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By Dan McGrew
D C., Monday p. m. —Republican Senator
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aning with NFEA members,
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st Plains wheat and cattle center of Lamar,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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