THIS WEEK IN
WASHINGTON
The wide open split in the so
called farm bloc and the fact that
the farm price support program,
if not an actual campaign issue,
will be one of the inoat contro
versial questions before the Slat
congress, leads back to the bitter
legislative fight which brought
aboitt the stop-gap law which is
drawing the fire not only of ur
ban but rural taxpayers alike.
Add to this blaze the fact that
the same congress which manda
ted the price support program on
basic commodities, passed a law
which prevents effectual admini
stration of price support, and you
have a set of circumstances which
has the entire agricultural pic
ture in a turmoil. Both the laws,
the stop-gap long-range farm
program which mandates price
support, and the commodity
cradit corporation charter exten
tion which forbid* the commo
dity credit corporation from buy
ing or leasing storage facilities
for grain on io*n or purchase
agreement, thus blocking price
support, were passed in the hectic
closing hours of the 80th con
gress when the GOP member
ship was desperately trying to
adjourn in time for their Phila
delphia convention. Here's the
picture during those last closing
hours:
The senate agricultural com
mittee concentrated on the price
support program ... the house
committee on land-use policy.
The houle committee met with a
bi-partisan split over the land
use and was unable to agree. It
then reported is stop-gap bill and
the house passed the bill on
June IX fnerely extending the
wartime program of price sup
ports without substantial change
BARGAINS AT AUCTION
100 Leather Jackets and Mackinaw*, Coats, Shoes,
Boots, Furniture, Stoves, Ladies' and Men's Overcoats,
We sell all the week.
WE SELL AT AUCTION FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
JIM BROWN, Auctioneer
Jack Frost Is
In The Air!
With coal scarce and higher prices, an Ar
vin Heater is the answer to your problems
for these frosty mornings.
WATAUGA HARDWARE, Inc.
The Friendly Store ?
BOONE, N. C.
until June 90,1950. I1
The senate committee had,|'
meanwhile, agreed unanimously I
on a Ion*- range bill reorganizing
the toil conservation department
and providing tor permanent
flexible price support program
baaed on a reviaed parity for
mula. This bill passed the senate
about 11 p. m. or the night of
June 17 with final adjournment
of congress scheduled for June
19 . . . two days away. ^ After
several amendments to the bill
from the floor the bill received
near unanimous support and
passed the senate 79 to 3.
So the senate long-range bUl
and the house stop-gap bill went
to a conference committee com
nosed of Senators Aiken, Young
and Thye.
Thomas (OklsO and Ellender,
Democrats, plus Repre^ntative*
Hope, Anderson, Johnson and
Murray. Republicans and Flan
nagan, Cooley and pace^iw>
crats. Flannagan described the
conference as "the strangest and
most unusual experience in his
18 years on Capitol Hill.
Congressman Pace said: "The
house passed a bill, the senate
passed a bill, ?nd the com
promise is to enact both of them.
The committee split two ways
first between the house and
senate and then between the
Republicans and Democrats from
the house. The conference start
ed at 5 p. m. Friday, June 18, the
day before adjournment, ine
senators insisted on a long-range
bill. The house conferees were
equally adamant against the
senate bill, ?ying " was too
I complicated. So they reached an
Impasse and adjourned.
There the matter stood over
night until 2 p. m. Saturday
afternoon. June 19, the day of ad
journment, when the conferees
met again and quickly adjourned
without progress. At 4 p. m.
Saturday they met for the third
time and again deadlocked. As
the evening wore on the Repub
lican conferees received word
from the top leaders both in
Washington and from Philadel
phia that they must get together
on some kind of a farm bill. The
rules say a majority of conferees
must agree. The senate conferees,
three Republicans and two Dem
ocrats were in favor of the long
range bill. Three Democrats from
the house were against it and in
this they were joined by Rep.
Reid Murray of Wisconsin. Re
publican, making a majority of
four out of seven house con
ferees. The other house con
ferees, Republicans Hope, Ander
son and Johnson, were finally!
willing to compromise. Thenj
Murray was persuaded to resign1
from the committee and in his
place Congressman George Gilliei
of Indiana was named. A new]
Watauga Hereford Breeders
SIXTH ANNUAL
Purebred Sale
Sat., October 2, 1948
1:00 P. M.
Farmers Burley Warehouse
Boone, N. C.
33 HEAD
10 OPEN HEIFERS - 7 BRED HEIFERS
8 COWS AND 8 BULL CALVES
CONSIGNORS:
D. C. Coffey Frank Look a bill
J. H. Council! Dave Minton
Bernard Dougherty N orris Brothers
* H. Grady Farthing Shipley Farm
Orville Hagaman R. H. Vannoy and Sons
H. M. Hamilton, Ja. W. H. Walker
Hamilton & Cauncill Aud L. Ward
H. M. HAMILTO^J, JR., Auctioneer
BUD SNIDOW Eastern Breeder
L. L CASE N. C. Extension Service
PAUL SWAFFER N. C.^Extension Service
FOR CATALOGUE WRITE
W. H. Walker, Secretary L. E. Tuckwiller, Sale Mgr.
i_ Sugar Grove, N. C. ? Boone, N. C. a
tiii ?
meeting was called at 1:90 a. ?l
Sunday morning. June 20. Sug- !
gestion was made to move back ;
effective date of the long-range
bill to January 1. 1990? This
proved to be the key of ggre%
ment, and at 5:30 a. m. Sunday
morning the conferee* agreed to
continue wartime support prices
to December 31, 1949, when the
long range bill would become ef
fective, and in the meantime
congress could take another look
and make changes before the
effective date. So the conferees
reported, but the Democrats in
the house refused to sign the
conference report. However,
shortly after 6 a. m. Sunday
morning, June 20, a division vote
in house passed the bill 147-70.
4-H DRESS REVUE ?
Miss Janice Ray Swift, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Swift of
Reese, a member of the Bethel
Senior 4-H club and winner of
the county dress revue held in
Boone in July, went to Lenoir on
Tuesday to compete with other
4-H dress revue winners in this
district. Approximately fifteen
counties will be represented and
the winner in this -contest will
advance to the state contest to be
held in Raleigh later this falL
Miss Swift was accompanied
to Lenoir by Miss Robbie Lynn
Norr, Bethel Junior 4-H club,
Miss HeHlen Hardin, Boone
Senior 4-H club and Miss Betty
Matheson, home demonstration
agent.
NOT GOING ANYWHERE
Omaha, Neb. ? A boy looked
on innocently while a bus driver
counted out his change for a $5
bill. When the driver told the
boy to "drop your fare" in the
collection' box, the boy asked
that the door be opened, explain
ing. "I'm not going anywhere. I
wanted the change for my lemo
nade stand."
CARE appeals for parcels,
'unds of unrestricted designation.
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anew to
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