P^^y^iP^PS^T^T <j :h * «™p7 vitH ni^^ i ' LL '‘'‘^^M’ ~;^g * : *^ i^ nator Says s Can't Be Dumpe By Dan McGrew D C., Monday p. m. —Republican Senator i Lamar, Colorado, representing the Senate ; j oJn ed in a 2Vz hour dinner news-conf cr aning with NFEA members, gr Lt. Gov. of Colorado and a 30-year resi st Plains wheat and cattle center of Lamar, bled farm editors, “I don’t know how to iroblem.” id that he is iy with the it out of ag ple” but in tig must be t the nation’s jeing ruined y denounced k provisions rimtted a few n wheat, cot and other re e huge “Con tinents, while ige existed in nent the pro antial effect to questions era newsman, that a very r of farmers, areas such as y, had receiv payments, ire cases, the farmers in op- But, the fact ishould never aitted.” that he ex ice legislation gelations and ng with FHA e bill, ehmm -the confusion I more than i’HA loan reg ;H m effect qualify for page 11) Sec. Benson Says, No Poultry Aid’ By Dan McGrow Washington, D.C , Monday a m.— Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson this morn ing in a special press confer ence' in his office for mem bers of the Newspaper Farm Editors’ Association reiterat ed his program of “taking government out of agricul ture ” Benson included in his “less-government” plea, the concession that farmers can not be cast adrift, but that the nation must assist them in "gaining some stability af ter decades of government intervention in agriculture. However, he did not out line any program or present any ideas for providing that stability. Of immediate interest to local farmers, Benson left absolutely no doubt that his department does not intend to take any “unusual” action to relieve the current poul try and egg price situation. He pointed out to the as (Turn to page 6) Editor •Washington Impressions jncwhal unique and highly stimulating op d by attendance at the NFEA convention . ington C, we have returned with cx frnpi e^sions ronous result is the sudden realization that S news sources refer to “control” of Con- Pcllv what they mean. jfic Paity con ttorc apparent S's mtei view ?e Republican pmgton With r ll and Scnat- Pmc a house [ the other frown m this PI very httle Pature being friable f gentlemen, and they offer a good repre sentation of “official” Wash ington Republicans, were ad roit at moving the news con ference away from subjects as, “What is the Republican farm legislation this ' ses sion’” Beinghigh in national pol itics they know full well that the best they can hope for m Republican policies is modification of Democratic programs. Because while it appears from last week’s symbolic REA vote that the Democrats may not be able to override a Presidential veto—they might. Also, if the Democrats de cide to, they can bottle up legislation desired by the Administration. For these reasons, veteran D - C. newsmen told the "country editors”, “ . . don’t be greatly surprised at some of the compromises that come out of this. Because" no matter what their politics, these men are Americans first and have the job of (Turn to page 10) PAST fednesday | r Bureau, lOnite I Will aver- I above not- F 72 for the I or a lit«, lover week fonday thru » *‘nht scat- or Lancaster. Pa., Saturday. May 9. 1959 In This Week’s LF In this week's Lancaster Farming, you will find a series of news stories com ing from special news-con ferences with national fig ures at Washington. These stories and the review of the group derived from our editor's membership in Newspaper Farm Editors' Association, a professional group for the betterment of agriculture through bet ter writing and editing for farmers. Thanks to the exclusive nature of NFEA. Lancast er Farming is privileged to bring this series to our readers and we hope our reporting of small/ special ized news conferences through NFEA brings you as much pleasure as it gives us. ROSS FERGUSON, Kirkwood, at right, swaps a “Thank You’’ for congratulations on his high COT plac ing from Earlo J Hershey, Martin’s Hatchery representative who purchased Ferguson’s Regional Heavyweight Champ ion lot of 15 bi-oilers, weighing a total of 60 lbs, dressed weight Martin’s paid 70 cents per lb , or $42 for Fergus on’s birds. —LF PHOTO York Co. Dominates Area C-O-T Every lot of th 15S entries m the regional Chicken-of- Tomorrow contest dressed poultry auction Wednesday at Lancaster Poultry Center sold on a 50c per lb floor es tablished by buyers, with the top lot of 14 birds bringing $123 90 at $2 10 per pound Frederick Miller, Dover RD4, was the junior grower of the high selling lot, which placed highest in the region al competition, while placing fifth in the state Tuesday at the Farm Show Building in Harrisburg, where state judg ing was conducted. Ameri can Stores Philadelphia reg ion made the purchase. Coming in behind Miller with a 90 cent sale, also from American, was H. Don ald Grove, Delta RD 1. Nan cy Boyer, Thomasville RD), received 75 cents' for her (Turn to page 6) Humphrey Offers 'Free Hand’ for Benson Washington, Tuesday a.m.— Democratic Senator Hum phi ey, vigorously campaigning for support of his Presiden tial hopes, displayed an almost spell-bmdmg personality this morning in outlining ideas of bow he thinks the U. & go\ernment should be operated, before a special breakfast news-conference of NFEA, The session, appropriately conducted in the Presiden tial Room at Hotel Washington, lasted well beyond the scheduled time as the liberal Minnesotan stated candidly that, “I would like to have a crack at running the farm program ” He admitted that his inter est centered on executive authority, “ . , . higher than the post of Secretary o± Ag riculture ” (The Presidency is the only U. S. post direct ly superior to the cabinet in administrative power.) Humphrey described his plans to introduce a ‘‘Farm Bill”, before May 15, in v C-Q-T REGIONAL judges (from left) Rugaber, Good and Loeschner inspect one of the eight lots of birds fed out by southeastern Pennsylvania youngsters, which was judged good enough for state competition. No placings were made on the top eight in the region, all placings coming from the state judging, Tuesday at the Farm Show Build ing. The Regional dressing and -judging took place Satur day at the Producer’s Cooperative -Exchange plant in Coatcsville. —LF PHOTO By Dan McGrew the Senate,” which would as he described it, provide the Secretary of Agriculture with a virtual blank check to operate the farm program. Humphrey explained his program as establishing na tional goals of desired farm income levels, outlining in general terms the necessary federal appropriations for these objectives (protocol in sists that all mention of specific appropriations come from the House, since final authority for writing fiscal legislation remains in the House), and handing the Sec. of Agriculture a ‘ package ot tools” to use as he sees fit The “tools” would include such measures as land retire ment, loans, support prices, marketing orders, surplus purchases, foreign distribu tion and other suggested methods, Humphrey stated We have tried to include all the sound suggestions from Congress, the agricul ture industries and the US DA. The legislation would merely establish a goal and tell the Secretary to use any, all, or none of the tools in the package, to achieve the goal he added. 'The Minnesota Senator de clared that the Administra tion’s highly publicized ‘Food for Peace’ program is an at tempt to “govern by slogan,” and. nothing solid had been ofteiod in realistic imple menting of the program. He repeatedly belabored Ad (Continued on Page 13) $2 Per Year
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