ATE C' TAX AUTHORITY The Story of DONALD M1LLHAM THE average man who stews over the filing of his annual tax return is apt to shake his head quizzically over Donald L. Millham. While he was in charge of General Electric tax accounting, Don used to file more than 500 returns a year-- and like it. In some years the sums he paid out in taxes exceeded the Company's net income by more than four times. Although he has a new job today -the difficult and important one of Comptroller for the company-Don maintains an active interest in cor- porate taxation and is still considered one of the company's tax authorities. A career in corporate taxation prob- lems is, Don admits, short on glamor, long on hard and diligent woric. In To help pay his way through Union Col- After graduating with honors, he enrolled his early years with G.E. he had lege, Don worked for General Electric in the G-E Business Training Course, gained learned a great deal about business during summer vacations, operating a drill insight into modern business operation. methods in the company's Business press. Training Courses, and had worked as an accountant and traveling auditor. But until 1935 he had little more to do with taxation than the filing of his own returns. Then an opportunity opened in tax accounting. He took the offer and learned the background, the technical language, the legal complexities of his job as he did it. By meeting the challenges of an exacting and constantly expanding field of endeavor, Donald Millham has made for himself a career with General Electric that is useful and important, and which has held his interest. and the Next to schools U.S. Govern- For five years Don worked as a travelling Learning the job as he worked at it, he ment, General Electric employs auditor, made a good record. In 1935, with- became the company's tax authority, filing more college engineering graduates out any prior experience in taxation, he took 500 returns a year. Today he any has the than other organization. over General Electric tax accounting. difficult and important job of Comptroller. GENERAL ELECTRIC On the Cover--Judges Win Trophy at Denver By PHILIP W. GEORGE Blue Ribbon honors were achieved by the five- man team representing Kansas State College in the intercollegiate livestock judging contest at the Na- tional Western Stock Show in Denver, Colorado. The event was held on Thursday, January 9, prior to the official opening of the show the following day. High-point man of the entire contest was John R. Massey of Kansas State. In addition, two other ( members of the winning team ranked near the top, with Clair Parcel tying for second and Wayne Ukena placing fourth. Massey's total score was 742 points out of a possible 800 in judging cattle, sheep, swine, and horses. Other members of the top team were James M. Collier and Frank R. Carpenter. Dr. R. F. Cox, professor of animal VoL. XXIII March, 1947 No. 3 husbandry, directed the team at the Denver show in the absence of Prof. F. W. Bell, also of the ani- mal husbandry department, who coached the team. STAFF The Kansas State group, composed of juniors in agriculture, was triumphant in a field of nine col- John Tasker Editor Shannon Nickelson Photographer lege teams. Ranking below them in order were Emery Castle Associate Editor Floyd Rolf Business Manager New Mexico A and M, University of Nebraska, Elbert B. Macy Faculty Adviser Oklahoma A & M, Utah State, South Dakota State, Colorado A and M, Texas Tech, and Wyoming Uni- versity. Thus, in placing first the' junior K-Staters DEPARTMENTAL REPORTERS were able to win over a field that included a team from Harold Ray Agricultural Economics Robert Petro Dairy Husbandry Nebraska, which was the only school that rated above the senior judging team from the Col- Melvin Cotner Agricultural Education Lorene Smith Horticulture lege at both the American Royal in Kansas City Melvin Thompson Agronomy Eugene Swenson Milling Industry and the International Livestock Exposition in Don Price Animal Husbandry Don McWilliams Poultry Husbandry Chicago. This year's Denver contest was the first such event in the country to include the judging of stock horses. Animals of the Quarter Contents were used for this purpose. They replaced draft horses which are still used to make up the horse Cover Picture 1 Ag School Grows 13 judging classes at the other major intercollegiate contests. Grad Sets Pace 1 Station Research 14 At Denver the judging group Alfalfa Dehydration 3 Farm Management 15 witnessed a stock show that specializes in beef cattle exhibits. The Departmental Clubs 4 Poultry Winners 15 National Western is the scene of the country's Philippine Agriculture 5 Memorial Pages 16-17 major sale of breeding animals to the range cattle Ag Education Curriculum 6 Ag Grads Scatter 18 area and features carlot exhibits of Hereford bulls. The Denver Black Locusts 7 Student Contests 20 show is now projecting a $3,000,000 building program. it They Study On 7 Alpha Zeta 22 FFA Contest 8 Hugh Myers 22 Danforth Fellowship 9 Pickett's Desk 22 Chicken of Tomorrow Here 10 Merrill Werts 23 Grad Sets Pace They've Lost Their Eyes 11 Side of Bacon 23 Pitchforks Passe 11 Sorghum Starch 24 C. C. Cunningham of El Dorado a Chicago Trip. 12 It's Small World ; 29 holds the longest record of any Kan- Millers Sponsor Plant 12 A Dream May Come True 30 sas farmer attending Farm and Home Mexican Fireweed 13 Book Review 31 week. This is Mr. Cunningham's 45th They Choose K-State 13 Photo Contest 32 year of attendance since his first Slick Chicks 13 The Last Word 32 Farm and Home Week in 1898. In 1911, this annual event shifted Published by the Agricultural Association of Kansas State College and Applied Science, Manhattan, from December to February, thus Kansas, on or before the Twentieth Day of the months of October, December, March, and May. Sub- losing a, year. each scription rates $1 per year; 2 years for $1.50; single copy 30c. During World War Farm and Home Week was sus- Entered as Second Class Matter, November 9, 1946, at the Post Office at Manhattan, Kansas,under pended for one year. Claude Cun- the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Accepted for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized November 9, 1946. ningham has missed only one other year in all his work in Kansas agri- culture. "My object in attending these meet- ings", Mr. Cunningham states proud- ly, "is to keep in touch with old ac- quaintances, to make new friends, and to keep up on new developments in agriculture." 1 Plowing Schogers Choose the NEW irestotte GROUDN CHAMPION GRIP CHAMPION FARMERS, and farmers ward from the center, and mud falls freely generally, are changing to Firestone Champion from the wider shoulder openings. The high, Ground Grip tires . insisting upon them pyramid-like bars cut into the soil with a when they buy new tires . specifying them cleaving action, and the connected bars take a when they order new tractors. powerful "center bite" in the heart of the zone. The new Champion cleans up to 100% traction more effectively; pulls up to 62% more; lasts Remember, Firestone Champions cost no up to 91% longer. And it rolls more more than ordinary tractor tires. smoothly over highways. Copyright. 1947, The Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. There are sound reasons for this superiority. The curved connected traction bars flare out- at Troy Matches first won the National son, won Clarence the younger Wheatland. Last fall, arry, for first at Tires. Starting and Weatland. and tied Firestone Schogers." years in class at Troy .used Grips on their "The Plowingconsecutive in his have Ground They're called won six Illinos. The Schogers Champion Carl Schoger Match at Wheatland, Matches find new and Cart in 1930, Plowing three National When You'll today. Harry National he won all Illinois. tractors to right--Clarence, the and 1931 and Troy, Clarence Below, left In 1930 Lily Lake, in 1942, sons laurels. Wheatland, the family at from competitionto defend he retired were ready and tiarry Listen to the Voice of Firestone every Mon- day evening over NBC ANY: OTHER TRACTOR TIRE 2 desha. He stated that his plant was the Kansas Alfalfa Comes Back first one west of the Mississippi and the second plant in commercial pro- duction in the United States. Over 50 With Dehydration Industry of these plants were located in Kan- sas by February, 1946, and the num- ber has continued to increase to date. By ROBERT K. PETRO percent of the alfalfa meal production Kansas State College's Department has been incorporated into of Chemical Engineering installed a Alfalfa is coming back in Kansas. chicken small dehydrator late in 1943. According to figures compiled by the feeds. It was found that it contained With the cooperation of the Kansas Indus- Kansas State Board of Agriculture, al- vital food factors necessary to chick- trial Development Commission, falfa acreage has increased approxi- ens and not present in ordinary chick- study was begun in 1944 to try to improve mately 50 percent since 1941. The en feed. Dry dog foods, dairy, and alfalfa dehydration and find new peak year in Kansas alfalfa produc- hog rations are several new prepara- uses for the product. A survey was made tion was 1919, when 1,316,000 tions into which alfalfa meal is being acres by Prof.