The news-review. (Roseburg, Or.) 1948-1994, November 21, 1955, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextirinJlmUD Tacts 8 Tht Newt-Review, Roseburg, rs . r I uairy rarmer Say Benson Plan Not Workable Bv OWEN CRUMB UTICA. N. Y. W The throe largest dairy-farmer organization! in the Northeast mm urn u. r. Senate Agriculture Committee Sat iirday that the Kisenhowcr-Bcnson farm proram was not working. The groups, representing nearly 40,000 dairymen, demanded what they called a neuer program. But the New York Stale Farm Bureau disagreed. The Farm Bu reau now claims 73,000 member but expects to lose about 50,000 nexi year unaer a rrw kni.liiiii program. It president said in testimony prepared for a commit tee hearing: "The present program of flex ible supports is working in the right direction and should be con tinued." Dairy organization spokesmen, in their prepared remarks, maintain ed that low prices on farm prod ucts did not decrease production. Secretary Benson Mas main tained that over the long haul reduced prices under the Hepubli ean flexible price support pro gram will discourage Riirplus pro duction and eventually raise farm prices. Stanley If. Benharn, a Itcpubli can and newly elected president of the 23,000 member Dairymen's League, urged adoption of a "soil bank" plan partly to replace the present national program. Under such a plan, the government would rent land from the farmer and take It out of production. This proposal has been advocat ed frequently to the touring Sen ale committee, which has held hearings In all major farm areas of the country. Twenty-five wit nesses were scheduled for here. NOT IMPERTINENCI RICHMOND, Va- - Back talk from the pupils is being en couraged in Richmond's public schools. The pupils' speech is tape recorded and played back as a means of ironing out defects in diction and grammar. Said Mrs. Elizabeth Collier, a fifth grade teacher: "It is noticeable almost immediately that they try to im prove their speech and tone's." EAT HEARTY AND STILL SAVE MONEY tt't M thrifty to qwm a lockei end your froth froien food will totto to good next winter, DOUGLAS LOCKER & STORAGE Hourt: 8 a.m. -6 p.m. Doily 8-12 Sunday Dial OR 3-4215 PUT A SMILE IN YOUR KITCHEN f by Up to 91 V. mar, starling traction Up lo 39 mort ttopping traction Mort rubbtr on Iho road for quieter Optra Hon longer wtar - . , . - ?sru TTTI I Mil Jk$I ! rfeS iflfe raw This sensational traction is yours for only $1.00 DOWN PER TIRE! Ore. Mon., Nor. 21, 1955 f COLLECTIVE CORNCOB- Corn pops all over this ear grown in Russia's Kharkov re gion. It wa developed by Agronomist Molebny, director of the region's Lenin State Farm, to see how many "satel lites" could be grown around the main ear. By selection and creation of conditions, be says be has increased the number of shoots around the main axis to from eight to 12. An official Soviet source says at least 75 per cent of the special seeds he developed have produced plants with many cobs. Heavy Bird Increase Noted For Turkey Folk J. F. Ronebrake, chairman of the Douglas County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee, reports the following information recently received from the state ASC office: Turkey breeders in 15 of the most important turkey stales ex pect to hold about 13 per cent more heavy turkey hens at the be ginning of the 195ft hatchery sea son as compared with the number held this year. Intended increases vary from 5 per cent in South Caro lina and Washington to 31 per cent in Texas. Michigan is the only state expecting a decrease 13 per cent below last year. Holding of -light breed hens are expected to increase only 7 per cent. He Did The Right- Thing, But Just Couldn't Win EVERETT1 A Arthur E. Palmer did right tut things just turned out wrong. Driving in Mountlake Terrace while this week's snow was still pn the roads, the Reltingham man's car skidded on a hill. Palmer parked the car at (he side of the road and went after chains. When he got back his car was gone. Another motorist had run into it and knocked it over into a 50-foot gullev. So Palmer left to put in a call for a wrecker. By the time the wrecker arrived, a driverless car, parked on the hill nearby, bad slid down Die hill and into the gulley. It whammed into Palmer's already hanged up car. It wasn't reported what Palmer tried next. Maybe he just gave up as one of those days , . . In spite of the growth of syn thetic fiber, ahout 70 per cent of U.S. textile needs are still sup plied by cotlon. aSC ,8Fil No nml In shovel out ... or suffer costly delnw. Get .Sulnlun,(,- bv (Joodvear. Tlx- Snbmb.vii.r's powerful nmlti-cleaird tread has 186 knifr-liW rtign th.it take hold in mow. slush and mud to pull v throuch. Stop in male vour deal (or the exua salrtv extra trac tion nl nevr Suburbanites by Gorxlwar NOW. As Utile at $1.33 A WllKl CARTER TIRE CO. The new look - the new models I for '56 are the rage. i We in forestry aren't to be out done. New ideas and new methods are always cropping up. The latest is a new way of re establishing a stand of trees on logged-off land. Trot Planting Cotfk Average planting costi in Doug las County are $25 an acre. These costs include the price of trees and labor involved. Cut that price and you've made yourself a new look in the forestry game. That's just what research peo ple have been working on for a number of years. Results have been spotty but it looks like they're getting close now. Let me illustrate by telling you about some experimental work that the Rose burg branch of the Bureau of L.and Management is doing in cooperation with the Fish and Wildlife Service. Thev have selected a typical log ged-off area near Reston that was logged this summer and had the slash burned this fall. Rodents Art Still Rats Oh, yes, I want to set you straight on one of the biggest head aches in getting a logged-off area back into young trees That's right, rats. lo be really scientific they are called white footed mice. Nels Kuverno, Fish and Wildlife Service research man working on the BLM experimental area, told me every acre oi forest tand has to 12 of these mice. I believed him, too, after we finished running a trap line that held a number of the lillle "darlings." Bill Stein, research forester with the Forest Service, recently fed a number of captured mice a diet of Douglas fir seed. He found that they really liked them and con sumed 300 seeds per night. In sev en months, the period which the seed usually lays on the ground before germinating, one mouse will eat roughly pounds of seed. Sick Mice Wonted Enough about what they do how do we get rid of 'em. For a nu m ber of yea rs. re searchers have tried to eliminate the mice by the use of poison. Local "rats" were killed but adjoining neighbors seem to sense the "ghost town" like area and would migrate in. Nels Kuverno puts the new ap proach this way. "We aren't in terested in eliminating the rodent but just the rodent factor." How are they doing that? It's simple, actually. They treat the seed with a re pellent poison. The mouse eats a few treated seeds and suddenly finds he isn't a dumh, stupid mouse but an educated, sick mouse. tie gels a few seed, in his stomach he dnesn t feel good the wheels in this little mousey head starts going around and he deducts he's sick because of having "tested" too many seeds. Being smarter than a human, In (he future he will leave tree seeds alone. "Of course," NesI says, "if the mouse eats too many it will kill him but we believe the nig gest percentage of them know when lo quit." One-Third Tht Coit , Maynard McCormack, who heads up the reforestation program for the local Bureau of Land Manage- ment, believes the repellent poison win ne me answer. "They may not have tht exact poison perfee'ed," Mac says, "but the method look: good. "We believe our reforestation cost will be one-third what they are tor tree planting. I think Mac is right and this "make 'em sick" method has lots of possibilities for our recently logged farm woodlands. PHIL thru Douglas For ASC Douglas County fanners will bal lot by mail to elect ASC com munity committeemen. They'll pick chairman, vice chairman, rcau-i lar member and first and second alternate in each of 10 conwnun-1 dies in the county. I ' S ' " ' , " y ' ,'' '" wfi$f " W j St ;'- r J .,! '.$ . jcf wtr - P . a DANCING SPUDS uua-snapea potatoes seem to dance, to the amazement of Antone M. Almeida, who grew them at Fairhaven, Mass. The spuds look a little like pudyy pigs, ducks, sea lioni and what have you. c5 r fa" 4 i wet"- r j.' i ' , f- J?Siitor'fa P Hire! r-.rri HE'S SUPER Here's -Super." li)5.i Urand Champion siljpr oi the Grand National Livestock Exposition at San Francisco's Cow Palace. Owner is Sue White, right, of Lubbock, Tex. Presenting her with a silver plaque are H. W. Guntlcr, led, and Robert A. Lamoree, both of Staulfer Chemical Co. Sue a'-o received $500 from the American Hereford Association. ft si i. r Mfc'S ALL tAKS f armer jerrr main nas oik ears, ana nc s Klad of it. Ihev re ears of corn that he grew on his farm near Hucklin, Mo. His bold averaged an outstanding 169U bushels per acre. Last year, his average 144 bushels an acre took first place in the Missouri Farmers' Association contest, , Fanners To Vote Committeemen Ballots will be mailed out not later than Nov. 23. according to Kvan H. Ghecr.. office manager. They must be returned to county ASC Office, 321 Pacific Bldg., Host-burg, no later than Nov. 30 They may be returned by mail or 4 "i1 . r : . I I I they can be returned in person. Dec. 2 the voles will be tabu lated, and winners notified. The community chairmen will convene in Koseburg Dec. , in a county convention, to elect a five member county committee to gov ern ASC work for the following year. The committee elects a chairman. This year J. F. Bonebrake, Mel rose, has headed the group. To be eligible to vote, person must live on i farm and draw the major source of his income from farming. As Gheen pointed out this week, the voting is "wide open" to all farmers. Each term is for one year. Each voter should pick five of the 10 candidates in his commun ity. Any eligible voter not receiv ing a ballot may obtain one at the ASC office. Candidates are listed by com munities, as follows: COMMUNITY CANDIDATES Community No. 1 O. G. Clark, Don Dulany, Harley France, H. D. Hauck and R. C. Head, all of Azalea; George Z. Newman, Clyde Smith, Henry Tanner, Dan Clare and W. B. Garrett, all of Glendale. Community No. 2 J. L. Aik- ins, Host-all Ball, George Dawson, Leonard Dawson, Frank Hamlin, E. S. Pruner, William Sharpe, Earl Smith, Vernon Smith and Virgil Smith and Virgil Thompson, all of Kiddle. Community No. 3 Albert Brown, William Brown, O. J. Kll- lian and Lawrence Michaels, all of Canyonville; J. R. Griffin, Ray Wright and Durnin -Swingley, all of Days Creek; Clem Tavenner and Pete Clam, both of Myrtle Creek; Jim Alyers, Milo. Community No. 4 Howard Bronson, Clinton Jones, Charles Jones, A. L. Alatlhews, Fred Neal, Delbert Trask, Clay Ulam, E. V. Weaver, Gilbert Weaver and O. E. Weeks, all of Myrtle Creek. Community No. a Ned Dixon, Frank Grubbe and Darley Ware, all of Rt. 2, Koseburg; A. If. Doer ner and Jay Young, both of Kt. 3, Roseburg; George Marsh and Don Ollivant, both of Rt. 4, Rose burg; K. H. Granks, Idleyld Rt., Koseburg; Joe Brumback, Rose burg; and J. Harold Nichols, Brockway. Community No. 6 Neal Brown, Jack Hill, M. A. Jones, A. A. Shafer, John Standley. Dive Thursh and Ernest Wheeler, all of Camas Valley; Wayne Breiten bucher, Tenmile; and C. J. Brady, Brockway. Community No. 7 Walter A. Davis, C. A. Goff, Alfred Hand, Dave Henry, John Roeder, F. A. Vasche and Guy Walls, all of Oak land; Ted Roadman and Gail Win niford. both of Rt. 2, Roseburg; and Bob Mode, Cmpqua. Community No. 8 Warren J. Billick. Howard Carnes, Norman L. Compton, Walter Haines, Leslie Hancock and Don Mode, all of Elk- ton; Milo Bullock, Wdkam L. Ed wards, Edlon Fisher and Carl Madison, all of Oakland. Community No. 9 W. Lee Al len, Gordon Baker, and Gerald Johnson, all of Yonealla; C. C. Luce, Delton Thiol and William B. Turner, all of Rt. 1, Yonealla; R. L. Bridges, Ray R. Miller and Chester A. Rydell, all of Drain; and J. T. Powell, Oakland. Community No. 10 Francis Al hro and F, V. Weatherlv, both of Elkton; Shirley Black, Nels Fred erickson, Ray Holliday, Willaim Knuutilas, Virgil Leach. Bert L. Roberts, True Shepherd and Wayne Weist, all of Reedsport. Don't Be OUR REGULAR WAREHOUSE PRICES ON WINTER FEEDS ARE YOUR BEST FEED BUY Corn - $66 per ton Barley $60 per ton Oats - $63 per ton Range Cubes . $67 per ton Alfalfa Meal and Molasses $60 per ton Cotton Seed Meal w p.m) $89 per ton DOUGLAS COUNTY FLOUR MILL Cass and Pine Phone OR 2-2641 n.4i ...!;M !".': ...... Mmuianiiii J ANNUAL RATE : OF INCREASE m S "U gS'ua,?! NON-FARM HOUR pjjm JIJ T IW.19H 1W1954 iTTl - HIVATt GROSS NAT, MODUCr itx $100 11.60 11.40 11.20 51.00 nl I I I I I I I I 1 1 I I I I I I I I 1 1 I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 1909 1914 1919 1924 1929 1934 1939 1944 1949 I9S4 VVE REALLY PRODUCE NOWADAYS When a farmer and non-farm worker work for an hour today, they produce about three times as much as their counterparts did 45 years ago. The graph above, from National Industrial Conference Board data, shows steady growth of our gross national product in terms of dollar out put per man-hour. For example, In 1909. an hour's work by a non. farm worker resulted in a product worth about 98 cents. In 1654, the same hour's work produced about $2.38 worth of goods or services. From 1909 to 1954, factory and other non-farm workers increased their hourly output almost 150 per cent. During the same period farm output rose more than 140 per cent. Inset chart shows that in recent years, farm productivity has outpaced non farm output per hour. Since 1939 the former has advanced at an annual rate of 3.6 per cent, while non-farm output per man-hour Jias risen onlv 2.5 per cent a year. In contrast, farm output rose at the rate of only 1.2 per cent from 1909 to 1939, while factory out put per man advanced at the rate of 1.9 per cent a year FAO Approval Given Program On Atomic Energy nnup in Th it V Fnmt nH:'a'te over ms duties with the Soil ROME m -The U.N. Food land Conservalion Servjce reports the Agriculture Organization (FAO) Sutherlin Sun. gave preliminary approval Salur-1 Williamson has been with the day to a new program for work on , service for 10 years. He holds a use of atomic energy in food pro-! bachelor of science degree in duction. The FAO's committee on 1 agronomy. His work here will be program trends and policy ques-1 classification and survey of soil Hons gave unanimous approval to; starting the program in .1956. Approval of the lull assemtiiy is the next step. The new program, outlined earlier by Dr. P. V. Card on. American director general of FAO, provides for expenditures of azu.uuu annually ine nexi iwo years. Part would pay the services of a biologist to head the program. His job would be to collect and dis-1 tribute information on atomic ap plications to agriculture and to maintain liaison with other bodies, such as the U.N.'s proposed atom ic energy agency. Cardon said FAO should study such things as effects on marine life of radioactive wastes dumped at sea, effects on livestocks and growing and processing. Just- Push a Button With Your Fingertips! '56 DODGE BARCUS . Sales & Service Your Dodgi-Plymouth Dealer N. Stephent or Garden Valley Road Mis-eih Soil Scientist Comes To County John R. Williamson, soil scient ist, has arrived in Sutherlin to types in the area. He is presently living in Wins ton, but will move to Sutherlin when he can find a house. LAND BANK LOANS Lone r a n f planning may nifan the differenre between farm' full productive- ca pacity or failure. To plan ia to nave . . e your local National Farm Loan Aoria lion now, X WW "9NJ I 203 MEDICAL I I ARTS BLDG. I nilalllBflBjstM 7T) 266 S. E. Stephens Phone OR 2-2689 O