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Black Pepper Price Soars From Dime To 60 Cts. A Can; Listed Strategic Material By RADER WINGET NEW YORK UP) The wholesale prlcei of most foods are more than double prewar, but black pepper has gone up 47 times. ' v The retail price hj jumped too,' but )? spectacularly. The housewife at her grocery now pays about 60 cents for the prewar dime can of black pepper, the common kind you use at home. In 1939 the lowest price for black pepper was three cents pound wholesale. It hit an all-time peak of $1.42 a pound early umi August, ana u isn t very tar from that now, The situation is potentially ex plosive, pepper men say. It's something like a man screwing up his face to sneeze. He wrinkles his nose, takes a deep breath and everybody waits. Back in 1939, we imported some 30,000 tons of pepper, most ly from India and Indonesia. Pep per that year averaged four cents a pound. The war upset all that. Imports were erratic. In 1943 we Imported only eight tons. The next year not even a shaker full ran the blockade to get in. Such shortages boosted the price until OPA put a ceiling of ten cents a pound on black pep per. That lasted until early 1946, when the lid was lifted. Pepper Jumped from an average of ten cents in 1945 to an annual ave- UMVERSRL pumps AND WAtl tYITIMf FOR DEEP AND SHALLOW WELLS SUfU Sup "JET-TYPE WATER SYSTEMS IDEAL FOR . HOME, FARM . . AND INDUSTRIAL U5S DIITRIIUTIB IT ijw.'.i:ii?tijiij-ii-rj;i.i,Hiijjm ! rage erf 39 cents, to 43 cents, and to an average of 62 cents last year. This year it has moved steadily 'upward to its current mgn piaieau. Plant Matures In 7 Years The end of the war and higher prices didn't increase the pepper supply. In prewar days Indonesia produced 90 per cent of the world's pepper. But the Japanese wrecked the pepper gardens dur ing meir occupation. Alter tney were thrown out, the Indonesians started rebuilding their Industry. That's slow work. It takes about seven years for a domestic pepper plant to mature. And the work was declayed or halted from time to time by civil strife. As a result, India took pepper leadershln and turned out 80 per cent of world production. Adding to the uncertainty was the American government's deci sion that pepper is a strategic war material in critical supply. It was marked for stockpiling. Such operations are top secret, but government buying always is a potential market factor to keep the price from sagging. Indonesia Big Question - The bie uncertalntv Is In. donesia, once the world's biggest pioaucer. some oi New lorKs most important pepper traders have their agents in Indonesian ports where thev gather all the information they can on pepper xur meir companies. But they don't know, they say, what the situation is In the in terior. Travel is difficult through out the country and information is restricted. Some believe there may be large stocks of pepper there harvsted from gardens that escaped notice. Others think there may be some stocks concen trated from harvests of .wild pep per plants or from abandoned gardens. If large stocks were uncovered, or if shipments from Indonesia should start suddenly, it would have a dramatic effect on the pepper situation. All of these uncertainties have made pepper buyers here cau- 5 Cash Discount On All Farm Machinery UNTIL DEC. 31st This includes Tractors, Hay Balers, Combines, Gasoline Engines, Plows, Tandem Discs, Offset Discs, Spreaders, Wagons, Mowers, Spiketooth Harrows, Springtooth Har rows, Cement Mixers, Grain Drills, Hay Rake, Garden Tractors, Scales, Corn Shellers, Grindstones, Buzz Saws, Light Plants.. BUY WHERE YOU SHARE IN THE SAVINGS . DOUGLAS COUNTY Farm Bureau Co-Operative Exchange ROSEBURG, OREGON i ' Phone 98 LocatedW. Washington St. and S. P. R. R. Tracks FOR OUTSIDE MfUt HOME! SETTER EASIER CHEAPER THE ORIGINAL WESTERN HARDBOARD .O Bom for composition a.,- rooting '-'ZOForoVoaorbrttM 5;iKS? for Vndtf MVM taw m aB m r.yr .r-." CHAPCO tfofki in thrM thkftftMi. t'l ', 30-, MA" 4 1 V u.itr. a. . U In snenhinf :V rorvnotrovffMitfii "0 for lining garage doors For longer durability; high moisture railttancop- ability la Sett eny pain) Finish; toughness w'rth eaty workability, ' CHAPCO BOARD ii : ir x3 Til i ir t .is' Jin X-Ktiw-at-t-fflVi.! I j t '1 PRIZE HAM Rolland Anderson, 15, of Leiand, III., shows the 225-pound Poland China hog that won the Junior grand champion ship in the 4-H feeding contest at the SOth International Livestock Show In Chicago. The hog la one of 10,000 animals from 30 states exhibited In the biggest farm show on earth. Texas Steer Captures Grand Champion Honors CHICAGO, UP) A junior yearling Hereford, "Judge Roy Bean," shown by the Pecos coun ty 4-H club, Fort Stockton, Tex., was named grand champion steer of the 1949 international livestock show here. The reserve champion is Chlno 906, also a Hereford, weighing 750 pounds, compared with 1,250 pounds for the grand champion. The reserve is owned by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sears, owners of the Chlno farms at Churchill, Md., The steer is a junior calf. "Judge Roy Bean" was parad ed through the judging ring by W. T. Posey, county agent at Fort Stockton, Tex. Posey said the steer was fattened to t o p grade by 43 boysand seven girls, members of the Pecos county club. . .- New Product May Boost Housewife, Apple Grower CAMBRIDGE, Mass., OB A brand new product may soon be on the market that will make every day Thanksgiving day for both the housewife and the apple grower. , The National Research corpor ation has announced formation of a company to manufacture frozen apple juice concentrate at a pilot plant now under construc tion in West Concord. National research is the outfit that put a frozen orange juice concentrate on t h e market i n 1946. .... Freezing and concentrat ing apple juice is a new idea, according to Richard S. Morse, national research head. Grand Champion Steer Brings $5.00 A Pound CHICAGO, W Bonnie Lu Logan got $5.00 a pound for her 1,330 ipound junior grand cham- fiion steer at the international Ivestock show here broke all price records for the junior ani mal. The previous top was $4. 50, set in 1936. Last year's junior grand cham pion steer, gold for only $2.50 a pound. Pretty, blonde Bonnie Su. 15. of Van Wert, O., and her Blonde girl friend, Betty Jo Voirt, 15. al so of Van Wet, paraded the aberdeen-angus, Lin-Lo, around a tense auction ring. FARMERS HAVE RADIOS More than three fourths of all farm families in America now have radios and sewing machin es, sayc; r. Wilson Longmore of the Bureau of Agricultural Eco nomics, U.- S. Department of Agriculture. . "Apparently farm people re gard these two items as necessit ies, or of first Importance i n family life today, he says. "Ranking close, because more than half of all farm families report .them,, are: magazines, dally or weekly' newsnaners. elec tricity, births in "hospitals, all weather roads, automobiles and self-heating irons." ! . Less tnan nail, But more than one-fourth of all farm families tlons. Thev are described as helnir on a hand-to-mouth basis. One penner trader made a quick windfall profit from the rise rignt in nis own ollice. All traders keep samples of ship ments. So he gathered up a few old samples of shipments made when pepper was around a dime, and sold the lot for $131.25. X Do The Job W NM3 DISSTON One-Mcm CHAIN SAW- Save your muscles. Head for the woods with this new Dim ton On Mm Chain Saw. Light weight, (a, dine-driven power taw. Fells . . . Bucks . . . Limb. Operates at any and even upside down. CARL J. PEETZ Phono. 279 920 S. Stephens report having power - driven washing machines, electric refri gerators, telephones, running water in homes and electric wa ter systems. UNDER PRICE SUPPORT PORTLAND CP) The U. S. department of agriculture re port that nearly 7,400,000 bush els of Oregon wheat have been placed under the price support program. . Congress Will Be Asked To Define 'Family' Farm WASHINGTON UP) Co n gress probably will be askej next year, to write a new des cription of the "family size" farm. That seems to the reclamation bureau to lie ths Import of Presl u&ul TruKian' comiftcrit lrt ve toing the bill to waive the excess land provisions of the reclama tion law for part of Colorado's San Luis valley project. Mr. Truman said Congress should consider amending the law "so as to authorize appro priate adjustments in maximum acreages; where necessary, un der carefully worked out stan dards, which could be applied not only to the San Luis valley pro ject but also to other projects In which some adjustments may be warranted." "I think the language of the President's veto message indi cates Congress must set up new, specific standards to meet new conditions we are encountering in the West," said E. D. Eaton, assistant director of the bureau's operations and maintenance branch. When the reclamation law was enacted, In 1902, it provided that no settler could own more tnan 160 acres or a husband and wlte more than 320 acres of Irrigable land. Detailed studies had fixed that area as sufficient for 1 the support of a farm family on pub. lie lands then considered suscep tible of irrigation development. Congress has waived that pro vision for only three projects: the Truckee river storage and Humboldt .projects -in --Nevada and the Colorado Big Thompson, New Poultry Equipment Described In Bulletin Plans and Illustrations of vari ous pieces of equipment needed for efficient management of the poultry flock are presented In a new O.S.C. agricultural experi ment station circular, "Poultry House Eaulpment." The authors are W. T. Cooney, associate poul try husbandman, and H.R. Sin nard, agricultural engineer. Good puulUy liuuse equipment increases labor efficiency, helps cut poultry losses and aids in getting maximum production of high quality eggs and poultry meat, the authors point out. Equipment outlined in the publi cation has been designed to meet the needs of most Oregon poultry farms and has proved satisfac tory under commercial condi tions. "Poultry House Equipment" Is the last of a series of three publi cations on building and equipping the poultry house. The first two publications dealt with plans for construction of a conventional single-story poultry laying house designed for flocks of 500 to 1000 birds and of a two-story poultry house designed to accom modate 100 to 2000 birds. Copies of all publications are available free. I- Under forest management, It is possible to take a harvest from the woods and still leave a grow ing forest. . i in Colorado. It has refused sev. eral times to expand the farm unit measure on other projects. Ther has been opposition to ex pansion of the farm unit from Congressman from reclamation states and protest from reclama tion leaders throughout the west. Men., Doe. 5, 1949 Tho News-Review, Roieburg, Ore. 9 Auction Brings $4.50 For Boxes Of Apples YAKIMA, VP) A carload of apples packed during the In ternational apple packing con test here Nov. 19 sold on :he New York auction for an average of $4.15 a box. Contest officials cheered the news received by teletype from Vlrtor Joseph, prc;!dcr.t of tl.c International Apple association. They said the price was a dollar higher than the market. Joseph, who was here to crown the world champion apple pack er, sparked the sale by draping the car with flags. A band of stevedores played an hour-long concert before the auction open ed. , , .. . . Dairy Products Prices Drop Considered Likely WASHINGTON, -WP)Prlces of dairy products will, be some what lower next year unless the purchases are Increased matr tally over 1949 'levels, the agri Cultur department says. As- for the rest of December, the department's monthly dairy situation report said little changn would occur In these prices. To tal milk flow,' It said, is running larger' than 'a year ago, and sizable purchases of manufact ured products are still be I nil made for price support. Man learned how to make pa. per from wood by watching the wasp. - - Kaainror snryirn I I I I I I I I I For "Tp ops on Oralnboards Set Phil Durnam Lino'eum Laying and ' . Venation Blinds 920 S. Main 1336-J . Tinny Repairing' Cleaning Recaring Boil Outs HANSEN MOTOR CO. . Oak A Stephens Phone 446 ' '' zzz ' " Jga1 - A BRAND NEW WESTINGHOUSE DOUBLE OVEN ELECTRIC RANGE (5)95 w if 374.95 Because the convenience ef two ovens, en able you to bake In one oven and roast fowl in another because you have the conven ience of two ranges in one--because you can broil steaks for a crowd all at once we' say that once you've used a double oven , electric range you'll never be satisfied with ' less. Double oven ranges have formerly been In the higher-cost , bracket because of the extra equipment involved in producing such an appliance. But at Trowbridge Electric you can buy a Westinghouse double oven range for just 329.95, regularly priced 374.95 a direct saving of.45.00. And you can buy this double oven range on conven ient terms. Stop in this week to see this range and all the bargains offered during our PRE-CHRISTMAS SALE.. Bargains, Bargains Galore! at Trowbridge Electric! PRE-CHRISTMAS SALE SO FINE! SO FAST! SO SURE! td hUM MaW W-J j. m- k Major and Table Appliances Electrical Goods marked down 20-30-50 AND EVEN MORE! West Coast Building Supply Co. Mill and Mother Phone 362 Bill Neighbors lay Clark 36 N, JACKSON ST. TELEPHONE 268