739, 900. In barley it also ranked
9Th with 1858, 900 acres. The states 119, 00O
acres of flax put it in 9th place with respect
to that crop.
Whether the recession is to be moderate
or severe, it is highly important for farmers
and stockgrowers to strive for increased
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