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NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL DI! SOCIETY. 1500 ST NEWSPAPER LIBRARIAN BTS Youths Beal Guard, Escape; Caught Two 16-year-old Boys Training School youths slugged a night watchman, Wedesday night, then escaped, but were apprehended a few hours later by the Nebraska Safety Patrol, west of Wahoo. In Lincoln, where the two were ney Thursday, Lancaster County held pending their return to KearDeputy Sheriff Robert Anderson identified them as Raymond Gallatine of Omaha, and Rex Phillips, who was committed from Lincoln. GUARD 'CRITICAL' Supt. Luther Wimberley of the training school said John L.

Chapman, the 78 year old night. watchman slugged in the escape, was in "critical" condition Thursday morning. Mr. Chapman was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital by the city emergency unit. His home is at 2204 Avenue E.

He said Chapman was struck over the head "many times" with an end wrench apparently stolen from the Industrial arts shop and smuggled into the cottage where the two boys were housed. Wimberley said the pair apparently walked up to Chapman's station in the reformatory cottage and started beating him. They then got hold of an employes' pass key, unlocked the doors and Inge a car from the state hospital grounds, owned by Everett Peck, a hospital employe. BEING RETURNED Wimberley said the two boys were to be returned to Kearney and held in the city jail pending conferences with Buffalo County Attorney Kenneth Gotobed outcome of Mr. Chapman's injuries.

Deputy Sheriff Anderson said he Safety Patrolmen Delmar J. Whitefoot and Claude Whitney captured the pair about 4 a.m. at the West Germans Start Debate on Paris Treaties BONN, Germany (P- Overriding a Socialist motion for postponement, the Lower House of West German Parliament, opened crucial debate on the Paris treaties to arm 000 Germans in Western defense. Most observers agreed with government predictions that the pacts would win final approval despite the opposition of many West Germans. Armed anti-riot police guarded the Parliament Building against possible demonstrations as the Bundestag brushed aside the opposition Socialist move on a show of hands.

WRECK REUNIFICATION Introducing the motion, Socialist Deputy Chairman Carlo said ratification of the treaties would wreck any chance of reuniting divided Germany. He said the Socialists were more convinced than ever that Russian readiness to settle the German problem should again be tested by the Western Powers at the conference table. Replying for the government, Christian Democrat Deputy Kurt Kiesinger declared the only way to reunification was through ratification. West Germany must first achieve security before it can restore freedom and security to the 18 million Germans in the Soviet zone, he added. SOVIET VOTE All four parties in Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's ruling coalition voted solidly against the Socialist motion.

The government parties and the Socialists united, however, in drawing up a motion demanding West Germany's direct participation in all talks between Soviet Russia and the Western Big Three on the reunification of Germany. The motion is scheduled to be passed unanimously just after the final vote Saturday on rearmament. Englishman Dies After Fourteen-Year Tea Diet ST. ANNES, England (P- -Oswald Beard, 58, who claimed to have lived on 60 cups of tea a dayand nothing more for the past 14 years, died Wednesday. Like most Britons, he drank tea with milk and sugar.

Beard was wounded in the stomach in World War I. He underwent 21 operations and in 1941 went on the tea diet. Gifts of tea and sugar helped him in Britain's war and postwar rationing. He used pounds of tea every week. The ration once was only two ounces.

REPORT NOT TOO CLEAR GREENVILLE, S. C. IP -Police were sure the woman said a set of her keys had been stolen when she telephoned. They found out in a personal visit later she was trying to say "teeth." Do You Agree? The greatest pleasure I know Is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident. -Charles Lamb, 1775-1834, English essayist, critic, punster, and miscellaneous writer.

LINCOLN 9, NEBR KEARNEY DAILY HUB (intersection of Highways 79 and 30 about 11 miles west of Wahoo after road blocks had been set up over much of eastern Nebraska by patrolmen, county authorities and local officers. Anderson said the pair was first noticed at Central City where they failed to pay for gas, and a gas station attendant reported they had headed east. GALLATINE OUT BEFORE Gallatine had been returned to from Larado, only last school, after he had been released on a Christmas furlough land disappeared, Wimberley said. Gallatine and two other youths were arrested there. He originally was committed on a deliquency charge.

Wimberly said Phillips had not been in any previous trouble the school but had been committed from Lincoln where had been implicated in gang fights. Two Killed at Rail Crossing In Fremont FREMONT, Neb. (P) Two Fremont men were killed Thursday morning when their light pickup truck and a Chicago and North Western Passenger train collided af the outskirts of Fremont. Police identified the men as William Ellsworth Watson, 32, and Deighton W. Jones, who would have celebrated his 44th birthday Friday.

The men lived in a trailer court here and were believed en route to work at a grain elevator near Fremont when the accident occurred. D. G. Crotty of Norfolk, engineer on the train, a diesel powered combination train eastbound from Chadestimated that the train was traveling about 30 miles per hour and the truck was going between 25 and 30 miles per hour. He said the train whistle was blowing and a warning signal at the crossling, which is at the city limits at West Military street, was operat- Fireman George Benning of Norfolk said he thought the two men saw the train just before the impact but police said there were no skid marks on the highway.

The train stopped in about nine car lengths. The deaths of the two men boosted Nebraska's 1955 Highway death toll to 46 compared with 53 at this time in 1954. Farm Bureau Opposes Sending Wheat to Reds WASHINGTON (P -A spokesman said Thursday the Bureau Federation the Americade.If administration will turn down a proposal that surplus wheat be given to food shortage areas behind the Iron Curtain. This confidence was expressed after officials of the farm organlization contacted White House aides to express opposition to donating the wheat although not posing its sale. At a news conference Wednesday, President Eisenhower said the gift idea was being studied, but that personally he looked askance at it.

The proposal was first put forward the National Grange after the recent resignation of Premier Malenkov of Russia confessing failure of the Soviet farm program. Kearney TV Station Seeks Second Channel WASHINGTON (P) Television station KHOL TV, Kearney, Neb. has asked the Communications Commission to assign Television Channel 6 to Hayes Center, so that it might apply for a another station there. The petition said a TV station north of Hayes Center could serve a large part of southwestern Nebraska. KHOL said it had been asked to put service into the area, and that a new station would for the most part duplicate programs of KHOLTV.

OUT, THEN IN. Maj. William C. Chase, who heads the big U. S.

Military Advisory Group on Formosa, must by law, retire on Feb. 28. But he'll go right on training Chiang Kai-shek's armed forces. That's because he's done such a good job that Army Secy. Robert Stevens will exercise his right to immediately recall him to active duty.

By retirement date, General Chase will have completed 35 years' service. (NEA) Sixty-Seventh Year Number 108 KEARNEY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, Plane Crash Kills Three from Grand Island DES MOINES UP -A downed private plane was located about 10 miles south of Des Moines Thursday morning and the State High-: way Patrol received a report that bodies of three victims were found. The plane was identified as the four-place single engine craft which disappeared while trying to reach the Des Moines airport 9 p.m. Wednesday. It was described demolished.

The report of the three bodies was from Sheriff C. J. Richards of Indianola. The plane was found in a timbered area on the Everett McKee farm about miles northeast of Indianola. NEW PLANE The plane was one flown by Tom Hulme, 45, of Grand Island, Neb.

It was a new Piper Tripacer he was flying from Lock Haven, Pa. the Nebraska Flying Service at Grand Island. The victims were identified as Hulme and, tentatively, as Edward and Mark Neidfelt, both of Grand Island. Rollie Stover of Marshalltown, Iowa, owner of the Nebraska Flying Service, and Leonard Hulme, son of the pilot, left Des Moines for the crash scene as soon as word came. BELIEVED ABOARD Stover said the Neidfelts had been believed to be aboard the craft.

They have taking flying lessons at Grand Island. In Grand Island, the manager of the Nebraska Flying said the Neidfelts had in Service Pennsylvania looking at planes. Howard Gregory, service manag-. er of the Des Moines Flying Service, said he flew over the site of the wreckage and saw the registration numbers of the plane. He said there was no doubt it was the plane in which Hulme disappeared.

Hulme and his family lived at the Grand Island Air Base. Their son Leonard flew to Des Moines Thursday morning. He is a University of Nebraska student. U.S. Pledges to Seek Agreement on Arms Reduction LONDON -The United States, pledged Thursday to seek an and workable" agreement with Russia for reduction of nuclear and conventional weapons.

But it said it didn't see much hope for such an understanding. Henry Cabot Lodge U. S. delegate to a secret five power conference on disarmament opening here Friday, told a news conerence: is "When developed and the if an United honest States scheme be in the lead in trying to live by it. In a matter that means so much to suffering.

humanity we must not any possibility. But Lodge warned that there is much ground for optimism." The talks Friday will bring the United States, Britain, France, Canada and Russia together to resume work as the United Nations Disarmament Subcommittee. Beef Industry Is Reported Improved OMAHA UP "The future of the cattle and beef business looks good," Jay Taylor, president of the American National Cattlemen's told the Corn Belt Livestock Feeders Assn Thursday. But, the Amarillo, man said "we've got a hard road to travel before we can say that the beef business is operating as efficiently and effectively as it can." "It has been amazing and gratifyling to see just how much we have the been able to accomplish in beef promotion campaigns," he went on. "We've stabilized the cattle market," Taylor said.

"'We haven't got prices back to where they should be for a reasonable return. But the panic is over. I think you'll agree the tone is much better for the Taylor without promotion and concerted action "I am convinced we would have a much more ruinous situation facing us today." May Withdraw From Red Threatened Island To TAIPEI, Formosa P- -Nationalist China said Thursday all civillians had been withdrawn from tiny Nanchishan, a Red-threatened is(land outpost 140 miles north of Formosa. withdrawal seemed an almost certain prelude to a military evacuation. The island is reported garrisoned by some 5,000 regulars and guerrillas.

There were approximately civilians on Nanchishan, a 3- square-mile island 23 miles off the Red mainland and the northernmost anchor of Chiang Kai-shek's island chain. 800 civilians, mostly army dependents, were withdrawn two weeks ago. Those being brought to Formosa Thursday in Nationalist craft are mainly fishermen who have spent their entire lives on Nanchishan. DEFENSE ZONE The expected military evacuation of Nanchishan would leave the Nationalists with only Quemoy and the Matsus outside the U. protected Formosa defense zone, which embraces Formosa itself and them nearby Pescadores Islands.

The action follows by less than three weeks the Nationalists evacuation of the Tachen Islands, 200 miles north of Formosa. NOT ESSENTIAL Army commanders had been pressing for a finish fight at Nanchishan, but the general staff overruled them because there was no possible hope of U. S. support in its defense. mosa Strait and, in the U.

S. view, The island is outside the Fornot essential to the defense of For- Hub SPOKES One Kearney 10-year-old was all set to take advantage of the season, Wednesday, until his parents caught up with him Seems that when the boy returned from school, his father inquired as the absence of his school home work replied the youngster, "everybody should give up something during Lent, so I'm giving up WORTHWHILE Volunteers who braved the cold winds Sunday to solicit donations for the Heart Fund did real well, according to County Chairman Bonnie Applegate The volunteers netted a total of $1,060.30 for 1 the fund in their one-day drive, Miss Applegate said. Committee Okays Appointment of New AF Official WASHINGTON (P) The Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday recommended confirmation Trevor Gardner as assistant secretary of the Air Force. The vote came after Gardner, an expert on rockets and atomic weapons, told senators he had no plans to hire J. Robert Oppenheimer to work on air force projects.

Gardner now is a special assistant to the Air Force secretary for research and development. His nomination for the promotion to assistant secretary was blocked in the Senate last August after reports that he had aided Oppenheimer, atomic scientist, in Oppenheimer's unsuccessful effort to keep security clearance from the Atomic Energy Commission. Gardner, at a public hearing before the armed services committee Thursday, said he has tremendous admiration" for Oppenheimer but could not employ him on Air Force or government projects because Oppenheimer lacks security clearance. Columbia Censors Press BOGOTA, Columbia (P) Government censorship has been slapped on the newspaper El Espectador because it printed a story that the 5-centavo loaf of bread would disappear and the 10-centavo loaf would be reduced in size. Although the story was later confirmed as true; the government information office said such reports injured the nation's economy.

Missouri Plane Crash Is Fatal Nine Airmen FEBRUARY 24, 1955 WINDSOR, Mo. A fourAir Force tanker plane on a refueling training caught fire shortly after Wednesday night, plunged to and exploded. None of the 11 aboard were killed. Two crewmen parachuted safety as the flaming craft the ground. The plane, which took off the Sedalia Air Force crashed on a farm about six northwest of this central town.

A conductor riding in a on Rock Island freight train the huge craft flaming in the "In a matter of seconds it burst into a regular torch," Asa Gunn, 62, Eldon, then it disappeared over a ahead of the engine. AWFUL FLASH "There was an awful -it went way up in the air. I knew then the plane had crashed and exploded, though I couldn't hear the noise because of the Mrs. D. D.

Stiles, wife of the farmer on whose land the plane crashed, said she and her husband were eating dinner when they heard the roar of the plane's engines. "Then en there was a big explosion," she said. "The flash lighted up the whole house. My husband and I got on a tractor and went down to the scene but there wasn't much we could except watch. "The gasoline kept exploding and we couldn't get very close." FIRE IN TAIL Paul Gregory, farmer who lives near the scene, said one of the survivors told him the fire first appeared in the tail and that pressure made it difficult to open the doors to jump.

"They said they had parachuted less than 75 feet," Gregory said. from the plane at, an altitude of "One of them said he landed on his head and the other said he landed on his feet." The tanker, known as KC97, resembles a Boeing a. Stratocruiser. It was a part of the 340th Refueling Wing stationed at the Sedalia base. None of the men listed aboard the Anderson Wants People to Vote On Toll Road Plan LINCOLN (P) Gov.

Victor E. Anderson Thursday suggested that the question of whether Nebraska shall have a toll road might be put to a vote of the people. "I can think of no fairer way to decide the issue," he said. The governor returned to the capitol Thursday after attending a two day toll road meeting in Evansville, Ind. Governors from Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois attended the conference as well as representatives from several other states.

Anderson said the conference revealed "tremendous enthusiasm' from people in states where toll roads have been constructed or are in the process of being built. However, the governor pointed out that he is not "crusading" for toll roads but simply feels, that the facts should be Legislature and the people for a decision. The decision for turnpikes has been made by a vote of the people in some states, he said. Gov. Anderson said that "there is no question" Nebraska needs a four lane highways across the state in the near, future.

He added it could be either a toll road or a part of a federal interstate free highway program, such as the one recommended by President Eisenhower in the current session of Congress. "I believe that we must have either type if we are to continue to attract industry to Nebraska and the the governor state's said. economy is to grow," FIRE SPARES PHOTOGRAPH SACRAMENTO, Calif. (P Firemen restrained Mrs. Robert Ward from entering her burning house to save a photograph of her son, killed in the Korean war.

The furnishings were destroyed but the photograph later was found in her scorched I handbag-undamaged. mosa President and the Eisenhower Pescadores, has ised to guard. Earlier Thursday, official les denied Nanchishan was being evacuated. said air and naval blows against the Reds had lessened, for the time being the Communist threat there. The latest reported strikes against the Reds were delivered Wednesday night by three waves of planes based on Formosa.

Air force headquarters claimed one Communist craft-type and size unspecified- -sunk, and heavy damage inflicted on military islands of Chihotushan (Tooth stallations on the small Red held Head Mountain) and Peilungshan (North Dragon Mountain). Both are north of Nanchishan. Pay Boost for Congressmen Seems Assured WASHINGTON -A pay raise of at least 50 per cent was assured today for senators and House members. A 67 per cent boostas voted by the House appeared probable. The Senate Wednesday rolled up a big vote; 62-24, in favo of an increase in congressional pay from the present $15,00 to $22,500.

The measure was at once sent to conference with the House, which last week voted 28-118 for a $25,000 salary. Both versions include boosts of $7,500 to $10,000 for all the approximately 400 federal judges. HIGH FIGURE The five Senate conferees on the bill include several members who favor at least a $25,000 salary. This seemed to make it quite likely that the House figure would be accepted in the end. Sen.

Kefauver (D Tenn), heading the Senate group, told a reporter, "'We will defend the Senate position as strongly as we can." But he added if House conferees are adamant, "we will have to make some adjustment." The three House conferees all were strong backers of the $25,000 salary in that body, FULLY JUSTIFIED Kefauver told the Senate Wednesday he thought a a. $25,000 salary was "fully justified," and Senators Kilgore Va) and Dirksen (R- Ill), other conferees, have supported a $27,500 figure recommended last year by a special commission. The salary boost will be the first since 1946 for the lawmakers. However, since then they have voted themselves an income tax deduction of for living expenses in Washington. This is not affected by the pay legislation.

The Senate bill contains one bonus not included the House. This would allow expenses for five trips members' home states "to each year, in addition to the 20 cents a mile they now receive for, one round trip. Lump-Sum Settlement Of Damage Case OK'd A lump-sum settlement of an accident case was approved by District Judge E. G. Reed Wednesday.

Vaughn E. Connely of Kearney, the plaintiff, accepted 534.20 in damages from the Service Pipeline Company. The claim arose from an accident in which Mr. Connely, a driver for the company, was injured. According to the plaintiff's petition, he was digging out from under a pipe which was to be lowered when the bank caved in, pinning him against the pipe, with injuries resulting.

The accident occurred June 24, 1953. Frank Dunlap, Cairo, Dies Funeral services will be held Sunday in Cairo for Frank Dunlap, who died at a Grand Island hospital early Thursday morning. Survivors include his wife, Emma, and a son, Harold, both of Cairo; a granddaughter and several neices and nephews. Services will be held in Cairo at 2 p.m. Sunday.

Feeders Find Experimentation, Progress Those making the sixth tour of Buffalo County feedlots Wednesday found many developments representing progress in the feeding business. Systems for bigger and cheaper gains and work-saving plans were among those demonstrated at the five feedlots on the tour. At the Virgil Pemberton farm one mile east of Kearney, steers being fed stilbestrol were the focus of interest. Mr. Pemberton is feeding 40 head of Hereford steers a ration including 18 pounds of cracked corn and two pounds of supplement containing stilbestrol.

The steers also receive two bales of ground alfalfa hay daily. FEED STILBESTROL Mr. Pemberton told the visitors that the supplement he was using contained five milligrams of stilbestrol per pound. On a total of ten milligrams of stilbestrol daily, his Home of Kearney State Teachers College Manila Pact Nations Take Steps to Stop Aggression In Asia Weather- Dulles Says Red mission takeoff earth men to neared from base, miles Missouri caboose saw air. had said "and knoll lambs on feed.

He is feeding a 50-50 mixture of corn and alfalfa hay which is ground together and blown into overhead storage bins. SELF FEEDERS Mr. Stubblefield uses self-feeders for his lambs. Each feeder accommodates about 100 lambs. He said that a few modifications were necto fit the feeders for the corn-alfalfa mixture.

He said that head and breech clipping of the lambs has been an aid. The lambs eat better when they can see better, he said, and the clipping has made them look blockier. For example, Mr. Stubblefield cited a shipment of lambs which he made last week. The lambs were heavy, weighing 111 pounds, he said, but topped the market.

Mr. Stubblefield showed the feeders a quonset-type building which Continued on Page, eleven) 8 a.m., noon 11. 2 p.m., 12. Pressure Causes Extremes last 24 hours, 19, 4. High, low year ago, 70, 37.

Weatherman's Ditty: We can be happy the wind didn't blow With the mercury hanging a four below CENTRAL NEBRASKA: Fair, not so cold Thursday night, lows five to 10 above zero. Partly cloudy Friday and warmer, moderate to strong southerly winds, high generally in 30's. Demos Predict Passage of Cut In Income Tax WASHINGTON (P) Democratic leaders predicted the House would pass a $20-a-person income tax cut showdown late today. President Eisenhower's lieutenants sought to line up a solid "no" vote from Republicans. Rep.

Halleck (R-Ind) said "I think we'll succeed" in killing the tax cut move. Other key Republicans said privately the odds were against them. Both sides conceded the outcome might hinge on a handful of votes. REDUCE REVENUE The democratic bill would provide a $20 tax cut, starting next for each taxpayer and each dependent. It would reduce revenues about 815 million dollars for the fiscal year starting next July 1, and about $2,200,000,000 over a full year of operation.

Democrats wrapped this reduction into a package with Eisenhower's request to continue present corporation income and excise tax rates for one year. These rates are now scheduled to drop by almost three billion dollars annually April 1. There is almost no opposition to the extensions. Republicans pinned their chief hope on knocking out the income tax cut in the Senate even if beaten in the House. NEWS CONFERENCE At his news conference Wednesday, Eisenhower said reducing taxes in the face of an estimated $2,300,000,000 federal deficit for the next fiscal year would be reaching "heights in fiscal irresponsibility." Speaker of the House Rayburn (D-Tex), bristling at the President's attack, suggested Republicans already had reached the peak of irresponsibility.

He said that while cutting taxes last year when the anticipated federal deficit was almost twice the estimate now, the Republicans "didn't give the little folks anything." Mrs. Lela Wood Injured When Car Overturns Mrs. Lela Wood, 421 W. suffered a hip injury, early Thursday, when the family car skidded the curve at 24th and Ninth and rolled over on its top. Mrs.

Wood was a passenger in the car driven by her husband, Lyle Wood. Taken to the Good Samaritan Hospital by the city emergency unit, Mrs. Wood was reported to have suffered a fracture of the pelvic bone. According to police, who investigated, Mr. Wood was driving the car east on when it skidded on ice, and turned over.

The car knocked over the blinker signal standard the southeast corner of the intersection at 24th and Ninth ave. The Wood car was heavily damaged. NEW PREMIER, Radical Socialist Edgar Faure, above, has been designated A8 the new French premier, Faure, Foreign Minister in the ousted MendesFrance cabinet and once Premier for 40 days, received assembly approval to form new government Wednesday. (NEA) Great Dangers BANGKOK (P -Manila Pact tions took specific steps Thursday to implement the Southeast Asia Defense Treaty against Communist aggression and subversion south of Red China's borders. The eight-nation conference set up a council of representatives with ambassadorial status and headquarters Bangkok.

Then member nations proved the formation of a mittee on military affairs. Milltary attaches attending the meeting went right to work, although few of them are expected to be on the permanent committee which will be named later. that out of the way, the delegates swung into a discussion of anti-subversion action and over. all economic problems in this part of the world. GENERAL ANSWER U.

S. Secretary of State Dulles told the conference that a general answer to Red subversion would not be found in the present meeting. But he said the United States would be prepared to designate a security representative to sit with representatives of other nations and work out details of future plans. A working paper submitted to the conference called for, mutual assistance, exchange of information on suspected persons and their activities, propaganda, and exchange of information on the movements of known Communists. Three economic plans were submitted.

One, from Pakistan, suggested a separate economic body meet in Karachi for its first meeting. The Philippines submitted a modified economic plan, and France submitted a third. NONE ADOPTED A spokesman said none of the plans had been adopted. Harold Stassen, chief of the U.S. Foreign Operations Administration, arrived from Manila just before the economic questions were taken up.

Stassen told the conference the United States recognized the importance of economic work in the SEATO area, and would cooperate with the other nations. Dulles stressed the importance of Formosa to the over-all defense Southeast in his talk to the closed conference Wednesday, In a sweeping review of the Far East situation he said potentially greater dangers face the free world now because of internal pressures on the Communist hierarchy. Twenty South Korean divisions and 300,000 Nationalist Chinese troops ready to fight in Formosa and the offshore islands put a damper on Red China's warlike ambition in the Far East, he said. THREE-FRONT WAR Northern, central and southeast forces, together with the mightiest U.S. Pacific fleet and air striking power in history, make Red China chary of starting what might quickly develop into a threefront war which China wants to avoid, he said.

He said Chiang Kai-shek's gov. ernment on Formosa and Syngman Rhee's Republic of Korea must be maintained. Dulles will visit Rangoon, capital of neutralist Burma, Saturday. He will look in on troubled Laos Sunday and visit Cambodia and South Viet Nam Monday, then fly to the Philippines for a conference of American Far Eastern ambassadors Tuesday. He may visit Formosa.

AMERICAN FORCES In the closed meeting Wednesday Dulles ticked off these components of the American force he said could strike anywhere in the Pacific: A fleet of 400 warships including carriers and 300,000 men. Five division of 350,000 men. Thirty squadrons of Air Force jet bombers and interceptors plus other strategic forces. He argued against breaking up this powerful force and assigning parts of it to Manila Pact nations. He urged instead that it kept intact, able to strike anywhere needed and that the separate nations add their strength to that of the U.S.

Pacific force. steers have been gaining an age of 3.24 pounds per day, at a cost of 17.3 cents per pound. Mr. Pemberton also has a concrete feed lot 30 by 65 feet which was of interest. A shed, open on the south, was located on one part of the concrete, and a large square feedbunk in the center.

Richard Mercer, who farms two miles east of Kearney, is feeding 22 head of registered Yorkshire sows, of which five had farrowed at the time of the tour. Mr. Mercer used barrels to protect his pig litters. He cut a hole big enough for the pigs in one side of the barrel near one end, stood the barrel on that end, and mounted a heat lamp in the other end. The pigs crawl into the barrel to get warm, and the sow cannot enter through the small hole.

ELECTRIC FENCE Mr. Mercer uses an electric fence arrange an above-ground for self-feeding of cattle. The fence consists of one strand of wire strung about 18 inches above the ground. The fence is moved each day so that is is kept about 18 inches from the edge of the silage. At the Cliff Richardson feedlot, south and west of Gibbon, the feeders Mr.

Richardson's experimentation in search of inexpensive gains. Mr. Richardson is feeding 93 head of Hereford calves two parts ground cobs to one part ground ear corn, and adding ground alfalfa hay. The calves are being fed from a concrete feeding bunk 127 feet long. The bunk is quite low, so Mr.

Richardson uses an electric fence located about eight feet back from the bunk to keep hogs from the feed. Dale Stubblefield, who farms four miles east of Gibbon, has 1,200 head HOLD RITES FOR INFANT Funeral rites were held Tuesday morning at Kearney Cemetery for the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Zimmerman of Kearney. The child, named Scott Alan, died at birth, Saturday.

Mrs. Zimmerman is the former Jaqueline Swain. Surviving in addition to the par are the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Zimmerman of Kearney and the ternal grandparents, Mr.

and Mrs. W. H. Swain of Kearney..