Letters, Mar. 3, 1958

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KUDOS FOR ROUNDUP ON U.S. BUSINESS AVIATION FEB. 17. YOURS IS FIRST ACCURATE HANDLING OF THIS FASCINATING GROWTH STORY BY MASS MEDIA IN YEARS.

GEORGE E. H ADDA WAY EDITOR

FLIGHT MAGAZINE DALLAS

SIR:

SINCERE THANKS FOR AND HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR STORY "PRIVATE PLANES ON THE RISE." THIS LITTLE-APPRECIATED TOOL OF

OUR ECONOMY IS SURE TO BE GIVEN A BOOST BY 'OUR FACTUAL, EDUCATIONAL AND COLORFUL RESENTATION.

R. C. OERTELL

PRESIDENT

NATIONAL PILOTS ASSN. YORK CITY

Canine Teeth Sir:

What a pleasant experience to read "Vet erinary Revolution" and discover that so much excellent work is being done for pets >y vets [Feb. 3]. However, I don't think Vlissy's gallstone operation was so extraordi nary; last fall my 2½-lb. Chihuahua had six gallstones the size of watermelon seeds and nine smaller ones removed.

NELSON W. MORROW llearwater, Fla. ir:

Every so often the fallacy that "dogs do not get tooth cavities" crops up. I would not allow the ordinary vet to experiment on my dog, but I was able to get the best dentist in town to oblige (with my vet doing the anesthetizing). She now has excellent fillings in two of her back teeth, and I no longer have to worry about her suffering from toothache.

P. L. HERON Sonora, Calif.

Below the Waist

Sir:

I no more helped in the composition of the Sweeniad as suggested in your issue of Feb. 10 than I wore a gold embroidered waistcoat in the Palazzo Grille, Rome, as reported in your issue of Jan. 6. Mr. [T. S.] Eliot is his own best parodist, and I would not venture to compete ; I am also conservative in my choice of waistcoats, and this one was the same oldfashioned, handmade striped Majorcan linen gipo with silver buttons characterized in TIME as "nondescript."

ROBERT GRAVES New York City

<I If Author Graves can prove that TIME called his waistcoat "nondescript," TIME will send him a free copy of The Waste Land. — ED.

Contract for Collectivism?

Sir:

A lot of folks out here in the Middle West, the country's foremost hog-producing area, take strong issue with your Feb. 3 story, "Contract Farming."

First off, integration applied to the swine industry could lead to disastrous overproduction and, in turn, ruinous prices. Witness the ailing broiler business. Second, there are no guaranteed prices, simply prices pegged to the market and, in some cases, the so-called 50¢ premium is no premium at all. No. i hogs at Omaha and most other markets generally sell from 50¢ to $1 over No. 2 hogs. In other words, the normal differential is 50¢ and more.

Hog producers of the Midwest are not yet ready to give up being individuals and go collectivist, à la integration.

R. E. CUNNINGHAM Omaha

The Charioteer

SIR:

THE BRILLIANT AND REFRESHING COVER STORY ON JOCKEY WILLIE HARTACK (FEB. 10) RATES BY FAR AS THE KEENEST REPORT ON AN OUTSTANDING JOCKEY AND GREAT ATHLETE THAT I HAVE EVER READ.

IZZY GOODMAN LOUISVILLE

Sir: