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Lowering crop yields mulled in Special The Bulletin PRINEVIIXE The serious (arm problem of diminishing yields from crops, particularly those planted in pumice-type soil in Central Oregon, was being dis cussed by farmers this week s they noted a legislative move to give further assistance towards solving the problem. Some ten years or more ago, ac cording to Gus Woods, county agent, the lowering of crop yields began to be noted seriously In the Powell Butte area. The problem has moved into the Prineville area In more recent years, he stated. For some time, a research cen ter on this and other farm prob lems has been maintained in Red mond. Extensive work has been done there . through the study of test plots set up on private farms, and considerable research has also been done at Oregon State Col leee. ' The oendine legislation, which is ! now being studied by legislators from this area, would establish an experiment station in Central Ore gon where crops could be planted under controlled conditions to stu dy the problem. Th far. Woods said, many theories have been proposed but no definite answer has been found and no workable solution has been reached that could be given to farmers. Meanwhile, he said, the crop yield continues to diminish In spite of all preventive efforts which have been tried thus far. Keenly interested in the project b the tri-county advisory group which serves as an intermediary between farmers and their prob lems and the research department of OSC. Men In this group from Crook county are Bill McCormack, Dr. W. H. Steelhammer, Claude Williams and Luke Reif who rep resents the county court Two from area gain 'accolade' Special te The Bulletin OREGON STATE COLLEGE Two students from Deschutes county are among 40 Oregon State College juniors selected to be; rec ognized at an "honor accolade" this year. . They are Judy Ann Ullmann, Box 623, Sisters, education; and Margaret Ann Williamson, 27 Glen Road, Bend, education. Each of the students will receive a special certificate In recognition of scholastic achievement from Phi Kappa Phi, scholastic honor society. To qualify for the honor, stu dents had to have at least a B plus average. SO-fedi Model KD - $ 249 LOW, EASY TERMS 1 Oregon 165 E. Greenwood mmm MM . ' ;-i P zs , z: ..... PEDAL PUSHERS AND PIN CURLS The Bend high pep club drill team steps through Iti rou tine during one of its recent Saturday morning practices. The group will appear during half time of the Bend-Redmond basketball game Friday evening and will be under the direction of drill master Anita Hammer. Judge outlines plans to meet county expenses Special to The Bulletin PRINEVILLE The Crook coun ty budget committee "'ill meet again, for the third time, on March 1 to set the final details of the county budget for the coming fis cal year, according to County Judge Ervin Grimes. Grimes states that Crook coun ty's general expenses for the next several months, will be met from money borrowed from the road fund. This separate fund stood at $96,243.01 on January 18. When the year began, and Grimes took office as county judge, $20,000 had been borrowed Irom the road fund to afford some money for regular operating ex penses of thu county. The general fund itself contained $325.72. Routine expenses of county of fices, not including schools, the road departments and other spec ial departments, averages $13,000 a month, Grimes stated, and said Tuesday that it will presumably be possible to operate the county until May or June with continued borrowing from the road fund. vGo take the afternoon off. Dinner at once I Sealed Radlanfub broiler sears like charcoal I Ana! for easy cleaning; Quick Clean Oven strips to the bare walls In seconds. Units lilt up. Porcelain Enamel Drip Bowls and Chrome Rings go to the sink. Drawer pulls out for under-rang cleaning I Advanced Appliances.., designed with You In tnhdl SS - ol 95 Equipment Co. "We Service What We Sell" Cables severed by bulldozer CASCADE LOCKS (UPI) - A Pacific Northwest Telephone long distance cable for 300 long distance channels was severed Wednesday by a bulldozer work ing to clear away potential slides along a Union Pacific Railroad right-of-way. It look about eight hours to re pair the .damage. The long dis tance lines served The Dalles, Pendleton, Boise and Salt Lake City. However, operators were able to reroute calls around the break in most cases. without paralyzing work of road crews, or county offices. At that time, he stated, money will be borrowed from the First National Bank in Prineville to operate for the remainder of the time until 1961-62 taxes begin to come into the treasury. The bud get for the coming year, he add ed, will of necessity Include enough money to repay the road fund and the bank, in addition to other regular considerations. In all phases of county work. Grimes said, departments are be ing studied with the help of de partment heads, to find the most economical means , of operating, without actually crippling the county In its normal function. ahead, mom - Just set the automatic Cook-Master on your new FRIGIDAIRE ELECTRIC RANGE And automatic oven fookl.ig ' for "absents cooks" Is lust on of the talents Frigidaire built : Into this beauty I Speed-Heat Unit for et-fast cooking starts I Super-six oven haket 6 p'ei Phone EV 2-1432 I ' kL- . I CROP donations oyer $1 million mark in 10 By United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) Offi cials of the Christian Rural Over seas Program (CROP) report that donations to that overseas relief program went over the $1 mil lion mark in 19G0. The program is a church-spon sored drive to distribute foods to needy people abroad. Gifts to the program In com modities and cash came to $1.47 million last year, an increase of more than seven per cent from 1959, and the highest figure since 1932. The Rev. Albert W. Farmer, na tional director of CROP says the largest percentage increase last year was in Iowa. The state re ported gifts ot $129,000, up 74 per cent from 1959. States contributing over $100,000 last year also included Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. Kan sas led in total gifts with $168,591. The president of the American Farm Bureau Federation has at tacked Agriculture Secre t a r y Freeman's increase in 1961 cot ton support prices. On Tuesday, Freeman set 1961 cotton supports at 33.04 cents a pound for middling-inch cotton. This was an Increase of only a little more thab half-a-cent per pound over 1960 supports, but it will push market prices up two to throe cents a pound. The market price effect comes because U.S. Department of Agriculture will drop a program under which H re sold 1960-crop cotton at less than the support price. Charles Shuman, president of the Farm Bureau, says that will reverse recent favorable trends in cotton sales. Shuman adds that the effect of the move will also be to give foreign textile mills a greater advantage over American mills in the American market, be cause foreign mills buy American raw cotton at the low world price level. The Farm Bureau president says this greater advantage for foreign mills is an open invita tion to arbitrary limits on textile imports and Shuman says a trend toward protectionism could boom erang against American farmers. The Agriculture Department says France will probably be a good market for the American soybean producer this year. USDA says France may import a total of about five-and-a-half million bushels of soybeans, and the department says the United States will probably supply prac tically all of the imports. French soybeans imports in I960 were more than seven mil lion buyhels, more than double the previous record of 3.2 million bushels. The 1960 jump was caused partly by short 1959 crops i of peanuts in West Africa and j nrnAootul In ITpsnna ,t,, K. ' increased demand for soybean meal in French poultry feeds. The Mexican government took Die step because of a labor dis pute on farms at El Centre, Calif. Mexican workers were withdrav n from the farms because of the dispute. The Mexican government is now reported to fear that if it allows Mexicans to come to the United States for farm work they would not find jobs. GET ROCKET FREQUENCY MANCHESTER. England (UPI) ' The Soviet Union has given I British scientists at the Jodrell I Bank Observatory near here the j frequency to tune in on its Venus ! rocket But ohservatory director j Sir Bernard Lovell said the Rus- j Sians did not say what time the signals could be expected. Bend Eagles to celebrate anniversary Eagles of Bend this weekend will celebrate the 35th anniversary of the founding of the local aerie, with a special program planned, according to information from Clyde BUladeau, president. Loyal B. Rhodes will be in charge of the program which will get underway Friday evening with a ne-host dinner, by reservation only, followed by a business meet ing. A group of past presidents head ed by Gordon Monical will initiate a class of candidates. O. P. Bigoni, representing the Grand Aerie as an officer, will be the speaker of the evening. He and his wife, Ruby, will come here from Portland. Members who will receive 35 year lapel pins will include H. H. DeArmond, Fred Fisher, Harry Fissell, Harold Kline, Lum Marr, Alma Raper, Laurence Snelson and E. R. Westlake. Fissell, Kline and Fisher are charter members. There will be entertainment for the women in the Tropicaerie Room during the business meet ing. A free spaghetti dinner for all, with live music for dancing, will follow. The program will continue through Saturday with a dance and egg and hotcske breakfast. ' The Bend Eagles aerie is the second largest in Oregon, with over 1,200 members. The Eagles own their own home, at 121 Green wood. Farmers urged to check for water hemlock Farmers should check their ditch banks for water hemlock, the agriculture committee warned Eastern Star Grange members at a meeting recently. Several cattle have died in the tri-county area recently from eating the deadly plant, it was reported. A quiz on Grange procedure was a feature of the lecturer's hour. Roll call was answered with pro gram suggestions. A pantomime, "Let Me Call You Sweetheart," and a balloon - breaking game completed the program. Terrebonne Grange will host all Granges at their visitation pro gram Tuesday evening, February 28. Because of the conflict, East ern Star Grange will not hold a meeting that night COAL OUTPUT DROPS GENEVA (UPI) European coal output declined by seven mil lion tons last year compared with 1959, the United Nations Econom ic Commission for Europe report ed Tuesday. British and French production registered the largest drops. BRANDOS THRIFTWISE DRUG GLEEM, CREST, COLGATE TOOTHPASTE Reg 69c MUM DEODORANT Reg BALM ARGENTA HAND LOTION Reg 50c RUBBING ALCOHOL Pint - Reg. 49c EMPIRIM C0MP. TABLETS Reg. 1.35 Reg. 1.00 STATIONERY 1 Boxed Reg. 59c j L Listerine I Antiseptic I j $00 I Jazz guitarist found guilty k BALTIMORE, Md. (UPI) - A federal grand jury today found jazi guitarist Melvin D. Rees Jr. guilty of the kidnap-slayings of a Virginia housewife and her daugh ter, members of a massacred family of four. The handsome, 32-year-old en tertainer faces a maximum sen tence of life imprisonment under the federal Lindbergh Kidnaping Law. The all-male jury did not specifically recommend the death sentence, thus sparing Rees exe cution in the gas chamber. The jury deliberated five hours and 33 minutes on whether Rees was guilty of two of the four grisly murders in one of the na tion's major mysteries of 1959. It reached a verdict half an hour after resuming deliberations fol lowing an overnight recess. , Technically, he was charged with the 1959 kidnap-slayinj of Mrs. Mildred Jackson, 27-year-old Apple Grove, Va., housewife, and her 5-year-old daughter Susan Ann. But the prosecution based its case on the belief that the hand some, dark-haired one-time Mary land University student also had killed the father of the family. Carroll Jackson, and 18-month- old daughter Janet. The strangled and beaten bodies of Mrs. Jackson and the elder daughter were found in a remote farm area . near Gambrills, Md. The bodies of Jackson and Janet were found on a sawdust heap near Fredericksburg, Va. Rees has been charged with murder of the father and infant in Virginia, but the federal gov ernment was the first to prose cute. The government charged that after slaying Jackson and Janet, Rees abducted the mother and Susan Ann from Virginia to Mary land for purposes of "sexual gratification." Miss LeBlanc on committee Special to The Bulletin UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene Suzi LeBlanc of Bend has been selected for a committee for the annual Canoe Fete at the University of Oregon. - Miss LeBlanc will work on the promotions committee which is re sponsible for publicity. "Command Performance" is the theme of the Canoe Fete, which will be held May 12. This year's performance will mark the fete's 50th anniversary at the University. Miss LeBlanc, a sophomore ma joring in journalism, is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray LeBlanc, P.O. Box 341 in Bend. 0UR "BUCKS" WORK HARDER, BUY JBORtt 63c 3f.r$r Reg. 69c f I BAYER I H TABLETS ft $100 I for$P I m .1 AdriKSH f 2 J v for 1 10 CC Silk 'N Glow Black or Bronze VETERINARY ,, PENICILLIN CREME R,NSE B0BBY PINS 300,000 U Per CC Reg. 79e Reg. 25c 4fa$rj 2faT 1 6'"T BRANDiS THRIFT-WISF. DRUG ONE SUCH PURCHASE PER CUSTOMER Free Delivery, Too The Bend Bulletin, Thursday, Feb. 23, 1961 Markets PORTLAND LIVESTOCK Cattle 75; good fed steers 22.75- 23.75; utility cows 15-16; canner- cutter 11-12.50. Calves 25; good-choice vealers 28-31; standard 22-27. Hogs 100; 1 and 2 butchers 20-20.50; mixed sows 360-550 lb 14-16.50. Sheep 25; no test early. DAIRY MARKET PORTLAND (UPI) Dairy market: Eggs To retailers: AA extra large 47-50c; AA large 45-47C; A large 43-44c; AA medium 40-42c; AA small 33 - 36c; cartons l-3c higher. Butter To retailers: AA and A prints 70c lb; cartons lc higher; B prints 68c. POTATO MARKET PORTLAND (UPI) . - Potato market: Oregon russets 1A 100 lb 4-4.25; 2s 50 lb 1.35-1.50; Central Oregon russets No Is 100 lb 4.50 4.75; bakers 4.75-5; Idaho russets bales No Is mesh 5-10 lb 2.50-2.60. Temperafures Temperatures during the 24 hours ending early today. High Low Precip. 40 23 T . 51 41 .26 43 27 Bend Astoria, , Baker K. Falls Medford N. Bend Pendleton Portland Salem ' The Dalles Chicago 39 14 50 31 50 37 48 33 49 42 52 35 48 34 52 40 .04 .14 .09 .21 .10 FORGIVING BRITISH ATLANTA (UPD-Visitors to the British Consulate here Wednes day found the door locked and this typewritten notice pasted on the glass: "This consulate will be closed on February 22 in observ ance of George Washington's Diruiday. 281 HAND PICKED BULLS FREE DELIVERY: On 20 bulls or more with special delivery arrangements en less. ; . Every Animal 100 Guaranteed Through Sept. 1st, 1941 Featuring "Consensus of Opinion" Judging . Many Half-Brothers Sell Most Bulls Will Be Sold in Groups of 2 and 4 Bulls Each For Catalogues A Information Write: MOODY'S ANGUS SALES SERVICE Route No. 3, Box 350 Longmont, Colorado 2 fcr I00 2'o'T B S 3f.r$1 PRELL SHAMPOO FLORESS SHAMPOO jj Curtains J p.jfTl jip Values to $4 jl W j U.S. owns oer half of Oregon, inventory shows WASHINGTON (UPD The fed eral government owns 51.1 per cent or 31.5 million acres of Oie gon, according to an inventory of federal property by the General Services Administration released Wednesday. The report showed the govern ment owned more than half of the property in five states. The other four were Alaska, Nevada, Utah and Idaho. Total federal land holdings amounted to 771.5 million acres or 33.9 per cent Federal real property, including land, buildings and other structures, was valued at $46.3 million. REPORTS FAILURES VIENNA (UPI) Hungarian Finance Minister Rezsoe Nyers announced Wednesday that the nation failed to reach its farm production quotas last year. He also announced a deficit in foreign trade in calling for a 12 per cent budget increase for the current year, U.S. IS SEVENTH LONDON (UPI) The United States ranked seventh in construc tion of shipping in 1960, Lloyd's Register of Shipping reported to day.' Japan, Britain, and West Germany were in the top posi tions, with 1,731,656, 1,331,491, and 1,092,139 tons respectively. The United States launched 484,978 tons. PICTURE FRAMING Ready Made or Made To Order Metal & Wood H0UK-VAN ALLEN 91e Wall Ph. EV 21072 3rd Annual All American Angus BULL SHOW AND SALE SHOW FEB. 27th SALE FEB. 28th 1961 Denver National Western Grounds Denver, Colorado Res. 1.45 $100 Reg. 1.50 $100 I Plastic J i Shower