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16 Tla News-Revieg!0"- Tt""'-' iuly 14' J?!0 4 NW ReclamationPro jects High In 1959 Value Of Crops Produced WASHINGTON (AP) - Kour Northwest reclamation projects; remained among the nation's top; 10 in value o crops produced uij 1959. The Minidbka project in Idaho, j with production valued at SI 19.-! 182,317, ranked third highest last. vear, the same position u ncin in 19S8 with crqpj valued at $80,317, 583. . Members Accepted By Umpqua Grove Several new members were ac cepted into the Woodmen Circle Umpqua Grove 51, at their regular ritualistic meeting held in the Evergreen Grange Hall in Win ston recently. The group will contribute toward furnishing a room in the Woodmen Circle Home located in Sherman, Tex., in honor of Oregon Stale JIanager, Mrs. Zelda K. Puckctt. of Portland, reports Phebe .Wc Guire, conrrcscpondont. Plans were discussed for a group picnic to be held Aug. 21 in the park located on the George Holm property in Happy Valley. This outdoor event will he for members, their families and friends. Hostesses for the social hour following the meeting were Bessie Cornish and C.erlie Hess. The Grove social will he held July 26 at the home of Besse Cornish in Itoseburg with Alice Chrislcnsen assisting. The Grove service club, Work Basket, will meet at the home of Sarah Cyrus on Highway 42 in Winston, July 19 with JIarjoric royle, co-hostess. The Yakima. Wash., project asain ranked fourth with $85,887. 453 in production, compared with $79,461,530 during 1958. The Boise project, in Idaho and Oregon, retained eighth place on 1959 production set at S40.405.485, compared with 19558 production of $34,439,027. The Columbia Basin project in Washington again was rated ninth on production of $32,497,454, as against 1958 value of $27,30;'.37O. California's Central Valley Proj ect held first place both years on production valued at $224,452,703 in 1959 and $220,871,731 in 1958. The figures are from a Recla mation Bureau report showing the harvest value of crops from proj ects in the 17 western reclamation states edged over the billiu.i dol lar mark for the first time in 1959. The report said the 1939 total was 129 million dollars greater than the previous high of $987,400, 000 in 1958. The bureau noted that price sup ported crops wheat, corn and cot tonaccounted for less than two per cent of the 1959 total. Here are slate figures for all projects listed in bureau sum maries (1959 figure first, 1958 fig ure in parentheses): Idaho (iross crop value Sinn. 409,327 (S!30,359.818i; crop value per irrigated acre $114.20 ($!il.l(i); irrigated acres 1,457,184 (1,430, 921 ). Oregon Gross crop value $52, 795,814 ($42,584,8531; crop value per irrigated acre S120.75 ($102,711; irrigated acres 410,538 (414.603). Washington Gross crop value $119,427,430 (5107,702,750); crop value per irrigated acre f 179.41 ($189.19); irrigated acres Wi5,674 (636,946). Porter To Open Eugene Office KL'CENE (AP) Congressman Charles O. Porter (D-Ore) sent wurd Tuesday he plans to open his office at Eugene immediately alt er the close of the Democratic national convention. Porter is attending the conven tion as a dclegate-atlarge from the state. Porter said his wife and chil dren will remain in' Eugene from now until school opens in the fall. New Anripolio Vaccine Ready NEW YOIiK (AP) A drug company says a new antipulio vaccine, more powerful than the Salk shots, is ready for use, Merck Sharp & IJohme an nounced Tuesday that 120,000 doses of the killed-virus type ol drug have been released by the U. S. Public Health Service. High-risk areas of the South and Southwest will be given priority on orders, said the company. SAiTrsRcr- ..' :...'.'' il ' III ' W W t " ii COMMUTE R IN HURRY? DAR1EN, Conn. (AP) Mrs. .Mary Goodyear got a strange phone call. A man told her he had to get to the train station in Slam ford, so he had borrowed her car. Polite went to the station and found the auto, undamaged, just as the man said. The caller was no where to be found so police as sumed he caught his train. STARFIGHTER'S ROMAN CANDLE A 15-foot exhaust flame pours from a F-104 Starfighter at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The jet is operating on "AB," the wide-open, afterburning throttle setting. Control Of Building Asked Of Fair Board SALEM (AP) The state Kail Commission wants to operate the armory audilurium to he con structed on the state fail grounds. The $750,000 project is being fi nanced by federal, state, county I awl city tunds. i ne commission maue uie pro- posat luesday. It wants lair man iager Howard Maple to manage .the new structures. The commission vofed to in crease the 25-cent parking fee at !the fair to 50 cents. Maple said ;he hoped the increase would pro iduco $10,000 a year in extra rev enue so that the parking area could be paved. Oregon Seaman Killed In Idaho IIAMMETT, Idaho (AP) An Oregon seaman wa-s killed Tues day night in a two-car crash near here. Police identified the victim as Robert S. Allcrheiligcn, 22, Grants Pass, Ore., a Navy enlisted man who was en route from the Naval Submarine School at New London, Conn., to San Diego and a duty assignment aboard the submarine L'SS Sea Devil. A companion, Charles D. Berry, 19, J'orlland, Ore., was injured critically. Police said the car the two young sailors were in collided headon wilh a vehicle driven by S. Sgt. Pele Berry, 29, who was stationed at Mountain Home Air Force Base. He escaped serious injury. The sergeant's car had hit a guard rait and bounced across the highway into the path uf Allcr heiligen's auto, police said. Tenmile Residents Arrive From Visit With Daughters By MRS. DEWEY CHAMBLEN irecent weekend at Davis Lake. Mr. and Airs. Dean Dwight of jj,.. and Mrs. Ed Dwight, Greg Tenmile recently returned f r o m and Lori, drove to Eureka, Calif., Los Angeles, Calif., where they vis-;tu attend a mineral and rock show1 ited with their daughters, Mrs. Les Huh Dwight's brother-in-law and Sumner and Mrs. Bill Loftin, and MSter, Mr. and Mrs. Les Sumner, their families. The Dwight , M). and Mrs Sumner are d.i brought their grandson P.aul Hen ;i k wi, her pa,.Ilts Alr derson, home with them. and M,.s Dean nwjgntF Tncy came W.ektnd Enoyi . . n . . , , to get their son. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Dwight, Mark, Gavle and Slevie, spent a ' llr- ,a,nd, Mrs: Pon,ald Slandley. : f i Greg, Mark and Paul, spent a rc- cent weekend camping out at Wick iup Reservoir. They were iccom Ipanied by Mr. and Mrs. Prank : Kinnan and Kathy and Mr. and I.Mrs. Dean Smith and Janis. They i also visited Crane Prairie Dam. Robbins Rtcupiratts Bob Robbins is resting at home following an operation at a Rose burg hospital. 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