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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday May 14, 1963 the stars and stripes Page 7 . Farmers on decline Survey says Washington up the number of us. Farmer dropped nearly so per cent during the last 30 Yein while the total Popula Tion increased More than 36 per cent a research organization Ald. The population reference Bureau inc., Laid the exodus from Arm to City from 1940 to 1960 exceeded and other migratory period in is. History. The shift reflected the gradual change in America from an agricultural to an Industrial society it said. The Bureau a nonprofit research organization said that by next month less than 8 per cent of the population will be living on farms. Increased mechanization has helped drive men off the farm it said. It also blamed the High costs of equipment and other necessities and a Small return on investment to earn $5.500 annually which is the average income for a skilled White Collar worker the Bureau said a Farmer would have to make an investment of 1111.000. High taxes High real estate taxes expand ing suburbs larger farms and Federal soil Bank programs also Nave helped push the Farmer into cities the organisation said. Better schools in the cities As Well As the effect of television and the Auto Mobile have likewise played a part. The negro Fanner in Southern states showed the largest inclination to leave Rural surroundings. The Bureau said that in 1940, 35 per cent of the negro population lived on the farm by 1990 42 be cent of these people had  the decline the Bureau said the South Mill had the second largest amount of land devoted t farming 65.7 per cent. The North Central states had thl Argest number of farm acres with 79.8 per cent. Golden period the Only Dent in the exodus the urea said was the Golde period for Farmers during Wor War h and lasting until 1949. A shortages goo weather follow in the drought years of Tho 1930s plus Price support legislation stimulated a Back to the form movement for Many return in , by 1949 the exodus be Gan again when agricultural Price declined. Since 1950. The Burea said the Farmer s share of the grog National product has been Cut 1  largest group of those Leav ing the farm Are youths 20 Yea sold or younger. During the 1930s the Bureau said. 70 per cent of the Arm migrants were 20 or Younge the largest age group who re main Are those Between 45 and 4th Bureau said that a exerted a More pervasive influence than any other Factor on the to Tantal mobility of  the farm population de Cline the american Farmer s Wolf Itell bears More children than another group. Farm women average &33 children compared with 126 children for Urban mothers. Eddy besting comfortably Framingham mais. Api Singer problem bowery drinkers among he estimated 12,000 residents ofic area spend their entire sunday tying to find a fellow bum with bottle left Over from saturday nigh that falling they turn to hair tonic Aterno or any other solution that might contain enough alcohol to pull them Back from the harsh reality of life into the fuzzy world of the bowery  the bowery drunk contrary Tomany popular notions is not usually a Man with a broken dream. Never had a dream some of them never had a dream Baronyan said. Most of hem arc just poor creatures who became drunks were irresponsible from the time they were kids and lust came Here to get away from it  nor he says Are there Man bums who came to the bowery from lofty positions in society assume believe. Once in awhile some big businessman or a doctor or a lawyer or some other important person will find it too Lonich to live on the outside and come Here  he explained. But they Are few and far be tween. For the most part the bums Here Are poorly educate products of poor Homes and com Littely lacking in  week As the death Tol mounted steadily police am health authorities scoured the bowery for victims of the Poison out paint thinner they had con  were found dead w h e r they had fallen in gutters. Other Lay unconscious in filthy hallways a few were found half alive reel ing blindly alone the streets. More than a score were fount soon enough so that Medlyn science May be Able to save them. Ests include to. The actor s attorney and executor r of the estate Eddy wed the estate was sub r St Ontal but declined to guess atthe amount. I the bearded actor Best known f for his role in the Man who came to dinner was a Bachelor bettors frown sen. John s. Cooper. R-ky., said the 1964 Republican nominee should be a Strong advocate of edenic action to assure civil rights or negroes. Goldwater s position s that most racial problems should be settled by the states. J next Bow i talked with these Fellows Dur no the height of this  Araldi Ronlan t and they were Union med most of them. They see a of of death the on the Street and to the Gutter Type of death. It ets to a Point where death does t Miner  ther was some mourning Mong the other residents of the Towery. They Are the Laxy men and women who work Only enough i going Rome talking with reporters a aha Leavea a new York Hospital for her Brooklyn , Home a Helen Klaben it who Surv led a plane crash and seven Weeka in the Yukon  Klaben underwent an opera Don to remove the toe of he right foot front bitten during her ordeal. A photo service resumed on Possum Trot Railroad in Ark. Prescott. Ark. Up the Possum Trot Railroad resumed passenger service at a time when passenger service is fading. The steam engine that pulled the train chugged 23 Miles through Timberland at 15 Miles an hour from Reader to Waterloo. Cov. And mrs. Orval e. Faubus were Guttu on tin inaugural run. The Reader Rel Road co which operates the Possum tool said the steam engine passenger service was put into operation far people who have forgot ten it used to b part of the american Way of life the Possum Trot will make the 23 Miles each monday wednesday and  is suggested that passengers bring sack lunches a company circular said. Then is no dining  us keeper Kin mrs. Gertrude Williams wat his housekeeper for Many years. His sister in Law is mrs. James Woolley the balance of the estate was left to the actors fund for the actors Home care the Saratoga Hospital and the Hawley Home for children Here. N on Gold this Issue cannot be downed Cooper said. Our party came into being on this Issue. To Compromise it would be fatal sen. Jacob k. Javits r- said nomination of a conservative of the school of thought which is As Ery round to get a few cents together for food and a Tew drinks. These people Are More respond  Baronyan said. They Haven real alcohol problem. They Are lust Lazy people who can t bother to Cope with the outside  these people were saddened bythe deaths. After All anybody who amounts to anything at All can t help but feel sorry for  he said. Tiny Needles orbited for radio tests Lexington. Moss. Apra a Contact has confirmed the Luc Essul release in space of some 400 million tiny Copper Needles Mailer than a human hair. In Anair Force Experiment to study a new method for worldwide radiocommunication. The Experiment la being con ducted for the air Force by Lin Coln Laboratory of Massachusetts statute of technology. An announcement from Theab oratory said the Needles mown As Dipoles three quarters fan Inch Long and about one third he thickness of a human hair were ejected successfully from an air Force satellite in orbit it did not say when 00 found., of wire the fibres Are expected to spread along a circular Orbital path some 0,000 mites in circumference landform a thin narrow ring or Bell around the Earth. Fifty pounds of wire was employed. Lincoln Laboratory offered the explanation of the Experiment each of the dipole fibres is , passive communications satellite and the Oral enl Belt officers will be used to Bounce radio signals Bock to Earth Over very Long distances. A Belt of this sort s practically Invulnerable to an sort of physical damage and has Many other desirable features when used for Long distance Micro wave communication. The dipole fibres released from the dispenser Are still in a compact Cloud entered about the Dis Penser package and circling the Earth every 166 minutes. In a near Polar Urilt. Some 2,000 Miles High by an inclination of approximate 37 degrees. This Cloud is expected to spread out slowly in both directions along the circular Orbital path 40,000 Miles in circumference until the Dipoles form a Complete narrow ring or Belt in  life of s years the announcement said the Ibers will have a life of not More than five years. By that time Tholar radiation pressure will have forced All the dipole fibres Down to lower altitudes where the atmospheric density is greater an they will disappear  1 said. The Experiment first attempts has raised considerable Contro Versy among scientists. Sir Bernard love Tell director othe radio Telescope at Jodrell Bank in England and other scientists mostly astronomers said they were against cluttering the Environ ment of Earth with the Needles which they maintained might interfere with research and Rad astronomy. Viter for 64 a coated with senator Goldwater Ould Lessen Republican chances. Both agreed that a conservative r advocate of states right i racial disputes might pick up some otes in the South. But they said his would not mean Victory. Cooper and javits usually Are entitled with the Liberal Wing Ofle Republican party and their pinions were on weekend radioed television programs. But three of five present or for Mer Republican National chairmen enter viewed on another television How indicated they feel the lances of a Goldwater Type re tube can winning the nomination vere stronger this year than in the past a great Many people. Feel that maybe this is the time for showdown. " on picking a con or valve said sen. Thruston mor on Ray. So it might be that someone might say Well this is he time to try  Clear choice1 Arthur Summerfield said he feels the republicans of this count Rynd citizens generally want to have tie Opportunity to make a Clear Holce Between the wild Irre Spon Ible spenders. And the conserve Tulve. Sound progressive re pub cans he said he would be pleased and do everything i can to help elect him if Goldwater is nominated however. Summerfield added thany gop nominee would have his full support sen. Hugh Scott a a asked bout Goldwater a chances said he it a perfectly tremendous personality. A dynamic conservative. T certainly would t preclude he possibility that senator Gold water. Might be the  but Leonard Hall said he con Idem new York nov. Nelson a. Rockefeller As the leading  Hall denied reports that he s managing Rockefeller s pre Campaign buildup. Rockefeller marriage rep. William e. Miller.  incumbent gop chairman Dis cussed the political Impact of lock Folter s recent divorce an remarriage Ano concluded that within eight or nine or 10 month sit May Well have been  javits strongly supports Rocke Feller. He brushes aside the suggestion that republicans might be Wise to nominate a conservative next time to provide voters with a Choice Over a Liberal. The naw York senator expressed Lope that the nominee would be rom the school of progressive republicanism associated with governor Nelson a  he expressed Hope that the go nominee will be governor Rockefeller or one of his political complexion just As we nominated we Mlkle and Dewey and Eisenhower in other  Chi rights Cooper appearing on a program with sen. Kenneth b. Keating r-. Said he is terribly Dis Turbed because some of our leaders still say these civil right issues Are just local issues to be determined by the  such a stand might win a few votes in Tho South Cooper said but this would not be enough and it would  m deterioration of in Republican  Cooper did not identify posstbl1964 Republican presidential nominees. Javits was asked u gov. Coarse Romney of Michigan who like Goldwater has Bee denying that he is a 1964 presidential aspirant might win favor with the Liberal Wing of the party. I Don t think we know enough As yet about governor Romney to Tell that javits replied  
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