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HEARING AID IATTERIES SUItat Aaywktr Tr AT lukt Write 1 C. MITCHCLL . Tl W. BvMtwar. Or.' Mak J. St. TftM IiwIWi I rrtUa aiilm Htrlt Alii) Guessing On Fcrm Prices Is Still Fcr-Distent From Exact Science By PETER EDSON MA Wihlngttm CafnapoeSaal WASHINGTON (NEA) One (gain the economic farm propheU have proved themselves not tmart at they thought they wer. Thii time they hive had to thow red faeea on their hog calling-. Two aeaaooa ia i row, now, there have been official criea of alarm ' that the farmers were producing too many piga. There have been dire warning! that the market would be glutted and that pricea would go below the farmers' coats of production. The only alternative offered to ssvo this situation waa that the government, would have to go into a big bog-buying program to support the market. A year ago, whea there was con siderable fear of a big surplus spring pig crop, the situation waa aaved by the purchase of many million dollars' worth of pork for Great Britain and other Marshall Plaa countries. That took the sur plus pig population off the market. While the Brannan farm-income support plan waa before the last session of Congress, there were again predictions that a bumper crop of pigs would glut the mar ket this fall. The prospect of the government having to support hog prices was freely predicted aa like ly to cost the taxpayer at much aa $250,000,000. Thia waa cited at the time aa one good reason why the Brannan plan was better than the present farm price-support pro gram. . ! ' Two Patters Responsible But matters haven't worked out that way at all, and the experts hsve been confounded. Two things seem to have happened to prevent the catastrophe so freely predicted last summer. One factor is that consumer de msnd for pork haa been heavier than anticipated. With a big corn crop making feed available at rea sonable prices, and with plenty of piga in the pena to eat it up, the supply of pork haa been good and prices hsve been relatively lower than for other meats. The second factor is that farm ers this fall have been marketing their hoga at lighter weights. In stesd of fattening to 300 pounds, they have sold more hogs at 100 to 225 pounds. This prsctice has been in accord with Department of Agriculture suggestions to mar ket hogs with more lean meat on them and not so much fat. The reault of all these practices haa been that hog prices hsve been from 19c to $1.20 a hundredweight above support price levels through out the fall. And the government hasn't hsd to enter the market to buy up any surpluses. This yesr the support price wat $17.50 per cwt. in September, I16.40 in October, $15 in November, $14.00 in December. It ia $15.50 for Jan. uary and $18.20 for February. Ne Prospects of Out There is still a possibility that farmers msy be holding back some of their hogs to msrket later at heavier weights and for higher prices. But marketings have been from 20 to 40 per cent heavier than normal so far this fsll. So the likelihood of a glut is mini mized and the predicted fall hog market crisis isn't going to come off. The moral of this is that econ omics still isn't an exact enough science for accurate propheciea. The tides and the phases of the moon can be predicted with abso lute accuracy for aa far ahead as wants to know. The weather can be predicted with say 50-50 accur acy from. 24 to 48 houra ahead. It will ram or snow, or it won't. It is fun to' guess as how they will work out. Plenty of fsrmers and businessmen make or lose for tunes trying to dope these things $5 PER MONTH Pays for appliance) repairs Rebuild Repair Reps hit Add years e service to yew appliances. Material and Workmanship Guaranteed PHONE 805 DCDril'C APPLIANCE DCKUM J SERVICE Pickup anal Delivery 1200 South Stephens , IK . ...- 4iT iV"7 V . V ' ( "J ' 'i v.-';-. rrz ..... 4 TAKING THI PARTS OP Dick Winters and Imlly Kimbreuph la BUI Van Hern and Jan fillet?, above. In the senior clsss play, "Our Hearts Were Yeuna and Gay," to be presented at $:1J o'clock Priday night, March 31, at the senior hlfh school auditorium. (Picture by Paul Jenkins.) "I don't blame you tha least bit ... If my husband wouldn't taka ma to tha RAINBOW CAFE on Saturday night, I'd get a divorca, too!" a BV.saaBBBBaBaam. out. If they guess right they're con sidered smart men. If they guess wrong, they're suckers. But any theory or economic plan for predicting and leveling out these uncertainties, no matter bow carefully drawn, ia apt to fail just because of the unpredictable turn like in thia year'a hog market Men economists and lawmakers in particular aren't that smart yet. Curtin By MRS. GRACE THOMPSON Mr. and Mrs. E. .Langham are the parents of a boy born March 10 at the Butler Maternity home in Cottage Grove. Mr. and Mra. Lloyd Black of Sweet Home are receiving congrat ulations on the birth of their first child, a boy, born on March 13. Paternal grandparents are Mr, and Mrs. J. W. Blsck, Curtin. The Lloyd Blacks are former residenta. Albert Goings ia recuperating sa tisfactorily from an infection of the eye. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Billings and Doyle and Judy viaited relative! in Eugene over the weekend. Mrt. Wilma Stigers and Jo re turned home from Baker Thurs day accompanied by Mra. Stigers' parents. A lamb belinging to Max Ames wss shot Wednesdsy afternoon for an unknown reason. There are aeveral stray doga around, the neighborhood molesting sheep and killing lambs. . Daniel Thompson, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Thompson, is out of school suffering from an infected lymph gland. A big shovel was used in deepen ing the mill pond Sunday for the Forest Veneer Mill company. Some more piling wat put in where the logt are unloaded. Both teachers at me local school hava been offered contracts for next year. Mra. Myrtle Gleason of Cottage Grove haa already aigned her contract, but Mr. Thomas of Yoncalla haa not aigned yet. The Harold Powela of Charles ton were visitors at the Charles W. Booher homo Wedneseay and Thursday. Young Democrats Of Oregon Name Batch Of Officers PORTLAND, March 2. ( Walter J. Dennis, Portland, waa elected president of the Young Democratic clubs of Oregon con vention Ssturday. He waa opposed by Bruce Bishop, Eugene. Resolutions Included a proposal that state legislators' psy be raised from the present $400 a aession to $1,200 with $10 a day expense al lowance while 1n session. Others urged lowering the voting age to 18 yeara and establishments oil jun ior colleges over the state. Others elected: Dale E. Gibson, Deschutes coun ty, national committeeman; June Bredemeyer, Multnomah county, national committeewoman; John M. Winkler, Multnomah county, first vice-president; Ed Ridder busch, Benton cou ty, second vice president; Jean Hammel, Tilla mook county, third vice-president; David Cromwell, Benton county, fourth vice-president; Jack Sollis, Lane county, fifth vice-president: Bill Linklster, Coot county, aixth vice-president; Noreen Kelly, Jack son county, seventh vice-preaident; John Kerbow, Klamath county, eighth vice-preaident; Keith Clark, Lane county, secretary. . Johnny Allen's 15-1 pitching record for the Cleveland Indians in 19J7 Is the highest percentage I mark ever posted in the majors. Northwest's Power Supply Is Ample At Present BOSTON, March zs.-lAV-Frank McLaughlin, president of Puget Sound Power and Light company. Northweat'a power supply will be uraum 10 mm aemanaa ai least until the latter part of 150. Ha told a stockholders' meeting that although new all-time peaks ia demand were ettablished Jan uary 1, ne customer load curtail ment waa required. The Janury hlfh of 1.392 000 kilowatts waa 470,000 greater than the previous high, act a year ago. Several times during January and February, he aaid, peak de mands were to heavy that voltage and frequency dropped, indicating facilities were overloaded. AU ateam plants were operated to keep up with the customers' wants. There were aeveral reasons, Mc. Laughlin aaid, for the ability of the power pool to keep up with demand and avoid curtailment. Ha said one aiding factor wat tha additional generating units put m . utwiu vw'n III lt and increaaet in the resources w privaia utilities. Wster conditions were good ia the last part of 1940, ha added, and storage reservoirs were filled. There were no msjor outsges, he said, due to equipment failure and high peak demands were of abort duration. He aaid that net income available for dividenda and other corporate purposes in January and February Waa., Mar. 19. 1 ISO The Newt-Review, Retekarf, 0. S AchGMR't Stand Afaintt CmmHnl$n Point Out LONDON. March 2. ( Two London newspapers commented Tuesday on the chanea of some Republican United States senatora that Secretary of State Dean Ache son ia tolerant toward Communists. The Independent Timet taid: "The realization is srowine that irresponsible partisan attacks weaken not only trie State depart ment, out tne foreign policy of the United States at a critical mo ment." 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