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Evening star., 1960-12-25
An Amazing Variety of Projects Makes
U. S. the Biggest Subsidizer Of Them All

service customers, including Wild
ows of Presidents and officials Of
the Pan American Sanitary Bu-
reau, who can send their letters
free.
Tex Write offs
Business benefits, the committee
says. through fast tax write-offs
on defense facilities, through
stockpiling of minerals and other
programs.
There are many other Govern
ment programs that benefit one
group in the population over
another, the committee says. but
their cost cannot really be deter
mined. The various housing pro-
grams help families with low in
comes, veterans and others "ob-
tain better living accommodations
than they would otherwise be able
to obtain at comparable rentals"
Exporters benefit from Export
Import Bank loans and guaran-
tees, small businessmen from the
Small Business Administration
aids. Families with high medical
expenses can write them off
against their income tax, regions
with Federal dams get low-cost
water and power, and many
workers have their incomes helped
by minimum wage laws.
One has the feeling after read
ing the report that it's a poor
soul, indeed. for whom there isn't
something in the Government
storehouse.
Even banks. The committee
says: Although stock held by
member banks in the Federal
Reserve banks is not essential to
the functioning of the Reserve
System, since the money creating
power comes from Congress, the
member banks nonetheless re-
ceive an assured income of per
cent on this Federal Reserve
stock" =
Evening star., 1960-12-25

that If an American company
could operate at a profit in a
country in such basic fields as
food and housing, 1t would attract
competition. Others, particularly
nationals Of that country, would
make similar investments and the
economy would benefit.
1--WE initiate projects that are
generally little too bold or too
different for local investors" says
Vice President Wallace D. Brad
ford, who has been with IBEC
almost from its inception 13 years
ago. But where we're successful
others soon follow"
The RockefelIers' Role
IBEC has been successful enough
that the Rockefeller brothers have
left its management to others.
They hold most Of the common
stock, but Nelson gave up the
presidency when he became Gov
ernor Of New York. His son, Rod
man, a member of the board, is
the only Rockefeller directly asso-
ciated with IBEC.
The president is gangly, boyish-
looking w. B. Dixon Stroud, who
has a boyish enthusiasm at the
moment for chickens. One of
IBEC'S newest ventures, the chick
en- deal shows how it operates.
IBEC has combined its export
know-how with the hen-house
Evening star., 1960-12-25
BY GERALD WARING
Contributing Writer

y ~ OTTAWA.-There's a sharp
split down the middle Of Canada
over whether the flag Of England
has any place in a Canadian ma
tional flag. So SO years after
Canada became a country it re-
, mains the only nation in the
world with no real flag of its own.
Nor does 1t have a national
: anthem.
- The issues of flag and anthem
1re deadlocked rather than dead.
At the moment there are three
bills in Parliament to provide
flag, plus q resolution to refer
the matter Of flag and anthem to
q parliamentary committee, and
a, resolution to select a flag
through a national referendum.
All are most unlikely to be passed.
Yet pressure Of public opinion
for q flag and anthem is increas-
ing as Canada approaches its
Tooth birthday in 1867. It may
force the government to take
some action. But unless the
schism between those for and
those against inclusion Of the
Union Jack is bridged, any flag
design selected would be more
likely to disrupt national unity
than to promote it.
Canada has a flag of sorts, but
1t is unsatisfactory in several
respects. It is the Canadian Red
Ensign - really the flag Of the
Canadian merchant marine, being
the British Red Ensign with the
Canadian coat-of-arms. Canadian
forces fought through World War
II with no national flag Of their
own. The navy painted a green
maple leaf on its tunnels. The
air force painted the maple leaf
on its planes. And soldiers In the
field painted the maple leaf on
cardboard and nailed it to trees
and telephone poles in their areas.
Provisional FIos
The need for a Canadian flag
to be flown at the founding con-
ference Of the United Nations at
San Francisco In 1945 prompted
the Canadian government to
designate the Red Ensign as the
provisional flag Of Canada. But
Evening star., 1960-12-25
Canada in Fight
Over Official Flag

this red flag with the Union Jack
in one corner has been widely
unaccepted in Canada. It flies
over federal government buildings,
but in most Of the English-speak-
ing provinces the British Union
Jack is more widely used, offi-
cially by provincial governments
and privately by citizens. And in
French-Speaking Quebec both are
rejected. There the Quebec
provincial flag-blue with white
fleurs-de-lyS-iS most popular.
In 1916, after the Red Ensign
had proven unpopular. the gov
ernment named a parliamentary
committee to select a flag design.
The committee was swamped by
2,695 design submissions and
more than 10000 letters from in
dividualS and organizations, but
finally narrowed the choices to
two: the Red Ensign with q gold
maple leaf. and a diagonal red
and white flag with green maple
leaf. The former was favored by
EngliSh-speaking Canadians, and
the latter by French-speaking
Canadians. Similarly the former
would prefer God Save the
Queen" as the national anthem,
while the latter sing 20, Canada" {"
lmposse Continues
The government was unable to
pick either flag without offending
a large part of the population, and
so the whole project was shelved.
The impasse has continued to this
Gay, with no government daring
to break it for fear of the political
as well as the national conse-
quences. A government that put
the Union Jack officially in the flag
Of Canada would be repudiated in
Quebec on election day-and if it
left the Jack out to "appease"
Quebec it might not survive the
election elsewhere in Canada.
But the anomaly of a flagless
country becomes greater with
every new nation-18 in Africa
alone this year-proudly Haunting
its ensign at the United Nations.
This fact, plus the approach Of
Canada's centenary. could loosen
the inflexibility of the two camps,
but the politicians here aren't
counting on it.
Evening star., 1960-12-25

lunch program, for example, sub
sidizes the farmer by helping cut
back on farm surpluseS. but it
also subsidies the children who
receive the food and their parents.
While farm price supports are
the largest single subsidy program
and the best-publicized, other seq
ments of the economy have been
receiving gifts from Uncle Sam
for years without drawing much
attention.
Maritime Beneficiary
The maritime industry, the
committee says, was the recipient
of probably the first literal sub
sidy paid by the Federal Govern
ment, when, in 1845, Congress au-
thorized the Postmaster General
to award mail subsidies, with
preference to be given to steam
ships which could be converted
into vessels of war"
That same SUBSIDY, Dy the way,
produced one of the great scan
dals of the Grant administration.
and between 1874 and 1891 the
American merchant marine had
to struggle along without Govern
ment help. But now it is receiv-
ing subsidies to compensate both
for the higher cost of building in
American yards and of operating
with American crews.
The history of air mail subsi-
dies is similar. the committee re-
lates. Payments to private all
lines began in 1925, but in 1884
charges of collusion between mail
carriers and post Office officials
led to the cancellation of all air
mail contracts. In later legisla-
ton, service charges for carrying
the mail were separated from out
right subsidies, and the subsidies
alone in fiscal 1860 are estimated
at 500 million.
There are a variety Of subsidies
offered to special groups of pol 6al
Evening star., 1960-12-25
By NARANJAN S. UPPAL
ContrfhrtiaR wrifep


II the Communist countries had
any hope Of consolidating their
slender foothold in the Himalayan
mountain kingdom of Nepal, they
have been rudely shocked.
This is evident from the piuue
shown by them over King Ma
hendra's dismissal of Premier
Koirala's l9-months-old Ministry,
dissolution Of Parliament and vir-
tual suspension Of the Constitu-
ton.
1t now appears, blared Peking
radio, that bourgeois and vested
reactionary interests are gaining
ascendancy In Nepal against the
popular will Of the people" Mos
COW radio has described the
Kings action as unfair"
Need to curb the rising Com
munist influence and Mr.. Koi-
rala's collusion with "anti-national
elements" is one Of the reasons
given by the King for his drastic
action. Within hours Of the royal
proclamation. about 100 Com
munistS were arrested. They in
cluded Mr.. Adhikari. who recently
returned to Khatmandu, the cap
ital. after a prolonged stay in
Peking.
That the first popular Ministry
and the first elected Parliament
in Nepals history should have met
tragic fate Is serious setback to
democratic evolution in Asia. But,
perhaps, the King had no other
option left. Mr.. Koirala COM
manded a majority of II in the
109-member Lower House, while
the opposition parties, sorely oi-
vided, could not offer an altern-
alive government.
King Mahendra has promised
"other arrangements" to run the
country; this would mean a coun-
Gil Of advisers. Present indica-
tions are that he will be in no
hurry to order new elections.
Apart from domestic issues, there
were differences over foreign pol
icy between the King and his
Ministers. The King did not like
Mr.. Koirala's honeymooning with
the Communist countries,
especially with Communist China
after its aggression along Indian
and Nepalese borders. Early this
year, Mr.. Koirala had allowed the
establishment in Khatmandu of
Russian, Communist Chinese and
Polish embassies as well as of the
ofnceS Of Tass and New China
news agencies.
Communism Heodwoy
This flood" compelled Nepal's
premier daily. Kalpana, to declare
that international communism
had made headway in spreading
its magnetic net" in Nepal. The
paper alleged that some guests"
from Communist countries recently
stayed In Khatmandu to exploit
the Illustration Of some disgrun-
tied politicians" and to organize
them into a Communist lobby"
Part Of the lobby's plan, it said,
was to establish propaganda CEN
terS in the name of peoples
libraries" where literature would
% sold to finance the Nepal
Communist Party with the sale
proceeds.
Evening star., 1960-12-25

Well, the 1860 budget puts agri-
culture down as the beneficiary
of almost $3.6 billion of "aids and
special services; business for $l.4
billion; labor for 1927 million:
homeownerS and tenants for $64
million.
Another $1.3 billion represents
additions to Federal assets, in the
form of increased stockpiles of
food and strategic materials. The
last $825 million goes to increase
privately owned assets. through
grants for such purposes as soil
conservation or ship and hospital
construction.
The whole business OF costing
out" Uncle Sans largesse. the
committee admits, is virtually i'm
possible. For one thing, there is
no agreement, even within the
Government. on what is a SUBJ
sidy and what isn't.
Admits It's q Subsidy
Only one of the many subsidy
appropriations-the one covering
operating differentials on Ameri-
can flag veSsels-comeS right out
and calls itself a subsidy.
The committee itself comes up
with magnificent definition, as
follows.
"A subsidy is an act by govern
mental unit involving either a.
payment, a remission of charges
or supplying commodities or serv-
ices at less than cost or market
price, with the intent of achiev-
ing a particular economic objec-
tive, most usually the supplying
to general market a product or
service which would be supplied
in as great quantity only at
higher price in the absence of
charges"
Even If you know what a sub
sidy is, the committee points out,
it is sometimes difficult to tell who
is being subsidized. The school
Evening star., 1960-12-25
The ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS
Private Overseas Aid Program Paws off

Brazilian seed corn company Is
all-Brazilian.
It moves carefully into q prof.
ect, starting with a pilot opera
tion and expanding only after the
idea proves workable. This Is q
policy based on the sad experience
of its first venture-a bold plunge
into the farming, fishing and
wholesale food businesses in Ven
ezuela.
All Of them failed.
1--WE found that farm opera.
ton can be carried on very sue
cessfully in Venezuela by a family,
but not by a corporation" says
Mr.. Bradford. "The fishing opera
ton started out quite well. We put
in tremendous plant. We could
freeze and hold 100 tons Of fish.
We were going to freeze it and
hold it until it was needed.
well, we weren't such good
fishermen. When we had to deal
with the Venezuelan fishermen,
we were caught between rising
prices and government price
ceiling. And the Venezuelans were
not eating enough fish to justify
the investment in the plant"
IBEC also learned a sad lesson
in the wholesale food business.
while we were making an awful
lot of prominent wholesalers mad
at us, we were not reducing food
prices" Mr.. Bradford says. I'VE
were just making a lot Of retailers
rich"
The corporation took loss and
got out of these businesses. Even
so. says Mr.. Bradford, Venezuelan
farmers prof1ted from IBEC's ex-
periments in mechanical farming.
Bringing in Supermorkets
After some second thought,
IBEC decided to try the retail
food business. It exported the
American supermarket.
1T has worked beautifully"
Mr.. Bradford says. There was q
tremendous scream of course
from the retailers. They said we
would put them out of business.
But on the contrary, they soon
discovered they could put in a
plate glass window and cash
register and have supermarket
of their own. There was a grad
ual, but definite, cut in food
prices"
The eventual cut totaled IS per
cent.
With a sound idea to work on,
IBEC explained its supermarkets
to Puerto Rico. Peru and Italy.
It began building shopping cen.
ters around the supermarkets. It
also branched out into industries
that supply the supermarkets-
bakeries, dairies and now chickens
and eggs.
After it gets a business going,
says Mr.. Stroud, IBEC isn't the
least reluctant to sell out. Last
year it sold its Puerto Rican
supermarkets to Grand Union.
Holmes County herald., 1960-07-14
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

Sealed proposals will be re-
ceiVed by the Board of Alder
man for the City of Durant at
their office in the City Hall,
Durant, Mississippi until 7:30
p. m. July 10, 1860, at which
time and place they will be
publicly opened and read.
The proposal will cover the
construction of a Factory for
Durant Sportswear, Inc, Durant
Mississippi, complete with sep
arate bids including General
Construction, Mechanical Con-
Snucton and Electrical Con-
Struction.
Plans and specifications and
contract documents are open to
public inspection at the office
of the Board of Aldermen, City
Hall at Durant, Mississippi or
may be obtained from T. N.
TouchStone, Jr. & Associates,
Architect, Jackson, Mississippi,
upon deposit of $25. 90. The full
amount of deposit for one set
of documents will be returned
to each prime bidder submitting
bids. All other deposits will be
refunded less reproduction and
specifications cost. All docu-
mentS must be returned in good
condition within ten days after
the date of opening of bids.
Bids must be accompanied
by a certified check or bid bond
in an amount equal to five per-
cent g. of the bid.
No bid may be with drawn af-
ter the scheduled closing time
RIO the receipt of bids for a
period of sixty days.
The Owner reserves the right
to reject any or all bids and to
waive informalitieS. The con-
tract will be let to the lowest
and best bidder.
The successful bidder must
furnish a satisfactory perfor-
nance bond in a sum equal to
the full amount of his contract.
The bid must specify the time
within which the work is to be
completed. All bid bonds and
performance bonds must be
signed by a Mississippi repre-
sentative.
BIDDERS NOTE!
Separate bids will be taken
! involving work on the new fac
Holmes County herald., 1960-07-14

door of the Court House in Lex
ington, Holmes County, Missis-
sippi, offer for sale and sell at
public outcry to the highest bid
der for cash the following des-
cribed real property situated
in the City of Lexington, Hol-
mes County, Mississippi, to-wit:
A part of Lot 280 according
to the official map of said
City of Lexington of record
in the office of the Chancery
Clerk of Holmes County,
Mississippi, more particularly
described as follows:
Begin at a point on the South
property line of Church Street
121 feet West of the Northeast
corner of said Lot 280 and run
West Sc feet along the South
property line of Church Street
to stake, thence South 88 feet,
thence East Sc feet, thence
North SO feet to the point of
beginning and the property
herein conveyed being the
same property conveyed to
Comedor Thomas and wife,
Geneva Thomas, by Bette P.
Lundy On the 9th day of
April, 1916, as shown by deed
recorded in Book 65, page
$50 of the Land Deed Records
of Holmes County, Mississippi.
l will convey only such title
as is vested in me as trustee.
Witness my signature on this
the 18th day of June, 1860.
Pat M. Barrett, Trustee
June %, 80, July Z, IA
Holmes County herald., 1960-07-14

post office is open continuously
for the purpose of establishing
an adequate register for future
needs. A copy of the announce
ment and application form will
gladly be furnished upon re-
quest. The beginning rate of
pay is 81 SO per hour. Applicants
must have reached their eigh-
teenth birthday on the date of
filing application. This age limit
does not apply to persons en-
titled to Veterans Preference.
All interested persons can Sc
cure necessary forms and fur
ther information from their
local postmaster, the Exectvie
Secretary, Board of u. s. Civil
Service Examiners, Room BOG,
or, from the Fifth u. S.
u. S. Post Office, Jackson 5,
Civil Service Regional Office,
Peachnee-Baker Building, AT
lanta, 3, Georgia. Applications
should be filed with the Execu-
tive Secretary u. S. Post Office
Jackson 5. Miss.
Holmes County herald., 1960-07-14
NOTICE OF SALE

WHEREAS, on December II,
1858, Comedor Thomas and wife,
Geneva Thomas, executed a
Trust Deed under the terms of
which the herein after described
land was conveyed to the under
signed as trustee to secure the
payment to E. Cohen of an in
debtnedness therein described
which Trust Deed is recorded
in Trust Deed Book III at page
lbs thereof of the Trust Deed
records of Holmes County.
Mississippi, and whereas. de.
fault having been made in the
performance of said Trust Deed
and the said E. Cohen, the hold
er thereof, having requested the
undersigned to sell said land as
provided by law and said Deed
of Trust; therefore, the under
signed will, On Friday, the 18th
day of July. 1860, within legal
hours, at the east entrance
Holmes County herald., 1960-07-14
Home Agent
by Mary #. Harpole

name is probably in the files OF
credit bureau. This bureau
collects credit information about
people who wish to borrow mon
ey buy on installment plan or
open new charge account.
This information is a service
to both merchants and COM
sumers. Credit would be much
harder to sucure without the
services of credit bureaus.
Be sure you always tell
the credit bureau good things
about yourself. The first step
to good reports is to plan for
charge and inStallment purchas-
es carefully and to include them
in the budget. This is to pre-
vent having more bills coming
due than your income can pay
for.
Then you want to be sure to
meet all payments at the time
Holmes County herald., 1960-07-14
NOTICE TO NON RESIDENTS

NOTICE TO NON RESIDENTS
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
No. 1854
To Charles Horton, George
Horton, Amelia H. Simmons,
Ora Lee H. Anderson, Stephen
James Boyd, Verde D. Boyd,
Molly Boyd Fisher, Debie Boyd
Montgomery, Emma c. Walker.
Henry Walker, Lee Arthur Wal
ker, Urin Walker, Jr., Bernice
Walker and Ruby Boyd Porter,
all non residents of the State of
Mississippi;
You are summoned to appear
before the Chancery Court of
the County of Holmes in said
state, on the Second Monday of
September, 1860, to show cause,
if any you can, why the Final
Account of The Holmes County
Bank & Trust Company, Exc
cutor, Estate of Pony Boyd, de-
ceased, Cause No.: 6664, said
court, should not be approved
and the executor be discharged
and the securities and land
should not be sold and the pro-
ceeds thereof be distributed as
provided in the will an testa-
ment of said Pony Boyd, de-
ceased.
This June %, 1860,
PARHAM H. WILLIAMS,
(SEAL) Chaneery Clerk
22=4t=np
Holmes County herald., 1960-07-14

You are a wife and mother
who works away from home.
But your neighbor is a full-time
homemaker. Which of your two
families get the foods they Sho-
uld have?
A wife'S working outside the
home seems to have little effect
on the nutritive value of her
family's food. That is the find
ing of a recent u. S. Depart.
of Agriculture survey.
But the wife and mother work
isg away from home does effect
food costs. In general working
wives spend more for food and
foods. They spend about So
cents more for each person on
weekly food SUPPLIES than did
families with similar incomes
in which the wife was not en-
ployed.
Holmes County herald., 1960-07-14
Legal Notice

North, Range l East, that lies
North and East of the public
road leading from Cruger to
Acona, and by the above and
foregoing description it is in
tended to describe the identical
real property conveyed to the
said ID. j. Dismuke and wife,
Mrs. Frances d. Dismuke, by
Mrs. Lucy N. Cox, by deed of
November 20, 1858, as the same
appears of record in Book 88,
Page 568 OF the Land Deed Re-
cords Of Holmes County, Missis-
Sippi, whether correctly des-
crIbed above or not.
The undersigned will convey
only such title as is vested in
him as Trustee.
This the 2lSt day of June, 1860.
Edwin White, Trustee
June %, 30, July Z, IA
Holmes County herald., 1960-07-14
NOTICE TO PURCHASE USED
TRACTOR

Pursuant to the authority dir
ected to me by the Board of
Supervisors of Holmes County,
Mississippi, notice is hereby
given that the said Board will
accept bids until II o'clock A.
NJ. Monday, August /, 1860, for
the sale to it for the use and
benefit of the County Farm, the
following described machinery,
tO-Wlt;
l Rebuilt Sprayer Tractor,
with built up frame, 10 Horse
Power Engine, Removable
Sleeve, 5.00X15 front and
11-38 rear tires, 8-row sprayer
boom. drum rack, and Hypro
6 Roller Pump
The Board reserves the right
to reject any or all bids.
Witness my hand this 9th
day of July, 1860.
Parham II. Williams, Clerk
July Z, IA, q, %