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...income is down 25% or 30% from last year," said Vernon McLeod, 33, who raises hogs, cattle, corn, wheat and oats on his 390 acres near Lyons, Mich. "But I'm not for 90% of parity. I'm for flexibility, something as close to supply and demand as you can get. I don't like artificial situations." Said Harold Umbaugh, 42, who has chickens, corn, wheat, oats, soybeans and hay on his 195 acres at New Paris, Ind.: "We farmers don't like to be on the dole. We like to make our own decisions...
...Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, who 20 years ago took over sick little Eastern Air Lines (some 20 planes) and made it the industry's most consistent moneymaker (profits for 1955's first half: $4,200,000), signed up for another ten years as Eastern's chairman and general manager. Since he had reached retirement age (65) two months ago, Captain Eddie could have stepped out and collected about $30,000 yearly in pension and consultant's fee. But Eastern is well into the biggest expansion program in its history ($350 million for fleets of new piston, turboprop...
...KLEIN Mt. Vernon...
...answer to such criticism, the Prison Commission points to the shock centers record: during 1952 and 1953, no fewer than 237 boys were discharged at Kidlington, but up to the end of 1954, only 74 of them had reappeared in court. Say; Kidlington Warden F. (for Frederick) Vernon Elvy: "We help some boys to find themselves. It is only by experiencing the satisfaction of a tough effort that these boys realize a sense of a job well done; it gives them the sense of achievement they need. I don't say we have the complete answer to the problem...
Straw Vote. In Hammond, Ind., Republican Mayor Vernon Anderson gracefully bowed to the wishes of the 18,000 people who signed a petition urging him to run for another term, ran again, lost by a score of 15,937 votes to his opponent...