Milford chronicle., 1957-03-01
GEORGETOWN


Robert Jack, Wilmington, execu.
tive director of the State Cancer
Society, was speaker at the meet
ing of the Georgetown -Millsborc
Rotary Club in Masonic Temple
last week.
Mr.. Jack showed film on what
is being done to find cure for
cancer. He was introduced by James
K. Goslee, Jr., program chairman
for the evening.
The courthouse has two new
employees
Miss Shirley Gray, graduate OF
Goldey-Beacom and daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Joshua Gray, Selby-
Vile, is the new secretary at the
office of Deputy Attorney General
Ralph S. Baker. Mrs. Helen Will
nins, who bad served in that ca
Iacity Cor i've and half years,
is secfettry for McNeilly and En-
mis-.
Mrs. Beatrice Wyatt, former dep.
uty in the comptroller's Office is
now secretary in the Office of the
Court of Common Pleas. She re
places Mrs. Harold Rogers, the for
mer Miss Carolyn Foskey, who will
become house wife.
James II. Baxter. Jry George
town, president of the Delaware
State Farm Bureau, and William L
David, vice president, have re
turned from Washington, ID. c.
where they attended the meeting
OF all the presidents of farm bu-
reaus in commercial corn producing
states.
They reviewed the bills intro
duced into the House and Senate
which have been labeled com
promise" bills IN that they woul6
provide a solution for the corr
situation on one-year basis sc
that farmers will know what the
program will be when they are
planning their 1857 operations and
not after crops have already beer
planted
Mr.. Baxter and Mr.. David dis
cussed these bills with Congress
man Harry G. Haskell and u. S
Senator John j. Williams. u. S
Senator j. Allen Frear was out of
town at the time of the meeting.
Charles B. Shuman, president OF
the American Farm Bureau Fed
GRAFTON, explained that "these bills
provide only temporary solu-
ton to the problem. We shall have
further proposals for long-term
solution which Congress can con-
slider after this years program is
determined"
The bills being supported on the
compromise" basis by the Farm
Bureau are those introduced by
Representatives James G. Polk Cd
Ohio; and Robert d. Harrison (R).
Nebraska; Senators Bourke B.
HickenIooper (R), Iowa; Spessard
L. Holland Cd, Florida; Roman
Hruska (R), Nebraska; and Thomas
Martin (R), Iowa
Mr.. Baxter summarized the bills
briefly, stating, "All they do is to
permit corn farmers in the COM
mercial area to plant either ID
within the farm base acreage an
nounced before the December ref
erendum or (2) within the farm
acreage allotment.
Farmers choosing TO plant with.
in their farm base acreages would
be eligible for price support at q
national average of $1.31 per bu-
shell If they put an acreage equal
to Is per cent of the farm base
acreage into the soil bank.
Farmers choosing to plant with
i'm their farm acreage allotments
would be eligible for price support
at a national average of S1.36 per
bushel and they would not be re-
quired to put any acveage into the
soil bank.
"If this legislation Is adopted,
corn farmers would knows soon
as the law is passed-what they
may do in 1857, since before last
Decembers referendum, u S ID A
gave written notice of the acreage
allotted to their farms under both
the 81 million acre national farm
corn base and the 37.3 million acre
national corn allotment"
Mr.. Shuman remarked at the
meeting, eff Congress fails to pass
3 satisfactory corn bill soon. there
will be a great disappointment a.
mong farmers"
He pointed out that the prefer
ences of corn farmers for relief
from restrictive acreage allotments
and for an opportunity to partici-
pate IN the soil bank PROGRAM were
manifest in the corn belt referen-
DUN last December.