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...Seed or Bad Earth...
...Seed" [July 8] is a sad story of a brutal father and of boys who had "the urge to kill." What's next for the boys? Years in jail, probably. Meantime, the Army will draft many other boys who have only a horror of killing; why not make boys like Ray Edwards and Marty Daniels professional soldiers? In the Army, they would have the respect of society instead of its condemnation...
...less curious lad might have let himself go to intellectual seed on a diet of comic books and TV westerns. But when seven-year-old Bruce Frankel of Interlaken, N.J. was kept home from school last fall with a kidney infection, he took to watching television quiz shows. One day he announced: "Presidents are my category." He began reading up on the men of the White House, with all the enthusiasm of a young Harry Truman...
...leaders put their ink-stained thumbs down firmly on all plans to relieve the valley's troubles by mechanization, industrialization and population shifting, instead urged a plan by which local "Chambers of Labor" would control the crops planted by the farmers, and assign the men to seed, cultivate and harvest them. "If we agree to this," protested the landholders, "the Communists will run our farms...
...Colorado's Parachute Canyon not far from Grand Junction, the seed of an oil revolution was planted. Union Oil Co. of California last week fired up a $7,000,000 prototype retort to produce oil from shale rock, the biggest such attempt by private enterprise. As 400 top oilmen and Government officials gathered for the dedication, Colorado's Governor Steve McNichols put their dream into words: "All around us is one of the greatest potential sources of energy materials ever to be found on this earth...