Food Costs,
Family Farm
Key to Plans
WASHINGTON The
Nixon administration, in
developing a long-range farm
policy, is giving msjfir
considerstion to what effect it
will have on family farms and
food costs.
These are issues which cotx
vitally influence the way in
which U.S. agriculture,
develops in the 1970s and
whether Americans can look
forward to as good a bargain
at food stores as tbey do
today.
The Agriculture Department
for years has pointed out—
sometimes defensively as
store prices rise— th a t
consumers spend less of their
take-home dollar on food than
any people on earth.
Last year this averaged 17.1
centi of the family dollar after
taxes and deductions, and is
expected to remain at this
level in 1969.
But the administration and
congress are almost ready to
consider new legislation to
succeed the basic farm
law—the Food and Agriculture ,
Act— which is due to expire at
the end of next year. *
Secretary pf Agriculture*;.
Clifford M. Hardin continues
to meet in closed-door sessions
with House farm leaders in an
effort to develop a consensus
on new farm programs.
Administration proposals
are still secret, but Hardin
frequently has mentioned land
retirement as a possible key.
But some critics of massive
land retirement—which could
Kannapolis:
Last of the
'Company'T owns
KANNAPOLIS v This
is the town the mill built. And
the mill still presides over the
community.
The mill is Cannon Mills, a
sprawling textile producer
head-quartered in a massive
brick structurfe that sits atop
a small hill in the middle of
town.
Below It lies Kannapolis, a
Piedmont North Carolina
community of nearly 40,000
persona that calls itself the
largest unincorporated town
in the country.
Kannapolis is one of
of the company towns,
institution once prominenrtfr'
American industrial
development.
One by one, many others
have either be c o
incorporated or have vanished
after the local industry closed.
But in Kannapolis, the mill
remains the dominant force
and affects the lives of all the
citizens.
Children are born in a
hospital built with mill funds,
and attend school in a building
partially tinanced by the
company. If a student wants
to study textile engineering, he
may apply for a company
scholarship.
When local citizens want
recreation, they go to the mill
subsidized YMCA, and when
they finish work or play, many
return to homes owned by the
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jjt ing wo can prtvido. j»
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black paopla tho opportunity to roach for a battar lifo ' %|^H
that wa cant holp but bo proud. mMB
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wo hava to
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mean idling of whole farms
say a sweeping program of
this kind, even gradually
applied over the next five or
10 years, could mean the end
of the family farm.
If this occurs, they argue,
the door would be open to a
takeover by corporation
agriculture whose aim it
would be to tailor production
itself and set prices in the
markets.
There are only three million
farms now, about half the
number of 30 years ago.
Department officials say
one-third of this total gross st
least SIO,OOO annually can turn
out 80 per cent of the nation's
food and fiber.
Theoretically it would be
possible, some say, to
eliminate at least two million
farms snd still have mora
than enough production to
meet the country's needs.
But the surviving farmers
would be subjected to larger
and more severe economic
pressures and would be
tempted to merge,, consolidate
and incorporate even further.
The result, according to this
theory, would be a monolithic
production system able to
control its own output much as
an automobile manufacturer
tailors assembly lines to
demand.
A top-level department
official, asked about this
concept, said he does not
believe it is possible, but
added that if it eann about
consumers probably would
spend at least two cents more
of their take-home pay on food
than they do now.
company.
Naturally, Cannon Mills Is
the largest employer in the
town, pouring more than $1
million of payroll money into
into the local economy every
week.
Since Kannapolis is
unincorporated, it operates
without a mayor or municipal
government, and its residents
pay no city taxes.
But that doesn't mean the
local people lack the comforts
of town living. Cannon MilU
takes care of that.
The Cabarrua County
commissioners technically
govern the community and
appoint the town'* school
board. Cannon does nearly
everything else.
Sanitation crews from the
mill collect garbage and keep
the streets clean. Maintenance
crews from the mill keep the
downtown buildings in good
repair.
The mill reimburses
Cabarrus County for the
salaries of 22 of the SI towp
policemen.
It all began in 1906, when
James W. Cannon of nearby
Concord paid $200,000 for a
60-acre tract in a rural sec
tion of the county.
On it he built a mill which
manufactured terrycloth
towels. Transportation was so
ooor his workers needed
iomes near the factory.
American Tob. f
Stevens on SCI
Boycott "Lisf
CHARLESTON, & C.-Tha
Rav. Ralph David Aberaathy
said Friday the haadqauftanof
•mal computet which haw
branches In South Carolina «■
ha picketed as part of the
Southern Chrirtian Leadership
Conference's drive to help
rtriking hospital worker* in
Charleston.
Aberaathy, head of the
SCLC, Mid the picket li* will
be pert of a six-point program
to intensify activities In behalf
of the strikers.
He said the SCLC Is also
"seriously considering the na
tionwide boycott of certain
South Carolina products."
Aberaathy told a news con
ference at the Charleston Air
port be has called on the New
York locals of the Hospital and
Nursing Home Employee-
Union, AFL-CIO, to organise
daily picketing at the national
offices of the five companies.
Companies in North Carolina
and Virginia also will be picket
ed.
He said the firms "represent
the anti-union policies of the
power structure in this state."
He listed the companies as
J. P. Stevens Co., Inc., Dasring-
Milliken Corp., and M. M. Low
ensteln and Sons, all textile
companies; and the Manhattan
Shirt Co. and the American
Tobacco Co.
Abernathy said activities in
New York City "will include
not only picketing but also git
ins, demonstrations and other
nonviolent action in order to
bring about the end of the
strike in South Carolina."
Abernathy said he also has
called on SCLC organizations
in Danville, Va., to begin pic
keting headquarters of Dan
River Mills and the affiliated
organization in Greensboro,
N. C., to picket the main office
of Burlington Industries and
Cone Mills.
ABeraathy is in Chartaton
to call for support of the strik
ing hospital worker*, who have
been out since March 18.
About 400 Negro nonpro
fessional workers are striking
against the South Carolina
Medical College Hospital and
the Charleston County Hospi
tal in an effort to gain union
recognition and higher wages.
The International Long
shoremen's Association, with
1,000 members in Charleston,
has pledged to support the
striking hospital workers.
ILA President Thomas W.
Glee son said Friday his group
"was working on a program of
support, but haven't anything
set up as yet. Maybe Monday
or Tuesday, we'll come up
with something."
Bomb Hits
Seattle
Campus
SEATTLE . A bomb so
powsrful it was mistaken tor an
earthquake by sleeping resi
dents near the campns ripped
through ths University of Wash
ingtm'S uliiiliiltfrftlffl liqrfbHng
early Sunday. No one was hurt
Dsmage to the three-story,
30-year-old buildlag was esti
mated unofficially as high aa
1300,000.
A university regent Seattle at
torney Harold Shefelman called
the bombing "the work of a mad
mind-" University officials
were at a loss for a motive.
The bomb wrecked half the
first floor housing the regis
trar's office blew a hole six feet
across in the reinforced con
crete floor of the recessed en
trance where it was planted
caused walls and ceilinrs to
buckle and blew out most of the
windows on both sides of (he
building. A burst water pipe
flooded a basement computer
room.
Windows were shattered in
three other buildings on the
campus onadranele, some as
far as 600 feet av ay.
The force of the explosion was
so great that it lifted the rear
end of a police patrol car off the
ground as it cruised two blocks
away. A woman apartment
dweller said the blast nearly
shook her out of bed and she
thought at first it was an earth
quake.
A janitor Paul Siefner was the
only person in the administra
tion building when the bomb
went off about 3:30 ajn. He was
in the basement and escaped in-
Jury.
No one else was in the
immediate vicinity.
Seal Off Building
Police sealed off the building
and sent laboratory crews sit
ing through the rubble seeking
clues to the type and amount of
explosive used.
A policeman on the scene fa-
Miliar with dynamite from his
'ormer road construction job
;aid it would have have taken
lalf a case of high test dyna
mite to cause that much de
struction.
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A pretty ve«t is one thing
every-girl must have for back
to-»chool this fall! And your
top choice it a long, long
"sweater Test" like thia, belted
and pocketed: the main ingre
dient of a wonderful threeaome
when you add a long-deeve
shirt (note thoae deep cuffa)
and a little plaid akirt with
iwingy A-line or newa-from-
Paria pleata.
Jump Into a Jumper, The
schoolgirl look that fashion's
mad about for every *g« now.
And how a jumper does stretch
your wardrobe! Wear it with a
turtle neck one day, with a shirt
the next—add a belt, a acarf, a
muffler—play all the new acces
sory tricks. Sketched here, the
new Seara front-buttoned jum
per, in colorful plaid to accent
with a "pick-up" aolid color in
sweater, ahirt, knee-socks.
Collect New Pants. You'll
need several pairs, becauae
pants for '69 look nothing like
last year's. Widened and.
straight or gently flared: that's
the pants rule now. And to
wear with such panto, dashing
new jacketo and shortcoata— r , >
one example, a knockout little
Sean jacket in leather-loO? ;
rimmed with Sherpa. HaftOL ' '
yourself a ball,
through all the exciting new
back-to-school fashions, in the
Junior Basaar at Sears!
Insulin May Be Cause Not Help
For Problems of Most Diabetics
N* » loh a§o It was fait
that all dtabedce esquired treat
■eat with Insulin. But, today,
In the wordi of an expert-"75
to 80 percent of diabetics do
not require increased insulin"
and tt this group, 8 out of 4 are
over weight.
a diabetic, If given Insu
lin, Is being . . 'forced' to
ftln weight even while the doc
tor is preaching diet and weight
loss."
lb laymen (and even some
doctors), these statements, by
Ihr. Russell L. Poucher, may
sound like heresy. But to expert
debetologlsts. Dr. Poucher's
medksl opinions are about as
startling as Columbus' heresy
that the earth is round.
Dr. Poucher, Long Beach
Naval Hospital, Long Beach,
Calif-, writing in a newly pub
ltshed anthology for physicians
"The New Management of Sta
ble Adult DUbstes"-recounts
why Injected insulin and ab
normal levels of the body's own
inwlin can be counterproductive
and undesirable in the most
common type of diabetic, the
maturity-onset, stable diabetic
who is usually overweight.
In his view, the sign of the
adult-oneet diabetic's disease is
his excess weight. And this ex
cess weight aggravates the dis
ease and makes it more difficult
to control. One of the chief
causes of this obesity is too
much circulating insulin.
Excess insulin, tfhteh com
monly found in the overweight
adult dUbetic, the doctor points
out, stimulates the accumulation
of fat in three ways: it inhibits
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the breakdown of body fat, it
don wapa from the blood but
largriy into fit rather than mus
cle cells and, by reducing blood
■upr to a point below normal at
certain times after having eaten,
It may cause the patient to
develop an abnormal appetite
and overeat.
Hie treatment, he says once
we realize the facets of the con
dition, becomes obvious: reduce
excess body weight and Improve
the utilization of blood sugar,
lowering at the same time blood
levels of both insulin and sugar.
Lowering insulin levels will as
sist the patient in following his
diet. He suggests that diet, exer
cise, and drug therapy can
achieve these goals.
Plane
After
Over Ocean
SHANNON, Ireland . - A
chartered Canadian DCB jetliner
with 260 persons aboard limped
under escort to Shannon Airport
Sunday after an engine burst
and ripped a hole in its fuselage
600 miles out over the Atlantic.
The Canadian Pacific plane
was on its way from London and
Shannon to Toronto when a star
board engine burst and debris
punctured the hull.
Air pressure dropped sudden
ly-
The airliner sent out a full
emergency call asking for res
cue aircraft to escort it back to
Shannon.
, British air force and naval
vessels were dispatched to track
the plane and U.S. rescue air
craft in Iceland and the Azores
were put on alert in the event
they were needed.
SATURDAY, JULY 3, IMB TH» CMCUMA TOOS-i
Bat two hoars and seven min
utes after the mishap, the dam
aged plane, flying low, made it
back to Shannon in southwest
Ireland. Two rescue plana* flew
.with it.
"A perfect three point land
ing," an airport spofcaamaa
said.
An airport official said the
oassengers appeared to wslk
normally off the airplane. There
were no reports of injuries.
A Canadian Pacific spokes
man in Vancouver, 8.C., said
the plane had picked up mem
bers of the Toronto Natural Hy
giene Society for a homeward
H.gn!
The spokesman said the acci
dent happened when the DCS
was two hours out of Shannon.
As a precaution against pres
surization failure, high-flying
aircraft are equipped with oxy-j
gen masks for passengers and
crew.
The DCB, built by the Mc-
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Beer Strike
Is Over
One Firm
sr. LOUIS - Sate*
brewery workers accented one
year contracts at JaeksonriDe,
Fla., and Houston, Tax., Son
day, ending a croaa-eountiy
shutdown of beermaker Anbeo
ser-Busch.
The strike began May 77.
Pickets were posted at the
(inn's five other breweries,
closing them when their brew
ers refused to cross the picket
lines.
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