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WEDNESDAY, August 1, 1951
TSIiSl High Prices May Get
‘Too Low’ On Farms
More Basketball Fixes
r pHE spreading expose of college basket-
ball “fixes” is approaching the propor
tions of the sensational world series base
ball scandal of a generation ago. In a sense
it is more serious and uglier, for it involves
Propaganda
Machine Rolling
HTHE WHEELS of the Russian peace pro-
paganda machine are turning rapidly. A
recent visit by a group of British Quakers
was seized by the Russians as a means of
spreading more of its propaganda for peace
to the outside world, but of course, not to
the Russian people.
The Quakers asked Deputy Foreign Min
ister Malik if, in order to attain a more
peaceful world, Russia would be willing to
drop its antiwestern press campaign, stop
interference in the internal affairs of non
communist countries, enter into a disarma
ment agreement and hold a meeting of chiefs
of state to seek general settlements.
Malik’s answer was, “Sure Russia wants
peace. There is no anti-west propaganda
campaign. It would be absurd to think that
Russia was trying to export revolution when
everyone knows revolution has to originate
in the individual countries, and hasn’t Rus
sia been trying all the time to get people to
agree on disarmament? Look at Russia’s re
cent efforts to get a big powers conference
in Paris.”
At the very moment Malik was prepar
ing his answer for the Quakers, Russia was
involved in a renewed propaganda campaign
against Yugoslavia.
It was evident that Malik was using
double-talk to mislead un-thinking people
about Russia’s real intentions.
Warren R. Austin, Chief U. S. delegate
to the United Nations, was not kidding, how-
ever, when he said that if Yugoslavia is at
tacked by Russia, the United Nations will
go to the rescue.
Apparently, Mr. Malik’s peace talks have
little “fooling” effects upon Mr. Austin.
young men seeking education and character
development; young stars of college ath
letics, supposed to exemplify the highest
ideals of honorable sportsmanship.
Investigations in New York and else
where are beginning to indicate that bas
ketball contests in the East and the North
have been honeycombed with skulduggery
—gamblers and racketeers bribing players
to throw games or to hold their scoring down
below designated figures.
This sort of crime on the part of the
gamblers—corrupting the morals of youth
with tempting payoffs—deserves the sever
est punishment. They are the ones pri
marily to blame; but the student-players are
guilty, too—guilty of a gross betrayal of
their alma maters. They know better and
deserve little sympathy, though the effect
on their lives of the disgrace of exposure
may prove worse punishment than the rack
eteers themselves will suffer.
The progressive discovery of more and
more basketball riggings raises the ques
tion: how many more players in how many
more schools, not yet found out, have been
selling out to the fixers ? And how long has
it all been going on ? It is gratifying to know
that no evidence of such knavery has been
found in our section of the country.
If there has been a nation-wide trend
toward rigging basketball matches (this is
the easiest kind of popular game to fix)
—if the gamblers have been trying to develop
it into a new sort of syndicate racket—let
us hope that the disposition of the cases
being exposed will set an example and raise
a warning that will cause other players to
resist the temptation of bribery, and thus
nip the evil in the bud. Basketball is too fine
a game to be killed by corruption.—The
Houston Post.
WASHINGTON, Aug.
U. S. War on Polio - 1951
1—(JP)— ed in some degree before the Sum- ket supply. Often this causes the
Weaking markets point to the mer is over include wheat, cotton, price of the commodity to go up,
possibility that the government oats, barley and peanuts. or at least stabilize at the support
soon may be working harder at Wheat already is selling below rate.
keeping’ farm prices from going the support rate of 90 per cent T-lie department has about $2,*
“too low” than at keeping them °f parity. Parity is standard for 000,000,000 invested in farm pro-
from going “too high.” measuring farm prices, declared ducts produced in previous years
. by law to be equally fair to farm- and stored under price support
Recent price declines have car- ers an( j those who buy their pro- programs. They are mostly grains,
ried several commodities down to (j uc ts. Price ceilings may not be tobacco, flaxseed and dried beans,
or below levels at which the gov- pi ace( } on an y f arm products selling Fifteen months ago, the depart-
ernment is committed to support t,d ow the parity level. ment had more than $4,000,000,001)
them. Developments indicate that tled up in fa ,. m commodities. Since
several others may drop to support cotton r nces uown that time ifc hag sold many of them
levels by harvest time. Cotton prices have turned down to meet heavy demands under the
CCC Prepared rather sharply since the Office defense program.
, of Price Stabilization (OPS) slap-
The Agriculture Department’s ped on a ce iling at 45 cents a
$6,750,000,000 Commodity Credit po und last winter. New crop cotton
Corporation (CCC) is fully pre- j s being sold for future delivery
pared to step in to prevent exces- at less than 33 cents a pound, or
sive price set backs. It operates on i y slightly more than a cent
through the department’s far flung a b ove the support rate,
system of farmer committees. The price of oats is only about
Farm commodities whose prices five cents a bushel above the sup-
probably will have to be support- port rate. Pea,nuts are bringing
only about 10.8 cents a pound com
pared with the average support
Largest Iranian
Plant Closes;
Awaits Talks
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Polio Penicillin Sought
By American Researchers
(Editor’s note: This is the sec
ond in a series of stories by
Associated Press Science Editor
Howard M. Blankeslee on the
fight the United States is wag
ing against the dread disease of
polio.)
come from the same source, soil,
and it will act on the same prin
ciples. Like penicillin, it will be an
antibotic.
This search centers at the New
York Botanical Gardens with fi
nancial support of the National
Foundation for Infantile Para
lysis. Antibotics are substances
IVTEW YORK, Aug. 1—6P)— A
•^penicillin for polio is one of
this year’s research hopes in the invisibly small organisms that in
annual epidemic now threatening. habit the soil. These creatures
The new one won’t be named produce chemicals for their own
penicillin, if discovered, but it will private use, to get their food or
U. N. Negotiators
Set Hard Schedule
ands of samples of soil, gathered
from all over the earth and flown
to New York.
It’s about time for the faint-hearted
to ploiu up the spring gardens that
they abandoned in the summer.
Highway fatalities are often unnec
essary and ahvays too numerous.
Our New Weapons Have Bigger ‘Bang’
More Tests Set for Atomic Weapons
virus in your stomach. This is
TIN ADVANCE Headquarters, day in publishing their daily time based on the medical belief that
^ Korea, Aug. 1—(A 5 )—The Kae- table. ... . people get polio via food, drink
song armistice talks last only a Staff Meetings or contamination entering their
little over an hour each day. But Aside from the talks themselves, mouths.
the delegates and their staffs work ^be most important events on the Other Chemical Souuht
a rugged schedule from dawn to da jiy program are staff meetings , • , , ■ i ■
midnight. between the negotiators and their A tln r( ! chemical is sought to
Hours of preparatory work are assistants. bolster the human serum that
required for each session. mu -r < u • • u m ■ comes from the blood of polio pa-
mu a ■ i. x- ,v TT • The first such session is held im- t ients. This serum has slight,re-
The dayfetarts for the five Urn- me di a tely after breakfast. Then tarding effects on polio. The chem-
the group discusses the papers pre- i C al, it is hoped, will add to po-
pared the night before for possi- t ency of the serum,
ble delivery during the day’s con- Another search is on Gamma
ference with the Communists. Globulins, the fraction of your
Most of the statements made by blood containing the antibodies by
Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, the chief which your body fights all sorts
U. N. delegate, are read from of infections, including polio. This
typed sheets prepared only after globulin comes from Red Cross
long and careful study. blood donations. It is the same glo-
. - • x . c u j- bulin that made the famous war-
A few minutes before boarding time measles remed Someone
ficials said. Those prices, as a oil nationalization act, but they,
whole, have dropped six per cent should continue to be ran with
from a record set last February. British know-how and salesman*
The Agriculture Department sup- ship,
ports most farm prices by means The partnership before national*
of loans to farmers. Instead of ization had been on a basis of.
The foundation is investing four selling his product in the open mar- royalties for Iran from the Brit-
million dollars in research this ket, the farmer may put it in stor- ish-controlled company,
year. One project is a synthetic a g e and obtain a government loan When a decision is reached, it
chemical to kill polio virus. This 0 n it at the support rate. will take a month to bring the
Take, Commodity From Circulation
When the farmer does this, he in British technicians and Iranian
effect takes the commodity out of employees are overhauling and
circulation, thus reducing the mar- cleaning equipment.
aides when reveille sounds at 6:15
a. m„ U. N. headquarters said to
T^ASHINGTON, Aug. 1—1^)— working on the development of gence there and almost anything I ibility of the H-bomb,” Dean re- i n g the usual noon recess at Kae- * 3U ^ n W01 ’k on polio.
' ” The Atomic Energy Commis- atomic warheads for ^guided mis- say gets us into trouble.” plied only: “Not today.” ^ song, the delegates talk with their
The hope for a polio vaccine is
sion (AEG) is planning “much siles and artillery shells as well as Breed Atomic Fuel Today’s report said that “early staff officers°at the nearby “U. sti11 vague. By the end of this
more frequent tests” of its wea- on bombs. construction work is underway” at N. House” on the progress of the y ear the foundation expects the
pons in the future. Congressional Renort The coinmission announced at the AEC’s Savannah River plant in morning session. first ste P have been completed
wao smiminporl vecUovHnv P news conference completion of on South Carolina. In that plant, the in the vaccine program. This is
at a news conference in connection To CooS 1 ' 688 * AEC reported: experimental device with which it commission has said previously, Review Day s Events the census of the different kinds
with AEC’s tenth semi-annual re- ® Continued progress so far in hopes to determine whether it will materials for either H-bombs, A- Immediately after returning here °f polio virsus. Three are known,
port to Congress. The report was 1951 in military and peacetime ap- be actually possible to “Breed” or bombs or for potential industrial j n the afternoon, the delegates and There may be others,
made public today. plications of the atom—including create new 7 atomic fuel at a rate power uses could be made. staff review and evaluate the day’s Each one can cause the disease,
„ advances to\vai'ds developing atom- faster than operating fuel is con- New advances towards develop- events. After dinner they meet but polio caused by one of them
Bigger Bang ] c powered submarines and air- sumed. First operation of the ing atomic energy machines de- again to plan the next day’s does not protect you from getting
At the conference it was also craft. “breeder” is scheduled to take signed to power submarines and program, including discussion of polio from a different virus. A vac-
disclosed that the United States * Tnpvpaspd oennisifinn of m-an P lace in about two or three weeks, aircraft were listed among the pro- the papers that will cram the dele- cine will have to be made from all
has developed some weapons that ium ores and ‘stepped-up produc- There was no mention in the re- l^tWw^ no" snedfi^aSnlt ^ P ° li0 Vh ' USeS '
have a bigger bang that is, t j on 0 f fissionable materials from nort. to Congress of how thine-s are x,-.. xi__. A:. ^ ^ turn to Kaesong m the morning. Polio Vaccines Produced
turn to Kaesong in the morning.
A large part of every day is
-that is, tion of fissionable materials from port to Co^ss of imw tMr^ a^ Sion of ihis. ^ SP ^
others The commission said that th ^ n - x x xr. T t -x j mn the P r °j ected hydrogen In various other fields of atomic " ia!|e pan, ui every aay is A vaccine already has been made
“ s-“toY & Sti »ave ^ SS
considerations ,i„ I^St ^
me consruerauons un Belgian Congo. (Sumner Pike, Eniwetok proving grounds, but the p0 sed to heavy doses of radiation The
choosing testing grounds) is hurt- ™e rseigian dongo. ^umner nxe, posed to heavy doses of radiation The five delegates and some work for humans.. Monkeys can
ing somebody,” AEG Chairtmarf a commission member, sard some commission has never gone beyond dur j ng atomic bombings or accr- members of their staff travel by be vaccinated and then given a
- - - -- —‘ time a &° that the U - S * had sur- its statement that those tests in- dentSi helicopter—a 15 to 20 minute hop
leasing capacity) we
away from people.”
The commission did not make it how the
, dose of polio that wall kill them if
® Production and distribution of 0V er the hills. The air strip here the vaccine fails,
search ” which means research on Americaa - made . radioactive iso- borders the heavily guarded tent No one will take such a chance
Asked at the news conference wh, i e8eaic n on topes—the atomic program’s first city where the delegates live. But on human beings. In human out-
■”* United States compares y * definite contribution to peaceful a t Kaesong the Janding field is breaks, the cases are too scattered
Canada to take
J ' take them ^
clear whether the weapons dif- with Russia in uranium production, Asked at the news conference if application of the atom’s power—
fered in actual physical size. AEG Dean answered: he could say “what progress is be- have been increased,
has previously disclosed that it is “You’re in the field of intelli- ing made to determine the feas- • New applications for the ma
terials in industrial, agricultural
1 " and medical fields were found.
(See NEGOTIATORS, Page 4)
(See POLIO, Page 4)
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New Studies
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
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These included studies designed
to determine exactly how a cow
produces milk; a new remote-con
trol technique for measuring the
water content of snowfall on moun
tain slopes; and a new method for
testing the efficiency of rust-pre
ventives.
In outlining the results of treat
ing certain diseases with radio
active materials during the ten
year period, 1940-1950, AEG said
that in more than 1,000 cases of
luekemia, in which red blood cells
are over-produced, “life may not
have been prolonged . . . but the
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Capt. White Assumes
B&F Duties at BAFB
Capt. Allen S. White, Valpar
aiso, Ind., reported to Bryan Air
Force Base today and has been as
signed Budget and Fiscal Officer,
it was announced by Col. James C.
McGehee, BAFB commanding of
ficer.
Capt. White came to Bryan from
Headquarters, Air Training Com
mand, Scott Air Force Base, Illin
ois, where he has been budget and
fiscal officer for the past three
years.
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rate of 11.5 cents. Barley is selling A BA-LAN, Iran, Aug. 1—(A 1 )—The I
at around $1.15 a bushel compared Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's/ * L
with the support rate of $1.11. Abadan refinery, the world’s lar-' h.
Only relatively few farm pro- gest, shut down yesterday to
ducts have claimed above minimum await outcome of new negotiationst '»E
price ceiling levels since price con- between Britain and Iran. fW: h
trol authority was set up last year. The talks are to be held in Teh- t
They include beef cattle, veal ran after American negotiator W. r
calves, sheep, lambs, cotton, wool, Averell Harriman clears away what
rice and soy beans. Rice and soy he called one or two minor prelira- t
beans have since dropped below inaries. K i
those levels. On his return to Tehran from a r
defend their lives. Beef At Ceding Brices JgtS SflB
Produce Every Chemical Possible Beef cattle are selling at ceil- ain’s somewhat skeptical agree-
ThporpHnllv thpsp mirmnrp-nn- big prices now, but agricultural ment to send a cabinet mission
riirm m-odncp ’ hist •ihout pvptv officials believe the price will drop headed by Richard Stokes, Lord
chemical possible It is virtually W* ‘!>»« ^els in •*! l al1 when «L "f™ 1 * <•» *4
certain somewhere there is a mic- marketing ot cattle and hogs nor- sion to talk with Britons,
ro-family producing one that can ma (U increase. The conferees aie expected to
xy Bi0 . xxJu™ xxxU BU u 0 xunx; CB kill the virus which causes polio. , Favorable crop prospects coup- try for reconciliation on a basis
made by germs, molds and other It may take a very long time, how- ^ with the possibility of peace of British reco-mHon thei m
- ever, to find one that is also non- 111 Ko / ea aie the ™ a -> or factors > n ™ ns the ml production and mstal *
poisonous for humans recent declinesjn farm prices, of- ations of the AlOO under Irans
The botanical gardens are mak
ing the tedious search in thous-