6—Lancaster Farming, Friday, June 8, 1956 News Report From Washington another service battle? BREWS IN ELECTION YEAR WASHINGTON, June 7 —The lid is about ready to come off another sizzling interservice wrangle in Washington and this being an election year there are 8 Farm Compensation H a • Insurance j| j There are more accidents inn i fanning than in any other § business! ii protect yourself with ajj S policy in the || a P. T. F. Company ♦! S see p - pJohn F. Weaver Co., Inc. || || 202 Fulton Bldg. a H Lancaster Ph. 2-6912 p aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa \ 'p /'/y % v \ J. M. Bomberger ELM Farmers Supply Co. 137-39 E. KING ST., LANCASTER Paul H. Gehman Fred L. & John E. Homsher STRASBURG AND QUARRYVILLE BEACON those on Capitol Hill ready to make the moat of it This time it is not solely a case of a conspiracy against policy. It centers around a dis pute over the capabilities of certain weapons and of course, it touches on the role to be play ed by various services, also, in the air. The Air Force is involved in the middle, and is in the un fortunate position of being the youngest of services getting the most money and stirring up the (most envy among top brass in the other two, older services. The Army, under General . Maxwell Taylor, is taking on _ , new theoretical function. The President Eisenhower formally Navy, having won its carrier bat- backed the Democrats’ “pay-as tle some years back, is fighting you-go” principle lor highway for a major role in strategic financing, abandoning his own warfare. The Navy is winning controversial bond issue plan, this battle. - • n m % f w /y % i I ; w? ii t t * "Hi # I Call Your DENVER Wenger’s Feed Mill, Inc. your finger on Put fester broiler growth at lower cost There’s a NEW LOOK in broiler feeds Beacon’s 1956 Broiler Feeds have produced cock erels weighing 340 lbs in 8 weeks on only 2 02 pounds of Beacon Feed per pound of weight Difficult to duplicate under field conditions . 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PLUS Beacon "know how’’ formulation give you more for your money in poultry feeds Never before has Beacon had such an advanced broiler feed improvement so clearly superior Experienced Beacon field servicemen will help you get the lowest broiler costs you ever had Just drop a note and say, " Have the Beacon man call ” Beacon Dealer O. Kenneth McCracken MANHEIM Millport Roller Mills LITITZ RHEEMS IKE IS FINAL ARBITER But the case isn’t settled yet. President Eisenhower is an old Army man And although most top Air Force officers are too, the Chief Executive wants the Army to have a fair hearing. And he doesn’t want to have a big row over defense weapons in an election year or any other time, • for that. matter. | Also entering into the_ happy picture at this time is a dif ference of opinion as ‘to the Navy’s capabilities to maintain a strategic bombing offensive with its huge carriers. How much the Navy can contribute m such a sustained offensive is a matter now being thrashed out between service brass and Con gressmen, but there is a differ ence of opinion on this among Air Force and Navy officers. Earl Sander NEW HOLLAND Osceola Flour Mills GORDONVILLE I WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE | Musical Instrument HORIZONTAL 3 Indian 1 Depicted 4 Tellurium musical (symbol) instrument 5 Therefore 6 Yelled 6 Hurried 13 Tardier 7 Stockings 14 Food fish » Hebrew 15 Consumed measure 16 Web-footed 9 Higher birds 10 Strike lightly 18 Touch lightly “ Make possible 19 Pronoun 12 Spotted 20 Fuses 17 Hebrew deity 22 Baronet (ab.) 20 SpecitfUs 23 Within (comb, goners form) 21 Grieved 25 Leer 24 More beloved 27 Face 29 Rodent 28 Bustle pipe ,29 Exclamation 30 Railroad (ab 31 '‘Smallest State” (ab.) 32 Arctic gulf 33 Poems 35 It is a instrument 38 Harbor 39 Pen name of Charles Laml 40 Half an em 41 Fastened 47 Verb- neuter <«b.) 48 Scold 50 Plateaus 51 Marsh 52 Bunting 54 Entertain SO Leaves 67 Complete VERTICAL 1 Fires 2 Hidden Philadelphia Milk Marketing Order Changed WASHINGTON (USDA) Some of the provisions of the Philadelphia Federal milk mar keting order are being changed by amendments, the U S. De partment of Agriculture an nounced today. The amended order will go into effect June 1, 1956. The amending order: 1. Bring under regulation any plant which supplies Class I milk to the market during any of the months N of February through September This change replaces a provision exempting any plant that delivered less than 25,000 pounds a month of milk allocated to Class I during any’ of these months 2. Changes the regulations applying to handlers supply ing the Philadelphia market and other federally regulated markets. A handler regulated under the New York order who supplies milk to both New York and Philadelphia will continue to be regulated under the New York order; a handler supplying milk to both Wilmington and Phil adelphia will regulated under the Philadelphia order; other Philadelphia handlers who supply a greater volume of milk to any other Federal milk marketing area than they supply to Philadelphia and who are regulated under the order of the other area will not he regulated under the Philadelphia order. 3. Repeals the provisions cov ering special pricing of milk sold outside the Philadelphia area (excepting milk sold m the New York market) so that all such milk is priced in the same way. 4. Makes more precise the method of determining whether milk shall go into Class I or Class 11. 5. Clarifies the language on the allocation of milk to various class uses. The amend order is based on evidence received at a public hearing in Philadelphia. Febru ary 1-7, 1956. The U. S. De partment of Agriculture submit ted recommended amendments to producers and handlers for exceptions on April 5. Excep tions were considered in fram ing final recommendations 45 Egyptian sun god 46 Biblical name 49 Space 51 Except 53 Parent 55 Mountain (ab.) 33 Unclosed 34 Give 36 Former French month 37 Peril 42 Prince 43 Coin 44 Employs Price Index on Farm Off; Eggs And Miljk Down HARRISBURG The index of price received by Pennsyl vania farmers for their princi pal products dropped one point, or less than 1 per cent, during the month ended May 15, the State Department of Agriculture announced today. Further de clines in prices to farmers lor milk and eggs again were re sponsible for the drop, a Fed eral-State survey revealed The Pennsylvania index now stands at 228 per cent of its 1910-14 av erage, six points below May a year ago, the Department said. National Average Up Each month this year has showed a decline in the Pennsyl vania 'farm price index, a total drop of 16 points since Decem ber sls, the Department said. Price drops in milk and eggs have accounted for most of the decline, the Department said Nationally, the index of prices received by farmers for the month ended May 15 showed an advance of seven points or three per cent, the survey showed The Pennsylvania crop index registered an 11-point advance from last month as all grains and apples were up seasonally. Hay registered a drop of 20 cents a ton, much less than the usual decline at a time when cattle may be placed on pasture Livestock Declines The livestock and livestock products index showed a decline of three points which was mod erated by increases in the aver age prices received for most meat animals. Hogs and cattle were up 90 cents per hundred pounds live weight and calves were up an average of $l3O a hundred lbs. j Wholesale milk registered a 115-cent decline per hundred lbs which is less than the usual April-May drop, the Department said. Chickens were down 2 per cent and eggs declined 7 per cent for an average return of 42 cents a dozen to the farmer. The Philippines are named as the site for an atomic center. Have an enclosed play area for small children. which were approved by more than three-fourths of the pro ducers supplying the market. >• '■
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