Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 30

6 10B Corpus Christ Callgr-ThnM Sun May 8 IftCt CAREER FULL OF ADVENTURE The Farm Problem Is Unknown Factor In 1960 Campaign Rockport Cameraman Lucky Alive now of Rockport has a hundred time an ican Farm Bureau Federation say he doubt the farm question will be much of an issue next year Although himself a Democrat Shuman takes the position that most fanners want less government in agriculture Con so-quently he says not too many would be influenced by glowing promise of more federal aid The Farm Bureau leader thinks his party would be smart to kick out the bulk of the federal aid before election time Yet the National Farmers Union long a critic of tha Republicans ia not willing to see this happen It will insist that pledges he made to increase fanp returns either through direct subst-) dies or higher price supports In this the farm organization expects to get aid from organized labor The National Grange will be on hand at both party convention with pleas for adoption of Its multiple price program for export crops This program embodies relatively high returns for domestically consumed products and lower ones tor export snd byproduct markets By OVID A MARTIN Associated Pns Farm Writer WASHINGTON (AP) One of the most proplexing problems facing politicians planning lor next year's presidential race is what to do about the farm problem Doubtleag some leaders of both major parties wish the matter could Ignored largely because sharp division a exist within the parties on what should be done If anything to provide more economic help tor agriculture Adding to the confusion is the question: How strong is the farm vote? Whether they like it or not Republicans face the prospect of defending the farm aid proposals and record of the Elsenhower administration Yet there will be strong forces within the party largely represented by Republican congressmen who will try to get the party to pledge greater help for producers than that offered and desired by Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson No Advantages for Demos But the Democrats have no clear-cut advantage at this moment despite criticism being fired from many direction at the GOP administration record There are many Democrat in Congress representing for the most part urban areas who are in sympathy with the Benson ides that government should get out of agriculture These Democrats see in such an avenue possible lower price for food and lower taxes for their constituent They dislike the idea of spending upwards of five billion dollars a year of tax funds for farm programs On the other hand some Democrats are insisting upon continued federal aid to agriculture although they would like to see the nature of the program changed These party member quite naturally represent farming area Interest in the farm issue is held by a third political force the farmer's own organizations But these groups like both political parties are divided on the question Importance Doubted Significantly President Charles Shuman of the Influential Amer oCrm EDGER-IRIMMER' the gator wriggled partly free of his bonds and dangled by his hind legs until the blimp pilot scraped him off on some treetops FLYING ALLIGATOR Joe Gibson is perched near the motor of a blimp ready to photograph an unfriendly alligator flying over Miami In mid-air ROCKTORT iSp) Too Gibson filmed king and pauper facing death ace newsreel cameraman Highlight of hla adventurous career came In 1933 when Rati ita first seized the Cuban government and Gibson covering the Cuba revolution was shipped home with 16 bullets In his body was set up on the balcony of the Nueva Isla Joe said "when a student demonstration turned into an all-out battla between Batista's men and administration cops The plaza was full of people but that make any difference when they cut loose with the machine guns Men women and children were mowed down as well as revolutionists and cops A little boy was blown to bits and a little girl cut in two by a Suddenly a machine gunner caught sight of Gibson and loosed a burst in his direction Joe kept grinding the upper part of his body protected by the camera and heavy tripod Another burst riddled his legs and he dropped but before he fell he had pictures of them shooting him down Only when soldier rushed to his camera and strewed his exposed film on the street did he discover that he was wounded Years afterward again In Cuba Gibson received a summons to the presidential palace When he stepped from the car with his ramera he discovered to his astonishment that the guard of honor was for him and that he was to be decorated by Batista for his distinguished sendee during the revolution! JOE HAS HAD OTHER brushes with death including the time he nearly crashed into the sea on naval maneuvers Flying over an aircraft carrier for a shot of its deck his plane was caught in the updraft from the stacks and almost went out of control Another time on a naval tugboat towing a target for coastal defense guns he was nearly blown up instead of the bullseye Taking pictures of an auto time trial at Daytona Beach Florida he narrowly escaped death when a hurtling speedster struck the cameraman next to him hurling the unfortunate man a thousand feet killing the driver also but leaving Gibson untouched He has shot the Chrysler Building while under construction clinging to a steel beam 66 stories in the air has been seasick standing on an elephant's back trying to photograph a tiger hunt and was one of the photographers that recorded the coronation of King George and Queen Mary the present ruler's grandparents One of his most unusual assignments came during the craze when his boss tired of the blathering publicity dreamed up the stunt of having a comedian built on the same lines si Jackie Gleason lave himself in a bathtub suspended from a blimp flying from Fifth Avenue scattering soapsuds gracefully to the winds Another wacky one came when Joe thought up an entirely new alligator stunt When a ten-footer was caught in a swamp near Miami Gibson combined it and a blimp to give the city a thrill and to make a good news reel for popular consumption The animal was trussed on a platform beneath the dirigible and Joe with his legs locked around a strut took pictures of the great reptile against a bird's-eye view of Miami The alligator upset by all these goings on rebelled so vigorously that it worked its forequarters loose and dangled from the platform by its hind legs The pilot brushed it off against some tree tops It fell bounced and was recaptured tor a Miami zoo probably the most confused saurian that ever lived EDUCATED IN ENGLISH technical schools tor he was horn in Derbyshire Joe alternated between long-distance swimming and turning a camera crank when he came to this country He ground a camera for a time at the old Fort Lee studios where Theda Bara was emoting for the silent Alms and was technical adviser on an eariy-day serial "The Fatal Fortune" starring Helen Holmes He has met the great and the near-great and has covered fire murder sudden death and natural catastrophes covered the Duke of Windsor on jaunts as the Prince of Wales from the time his father King George took office and when he and Wally were persona non grsta in England and they shipped him off to be governor of the Bahamas I was on the job again they got to the bottom of the gangplank where I was grinding away the Duke stopped short did a double-take then put his hand out and pushed away the camera he said 'Are you stlil grinding that and His Highness walked away "The next day I got an invitation to appear at the Palace There wasn't any reception I found the place empty except for the ex-King of England and his bride who crossed the grounds to welcome me Then we all took tea and discussed old the numerous times that I'd been near His Majesty in the old days till the tea got cold I'd hobnobbed with a lot of kings usually with the camera between us but if the mark of a gentleman is to make others feel at home then the Duke is still the greatest gentleman of his In recent years Gibson has been in Europe and South America making travelogues and dorumentaries until his retirement In South America lie visited the emerald mines of Colombia and in a Dellaviland plane nicknamed Flying he and a still cameraman Milton Meade traveled through Ecuador Bolivia and Chile flying over the Andes and making shots in the Valley of Moon in the latter country at over 14000 feet For many years Joe and his wife made their home in Miami but within recent years they derided that they'd rather live in Texas and have built a home on the shores of Aransas Bay Just north of Rockport "You Joe said kind of nice to take things eaay" A TREMENDOUS BARGAIN Gasoline powered to do the job quickly easily and neatly Buy now on easy terms Briggs A Stratton Engine 2 HP 4-cycla Recoil Starter Handy Control! at Handle Oklahoma Police Chief Caught in Act WAYNOKA Okla Ml Police Chief IT Stephens made a U-turn downtown and immediately realized he had broken a traffic law He issued himself citation and the next day paid a $2 fine 16575 Staples TU2-6542 OOFING Get OUR Estimate! 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In the Soviet seven-year plan it is going to produce 15 million participating athletes By that they mean men and women who have more than an amateur's ordinary skill in any given sport And from the top the voices thunder: It must be Pravada the Communist Party seven day a week paper that spreads the word about zakoni (laws) and such decrees Party Life the monthly magazine that amplifies them with exhnrtalory analysis Komsomol Pravda (Youth Truth) that officially shapes mrsssges for the youth of the all keep harping on the need both tor general physical fitness and tor making Soviet athletes supreme in the world a bounce before they trudge off to work every morning He has been doing It tor year Now they listen to him with added meaningful emphasis from the highest policy makers in the Soviet Union who insist that there must be a national physical fitness program to produce track and field men and women boxers basketballers footballers Multiply that 11 am scene in the import division office by any vast Imagined figure Then you'll have some idea of what is going on in every warren and cubbyhole filled by office worker and factory and workshop spread out in buildings all over Moscow and its suburbs Aim at Record Add to that the country's millions and millions of workers in field and factory They are organized not only in physical education and culture program but in organized sports group All aim Some Replanting Com has been planted as far north ai the Red River but stands vary from poor to good and much is being replanted some to grain sorghum Small grain fields arc making growth but prospects tor a grain crop are poor in the Rolling and South Plain and the west Cross Timbers However oats in the It final stages in spite of the weather' failure to cooperate most of the season the Texas Agricultural Exlrnsion Sendee reported Saturday the warm sunny weather the past few days soil temperature generally have been too tow for germination and growth" aid Director John Ilutrhi-on of the Extension Sendee "Where it was wet enough it was By A I GOLDBERG MOSCOW You just happen to be In a Moscow importing department offiee at 11 am "Nu" the head of the office says lie turns on the radio and the mice of Nikolai Gordeyev rolls out with a brief comrades it's time tor our gymnastics" Hie half-dozen men and women stand beside their desks and in time to Big Brother Nikolai's or cadence count go through a mild run of setting up what the BBC physical culturists call jerks for about five minutes Then according to Gordeyev's theory they return to their desks refreshed and all the better tor the stimulation had "Don't worry about so-eallcd lost time from production Gordeyev counselled recently in Komsomol Pravda the Young Communist League paper "This is good for Millions Hear Him Gordeyev's voice is listened In by millions daily lie and several other big brothers and big sisters run the 6 am-7 am radio physical jerki program that brings up sleepy oldsters and youth 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