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Pase Six THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C. Friday, December 4, 1959 Quotas and Price Supports Involved Farmers to Vote December 15 On Cotton Program for 1960 The cotton referendum for the a 1960 crop year will be held Tues day, December 15. Purpose of the referendum is to determine if marketing quotas will apply to the 1960 upland cotton crops. The vote also will determine the kind of allotment-price support program that will be available next year. Anyone who engaged in the pro duction of cotton in 1959 is eligi ble to vote in the referendum. If quotas are in effect, farm operators will have a choice again in 1960 between two allotment and price- support programs, Choice “A” and choice “B.” Choice “A” will be the regular farm allotment with price support of not less than 75 per cent of pari ty for complying farms. Choice “B” will be farm allotments which are 40 per cent larger than the regular farm allotments with price support at not less than 60 per cent of pari ty. 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What to do: ' Increase your physical activity while you cut back on the amount you eat. The calorie-pinching way in which the body acts to conserve ene^y when food is restricted was revealed in a study conducted Dr. Robert Olson of the University of Pittsburgh. Adults on carefully controlled reducing diets unconsciously—almost auto matically—trimmed their physical activities. Dr. Olson also observed that men and women in their fabulous forties or fifties develop another unconscious way to pinch calories. By learning techniques to save on time and motion, they acquire skill in their ways of working. They become too efficient for their own good! In burning less energy, they gain in weight as they gain in years. Cutting down on activity, consciously or un consciously, makes losing weight a slow and hungry process. If you are in this pinch because of a cut in your calorie allowance, consciously increase physical activity. At the same time, cut back on the amount of all food you eat. 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Under a quota program, Choice “A” will be eligible for price sup port through a Commodity Credit Corporation purchase program, while Choice “B” will be eligible for price support through loans, purchases and other operations. SUBSCRIBE TO THE MIRROR Savings Bond Sale Figures Increase The people of North Carolina responded to the higher interest rate of 3-3/4% now being paid on Savings Bonds by increasing their purchases. During October, state wide sales of Savings Bonds, Series E and Series H combined, were up 6.3 per cent over sales of last October. Cumulative sales for the year amounted to $38,750,065.00. This is 76 per cent of North Carolina’s 1959 goal of $51,000,000.00. G.l. GETS BAG BACK Sodus, N. Y. — Eight years ago Donald Fisher lost his sleeping bag during heavy fighting in Korea. Re cently he received it in the mail. He said the unknown sender must have gotten his address from pa pers in the bag. Economic Highlights Happening That Affect the Future of Every Individual- National and international Problems Inteparablo from Local Welfare The railroad featherbedding problem is beset by gale-force winds of controversy. Railroad spokesmen say that featherbedding results from old and obsolete work rules, amounts to pay for work not performed and costs the nation a needless $500 million a year. Most rail-labor spokesmen deny that featherbedding exists, at least in any significant degree, and are de termined to keep existing work rules in force. A rail management proposal that rail labor join with it in asking President Eisenhower to appoint an impartial committee to study the matter was turned down flat. There’s no meeting of minds between the two sides. A writer, Alfred Steinberg, re cently decided to find out which side is right, and he reports at length on his investigations in The Reader’s Digest. He rode the loco motives, visited yards and termi nals, talked to railroad people. The gist of what , he found is in this short sentence: “There can be no question that featherbedding abounds wherever one looks.’’ He then proceeds from that unequi vocal generality to specific exam ples of featherbedding practices. The rule requiring firemen with no fires to tend to ride diesel lo comotives is one. A “dead man’s control’’ automatically throws on the brakes and stops the train if something happens to the engineer. Even so, writes Mr. Steinberg, de scribing a ride he took in the cab of a Chicago-New Orleans passen ger train, “... .while the engineer worked, across from him sat the fireman, chain-smoking, embarrass ed, having nothing to do.’’ It is argued that the fireman is needed as a safety factor. But that argu ment, obviously does not impress Mr. Steinberg. He points out that many rapid-transit systems, and numbers of railroads abroad, ope rate safely without a second man. Also, on freight trains in this coun try a front-end brakeman rides with the engineer. “Yet,” he says, “35,000 freight and yard locomo- STILL ON TOP Chicago — Back in 1936, Jesse Owens was the sprinting' star of the Olympic games in Berlin. Now 46, Owens still is in great shape and can run pretty fast. He proved it recently when he chased and caught a thief. . Owens saw a man looting his parked car and making off with his topcoat, hat and some records. The man had a 100-foot head start, but Owens, now a disk jockey in a Chicago radio station, turned on the steam and caught him within half a block. tive firemen in the United States are being paid more than $200 mil* lion a year—for not working.” Another old work rule, adopted in 1919 when train speeds ran from 12^-20 miles per hour, gives en gine crews a full day’s pay for ev ery 100 miles they travel. This means, to take one Instance, that the engineer of a crack train which makes a 452-mlle round-trip be tween New York and Washington, D. C., in one day, gets 4V4 days’ pay. Union officials have defended this practice on the grounds that enginemen don’t get extra pay for Sunday and hblidgy work, and are not paid expenses incurred by their being away from home. Mr. Steinberg answer to that: “But an engineman who gets home the same day is not likely to incur many expenses.” Another expensive featherbed ding practice lies in the fence that the rules have erected between “road work” and “yard work.” A road engineer, on reaching a sta tion, can’t take his engine to the roundhouse. Yard crews take over and do that. And a further provi sion which prevents the quick and efficient switching to rail sidings belonging to industrial plants, if the plant is located even a foot be yond the yard limits “... is one reason why railroads have lost bus iness to trucks.” Mr. Steinberg reaches a conclu sion: “A Gallup Poll taken this year reveals that 45 per cent of union-member families oppose make-work. They even favor laws prohibiting this practice. But the answer does not lie in laws; it lies in a greater sense of responsibility to the public on the part of the railroad brotherhoods.” , Tru-Tread Tire Co. , U. S. TIRES Recapping & Vulcanising 223 Craven Street ME 7-2417 A Major move Horicon, Wis.—To prevent theft, Roy Votaw fastened his boat to a tree with a chain. When He re turned, a day later, both the boat and the tree were gone. Call us for free estimates on local and long distance mov ing. W. W. Ormond ME 7-5470 FINANCING AND LOANS Of Any Type—See First-Citizens Bank and Trust Co. 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