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...drove up to a Thomasville undertaking parlor, swung open the back door of his new Chrysler, and told an attendant to get a "friend" out of the car. The attendant found the body of Moses Jones, a Negro, sprawled on the floor like "you would throw a dead hog." Stocky Sheriff Hill explained he had been forced to kill Jones, a prisoner who had "grabbed me and attempted to get my gun." There were no witnesses to confirm or refute the familiar story; there rarely...
...hog raisers know what happened to hogs last year," said Benson. "They were selling for 16? a pound a year ago -only 77% of parity. There was some agitation for hog supports then. But Secretary Brannan at that time didn't think supports were feasible . . . What did farmers do when they knew there would be no price supports . . .? You bred 12% fewer sows for spring farrow this year-5% fewer sows for fall farrow. And hog prices bounced back quickly. Some of you sold hogs here in Chicago this week for $24 . . . Doesn't this make a pretty...
...While Ezra Taft Benson has raised plenty of dust among some farmers with that kind of philosophy, he was talking the right language to the Farm Bureau, the largest (1,626,632 families) farm organization in the U.S. For six years the Farm Bureau's president, an Iowa hog farmer named Allan Kline, has been arguing for flexible price supports. Kline subscribes to the theory that farmers would gear their production to supply and demand rather than to Government bounty if support prices ranged from 75% of parity when a crop is in surplus to 90% of parity when...
...percenters, the convention passed the resolution and re-elected Kline. Farm Bureau leaders thought it was a notable show of unity. Said one: "It's hard enough for a corn man and a wheat man to get along, not to mention the difference of, say, a hog man and a cotton...
...review brings to mind a comment from a teacher (in Texas) about some children from California schools, which have gone, to put it mildly, hog-wild over modern education: "They're pretty weak on the fundamentals-they can't spell, and they don't write legibly ; they can't read well, and they don't know much about arithmetic. But they're beautifully adjusted-they just know that they know everything...