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Candidates File

Eleven candidates have filed for
the four seats on the Montgomery
County Board of Education in
next November's election. Three
women were in the group that
submitted petitions before yester-
days deadline.
The candidates are Harrison c.
King, r. Edwin Brown, Mrs.
Evelyn S. Ollnutt, DR.. Webster
Sewell, Leslie Morgan Able. Will
lard G. McGraw. .-F
Also Mrs. Benjamin. B. Baylor,
Walter H. McClennon, Mrs. Rich
ard L. jenkins, Wylie w. Barrow,
and Bryan z. Kile.
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Tax Rote Reduced

The town Of Kensington has
reduced its tax rate by 5 cents.
The new real estate tax rate il
As cents per 500 Of property
valuation. .
Town officials said the reduc-
ton was made possible by higher
State revenues than had been
anticipated.
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Truck Test DeudIine. Neors

RICHMOND, Va, Jaly % (ApI
Capt. w. L. Groth. State police
safety engineer. has warned that
there will be no extension of the
inspection period for trucks. end
ing midnight Thursday.
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III o w. e v. e. r.,
|nothin has
happened. The
commission says
legal techpicali-
ties are holding
up the pro-.
gram, } but the
same excuse
was offered six
months ago. !
The pending
system is i'm
|portant because
it would allow
employees W h o
ora Sckaarlillad tn
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Home Rule Petitions

A vote in November on the
home rule issue in Prince Georges
County seems virtually assured.
Charter-county manager advo-
Gates yesterday fled petitions
bearing 12,640 signatures with the
county election board. A mini
mum of 10000 signatures was re-
quired.
The list was presented by Mrs.
Zella p. Saylor, executive secre-
tary of the Citizens Committee
for Good Government. The 81
month drive for signatures beat
last midnight's filing deadline by
several hours
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The Federal Spotlight
Civil Service Hos Yet to Issue
\ Order on Dismissal Program
Byyoseph Youno

Despite the fact that major reduction force
going in Of the agencies the Civil
Service Commission still has not issued its order
plfyng and clarifying the dismissal program.
vAS had promised to
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Two With Air-Conditionino

A theater under construction in
Gonzales. Nicaragua, will provide
that country with its second COM
pletely air-conditioned film house.
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Maryland a
and
Virginia
News in Brief
Tokono Council Attacks
Commission Zoninq Nap

The Takoma Park City Council
has accused the Maryland-Na-
|tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission of ignoring Council
recommendations in a proposed
new Zoning plan.
A number Of cases were cited by
the Civic Improvement Committee
|of the Council last night as indi-
eating that the commission ignored
practically all the Councils
recommendations. .
The Council voted to give
Police Chief c. Earl Thomas the
same type appointment held by
other department heads. Last
month, the Council reappointed
other department heads for the
usual year. but reappointed Chief
Thomas for only six months.
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issue the new regulations which
would replace the present compli-
Gated system Of 23 different types
of retention categories.
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q Great rails; shenandoai clear

record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. lO1, on June 20.
LoNeSt Id on January 40.
High and Low 0f Last - Hours.
High, 90, at 5:l5 pm. 60.
" Low, 10, at $50 am.
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Forecosters Try to Outguess Crops

through the growing seasons vicis-
situdeS was undertaken.
Drought and Cold
These vicissitudes. last year, were
marked. The Mississippi delta, q
narrow strip Of Western Mississippi
and narrower one Of Eastern LOU
isiana, has long been the ideal cot
ton country. Last year it had q
soaring drought. In September.
drought in the northeast section Of
the cotton belt and in Northern
Texas and Oklahoma struck down
late-planted cotton. The dry spell
continued into October. Early in
November freezes caught North
Texas. Arkansas and Oklahoma.
OF course. the price of cotton.
which had sagged on the expecta-
ton of an enormous crop, kept
bouncing back with successive dis
closures that it was not going to be
so enormous. Representative Aber-
nethy, Democrat, of Mississippi in
stituted an investigation Of the Crop
Reporting Board in January.
He started out by asserting:
Farmers lost more money in 1851
from the action of the Crop Report
ing Board than they did from the
inroads of either insects, floods or
bad weather." He documented this
with a table Of high and low spot
prices, which worked out to losses
of $25 bale on 5 million bales of
cotton, or $125 million.
Needless Gloss
Actually. Mr.. -Abernethy seems to
have put an unnecessary gloss on the
facts-presumably for political home
consumption. He appears to have
been girding his loins for hard
battle later this month with John
Rankin. tough old legislator from
Mississippi. who will contest with MIR.
Abernethy for the single seat which
their two districts will get hereafter
under reapportionment.
The fact is that while cotton men
lost money last year. so did wool and
rayon dealers, neither Of which were
victims Of erroneous crop reports.
His investigation. at any rate, did
considerable good by bringing BAE's
problems to the fore, If it is now fol-
lowed by some appropriations. pref
erably at the expense Of other Agri-
culture activities. to make the needed
improvements.
This year, despite drought in the
old South, BAE expects a higher
yield per acre than last. New Mexico,
Arizona and California, where the
farmer gets his rainfall out Of q ditch
at so much an acre-foot, are ex-
pected to Offset the drought's effects.
Between August !. the CUTOFF date,
and August 8. the release date. the
cotton areas Of the old South got
some showers. The tightrope Is
swaying again. just as BAE steps out
On 4.
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What Happened to Dis placed Persons?

war" side, there seem to be two other
advantages in lending a more SYM
pathetic ear to those who seek ad-
mission. America could:
/. Take some Of the economic drain
of its Allies while augmenting its
own labor force to advantage.
2. Provide encouragement for those
among the refugees whose anti
communism it admires and en-
courages.
There may be something to the
theory that Iron Curtain countries
drained Of their anti-Communists
would become completely Sovietized
faster, with diminished chances, for
overthrowing Red tyranny. But, on
the other hand, indifference to refu-
gees who risked their lives tricking
Communist border guards and their
packs of trained dogs. who made
dashes for freedom across machine
gunned no-man's slands-indifferenc
to such persons problems might de-
stroy the very kind of underground
resistance America is hoping for.
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A few minutes before II ON
the morning of August 8, Secretary
of Agriculture Brannan walked into
a room in the South Agriculture
Building, greeted half dozen men
who had been locked up there since
z am, and signed paper one Of
them handed him.
S. r. Newell, chairman of the Crop
Reporting Board of the Bureau Of
Agricultural Economics was one Of
the locked-up group. He took the
signed sheet and several of its fell
lows into the BAE's release room. in
the same building, to tell the world
what BAE thought of this years cot
ton crop. There he laid one sheet be-
side each of scores of telephones, open
to as many newspapers and press
associations. A release officer kept
waiting reporters behind line, six
feet away, until he said, "Go!" on
the dot of II.
When the estimate - 14,735, 900
bales from 25.5 million planted acres
hit the floor of the New York Cot
ton Exchange, futures prices immed-
diately bounded up So a bale.
What is this Crop Reporting Board
that its words weigh so heavily-es-
pecially since it laid the biggest egg
in its history in estimating last years
crop. and was sharply called to ac-
count therefore by cotton-State men,
bers of Congress last winter?
Origin in 1889
The Crop Reporting Board is the
outgrowth of efforts begun as far
back as 1889 to even up the farmers
knowledge of crop and livestock sup
plies with that of those who bought
his wares. It handles about 500 crop
reports year on commodities rang
ing from cotton and wheat to broom
corn and tangerineS.
These crop reports are all gathered
in the same fashion. Farmers them
selves are questioned about their own
and their neighbors' acreage and
prospects, This work is all volun-
teer and unpaid. Schedules or ques-
tionnaires are mailed to crop report
ers. They may return them-if they
wish-to one Of the IL State Offices.
When the state deadline is
reached. district and State tabula-
tions are made, the data are re-
corded on forms. and the State
analyses are on their way to Wash
ington and the men in the locked
room.
Second -Guesses
After last years cotton forecast
flasco, number of explanations
were given for built-in deficiencies
IN the crop-reporting program. They
boiled down to the fact that BAE
has not yet adopted streamlined
methods Of statistical sampling.
To all these carpings BAE replies
that 4 hasn't thu money. oe that
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By GeroId Worinq

as a young giant among nations be-
gan a dozen years ago, when the
needs of war yanked the Canadian
economy out of the late depression
doldrums. Almost overnight, the de-
mand for Canadian base metals. tim
ber, foodstuffs and industrial output
zoomed far ahead Of supply.
BY 1945, due largely to the hercu-
lean efforts of the governments
United States-born industrial czar.
Production Minister c. d. Howe,
Canada had undergone a resources
and industrial development which at
the prewar pace would have required
a quarter century.
Boom HoIts, Restorts
At the wars end. the boom slack
ened in the face of industrial recon-
version to peacetime production, but
only briefly. BY 1949 the economy
was bounding upwards at an unpre-
cedented rate.
Now this nation of 14,430, 900
people sprawled across the top half
of the North American continent is
second only to the United States in
per capita production and standard
of living. It ranks fourth. behind
Britain, the United States and
France. in world trade. And its cur
rency Is the most valuable in the
world, selling at premium even in
terms of the American dollar.
How did it happen? Largely be-
cause after the war the world still
needed the things Canada could best
supply-metals. wheat and newsprint
and because private industry. en-
couraged by the Liberal government.
seized opportunities to produce and
sell. ,.
In the last five years $25 billions
have been spent on the development
of natural resources. Current or pro-
jected resources projects to be COM
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OTTAWA.-When Sir Alexander
Clutterbuck was leaving Canada re-
Gently after six years here as British
high commissioner. some one asked
him what he thought of Canada's
future
You amt seen nothin' yet." he
cracked.
Despite the vernacular, his answer
was sincere. Like other foreigners
who have watched Canada's recent
phenomenal growth, Sir Alexander is
as confident in Canada's future as
the most optimistic Canadian.
For Canada is booming. New oil
fields, mines and industries are
springing into being as billions of
dollars are poured into the develop
ment Of resources and manufacturing.
Foreigners call it "the Canadian
miracle"
Actually, what is happening north
of the 49th parallel is the result Of a
new nation having reached maturity.
It's just 81 years since the statute
of Westminster confirmed Canada's
political independence of Britain.
And having attained the age Of man
hood, Canada is flexing its muscles
economic, political and chronological.
Seowoy Was Clue
Just how strong those sinews are
was never more apparent than when
Prime Minister Louis st. Laurent
decided few months ago that Can
ada would build the st. Lawrence
Seaway alone. without American
financial aid.
Before the war such a step would
) have been unthinkable. But now
Canadians have confidence in them
selves they never possessed before.
They know they have the technology
cal resources to construct the seaway
and the wherewithal to finance it.
The story of Canada's emergence
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million in 1850 to 2S million in 1851.
The 10-million-bale crop Of 1850
simply didn't provide seed enough
to plant the greater area properly.
Some farmers left fields in cotton
which they would have plowed up
and planted over in normal times.
Some decided to fight it out with the
johnson grass, when they, too. would
have replanted in other years. Still
others played safe. planting so late
in an effort to be sure of settled
weather that the frost nipped them
in the fall. On December /, when
the Crop Reporting Board made its
annual back-caSt of planted acres,
it decided that the July figure must
have been q little less than 28 mill
lion acres. rather than 29.5 million.
There was o per cent error-even
before the Job of following tha crop
Evening star., 1952-08-17
By Joseph Young

themselves have acted as the only
judges of security risks. Not all agen-
cies in Government have security risk
dismissal powers. Congress gave this
authority to II Government military
and security agencies several years
ago. Since then, three or four more
bureaus have been given this author
ity by executive order of the Presi-
dent.
No one can quarrel with the reason
behind Congress action, nor in the
Presidents extending the program to
other bureaus. The world situation
Is such that we cannot afford to take
chances with our national security.
Employees in vital assignments have
to be dependable and trustworthy.
The real difficulty is in determining
just what constitutes a security risk.
It will be up to the Civil Service Com
mission to pin this down as much as
possible.
No Appeal Rights
Up to now employees in security
risk cases have had no rights to
appeal to an impartial tribunal, as
have employees involved in loyalty
cases.
In the public mind, some one fired
as security risk is just as culpable
and even traitorous as some one
fired for disloyalty. This is not true.
of course, but the misconception
prevails. The stigma of a security
risk firing is such that it would
seem to impose almost an impossible
barrier for q person to overcome in
seeking other employment, either in
Government or private industry.
It is this nfe-and-death aspect Of
the security risk program that has
caused President Truman to see if
something can't be done to correct
its inequities. Last year he created
the Interdepartmental Committee on
Internal Security to study the situa-
ton. On the basis Of this commit
tees findings, Mr.. Truman told the
Civil Service Commission last week
to go ahead and work out q pro-
gram.
Uniformity Locking
The committee found that the
security risk program lacked uni
formity and an effective concept of
what constituted a risk to national
security. It found that some agencies
had regular procedures for present.
ing employees with written charges
and the holding Of hearings. Other
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BY Spencer Keoeh

it isn't convinced changes in method
would work.
Nineteen fifty ones first estimate
was for 17.266,000 bales from 295
million acres. AS of September l,
this was raised to 1921 900 bales.
It was reduced 100000 bales between
then and October, and another
100000 bales as Of November
when ginning reports had begun to
come in. Thus the final forecast
was 18TH 900 bales, still 641. 900
above the May /, 1852, estimate of
what had been harvested.
Some time in the past law was
passed forbidding any estimate of
cotton acreage except as of July !.
1t just happened. last year, that
lot of acres counted as cotton fields
on July were doomed to produce
no cotton.
This came about because of the
increase in planted acres from 1876
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loyalty and Security
The Government Faces to the Problem of Coordnotnq
Its Dismissal Progroms While Guarding Workers RIGHTS

The Civil Service Commission has
been handed one of the toughest
jobs in it's history. It will have the
responsibility for working out uni
fed program to weed out Federal
employees who are an actual menace
to national security, and yet at the
same time protect employees who
are unjustly accused. Not even the
widely publicized loyalty program
gave the commission the headaches
that the security risk flrings promise.
President Truman got this project
underway last week when he directed
the commission to combine into one
program the three dismissal systems
now operated by individual agencies
In the Government-loyalty, civil
service suitability and security risks.
It Is the security risk program that
viii receive the commissions major
attention.
Although many people confuse
loyalty and security risk frings. the
two have little in common. True,
both programs do seek to rid the
Government of persons who might
endanger our security, but they deal
with different things.
The loyalty system actually is the
easier one to administer. And, by
and large, it gives accused employees
a better chance to defend them
selves. The loyalty program has
concentrated on wedding out Gov
ernment employees who have belonged
to the Communist Party or Com
munist- dominated organizations or
have been fellow travellers with these
groups. Red affiliations or inclina-.
tions generally are easier proved or
disproved than the more nebulouS
security risk cases. For the most
part, security risks have little or
nothing to do with communism or
Communist membership or sympa-
thies.
Problem Of Definition
Who is considered q security risk?
A person who drinks too much may
be, if he works in one of the security
or defense agencies. He might get
drunk and blurt out vital national
secrets. Or a man might run around
with a disreputable crowd. He Cor
she) might be an incorrigible gossip.
Or the employe could be so much in
debt that he would do anything to
get the money to extricate himself.
Another security risk would be ho-
mosexual, a type who would be sus-
ceptible to blackmail. Neurotics also
could be cited as security risks in
certain circumstances.
In the past. individual agencies
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bureaus had no procedures. And
even In some cases where written
charges were given, they were so
vague as to be almost impossible
for the employe to answer.
The committee proposed that full
procedures be worked out by the
Civil Service Commission whereby all
employees thus accused would be given
the right to a full agency hearing,
written charges, the right of counsel
and the right to obtain a transcript
OF the hearings for purposes of ap-
peal to the head of an agency. The
committee also recommended that
security risk firings be limited only to
those jobs where an employees duties
are of direct concern to national Sc
curity.
Also. the committee proposed that
employees have the right to appeal
their diSmisSals to the Civil Service
Commission after all other appeals
to their agency have failed. The COM
mittee did not advocate that agencies
be required to take back employees
If the commission we're to clear them.
The agency involved knows it's own
security problems best, the commit
tee concluded. On the other hand
it was urged that whenever an en-
ploye is cleared by the commission,
the case be referred to the head of
the agency for appropriate action.
Even though rehiring would not be
mandatory, the committee feels that
the right of impartial appeal would
have a salutary effect. In the first
place, it would clear an employees
name and reputation and make him
eligible for employment in non
sensitive Federal jobs. Secondly. it
would curb the tendencies of some
agency officials to make arbitrary
and capricious security risk charges
against employees.
No Total on Firings
There are no specific figures avail
able regarding the number of securi-
ty firings, but they have been in the
hundreds. And it's anybody's guess
how many employees were forced to
resign with the threat of such fir
ings hanging over their heads. This
was another fault the interdepart-
mental committee found with the
agencies. In many cases it found
that employees were "coerced" into
resigning. after being told that it
would be best to do so in order to
avoid the unpleasantness Of a Sc
curity risk charge.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1952-04-24

Shestina. She is also a graduate
of Capital University, where she
was member of Kappa Alpha
Pi and Kappa Sigma Theta. She
formerly taught at Concordia
high school but is now teacher
at Charles F. Brush high school
at South Euclid. Her future hus-
band is employed with Forbes
Finishes, Inc, Cleveland.
Ruth will become the bride of
Merlin Secrest, of Pleasant City.
She is a graduate of the White
Cross Hospital School of Nursing,
Columbus and is presently en-
ployed as a registered nurse at
ST. Francis hospital, Cambridge.
Mr.. Secrest attended Ohio Uni
versity and operates the Secrest
garage in Pleasant City.
The triple nupital ceremony
will be solemnized in Holy
Trinity Lutheran church, Pleas
ant City, by the father of the
brides-elect. He will be assisted
by Rev. Otto Stolzenburg, of Co.
] lumbus.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1952-04-24
Olga, Irene And Ruth Hvizdak
To Wed In Triple Ceremony

The approaching marriage of
Misses Olga, Irene and Ruth
Hvizdak, daughters of Rev and
Mrs. Andrew Hvizdak, of Pleas
ant City, has been announced.
June Is is the day set for the
wedding
Olga, a graduate of Capital
University, Columbus, will eX-
change vows with William Abel.
She received her masters degree
from Ohio State university and
she formerly taught at Con-
cordia high school and Concordia
College, Ft. Wayne, Ind. and
directed the Lutheran Nurses
Hospital Chorus, in that city. She
is now a faculty member at
Pleasant City high school. She is
member of Phi Beta. Mr.. Abel
attended st. Louis university and
was graduated from Ohio State
university. He is affiliated with
Tau Beta Pi and is employed
with the General Electric Co., of
Erie, Pa.
Irene will be married to Jerry
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1952-04-24
Mary Martha Circle
Meets Monday Evening

The Mary Martha Circle of the
First Presbyterian church met at
the church parlor on Monday
evening.
After the business meeting,
conducted by Mrs. Woodrow
Carr, Thelma Rice gave the de-
votionals entitled Gods Watch
full Care" Mrs. Harold Hume read
the history of the hymn, Il Need
Thee Every Hour" after which
the group sang it. Thelma Rice
told of the Navajo Indians.
A lunch was served by candle
light during the social hour in
the dining room. The color
scheme carried out was yellow
and white. Mrs. Harold Hatcher
and Mrs. Woodrow Carr were
the hostesses.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1952-04-24
HOSteSSeS At Luncheon
For Thimble Circle

Mrs. Anna Cleary and Mrs.
Mollie Young entertained men,
bers of the Thimble Circle last
Thursday at one o'clock lunch
con. Decorations were tulips,
snapdragons and Easter lilies in
attractive arrangement.
Mrs. Eva Croy, vice president,
presided in the absence of the
president, Mrs. H. B. Young. A
remembrance card was sent to
Mrs. Margaret BoWron, men,
Der of the Circle, who is a patti
ent in Good Samaritan hospital.
Participating in the after
luncheon program were Mrs.
Willis Hupp. who read easter"
and Dear Neighbor." Mrs. Mary
J. Merry presented an article on
"The Mystery of the Church
Pew" and Mrs. Croy gave a
dramatic episode of "The ROM
an Guardsman and the Resurrec-
ton"
Members present were Mrs.
Edna Wehr, Mrs. Billa Patter-
son, Mrs. Iva Maring, Mrs. NJ. ].
Merry, Mrs. Lorene Moseley,
Mrs. Willis Hupp, Mrs. Elizabeth
Dilley, Mrs. Mary Upton, Mrs.
Ray McVay, Mrs. Eva Croy and
the hostesses, Mrs. Cleary and
Mrs. Croy.
Mrs. Leila Keyser was a guest.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1952-04-24
Mrs. Startzman Entertains
Thursday Bridge Club

Mrs. II. j. StartZman entertain
ed members and guests of the
Thursday Bridge Club last
Thursday evening at her home
on Main street.
A dinner was served by the
hostess at $50 after which three
tables were played with Mrs.
Donald Harkins winning the
guest prize and Mrs. Norval
Robey, the club prize.
Guests were Mrs. Donald Har
kins, Mrs. Arthur Boyer and
Mrs. Mabel Thomas while men,
bers present were Mrs. Pearl
Blake, Miss Lena Alter, Mrs.
Henry Brumbach, Mrs. Walter
Douglass, Mrs. Willis Hupp, Mrs.
Forest Racey, Bernice Mills,
Mrs. Norval Robey and Mrs.
Pearl Ralston.