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TOO MIJCH NOISE CAN CAUSE AN^^^^g:
U.S. POPULATION AND FOOD SUPPLY
Dr. Byron T. Shaw, head of the United States
Agriculture Department Research Branch, says the
present abundance of food in the United States is only
temporary and that the population is steadily outdis
tancing increased food production. In a speech, in St.
Louis, recently, Dr. S'haw estimated the nation’s growth
at 2,500,000 persons a year.
He placed births in 1952 at 3,889,000 which repre
sents a record baby crop. Because the death rate is
being cut down steadily, the population increase is
being expanded from two directions — more births
and fewer deaths.
Dr. Shaw estimates that the population of the
United States will be at least 190,000,000 by 1975 and
says that U.S. farmers will have to produce about one-'
third more food than they did in 1950 if the living
standard is to be retained where it is, with this in
creased population. He estimates that at the present
production rate the one-third increase would require
about 100,000,000 acres of crop lands, though this much
good farm land is not available. Dr. Shaw believes most
of the good crop lands in this country are now being
farmed.
The obvious solution is to make the available acre
age produce more. Even if Dr. Shaw’s estimate is cor
rect, that 30,000,000 more acres of food land can be
found, then the total acreage available to U.S. farm
ers in 1975 will have to produce what another 70,000,
000 acres could produce at present production rates.
It is questionable whether the available land can
be made to produce that much more food, per acre, by
1975. ShawT says most of the bright ideas scientists
have come up with for increasing production in re
cent years have already been utilized. He lists mech
anization, new methods of fertilizing and new fertil
izers, and new lines of plants, such as hybrid corn, and
new breeds of animals. The Department of Agricul
ture official believes it is becoming harder to discover
ways to increase production, per acre, and if his ap
praisal is correct, “we have to get some new ideas to
feed those 190,000,000 Americans of 1975.”
Those who sleep in foxholes in Korea find it hard
to understand some of their fellow Americans back
home.
Some folks think they’re bearing their cross when
they’re only putting up with themselves.
Russia Announces “Doctor’s Plot” Was
A Fake and Release Jewish Physicians
Non-Sked Files Another
Appeal To Stave Off
CAB Death Sentence
SEATTLE, CD —Air Transport
Associates has made a new court
appeal to stave off the death sen
tence imposed on the non-sched
ule airline by the Civil Aeronau
tics Board.
Amos Heacock, president of
ATA, said a petition was filed in
the Circuit Court at Washington,
D.C., Saturday.
He said it asks the court to
issue an order that the CAB order
to revoke the airline’s operating
certificate shall not be effective
until after a hearing is held on
ATA’s 1949 application for a cer
tificate to become a regularly
scheduled carrier. It now operates
to and within Alaska as a non
scheduled carrier.
Heacock said the new petition
to the Circuit Court stresses that
the ATA 1949 application should
reach the hearing state this sum
mer in the general CAB inquiry
into Alaska-United States air ser
vice.
Heacock said the new petition is
based on a provision of the law
requiring the CAB to set public
hearings “as speedily as possible”
on applications for certificates. He
said it contends the law has been
by - passed by the CAB by its
action to revoke ATA’s license
without ever having held a hear
ing on its application for regular
scheduled service.
Heacock said his airline’s case
will be one of the subjects be
fore the House Committee on In
terstate and Foreign Commerce in
Seattle hearings this week. The
hearing opens Wednesday.
Army Secretary Says Ammo
In Good Supply In Korea
WASHINGTON, tD—Army Sec
retary Robert T. Stevens said
Saturday the ammunition supply
in Korea “was good everywhere
I looked, in the forward areas and
in the rear areas.”
A reporter asked him if the
ammunition supply was so good
it was “running out of the ears”
of the Eighth Army.
“No,” Stevens answered. “ I
wouldn’t say it was running out
of the ears, but it is good.”
(By i->E Associated Press)
The Soviet Union, in an amaz
ing reversal, announced Saturday
15 doctors charged with killing
top Soviet leaders were innocent
and have been released. Christians
the world over pondered the sur
prises from, the Kremlin as they
prepared for Easter services with
prayers and hopes for peace.
Moscow’s surprise announce
ment that the “doctor’s plot,” in
volving some Jewish physicians,
was a fake and the medical men
were falsely accused, will have
internal and external repercus
sions. Following the disclosure of
the doctors’ arrest in January, the
Soviet Union severed diplomatic
relations with Israel.
Whatever the internal power
play behind the latest Soviet re
versal it seems to fit the current
pattern of conciliation.
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles warned Americans that
Russia’s new look is not quite so
new as it might appear on the
I surface. He said while the U.S.
welcomes the Communist peace
talk, the Soviet Union is still a
grave danger to the free world
for three reasons:
1. The Soviet Union is a heav
ily totalitarian state guided by a
small band of dictators who now
control one-third of the world’s
people and natural resources.
2. The Kremlin is basically
hostile to any nations which do
not bend to the Soviet program.
3. The Communist state be
lieves in using the forces of vio
lence or any means to attain its
ends.
The Western world moved war
ily in response to the Red peace
bid.
High Explosive Ammo
Stolen from Ft. Richardson
ANCHORAGE, — A quantity
of high explosive ammunition has
been stolen—possibly by children
— from an Army installation at
Mt. View, officials reported Fri
day.
The public information officer
at Ft. Richardson said four high
explosive bazooka shells and 1,800
rounds of .30 caliber ammunition
are missing. The bazooka rockets
are extremely dangerous.
An intensive search is being
conducted for the ammunition.
Dulles Opposed
Limiting Treaty
Making Powers
WASHINGTON, UP> — Secretary
of State Dulles today opposed
proposals in Congress to limit the
treaty making powers, but said
they should not be used to effect
social changes. He announced the
Eisenhower administration will
not sign two United Nations-spon
sored agreements.
Dulles made his argument to a
Senate Judiciary subcommittee
which had just heard Clarence
Manion, former dean of Notre
Dame College of Law, contend
that Dulles himself had argued
only a year ago that unrestricted
treaty powers could cut across the
constitutional rights of the people.
Dulles told the subcommittee
the administration would refrain
from signing the U.N. covenant
on human rights and the U. N.
covenant on political rights of
women.
Further he said, the administra
tion intends to consult the Senate
more closely on compacts with
other nations. He said that con
gressional leaders will be con
sulted when there is any serious
question as to whether an execu
tive agreement should be sub
mitted to Congress.
Dulles contended that the pro
posed restrictions on treaty pow
ers “could be dangerous to our
peace and security.” The pro
posals, he said “woud subject the
current,' day-by-day,v conduct of
foreign affairs to impediments
which might be stifling.”
Abandon Hope For Rescue
Of Turkish Submariners
ISTANBUL, Turkey, UFi — The
Defense Ministry abandoned all
hope last night of recovering fur
ther survivors from the rammed
submarine Dumlupinar 228 feet
below the surface of the Dardan
elles Straits. The total loss of life
was put at 81 American-trained
Turkish seamen.
Five men, including the sub’s
skipper, were saved. All had been
on the conning tower early Satur
day when the 4,000-ton Swedish
freighter Naboland rammed the
Dumlupinar in pre-dawn darkness
as the sub cruised on the surface
three miles north of Canakkale, a
fortress town near the southern
end of the Dardanelles.
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