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Obierver, ld Grande, Ore., Frl., Dec. 4, 1959 p,g, 8 No Need To Thaw Out Frozen Beef; Meats Retain Flavor Farm News Roundup WASHINGTON ll'I'l' -An Ac rlcullure De.iartmr t nulril on re search team has leroiteJ that it J not necessary to thaw frozi-n beef to en oy goo I Ha. or. The research v orke-.i, who test ed frozen beef cooked with without thawintj. retried then- is little difference in teidcrncss, Juiciness and llavo . WASHINGTON HTH -Felerall meat inspection r ports dJisctost-d tliat meat impor.s in October were up substantially bom the same month of a year a;io. The reports show that imports Of fresh beef ar.d veal in October amounted to more than 30 million Pounds. This compares to October. 1938, imports of less than 23 mil lion pounds. Imports of lamb and mutton were over 3.2O0.UO0 pounds, up one-third from the same month in 1958. KANSAS CITY. Mo. 'ITU - Farm Credit Administration offi cial H. A. Miles told agriculture leaders that the cost -price squeeze is forcing more and more econo mically depressed farmers to one of thiee alternatives. In an address before the annual meeting of the Consumers Coop List Pinochle Winners At Powder Party NOHTII POWDER (Special! -Word has been received of the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Sam Wcihing. Green liiver, Utah. She was born Nov. 3. is named Teri Joann and weighs eight pounds, five and a halt oun ces. Mrs. Weihing is the former Karen Marsing. ' Prize winners at the recent pin ochle card party at the grange hall were Mrs. W. A. lludclson and Charles Smith, hiyh; Mrs. Walter McGrath and Red James. Union, low; Mrs. ".alter McGrath and Charles Jones, traveling. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Free Sr., who have been in poor health for some time, entced a nursing borne at Baker. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Lampkin at tended the OES homecoming at Sumptor. Holiday Trip Mrs. Claia Parker has gone to Boise to visit her sister, Mrs Delia Hickey, before going on to Columbus, Ohio, to spend the holi days with her daughter, Major and Mrs. Lewis Pearson and family Mr. and Mrs. George Hugh and daughter, Rebecca, Anatone Wash., were overnight guests at the Willard Fordice home. Johnny Gray is installing a coal furnace in his home. Mrs. Frank Pearson entrain ed the knitting club recently. Sharon Bates and Norma Cham berlain have been initiated ink the Faith Assembly 54, Order of Rainbow for Girls. The North Powder Pine Plane has been shut down again due to the shortage of lumber. Osterlohs Visit Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Osterlob and bos, Itonnie, Husscl and Douglas, traveled to High Valley above Union recently, where they visited Mr. and Mrs. Pyatt. Dcnece McCanse, La Grande spent the weekend with her moth er, Mrs. Bcrnice McCanse. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Toll anil daughter, April Dawn, La Grande were Sunday guests at the Henry McClure home. Joe Nice. J. A. Nice, Elvin Sim onis, and Albert Harrison, helped Ernest Simonis saw and stuck wood into the shed. The men were dinner guests at the Simonis home. era'ive Association Wednesday Miles listed inese as: First cho'ec. increase efficien cy' , Second choice, increase In come by getting o.'f-thc-farm job.' while farming in spare time. Thiid cho.ee, give up farming altogether a id get a full-time Jot in lo vn. Miles said Gross Income for fanners this year is tip4H billion dollars fiom 10, but rising costs have forced net income down nearly 3 billion dollars in the same period. WASHINGTON (UPIl The Agriculture Department rcixrtcd another example of greater sales for farm products brought about through promotion campaigns. A department marketing re search team repo-ted Wednesday on the results of an experimental promotion campaign for sour cream in Des Moines, Iowa. The report said the promotion drive in 1957 and 1J58 increased sales by 71 per cent. It said there was no decline in sales of other dairy products with high milkfat contents during the promotion campaign. at J" 0s ZtCm- T fir D PLOMAT FOUND After an intensive seventeen state search the remains of the late lovl Bang-Jensen, 50, were found in a Queens Borough, N.Y. park. Bang-Jen- fun,,Wr2 V,as flrer1 from h,s United ation? Pst for refusing to name key figures in the laoB Hungarian anti-Communist revolt, had been missing for several days State Corn Show Set At Woodburn Annual State Corn Show will be held today and Saturday at the Woodburn Armory, Wood burn. Tex Warren, Oregon State Col lege farm crops specialist and chairman of the 18h annual corn event, expects a "(jigger and bitter" show than ever before. Main features will be the yield contest, 10-car exhibits and judging contest of 10 c'asscs of corn. A corn husking contest will be held the final aftcrncon. EMBEZZLER Richard Gale, 35, former Austra lian commando and bus inessman, sits glumly atop his luggage in the San Francisco police sta tion after being arrested on charges of embezzling an estimated $2,000,000. Gale had operated a col lection agency in Syd ney, Australia, and skip ped with the funds be longing to large business firms. Most Of U.S. Fair United Pr.ii International Karly-Deccmber weather shone fair and warm over most of the nation today, apparently in re- iwntance for one of the nastiest Novembers on record. nin norma, nard-nit by an earlier cold wave, shivered under another icy blast which blustered through the state Thursday, drop ping temiMTatures to below 30 de grees in the north and near 35 in the south. Klsewhere, temperatures rose 10 to 20 degrees Thursday night from Texas in a fan embracing Colo- raao ana western Illinois. Montana, where last month's storms struck with (nil fury, re ported a 20-degree rise in the mer cury and Council Bluffs, Iowa, re corded a new Doc. 3 record of 64. West Coast Will Vacate Premises A letter irom v.. u.. Code, a vice president of West Coast Airlines, was road into the city ci mmission's minutes Wednes day. The letter advised the com mission that the airlines will va catc the premises at the airport in accordance with their lease. An casement agreement cover ing an existing electric power line was also read into the min utes of the mooting The letter was from I). J. Callahan, manag er of properties. Union Pacific Kailroad, Purthmd. Carl G. Helm Jr.. city attorney, said he had no objection to the base providing some limitation was placed on the easement. Th matter was referred to Helm by the commission and he will pre sent a revised agreement at nex; week's meeting. DON'T MISS THIS! You can save 40 percent with a new pre manufactured home FOR AS LITTLE AS $3395.00 RANCH HOMES STYLED FOR WESTERN LIVING, DESIGNED BY THE WEST'S LEADING ARCHITECTS Many plans to choose from, also custom built to your pian, Inquire for cabins, bunk houses and motels. Wru today j0 full information to CONSOLIDATED HOMES CORP. 8811 N. E. Sndy Blvd. Portland, Or. Researchers Claim 1959 Session Of Congress Was 'Spenderbund' By LYLE C. WILSON UPI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (L'PD Tax Foundation, Inc., of New York comes up now with a chilling reminder that the 959 session of Congress was a spenderbund and not the economy operation it was advertised to be. More responsible for this than any others a-e the taxpayers themselves. The taxpayers also are voters. This automatically gives - them powers of awesome finality over the careers of con gressional statesmen. These con gressional statesmen are the very ones who pass the leg;slation for which the taxpayers or their grandchildren must pick up the tab. Taxpayers should know that the foundation offers simple evidence that the story of economy in the 1st session of the 8tith Congress was mostly malarkey. This is true despite the unchallenged fact that President Eisenhower bucked Grading Of Lamb Cuts Has Ended WASHINGTON (UPI Note to housewives: Next month, when shopping for lamb at the supermarket, don't bother to look for that little pur pie stamp on the meat showing whether it s of prime, "choice or "good" quality. It won't be there. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Toft Benson issued an order Wednes day which will end federal lamb grading on Jan. 4. The action brought immediate sharp protests from one of the na tion's major farm groups the American Farm Bureau Federa tion and is expected to draw heavy fire from Congress as well as consumer groups. Charles B. Shuman, president of the Farm Bureau, called Ben son's action "hasty' and "against the best interests of farmers." The National Grange already is on record against the move. Under Benson's order, there will be no uniform national grades for lamb after Jan. 4. There will be only private grades and brands to guide the housewife. Many small meat packers claim this means they will be "squeezed out" by the big packers who Can afford to promote their own products in national advertising Benson said he took the action because the Agriculture Depart ment has been unable to come up with a set of new grading stand ards acceptable to the entire in dustry. Ho said be was hopeful imlus ry groups could settle their dif ferences during the year's sus pension and p oposc a plan which would meet approval to resume the grading service. the spenders wiU vetoes and threats of vetoes and with con siderable success. Cort Of Conplaint Core of the foundation's com plaint is this: "An importa t omission in most analyses of congressional budget ary (spending i action in the ses sion just ended is their failure to reveal the very signif cant impact some actions will h:ve on future federal spending- "For examrle. Bu Igot Director Maurice H. Stars and others have pointed out recently that 'there is enoug'i built-in momen tum in the cn.nmitments under present la- s a d programs tu raise tota! esueidilures in 1961 by $2 o- s:, billion dollars.' '' Sta-is ; estimated that con grcssion 1 actions in the past jesjion would increase federal spending after 190 by almost $11.5 billion. He estimated that about $10 billion of this predicted increase would derive over a 40 year period from the expanded veterans' pension program and by I'.i.VJ authorization of additional housing units. Eisenhower op posed both of these projects. Waiting In The Wings In the wings awaiting the next session of Congress are projects which would build in more spend ing over the years. These, too. will pass unless the taxpayers get tough. The wonder is that they Accept Petition To Vacate Alley A petition to vacate the alley in block two of Conner's Addi tion has been accepted by the city commissirn, and a resolution to initiate vacation proceedings has Ik en endorsed. The commission also named resolution 1755 directing the city manager to execute a renewal lease with Harvey Carter. The lease is for three years and cov ers approximately five acres ad jacent to the sewage disposal plant. The third and final readings of ordinances adopting the engine er s report on four water and three sewer Improvement districts was also noted by the commis ion, and all seven measures were passed. do not get lough Lecause Wash ington's spenderama over the years has speeded toward dis aster an inflationary cycle which could be fatal to the U.S. dollar. The familiar buck will buy today less than half of what it would buy 20 years ago. Twenty years more of the same and that buck in your pocket or in the bank will be worth a quarter, two-bits, and after that who knows? If such as that fails to put the taxpayer on his toes what would? That is a fair ques tion. For a fair answer, how about this: Shift Tax Day? Let us petition our congression al statesmen to shift the annual income tax domcsday from the spring to the late fall. Shift in come tax day, in fact, to the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November each year. Make income tax day coincide with election day. Set a bear trap for the Washington statesmen who are so free and easy with other people's money. Let the taxpayer, divide his thoughts at campaign time between a choice among the candidates and an guished contemplation of the in come tax bite put upon him every year. Just an -idea, you understand, to kill off the spenders. BURNS TO DEATH NF.W BKHN. N C. U'l'I' - Ten- week-old Kicky Harris, left by his mo; her in a locked bedroom, was burned to dea'h Monday when the Negro family's home and two others were destroyed by fire Six other children escaped the hlaze .unarmed. 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Steels edged lower as settlement of the steel dispute appeared as remote as ever in spite of new p oposals by President Eisenhow er and the Steelworkers I'nion, Both proposals were rejected with in hours after they were unveiled Thursday night. Youngstown Sheet and U.S. Steel lost fractions. Republic was up around a half and Bethlehem was unchanged. Mclntyre Porcupine jumped more than 3 following news of a proosed 3-for-l split. Minnesota Mining added 3. Emerson Radio picked up moie than 2 on sharply higher earnings. PORTLAND LIVESTOCK Livestock: Cattle for week 2660; choice steers 27-27.75 with 1350 lb. at 26 26.25 early: few mixed good-choice under 1125 lb. 26.25-26.50; few good above 110 lb. down to 23: canner - cutter cows 10-12; utility bulls 20.50-22. Calves for week 375; good- choice vealers 2H-32. few 32 50 Monday: cull-utility 11-20; stand ard zi-zv. Hogs for week 2650: sows most y 50c lower late; 1 and 2 butch ers 180 - 235 lb. 14-14.25 late mixed 1. 2 and 3 lots 13 14; sows 300-500 ID. 10-12. Sheep for week 2075; feeders strong to joc higher at 14-15.30 snorn lumos 16-16.50; ewes 3- 5.50. PORTLAND DAIRY PORTLAND it'PIi-Dairy mar ket: Eggs To retailers: Grade AA extra large, 48-51c; A A large, 45- 4nc: a large 43-c; AA medium 38 42c; AA Email 30-32c; carters 1 3c additional. Butter To retailors: AA and grade A prints, 71c lb.; cirton. lc nigner; b prints. 69c. Cheese (medium cured) To retailers: A grade Cheddar single daisies, 43-51c; processed Ameri can cheese, 5-lb. loaf, 423-43Mi. PORTLAND GRAIN Coast Delivery Basis White wheat 2.00. Soft white hard applicable 2.00. White club 2.00. Hard red winter, ordinary, 2.06 Hard white baart, ordinary 2.05 Oats no bid. Barley 45.50. Hepatitis Still Rising In State PORTLAND 'ITU The State Board of Health sa'd today that cases of infect o"s hepatitis are stil rising. Twenty one more cases were reported in the state last week. The 1939 hepatitis total already is the fourth worst in the history 'f Oregon, the Board said. Dr. Ilaro'd Erickson. state health of ficer, said this year's outbreak has claimej niie lives. The Ore gon record is 12 deaths, set last year. KILL VANDALISM BILL NEW YORK 'I'PIi The New York Board of Estimate Thurs day killed a C ty Council bill to make parents responsible for van dalism damage by their children up to $257 "There is a graxe question as to whether this law could be en forced," Mayor Robert F. Wagner said. "I feel it could be used as a bludgeon against parents by unruly children. Elgin Club Bazaar ELGIN ' (Special I The OES Social Club will hold its annual bazaar Saturday with a lunch fori merchants planned at noon. Disfteim to the sweet sound" of savings with General's "All In-One" Homeowners Insurance. Ask for the story. . REYNOLDS INSURANCE AGENCY QHC Ofl.Ct. 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