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SIMPLIFIED PLAN PROPOSED Junking Of Federal Relief Hay Program Urged By Drouth States AUSTIN, Oct 1 Agriculture i Wednesday In Oklahoma City and Commissioner John White said to-! officials from seven drouth-stricken will day representatives of drouth dis aster states have unanimously advocated junking the present federal relict hay program. He the decision was reached Rites To Be Held For Area Pioneer 'PETERSBURG, Oct, i (Special) services for Mrs, Ida 89, resident of this states will propose a new approach at a meeting with federal agriculture officials in Washington Wednesday. White said spokesmen for Texas, Arkansas, Colorado, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Missouri agreed the present system of reimbursing half the hay -transportation costs up to J10 per ton should be abolished. 'Inadequate, Complicated' They said the plan is too inadequate and complicated to be of real benefit to needy farmers a.m. Friday at her home here, will be conducted at 2 p.m.

Saturday in the Lakeview Methodist Church. The Rev. R. E. Boyle will officiate.

Burial will be in Strip The 'group proposed that federal- state cooperative agreements be revised to permit the payment on actual cost of hay and transportation not transportation alone. They suggested reimbursement be on the basis of one-fifth the total Cemetery under the direction of Funeral Home. cost, not to exceed $10 per ton, Mrs. Fitzgerald was 1he widow white said that instead of the of James E. Fitzgerald.

'five forms now-required, one cor- Stie had been sick about four tificate would be needed by the months. farmer. He said that would eliminate most of the red tape now hampering the program and would cut administrative costs by more Survivors include two sons, Jim Fitzgerald, Petersburg, and Los Angeles; four daughters, Mrs, Ava Brown, Truth or Consequences, N. Mrs. Mattic Sorey.

Los Angeles; Mrs. Ettalce Harris, Bakersficld, Snnta and Mrs, Minnie Spies, Rosa, two step- rnperatu Fig we i Show for Conditiani P.M. .1954 Fugitive Python Believed Spotted Swimming Trinity FORT WORTH, Oct, 1 A Dallas man said he say. a snake as big-as a stovepile swimming in the Trinity River north of Arlington shortly before noon today. Zoo officials, who hoped it was their python fugitive, Pete, hurried to the scene.

Police also answered the call. David Smith, 59, said he the snake from the bridge on Stf.le Highway 157, "I was standing on the bridge when I spotted this big brown snake 15 or 20 feet: long and as big as a stove pipe swimming toward a bend in the river," said Smith. 'I watched him until he round- i ed the bend.which was about 500 feet away. 'He was swimming kind of crosswise in the river and looked lo be heading toward the south i bank when he rounded the bend." Smith said he had not read of Pete the python's escape in' Fort Worth but had heard something about a snake being loose. 1M4 In Reply To Mwogt) From REA Head Says President 'Misinformed' Abodt Status Of Rural Electric Program WASHINGTON, Oct.

1 The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association has told President Eisenhower that some administration officials have "misinformed" him about the status of the REA program. The association, which has been carrying on a running battle with the administration over power policies, told the President in a letter that officials of the Interior Department and other federal have "acted again, and than half Presentation Urged He said Kenneth Scott, director of the Agricultural Credit Services brothers, L. L. Heron and Joe Heron, both of Ardmorc, and IS grandchildren. One son, Cpl.

George W. Fite-i eerald, died in France in World! War I. i Mrs. Fitzgerald was the i t' Gold Star mother in Hale County. and chairman ol drouth committee, the was federal present A count showed 550 o( 600 persons took to the stret rather than pass under a ladder over the'side- walk in Mexborough, England.

when the plan was drafted in Oklahoma City and recommended the entire group to present it to the committee in Washington Wednesday, Attending the Oklahoma City meeting were state Sen. Marvin Melton of Arkansas and Commissioners of Agriculture Paul Swish- cr of Colorado, Dave Pierce of Louisiana, Harold Hutton of Oklahoma, William Moss of Tennessee, C.L. Carpenter of Missouri and White. WEATHER BUREAU flow of warm, moist air over the southeastern quarter of'the nation today will result in partly cloudy to cloudy skies, unseasonably warm temperatures and scattered showers. Northerly winds over the northern Rockies will bring cool temperatures and some snow Light 'rain and showers' arc expected in the upper Lakes region.

A few showers are forecast, lor'upper sections of New England. The rest the nation will experience mosUy fair weather, with little temperature change. (AP Wirepluto Map.) Odessa's Permian Basin Oil ODESSA, Oct, The Show Again To Feature Feed The feed this year will be held popular "feed on the grounds" will af 5 Saturday, Oct. 16, and held again this year at the Per- 1 M0 hu ts mian Basin oil show opening Oct. i ACTION AT ANY COST PALERMO, Oct.

1 IKS-Vincenzo Fasan, a Sicilian stonemason, tore off his clothes, jumped into i a fountain serving and kick and the started to slap marble water- Odessa Chuck Wagon fced. war sons who fHcd through the chow ed the agricultural ex lines hi less than two hours. station Za'faramya. year's nymphs grouped in the middle. 1 consider those statues im- he explained to police.

Chile oorts. now bans all wood im- North Carolina Congressional Veteran R. L. Douqhfon Dies LAUREL SPRINGS, N. Oct.

1 Former. Rep. Robert L. Doughton died'in his sleep at his home here, it was announced Friday by a. member of his family.

i Doughton went home to his North Carolina hill country in 1952 after 41 years in Congress with of having served as chairman of the House Ways-and Means committee longer, than any other man, charting the nation's fiscal policy from the depression through World War II and most of the postwar period. His retirement from Congress at the age of was the oldest man in not end his Services Set Today For Retired Teacher LITTLEFIELD, Oct. 1 services for Oliver A. Burk, 62, retired teacher who died at his home at 7:45 a.m, Friday following a heart attack, will be conducted at 3 p.m. Saturday in the Highway 51 Church of Christ again" against the rural electrle program.

Jack E. Smith, association president wrote to Mr. Eisenhower ill response to a telegram the President gent to REA chief Anchor Nelsen. In that telegram, Eisenhower denounced as "reckless and ir- responsible'' statements by administration opponents that the REA programs will be curtailed in 1955. here, John Freeman, law of Lubbock, will officiate.

Burial will be in the LitUefield Cemetery under the "direction of the Harmon Funeral Home. Burk taught at Anton about 15 years, before his retirement after he suffered a heart attack about 2V4 years ago. Survivors include his wife; one son, Glenn Burk, Littlefield; one daughter, Mrs. Charlene Mahaffey, Hart Camp; one brother, B. 0.

Burk, Kress; three sisters, Mrs, Martha Holleman, Hollis, Wesley Jones, Amarillo, and Mrs. Bessie Gambill, "This is part of a general fear psychology now being adroitly generated in many fields by people who evidently have ends to serve that they consider more important than the truth," the President wrote. I Smith said hi his letter that (Snecial) Eisenhower was "misinformed" when he wrote the telegram and declared that it is being used as a "misleading" campaign document. Blasts 'Subordinates; "The real truth is that, with or without your knowledge, some of your subordinates in the Department of Interior and other federal agencies have acted again and again in opposition to the best interests of the rural electric program," Smith wrote to Eisenhower, "It is against some of your subordinates that you should take steps not against the farmers and their leaders who are uneasy about the future in light of the past," he added. a brother-in- public career.

He became national of an Arkansas town Democratic committeeman Ib North Carolina, succeeding Jonathan Daniels, and played an active role in the 1952 Democratic national convention and the 1952 campaigns. Pallbearers will be J. W. Webb, Jeff Brazil, R. C.

Hagan, G. C. Chandler, all of Anton, Vivian Pritchard, Plainview, and Melvin West, Littlefield. Cordell Hull To Observe 83rd Birthday In Bethesda Hospital WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 Former Secretary of State Cordell Hull Saturday will celebrate 83rd birthday in the Bethesdc, naval hospital where he is recovering Trom a stroke.

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