Page 12 Eugene Register-Guard, Wednesday, March 21, 1915
Surpluses Bogey Forestalled
Increase In Production
(Ed. Note: This ! the second
of lour articles delving into that
imminent food shortage and ex
plaining the events leading up to
the looming crisis.)
By OVID A. MARTIN
Aiowinteri Press Farm Writer
WASHINGTON W) Last
summer and laU some ainea mili
tary leaders were saying that the
war in Europe could end by
Christmas.
Tha cmvpmment besan to cut
back production of war materials
and arrange lor a graouai tun
version to peacetime production.
War food administration (WFA)
officials haunted by the fear of
farm surpluses, agriculture's
troublemakers of the thirties fol
lowed suit.
They believed that if Germany
were defeated in 1944 much less
food would be needed to meet
military and lend-lease require
ments in 1945.
Meat production was declining
because of a severe feed shortage
the first eight months of 1944. But
bountiful harvests largely replen
ished feed supplies by the fall of
that year.
Fear Surplus
Fearing surpluses, the WFA
made no effort to bring about a
substantial revival In meat pro
ductionwhich a return of plen
tiful feed supplies would have
made possible. The agency kept
in force the reduced price guaran
tees for hogs which it established
earlier when feed became scarce
and livestock liquidation became
necessary.
Had food officials planned last
September with the idea that the
European war could continue well
into 1945, they undoubtedly would
have raised the hog price guaran
tee. This would have encouraged
higher production late in 1944 and
through 1945.
f As it Is, millions of bushels of
grain now stand unused because
there ore no animals to feed.
When It became apparent that
there was to be no early end to
the European fighting, It was too
late to do anything which would
have brought more pork to mar
ket before the winter of 1945-46.
More Beef
Only beef production is likely
to be greater this year than last.
But greatly reduced supplies of j
pork, lamb, mutton and poultry I
make beef all the harder to get. 1
- Cattlemen contend that beef i
production could be even larger i
than now indicated, but that price I
control and other regulations
hinder production. They say that
the spread between prices which
"feed lot" operators must pay for
tinfattened cattle obtained from
western ranges, and the prices
which they get from packeni for
fattened cattle, has been too nar
row. They say this discourages
the feeding of cattle to heavy
weights and quality grades.
Many cattle go to market thin
and underweight. This deprives
the nation of 300 to 600 pounds
of extra beef per head.
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Official concern over possible
surpluses is reflected in poultry
and egg production, too. Last fall,
when end of the European conflict
appeared to some .to be near at
hand, WFA called upon farmers
to reduce egg-laying flocks and
in ttlun fniun. ,hlrlrfin fni mat
in 1945. 1
WFA was Influenced also by
unhappy experiences it had with
an egg surplus in the spring of
1D44. More eggs were produced
then than the market could ab
sorb or storage houses hold. Pro
ducer prices dropped sharply.
This forced the government to
step in and buy eggs in order to
carry out a price guarantee and
prevent great waste. Even so,
some of the eggs rotted.
Civilians could get all the meat
they wanted then and consequent
ly tended to eat fewer eggs. Now
the situation has reversed. There
U a shortage of meats and
civilians are demanding more
eggs as a substitute for meats.
Smaller Output
Yet this year's output of both
eggs and poultry meat will be
smaller than in 1944. WFA efforts
to revive production came a little
late.
Some WFA officials expect a
severe egg shortage next fall and
winter. This expectation is based
upon reports of widespread sales
of laying hens for meat and upon
prospects that fewer eggs will
move into cold storage this spring. !
The same policies and feed
grain developments which caused
the pork glut In 1944 have con
tributed to a tightening of cooking
fats and shortening.
The butter shortage appears
perplexing when milk production
is being maintained at record
levels. The exnlanation is simnle.
Government price policies tend to !
encourage putting milk into dairy
products other than butter
chiefly bottled milk, evaporated
milk, dried milk and cheese.
Labor Short
Food production is being ad
versely affected by many other
factors. The farm labor supply is
the smallest in nearly 40 years.
Farmers have not been able to
get anywhere near the farm ma
chinery needed. Fertilizers have
not been plentiful. Shortage of
rail and truck transportation has
often interfered with movement
of feed to livestock producers.
A recent agriculture depart
ment report said that only 65 per
cent of the nation's milk cows
were being milked on March 1.
This is the lowest percentage for
that date since 1934 and the sec
ond lowest in 17 years.
New Skyhook
Logs Timber
From Air
PORTLAND "Is there a
real skyhook?" Yes, there is, and
the answer to that long-awaited
and much-advertised question is
being demonstrated daily by the
Pointer - Willamette company,
which developed and tested the
new high-line logging device near
Portland.
The overhead logging machine,
suspended from cables several
hundred feet above the low point
of a canyon on the north fork of
the Molalla river, is operated by
a veteran logger who conceived
the idea.
Phil Grabinskl rides in the cab
of the skyhook, with control levers
which make the affair seem like a
sky-riding donkey engine. Six
years of development work by the
designers and Pointer-Willamette
engineers have gone into the new
departure.
Lifts Loads Of 30 Tons
Hanging from a four-wheel car
riage which runs over tramway
cables two inches in diameter, the
skyhook lifts logs 64 feet long, and
loads weighing 30 tons. Efforts are
now being made to cut the ma
chine's weight to six tons and to
speed its rate of climb.
Advantages claimed for the sky
hook include: the elimination of
expensive logging roads, costing
from $6,000 to $10,000 per mile,
also saving trucks, trailers and
truck tires; the saving of man
power, rigging and heavy equip
ment; safety factors, such as the
absence of moving lines to strike
sparks and start forest fires.
Tramway cables for the skyhook
are suspended from tall trees fitted
with guy wires to keep them from
swaying. The moving machine can
be propelled in either direction by
an additional set of cables. The
skyhook literally pulls itself along
by its "own bootstraps," the 10
ton demonstration model having
sufficient power to pull itself and
a cargo of logs up a 50 per cent
grade.
Easy Mobility
This extraordinary traction Is
achieved through a system of
power-driven sheaves which grip
the traction cables and revolve,
Tricycles Stolen From
Small Boys During Nap
The Charles Martins, who live
at 1157 High street, have had
more than their share of brushes
with "meanest" thieves.
Last Christmastime, someone
stole the lights and other decor
ations from their yard. But that
was mild compared to what some
other "human being" did Monday
afternoon.
While the Martins' two boys,
Larry 5, and Lyman, 3, were tak
ing their afternoon nap, some
one stole their two tricycles,
which were parked in front of the
house waiting for their small rid
ers. The trikes are fairly new and
sturdy, although, because they
have been ridden so much, they
show some signs of wear.
The two little boys have spent
a couple of pretty empty days,
without their playthings they
practically lived on the tricycles.
When they first came to Eugene a
while back, they were almost
lost until the tricycles arrived
from their former home in Madi
son, Wis. When the wheels came,
they immediately found new little
playmates in the block and had a
big time. v
But now they're trying hard not
to be lonely again, and their mom
and dad are hoping some one will
find their triafvcles and bring
them home. The Martins' phone
number is 1344J.
Wonders Of Aluminum Hold
Investigating Solons' Eyes
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN I guess maybe your hand wouldn't
United Press Staff Correspondent get so tired shaking 'em. The same
WASHINGTON UPJ Here we general situation probably obtains
go again, friends. The subject is in connection with aluminum col-
Aluminum, Wonders Of. sucn as lar ouiions.
Sen. James E. Murray of Montana
swinslne an aluminum baseball
bat and Sen. Allen J. Ellcnder of
Louisiana ducking same.
Nobody aot hit. The senators
merely were investigating I
Why weight down your neck
with one of those old, heavy, brass
collar buttons when you can have
a fine, lightweight collar button
from the aluminum corporation?
When Wilson got his samples
products produced and hauled to I spread out, the chamber looked
the senate caucus room by the like a country fair. His assistants
Aluminum Company of America.
These included a fireman's hat, a
stepladder, a fishing reel, a shovel,
a beer barrel, a mint julep glass,
used an assortment of aluminum
castings for footstools, while Sen.
George A. (no relation) Wilson of
Iowa examined a string of alum-
a window sciten, two knitting , inum beads. The senators made
ii 1 1 i , 1 tin thn snecial committee survev-
wlth the result that the vehicle
moves with surprising speed.
A crew of four men, operating
the skyhook in demonstrations,
claim to have taken logs down a
hillside faster than ever before.
A quarter-million feet of logs is
said to have been moved down a
steep hillside in 20 hours of actual
working time.
Inaccessible timber can be
logged with the skyhook, and logs
carried above the ground are not
splintered or broken, and do not
beat down, standing trees. The
machine can be moved on the
ground to new locations under its
own power by mounting tires on
the same sheaves used to propel
the vehicle.
R. W. Pointer, owner-manager
of the Pointer-Willamette com
pany, believes the skyhook may
eventually be used in bridge con
struction, mining, gravel pit oper
ations, ship unloading and in
placing and pouring concrete in
dams.
needles, a collar button and
pair of dice.
I. W. Wilson of Pittsburgh,
vice-president in charge of oper
ations for the aluminum company,
also brought along his aluminum
chair, but he didn't sit in it. He
used one of the senate's old
fashioned wooden chairs and de
scribed at length (20 pages of
typescript, to be exact) the future
of aluminum in tomorrow's brave
new world.
Aluminum Dice
While he talked, he fondled
those dice, and I got to wonder-
up the special committee survey.
ing small business after the war.
Aluminum-Man Wilson told 'em
there were at least 2,000 articles
that could be made better of
aluminum than anything else.
His tinkering with his own
aluminum dice somehow seemed
symbolic; neither he nor the sen
ators had any idea what the gov
ernment would do with its de luxe
new aluminum factories, includ
ing one which is 12 minutes by
taxlcab from Grand Central sta
tion in New York.
Sen. Murray observed that cop-
dldnt like the Idea of Wilson's
concern stringing aluminum elec
tric wires across the Montana
landscape. (That actually hap-
"Wo mprolv luflnlaJ .
.. - j ..u..lvU i'lui i itinH
to have the best transmission lines
that could be huilt." WiUnn -
tered. He got no more back talk
irom ine senator.
The experts discussed the his
tory of aluminum. Wilson held up
the first chunk of aluminum ever
produced in America. Then he put
it back tenderly in a red velvet
lined jewel chest. You get one
guess as to what metal the chest
was made of. .
The meeting then broke up and
Sen. Murray tried out the base
ball bat. Wilson also wanted him
to take the shovel. The gentleman
from Montana backed of f. He said
he was afraid people would think
he had joined the WPA.
aim
ing what advantages aluminum ' per was king in his home state
ivories have over ivory ivories. I and that he and his neighbors
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