European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday april 26, 1963 the stars and stripes tag 7 con say i told you so on Dairy surplus Benson right on cutting supports by Kenneth Schriber Washington Nana to in Ember Ezra Toft Benson for eight years the mormon Church Leader sat on the hot seat Here As Secretary of agriculture in president Eisenhower s Cabinet and for eight years democrats even some republicans raked him Over the coals almost Dally for his i e s s government in Angrl culture ideas. In the 1960 president jul Campaign Benson was Rcpt dented by dlr hard m. Nixon. In particular during his Stormy career in Washington Benson was scorched for his theory that the government itself could disc aural production of some surplus com Modl Les by lowering the Federau support Price. The other Side o the Coin was that government als could expand food supplies just by raising prices. Taft Brown today under the shadows of he Etta Atrah mountains out in Salt 1-Nke City Benson must be Chuck Ling heart my. In spite of itself the new fron tier is proving that Benson s the Ory can work. Indeed the administration May to on the verge of bringing under control the Dairy surplus which has been costing tax payer $500 million n year and has been one of the most troublesome farm problems in recent years. How has this come about by lowering the government support Price for milk. When he took office in 1961. Secretary of agriculture Orvllle i Freeman boosted milk prices to Dairy Farmers from $3.22 per hundredweight to $3.40 per Hundred weight about 83 per cent of parity. But because of the rapid buildup in production. Freeman was forced to Cut prices Back to 13.11 or 75 per cent of per Ltd a year inter. Freeman a skilled practitioner of the Politico Art makes no horns about preferring to raise Price Nup ports for former instead of cutting j them Back. But he said plaintively int he had no Choice because supplies had become excessive. The upshot is that the buildup in milk production eased and production in the year ended last March 31 actually declined a bit below the previous your. It s very observed n Dairy Industry official. You Don t net a turnaround like that in year without a he said the reason was the lower government Price. And during Tho past year the government purchased 28 per cent less cheese and 20 per cent less butter to support prices. Confederate Bills Good on Gold in Mcminnville. Tenn. Confederate Money wll he just As Good As Gold or Yankee dollars Here next month. The Southern currency will be issued in connection with the my Mann Tlle and War run county civil our cent Neinl Celebration May 3-4. The Money will be similar to that issued during the civil War. But it will carry pictures at the county courthouse and a mule drawn civil War Cannon which recently made the trip Between Here and Washington. Worth some j100.000 of the Money will be issued and will be Good in stores and other establishments through out the county. Some industries in the area plan to use the Money for part of their i payrolls. The Confederate Bills will be1 available april 39 and May be obtained at either of Mcmyn Nellle s two Banks in Exchange for . Dollars. Anyone who has Confederate Money left Over after the big week Tad can Exchange it for Yankee dollars May 6. Will 3-d glasses bring Dali Art closer to Norm new York up Salvador doll disclosed that he now has telescopic painting glasses with six lenses which according to Call give him a three dimensional View of things when attached to a pair of Ordinary glasses. Dall s wife. Gala said the glasses gave the surrealist eight eyes. Dall was among the passengers As the liner United states sailed from Manhattan for South amp ton. England. Me was in route to his Home in Spain. The telescopes glasses designed especially for Dall by a Manhattan optician have three lenses for each Eye. Dall said he planned to use them for obtaining a different perspective in viewing things. He said the lanes contained lenses honouring Argus of greek mythology who had countless eyes. A ked what else was new in the optical world Dall confided a Doc Tor in Marseilles was working on glasses for dreaming in glorious negro defends minstrel shows Milwaukee new Tom mlle run Are Lolarea missile. The Lafayette was Earls Tenity by mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy in mar and waa Chounl cloned Early this week. A
