The Cameron Herald and Centinel (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 13, 1947 Page: 3 of 20
twenty pages : ill. ; page 25 x 17 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
MMHMCtSKtKi h ■ ntwRs-t
>
'»nr ,wa> mumwii
CURRENT COMMENT
World Floodom of Proas
4<r«REEDOM of information bears
r* the promise of international un-
derstanding," Wilbur Forrest,
president of the American Society of
News Editors, said at an observance of
. the 155th anniversary of the ratifica-
tion of the United States Bill of Rights.
“It is our objective to spread free-
dom of the press throughout the world
so that eventually some two billion-
odd human beings may have the right
to learn and to know about others.
Freedom of the press has been a bas-
tion of strength in our democratic form
of government for 150 years. It has
never been successfully challenged,”
Forrest stated.
* * *
AAF to Add 11,000 Flyers in 1947
The Army Air Forces during 1947
will add approximately 11,000 to its
present roster of 7,000 regular officers
to advance it further toward its ulti-
mate goal of 27,500 regular officers.
Maj. Qen. Fred L. Anderson, assis-
tant chief of air staff for personnel, re-
ported that the AAF is pulling out of
its slump which resulted from rapid
post-war demobilization and is slowly
climbing toward the high-efficiency
goal set by Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, com-
manding general. A solution is at
least in sight, Anderson said, for the
manpower problems involved in main-
taining a proposed air force of 400,000
men and officers, and there also is hope
of making further gains in 1947 to-
ward establishing the post-war organi-
zation pf 70 air groups.
* * ♦
Everyday Use of Atomic Energy
Predicted
Use of atomic energy for heat, power
and light may be “just around the cor-
ner,” Robert Maynard Hutchins, chan-
cellor of the University of Chicago,
stated in a recent speech.
Hutchins said development of atomic
energy would result in another indus-
trial revolution. He predicted that the
Army will be able to demonstrate by
next May the practicability of commer-
cial use of atomic power.
■# -w *
3,000 Planes Yearly Recommended
The Army Air Forces have recom-
mended production of 3,000 military
planes a year as the minimum to sup-
port an aircraft industry prepared for
wartime expansion.
Present production is slightly below
the desired figure.
* * *
Many World Conferences Scheduled
International meetings and confer-
ences under the auspices of the United
Nations, its specialized agencies and in-
dependent regional organizations will
take place this year on an unprecedent-
ed scale.
Meetings of 17 United Nations groups
are scheduled for Lake Success, N. Y.,
during the first two and one-half
months of the year. Fifty-five sessions
of other international groups are slat-
ed for Geneva, Paris, Washington, Mon-
treal, Stockholm, Rio de Janeiro, Lu-
cerne, Cairo, Lima, Sydney, London,
Lisbon, Caracas and New Delhi.
There will b* meetings on air navi-
gation, economic reconstruction, inland
transportation, coal mining and steel
production, communications, carto-
graphy, tuberculosis, statistics, social
security and housing and town plan-
ning.
* + *
Top Quality Beef Scarce
Consumer supplies of top
quality beef will be scarce
for the next few months de-
spite increases in cattle feed-
ing operations and market-
ing.
The U. S. Department of
Agriculture says cattle will
be fed for shorter periods
this year and this will make
top-quality beef scarce. There
are an estimated 4,307,000
cattle on feed for market in
the United States now, as
compared with 4,211,000 a
year ago. Record was set in
1943 with 4,445,000.
* * *
Business Public Relations
Urged
Business must tell its own
story to its employes and to
the public if it ever hopes to
have its contributions to the
American way of life recog-
nized, according to W. G.
Vollmer, president of the
Texas and Pacific Railway.
Vollmer claims poor pub-
lic relations have resulted in
the public getting a distorted view of
business generally and that a continua-
tion of these errors of policy will do
permanent harm to the economic struc-
ture.
Vollmer recommends such measures
as a monthly publication for employes,
‘distribution of informative pamphlets,
use of films, fostering of employe rec-
reational groups and employment of
trained and experienced public rela-
tions counsel.
MM*
Astronomer Reaches New Heights
Dr. W. Baade, of the Mount Wilson
Observatory in California, has photo-
graphed what he believes to be the
center of the nucleus of the Milky
Way, 172 quadrillion miles away from
earth.
Photography of the group was par-
ticularly hard because it had to be
achieved through a thick mass of near-
er stars, but Baade thinks the new clus-
ter may be part of the “main spring”
of the great watch-like operation of
the Milky Way.
Farms Fewer and Larger
Farms in the United States are few-
er in number but larger in size, says
the U. S. Census Bureau. The average
farm today is 50 acres larger than the
average of 25 years ago.
In 1920 the bureau counted 6,448,-
343 farms. In 1945 the number had
dropped more than half a million, to
5,859,169. Half the 1945 farms had
more than 500 acres each, while in
1920 only one-third were that big. To-
day 40 per cent of the farms are over
1,000 acres each, compared to only 25
per cent of that size 25 years ago.
South Asks “Freedom of Economic Opportunity.
War Dead Search Slowed
The War Department has turned over
to the State Department the problem of
removing diplomatic obstacles hamper-
ing the Army’s recovery of World War
II dead, buried in Yugoslavia and the
Russian zone in Germany.
The number of bodies of fallen Amer-
ican heroes buried in these areas was
estimated to run into thousands. Re-
covering them was said to be a diffi-
cult task because those areas “are not
wide open” to search teams.
* * *
Plenty of Hidden Money
There is plenty of money hidden
^away under the nation’s mattresses, in
private safes, in sugar bowls and other
out of the way places, according to the
Institute of Life Insurance.
A representative of the institute
says Federal Reserve System data
shows 27 billion dollars, or an average
of $560 per family, in circulation out-
side the banking system. The figure
is four times greater than that for
1939.
Grass Root Reveries
* By JOE GANDY
(Copyright, 1047, by the Southwest Magazine Co.)
VERYBODY talked about the sub-
M zero weather in the Southwest in
January but nobody did anything
about it—therefore, the oat crop froze
down, the wheat crop froze back, win-
ter vegetables killed, traffic snarled and
communication lines disrupted. Tem-
peratures as low as 12 below zero were
reported from several West Texas
towns. This cold front is said to have
,, come down from Canada which is the
villain of most bad
weather in the Unit-
t ed States.
•
The freeze left be-
hind a crop of colds.
I came down with
one that was a whiz-
bang. For three days
and nights I sneezed
and sniffled, cough-
ed and cavorted,
sputtered and spew-
ed until I thought I
would die despite
heroic use of home
remedies. Bacteriolo-
gists should now do
something about the
common cold that
strikes down millions of people each
year at a staggering cost of lives and
money. There is a preventive and
a cure for common colds if scientists
and bacteriologists would work together
hard enough to find it. Scientists find
plenty of ways to kill but few ways to
cure people.
•
By striking for shorter hours and
mnrp wages labor union men are up
against the laws of supply and demand.
Shorter working hours mean shorter
production, shorter production means
higher prices. Therefore, when the
«■ union man goes shopping *his dollar
shrinks in proportion to the higher
price he must pay for what he buys
This is simple arithmetic and inevitable
in a free enterprise country. It can be
si,
‘So is hog calling an art.
proven by going back a few years when
everybody worked 9 to 10 hours and
longer each day. Then there was an
abundance of food, of manufactured
goods, of everything—all of it cheap.
We just kid ourselves when we ignore
the laws of supply and demand. They
are self-regulatory and whether they
work out for the best in the long run
is anybody's guess, but they surely do
work and no foolin’.
•
A prominent psychologist says doc-
tors should tell jokes
to their patients to
make them laugh,
that laughing is good
for the health, and
that most of us do
not laugh enough.
Maybe the learned
psychologist has said
a mouthful, may be
the reason we don’t
get well of some ail-.
ments is because doc-
tors don’t make us
laugh. Time may
come when a patient
with a pain ill the
neck will go to a doc-
tor and. instead of a
prescription, the doc
tells him a funny story, he laughs and
the pain disappears.
•
Recently I walked down the Main
street of my home town for the first
time in 40 years. I hardly recognized
once familiar places. Main street had
gone modern, its face had been lifted.
Streets were paved, traffic lights at in-
tersections, store fronts and show win-
dows remodeled, some show windows
bordered with inlaid tile or marble.
The whole town looked “dolled up,”
and it all seemed like a dream. I can re-
member when Main street was unpav-
ed, unlighted, and deeply rutted after
rains. Back in those days Main street
was called Moore avenue, in honor of
an uncle, John G. Moore. who was a pio^
neer cattleman and civic leader. Time
\
marches on and my old home town has
marched on and kept pace with mod-
ernistic trends. Furthermore, it has
held its own against the progression
of a streamlined age. This is something
that hundreds of other small towns
might think about, for my home town
all during these years has had to com-
pete with the shopping allurements of
a nearby big city.
•
Medical scientists of America and
Russia are working in close co-opera-
tion to perfect a magic serum that may
stretch man’s life to 150 years. Is life
worth living an 150 years? Not unless
we make life better and safer. As long
as nations are suspicious of one another,
are rearming for World War III, are
playing power politics, are refusing to
co-operate for peace, are using propa-
ganda to create race hatred, are wor-
shiping money instead of God, are turn-
ing away from spiritual values, are de-
liberately seeking to gain world domin-
ion—then life is not worth living 150
years for me, or for you or for your
children or children’s children.
•
Professor Adolph Knopp, Yale geo-
logist, says the Earth is two thousand
million years old. I knew it was old
enough to have gray whiskers but had
no idea it was as old as the Yale pro-
fessor reveals. Nevertheless, the Earth
is kinda spry despite its age, for it turns
around at the rate of over 1,000 miles
an hour each 24 hours
•
Thad McCollum, an Arkansaw sports-
man, says “there’s as much difference
in duck calling technique as there is in
methods of playing the violin.” Duck
calling is an art—a musical art, Thad
believes. So is hog calling an art. I
had an uncle who could call hogs and
they would come running to him from
all directions. These same hogs would
pay no attention to mv calling. They
may have had a lurking suspicion that
I was hungry for pork chops. At any
rate, they stayed in the woods when-
ever I called. Uncle said I didn't have
any hog sense, whatever that is
—PAGE 3—
Army Goal Enlistment
The American Government’s goal now
is to stabilize an Army of a million vol-
unteers by July 1 of this year with an
attempt to enlist or re-enlist 40,000
men a month.
Recruits may now enlist for one and
a half, two or three years, and men
with six months of service may enlist
for one year. Men enlisting for three
years may choose their branch of serv-
ice. Ninety days’ service in the Army,
Navy or Marines will entitle the serv-
iceman to benefits under the GI bill
on termination of service.
* * *
Open Shop Is Favored
A national poll of public
opinion, conducted by Dr.
George Gallup, shows that 66
per cent of the people in
America today favor an
“open” shop, where employes
may or may not belong to a
union, as they please. Only
26 per cent favor a “closed"
shop or a set-up where every
employe must join a union
whether he wants to or not.
Most decisive vote against
the “closed” shop came from
the farmers, with 78 per cent
voting against the union
domination. Of all manual
workers, 56 per cent were
against the open shop and
among union member/ them-
selves 41 per cent were
against the closed shop.
Light Cars Not in Prospect
Automobile manufacturers
see no hope for future devel-
opment of the “light” auto-
mobile in the near future.
The present trend is all the
other way.
Willys Overland is the only company
to make extensive plans for a light
car and it has delayed introduction of
the model until "late 1947, if then.”
Public opinion polls show that peo-
ple do not want to sacrifice luxuries
they have become used to in their auto-
mobiles, the manufacturers claim. The
Willys people say they can eventually
produce a light car which Will be just
as luxurious as a heavier model but
sufficiently cheap to please the average
buyer.
♦ * *
Landlords May Increase Rents
Landlords who can prove-'a hardship
can get a rent increase under certain
conditions laid down by the Office of
Temporary Controls.
The new ruling states that any
doubts as to the need of raising rents
must be resolved in favor of the land-
lords and that local costs will be the
measuring rod.
The ruling is intended to correct lo-
cal situations where rents on some
properties are lower than those of sim-
ilar properties in the same area and
“are not to be construed as a break in
the general line of rent controls.”
+ * *
Federal Airport Funds Increased
The Civil Aeronautics Administra-
tion has announced that regulations for
administering funds under the airport
act will permit larger contributions to
big airport projects than originally
Dlanned.
The Federal government will con-
tribute 50 per cent of the cost of air-
port projects up to five million dollars,
instead of up to two million as original-
ly planned. On projects above five
million, the Federal share will decrease
5 per cent for each million dollars up
to eleven million. The minimum Fed-
eral contribution will be 20 per cent,
regardless of the size of a project.
* * *
Books On Old War Closed
The Government has just closed its
books on the 28 years of housing woes
left over from World War I.
The final check-up showed a loss of
$33,911,000 on an original investment
of $66,500,000.
The problem was created in an effort
to provide quarters for war workers.
Most of the quarters were sold in the
first few years after the Armistice, but
some 450 houses left over were involv-
ed in long drawn-out court battles
which resulted in their being occupied
rent free for many years.
The last of these suits was dismissed
in 1942.
♦ * *
More Babies in United States
Last year 3,350,000 babies, a record
number, were born in the United
States, statisticians of the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company reported.
The number of births was 450,000
greater than in 1945 and exceeded the
previous high record of 1943 by 200,-
000. The new record was attributed
largely to the rapid demobilization of
the armed forces and subsequent sharp
increase in the marriage rate.
Statisticians estimated that the coun-
try’s death rate fell to a new low of
10.2 per 1.00Q in 1946. The natural in-
crease of population, or excess of births
over deaths, also reached a new peak
of 1.900,000 The rate of natiwal in-
crease was close to 1.4 per cent, or al-
most double the annual average for the
pre-war decade.
By STAFF EDITOR
Buyers Getting Choosey Again
The American Furniture Mart re-
ports that buyers are showing distinct
signs of ignoring poor quality wartime
furniture and too highly priced items
and are once again demanding dollar
value in their purchases.
The report says that the volume of
sales is as high as ever, but that buyers
are not “just taking anything.” It
quotes Roscoe R. Rau, executive vice-
president of the National Retail Furni-
ture Association, as saying that 1947
will be the most competitive year in
the history of the furniture business
with merchants trying hard to clean
out slow-moving items.
* * *
Aid for Wildlife Urged
America’s wildlife resources face
critical times in the years immediate-
ly ahead, declares a recent report by a
special committee of the National
House of Representatives.
“Already the increase in hunting and
fishing pressure has been greater than
most people expected, even though ad-
ministrators had generally realized
there would be a large increase im-
mediately after the war," the commit-
tee reported.
Greater financial aid for wildlife
management was urged, with special
emphasis given to wildlife research.
* * *
New Army Plane Affords Clear Vision
The Army Air Forces have a new
“grasshopper,” or liaison plane, with
unusually clear vision on all sides. The
plane has upside-down tail surfaces
and, in case of trouble, can climb 628
feet a minute. This would enable it to
clear a four-story building within two
blocks of takeoff. It can land and come
to a full stop within 247 feet.
The plane will be used for artillery
observations, directing gunfire, photo-
graphic work and wire-laying. It can
be knocked down and loaded on a two-
ton truck and reassembled with ease
and it can also be fitted with skis or
floats and towed as a glider.
* * +
1,500 Superfortresses Wrapped Up
Approximately 1,500 of the Queen
Bees of the Army Air Forces—the B-29
Superfortresses are to be wrapped in
“cocoons” to preserve them for future
use, the Army has announced.
The “cocoons” will be spun around
the big planes with spray guns blow-
ing plastic. Five coats of a special
plastic material will be applied. When
the job is finished, the entire plane will
be wrapped in an airtight case several
times stronger than rawhide.
* * *
Americans Eating at Home Again
Americans ate more meals at home
in 1946, thus reversing a wartime ten-
dency toward eating out.
This was shown in a Commerce De-
partment report issued recently. High-
er prices and heavier supplies resulted
in an average expenditure of $330 per
capita for food and drink. The $46,-
000,000,000 total spent for this purpose
last year represented more than 35 per
cent of all consumer outlays for goods
and services during the year.
* * _4L-_
Seek Coldest Weather
A group of newsmen and cameramen
recently set out from Washington in
search of the coldest weather on the
North American continent.
They joined the Army Ground
Forces “Operation Frigid” and the
Army Air Forces “Operation Willi-
waw” in Alaska. The two groups are
testing Arctic conditions and studying
human endurance and flight conditions
in the dry, frigid atmosphere of Adak
and Fairbanks.
The newspaper men stayed a week
with both military forces before re-
turning to the warmth and comfort of
their typewriters.
The Army believes the Arctic would
be of prime tactical importance in case
of another war.
♦ * *
Business Indices Shoot Upwards
Industry moved into high gear in
January and all branches showed re-
markable improvements. Electric pow-
er hit a high close to the late 1946 out-
put; steel production rose steadily; rail-
way carloadings were higher than us-
ual and automobile and soft coal fig-
ures were the best in months.
More than $110,000,000 worth of
building contracts were signed in the
United States in one week.
Business experts interpreted the rise
as the beginning of an overall boom
throughout the whole country.
* * *
Plenty of Shoes Seen This Year
Shoe plenty for 1947, with supplies
in great variety and in an adequate
range of sizes, is forecast by the Sole
Leather Bureau of the Tanners’ Coun-
cil.
On the basis of figures released by
the bureau, it appears that total 1946
shoe production reached or exceeded
530.000.000 pairs, compared with the
1941 output of 483,097.000 pairs and a
five-year pre-war average of 409.246.-
000 pairs Per capita production of
civilian shoes now is on an average of
approximately 3.3 pairs per person, a
higher rate than in any former year.
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
White, Jefferson B. The Cameron Herald and Centinel (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 13, 1947, newspaper, February 13, 1947; Cameron, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth576665/m1/3/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library.