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While many a dairyman and grain farmer fretted about sagging Government price supports, wool growers had much to be thankful for last week. The Agriculture Department announced a guarantee of 62? a Ib. for the 1955 wool clip, 17% above the current support level and a generous 106% of parity. The bigger subsidy, authorized by congressional revision of the Wool Act last summer, was designed to spur wool output to 300 million Ibs. annually from a near-record low of 230 million Ibs. this year...
Cooled. In Appleton, Wis., charged with selling adulterated milk, Dairyman Vernon Ferron explained that he had "just put a couple of quarts of water in to cool the milk," paid a $25 fine...
...Arnulfo Arias, Panama's Messianic champion demagogue, had begun to feel that being President made him boss; he plotted to extend his term. Remón's cops laid siege to the palace, got Arnulfo's surrender after 18 persons were killed. Chichi put a malleable dairyman into office, and began to listen to urgent advice from his wife Cecilia to run for President himself...
...almost every year and dutifully passed resolutions demanding better working conditions round the world. Last week at its meeting in Geneva, a resolution was introduced calling for vacations with pay for agricultural and industrial workers everywhere. This was too much for L. Roy Hawes, a 50-year-old dairyman with a 165-acre farm near North Sudbury, Mass., where he has been a town-meeting moderator for many years. He jumped up and told the 603 delegates of government, labor and industry from 60 different countries that he was fed up with the I.L.O.'s "visionary and academic" resolutions...
...outrageously courageous decision of Dairyman Hubert Mendenhall and 25 other Quakers to leave the U.S. and settle in peaceful Costa Rica [TIME, Oct. 9] should make Americans stop and think. Or at least think-if we can't stop...