THIS WEEK IN
WASHINGTON
Rather than cec hi* farm pro
gram 'so hamstrung that it
would not work," Secretary
Charles F. Brannan has asked the
?enate agricultural committee to
eliminate all reference to his con
troversial farm plan from the
senate farm bill. As a result the
bill which came from the com
mittee resembles in the main the
hou*.?- passed bill which also had
kicked overboard both the Bran
nan proposals and the Aiken
farm law.
The senate bill picked up a
few of the features now in the
Aiken act, and no doubt the
measure will wind up in a con
ference committee before final
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passage. As now constituted, the
measure bears the imprint of
former Secretary of Agriculture
Clinton P. Anderson, senator
from New Mexico.
The senate farm version calls
for support of basic crops? corn,
cotton, peanuts, rice, tobacco and
wheat at 90 per cent of parity
this year and reduction to as low
as 75 per cent after 1950, if sup
plies become surplus. Milk and
butterfat would be supported at
75 to 90 per cent Wool, mohair,
tung nuts and Irish potatoes will
be supported at 60 to 90 per cent.
All other farm products could be
supported up to 90 per cent,
while products which can be
stored ? oats, barley, rye and
meats ? wold be supported at 90
to 75 per cent
In the meantime the house
continued to move ahead some
what faster than the senate on
the administration - supported
measures, passed the minimum
wage bill somewhat watered
down and sent it along to the
bogged-down senate. Filial pas
sage was on a roll call of 361 to
35. The bill would raise the na
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tional minimum wage from 40 to
75 cents and extend some other
benefits to approximately 20
million workers.
For instance some of the
amendments passed would ex
empt rural home workers who
are unsupervised and make all
the produce they sell; employees
of newspapers with circulation
below 5,000; workers in small
telephone companies serving up
to 500 clients; sawmill operators
who hire fewer than 12 persons.
The term "workday" is defined
to mean whatever a collective
bargaining agreement says it
does.
The house grew tired of wait-!
ing, committee action on a joint
house-senate lobby probe mea
sure and passed its own bill pro-|
viding for a house committee to
investigate lobbying of both pri
vate organizations and govern
mental agencies.
The senate finally passed the
Big foreigh aid appropriations
bill with $5,647,724,000, or about
10 per cent less than originally
requested for use in fiscal year
1950. The first thing the house
did was to knock out $344,000 1
which the senate had set up fori
use of an EC A watchdog com
mittee.
Hearings on the military aid
program, the B-36 probe and the
investigation of "five percenters"
continued to highlight the com
. mrttee sessions. After the com
. mittee continually gibed at him
for about a week, the president's
military aid, Maj. Gen. Harry
Vaughan came through with a
statement asserting that he per
sonally had given deep freeze
units as presents to the little
White House at Independence,
Mo., one to the White House staff
here and others to various others
of his friends.
Observers here however, while
deploring the embarrassment and
the so-called officiousness of
General Vaughan in behalf of his
friends, point out that there has
been no indication that any fav
ors have been granted to General
Vaughan in return for his efforts.
One observer said, "There is cer
tainly nothing here to suggest a
scandal on the proportions of
Teapot Dome."
The Washington Post says edi
tohially concerning the deep
freeze gifts, "After all, the send
ing of gifts of one kind or anoth
er to important public personages
is an old American custom, and
hardly a day goes by that gifts
are not delivered at the White
House. What to do with these
gifts is one of the perennial pro
blems "
The senate banking committee
heard witnesses on the three-day
work-week now in progress by
the miners, heard witnesses for
the National Association of
Manufacturers declare that in
dustry-iwde bargaining will
"destroy collective bargaining
and inevitably result in the con
Itrol and direction by the govern
ment of production, prices, pro
SMALL THANKS
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year-old boy rowed a quarter of
a mile in rough seas to rescue a
man and his son who had been
thrown into the water when their
yacht capsized near here. He al
so salvaged the yacht Safe on
the shore, the man said, "Thank
you" to the boy and, as a reward,
gave him the equivalent of 28
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fits and the conduct of business
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GAS PIPELINE
The Federal Power Commix-,
sion has authorized in the first!
six months of 1949 the expansion!
of natural gas trans emission faci*
lities by 2 million cubic feet ofj
daily delivery capacity- About
4,900 miles of new pipeline have
been authorized at an estimated
cost of $374,820,900.
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Margaine output hit a peak of
909 million pounds in 1948, or
163 million pounds more than
the former record of 1947. Con
sumption also reached a new
high. Disappearance into civilian
trade channels was 6.1 pounds
per person. 3.4 pounds more than
the 1937-41 average.
UNEMPLOYMENT
Non-agricultural employment
declined by 230.000 workers in
July, with manufacturing and
trade industries showing the
sharpest decrease, according to
the Labor Department. The mid
July employment figure was 43,
500,000, or 1,600,000 below a
year ago.
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SCENES AT WATAUGA HOSPITAL
At the left a laboratory technician is making a microscopic exam
ination of a specimen in the newly -equipped laboratory of the lo
cal hospital. Center, the usee of the Hawley table in treatments of
spinal injuries is demonstrated. At the right the graduate nursing
staff is shown. They are. left to right, back row: Mrs. Nina Martin.
Mrs. Jones Ashley. Mrs. Tom Hollis; front row. Mrs. Harry Klultx,
Mrs. Ines Heffner. Mrs. Carroll Moore. ? Photos by Palmer's Photo
Service.
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Support the Watauga Hospital Improvement Program
We are supporting the hospital improvement program be
cause:
1 . We believe the hospital has as good a surgical, medi
cal and nursing staff as any hospital in western North Car
olina and that the hospital is being efficiently and economi
cally managed.
2. We believe it is to the best interest of the people of
Watauga county to have such a hospital here at home, eas
ily and quickly accessible so that they can save the extra
expense and anxiety of traveling to distant points when a
member of the family needs hospital treatment.
3. We believe from an economic and business stand
point is in the interest of the people of Watauga to spend
their money for medical and hospital care at home. A con
servative estimate is that over a hundred thousand dollars
annually has gone out of this county in the past years for
medical and hospital care. Much of this money would be
paid in salaries and wages and would be spent right here
at home to say nothing of the other advantages mentioned
above.
Let's match Duke's ten thousand dollars and finish the
job.
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