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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 15, 1954)
Last of Her Kind Die Adviser Foresees Jump In Production Historical Society Appoints Superintendent Statesman, Salem, Ore. Thurs July IS, 1954-j(Soc D-IS PT&T to Offer Stock for Sale PORTLAND OH The resignation by the society. University Wisconsin. and the University of of Lancaster Pollard as supein- Pollard had headed the society sinije coming here from Seattle In 1943. Vaughn also is a former Seattle man. He attended the University of Washington, Yale SAN FRANCISCO Ufl - The Pa cific Telephone and Telegraph Co. announced Wednesday it will offer common stock - in the amount of about 100 million dollars for sub scription in September. Proceeds will be used to finance permanent ly a portion of 155 mSlion dollars in short term notes.: endent of the Oregon Historical Society .and : appointment of Thomas . Vaughn.- of . Janesville. About half the homes in the United States are more than 30 years -old. . - r Wis., was announced Wednesday 1 " . . ." rcrn r m"':- ( '' " ' ! j! , - r ? . j t. ' --gali.i.li;iinl mi in ii i i in j . . A,.. -1 SAN FRANCISCO The Pacific Queen, last full rigged ship to fly ' the American flag, is steadied in a. San Francisco dry dock as ma rine engineers prepare to survey and test her hoIL If she passes tests. 68-year-old vessel will be purchased by the Sao Francisco Maritime Museum. Shipyard firms and labor unions have offered to rent her free for use as floating exhibit of days of sail. Built in Scotland,, ship sailed in grain and Alaskan fish trade before re tirement, later served as set for movie 'Mutiny on the Bounty.' (AP Wirephoto) Senators Insert Wool Subsidy in Farm Bill WASHINGTON UP) -. The Senate Agriculture Committee put the fin ishing touches on its controversial farm bill Wednesday, inserting a wool subsidy plan the Senate had passed April 27 as separate, legis lation. i - Chairman Aiken (R-Vt) said de bate on the bill should begin in -the Senate Monday or Tuesday. - The wool, section provides, for government payments to encour age domestic production. Growers would sell their clip for whatever it would bring in the open market, then the government would make direct incentive payments to bring their return up to the desired leveL Aiken' estimated annual pay ments would range from 35 to 40 million dollars' a year. The money would come from import duties col lected on foreign wool. The House refused to deal with wool separately, and wrote it into its general farm bill, which was Action Reversed In another last minute move, the Senate committee reversed itself and removed peaches, pears and ArLS imports 1 1 on WasHingt Office Seekers SPOKANE UH Only two office seekers-both Democratic congres sional candidates-were endorsed by the Washington State Feder ation of Labor convention Wednes day. The thousand AFL delegates threw their support behind Don Magnuson in his race, for reelec tion as congressman-at large and Hugh Mitchell., who has, declared his candidacy for First District congressman.- ' Bellingham was 'selected as the 1955 convention city. Magnuson won the congressman-at-large race in 1952 after an ex tremely close contest with Albert Canweu. Spokane. Canwell is: a - candidate again this year. Mitchell, who served out Mon Wallgren's unexpired term as gov ernor, was the Democratic candi date for governor in 1932, He serv ed one term as First District con gressman. -. ' Restorations Due - " . E. M. Weston, " federation pres ident, said resolutions will be con sidered Thursday the fourth and last day of the convention. Mitchell, who spoke before the meet, said that: the Republican administration took over just a "year -and a half ago and "it is . almost unbelieveable that so much that is bad could be accomplished in so short a time. The administration "is torn by , disunity and the courage and con viction of our people are weakened and we face the future with tin certainty and confusion, he said. -"These dangerous trends must be checked," Mitchell said. "These weakening policies must be re versed. This nation cannot afford another two years of rolling re action. , v" "CoastaaUy Right Earlier in the day, Harry W. Call, past federation president, termed the voting of Sen Jackson D-Wash.) as-"constantly right,' and mat of Sen, Welker (R-Idabo) ' "consistantlv wron.' ; Call praised the voting records of rSen. Magnuson (D-Wasfa.) and Sen. . Morse lnd.-Ore.) . and ' crit kized the voting record of Sen. ' Dworshak jR-Idaho) and Sen Cor- oon tK-ure.J. Another speaker, Lt. Gov. Em mett Anderson, suggested length' ening workmen's vacation period as a means of luring more tourist dollars to Washington. " Anderson said the tourist bus iness brought the state 150 million dollars last year and more would roll ia' if labor and management could work out a vacation season running from April to October. potatoes for canning from federal marketing controls. ' The late changes apparent! were maae in an attempt to pick up votes I or tne approaching . battle over flexible vs. rigid price sup ports lor major crops, a major is sue in tne legislation. . Aikeri said the " chances also "probably will save us hours ; of debate later on the floor." In a floor speech Wednesday, Sen. Ferguson (R-Mich) urged the Senate to scrap the present rigid system M supporting major crops at 90 per cent of panty. . "System Fails" ; The system,' he said, "has failed despite the fact that the- govern ment now has about iVt billion dollars tied up" in surplus farm products. . , - , Ferguson, chairman of the Sen ate Republican Policy Committee, is supporting President Eisenhow ers request for a more flexible system of price props ranging from 73 to 9ft per cent of parity. Parity is a standard for fixing farm prices said by law to be fair to the farmer in relation to the cost of basic things he buys.- y , Ferguson s support of flexible price supports touched off a round of Senate debate. MUk Prices Rise Sens. Humphrey (D-Minn) and Thye (R-Minn) said - that milk prices to consumers had gone up largely because dairy interests feared the administration's drive to lower prices Aiken told Thye retail milk prices usually rose each year in July and August following the flush produc tion period of April, May and June. Sen. Young (R-ND) an advocate of 90 per cent supports, interrupted Ferguson to say tne present nign level props are not wholly respon sible for the big farm surpluses. He said that only -two years ago the nation's farmers were asked to increase their production tremend ously because of the Korean War and possibility of a world conflict This led to many of the present surpluses, he contended. Young said that in the last two - tit years wneat tarmers nao oeen asked, to take two production cuts totaling two thirds of their 1952 levels. - "And now you want to put in the flexible ' support system and the modernized parity formula which will cut their income even more," Young told Ferguson. ' "All this means a cut in income of almost 50 per cent That would break any business in America." BOLTON LANDING, N. Y. U President Eisenhower's economic adviser said Wednesday the ad ministration's legislative program putting punch into an economy that should surge upward in five years to production of 450 billion dollars in goods and services. Gabriel Hauge rubbed the eco nomic crystal ball for the nation's governors, in the windup stages of their annual conference, and brought out what he said was confident, optimistic picture for the uture. Neveruieiess, some-. governors spoke, up about what one of them called "pockets of retardation. But as Hauge saw it, America is past the retreat or recession that set in a year ago, reorganizing, catching its breath for a new ad vance. - "The gross national product.' he said, "should in five years get to 440 to 450 billion dollars.", . It now is around a level of 365 billions a year. Gov, Xennon Elected The 46th Governors' Conference ended with a closed door session that elected - Gov. Robert F. . Ken- non of Louisiana chairman for the year ahead and set the stage for a possible conference in Washington on President Eisenhower s vast highway construction program. This plan calls for a federal- state alliance to construct an addi tional 50 billion dollars worth of roads in the next 10 years in addi tion to some 40 billions of construe' tion that normally might be sched uled in that period. Source of Concern It has been a source of concern and confusion at this conference. And -the way the state executives disposed of it was to adopt a dou ble-barreled resolution. Jt calls pn. the Council of State Governments and State Road Ex perts to make a study and report on nighway problems. - It calls on the governors Execu tive Committee to be prepared to call together all the governors to meet with appropriate federal of ficials to cuscuss this subject such action is .found to be neces sary and desirable." 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