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Machines Needed To Keep
Production Up
WILMINGTON, Del. — By 1976, the United States, needing to
produce $750 billion annually in goods and services, could find it
is 76,000,000 000 man hours short of filling this production goal, ac-;
cording to the Du Pont employee magazine, “Better Living”. Only
by automation and similar technological improvements can the na
tion hope to avoid this dangerous labor shortage, it commented.
The solution to the theoretical problem posed by a demand grow
ing out of proportion to the anticipated population increase lies in
vastly improved technology, the magazine said in its January-February
issue published today.
In the lead article, entitled “Labor Shortage Ahead”, the maga
zine said the United States in its Bicentennial year will have an esti
mated population of 216,000,000 with a demand for goods and ser
vices twice what it is today, based on trends of the last 80 years.
“Yet the work force 20 years hence will be only about 30 per
cent larger than it is today”, the magazine said. “What this means
is that, at today’s rate of output, the nation would be able to produce
only about 70 per cent of the goods and services demanded. Tran
slated into time, there would be a shortage of 76 billion man-hours
of labor in 1976.
“This leaves three choices: Work 11.5 hours a day, or 57 hours
a week. Attempt to recruit more labor among students, retired per
sons, and housewives. Or increase individual output.
“Since the first two courses are clearly unlikely by present A
merican trends, the real answer lies in the third—in utilizing every
technical advance, every ingenious invention, every new tool to in-,
crease productivity so the available labor force can fill the 1976 de-^
mand for $750 billion of goods and services.
“The basis for achievement exists; the question is how the na
tion nurtures its prospects.”
Increases in services—medical, educational, personal care, and
others—will necessitate more doctors, teachers, and other service
specialists because each can care for only a limited number of people.
Thus there will be proportionately fewer persons available to in
dustry, on which will fall the great burden of increasing the total
output of goods and services, the magazine stated.
A serious shortage could develop in the field of housing, it con
tinued The United States will need 2,000,000 new homes a year by
1976 to meet expanding population, according to “Better Living”.
There will also be a need for 2,000,000 new classrooms and 150,000
mere churches.
By 1976, American farmers will have to produce nearly 30 percent
more food, or an estimated 36,000.000 tons annually just to meet
1956 standards for an anticipated population of 216,000,000.
“At best only a small part of the additional needs can come from
cultivating more land; most tillable soil is being farmed now” the
magazine said. “To work more people on the present land would
raise labor costs more than yields.
“Basically, the increased production must come from increasing
yields and eliminating or controlling the ravages of pests, floods, and
spoilage which destroy so much food production.”
The nation will not only have 48,000,000 more people in 1976, ac
cording to “Better Living”, but it is estimated that each person’s
wardrobe may be 10 to 15 per cent larger, indicating the need for
technical gains in United States textile mills.
“Better Living” pointed out that technological innovations now
enable the typical industrial employee to turn oi^t about 85 per cent
more work than in 1936 with far less physical effort.
The article traced the dual rise of technological improvemnts and
population in the United States, and commented:
“If the past is any guide to the future, there is every reason to
believe the nation will find ways and means to fill the demand of its
people in 1976. For the history of the past 175 years is the virtually
unbroken story of an expanding population matched and exceeded by
expanding output”
Urges Use Of Tillable Land
Washington ... A report showing that nearly 21 million acres of
fine farm lands are now lying idle in 19 Eastern, Southern and Mid
western States will s>on be placed before Congress.
Rep. Craig Hosmer of California said that he would present to the
House of Representatives evidence to show that while the Federal
Bureau of Reclamation is asking Congress to approve enormous cost
ly new irrigation projects, at least 20,937,153 acres of the best A
merican crop land are unused for any purpose.
“Right now, Hosmer stated, “we have before us in Congress the
gigantic l pper Colorado River Project Unquestionably the most ex
pensive and unsound scheme yet devised, it would bring into produc
Mon more than half a million acres in high, barren, remota areas of
Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico.
“\\ itti millions of acres of the best farm land awaiting the plow
in areas where the rainfall is heavy and the growing season long, the ]
Reclamation Bureau would force this great new burden of the Upper
Colorado River Project on the American taxpayers.”
The Republican Congressman said that at his request a survey
had been conducted to determine the amount of good crop land now,
idle and available for farming, if needed. The data was supplied by j
field offices of the U. S. Soil Conservation Service.
"We considered only land in Classes I, II and III,” Hosmer stat-!
ed. “This is the best agricultural land, and the total does not include
woodlands, pastures or government lands.
“I previously notified tne members of Congress from the States
in which the survey was made that the information was forthcoming
so that they could, if they wished, take whatever action they deem
appropriate.
“I consider the findings of this survey nothing short of amazing.'
In addition to the 21 million acres of the best farm land that is now
Idle in 19 States there are millions of other acres in lower soil classes
and in other States that are idle in the humid area of the Nation
Much of this idle lower class land could be improved with little cost
and developed into pasture.
“These millions of idle acres of the best lands are close to mar
kets, to population centers, with roads and transportation running
through them, and with schools and municipal governments establish
ed. I
“Where the Reclamation Bureau wants to build the multi-billion !
dollar Upper Colorado River Project, there is little population, few j
roads, no metropolitan markets, few towns. The enormous cost of!
establishing municipal governments, police forces, schools, building
of highways and new towns must be added to the cost of developing
the arid lands.
“It is an unbelievable proposal for the purpose of growing more
farm products of the kinds already in great surplus while there are
these millions of acres of good idle land in the Midwest, South and
East”
Hosmer said the survey had been conducted under his direction
in the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, In
diana, Iov^a, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississip
pi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vir
ginia and Wisconsin.
“The Bureau of Reclamation would have us believe that we must
{spend billions to develop projects like the Upper Colorado in order
■ to provide food *and fiber for our growing population.
“That simply is not true. On the presently producing farm lands
we are growing so much food and fiber that we cannot find adequate
space to store it. Despite plans for reducing this output we are
faced again this year with enormous surpluses, in some products re
cord yields.
“Each year new methods are reported for increasing per acre
yields.
“Yet the Bureau of Reclamation would have Congress appropriate
billions of dollars for such unnecessary and wasteful projects as that
proposed in the Upper Colorado Basin. This project alone would
saddle a new $4 Billion tax loss on the Nation’s taxpayers. The four
States benefiting would pay less than two percent of the cost Tax
payers of the other 44 States would have to pay the balance.”
The cost of bringing the millions of acres of good farm land now
idle into full production would run from only $15 to $150 an acre,
Hosmer said.
“Compare that with the $5,000 an acre cost of building the Up
per Colorado Project,” he added, “and you see how inconceivable
the Reclamation Bureau’s scheme is. Bringing into production the
good lands now idle in the East, Midwest and South would cost the
taxpayers nothing. In the Upper Colorado Project the taxpayers
would have to pay not only the excessive' cost of building the ir
rigation projects, the roads, schools and other necessary community
projects, but then the taxpayers would have to subsidize the crops
that would be grown, such as dairy products, grains and wool. The
whole thing is nothing short of economic idiocy.”
From Around Nebraska
Prominent in the minds of many in the vicinity of Blair these
days is the patronage which the new Community Hospital will
have when it is completed at Blair. An annual report from the
Sherman County Sacred Heart Hospital at Loup City revealed
some interesting things last week and these facts might have a
bearing on what a new hospital here will do.
The Loup City Hospital, during 1955, served people from forty
towns. There were 834 individual patients during the year and
17 different religious denominations were registered.
* * *
Over three million pounds of butter were produced by the
Madison Co-Op Creamery in 1955, the Madison Star revealed last
week. The butterfat to make all that butter came directly from
farmers in the Madison Area. Egg purchased from farmers in the
area totaled 97,111 cases or nearly 3 million dozen, the report
shows. The Madison Creamery has a payroll of 37 to 40 persons
and there are approximately 2500 active patrons of the business.
All of this business produced ready cash for both the farm
producers and the workers in the immediate Madison vicinity.
* • * *
The fastest growing business in Butler County (David City) in
the past ten years has been the sale of rural electricity, the Ban
ner-Press revealed in a year-end summary last week. Rural elec
tricity sales are now 20 times as much as they were 10 years ago
and preparations are being made to handle still more current in
the near future.
One of the factors involved is the rapid growth of irrigation,
for which electricity has been used to operate the pumps.
* * *
Would-be purchasers of auto and truck license plates at On
awa are being “excused” at this time, according to the Onawa
Democrat. The newspaper explained last week that there is a
shortage of plates and the usual January 31st deadline has had to
be extended to February 15th.
* * •
Wahoo is to have a new postmaster and there are twelve ap
plicants for the job, the Wahoo Newspaper stated last week. The
Civil Service Commission will have to make the decision of who
gets the job.
* * * f
Teen-agers at Arapahoe carried out a peanut sale last week
to raise their share of that community’s needed funds for polio.
The kids sold bags of peanuts to anyone who would buy and when
they added up their receipts they discovered that they may have
been selling peanuts but the results figured up into a worthwhile
sum.
* * *
At Lexington twelve merchants have discontinued the use of
trading stamps and have announced that the change will be effec
tive February 15th.
The merchants have explained that the give-away is too ex
pensive and cuts too deeply into their profits.
Moreover, with so many merchants giving stamps of one kind
or another, the Special benefits which each had hoped to derive
has been nullified to the point that they are no longer a paying
proposition.
* * *
Retail stores in Fairbury have announced that they will close
on Saturday nights, breaking a precedent of many year’s stand
ing. Instead, the stores will be open Thursday night to provide
after-hours shopping time. Business has been falling off on Satur
day evening for some time, the Fairbury Journal has noted, prin
cipally because of a change of living habits on the part of many
people. The Fairbury merchants feel that Thursday night would
be a better shopping evening for most folks.
* * *
A sheep raiser at Pawnee City is taking the spotlight on live
♦ stock oddities this week. The Pawnee Republican related a story
last week about a ewe which had triplett lambs 16 days apart.
The first lamb was born December 26th. Then, on January 11th,
the ewe gave birth to twin lambs.
The entire “family” seems to be getting along satisfactorily.
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The Wahoo Chamber of Commerce has been instrumental in
the forming of Wahoo Industries, Inc. and has sold $20,000 worth
of stock. The corporation will promote industry for Wahoo by
furnishing buildings or grounds as the business may need. There
are over 100 stockholders.
* • *
A committee of women faced the city council at Seward one
evening last week, to urge that some action be taken on the clos
ing of unused cisterns and cesspools in the community. The
Seward County Independent didn’t reveal what'started it all, but
it did state that the ladies had made a survey of the town and had
discovered that there were 96 unfilled cisterns and cesspools in
the town which were potential danger spots.
The ladies were seeking an ordinance making it mandatory
that the holes be filled and rendered harmless.
* * *
At Meadow Grove a rural fire district has been laid out and
farms have been assigned numbers which will be their station
numbers in the event of fire. The numbers are prefixed by a
letter which indicates the district in which the farm is located,
the Meadow Grove News explained last week.
* * *
Crete is putting on an intensive membership campaign for the
Chamber of Commerce. The drive was triggered by a kickoff
breakfast and the success of various teams has indicated that the
Crete Chamber will have 200 members next year, the Crete News
has stated.
UNIVERSITY OF OMAHA
College of Adult Education
Problems In Planning
A
Greater Omaha
Thursdays, Febr. 9 - March 15
6 SESSIONS
Time: 7:00 - 9jQ0 p.m. Fee: $11.50
Series Chairman, Professor William Utley
FEBRUARY 9 “Land Use Policy for the Municipality”
Mr. Claire E. Oneal, Land Planning Engineer
FEBRUARY 16 “Mass Communication and Transportation”
Mr. Burt Whedon, Director of Street Transportation
FEBRUARY 23 “Legal and Administrative Problems”
Mr. Neal H. Hilmes, Assistant City Attorney
MARCH 1 “Urban Renewal”
Mr. Alfred C. Kennedy, Omaha Realtor
MARCH 8 “The Suburbs”
Mr. Joseph F. Mangiamele, Director of Neighborhood
Conservation
MARCH 15 “Planning for the Metropolitan Area”
Mr. A .F. Jacobson, Chairman, Mayor’s Planning r>nd
Development Comm'.: , e
One guest is allowed each registered adult each session. Class s '1
meet in the FEDERAL ROOM in the new Adult Education Con . 3
Center at the University of Omaha. Registration may be con i
anytime after January 9 in the Registrar’s office (room 240, Annum,
stration Building) or before 7:00 p.m the night of the first class.
Texas Will
Not Oppose
Court Ruling
NEW YORK, January 18,—
Texas will not fight the Supreme
Court ruling on segregation, in
fact, it will lead the way in inte
grating N e g r oes into public
schools. ,
So says Thomas S. Sutherland,
Director of the Texas Commission
on Race Relations.
Writing in February Coronet,
out now, Sutherland says that
only a few minority groups have
been resisting the Supreme Court
directive, and that the majority
of Texans have accepted it with
out argument. More than sixty
schools have desegregated with
out difficulty so far, and by the
beginning of the school term in
September 1956, the majority of
the public schools are expected
to follow suit.
In fact, resistance to resis
tance has been surprisingly
strong, says Sutherland in his
Coronet article, “I’m proud of
Texas.” A pastor in Kilgore,
Texas, warned against the scrip
ture-based arguments against de
segregation, saying, “Don’t put
words in the mouth of God.” And
he reflects the opinion of most of
the clergy in Texas, says Suther
land. A weekly newspaper ed
itor reports everything said at
meetings of groups fighting inte
gration, much to their discom- i
fiture. The President of the Dal- j
las Chamber of Commerce has j
formed an organization to pre
serve harmony during the change.
The State Board of Education,
disregarding the opinion of the
Governor, voted that state funds j
should go to desegregated as i
well as segregated schools.
Sutherland feels that all the j
great men of Texas history would !
be solidly behind the work of the
desegregation groups, since they
were men of vision and humanity.
Irving Chesney
Mr. Irving Chesney, 77 years,
2618 Parker Stret, passed away
Friday, January 13th at a local
hospital. Mr. Chesney had been
a resident of Omaha thirty-five I
years and was a former employee
of the South Omaha Public Power
District office.
He is survived by two nieces,
I '
I Mrs. G. Jones and Mrs. Eleanor
McCowan, Chicago, Illinois.
Funeral services were held
1 Thursday morning, January 19th
ifrom Thomas Mortuary with the
Rev. E. D. Johnson officiating
j with burial at Mt. Hope Ceme
jtery.
Edith Jackson
Mrs. Edith Ruth Jackson, age
48 years, of 2431 No. 3lst St., ex
pired Saturday afternoon, Janu
ary 14, 1956 at a local hospital.
She was an Omaha resident 25
years and was an active member
of Pleasant Green Baptist Church.
She is survived by five daugh
ters, Mrs. Mildred May Peak of
Omaha, Mrs. Myrtle Faye Ray of
Chicago, 111., Barbara Jean Jack
son, Edith Ruth Jackson, and
Marsha Diane Jackson, all of 0
maha; four sons, Donald Lee ot
New York, N. Y., William Eu
gene, Clifford Edward and Ken
neth Bernard, all of Omaha; two
brothers, Dewey Harvey of Tope
ka, Kas., and Ferdinand Harvey
| of Pittsburg, Kansas; sister, Mrs.
Bertha Smith of Kansas City, Mo.
Funeral services were held Fri
day, January 20, 1956 at 2:00 p m.
from the Pleasant Green Baptist
Church with Rev. D. A. Camp
bell officiating. Interment was at
Mt. Hope Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Messrs Cleo
McDonald, Otis Morrow, John
Bullion, R. L. Hawkins. Mote
Davis ,and Felfon Austin.
Myers Brothers Funeral Ser
vice.
V
A Lovely Dessert
Cream puffs make a lovely
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sauce; or, use peppermint ice
cream and chocolate sauce.
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Be conventional when sitting on 1
• chair—to tip and balance a chair
on the hind legs not only sets the
Stage for a tumble but Is hard on
the floor coverings.
Income Tax .
The federal income tax does not
apply to partnerships as It does to
Individuals and corporations—the
Individuals In the partnership are
taxed.
Only One
The weekly Itawamba County
(Miss.) Times adopted a new slo
gan: "The only newspaper in the
world that cares anything about
Itawamba County.”
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Packers Seek
Better City
Truck Routes
WHEREAS: Omaha has now
become the largest Livestock and
Meat Packing Center in the
World, and,
WHEREAS: This has resulted
in the bringing of many benefits
to the members of our Union as
well as the many increased bene
fits it has brought to the entire
City of Omaha, and,
WHEREAS: The City of Oma
ha’s residential area is rapidly
expanding to the point where it
will become increasingly difficult
for Stock Truckers to have easy
access in reaching the Omaha
Stockyards, and,
WHEREAS: If we are to main
tain our present position and con
tinue further growth in the Live
stock and Meat Packing Industry,
we must see that we provide ad
equate and easily accessible
truck routes into the Omaha
Stockyards. ,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RE
SOLVED, WE the members of the
U nited Packinghouse Workers
of America, AFL-CIO residing in
and around the Omaha Metropoli
tan area urge the Omaha City
Government to take immediate
improved truck routes within the
action to establish and maintain
city from all directions, particu
larly from the North, South, and
Westerly directions, into the
Omaha Stockyards, and,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,
that the State of Nebraska, also
provide arterial highways linking
to the truck routes as provided
by the City of Omaha. ,
YMCA MEMBERSHIP
DRIVE UNDERWAY
The annual Near North YMCA
Membership Drive gets underway
this Sunday morning, January
22nd, 8:30, at a Kick-off break
fast.
Mayor John Rosenblatt and
Booker T. Washington, supervisor
of boys clubs at the branch, will
be speakers.
Workers and representatives
of various community organiza
tions have been invited to attend.
The 1956 goal is 700 members
and $3500 in cash, according to
Dr. L. 0. Goodloe, Big Boss of the
Membership Round-up.
Eugene Skinner, principal at
Long Grade school, and Gerald
Morris, owner of the Morris Clean
ing Enterprises, are ranch bosses.
Both have led past YM member
ship drives and have been active
in YM projects.
Rev. L. A. Parker, president of
the Interdenominational Minister
ial Alliance, is chairman of a
Church Sunday committee. He
will be assisted by Attorneys
Ralph Adams and Robert Blan
chard. ' ' ^
Ethel Cole Bryant heads the
W o m e n’s Calling Committee.1
Charles Washington is in charge
of publicity.
Ranch Boss Morris has selected
Robert K. Hill, John Garry, Earl
Person, and Mrs. Ruth Solomon,
as his range bosses. M. L. Dillon,
Albert Brown, Arthur B. McCaw,
and Mrs. Lavina Adams will work
as range bosses under Skinner.
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Father: “What was the hard- -
ist thing you learned at college?”
Son: “How to open beer bottles
«th a half-dollar.”
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turbo-jet airliners in a bid to pro
vide the first regular domestic
service.
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