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TWELVE NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1948 Philosophy of Plenty Rules New Long-Range Farm Law; New Parity Formula Fixed By ROBERT E. GEIGER WASHINGTON Department of Agriculture officials say the new long-range farm law, approved In the closing houra o( Congress, movea toward a philosophy of plenty. The law, known the Agricultural Art of 1948, works this way: It eontlnuel, with lome changes, the present high wartime price supports through 1949. Then the long-range plan, with lower price support, goes Into effect. After 1949 the more abundant the crop, the leu support the farmer will receive. The government may provide this support by making loans, purchasing crops or other means. Department spokesmen say the purpose la to give some support to abundant crops, but not so much support that the man who has to buy food nas to pay prices too high for his pockptbook. It prices start sliding downward be cause of an oversupply, the fed eral aid money to farmers will be increased. This may encour age them not to cut crops too sharply. This ties In price sup port with the law of supply and demand. The experts hope it will create abundance without waste. They say this is the first time there has been such an arrange ment covering major crops. Parity Method Changed The new law has a new meth od of figuring parity prices. The parity formula attempts to define the buying power of farm prod ucts during a period of fair farm profits. Then It attempts to In- Ponders Democratic Possibilities SPECIAL USED TRUCK VALUES Recently Traded for NEW FORD TRUCKS Fard Dump Truck 15S '41 Ford 1S" chassis and cab 1 124 J '40 ttudsbaktr chassis and oab -MJO '27 Ford Truck, flat btd....SJ 14M 11240 '40 Dodge eehool lus 21 passenger Si CMC tohsel lus 30 passenger 31 International lus W passenger WSO 41 Chsv, Suburban HJ45 41 Int'l. ttan Wagon 11S Easy Terms on AMI Lockwood Motors Ook I, Res Sft. Phono 10 sure the farmer the same buying power today. (As an Instance, If two bushels of wheat, in a given period, bought a pair of shoes, today's price for wheat would be set so that two bushels would be sufficient to buy a pair of shoes, although In dollars the price is twice as high. More than ' 900 items the farmer buys are used in determining the price he should receive for products he sells.) The new parity will be based on prices In the 1910-14 period. But In addition it will attempt to take Into consideration changes that have taken place in farming practices and demand for farm products since then. For Instance, it costs less to produce grain to day than it did in 1910-14. be cause grain planting and harvest ing machines have been Invented, reducing farm labor. Also the de mand for grain has changed. The new law averages prices for all iarm commodities during a re cent 10-year period. Then this average is used, at one stage of i figuring, to establish a "modern" relationship among the crops and me prows tney onng. Farm officials say in general this will tend to reduce grain firices and increase prices for ivestock and dairy products. Abundance Determines Level The law spells out the way the secretary of agriculture may sup port prices of the "basic" com modities corn, wheat, cotton, peanuts, rice and tobacco. He may support other products at raw - s&&ta : .1 Anglers Asked To Report Catch Of Tagged Trout A request that persons catching tagged trout in any streams of the Umpqua system report th?lr catch was made today by Ross Newcomb, game department bio logist In charge of the Umpqua river study. It la reported. New comb said, that several tagged fish have been caught without a report being made to the game commission. Approximately 1.300 tagged fish have been released. New comb said. The purpose of tag ging is to obtain information on the hahits of the fish, and more particularly their movements from the point of release. Anyone catching a tagged fish, Newcomb said, should drop a card or letter to the Game Com mission. Roseburg, giving as near as possible the exact place where the fish was caught and the date. If the angler does not desire to go to the trouble of writing a card or letter, he can verbally report his cater, to any atate policeman, forest service em ployee or at any of the stores or resorts. The majority of anglers. New. comb said, have been' verv co operative in making their reports and their assistance Is greatly appreciated. LOG KILLS MAN McMINNVTLLE, July 12 (. A log rolled from a truck and killed Richard T. Long. 26, Mc Minnvllle, north of here Satur day. He is survived by the widow. Douglot Hatty Declines 2nd Place Nomination PORTLAND, Ore., July 12 VPi Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas told reporters today that he would not accept a vice presidential nomination. Confirming reports from the Democratic national convention in Philadelphia, the justice de clared in a statement. "I say definately and finally that I am not available for any public of fice." Douglas said he felt that "no person, while a member of the Supreme Court, should seek po litical preferment." The decision releases Oregon's Aiaatinn m thn Democratic na tional convention from its pledge tO Support UOUglBS lor uitr vitt- presidentiai nomination, iaius"" said he would get In contact with the Oregon delegation to Inform them. W. C. Strang Promoted At Navy Air Force Base Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Strang of Medford have received word that their son, William C. Strang, now stationed at Holloman Air Force base, Alamogordo (White Sands) New Mexico, has received a recent promotion to supervisor of the field service section of the aero-phyiics laboratory of North American Aviation, Inc., at the Los Angeles airport and the field station at Alamogordo, N. M. Bill Strang is a former resident of Roseburg, attended the local schools before moving to Med. ford. He was with Douglas Air. craft. Inc., six years before join Ing the U. S. navy to take the Eddy course In aero-electronics. tNEJ rekpfatfej Potential Democratic Presidential candidate, WUUun O. Douglas, associate justice, IT. 8. Supreme Court, vacations high in the Wallowa mountains, 60 miles east of La Grande. Ore, Known as "Bill" to the natives, be fishes, hikes, and studies Bupreme Oourt eases sent to him from Washington. Douglas' companion hers la known as "Rusty." Gen. Lucius Clay has said that nothing short of war will force ua to opt nut Our moral thial his discretion. The tobacco Drice.anrf looal rinhi m Mm,in i. n. will be set at 90 per cent of parity challengeable. Yet there are some indefinitely. The other five basic Who fear that Clav may be for commodities may be supported j oh, by orders from on high, to at from 60 to 90 per cent of, rat hi. worn. Further Retreat From Soviet May Destroy Confidence in U. S. Power By & BURTON HEATH V It Is obvious that the Anglo-American-French entente must do something about Russia's attempt to push ua out of Berlin by brute force. It Is not so obvious just what we should do. Maybe that la why we have been so patient. parity. The level will 1 deter mined by the abundance of any commodity. The price may be set at 90 per cent of parity when the size of the crop is 70 per cent of normal but it may be reduced as low as 60 per cent of parity if the size of the crop reaches 130 per cent of normal. In the case of tobacco the price will be 90 per cent of parity whenever market ing quotas are in effect to con trol the sire of the crop. That would be fatal. Large, im portant segments of the- world are resisting Soviet aggression only because they think or at least they hope that the United States, with backing from Great Britain and maybe from France, Is strong enough and courageous enough to act as a buffer against the Soviet Union. If It should prove that we are not strong or courageous enough to keep Russia from physically If Russia would fight, even If she could beat us now, we have passed what airmen call the point of no return.' It is less dangerous now to bull it through than turn tail and run. If we're going to he buried with a bullet hole, let it be in the forehead, not In the back. Wool prices will be supported , throwing ua out of Rerlin thn at 90 per cent of parity until there would he no reason for production reaches 360.000.000 anv other nation M t.k. h. CJ 'Mr At Pr'"t U 1 terrible risk of saying "No" to! 300,000.000. While potatoes will I Stalin. If we won't fight for our I be supported at from 60 to 90 per cent of parity. Other farm products. Including poultry, mav be supported at from zero to 90 per cent of parity. The secretary of agriculture may establish marketing restric tions on the basic commodities when supply Is 115 per cent of normal or prices are below 70 won dignity and national secur ity, surely we can't be trusted to fight for the future peace and welfare of the world at large, i Munich should have taught us the fallacy of appeasement. Yet Munich was only the most dra matic and convincing in a long line of retreats hv the democratic world from authoritarian force per cent of parity and supply is;, long-continued program of shut- quotas for basic crop, farmers may vote upon It. If more than one-third of the votes are against the quota, the support level will he reduced to 50 per cent of parity. honing that the bullv in front would get sick of the game and go home without hitting us. I There were many occasions. 1 starting at least as far back as Hitler's timid reoccupation of the Rhineland. when we had onlv ts ! ASPHALT PAVING Streets Yards O O Walks Floors DRIVE WAYS All Types of Rood Oi I ing Custom Blading General Street Construction Estimates Roseburg Paving Co. 634 $. Main Phone 720-J DON'T FORGET NOW Is the Time fo Get Your . 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