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hClAAOA AoA AAOPAAJ 90 bNoO ~ pAAS
Trophy as the best such speci- |
men from growers Of up to l25
plants.
Visitors may see the colorful
display of some 1000 flowers |
of many sizes and varieties !
from 9 am. to 7 pm. today, !
when awards will be presented |
by Clyde M. Stewart, society |
president.
Australian Variety Wins
The show was opened yester-
day by Australia's Ambassador.
Howard Beale, who was accom-
panied by Mrs. Beale, wearing
a dahlia corsage.
Congratulating the growers
and the show sponsors, the Am
bassador expressed the view
that "if we humans could get a |
little closer to nature. we would
develop a little better philos-
ophy than modern conditions
encourage US to have"
People who grow things, he
said, have a sense Of COM
munion" and are "a little bit
better human beings because
they do So"
Mr.. Ailstock's winning dahlia,
as a matter Of fact, is a Burn
brae's Memories" an Australian
variety.
The prideful winner. parts
manager of an automobile firm
and the father of six children.
also walked of with two other
major prizes in a sort of Jack
pot" year among the five he
has been showing dahliaS.
you get lucky once in a
while" he grinned. He took the
first prize for pompon with a
"Burwood" variety. and the top
award for a miniature with a
"Chasamay" variety.
A dahlia grower for about 10
years, Mr.. Ailstock finds his
hours with the plants at his
home a highly relaxing leisure
time activity. he said. He also
is assistant chairman Of the
show.
Other major winners included
]. A. EddinS of Richmond, Va,
whose Southern Beauty" was
Judged the best florist size
bloom in the show, and whose
art Linkletter" variety was de-
signated the largest. He won
the open-to-all section prize
for a specimen bloom with a
Bill Elkin" variety.
1 E R Phillips of 807 Phila-
delphia avenue. Silver Spring,
entered the best medium flow
ering dahlia, a "Windlassie"
variety, and Mark w. Alger Of
Falls Church. the best other
small Towering dahlia, a
Woody Woodpecker,"
i Section Prizes Awarded
1 Section prize award winners
included Frank Rynex of
Washington Grove, Md, for a
large Towering dahlia from
growers of up to so plants.
with an Earl Woods" variety,
and Orman E. Schneeman. 3244
South Sixth street, Arlington.
show chairman. for the best
three blooms. open-to-all sec
ton, with a Vermont Gillian. 4"
Ganiston Gardens, River Vale.
N. Y, won the open-to-all Sec
ton for three-bloom medium
Towering dahlias with a
"Juanita" variety, and John
Sherwood of Pikesville. Nd,
the medium Towering section
for growers of up to 125 plants,
, with a "WindlasSie."
!, Mr.. Phillips won the open-to-
all section prize for specimen
blooms with his "Windlassie"
variety. and F. L. Switzerland,
1904 South Eleventh road, Ar
lington. the section prize for
medium Towering dahlias from
growers of up to so plants.
other winners include the following:
Novices best large flower Five Star
General by NJ H Williams; best
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-22

THE SUNDAY STAR MAGAZINE WASHINGTON.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-04
THE PASSING SHOW
2aE'B lack Orchid Is Best
(Of Three) for Venice
by HARRY MACARTHUR
star stan Writer

you have been thinking that ess-than-represehta
tive movies called 10 represent at Aim festivals
abroad stop worrying You stop worrying not be-
cause changes for the better going 10 be made but
because worrying Just won't do any good.
There 10 selecting festival films than merely decid
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-04
WHERE
AND WHEN
Current Theater Attractions
and Time Of showing

Stage
Carter Barron AmphitheateF
THE Most Happy Fella";;
$50 pm.
National - He Was Not
There; $50 pm.
Olney - Dark. Under MIX
Wood" starts tomorrow.
Screen
Ambassador mo Time for
sergeants"; i:i5. Sis. Sis.
7:20 and 9:25' pm.
Apex - might Ambush: /.
$40. $40, 7:35 and $50 pm.
Capitol = THE Fly: 1850
am, 1850. $3.50. $3.50. 1850 and
$50 pm.
CoIumbia-"Gigi'';; $50 pm.
Dupont - Ia Parisienne"::
1880 am. i:l0, 3, 4:45. SOS.
500 and 1910 pm.
Keith's - THE vikings;
ii:l5 am, l:20, 3:25, SOS,
TAO and $50 pm.
MacArthur-"Blue Murder at
st. Trinian's"; $40, sos and
9:55 pm.
MetropOlitan-"No Time for
Sergeants"; 1850 am, 1880.
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Woman: 1850 an. i:io, $40.
$40. tbs and $40 pm.
TrAns-Lux--The Bridge on
the River Kwai"; 10 am. I2:4o,
$3.50. $40 and $40 pm.
Uptown - South Pacific;
$50 pm.
warner-"search for Para
disc; $50 pm.
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$50. s:ss. T:sS and s:to pm.
0nlario--"The Key: 1. $40
$40. 7:sS and s:t5 pm.
Palaee-"Kings Go Forth;
ii:i5 am. lao. 3;25. $50,
1850 and $50 pm.
Playhouse-"LA Parlsienne",
IL an 1910. 1850. AIS, sos
1850 and $40 pm.
Plaza - And God Created
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-04

Ing winch pictures VIII make
Hollywood look Us best. The
SHORTCOMINGS Of the system are
IN plain view again as the
opening date OF the Venice
Film Festival august 25-Sep-
TENDER ~ nears.
Our "ofiicial" entry az Venice
will be Paramount's BLACK Or
child" selected. as Is customary,
by the Motion Picture Export
Association from nominations
BY members. "A Certain Smile"
may be submitted by goth Gen.
tury-Fox. not an MPEA mem
Der. And Gods Little Acre"
may be invited 10 participate.
The merits Of BLACK Or
child" as a representative of the
best moviemaking in the United
States are known but TO the
few who have seen II. The
method Of its selection. how
ever, gives 1t a shaky claim in
deed 10 the label representa-
tive"
It isn't that the MPEA goes
out OF its way TO find insult
able pictures for festival show
ing abroad. It's Just that the
MPEA has to do the best il
can and sometimes the best
is none too good. The victory
Of BLACK Orchid" over all the
other films nominated by pro-
ducers is a somewhat hollow
one since all the other films
nominated numbered only two.
1t is not modesty that COM
pels Hollywood movie-makers
TO submit a mere three motion
pictures as possibilities for Ven-
ice. The rules of the game are
responsible.
The major movie fetes rule
out films already released in
Europe. including at other
festivals. With production cut
back to fewer pictures, no dis
tributor can afford to let one
sit around on the shelf. When
a movie is ready and playing
time is available in European
theaters. of it goes to Europe
II this means it is not eligi-
BILE for subsequent competition
at Venice or Berlin or Cannes.
well, that's just too bad for
Venice or Berlin or Cannes.
Business is business and money
In the till now is better than a
possible PLAGUE on the wall
later.
THE SETTLING SCENE -
There is unrest all over the
place. In England, Hecht-
Hill-Lancaster took the direc-
toral reins of THE Devils
Disciple" away from Alexander
Mackendrick and turned them
over to Guy Hamilton. Official
reason: Difference of opinion.
Mackendrick is the man large
ly responsible for the success
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-04

Liz May Wed Loew
By SHEILAH GRAHAM

HOLLYWOOD CNANA) -
The story is gaining momentum
that Elizabeth Taylor will
marry Arthur LOew, jr., before
the end of this year. Loew, a
film producer, is the grandson
of one of the founders of MGM
and very wealthy. And he has
never married.
Ingrid Bergman left fiance
Lars Schmidt on their island
of Sweden when she returned
to London to finish clubbing
her Inn Of the Sixth Happi-
ness" She's still hoping to be
able to marry the Swedish pro-
ducer before the end of sum-
mer.
Rock Hudson could have
lived with 30 wine growers in
the Napa Valley during film
ing of THE Earth Is Mine"
But Rock. who doesn't care
that much for wine, will live
in a motel with the other men,
bers of the cast. Ava Gard
ner will journey to Australia
for her ION the Beach" CO.
starrer with Gregory Peck.
Stanley Kramer is filming the
Nevil Shute best seller.
y
Margaret Leighton co-stars
with Yul Brynner for Jerry
Wald in his Sound and the
Fury" at 20th-Fox this fall,
while husband Laurence Har-
vey tours in Shakespeare on
the West Coast and New York
with the Old Vic. Judy
Garland's engagement at the
Cocoanut Grove added two
telephone operators at the no.
tel to turn down reservations.
Almost everything was booked
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-04

OF Sweet Smell OF Success" for
HILL, also directed Alec GUM
ness In The Ladykillers." The
new man on the film version Of
the Shaw play which will star
Burt Lancaster. Sir Laurence
Oliver and Kirk Douglas d.
rected The colditz Story"
among other things. Out in
Japan a considerable hubbub
has arisen In the papers over
allegedly cruel. inhuman. un-
pleasant and regrettable action
on the part Of Warner Bros.
Seems WB. in a stan shakeup
last May, released IA Of It's 1919
Japanese employees. The whole
thing may be taken before the
National Diet. the disgruntled
are threatening Here ir
Washington a movie exhibitor
who is considerably miffed at
the State Of Pennsylvania asked
the Supreme Court to look into
the matter of his constitutional
rights. He got himself arrested
in June, 1856. for showing a
movie on Sunday night in vio-
lation Of the State law. He's
been losing his case in lower
courts ever since. even though
the movie ne displayed was the
same one that was shown on
TV in the same area that same
Sunday night. A film exhibitor
has enough trouble with TV
without this kind Of discrimin-
alton, he AYERS.
49,
ROMAN LAW-There is a.
law in Italy we can be glad
is not on the books over here.
1t is limited if not spelled out
in a story in variety about
three representatives of a movie
distributing company, who got
hailed into court. They were
fined SIC for offending the pub
lie morals with posters de-
signed to lure customers to-
showines of "Zarak" ANITA Elk
berg and "Mademoiselle Strip
tease" (Brigitte Bardot). The
fine was ordered paid to the
offended citizen who made the
complaint and that is the sort
of thing we can be happy
doesn't go on here. Our courts
would be all clogged up with
offended moralists waving
movie ads.
SIGHTS RAISED-"Around
the World in 80 Days" moves
ever nearer that 500 million
gross predicted for it by the
late Mike Todd. 1t is doing so
we'll, in fact, that the Mike
Todd Co. now is confidently
foreseeing a total gross of $125
million in five years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-04
films Of More Them Routine Merit

THE ENEMY BELOW"-Robert Mitchum and Curt JurEens
In suspenseful duel between DE and Mani sub.
MAN OF 1000 FACES"-James Cagney In n nostalRio
biography Of Silent Star Lon CLANCY.
PETER PAN-Wah DisneyS animated cartoon version
delight for young mOviegoers Of all ares.
THE PROUD REBEL"-olyia de HavIland and Alan Iadd
In heart-warming story Of q mute boy and his dog.
"SAYoNARA"-Marlon Brando and Red Buttons In a fine
MIN OF James Micheners East-meets-West novel
THE SHEEPMAN'-Genn Ford. Mickey Shaughnessy and
Shirley MaeLaine In Western with a Of humor.
TEACHERS PET"-Clark Gable and Doris Day defly play
fresh comedy~in an authentic setting.
THE YOUNG LI0Ns"-MarlOn BrandO In a big. dramatic
movie Of Irwin Shaws panoramic World War ii novel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-04

lRvR0 Wosh. Lee Shop Center
Opp Il. MyeI IA I-H33
Comfortably Air Conditioned.
THE YOUNG LIONS" MARION
BRANDO. o.15. A.lh
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-04

HEY RIDS-Enjoy the Wash.
Areas Best Equipped Drive-In |
Kiddieland. Featuring Sensa-
tional New Speedboat Ride. It's
All Free.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-04

TIVnII co. 5-Is0O. 18th and
sssVSs PARK Rd. NV. DESIRE
UNDER The ELMs," Sophia Loren.
10. $50, 800; HOT SPELL"
Shirley Booth. 4:Q5, 7:40.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-04

before opening night. j.. Sight
and sound of the European
week; Eli Wallach in Italy,
See HOLLYWOOD, Page Alb
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-04
NEW STANTON THEATRE

Jg c O. Is.h and r. l. Ave. Ne
Ample Parking Facilities
"Washington's Art Theater"
HELD OVER-6th and Final week
CHAPLIN, PAULETTE GODDARD and
,Blss saun SoH Sis,S. ' .Ss, IN full
the screens greatest all-time classics,
Guaranteed 10 make you split your
sides laughing mot available for ex-
Virginia. Pennsylvania, or New York !
MODERN TIMES"
Wed and Thurs e days only Two
Foreign Masterpieces. MAKE WAY
FOR DO" German classic and French
classic, DIR. KNOCK" starring LOUIS
teaus "cLosED vIIsioNs first East
ern engagement) and Dostoevsky's
THE IDIOT"
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| Mr., and Mrs. Carlos Peele, Mrs.
Isabel Balance, Mrs. Brittle Gas
kill, all of Hatteras, and Mrs. Jar
Wis Midget of Buxton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guthrie Joliff of
Buxton visited her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Stacy Howard, and other
relatives here.
E. S. Tolson, Mrs. Iva O'Neal,
Miss Kathleen Bragg, Mrs. Lavice
Tolson, Mrs. Tressie Howard,
Cantwell Howard, and Ansley
O'Neal left on Monday to attend
the Tuesday session of Superior
court.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Wilder
spent Saturday and Sunday in
Portsmouth, Va, due to the serious
illness of his grandmother.
Mrs. Lillian Simpson visited
here recently and after returning
to Portsmouth, Va, to attend grad
uation of her grandson, Billie Eley,
will come back to Ocracoke to
make her permanent home here.
Mrs. Elsie Tolson's guests last
week: Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Schoon-
maker and family of Delmar, New
York. Mrs. Tolson's son, Edward
Simpson, was here for the week
, end and she returned with him to
visit his family at Ocean View,
Delaware.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Styron and
| family spent the week end at
Buxton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willie Robinson,
who were here for several days re-
turned to Baltimore Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chaplin Litten of
Chicago spent last week at Sound
Front Inn. Mr.. Litten had visited
Ocracoke with a group of Univer-
sity of North Carolina students in
May 1881, land was delighted to
make this return trip to the Island.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Council are
visiting her mother, Mrs. Lena
Bragg.
Several of the candidates whose
names will appear on the Hyde
County ballot at the May Demo-
cratic Primary visited Ocracoke
this past week: Mr.. and Mrs. Le-
land A. Dudley, Mr.. and Mrs. Reg
inald Mckinney and family, Earl
Topping, Walter Lee Gibbs, and
Thomas N. Fisher.
Ocracokers are pleased to learn
that Mrs. Lena Williams, who was
flown to Sea Level Hospital about
a week ago for an emergency oper-
alton is getting along nicely. She
will spend several days after leav-
ing the hospital with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Belle Brown, at Marshall
burg, before returning to Ocracoke.
Miss Grace M. Keeney was hon
ored at a dinner party at the
Wahab Village Hotel on Saturday
night by her piano pupils, Miss
Betty Helen Howard, Miss Lor-
raine Howard, and Miss Christine
O'Neal, and their parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. R. Wahab Howard, Mr.. and
Mrs. Taft Howard and Mr.. and
Mrs. Van Henry O'Neal. Guests
were Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Rond-
thaler, Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin E.
Spencer, Miss Frances Raw'ey,
Miss Marie Hodges, Mr.. and Mrs.
Neafie Scarborough, Mrs. Elsie
/ Tolson and her son. Edward Sinou-
son, and Rev. and Mrs. w. w.
Clarke.
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ocRAcoKE PERSONALS


Ocracoke, May 19-At the last
P. 7 A. meeting of the school year
Monday, with Henry Wilder re.
firing president, balance of about
S400 was reported. Mr.. Theo Rond-
fhaler reported that the recreation
hall roof had been reshingled, the
II. T. A. having voted to pay fol-
Fhe labor. Eph Esham reported q
Pentilating fan device for the rec
'eatioh hall hall is ready for in
Ftallation. The P. T. A. will buy
u. S, flag and four British flags
FOR the Cunningham Cemetery
graves; also a supply of maps, etc.
or use with Ocracoke souvenir
pamphlets; $3.50 was turned in
from the sale of the pamphlets
The movie "Tarheel State" was
shown and enjoyed.
On Saturday night of this week
he graduates of Ocracoke High
School will hold their annual alum
hi meeting and banquet. President
pf the organization is Albert Sty-
ron; vice-president Mrs. Dallas K
Williams; secretary, Mrs, Wilbur
Robinson; treasurer, Mrs. Maxine
Mason; banquet committee, Jack
Willis, Mrs. Marion Austin, Mrs
Ienie Spencer, and Powers Gar
IRISH.
Ocracokers are delighted to
learn from Ranger Hazen Brooks
that Larry Williams, a graduate OF
Ocracoke High School and East
Carolina College, who is teaching
this year at Nthe Princess Anne
High School in Virginia, will be
associated this summer with the
Cape Hatteras Seashore National
Recreation Area in the capacity
of ranger historian at Ocracoke
He will begin his work at the Park
j. Headquarters here on June 10th.
Several persons visited the Is
land recently who are associated
with the Park Service. They were
shown the sights by Ranger Hazer
Brooks. Included in the group were
Mr.. and Mrs. Gettins of the Smith.
sonian In titute, Washington
D. c.; Fred Lane, landscape archi-
tect; Mr.. and Mrs. John NJ. Davis
Chief Ranger Division Park Serv.
ice, Washington, D. c.; Supt. Rob
ert Gibbs of Manteo; Horace AL.
bright, former National Park Serv.
ice Director, and HORACE Dough
of Kill Devil Hill.
Robert D. Hunt, Washington
N. c., of the East Carolina Council
Boy Scouts of America met Mon.
day with Scout officials, to show
films to the Scouts. Mrs. Hum
came to Ocracoke with him.
Charles Parker, Director of the
N. C. Division of Advertising, De.
partment of Conservation and De
Nelopment, and William Gulley
official state photographer of the
Division, brought several Honorary
Tar Heels to Ocracoke from Nag:
Head last Saturday. They were
conducted on a tour of the ISLAND
and the Village by Capt. Benjamin
l.. O'Neal, Ranger Hazen Brooks
and Mrs. Theodore Rondthaler. II
the group were Paul Harmon o.
the Washington Post, Jim Morton
of American Weekly, w. NJ. Perry
of the public relations office, U. S
Senate, Hamilton Cochran and OF
lie Atkins of the Saturday Eve
ming Post, and George Tames Of
the New York Times. They tool
large number of photos of place:
in the Village, of the shipwrecks
and particularly of the Banker
Ponies.
Several Hatteras residents spent
Sunday at Ocracoke attending
Sunday school and church and Wis.
iting relatives. Some of the group
enjoyed a picnic dinner at the Ma.
tional Park tables. In the group
were Mr.. and Mrs. Ulysses Peele
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On the east the fire burned every
thing up to the Longnecker store,
now the big Parks grocery. Twelve
big business buildings were burned
and a century ago that was about all
there was to Eaton.
A book store, like a newspaper
plant, makes a bad fire because of
the paper. BY city firemen a big
blaze is referred to as good fire"
instead of a bad one - not because
they think anything good about it but
because that is their professional par
lance.
The Eaton fire interested the po-
lice too - it generally was believed
to have been set. After the ruins had
cooled sufficiently and the safe in the
book store was opened, the door was
found unlocked and the money, which
included $1,000 belonging to the Amer
lean Express company, known to have
arrived the night before, was gone
1t was believed that safe robbers had
fired the building to cover up their
crime.
One hudred years ago $1,000 was
a lot of money and the fire loss itself
was a staggering one.
| Enumeration of Individual losses in
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ConfdgrdtioR

1T takes a lot longer to build
town than to burn one down." said
an Eaton fireman in telling the writ
er about the big fire SO years ago
that just about wiped out the Preble
county village. Nearly everything was
burned but the town lots.
The big blaze was preceded a doz-
en- years by lesser one when both
DeGroot's and Leases livery stables
burned down back of the National
hotel. The fire was "set" and started
at DeGroot's where four horses and
a cow burned up. That made the
town buy new fire engine "the
Fannie" and organize fire depart
ment of 40 volunteers.
The big fire" started in the night
some time before daybreak Sunday
morning, June 5, 1859, and within an
hour the whole neighborhood was
ablaze. The blaze began in the back
part of Whitridge & McQuinns book
store, now Shades Eaton Book
Shoppe, and Immediately got out OF
control. 1t swept west to Main and
Barron streets and north on the lat
ter to John Crouse's clothing store.
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a fire 100 years ago is a praise
worthy achievement for any modern
newspaperman. Little deserving in
this case, however, the writer found
it oil in the intact files of the Eaton
Register-Herald, the county's still
published pioneer newspaper.
Business houses destroyed were
those of H. H. B. Minor; ]. N Hin
man; E. MikeSell; Brookins & Son;
c. P. Thum; August A. Seibert; J. L.
& c. w. Lockwood; Day & Brother;
Stephens & Company; L. G. Gould;
and James Chambers.
Whitridge & McQuinn's loss was
$500; Minor, grocer, $4,000; Gould,
grocer, $500; the Lockwoods, boots
and shoes, $4,000; w. c. Cleveland,
$4,000; Stephens & Co., merchants,
building $1,000 and goods $500; ].
Chambers, jeweler, $4,000; Seibert,
harness shop, S2,5O0; ]. N. Hinman,
jeweler, $100; J. Sampson, 81, 600;
Brookins, drug store, $1,000; and A.
v. Auter $1,000. Other losers were
c. P. Thum, E. Mikesell, Day &
Brother and Mrs. Hogarth.
A month later - the night of July
4, 1859, another fire caused much
damage. Discovered about 10 o'clock
in the back room of Daniel Stetler's
three-story building, the bakery of
John Spatz, it burned east destroying
the whole Stetler property and the
west side of the National hotel. The
buildings burned were along the north
side of Main street east of the court
house. Loss was estimated at $4,000,
also a lot of money that long ago.
In his research for the foregoing
story the writer has been somewhat
confused in the matter of dates. Dat
ing given on the big fire" was June
5, 1859, and on the latest fire "a
month later, July 4, 1854" The dates
do not jibe in the interests of
conformity the writer has made both
of them 1859. Somewhere in the past
some newspaperman has put down a
wrong figure or some printer has
picked up the wrong piece of type.
This writer does not know and the
reader may have his choice of the
dates the fire is out anyway.
1t is the writer's belief that the fire
was in 1859 and the year given origi-
nally to him about the Fourth of July
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Wheat Quota
Referendum Set
For June 20

Bluffton area wheat farmers will
join others through the nation in MAX
ing an important decision when they
vote June 20 in the national wheat
marketing quota referendum.
If at least two thirds of the grow
ers who vote in the referendum ap-
prove quotas for the 1859 crop, the
1853 wheat program will include acre
age allotments,, marketing quotas
with penalties on excess wheat, and
price supports at a minimum national
average of $1.81 per bushel or IS per
cent of parity.
If quotas are not approved by at
least two-thirds of those voting, there
will be no marketing quotas or penal
ties, but allotments will remain in eff
feet as a means of determining eligi-
bility for price support. The price
support rate would be about 81. 20 per
bushel or so per cent of parity, as
provided by law.
The wheat marketing quotas and
acreage allotments operate only in
commercial wheat states-those with
allotments of more than $4,000 acres.
Ohio has an allotment of 1858, 1886
acres for the 1859 wheat crop.
Growers eligible to vote in the ref
erendum are those who will be af-
fected by the wheat quotas if they be-
come effective. Thus farmers who
will have Is acres or less of wheat
for harvest as grain in 1859 and those
who are taking part in the 1858 feed
wheat program are not eligible to cast
ballots in the 1859 wheat quota refer
endum on June 20.