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commodities owned by, or mortgaged to, the ■Commodity Credit Corp, on April 30 than a ytjar earlier.” ■
The result of all this, Mr. Harrison
said, is reflected in the Report of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, which showed that, "farmers received about j 3 per cent less from cash marketing and government payments in May that in May, 1954.” In addition, Mr. Harrison reported: j "The overall parity ratio stood at 87-3 points lower than in May, r 1954. I "The farmer was getting only 42 cents of the consumer’s fo6d dollar. |
“Prices received by farmers were running 4 per cent below May, 1954.
“Agricultural exports were runt ning appreciably below the levels of a year earlier, and the Department of Agriculture admitted tl is was due, in part, to a lag between the government’s plans to export farm products and the actual ship-_ ment of these products.”
"Even so,” Mr. Harrison said, "the small fanner hasn’t been able to convince the high executive )f his own government that he is In real trouble.” FIVE BOY SCOUTS AT CAMP ROCK ENON FOR WEEK OF FUN
Five Boy Scouts of the Washington Troop left Sunday for Camp Rock Enon and a week Of hiking, swimming and fun. Irvipg Sisk and Milton Hawkins motortd to the camp with the boys, who included Tom Massie, Johnny Jenkins, George Davis, III, Bobby Hawkins and Ray Snead. .The boys will return Saturday. _j
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