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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1950
Government Inconsistent As Oklahoma's Soil Blows
Anadarko, Okla.,—(U.P.)—Government agencies have quarreled and pulled in opposite directions while a cycle of boom, dust, and bust entered its gloomiest stage in Oklahoma's "potential dust bowl."
Despite millions of subsidies paid in the area during the past 17 years for soil conservation and crop price supports, some 150,000 acres of Oklahoma top soil is blowing away after six months of dry weather. The acreage dear here here must be dwarfed now in the making in the same section of the country hit hardest by drought and dust in the 1930's.
Because they live in a strongly democratic community, few of the businessmen wanted to be quoted by name when they criticized federal farm policies. But W. D. "Jim" Finney, president of the Washita county bank at Fort Cobb, Okla., spoke out after noting that he has no quarrel with local farm agency officials.
Mr. Fienny said the Production and Marketing administration—successor to the A.A.A., subsidizes contour planting. The R.M.A. program thereby overlaps the program of the U.S. soil conservation service, which encourages that and other farming practices by furnishing free engineering services, renting tools and showing farmers how to use them.
The small town banker, sitting at a desk dusty with the wasted soil
that keeps his community alive, believes far more citizens have protected their land from wind erosion than during the pre-dust bowl days 20 years ago.
"Farmers have their ups and downs," he said. "They've been down before and came back. Those who ought to change their ways are starting to. I don't believe it's too late."
The Caddo county P.M.A. secretary, Ben Craig, said about as many peanuts will be planted in this area in 1950 as last year if rain comes soon enough. Despite soil conservation service pleas to farmers that peanut acreage be reduced, P.M.A. has announced it will support the price of "goobers" even though peanut acreage remains the same.
"The socialistic plan of subsidies has been emphasized rather than the permanent program of putting the money to the right use," Mr. Craig said.
"Any farmer ought to know by now not to plant his rows up and down hill. He ought to plant on the contours without being paid by the government to do it."
Egyptians' Well-Preserved Bodies Are Uncovered After 5,000 Years
Helwan, Egypt—(U.P.)-Skilled Egyptian workmen recently uncovered the well-preserved bodies of four men and two women buried for at least 5.000 years.
Kansan Calendar of Coming Events
TODAY
Tuesday, April 25
Curtis Clover, baritone, senior recital, 8 p.m. in Strong auditorium.
Wednesday, April 26
Book of Switzerland, and Latin American Art, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily throughout April, Museum of Art.
Mary Lynn Lucas, contralto, senior recital, 8 p.m. in Strong auditorium.
Thursday, April 27
Honors convocation, Mr. William Vogt, 9:20 a.m., Hoch auditorium.
Book of Switzerland, and Latin America Art, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily throughout April, Museum of Art.
Friday. April 23
Film series, Buster Keaton in "The Navigator." 7:30 p.m., Hoch auditorium.
Faculty Members Attend Math Meet
Two members of the faculty appeared on the program at the joint meeting of the Kansas Association of Teachers of Mathematics and the Kansas section of the Mathematics Association of America in Pittsburg, Kan. April 22.
Prof. G. W. Smith, chairman of the mathematics department reported for the co-ordination on mathematics.
Dr. Gilbert Ulmer, associate professor of mathematics and assistant dean of the College, reported on the recent Chicago meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Several other members of the faculty attended.
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King Farouk financed the excavation in which workers specially selected for their delicate touch used shaving brushes to clear the last grains of sand from the coffins of grass in which the bodies had reposed for 50 centuries.
A young archaeologist, Zaki Saad, headed the expedition which found the burial site, dating from the first dynasty, in this suburban town 15 miles south of Cairo.
Census Shows Midwest Gains
The old, dry grass disintegrated at the slightest touch as the coffins were being removed, and the bodies it had protected since the dawn of history began to be visible for the first time since about 3000 B. C.
The first body uncovered was that of a woman. As the grass was cleared painstakingly away, her head still showed locks of hair. The skull and
Denver—(U.P.)—The director of the census said recently that five Rocky mountain and plains states had shown above-average economic gains in the span from 1939 to 1947 despite a lag in population growth.
Dr. Rov V. Peel reported to members of the Inter-mountain Editorial association that the five states had almost doubled their number of factory workers, had more than 10 million industrial installations in the area had nearly quadrupled in the eight-year period.
The U.S. census chief said that only in population had Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas and New Mexico failed to keep ahead of the national average. There the region fell behind, principally. Mr. Peel said, because agriculture is predominant in the five states and the nation's farm population is declining.
He said the 1949 estimate showed a 300,000 gain in the five states compared with 1940, a 6 per cent gain compared with a national average of 12.9 per cent. Mr. Peel said the excess of births over deaths for the region was about 600,000, but that the migration of population—people moving out of the area—had cut this by about half.
The director said records showed that Wyoming and New Mexico have tripled their population since 1900, Colorado's has doubled, and the population of Nebraska and Kansas has grown by one-fifth to one-third in the half-century.
The census official said the 1948 business survey had not yet been completed, but that retail trade in the five states had gained almost four times over the 1939 total.
The retail trade volume for 1948,
he said, should amount to about five
billion dollars for the five states
compared with $1,505,845,000 in 1939.
teeth were well preserved, and there was a distinct feminine contour to the rest of the body. Jars and skillfully worked small alabaster vessels and necklaces of colored stones lay under the body.
One of the male bodies showed clear signs of having had a leg fracture when alive. The bone was removed carefully for examination by medical experts.
The ancient Egyptians worshiped cats and even built temples in their honor. When a favored cat died, notes the National Geographic Society, its body often was mummified.
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Hopi Chief Wants No Part Of White Man's Handout
Washington一（U.P）一Chief Katchongva of the Sun clan told the white man's government that it could take its 90 million dollars.
Chief Katchongva came in the Hopi pueblo of Hotevilla, Ariz., where with other dignitaries he presides over nearly 500 members of his clan. He came to protest against the H-bomb, which he regards as an abomination to all mankind. He is staying on a while to protest against an Indian relief bill, which he regards as repugnant and insulting to the Hopis. The bill, approved by the House, would authorize expenditure of $88,570,000 to rehabilitate the Navajos and Hopis. The senate has not yet acted on it.
The 70-year-old chief, speaking through an interpreter, told the United Press that the nearly 4,000 Hopis want no part of Uncle Sam's proffered handout. The Navajos can have it all, he indicated, the Hopis, he said, are a proud, intelligent, industrious and independent people who prefer to fashion their own destiny in accordance with their ancient traditions and culture.
The Indian Affairs bureau disputes the claim of Katchongvay and others that the Hopis want no help from the white man. The bureau says the protesting Indians are a small minority. But the chief's reply
is that the minority speaks for the entire people.
The Hopis, whose very name signifies peace, say they never made war on the white man. They also say the white man never conquered them. They have made no treaties with the white man and are not willing now, the chief said, to become wards of the white man and accept his bounty. They have farmed their three mesa tops for hundreds of years without asking any favors from any source but their own gods.
Maryland's choice of the white oak as the official state tree is credited to the majestic Wye Oak at Wye Mills, on the state's "eastern shore." It is 95 feet high and about four centuries old.
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