- READ THE OMAHA GUIDE - Colored Farmer Who Has Planted Two Million Trees To Expand His Operations - I An Arkansas colored farmer,! who has set out more than twoj million trees on farms in his sec tion as a sideline enterprise dur ing the past 10 years, is prepar ing to expand his services as a result of the Soil Bank Conserva tion Reserve program, says Dis trict Agent T. R. Betton of the Arkansas Extension Service. The farmer is Prentiss Monk of Magnolia who operates a 240 acre diversified farm in addition to planting trees for fellow farm ers for miles around to supple ment his income. In line with the State and Fed eral forestry services, which are enlarging old tree nurseries and establishing new ones in order to assure sufficient forest seed lings for farmers who may wish to plant trees as conservation projects in the Soil Bank pro gram, Mr. Monk is making plans I to expand his operations. Among other things, he hopes to buy some additional equip ment, including a tree planting machine. With this tractor at tachment, he says he and one of his tons can set out 10,000 to 15,000 seedlings almost every day throughout the planting sea ’ANIMAL... VEGETABLE..,# OR MINERAL? @nc» thought tom* worn* M ANV MIAMWt ANP SOPEPRIve THE 0«l*’»NT» OP AN APJACSNT •KVSCRAPiA OP MNUAUT. TMI* TXkVUiVT RENT* AVHACft A »OUT 4iaocc Pea year por so year*. I -ANP WATCH YOUR BANKROLL S«Ow/ SYSTEMATIC INVESTMENT IN (/. S SAV'NtfS SMM WILL BUILP NPUR RESERVE FOE THOSE emerscncte* that often come-or for vpur security AT SOME FUTURE PATE/ J son. His fee is around five dol lars per thousand. Mr. Monk got started in tree planting in 1943 when, on the advice of a Soil Conservation Service technician, he set out 3,000 pine seedlings in a low area of his farm which was not suited to growing cotton or corn. The seedlings turned out so well during the next year or two that neighbors began asking him to set trees out for them. Soon business got so good that he needed tree-planting machin ery. His Soil Conservation Dis trict, which encourages farmers in the section to plant more trees, lent him some of its ma chinery. Mr. Monk estimates that he has set out more than 2,000,0(X) trees in the past 10 years. About 10,000, of these have been on his own farm. In addition to growing trees as an important cash crop on his own farm, and planting them for others at a custom rate, Mr. Monk also raises cotton, corn, hay, castor beans, watermelons, peaches, cattle and hogs. These provide him and Mrs. Monk and their nine children with a gross income of close to $12,000 a year. And like his tree planting, his farming is a kind of demonstra tion for his neighbors, too, says his county agent, Wesley R. Dansgy who, along with the Soil Conservation Service people, has helped him build terraces on the slopes and establish contour cultivation for his cotton and corn to stop erosion. Also Mr. Monk has two stock ponds and improved pastures for his cattle and hogs. “I couldn’t have built ponds and limed and seeded my pastures without help from the Department of Agricul ture which shared the costs,” says Mr. Monk. For their sound farming prac tices and their production of a ! year-round home food supply, the Monks have been named one of Arkansas’ champion soil con servation farm families, and an honor family in the Tri-State Live-at-Home Contest; and Mr. | Monk has received the Bankers Award for conservation farming ACHING MUSCLES I Roliovo pain* of tirad, Mr*, aching mu« [In with STANBACK, tabl.to ar powdtru STANBACK acta fact to bring comforting riliif.. . btciuia tha STANBACK formula combmii oovorol proscription typo la* •rtdionts for fast roliof of pain* _ CANADA... Photogenic Northern Neighbor Photo : Courtesy Canadian National Natlwoyt Canada, stretching across the Continent from the booming headlines of Newfoundland lo the rugged and picturesque shores of the Pacific In British Columbia, Is a country that simply abounds in still and motion picture photographic possibilities There are few If any other, places in the World where nature provides for more diversified subjects or more striking photogenic backgrounds than the ten Canadian provinces, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island. Quebec. On tario. Manitoba. Saskatchewan. Alberta and British Columbia. American tourists have no border difficulties what soever in taking their camera equipment with them to Canada, nor a reasonable amount of 91m, although film Is as readily available In Canada as It Is in the United States, American Customs officials suggest, however, that cameras of "foreign manufacture" be registered with their when leaving the* United States so there will be no question about reluming the camera to the United States as "personal effects" PNS The family live in a modem home surrounded by an orchard of 200 peach trees. Under their tool shed are a tractor and other modern equipment for more ef ficient farming. Mr. Monk grew up on a share cropper farm. In 1927 he and Mrs. Monk married and joined the ranks of croppers. But they were determined to own their own farm, says District Agent Bettnn. So they stayed out of debt by raising just about all their food. By the end of the year, they were able to pay $100 down on 40 acres. Then they borrowed a wagon and a mule and moved their few belongings to the rundown shack on the farm they were buying. They returned the wagon, but kept the mule on a rental basis to make a crop. Six years later, they scraped together every, penny they had and paid off thc^ mortgage on their 40 acres to avoid being foreclosed. Since that time, they have added 200 acres more to their holdings and have become one of the most out standing farm families in South west Arkansas. With the Soil Bank program underway, providing cost-sharing and annual payments for carry ing out"soil and water conserva tion practices on land taken out of such crops as cotton, com, wheat, and peanuts, Mr. Monk says he is going to put several more acres in trees. Drouth No Hindrance To AK Show j Despite the serious drouth con ditions that forced many farm youths to market their animals earlier than usual this year, Ak Sar-Ben’s 4-H Beef Show will once again be the largest of its kind in the world. The 4-H Show is a feature o f the twenty-ninth annual Live Stock Show, held in conjunction with the Ak-Sar-Ben World Championship Rodeo from Fri day,September 21, through Sun day. September 30. *‘Wc arc exceedingly pleased with the number of entries we received from four states,” Stock Show Committee Chairman Harry, | B. Coffee declared today. I "In fact, it was most surpris ing to discover that entries are larger in six of the eight divi-j sion than in past recent years.” Those divisions, and the num-J her of entries, are market heifers, | 172; pens-of-five market steers,1 215; pens-of-five market heifers, 55; purebred beef heifers, 62; dairy cattle, 369; and sheep, 169. In addition, 653 market steers and 179 market swine will be ex hibited at Ak-Sar-Ben. This gives the Show an over all entry total of 1,874. The popular 4-H Beef division,' which bears the tag of the larg-j est in the world, will have 1,095 j entries with 704 coming from Nebraska. Iowa has 368 entries and the remainder are from Minnesota and South Dakota. Mr. Coffee pointed out that | Ak-Sar-Ben will be playing hostj to nearly 1,000 boys and girls from the four-state area. During their Omaha stay the youngsters will be busy with day-long Stock Show events and evening attend ance at the Rodeo that features Gene Autry and Annie Oakley at all eleven performances. Letter To The Editor September 17th, 1956 Guide Newspaper Do you Negroes in Omaha ever do anything about the editorials written in The World Herald in regards to Racial troubles. If you will remember Friday night’s paper September 14th, and en titled "After Two Years” and this was one of the worst pre judiced articles I have ever read in my life. This editor just came right out and said enforcing the law wasn’t any good and enforcing the law against the white people in the south wouldn’t work You know I really don’t under stand what has caused the World Herald to change so much here lately against the Negro It used to be a paper that was so fair to the Negro but they must have changed editors for the editorial l page because I notice all their ed itorial wntings now are in favor of the radical southerner and this is just the opposite of the way ( they used to write. I do wish there was some way the Negroes in Ne braska could make their resent ment felt, and in conclusion may Seeing Is Believing - i WATCH THE BIRDIE—Assuming an air of nonchalance, Julius, a chimpanzee from the Detroit zoo, gets mugged by Tarzan, a broth er chimp. With the help of a Detroit News’ photographer, Thel Burget, the chimps have become quite adept with the camera act. SCOOP! BEAR TREES MAN— Tourists driving near Cliff dell, Wash., take a quick sec ond-look when they see this scene. It looks like the real thing, but actually it’s the skin of a long-dead bear, nipping at a straw-filled trousers and Shirt. —(Wide World Photos) MIDGET MALES DOUBLE-UP FOR BIG MAIL—Since the "Big-Top” of Ringling Bros, and Barnum and Bailey circus re cently folded, these two midgets are probably looking for work. Could be that Prince Paul and Lauro Mn rales are making sure their employment applications get in the mail box. 1 SEA OF Wl?D—An unusual sight near Agua Dulce, Tex., Is this International TD-14A crawler tractor, spreading a "sea of mud,” which results from salt water pits. After the tractor, equipped with the special mud-spreader, has done its leveling job, the mud drys and the earth is returned to its original condition. tide (After Two Years) you should. This is just a personal letter to! you. A Minority Subscriber Chaplain's Message Mirror of World Opinion One would "think that if there were a nation of people on the face of the earth who possessed the lion’s share of the good things of life, things like plenty of food,: houses, automobiles, telephones and television, interior plumbing, refrigerators, electricity for com mon use, etc., that that would be the most contented, well adjust ed and happiest people on the earth. We are that people. We have the lion’s share of this world’s goods. We have more of modern conveniences, gadgets, food, and 1 other good things than any other nation on the earth. Yet—we are one of the most discontented na tions of the world. Let me prove | this: We have the highest crime rate of any nation. In any 24-hour period there are some 300 deaths from crime, 1,100 burglaries, 250 robberies, and countless other minor crimes. Fifty per cent of these crimes are committed by persons in the 21 year age aver age. We have an exceptionally huge dope problem. Thirty per cent of the crimes committed in our large cities are the direct result of dope addiction or of efforts to obtain money for the continuance of the dope habit. Our high schools and colleges are infiltra ted with the dope traffic. Dope is a big problem. We are a nation of sick people, j Over 65 per cent of persons in j one of Tour hospitals is sick from the neck up. This does not mean that the person is a mental pa tient. It means that whatever illness is present has come out of worry, tension, the poor adjust ment to daily living .... Alcoholism is a big problem. Over eight per cent of the popula tions of our large cities are alco holics: not just moderate drink ers, but people who must have an other drink no matter what the cost. It’s time we woke up to the true picture about ourselves. The Christian Church has, through the centuries, sought to guide mankind whenever it has sought the right paths to God. The church makes its mistakes, it sometimes blunders, but can you name any other institution on earth that you can turn to for what we as individuals and as a nation so desperately need? At tend YOUR church. Give God a chance.— Franklin C. Nixon, in the National Grange Monthly. County Polio Fund Aided By $9825.00 A check for $9825.00 has been received by the Douglas County Chapter of the National Founda tion for Infantile Paralysis to pro vide financial aid for local polio patients, it was announced Sunday September 16 by T. F. Naughlin, Jr., Chapter Chairman. Mr. Naughtin said that this county is one of a number in the nation where local March of Dimes funds are insufficient to cover polio-fighting needs. He stated that the Chapter's present financial plight is the result of the assistance it has given in the past to a large num ber of patients who have required —and still require—costly care to give them a chance to recover their fullest capacities. “In the Salk vaccine we now I have the means of bringing about the eventual control of new po lio,” Naughtin said. “But to us of the March of Dimes this is not enough. Our job in the conquest of polio will .not be finished until polio is finished as a crippler of human beings and until further mass apppeals to the American public are no longer necessary to insure the care of those whc have been stricken. Second Smallest Delaware la the second smallest state In the Union. NATIONAL TICKET y For President Dwight D. Eisenhower For Vice-President Richard M. Nixon STATE TICKET For Governor □ Victor E. Anderson, 6501 Havelock, Lincoln, Neb. For Lieutenant Governor □ Dwight W. Burney .Hartington, Neb. For Secretary of State □ Frank Marsh. 2701 So. 34th St., Lincoln, Neb. For Auditor of Public Accounts £] Ray C. Johnson...3911 “A” St., Lincoln, Neb. For State Treasurer □ Ralph W. Hill.. Hebron, Neb. For Attorney General □ Clarence S. Beck, 5th & Pine, North Platte, Neb. For Railway Commissioner □ Wayne R. Swanson..6617 Spencer, Omaha, Neb. For Representative In Congress Second District □ Glenn Cunningham 5514 Harney, Omaha, Neb. . COUNTY TICKET *r For County Clerk n □ John Slavik.. Omaha, Neb. For County Commissioner 5th District □ Leonard Bergman 3263 Jackson, Omaha, Neb. For County Commissioner 3rd District □ Dexter'N. Nygaard 2446 Redick, Omaha, Neb. For Register of Deeds □ Jack Loyd Ewing 6060 So. 37th, Omaha, Neb. For County Attorney Short Term □ Joseph R. Moore, Atty., 1526 City Na’tl Bk. Bldg., Omaha, Neb. For Public Defender □ Ralph W. Adams, Atty. 2622 No. 24th, Omaha GRAND RAPIDS CD ON JOB BEFORE TORNADO TYPICAL of some 1,000 civil defense volunteers tornado are these rescue workers looking ioi on the scene of the Grand Rapids (Mich.) area survivors in suburban Btandnle's business district, (FCDA Photo) Phone Your News To HA0800