Russians I n creasing
Iports Into
MAY GO OVER 40
MILLION BUSHELS
WASHINGTON (UPI) The Foreign Agricultural Service
(FAS) today reported a "substantial increase" in Soviet
wheat exports into free world warkets.
, It estimated the wheat imports in 1958-59 to these mar
kets would reach 35 to 40 million bushels or more.
- This compared with the previous post-World War II
record of 36,500,000 bushels, set in 1951-52, and 1957-58
luses
Challenge
President
WASHINGTON UPI Senate
passage of a wheat bill aimed at
curbing the costly growth of
wheat surpluses posed another di
rect challenge today to Eisenhow
er Administration farm policies.
The measure was passed Fri
day night on standing vote after
the President's own plan for deal
ing with tne problem was swept
aside. The issue now goes to the
House.
The Administration opposed the
final , wheat bill because it con
tends the price support levels of
fered ere too high and would
boost federal costs by 50 million
dollars. ..
- In a second big step, the Sen-
ate approved, 57 to 20, a new
$35,000 ceiling on total price sup
ports the government may pay on
all crops to any single farm or
farmer.
The house approved a $50,000
limit earlier this week.
Throughout the debate, senators
agreed with the President's view
that something had to be done to
stop piling up a wheat surplus. It
will totul nearly 1.500,000,000
bushels, a year and a half's sup
ply, by July 1, MSO.
, The stop-gup Senate bill would
give wheat farmers three choices
for their 1U00 and 1961 crops.
A grower, could continue plant
ing at present levels .and receive
price support at 65 per cent of
parity, as opiioscd to tho present
75 per cent level. Ho could cut
acreage 10 per ecnt and get 75
per cens or parity. - .
Or, he could reduce acreage 20
per cent and got 80 per cent of
parity. Each farmer would make
his own choice for his own farm
Opponents argue thut farmers
will cut their ucreate to take ad
Vantage of the higher price sup
port and then pile on fertilizer to
jiicri'usu ;profiucuun on tne re
tinted 'planting.
. The Mouse is exacted to act
"Xnon on a different whent hill. It
jvotild tillow farmers to choose be
tween two plans in a nationwide
referendum this summer.
t One would fix supports at 90
icr cent of parity with a 25 per
x-cnt cut In plantings. The other
would cut supiwrts to 50 per cent
of parity with unrestricted pro
duction. -
QUOTES FROM
i THE NEWS
' United Prtu International
' GENEVA Andrew Berding, U.S.
delegation spokesman at the Dig
Four conference: '
"We hope that the Soviet dele
gation will put forward next week
. some constructive new proposals
that may serve as a basis for dis
cussion." WASHINGTON The AFL-CIO,
In objecting to the Senate-approved
labor reform bill :
"In the name of democracy,
the Senate bill denies to workers
the right to determine democrat
ically tlie way in which they
would operate their own unions."
.', JACKSON. Miss. Gov. J. P.
- Cou:iian, in defending his request
"for tho . FBI to investigate the
Muck Charles Parker lynching, a
- move that met with sonic opposi
tion in Mississippi:
"I think the lime will come
"when all people will sec the wis
dom of whnt I have done. The
people of Mississipni don't con
ilnno the lynching, although we've
had some who have played poli
tics with il."
MONTGOMERY, Ala. Slate
Son. E. O. Eddlns, on the dispute
over a children's book depicting
the niiirriagc of n while girl rab
bit and a black hoy rabbit:
"There are many other books of
"1 ho same nature and others that
ore Communistic which should be
burned ns well."
Dlf S AFTER WARNING
' NEWARK, N. J. (UPD Bobby
Ivery, 7, and three other boys re-
'fuscd to heed warnings to get off
the roof of an apartment house
-where they were playing, a wit
ness said.
Bobby tumbled over a guard
rail and fell five stories to his
death Friday nifiht.
movement 01 auotii in.uuu.uuv uusn-
cls from Russia to the West
The agency said these Soviet
wheat exports were in progress
despite continued lurfie shipments
to Communist-controlled East Eu
rope.
The agency said the Soviet Un
ion appears to be making a con
siderable effort to establish perm
anent cash markets in free world
importing countries. The success
of this effort will depend mostly
upon Soviet production and export
policy, and East Europe's import
needs.
FAS said there appears to be
little reason to expect east Eu
rope's import needs to rise above
current levels. Therefore, unless
Russia uses the wheat domestic
ally or stockpiles it, it Is likely
to sell its surplus to free world
markets.
The agency noted that while the
Russians have not publicized their
wheat export intentions, trade de
velopments in recent months have
indicated clearly that a substantial
rise in expors is Inking place. It
cited wheat shipments to France,
Japan, Algeria, The Netherlands
Portugal, Switzerland, Afghanis
tan, Iraq, and Egypt.
WASHINGTON (UPD The Ag
riculture Department today hoisted
a warning designed to steer some
lamb buyers from running afoul
the Packers & Stockyards Act.
The department said some pack
ers, dealers, and market agencies
subject to provisions of the act
are engaging in certain practices
that are injurious to producers,
in thme purchase and sale of lambs
in prominent lamb producing
areas.
The warning was contained in
a department statement defining
its general policy on current lamb
buying practices and how provi
sions of the P it S Act apply to
these practices. The department
said the statement was issued not
as a rulo or .regulation itself, but
as an interpretation that certain
practices arc considered unfair
under provisions of the act.
Specifically, the department said
these methods of buying lambs
are considered unfair practices:
1. A buyer's limiting payment
for lambs to a designated average
weight, and not paying the lamb
producer for any additional weight.
2. A buyer's subtracting weight
from the true and actual weight
of the lamb.
The department said these prac
tices result in the issuance of in
correct sculo tickets, invoices, and
other documents relating to pur
chases and sales and in mislead
ing market information. The de
partment said It believes such
practices are prohibited by the
act.
The department's livestock di
vision also has received numer
ous complaints from lamb pro
ducers about methods used in
price discounting for excess
weight.
WASHINGTON (UPI Sen. Eu
gene J. McCarthy (D-Minn.) has
proposed that the Agriculture De
partment immediately start buy-
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Ed Brog, shown looking over one of his new cars, is
manager of the newest car sales firm in La Grande, the
Low Cost Auto Company at Third and Adams. Brog
handles Jeep vehicles and the French made Renault
Dauphine. In addition to a sales and display room, Brog
also manages a service station in conjunction with the
new cars. (Observer Photo)
ing hens to help meet the crisis
of falling egg prices.
McCarthy wrote Secretory of
Agriculture Ezra T. Benson that
a hen-buying program would help
"a segment of American agricul
ture which is in desperate need
of prompt action."
McCarthy said in a statement
Friday that the government-purchased
hens could be frozen and
stored for the school lunch pro
gram or distributed overseas un
der the surplus food sales pro
gram. Ho wrote Benson that the
secretary's proposal for stepped
up advertising and promotion of
eggs was inadequate to help hard
pressed egg farmers who find
prices at their lowest levels in
more than 20 years.
WASHINGTON (UPD The Ag
riculture Department said today
a 3 per cent reduction from last
year's planted acreage of nine
processing vegetable crops is in
dicated for 1959.
This year's planted acreage is
expected to lie 10 per cent less
than average, the department said.
Declines from last year: Beets
for canning, 10 per cent; cabbage
for kraut (contract ucrcagc only:,
4 per cent; cucumbers for pick
les, 10 per cent: green peas, 9
per cent; and tomatoes, 14 per
cent.
Of the nine crops, changes up
ward arc indicated for four: Green
lima beans, 1 per cent more than
last year; snap beans, 5 per cent;
sweet corn, 12 per cent; and winter
and spring spinach, 22 per cent.
Tho department said the changes
indicated for all crops except
green peas nnd spinach arc based
on reports from processors on in
tentions to p'ant. These acreage
intentions may be subject to some
changes before planting is complet
ed. The acreages for green peas
and spinach are estimates of
planted acreage.
The department estimated the
total acreage for the nine process
ing vegetable crops at 1,522,310
acres.
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Three Killed
Near Roseburg
KOSEBUHG (UPD Three per
sons were killed in a collision be
tween a pickup truck and a car
about five miles south of here
late Friday night. Another was
critically injured.
State police identified the dead
as Everett K. Ward, 54, box 570,
Tipton Road, Roseburg: his wife,
Gwendolyn Caroline Ward, 47, and
William George Redcnius, 63,
Roseburg. '
John D. Terry, 20, Roseburg,
was in critical condition in Com
munity hospital.
State police said the pickup
truck occupied by the Wards was
northbound and thut the car
driven by Terry was southbound
on Old Highway 99 just north of
Winston when the accident oc
curred. The mishap brought the l!B9
Douglas county highway death
toll to nine.
JAILED BY TOOTHACHE
KMOXV1LLE. Term. (UPD
Tho 'liquor on his breath was
from soaking his aching looth in
whiskey, Tom J. Ballard said.
Fifty dollars and 30 days in jail
for drunk driving, the judge said
Friday.
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Gov. Hatfield
Dedicates New
Institution
SALEM (UPD Gov. Mark
Hatfield today recommended that
the state of Oregon establish both
a youth and adult authority to
determine where various types of
criminal offendenders should go.
The governor's remarks came
at the formal dedication of the
new intermediate correctional in
stitution near here.
Hatfield said such a program
would make Oregon's plans for
rehabilitation more flexible. He
will recommend the plan to the
next Legislature.
The governor expressed . ex
treme disappointment that the
Legislature did not include some
$900,000 for a vocational program
at the new institution for young
ol fenders.
But, he said lie would ask the
Board of Control1 to inquire as to
whether the city of Salem could
provide a more adequate vocation
al program for the institution on
a voluntary basis. '
Also needed at (he institution
are a chapel, complete hospital
and a multi-purposes building for
sports and recreation, Hatfield
said.
Despite the Legislature's action
in lopping off many plans for the
institution, Hatfield said the open
ing was a "proud day for Ore
gon." Facilities are now available for
300 inmates and when the pro
gram is completed by future Leg
islatures some 600 men- will be
housed here.
Appling Presides
"We have here now a jail,"
Hatfield said. "What we want is
facilities for rehabilitation."
Hatfield - was confident that
eventually a program could be
worked out.
He also put in a plug for a
second fence which also was cut
off by the last Legislature.
At the dedication were Oregon's
chief justice, William McAllister,
and Sanford Bates, nationally
known penologist.
Secretary of State Howell Ap
pling Jr. presided at the flag
raising ceremonies.
A vanguard of 71 inmates al
ready assigned to the institution
will arrive here Tuesday, May 26.
FISHES FOR SALAMI
CREMONA, Italy (UPD-Fish-erman
Natala Poli felt a nibble
and pulled a salami out of the
Naviglio Canal Friday. He dived
in and came up with 50 more
salumis, all well preserved. Police
figured they were hastily aban
doned stolen goods.
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Observer, La Grande, Ore., Sat, May 23, 1959 1 Page 6
TRICK WAS ALL IN INTEREST
OF SCIENTIFIC ADVANCEMENT
By DELOS SMITH
UPI Staff Writer
NEW YORK (UPD For the
purpose of advancing man's
knowledge of man (which gener
ally is accepted as a worthy pur
pose) a psychologist pulled a
dirty trick on a bunch of school
children.
First, he bribed them into eat
ing the very vegetables they dis
liked Hie most. And then, when
they had ulmost finished the eat
ing, he told them. he was going
to tell their parents.
The scientific goal achieved by
this was a partial confirmation of
a new psychological theory, called
"cognitive dissonance." From a
parental viewpoint the result had
to be good because the childreT
ended up liking the vegetables
they had disliked or at least dis
liking them less.
Theory Or Fact?
Theoretically "cognitive disso
nance" works this way: If for
some kind of personal gain, a
person does what he woulun t
have done otherwise, the inner
harmony of his mind is disturbed.
A discrepancy between outlook
and action is established and this
automatically loosens a drive to
eliminate the discrepancy and re
store harmony.
As one of a number of experi
ments designed to find out if
this theory is fact, psychologist
Jack W. Brehm tested it in 8th
grade school children of New Ha
ven, Conn. Their teachers gave
each a list of 32 vegetables and
each child indicated which vege
tables he liked or disliked "very
much." They were told a research
organization was studying people's
eating habits.
A few weeks later the kiddies
who had revealed the vegetables
they disliked "very much," were
summoned one by one to a spe
cial school room. There they met
Brehm who said he represented a
consumers organization which
tested food products in order to
Charles R. Cooley
Dies At Grants Pass
GRANTS PASS (UPD Charles
R. Cooley, 65, a well-known lum
berman, died suddenly at his
home Friday afternoon. Death
was believed caused by a heart
attack.
Cooley, who, had been in the
lumber business since he was 18
years old, was president of the
Three C's Lumber Company and
a partner in the Southern Oregon
Yard Supply Company. Ho also
had extensive real estate holdings.
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help people with their shopping.
Right now, he continued, the or
ganization was asking all sorts of
people about what they got out of
particular vegetables.
Offered A Bribe '
Each person was asked about
only one vegetable, th? children
were told, and for each person,
the particular vegetable was chos
en at random. But actually each
child was confronted with the
very vegetable he most disliked.
He was questioned in detail about
his feelings for it. Then he was
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DEAD WOOD REPLACED An old wooden water
main, which leaked, near Oak and Spruce streets has
been replaced by cast iron pipe as part of the city's pro
gram of replacing the old wood system. Earl MacDou
gal of the city water department is shown making a
service connection just before the new pipe is covered.
The old Wood pipe was left in the ground disconnected.
(Observer Photo)
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offered a bribe to eat it then and
there on the grounds that this
would help him answer further
questions. ,'
The bribe was a couple of the
atre tickets or phonograph ' rec
ords. The youngsters who refused
the bribe avoided "cognitive disso
nance," of course. But those who
accepted the bribe aid ate the
vegetable, got also a good dose of
this mental disharmony. Brchm's
psychological testing showed they
turned it into harmony by not dis
liking the vegetable this once.
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