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Evening star., 1954-10-13

She asked about the children,
but we didn't tell her." Mrs.
Walters said. "She asked several
times about food she had left
on the stove when she stepped
out of the house to the back yard.
She asked If the stove had been
turned OF. We told her that it
had"
The vaughns were struck
about 1925 am, apparently
as they stood between a
small pickup truck, which
shielded them from the shower
Of debris. and q 6-by-12 foot
wood pig pen. The truck, the
pigs and Q carton containing o
dozen loaves Of stale bread--ap-
parently food for the pigs-wers
The people's voice., 1954-10-08

poration which for over 20 years hat
been helping small businesses will
loans they couldn't get from loca
banks. Another action was to end the
Small Defense Plants Corporation
which had helped small business fight
for defense contracts and had fur
nished small business defense loans,
the Fact Book says.
In their place the Republicans sub
stituted a tight-fisted agency, the
Small Business Administration, which,
during the first four months of its
life, failed to approve a single small
business loan. Typical of the admin
istrations attitude toward small busi-
ness is a remark attributed to the
COPS first small business chief, Will
liam Mitchell:
Lets face it. Big business is going
to get bigger and small business is
going to get smaller and there is
nothing we can do about it. Why get
excited?"
Small business men who have been
watching the rising rate of business
failures know why the COP should
get excited They know too that in a
business decline, it's the small busi-
nesses that suffer first and most
That's why many small business men
are saying about this so-called bust
ness administration:
"The trouble with this administra-
tion is that it doesn't understand
business"
The people's voice., 1954-10-08

How things before this country reaconary propa-
gandsts turned the rnous road toward New Deal and
Fair Deal Socialism It's to forget conditions only few
but powerful reminder recently from the
Associated Press.
Discussing the history of Uncle Sans big lending
the Reconstruction Finance Corporation which went out of
existence recently AP article recalled how things were
when the RFC launched under the Hoover
and the New Deal had begun In part the article said
Give thousand banks had failed, 1000 others in
trouble third of the nations railway mileage was in financial
DISTRESS heavy industrial production had shrnk to nearly
nothing consumption about low it could
if the nation keep body and soul togeher
II bushe wheat at 40 and cotton low
5 cents.
Those the good old days before Socialism lam
MONTHLY JOURNAL.
The people's voice., 1954-10-08
Acc to Build Several Atomic
Power Plants Each Year

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-
Atomic Energy Commission will build
several big atomic power plants a
year. Where they'll be built depends
on what utilities are willing to invest
in the projects.
That's the story power coop lead
ers got from Acc officials here, Sep
tember 27. They asked Gen. K. D.
Nichols, Acc general manager, and
two of his assistants to build atomic
power plants where co-ops can use
them. They also asked Nichols to set
up civilian power authority to work
with public bodies and rural electric
cO-ops.
The proposed plants, Acc officials
said, would be 100, -kilowatts or
larger.
The coop group, representing Ma
tional Rural Electric Cooperative
Association, sought security clearance
and asked to meet with the full COM
soon.
The people's voice., 1954-10-08
FARM PRICES BACK
TO LOW OF i94i

Farm prices, based on parity,
were back at their lowest level
since March, -1941, for the month
ending Sept. ID, the Agriculture
Department reports, skidding 2 per
cent during the month.
The new drop puts prices re-
ceived by farmers for crops and
livestock q per cent below a year
ago and placed the parity ratio
at 88 per cent.
Parity hit 88 per cent in June,
1854, the lowest point since March,
1851, and then rose slightly. The
latest decline to the 8S per cent
level was led by sharp decline in
hog prices.
Parity is formula used to meas
ure farm prices and costs to give
the farmer the same purchasing
power he had in a given base pc
riod. When parity hits 100 per cent
the farmer has this same purchas-
power. At 88 per cent he is below
the standard by IL per cent.
The people's voice., 1954-10-08
Social Security
Time Limit
Explained

The amount of a persons social
security benefits is based on his aver.
age monthly earnings over a certain
period of time. Under the new Social
Security law if you had low earnings,
or no earnings at all in some years,
up to 4 years Cor 5 years under GER
tain conditions) can be dropped in
figuring your average monthly earn
ings. Anyone who has at least
quarters of work under social security
anytime after June 1858 may take
advantage of the drop-out. Six quart
ers of work after June 1853 cannot be
acquired until sometime in October
1854. Any person reaching 65 or
dying after August 1854 without
having reached age 65) also is elig-
ible for the drop-out. The drop-out
will avoid a reduction in benefits
which might be caused by low or nom
earning years.
Your social security office will be
glad to furnish you pamphlets ex-
planning the new Social Security law.
Write: Social Security Administra-
ton, Misseula, Montana.
A representative of the Social Sc
curity administration will be in Eure-
1a on Thursday, October 7, 1854, and
IAN be reached at the Library, hours
100 to II 100 Noon and 100 to 300
}. m.
The people's voice., 1954-10-08
STABLE ECONOMY Can Mean 5 TO 7
MILLION J0BLESS next Year

EVANSTON, Ill.---(CNS)-Com-
placency about '1evelled-off econ
omy" will mean five to seven million
unemployed next year, Leon Keyser-
ling told coop insurance executives
here September 20.
The average workers per hour out
put has been rising so swiftly since
World War II, Keyserling said, that
'if we want full employment and full
production, we must dispose of a
national product far beyond our form
er imagination"
Keyserling, former President Tru-
mans top economic adviser, said con-
sumption is the central economic fac
tor. Whether the U. S. economy takes
''the high road or the low road" de-
pends on keeping living standards ris-
inc in proportion to increased out
put, he said.
SurpIuses aren't just on the
farr,, Kevserling said. with steel
production down 359s, the value of
The people's voice., 1954-10-08
power increased.

l'O w Ol A1INI CdOS0s
Jack E. Smith, president of the
National Rural Electric Cooperative
Association, a service organization
representing II million farm people,
referred to the Presidents letter to
REA Administrator Ancher Nielsen.
which, he declared, was based on mis-
information. This information, the
association president added, was be-
ing used ''as misleading campaign
documents"
BLAMES COP
Smiths letter stated: "The real
truth is that, with or without your
knowledge, some of your subordinates
in the Department of Interior and
other federal agencies have acted
again and again in opposition to the
best interests of the rural electric pro-
gram. 1t is against some. of your sub
ordinates that you should take steps,
not against the farmers and their
leaders who are uneasy about the
future in light of the past.
"We must have power to distribute
at prices rural people can pay" he
continued. And it is in the area of
power supply that your subordinates
have struck at US illegally and un-
fairly" He noted that the Presidents
letter to Nielsen avoided mentioning
the administrations power policy
The people's voice., 1954-10-08
unused steel plants is far greater
real loss than farm surpluses."

unused steel plants is a far greater
real loss than farm surpluses."
"Surpluses can only be solved by
increasing consumption, never by re-
ducing production. If we attacked the
general surplus problem as we're at
tacking farm surpluses, we'd have
100000 unemployed"
Workers per hour productivity in
creased 5.63Ro a year in 1950-53-
more than two-and-a-third times the
1929-39 rate, Keyserling said. eff
the half of our people who make less
than $4,000 a year were boosted to
that level, we'd still absorb only half
the needed increase in consumption.
"But if it were done," he told the
insurance men, "we'd spend SIT bill
lion more life insurance year"
Keyserling spoke at the Co-operative
Leagues annual 2-day coop insur-
ance conference here to 25 top exec
utives of 10 firms.
The people's voice., 1954-10-08
HERE'S memo
TO ike ET AL
BY Labor's Daily News Service

SCHENECTADY, N. Y.-A total
of 113 workers will lose their jobs to-
day. Some 1T more workers will lose
their means of livelihood next week
end.
That was the news the American
Locomotive Co. gave out in announc-
ing it will cut its production force 20
per cent by the end of next week,
dropping its shop force down to 1872
workers.
President Anthony Barbieri of the
CIO Steelworkers Local 2054 pre-
dicted the plant would be virtually
closed down by Jan. L.
D. w. Cameron, ALCO vice presi-
dent of manufacturing, denied this,
saying the plant must maintain parts
replacement service for ALCO die
sells.
He admitted, however, "it may be
necessary to close down individual
shops here at times.
The people's voice., 1954-10-08

which provides less federally-pro-
duced power at higher costs for the
rural electric systems.
The Presidents contention that
REA's backlog of loan applications
was now reduced to the lowest point
since 1947" was another example of
the President having been "misin
formed" Smith charged.
He said that REA has two backlogs
on loan applications-one in Wash
ington, d. C. and one in the field. The
Washington backlog has been reduced
since the Inauguration, Smith pointed
out, but the "total backlog in Wash
ington and the field is higher than
it has been since 1851"
The people's voice., 1954-10-08

Replacing RFC, as well as the Small
Defense Plants Administration, Gre
ated by the Democrats to help small
business get its share of defense con-
tracts, was new agency, the Small
Business Administration. Between
July 81, 1858, when it came into
existence, and Nov. 13, not a single
small business loan was approved
And even when a trickle of loan ap-
plications was approved small busi-
ness men found it took weeks or
months for the credit actually to come
through. AS of April, 1854, SBA had
received applications for loans total
ing nearly S97 million, had approved
only S13 million and had disbursed
only $1,169,000 in loans to small
businesses the Fact Book points out.
In addition, SBA had raised the
former RFC interest of per cent
to a standard 6 per cent, with some
SBA loans costing and 8 per cent.
BIG BUSINESS CONTRACTS
Under the Democrats, the Defense
Department published semi-annual
report showing what share of de-
fense contracts went to Big Business,
how much to Small Business. The
COP Administration stopped issuing
this report after it had been in of
flee only six months. The reason was
plain in the only report they did
issue, which showed:
1.-The largest 100 corporations
were getting 81 per cent of all de-
fense contracts-a record high
2-The total of General Motors
defense contracts had risen by over
$1.8 billion in six months, and its
share Of the total defense contracts
had undergone 10 per cent rise.
This is not surprising, in view of
the administration policy of "nar-
rowing the production base"-that is,
pulling contracts away from small
businesses and concentrating them
in big businesses. All medium tank
contracts. for example, now go to
General Motors, the Fact Book says
Under the Democrats, the govern
The people's voice., 1954-10-08

ment made what were called prog
ress payments to small businesses
on relatively large defense items
where delivery of the items would
take place over long period of time.
That is, the government would
make partial payments as the items
were delivered rather than waiting
to pay lump sum when the con-
tract was completed. These prog
ress payments" were of great as
sistance to small businesses who do
not have easy access to capital to
finance defense contracts.
But in many instances the Defense
Department has stopped these prog
ress payments" thus forcing busi-
nesses to go to the expense of getting
temporary financing in order to carry
out defense contracts. This often
eats away the profit margin, the Fact
Book points out.
Typical of the administration view
toward small business is its domestic
aviation policy, which calls for grad
ually doing away with the small
feeder" airlines that serve smaller
cities, and either turning the ''feeder"
business over to the major airlines,
or discontinuing it, leaving small
cities without air service. Congress
sional opposition to this policy, led by
NJ, Ia J,1,.,, .-+,.o =
plan.
Another dark cloud on the small
business horizon is the visible growth |
of business concentration and monop-
oily. The clearest example is in the
auto industry, where the share of
the market held by five of the smaller
had dwindled from Ia
per cent in April 1858 to only per
,ent a year later.
Despite this growth of monopoly
lere are some things the COP Ad-
has done to weaken anti
safeguards:
1t appointed as chairman Of the
federal Trade Commission Mr.. Ed
yard Howrey, who formerly repre-
ented big business in cases before
he commission. He is a known foe
f many of the FTC's laws and ac-
ivities, especially those seeking to
revent price discrimination against
mall business.
2-The FTC has dismissed two key I
ases brought by the Democrats to j
revent price discrimination against {
mall business. /
3-The ETC has fired key anti
lonopoly employees who were vital
} the pursuit of certain antimonop- ,
ly cases, often replacing them with
len more friendly to industry.
4-Antitrust laws are undergoing {
complete study by group studded t
18th known opponents of those laws,
lcluding former registered lobbyists {
no sought to weaken antitrust leg g
lation. i
The people's voice., 1954-10-08
First Class Citizens

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Assistant
Secretary of Labor Ernest Wilkins
said "people who really think they
are first-class citizens usually act as
though they were first-class citizens"
He spoke at gathering before the
Lincoln Memorial, at ceremonies
marking the 92nd anniversary of the
Emancipation Proclamation by Abra-
ham Lincoln.
The people's voice., 1954-10-08
Power Coop Advisor to Give
Technical Help In Thailand

CORVALLIS, Ore.-Elmon E. Yo-
der, agricultural engineer for Ben
ton-Lincoln Electric Coop here, has
been named to a 5-man team from
Oregon State College to undertake
U. S. technical assistance program
in Thailand.
The people's voice., 1954-10-08
Republicans MethodieaIy Running
SmaN Business Chances To Survive
BY Labor's Daily News Service

Almost the Republican Administration took office
apparent that big business the drivers
the small businessman in for beating the 1854 Demo-
cratic Fact Book reveals
One of the first actions of the Republican Administration
Congress abolish Reconstruction Finance
The people's voice., 1954-10-08
INTERIOR OFFICIALS RESPONSIBLE FOR farmers
ALARM OVER THEIR POWER SUPPLY

WASHINGTON d. C.-Presiden Eisenhower was informed
Saturday that his Interior Department and subordnates in
other federal agencies and not farm leaders, who
be for the fearful alarm spreading American farmers
that their supply going be limited and the cost of
The people's voice., 1954-10-08
SMALL BUSINESS PLIGHT

During the first year of the COP
Administration, the rate of business
failures rose 70 per cent. Most of
these failures were among small bust
nesses, as The following figures on
business failures show:
The people's voice., 1954-10-08

DEMAND THE UNION LABEL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
DeodIine Casts Hypnotic Spell
Oyer Diplomats at c Conference
Decision Affecting Millions Due in u Hours;
Indo- Chino Compromise Is Only Hope

to win peace goes on. Through
out the day, diplomats hurried
from one meeting to another.
trying to break a deadlock which
no one really expects to be
broken until the last minute.
Amid all this activity one
theme has emerged clearly in
the course of the day: If the
date can be fixed for elections in
Wet Nam, the Indo- Chinese war
will be as good as over. This is
the key to the diplomatic logjam
that has developed in Geneva
and the problem around which
the hopes and fears of all parties
revolve,
The reason is simple, for
both sides it means the differ
ence between diplomatic victory
and defeat at Geneva because
whether or not all of Wet Nam
is lost to the Communists de-
ponds entirely on whether cleo
tions are held and when.
For a long time the allies
have been able to see it coming.
In any truce proposal that
might be made a temporary
(See MOVES, Page A-5)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18

start at 8 am. and continue un-
til 4:30 pm. Because of the
heavy registration in radio fly
ing. this competition will start
at Z am.
The contest director is Will
liam Pennoyer and the assistant
director, William d. Skolochenko.
Ample facilities for refresh
mentS, parking and other COM
forts for the crowd have been
provided. There is no admission
charge.
The field may be reached over
South Capitol Street bridge,
Souza bridge and Branch avenue
and from Route Sol by way of
Upper Marlboro.
Those without automobiles
can reach the field by W.M.&A.
buses leaving Eleventh street
and Pennsylvania avenue NV.
every hour at quarter after the
hour. The buses are marked
Hillcrest Heights, District
Heights and Suitland. Shuttle
buses will take the passengers to
the model flying field.
The show is sponsored by the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
By Crosby S. Moves
Foreign Correspondent of The SfdF

GENEVA, July 1.-THE clock
that mechanism for which this
city is so widely known-is exert
ing an almost hypnotic influence
over diplomats, reporters and as
sorted hangers-on assembled
here.
Just u hours from now, on
midnight Tuesday, the final bell
rings on this peace conference.
Chips will have been gathered in.
Decisions that may affect the
lives and liberty of millions of
people will have been made.
Once more, the deadline itself
and stakes involved have been
proclaimed publicly by Premier
Mendes-France. Speaking to-
night to the French people, the
Premier reaffirmed his decision
to leave Geneva on Wednesday
if a truce agreement has not
been signed. His final act before
resigning would be to call on the
French for new strength and de-
termination to carry on the des-
perate struggle in Indo- China.
And yet, even while he pre-
pares for failure, a frantic effort
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18

National Capital Model Air
Show, Inc, composed of repre-
Sentatives of The Evening Star.
the Veterans of Foreign Wars
and the Exchange Club of
Washington in cooperation with
the Chevrolet dealers of Metro
politan Washington.
There will be a display set up
by Andrews Air Force Base in
Guiding the Enola Gay. the
bomber which dropped the first
atom bomb on Hiroshima in
World War IL. The B-29 soon
will be taken to the Smithsonian
Institute for permanent display
Other exhibits include the
SwooSe. a BIT. and the Mix
Master, an experimental plane
first powered by a conventional
engine and later converted to
jet. .
The Smithsonian viii place in
the exhibit a Goblin engine, one
of the first ever used in an air.
plane, the second propeller ever
built and one of the engines used
in the early experiments Of the
Wright brothers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
Wont Try 10 Unseat
Morse, Mckay Says
By The Associated Press

SEATTLE, July 17.-Secretary
of the Interior Mckay said fatty
today he will not try to unseat
Senator Morse when the Oregon
Independents term expires in
1856.
Mr. Mckay, en- route to Alas
ka, made the statement during
an interview when questioned
about reports he might run
against Senator Morse, with
whom he has been at logger
heads for a long time.
The Secretary was Oregon
Governor when he was appointed
to his cabinet post by President
Eisenhower. Senator Morse left
the Republican Party during the
presidential campaign of 1862
and has been sharply critical of
the administration, and Mr.. Nc
Kay, ever since.
II just want to finish out my
term in the Interior Department
and go back home to Salem, I"
Mr. Mckay said.
He added that he did not know
what his reaction would be if the
White House should ask him to
run against Senator Morse.
That's a. question ] won't at
tempt to answer until-and if
such situation arises he said.
Frankly. doubt very much
that such a request ever will be
made"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
Bx John A. Giles

The Pentagon and the Civil
Defense Administration last
night announced a plan designed
to confound enemy bombers-
by dimming city lights but not
backing them out as in World
War II days.
1t is called "Sky Glow" by
Civil Defense and "Conillum" by
the Defense Department. The
latter is contraction of the
words controlled Illumination"
The announcement recognized
that bombers today are guided
unerringly to their targets by
complicated radar devices but
maintained the plan would deny
them an important navigational
check.
Seek IS Pet. Cut in Glow.
THE overall purpose OF the
new program is to effect rs per
cent reduction in sky glow :.
over certain sections of the
country which will be known as
lighting control areas the an
nouncement said. Generally,
these correspond to the principal
urban areas.
Another purpose Of the plan
is the reduction of shore lighting
exposed to the sea by IS per cent
to limit the possibility of
silhouetting vessels against shore
lights"
Outdoor advertising lights and
exterior f1oodlights would be re-
stricted. Street lights would be
shielded to reduce upward light.
Motor vehicles would be permit
ted to use parking lights only on
well lighted roadways and lower
headlight beams on unlighted
or poorly lighted highways.
In residential buildings or
binary window coverings
shades, venetian blinds or Grapes
would be lowered far enough
to prevent emission of direct
light above the horizontal. In
non-residential buildings window
coverings would be drawn.
Military Necessity.
Secretary of Defense Wilson
said the plan was a military
necessity and termed its success
dependent upon the effective
cooperation of the public, in
dustry and Government,
"At the request of the De-
partment of Defense. the Federal
Civil Defense Administration
will undertake to implement sky
glow control with the co-opera-
ton of State and local civil de-
tense organizations" said Adj
'ministrator Val Peterson.
The areas to be controlled will
be designated by the Defense
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
New Insanity Concept
Moy Menace Public

WILL A KILLER GO FREE9-Ths
Court Of Appeals hos been making
new low on the insanity plea. Now
convicted murderer hos been
qFonted O new triol with the new
tests Of insonity in effect. The StoE
onoIyzes the possible results Of the
Court Of AppeoIs oetions in an edi-
torioi on Poee AIS.
PRlMA DoNNA--The coIorfuI ca
reer Of 6eroldine Fonsr is recalled
by Day Thorpe, The Stor's music
critic. as the Libroy Of Congress &C.
quires collection Of her memoro-
bilio. See Poee E-6.
CHANGE OF HEART - Korean
President Synsmon Rhee will be
greeted with much fonfore next week
by the same Washington fhot once
turned o deaf cor to his pleos for
help IN securing Koreon independence.
The contrast between the reception
plonned FOR Dr.. Rhee and his earlier
experiences here is pointed up in a
story on Puse A-S.
Complete Index, Poee Az
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