European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 22, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Those states Washington the army is buying pounds of Margarine for use in canned a and the Dairy Industry Doest like since the agriculture depart ment owns pounds of surplus butter and is offering pounds of it to foreign countries at the Giveaway Price of 15 cents a the army in paying about 23 cents a Pound for the the Dairy a Dairy Industry Trade suggests a Cong res tonal army quartermaster officials say the Margarine Purchase is easily in the first they All the Margarine is for canned the army never has been Able to make but Ter keep As Well As Margarine in tiie army legally it cant buy the 15cent if it bought Agri culture department it would have to pay the original Purchase Price about 60 cents a plus 5 per cent handling charges and transportation the butter is in bulk and the army would have to pay to process it Toto on Pound or smaller All a spokesman makes the government butter More expensive for fee army than on the open an official of agriculture Dairy Branch said a meeting is to be held with army officers to see if some Way can be found to get around the Legal blocks that keep the army from buying i know it looks he this apparently indicated a shift in the agriculture departments Here the official As expressed by agriculture Secretary Charles has been that there was nothing to be gained by having the army use the government Brannan has said would Only require die agriculture department to buy that much More butter in the open Market to hold up prices to Farmers As required by the military i crevices now fill their butter needs by buying in the open Market government butter purchases have dwindled lately to about pounds a week because this is the Slack milk production in Early the government at 60 cents a were running As High As pounds a and the government recently has been Selling Small amounts Back to the commercial Trade at plus but these sales Haven made Dent in the surplus and the agriculture department still has no idea of How it is going to get rid of its the 15centapound offering Price to foreign countries still has to attract the first the bargain Price has been on for a month but foreign countries apparently dont want our but Ter even at this especially since they must pay their and not mar shall plan for it Only a Small part of the governments Butler Hoard can be attributed to the lifting of All Federal taxes on most of it was piled up before the taxes off july the army walks the Tightrope in the butter Margarine controversy by Leav ing the Choice of what to buy up to com manding generals of the various ipe and ii october 1950 contents articles m surf Jerome Scalise left instructs a group of West Point cadets on Bridge con using a Ponton Bridge his son Arthur is a first sergeant meets the Cadet by capt Joseph Cutrona congressional elections lineup a stars stripes ill sergeant meets the Cadet picture features by capt Joseph Cutrona a floating Bridge loaded with cadets returning from Engineer instruction landed at a Dock at West Points summer Camp a grizzled master sergeant jumped grinning and grabbed the hand of a similarly grinning Young Man and glad to see the older Man was sgt Jerome ranking no with a it Engineer unit instructing cadets during the he was greeting Cadet Arthur his a member of the first senior class detail instructing new sgt Scalise had quite a Story to despite 32 years in the regular he spoke with a slight accent which revealed his he said he was born in and came to the on july not quite five years he enlisted to get into world War Scalise is a modest Man and a Little slow to talk about one of the More thrill ing jobs he has done in the army and one for which he received nationwide in May co a was sent to he had to return to the in september because his enlistment had run out and he could reenlist Only at his Home he missed a plane on on an embassy plane was sent to pick up a naval Scalise managed to get a ride Back to the on that the Beechraft c45 took off with five passengers at 8 the radio and com pass went out and the weather closed by 1 the plane was lost and had just a few minutes of gasoline the result was a crash Landing in the Wilder for nine Days the Crew and Passen Gers remained at the plane hoping for they started heading in the Only logical four Days later a search plane sighted them and Rescue throughout the 13 Days Scalise marksmanship and ingenuity kept the survivors he hunted often killing wolves stalking the Small and cooked the fresh meat in his helmet the berries he picked rounded out the for his the sergeant was awarded the army commendation when talk turned to the 51yearold Soldier said he might think of retiring this he said that he called his Home be cause he owns a House there and his family lived there while he was he will probably Settle Down in Washington or in nearby Virginia when he he has four daughters and one Cadet Scalise was born at West Point in he competed for a presidential appointment to the military Academy As the son of a Soldier on Active Young Scalise is now a first Classman and a Cadet sergeant he is a member of the detail which instructs new fulfilling his part of the Mission bring ing them up to the standards expected of set Scalise arid his son Are shown at their first meeting at the Points summer Camp with them Are it col mall Hunnjr left and 14 col air in first Riding lesson v Germany youth prepares Lor tomorrow Vii diving i signs of the Xii regular features those United states the Margarine question strictly Bridge problems Book notes women if Viii Viii in in latest dec x dec i this weeks cover you would look worried if you were Peggy Reilly and were Only five years old and your brother was taking his first Riding lesson and when he was finished it would be your and that horse looked Bis and brother Bob Bie looked Small perched up even though he was two years and that horse looked awful Peggy is sitting on hurdle in the stables of con Stab he at Stutt photo was snapped by her maj co Stab see Page v for photos of her photo credits picture position top left Tomid dle right co Stab Pio army montage by Rollye Roto service Reilly by Henry Poluzzi stills by 20th Century Fox radio by Rio feature service in the stars and stripes