Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa is an unlikely place to find a man who retired to a South Carolina farm this year to spend the rest of his life "fishing and hunting, and lying in the sun, and watching my cows eat grass." But to Addis Ababa last week journeyed James Prioleau ("Dick") Richards of Heath Springs, S.C. A longtime (1933-56) Congressman, Democrat Richards, 62, had dutifully postponed his fishing and cow watching to undertake, at President Eisenhower's request, a mission as vital to the success of U.S. foreign policy as any since the Korean...
...Georgia grand jury finally got around to investigating Koinonia Farm, the famed interracial community near Americus. After twelve years of peaceful existence, rumors began to fly with the Supreme Court's 1954 desegregation decision that there was "sex mixing" at the farm and that it harbored Communist spies. The jury's 16-page report revived the old accusations, also charged that Koinonia was masquerading as a religious group to avoid payment of taxes and that the violence was largely perpetrated by the farm members themselves as a bid for sympathy. (Koinonia answered back with an eleven-page, point...
...Koinonia's neighbors went right on as before, following a pattern of harassment that has been growing ever since last year (TIME, Sept. 17), when the unsegregated, pacifist Christian families of the 1,100-acre farm began to feel the sting of terror and the weight of boycott by local merchants. After the first blows, 13 Negroes and nine whites left the farm, but 36 whites and two Negroes stayed. The terror mounted...
...Citizens Bank of Americus refused to grant Koinonia more loans; the gas supplier for the farm's heating and cooking, the hardware dealer, the tractor dealer, and the mechanic who serviced the farm vehicles refused to do business with Koinonia. The farm's gas tank was shot up, its roadside produce stand (with cold-storage and meat-processing equipment) was dynamited and destroyed. The main building on an adjoining farm owned by the community was burned to the ground, and later twelve shotgun blasts were fired into the farm, showering some of the Koinonia children with pellets...
...important gauge of farm prosperity is the farm-implement business, which Mumped badly in Igs6. Last week it was climbing back as farmers, with more cash m prospect, stepped up their orders International Harvester, which reported 14% higher sales this March than last had brought two Illinois plants back to nearly full employment after 90% layoffs last fall. Deere & Co. President William A. Hewitt told stockholders that they can expect 10%-20% more business. We estimate that farm income will be 3% to 5% higher in 1957." The brighter outlook came from a break m the drought that had dried...