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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1994)
Th OREGON STATESMAN. 8olm, Oregon, Friday Morning. January 18' 194t tAQt THmnxpf i Ranch Ramblings By Rural Reporter Problems likely to confront Mar- j Ion county farmer within the nextl by committers of (ha farm plan ning conference preparatory to th county-wld meeting wet for February 1. The various commit tees, will make their report then. To date, ill nf the committees have met, discussed their prob lems and prepared recommenda tions. Included are the land use Favorites Cling To New Cains i In Stock Mart M-.w yokk, Jan. 17-(n-whue assorted favorite irumitgnl to ' pot new highs in today' Mock market, profit cashing iKminc more insistent and numerous eaily gains of fractions to 2 points or so were substantially reduced or converted Into minus signs at the close. Hopes for settlement of wage diputi In the kteel. automotive Cid other important industries provide! a bullish argument s flid the persistence of Infla tion psycholofry. The climb of nearly 5 points In thn - a fit ana s'nee Jan. 2, with a m.tmm of 15 year peak, however, , caused many customers to stand aside in preparation for a technical cor rection. . j Turnover aggregated 2,200,000 barn . oomnan-d with 2,100,000 Wednesday. It was the eighth con ecutive full M.-sicn of lH?tt-r than 2 million. Prices K'iieially gave ground in th final half hour, as rails ftoftt-n-d The Associated Pre. fid-totk at 79.5, first . recession since last Saturday. Of li01!0 shares r"Rister lnn, 470 were off. 374 up and 176 unchanged. Valley's ; Larrsl Timber Tract Sold COTTAGE GROVE, Jan. 1 7 -(.V) Sale of the Willamette valley's largest timber holding by J. H. Chambers & Son to W. H. DaiiRh erty was announced today The price was not rev-Mld but was known to be more than $1, 000,000. The deal included 275,. 000.000 board feet of Douglas fir timber, two mills and Vt miles. of railroad. The buyer, a Cottage . Grove . . . ... . M.,, j y i iti j I irr 1 1 r) I i sold his wholesale 'lumber firm nd mfll to four employe. j committee, with W. E. Tate, Sub limity, chairman; livestock, Eddie Ahrens, Turner, chairman; dairy, Albert Boschler, Mt. Angel; farm labor, Kay Glatt, Woodburn; tur key, Bill Chase, Aurora; poultry, John Dasch, Salem. The labor committee feels that year a round farm jobs are pretty well taken care of now, but that harvest labor will furnish a diffi cult problem for another couple of years. Harvest Lbr 8 ladled Inadvisability of any further ex tension of crops that need large amounts of harvest help Is being considered by both the farm labor committee and the land use com mittee. The labor committee ques tioned the ability of the county trj continue even the present acre age of such crrtps under present labor difficulties. The turkey committee Will rec ommend that the county stay in the turkey game. While some re duction will be necessary, the rec ommendatioii will not be lor so large a decrease as the increase mqde during the war. Oregon's prominence as a turkey state has advanced rapidly during the past five years. The future of the egg and poult business will be dis cussed. Egf-Importlng Stale Oregon's poultry picture Is somewhat different from the rest of the nation ait Oregon has chang en from an egg exporting to an importing sKate, poultry committee memlKTs will jKtint out. A recom mendation will be made, to main tain the poultry production at about the same level as in recent years, with reduction. If any, rath er small. Housing of seasonal help is one of the major problems of the farm labor group. Suggestions will be made on cooperative and com munity housing and on trailer and mobile camps. That Marion county is limited for agricultural expansion was ad mitted by the land use committee, whose members are suggesting that veterans who have had no experience in farming and who believe they might like agricul ture, should try to obtain a job on a farm to gain experience before investing capital. Grass Planting Urged This committee has also set ?onl of 40 ner cent of the hill land being convert!! to grass and h-Rume plantings. Testing work and owner-sam ulinif will be discussed by the dairy committee, while advisabil ity of Increases in sheep, hogs and beef production will be talked by the livestock committee. Other committees are meeting within the next ten days to out line their problems. KFW8 1 Mi WABDS lien's "T Shirk WhiU eottwv -36-12 Boys Jeans $fl )K Six 8-12 h UOnU Lien's Socks All wowl, alack ntye, rubber top 'OS) liens' Fell Hats ! WooL Pre-blocked. Asst. color. Sizes 6 to 7'i. Raincoal & Hood , lloyn, blk. Sizes 4 to 11 U Mo ntgomeryWard VWt or Catol. Dpor1m4 Give yowr bvdg.f a I ft . . . us ...fOfltsiwjr.iore,rtock r. Monthly Porsen Hon I nji IP nil "TAKE n m im ini ft MBlfflE o o Mi hut th AVERAGE e vi world's largest electrical plant has no workers mm . . r-t 4 " Aw-"- 4t 0 a A' - '5 I 3 UILF-FIIIISIIED washing machines I1ALF-FIUISHED toasters fTi v. "ii i I 1 in ii II T: ".5. J in ii mm tm iiMSm i ti r i IU1LF-FII1ISI1ED hoator' IMF-FIUISIIED roasters' The UEUMWA (CIO) has taken General Electric workers out on strike. Washing machines, refrigerators, heaters, a hundred things were on their way to you. But the strike stopped that. It was expected to hire twice as many workers as before the war. But the strike stopped that. Six new government plants were bought. Seven other new plants were being built. And land bought for three more. Increased production was planned in every existing works city. Ve are sorry they decided a strike was the answer. The strike will pinch the public with shortages. And take a million - doll are-a -day out of the pockets of General Electric workers. G.ES PAY OFFER Many of our workers, from what they tell us and write us, do not know that we offered the union an increase of 'Pictures taken between shifts be fore the strike represent the con dition of our factories today. EHEMA3L I0i an hour for all those making less than $1.00 an hour, and 1055 increase for those who make more. With the offered increase and the overtime that will be necessary to meet consumer demand this year, the average employee would have had more "take home" pay than during the war. f THE STRIKE IS PUZZLING Since 1935, average hourly earnings for men climbed over 51. Over half of this was in the last five years. There has been no real labor trouble at G. E. in 24 years. We believe in collective bargaining. G. E. was one of the first large industrial companies to enter voluntarily into a company -wide contract with a national union. A million -dollars -a -day pay loss will strike every G-E community. And the real tragedy is that employees can gain nothing that they could not have gained while still at work. 1 Those making $2,000 to $3,000 in salary would receive 10 increases, and those receiving between $3,000 and $5,000 annually would receii increases of $300. EILECTOEC
