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Last week Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson summoned his 24-man Egg Advisory Committee to Washington to hear poultrymen's demands for support buying of both chickens and eggs. But after the meeting the committee announced that it "believes in selfhelp, leaving to the industry the solution of its own problems...
Agriculture Secretary Benson also told dairymen last week that his flexible support program was working out just as he had hoped. Dairy-products consumption has increased, said Benson, and the U.S. has not had to add a single pound of butter to its 408 million lb. hoard since Sept. 17. Furthermore, overall surplus buying since April, when the new program providing for supports at only 75% of parity went into effect, has been cut some 13% below 1953 levels...
...feel he is encouraging regimentation when he states that the majority of farmers want to be regimented. We are of the opinion that since the University of Nebraska College of Agriculture received federal funds he is in a way a subordinate of Secretary Benson and his attack on Mr. Benson's policies as early as April 1953 before Benson had time to be judged right or wrong were out of place...
...Benson also announced...
Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow interviews Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson, and Actress Eva Marie Saint...