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OPS lo Prolect Armed Forces
Buyers From Price Gouging
WASHINGTON Dee. 34 un.The
Office of Price Stabilization (OPS),
set up to protect the housewife
against price gouging, is going to
perform the same service for the
armed forces.
OPS and the Defense Department
enounced jointly yesterday the es-
tablishment of a government com-
mittee to make sure the govern-
ment is not over-charged for the
airplanes, tanks and other weapons
it buys.
In an unrelated development also
dealing with the cost of the defense
program, Senator Lyndon Johnson
(D-Texas) praised Secretary of the
Army Pace "for his willingness to
save the taxpayers’ money” by
moving to end double inspection of
food by the Quartermaster Corps
and the Agriculture Department.
Johnson is chairman of a Senate
Armed Services Subcommittee on
Military Preparedness which in the
past has frequently been highly
critical for what it has called
wasteful use of men, materials and
money.
LOPS will also survey military
procurement practices throughout
the country the announcement said,
and will determine whether price
controls should be placed on mili-
tary items, which are now exempt.
OPS Director Michael V DiSalle
commented
“As the military procurement
program swings into high gear and
inflationary pressures increase, the
need for the very best defense con-
tract pricing increases A slight
reduction in average prices paid
for defense goods could not only
save billions of dollars over a per-
iod of several years, but, more im-
portantly. would result in the ob-
taining of more implements of
national security for the dollars
spent.”
well be emulated by other heads
of major executive agencies. Cong-
ress and the taxpayers have be.
come weary of department chiefs
who appear to be more interested
in maintaining their own prestige
than in correcting past mistakes.”
Young Miner Gets
$10,000 for Gadget
nessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co.,
for a gadget he invented to reduce
by two-thirds the time required to
move heavy coal-handling machine-
ery.
The check, handed him last week
by TCI President A. V. Weibel, was
the largest award ever made under
the company’s suggestion plan.
Brown given the award without
previous warning, was dumbfound-
ed. He said he would uae the money
to build a larger home for his wife
and three children.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 24. Uh
—A young mine foreman and his
family will have a. much larger
Christmas than was anticipated.
A check tor $10,000 was present-...... pans unuere
ed to Marvin E. Brown by the Ten-I without removing mine props.
The TCI announcement didn’t
describe the gadget Brown invented
by using scrap metals worth $6.50
but said it enables workers to shift
heavy conveyor pans underground
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS 9,
Abilene, Texas, Monday Evening, Dec. 24, 1951 S-A
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1901. robe.
“MISTER INFANTRY"—Twenty years of military service,
five of them in actual combat operations, have won the title
“top combat soldier” for Sfc. Orlando E. Huntoon, above.
Huntoon, a native of Barnard, Vt., is with the 85th Tank Bat-
talion at Indiantown Gap, Pa. He saw service in both World
Wars and a full year in Korea.
Pope's Christmas Message
Is Impassioned Peace Plea
By FRANK BRUTTO
VATICAN CITY, Dec. 24 -
Pope Plus XII, in his 13th Christ-
mas message to the world since
his enthronement, again made an
tones to the persecution the church
impassioned plea for peace.
Speaking in a strong voice today
on the eve of the anniversary of
the birth of Christ, the pontiff ex-
pressed joy at once again being
able to talk to the faithful in all'
continents.
has experienced and is experience |
| ing in the Communist-dominated
, countries, the pope said the. church i
could not be an institute of silence.
Millions of men, be said, can not
speak out for peace; millions of
men are deprived of their "moral 1
liberty” and can not practice their!
faith.
One of the fastest scheduled train
rides in the world is the trip from
East Dubuque, III., to Prairie du
„ But, he said, grave problems still ---------------w Frasne au
weigh upon the word and are more Chien. Wis. It takes 39 minutes
than ever cutting it into two dis- to travel the 54.6 miles.
tinct and opposing camps.. _. ..
Indicating the Catholic Church -
could not take a stand with either
of these two camps, the Pope out-
lined the church’s contributions to I etsisled
peace. The church, he said, can Ione
not have “a pure political inter us-ds
Ils
, or an aver-
age o' 84 miles an hour.
The Catholic Church, the Pope
declared, Is a "religious and not a
political institution."
"Political men and some times
churchmen,” he said, "who would
intend to make of the Spouse of
Christ (the church) their ally would
violate the very essence of the
church."
Anyone who would attempt to
wrest her (the church) from her
neutrality would not aid the
church’s work for peace, he added.
Referring to the babe of Bethle-
hem, the pope said tha‘ once again
from his crib, the church assumes
her mission of peace. It is only
love, he asserted, that can give
men the ability to gain peace.
The church, said the pope, un-
like the worldly powers that from
time to time leave their neutrality
to enter one camp or another, I
holds herself far from such
changeable combinations." It is not
for her to leave her divine mis-
sion, he added
If war is truly to be avoided,
he said, there must be a return
to spiritual values which alone can
assure peace.
The pope again spoke of need for
social reform and social justice for
all men.
But referring in impassioned
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Senator Johnson's subcommittee
previously had issued two reports
critical of duplication between food
inspectors of the Agriculture De-
partment and the Quartermaster
Corps, which buys more than a
billion dollars worth of food a year
for the Army, Navy and Air Force.
Johnson said in a statement that
Pace had informed him a commit-
MERRY CHRISTMAS
and Thanks:
INCERE opprecia-
tion of eongenial
friendships and
pleasant ossoelo-
tions come to you
with the Seoson’s
Greetings and all
good wishes for a
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The new committee to consider
“price and re-pricing policies, pro-
cedures and practices at all mili-
tary levels" probably will include
representatives of the Munitions___________..... .......... .uw
Board, the Atomic Energy Commis- economy" in food inspection. Not-
sion, the Defense Production Ad- ing that Pace bad initiated the
ministration and the General Serv- study at the committee’s sugges-
ices Administration as well as of tion, Johnson said of the secretary:
OPS and the Defense Department. "His attitude is one that could
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Since that time long ago when the Wise Men followed a Star
to His place of birth—the warmth and the rejoicing
of that time has been repeated through the
centuries for all to share. Today when we gather with
friends and relatives, Merry Christmas to you we say-
and may all the goodness of the season be with you and
yours every day in every way.
from all of us at
to all of you.
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