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...young farmers, we want to congratulate TIME for its understanding and insight on the farm problem. If the Government would withdraw from the farming business, thus eliminating hordes of Federal personnel sitting in offices and tramping over corn and wheat fields, allow those who are efficient and farsighted to survive, and realize that subsidy is not the answer to the marginal farmers' plight, we believe that farming could once again become a self-supporting industry...
Honestus: That's right. Despite very extensive controls, administered by thousands of Agriculture Department bureaucrats, farmers have dumped so much wheat, corn, cotton, cheese and other commodities on the Government that it costs the taxpayers more than a billion dollars a year just to keep the stuff in storage. Last year the Agriculture Department spent something like $7 billion, largely for price-support programs. That was more than twice the combined expenditures of the State, Justice, Interior, Commerce and Labor departments all put together...
...large segments of U.S. agriculture-meat, poultry, fruits, most vegetables-get along all right without price supports or controls. Secretary Freeman wants to extend production controls to some of these still free products, but so far Congress has fought him off. The main supported crops are wheat, feed grains (corn, oats, grain sorghums, barley-so called because they are grown mainly for livestock feed), cotton, tobacco and dairy products. Price supports are also in effect for some relatively minor crops, including rice and peanuts...
NIKOLAI PODGORNY, 59, another Ukrainian, 4½ years ago ousted an early Khrushchev favorite, hard-boiled Fellow Ukrainian Aleksei Kirichenko, as party boss in Khrushchev's former fiefdom. Early last year Khrushchev delivered a scorching assault against Podgorny for having blamed bad weather for poor corn yields ("The crop was pilfered, stolen, and yet you say weather prevented growing a good harvest?"). But by the time of the next harvest, Podgorny could report better news. With a smile, he told Khrushchev at the October congress that the Ukraine had doubled its sale of grain to the state...
...region that had subsisted on corn and cotton, Lone Star was a godsend. "I grew up in this town," said one Daingerfield resident. "I can remember when maybe one or two mule-drawn wagons would come to town a day. We were dead before E. B. Germany and Lone Star." Along with booming payrolls. Lone Star sponsored baton-twirling classes for girls, baseball clinics for boys, professional workshops for teachers and ministers. Employees were married and buried from a chapel at the plant...