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When President Eisenhower and Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson asked for authorization to peg farm subsidies as low as 60% of parity, the Democratic Congress rammed through a 75% parity freeze-which Ike brusquely vetoed. Then 1958's farm prosperity (TIME, May 12) began splitting the congressional farm bloc: the House refused even to consider a wild, catchall Democratic farm bill, and the Senate passed a strong bill which would 1) significantly lower price supports, and 2) loosen acreage controls for corn, cotton, rice and grains. Benson pronounced himself satisfied with the Senate bill-and fought to keep...
...Benson bill, strongly favored by the American Farm Bureau Federation, had in fact sneaked up on Congress in the wake of the President's veto of the no-good price-freeze farm bill last March. Its principal achievement was that it was a considerable victory over Benson's old enemy-parity. This price-propping concept, which has been built into farm legislation since 1933, is a formularized measure of the relationship between the prices of farm products and other goods. The Benson-backed alternative: a price support based on 90% of the average market price over the previous...
...corn and sell to the Government at the announced price ($1.10 per bu. minimum). This danger is increased by the termination this year of the Soil Bank's expensive "acreage reserve" section, under which farmers were paid for keeping acres out of corn and other cash crops. Benson himself knows that the $6 billion annual cost of the farm program, big enough to bother Hubert Humphrey, is not likely to come down very fast. But he is heartened by the fact that the new bill at least starts the program in the right direction...
...moon is proving useful as well as decorative. The Army Signal Corps announced last week that it is sending Teletype messages by ultrahigh frequency radio bounced off the moon. Transmitted from Benson, Ariz., the waves speed to the moon and reflect from its scratchy surface back to Encino, N. Mex., a total distance of 480,000 miles. Travel time: 2.6 sec. The message could have been received about as well at any place where the moon was visible...
Moon's words to earth were militarily prosaic. Clattered the machine: "This is Teletype copy received at Encino, New Mexico on the 810-megacycle band, from Benson, Arizona, via the moon...