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STEPHENYILLE, ERATH COUNTY, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, MAY 17. 1950
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North Atlantic Ministers to
Set Up New Security Council
GENERAL WILL
INSPECT TSG
CADET CORPS
National Defense Week, design-
ed to spotlight the current military
picture in this country, observed
in Stepenville until May 20, will be
highlighted Thursday by a review
of the Tarleton State College cadet
corps by Maj. Gen. H. Miller Ains-
worth, an ROA banquet at the
college dining hall at 7 p.m. Thurs-
day, and judging of window dis-
plays in Stephenville Thursday
afternoon.
J. Louis Evans announced Wed-
nesday that National Defense Week
will be climaxed by Armed Forces
Day, May 20, sponsored by the
Federal Department of Defense.
Armed Forces Day takes the place
of the traditional Army, Navy
and Air Force days which have
been consolidated into one observ-
ance.
General Ainsworth, who will fly
to Stephenville, Will be guest
speaker at the Reserve Officers
Association banquet Thursday eve-
ning. At least 75 former officers
are expected to attend, and any
officer or former officer who has
failed to make reservations should
call Joe Frey as soon as possible.
Review of the Tarleton cadet
corps will take place at 4:30 p.m.
Thursday.
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II. $. ATOMIC -
MR STOLEN
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NEW YORK, May 17 (UP)—
A government car carrying secret
government plans for a new atomic
pile was stolen tqfla^ in Brooklyn,
police reported.
A police guard
bridges crossing fl
to Manhattan and <
Island ferry slip
hem the block 1
Long Island.
> Police said Roy Cabre, 40, an
employe of the Atomic Energy
Commission at Brookhaven Na-
tional Laboratory, Long Island,
parked the car in front of a res-
taurant in the Red Hook section
of Brooklyn and left it unguarded
for a moment while he entered the
restaurant.
A hatless, coatlesf man drove
sway in the vehicle, taking with
him the atom information.
on all
East River
the Staten
effort to
et on
Governor Sends
Wire Regarding
War Memorial
W. J. Oxford, chairman of the
American Legion memorial com-
mittee, Wednesday received a tele-
gram from Gov. Allan Shivers,
commending Erath county for the
dedication and memorial services
held here May 16.
The telegram reads:
“The thought that has In .mi red
the memorial to the sons of Erath
county who lost their lives .in
World Wars I and II is highly Am-
mendsble, and it is my desire that
the citizens in all that county ac-
cept my warmest good wishes for
the success of this worthy occasion.
J can think of no undertaking of
stronger merit and I ’ reel sure
that it will inspire a more deter-
mined desire for the perservation
of the better things of life.”
Annual High
School Band
Concert Held
j
Stephenville turned out for a
band concert, featuring the high
school band, si the high school
auditorium Tuesday night, May 16,
almost filling the audtorium and
balcony.
Barbara Terrell, band sweet-
heart, presented the band with an
American flag, and Don Tate,
band major, made the presentation
of a Texas flag bought by seniors
of the band.
The band played two arrange-
ments of Director Claude Knieff.
SICK MAN, SICK LAND 7 . .
Art Dillon, of Stephenville, is in
the Upper Leon Soil Conserva-
tion District, but is an Erath cit-
izen. Dillon, who licked a serious
illness, was the outstanding
farmer of the 51-county area of
Region 5, North Central Texas,
in the Save the Soil and Save
Texas awards program. He won
$200, and Dublin residents plan-
ned a banquet for him on May
20. Dillon is a former West
Texas resident, but was raised
in this country and, after the
war, returned to his first love
—the soil.
LATE
WIRE
PLASHES
Senate Bill to
Double Old Age
Pension Checks
WASHINGTON, May 17 (UP)
—The Senate finance committee
completed action today on a bill
to double old-age insurance bene-
fits and bring 10,000,000 more per-
sons into the social security pro-
gram.
Chairman Walter F. George, D.,
Ga., said the bill will be ready for
Senate action next Tuesday. But
he said it can’t be called up until
the Senate finishes debate on the
administration’s fair employment
bill, which he and other Southern-
ers oppose.
He said 11 committee members
voted for the bill on which hearings
began in January. Two members
did not vote. The House approved
a similar bi.ll last year.
The Senate bill would bring in
on a* compulsory basis 5,000,000
non-farm self-employed, 1,000,000
domestic servants, 800,000 farm
workers, and 600,000 employes of
non-profit organizations. About 1,-
500,000 state and local government
employes would be included on a
voluntary basis. (
The committee also voted to
freeze the 1% per cent payroll tax
until 1956.
The House-approved bill would
bring in about 11,000,000 more per-
sons, raise the payroll tax to two
per cent next Jan. 1, and increase
benefits about 70 per cent.
By UNITED PRESS
O’Daniel Dickers
For Radio Time
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Granbury May
Get New Federal
Building Soob
Press dispatches Wedqesday in-
dicated that Granbury would re-
ceive a new post office building
within the next two or three years
at a probable cost of about $200,-
000.
Other towns in this area that
are scheduled to receive similar
structures are Dublin, De Leon
and Hico.
Congressman Omar Burleson has
recommended Dublin for the first
new structure in his district. Gov-
ernment agents were in that city
A few weeks ago and accepted a
probable site.
WORM CAUSES EXCITEMENT
BROWNSVILLE, May 17 (UP)
—A little worm was causing a lot
of talk around the tip of Texas to-
day. The worm, discovered yes-
terday, was airmailed to Washing-
ton for identification. Cotton rais-
ers thought it might be the first
cotton leafworm of the season. En-
tomologists said it wag too early
to predict an infestation, even if
the worm is identified definitely as
a leafworm.
May 17 (UP)—W
tiob
House Tax Experts to
Plug Loopholes in Law
WASHINGTON, May 17 (UP)^-
House tax experts estimated today
they have tentatively approved
proposals to increase tax collec-
tions by some $335,000,000 a year.
Members of the House ways and
means committee said they have
discovered.other ‘loopholes’’ in the
tax laws which are costing the
treasury an additional $240,000,000
in yearly revenues. They plan to
consider the provisions in the next
few days.
The committee wants to find
means of additional revenue in or-
der to compensate for about half
the $1,100,000,000 cut in excise
taass already approved tentatively.
President Truman recommended
that excise taxes be cut only $655,-
000,000, with the reduction made
up by plugging “loopholes." He
threatened to veto any tax bill
which would mean a loss of tax
revenue to thc,treasury.
Elsewhere in Congress:
FEPC—Absenteeism threatened
to set new roadblocks in the path
of the bi-partisan drive for a fair
employment practices bill. Despite
pleas of Republican and Demo-
cratic leaders, it appeared there
would be at least half a dozen ab-
sentees when the Senate votes Fri-
day oh a motion to gag debate on
considering the bill. Absentees
automatically work against a de-
bate limitation because it requires
64 votes to invoke a gag—regard-
less of how many senators are
present.
LEWIS—A House labor subcom-
mittee decided to give John L.
Lewis another chance to answer
under oath a charge that he gave
secret orders to his miners to defy
a court back-to-work order, in the
recent coal strike. Subcommittee
Chairman Andrew Jacobi,'-D., lnd.,
said he would invite Lewis to tes-
tfy “reasonably soon.” Lewis turn-
ed down the subcommittee’s invi-
tation to appear at a hearing last
night, when Lloyd Sidener, an
ousted Mine Workers official, re-
peated his charge. Lewis has de-
nounced Sidener’g statement as
false.
TAFT-HARTLEY—Sen. Robert
A. Taft, R., O., co-author of the
Taft-Hartley law, said the Justice
Department “has done nothing to
i
support” the act. In his weekly
newspaper column, he said: “In the
last analysis, it is pretty hopeless
to enact laws if the executive re-
fuses to enforce them.” He referred
specifically to the department’s
failure to bring perjury action
against some 23 officials who sign-
ed non-Communist affidavit oaths.
CRIME—Chairman Estes Ke-
fauver, D., Tenn., said his special
Senate crime committee will depend
on federal and local law enforce-
ment agencies if any raids on the
underworld are necessary. He said
the committee intends to create no
organised^ crime.
WILL RELEASE NAMES
EDINBURG, May 17 (UP)—The
Edinburg Polio Clinic, established
two years ago, will depart from its
policy of withholding patients’
names. Dr. Robert A. Hale, clinic
director, said he thought it would
“help a lot of the people to know
who has polio.” Names of patients,
however, will be released only with
the permission of parents, and
only after the illness has been con-
firmed as polio.
MILK WAR
WICHKTA FALLS, May 17 (UP)
A “milk war” continued today in
Wichita Falls, with producers
threatening to get into the retail
market. The war started over a
surplus dispute with three of the
city’s largest distributors. The
Wfchita Falls Are* Producers As-
sociation yesterday stopped de-
liveries to the “big tljree" dairies
and voted $250,000 to establish iti
own processing plant. The existing
dairies were obtaining milk from
other cities in the Northwest Tex-
as area.
SCHOOL PAYMENT
AUSTIN, May 17 (UP)—A $4
per capita payment, totaling $6,-
219,096 and based on a census of
1,554,758 school children, has been
released from the state available
school fund. The payment was an-
nounced yesterday by Stfkte Com
misaioner of Education J.
DALLAS,!
Lee O'Danidl, the biggest quest!*
mark in Tttis politics, said to-
day he had ween dickering with
the state-wideVjjiberty Broad-
casting System onTnices" for “a
single broadcast, or a series of
broadcasts,”
The former governor ana junior
United States senator would not
say whether he would use such
radio time to announce whethei
he will be a candidate for govemoi
of Texas this summer.
“I don’t know when I will make
that announcement,” O’Daniel said.
“And I haven’t signed any contract
for time with Liberty. We’re just
talking so far,” he said.
O’Daniel, of hillbilly music
fame, used the radio as his princi-
pal weapon in rocketing from
flour salesman to the governor’s
mansion in 1939, is expected to
make his “I will” or “I won’t” an-
nouncement via the air waves this
time also.
O’Daniel, who has moved into a
Highland Park apartment, would
not say whether radio time would
be paid for on a political or com-
mercial basis.
“That is up to the stations,” he
said.
The ex-gpvernor reiterated that
letters are pouring in from Texans
wanting him to run, “especially
from the old folks.”
WILL CARRY ON
CONSTANT WORK
ATLANTIC PACT
LONDON, May 17 (UP)—The
North Atlantic foreign ministers
agreed unanimously today to set
up a “Little Security Council” to
carry on 1n continuous session the
work of the Atlantic Treaty.
The agreement on the liaison
organization for the 12 countries
linked by the Atlantic Pact cli-
maxed long study by the foreign
ministers.
The London meeting of the for-
eign ministers will wind up to-
morrow. It followed a discussion
of cold war strategy by the Ameri-
can, British and French foreign
ministers.
The selection of a supreme co-
ordinator to direct economic and
military defenses of the Atlantic
Pact countries against Communist
aggression was one of the tough-
est jobs before the council.
Eisenhower Considered
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and
W. Averell Harriman topped the
list of Americans being consider-
ed for the job.
(However, a spokesman for
Eisenhower said in New York that
the general has “heard absolutely
nothing, official or unofficial,”
about being considered.)
The desire is for an American
civilian of great prestige at home
and abroad.
Eisenhower fits all the. qualifica-
tions except for his military back-
ground. He now is president of
Columbia University.
Harriman, roving ambassador
for jthe Marshall Plan, outstrips
moqt other civilians insofar as
knowledge of the “problem is con-
cerned.
Whoever is named will have the
difficult task of trying to coordin-
ate the economic recovery and re-
armament programs of the West
WUhlLc*"! jobs »q be dpne on
both withobt undue narm toeither.
BANK ROBBER
GETS $20,000
JONESBORO, Ark., May 17 (UP)
-A bandit robbed the People’s Na-
tional Bank of Jonesboro of an
estimated $20,000 shortly after
noon today.
The bandit carried a gun in one
hand and a paper sack in the
other. Tony Falk, executive vice-
president of the bank, said the man np,n
wore smoked glasses. I ,4> 1940 m determining practicabil
PICTURED ARE MEMBERS of
the supervisory board of the
Bosque Soil Conservation Dis-
trict. Upper left is W. H. Heart-
sill, Walnut Springs; upper cen-
ter is Charles Neblelt Jr., Ste-
phenville, chairman of the Bos-
que board of supervisors; upper
right is W. ('. Hafer, Clifton;
lower left is C. L. Kelsey, Glen
Rose; lower right is Jack Kenny,
secretary, Stephenville.
Bosque SCS District Has
Shown Rapid Development
By R. C. MADELEY
District Conservationist
Interest in the organization of
the Bosque Soil Conservation Dis-
trict was first shown by a group of
farmers around Iredell, Bosque
county. The group was headed by
a landowner, Word C. Maim and
Vocational Agriculture Teacher
Ralph Bradley.
Since the Duffau Creek Water-
shed was deemed too small by
members of the State Soil Conser-
vation Board, the Iredell group
started a move which would in-
clude the entire Bosque watershed.
Petitions to this effect were circu-
lated over the proposed district. A
district hearing was held May 11,
1940 with interest being shown by
farmers and. ranchers attending.
The hearing was favorable with
little opposition being voieed. Fol-
lowing the hearing an election was
ordered for December 14, 1940, at
which time 475 landowners voted
in favor, and 65 voted against,
the organization of the district.
First Supervisors
A meeting was held December
PAYS FOR ASSAULT
HUNTSVILLE, May 17 (UP)—
The state claimed the life today
of Nathaniel Edwards, Negro con-
victed of assaulting a 16-year-old
white girl in Houston tast May.
Edwards died in the electric chair
just after midnight. He was pro-
nounced dead at 12:08 a.m. An-
other Negro, Eugene McFarland,
also is under death sentence in the
W. same case. A third .man charged
has never been arrested.
Hail Damage in Central Texas
Heavy; More Possible Today
Pr UNITED PRESS
Widely scattered thunderstorms
were predicted over Texas today,
and the U. S. Weather Bureau at
Dallas said a repetition of yester-
day’s destructive hailstorms was
“a possibility.”
The weatherman’s warning'came
while the sun beamed from a cloud-
less sky over most of the state.
Early morning fog was reported
in the Gulf Coast area, but had
dissipated by mid-morning.
A weather bureau forecaster
said the thunderstorms could re-
sult from warm air circulation,
rather than any frontal activity.
Little change in temperature was
expected from yesterday’s warm
readings. Highs yesterday ranged
from 79 at Mineral Wells to 101
at Presido. Overnight, tempera-
tures ranged from 45 at Salt Flat
up to 75 at Brownsville and La-
redo.
No Rain Reported
No precipitation was reported
falling at mid-morning. Renorts
available to 9:30 a.m. showed the
heaviest rainfall of the past. 24
hours was at Houston. Smaller
amounts fell at Austin, San An- | Temple said they had to turn on
tonio, Waco, Lubbock, Lufkin,; electric lights in mid-day.
Junction and ^ineral Wells.
The Trinity* River, which over-
flowed from heavy rains last week,
stood at 801 feet in Dallas, where
flood stage is 28.6 feet. The
stream was falling rapidly. The
weather bureau said there was no
danger from the river now unless
heavy rains occur soon in the Up-
per Trinity watershed. /
Destructive hailstorms struck a
large Central Texas farm area yes-
terday.
In addition, farmers in the
Southwest Texas area around
Camp Wood, near Uvalde, said
hailstones were four Inches deep
at 10 a.m. yesterday-—six hours
aftsr a storm raked the region.
Damage Above $1 Million
Damages caused by the hail-
storm, which blacked out the area
around Temple at high noon, were
estimated at $1,000,000 to $1,-
500,000. There were no reports of
injuries, but some farmers said
hailstonas beat their crops to pulp.
A vanguard of black storm
clouds . brought winds up to 60
miles an hour, and residentl of
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Stampede Valley was hit hard-
est. At least $600,000 worth of
cotton, corn and grain crops was
destroyed, authorities said.
Hailstones piled into drifts two
to three feet deep east of Temple.
The U.. S. Weather Bureau at
Dallas blamed the series of hail-
storms which started in South
Texas Sunday on a continuing un-
stable air mass agitated daily by
warm sunshine.
Widely scattered thunderstorms
were forecast for East Texas and
the Panhandle, South Plains and
Pecos Valley sections of West
Texas today and tonight.
Rains Increase
Flood Perils
WINNIPEG, Man., May 17 (UP)
—Flood-fighters trying to save
this prairie capital from disaster
were kept on the jump today by a
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Took Only a Minute
The bandit ordered Falk and
three other bank employes to hhld
up their hands and in about 60
seconds scooped up the money and
fjed. Falk said the gunman took
$10,000 from one teller’s cage and
got about the same amount from
another.
Falk and Mrs. Mary Pulliam, a
teller, dropped behind the counter
when the bandit entered.
Falk said the bandit raced away
in a car he had parked about half
a block from the bank.
Second Man in
Horsemeat Case
Freed from Jail
■DALLAS, May 17 (UP)—Louis
J. Riskin, one of two Midwestern-
ers sentenced for illegal shipment
of horsemeat to Texas, was freed"
from jail for 30 days today to go
home to Minneapolis and raise
money to pay his fine.
District %Judge T. Whitefield
Davidson gave Riskin a month to
secure funds to pay the $5,000 fine.
Riskin told the court this morn-
ing that he had been unsuccessful
at money-raising attempts while
in jail. I
Judge Davidson said
probate Riskin’s six-month
sentence for one year
the fine was paid within the spec-
ified period.
Meyer Gilgus. of Kansas City,
Mo., also convicted in the c«fse of
the horsemeat disguised as choice
beef tenders, paid his fine Mon-
day and went home.
Army Defends
Finance Post
WASHINGTON, May 17 (UP)
—The Army said today its ”get-
’em-paid-policy” during the war
was the reason for millions of
dollars in overpayments to GI de-
pendents.
However, the Army said there
is “no evidence” of fraud in the
overpayments from the Army fi-
nance center in St. Imiis and most
of the money has been or is being
recovered.
GIRLS BURN TO DEATH
EAST DIXFIELD, Me., May 17
(UP)—The deaths of two small
Barbecue Served
110 Employes of
Ice Companies
Employes and families from Ice
Service companies of this area had
a pre-eclebration for Texas Ice
Day on Tuesday, May 16, at 7 p.m.
in city park .
Barbecue was served to 110 peo-
ple.
Present were employes and fam-
ilies from Stephenville Ice Com-
pany, “ Stephenville Locker Plant,
Whistle-Vess Bottling Company,
and company employes from Co-
manche, Hamilton, Rising Star
and De Leon.
Texas Ice Day, Wednesday, May
17, was proclaimed by Gov. Allan
Shivers— ............... .
ity and feasibility for assistance to
the district followed by the grant-
ing of certificates of organization,
March 20, 1941, with supervisors
as follows; Word C. Main, Iredell,
chairman; Lee Roy Williams, Mor-
gan Mill, vice-chairman; Alfred S.
Hewlett, Glen Rose, secretary;
Evans Fieklin (resigned in 1942),
replaced by Henry Dahlen, Clifton;
and George Hamic, Chalk Moun-
tain.
A series of meetings were held
during the first half of 1941 in
writing the district program and
plan. Very few landowners other
than supervisors were actually
brought into the writing of the
plan but all agency representatives
took an active part in the first
meeting. Four committees were
appointed with the supervisor act-
ing as chairman of each, assisted
by the various agency representa-
tives listed below:
1. Physical conditions—Word C.
Main, chairman, assisted by county
agents and vocational agriculture
teachers.
2. Land uses and proposed ad-
justments—Evans Fieklin, chair-
man, assisted by county agents,
vocational agriculture teachers,
AAA, county land use planning
committee, Soil Conservation Serv-
ice and Experiment Station rep-
resentatives.
3. Economic conditions and pio-
nosed adjustments — Alfred S.
Hewlett, chairman, assisted by
home demonstration agent, voca-
tional agriculture teachers, FSA,
bounty agent and PCA.
4. Social conditions and proposed
adjustments — Lee Roy Williams,
chairman, assisted by FSA, home
demonstration agent, vocational
agriculture teachers.
5. Editing committee—Board of
Supervisors, E. R. Lawrence,
county agent, Bosque county;
Ralph Bradley, vocational agricul-
ture teacher, Iredell; Sam Han-
over, AAA, Stephenville; Wells,
FSA, Meridian, and W. R. Heizer,
^.mxiaMitx.Ul)k was m ciwnkiLla;.
Large Attendance Final
Day of Cooking School
The first cooking school held in +
Stephenville since the war ended
Wednesday at 4 p.m. with 400
Stephenville women registered.
The Daily Empire and Empire-
Tribune Cooking School made pos-
sible by the cooperation of Steph-
enville electrical appliance dealers
and Texas Pqwer & Light, was
mined desire for the preservation
other business - men and Texas
Power & Light, was taught by
Miss Marguerite Rodrick and Mrs.
Cathryn Hanson.
A long list of prizes were award-
ed, including daily prizes and
grand prizes on the final day.
The school opened Monday, May
15, and attendance increased each
day.
Food was prepared at the school,
taken from deep freezers and
cooked on electric ranges or roast-
ers. ’
GI8 DISAGREE
WASHINGTON, May 17 (UP)-
ContraTy to GI, opinion, tKe Air
Force is running short of brass.
Air Secretary Thomas K. Finletter
girls in theri flaming home boost-1 told a House armed services sub-
ed Maine's 1960 fire toll today to 44 committee aboufit today. He asked
persons, including 29 children. (for more'general*.
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Mutilated Body
Of Man Found
On Train Tracks
LITTLEFIELD, May 17 (UP)—
The mutilated body of a man ten-
tatively identified as James Arthur
O’Malley of Oklahoma City was
found today several hours after
it fell beneath the wheels of a
Santa Fe freight .train.
Sheriff Sid Hopping said the
search for the 59-year-old man
began after two men told Clovis,
N.M., officers their companion had
fallen last night from a freight
train on which they hitched a ride.
The pair, held at Clovis, gave
their names as Archie Waller,
Pueblo. Colo., and James A. Po-
teet, San Jon, N.M.
Authorities reported the acci-
dent victim and the other two men
had been released from the Lub-
bock city jail yesterday after serv-
ing five day for drunkenness.
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W. R. Heizer and, after an expla-
nation and discussion, a date was
set for making a trip to the T. C.
Hovey farm on which the capabil-
ity table might he tested in mak-
ing a complete plan.
On the date set, a third meet-
ing was held on the Hovey farm,
located five miles below Iredell.
Each member of ^he committee
took an active part wVthe discus-
sion and in planning the complete
program.
It was then decided to include
the land use capability chart as a
part of the district plan.
Economic Survey
By way of testing the new tech-
nique proposed by the physical sur-
veys division, the economic surveys
division, and the project plans div-
ision of the Washington office for
the making of comprehensive, co-
ordinated surveys in the various
types of work units with which the
Soil Conservation Service deals,
such a survey was made in the
Bosque Soil Conservation District
in Central Texas.
T) o regional representatives of
the divisions mentioned above par-
ticipated in the planning and cx-
ccir ion of the survey.
The Bosque Soil Conservation
District was selected as the site
for the first survev of tlii- sort for
a number of reasons; among which
were the following: III It was
known to contain considerable land
which is submsrgiiial for cultiva-
tion; (21 it includes a portion of
the Little River Watershed in
which a flood control survey is to
Ire initiated in tire future: CD it
includes parts of two major physio-
graphic areas, the West Cross
Timbers and the Grand Prairie;
and (4) there is evidiau e of serious
economic and social maladjust-
ment in parts of the district.
Budget Analysis
On each of the 42 farms and
ranches thus selected as a sample,
a detailed conservation survev was
Soil Conservation Service, Dublin, i made by soils men. As the counter-
At a later meeting a land use Pa|t of this survey, from an eco-
nomic standnoint, a detailed “bud-
t'gt'i analysis" m*-ttrr-
husiness was made by farm plan-
ners. The result was that both the
physical ami economic aspects of
a complete and coordinated soil
conservation program for each
sample farm were planned as care-
fully as possible and a forecast
of the consequences was made,
particularly the economic conse-
quences as reflected in anticipated,
farm income.
In those cases where conditions
made it possible, more than one
conservation plan for the unit was
made and the consequences of each
carefully estimated or forecast.
This afforded a means of review-
ing the advantages and the. disad-
vantages of alternative plans.
Four Groups Found
In making the economic survey,
which was to assist the program
and plan, farms were inventoried
and classified by groups as fol-
lows: ^
Group l — One hundred and
thirty-eight of 164 farms with an
average of less than 126 acres
showed less than one-third of the
land suitable for cultivation and
an average annual income Varying
from $93 to $488.
Group II—This group was com-
posed of 171 farms averaging less
than 42 acres each on which over
two-thirds of the land on each
farm was suitable for cultivation.
The annual income varied from
$233 to $343.
Group III—This group was com-
posed of 571 farms with an aver-
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