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British Beef About Beef LONDON (AP) --Prime Mis- liter Sir Alee Douglas-Home's fetot electoral difficulty has blown into town straight off the drought-stricken pampas ot Argentina. It ia a rimiage of beef which has sent prices rocketing and produced the first signs of a boycott by the nation's house- wives. Traders are muttering, politicians are thundering and the housewife Is plainly rebellious. The combination could weaken Douglas-Home's chances of retaining power when he leads his Conservative party into national elections this fall. For the beef crisis is hitting the nation where it counts most at elec- tion times--In the pocketbook.

Britain has long been a bargain counter for the cheap beef steak. Even today, government- subsidized prices are far below European levels. A pound of fillet steak fetching $1.40 in London costs $3 in Paris. In Rome, Bonn and Geneva, the average citizen will also pay considerably more For Dad, Father's Day! A. B.

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For continental buyers are flooding into Britain in record numbers to take advantage of the government-backed market. Experts calculate that international buying of Drftish meat has roughly trebled in the past year. Most of it is going to Holland and Belgium with less to France. From Britain's point of view as a trading nation, this would normally be fine. But the big rush has come at a time when Argentina--traditionally a major supplier of this country--is unable to meet scheduled shipments and there has been a decline in British herds.

The outcome for the British housewife has been costly. The $1.40 average for a pound of fillet steak has been exceeded in many areas, going as high as $2.10. Yet in the northern town Charged With Parole Violation A bench issued by warrant has been the Saline Counly of Newcastle, rump sieak is still selling at 96 carts a pound and there has been no general upward swing. Show Contempt Many housewives in high' price zones have shown con tempt for the situation by drop ng becl from the menu. They are buying more pork and Iamb with lamb from New Zealand the favorite at 44 cents a pound.

So far, there has been no rush on fish. Political rivals of the government are charging the Conservatives with lack of foresight for allowing the domestic beet shortage to develop. The opposition Laborites say adequate stocks should have been purchased in advance. They want future supplies guaranteed by fixing long-term contracts with Commonwealth and other foreign producers. District Court against Richard R.

Helwig who now is in'Uie Wichita jail. Helwig will be returned here on the warrant which was issued for alleged violation of parole. He pleaded guilty to an entice- niifit charge in 1960 and was sentenced to one to five years in the Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing. This judgment was then commuted to the same term at Lamed State Hospital at Lamed. On Aug.

6, 1962, he was paroled for a tern of three years. Hitchhiking Heidi Back KANSAS Cm', Kan. AP)Heidi, the friendly little dachs iimd, is back home again. But, 'or how long, is anyone's guess. Heidi, 2 years old, disappeared in April, and was located May 18 in Orange County, 1,600 miles away from Kansas City.

rier owners, Mr. and Mrs James M. Carr, picked Heidi up Monday at the Union Station freight depot where she had been shipped by friends of the Carrs, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Wichita Girl "Chief Justice" LAWRENCE, Kan.

(AP) Jan Graham of Wichita was elected chief justice of Girl's State Court Tuesday. Other officers of the 22nd annual mock state government will be elected today. lotha of La Mirada, Calif. Tuesday, Heidi was back at her old habit of begging fref scraps at the corner grocery and nuzzling friendly hands. The Curi's figure thut's how hitched the ride to California in the first place.

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The organization recommends extension of the present sugar act from 1967 through 1970, increasing the annual allotment from 65,000 tons to 150.000 tons for new domestic sugar beet production. States represented by the new committee include Kansas. Missouri and Oklahoma. THURS. FRI.

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