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Dramatic Paratrooper Charles J. Dye (left) gives a warm
handclasp of thanks to Sgt. Marvin. O. Smith (right), who
with a desperate snatch pulled Dye to safety when the latter's
parachute collapsed during a training jump at Eglin Air Force
Base, Fla. Top photos graphically show the dramatic mid
air rescue. His 'chute partially collapsed (upper left), Dye
falls past Smith (arrow). A split-second later the rescue is
climaxed as both men dangle from Smith's 'chute (upper
right). Smith has been recommended for the Soldier's Medal
for his alert action In saving his jumpmate. Official Air
Force photos. (Acme Telephoto.)
NO CURE SEEN FOR SURPLUSES
High Spud Prices May Bring
Another Big Crop in 1950
By OVID A. MARTIN
(AMOttHted Prwia Firm ReporUTl
Washington. Oct. 29 (UR) Government form officials foresee no
cure short of a drought for costly potato surpluses.
That is, they can see no solution under present farm laws.
About the only remedy, they say, is government authority to limit
production through rigid marketing quotas.
Secretary of Agriculture Bran--
nan recommended control legfs
latlon but congress did not take
to his proposal.
Uncle Sam spent about $225,
000,000 in carrying out a grow
er price support program on the
1948 potato crop. By reducing
the price support guarantee from
90 to 60 per cent of parity, and
by requiring growers to abide
by smaller planting allotment
hi order to be eligible for price
id, the agriculture department
got a smaller crop this year.
The 1949 production still Is
greater than consumers will
buy. As a consequence, the de
partment expects to spend up
wards of $00,000,000 to sup
port the 1949 crop.
But because this year's crop
was smaller than last year's,
grower prices have tended to
hold near last year's levels, con
siderably above the price guar
antees. The fact that this year's prices
have been more favorable than
many growers had expected un
doubtedly will lead many of
them, officials say, to plant more
next year than this. There Is
nothing the government can do
about It except to deny price
upport aid to those who plant
more than Uncle Sam says they
should.
Officials say it Is quite possi
ble that 1950 production may
climb back to the 194B level of
440,000,000 bushels or about
100.000,000 bushels more than
consumers and olher users will
buy. (This year's crop is esti
mated at about 375.000,000.)
On the basis of present and
prospective price relationship,
the government probably would
have to pay around 84 cents a
bushel for the surplus.
Tt would have no course ex
cept to divert the extra supplies
Into flour, starch, alrnhol and
livestock feed. It could expect,
officials say, to get not more
than an average of 11 cents a
bushel for them.
Officials say that If their as
sumptions turn out to be correct
Uncle Sam would have to dig
up more than $70,000,000 to fi
nance another potato surplus in
1950.
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Miners Pensions
'Dissipated'
Washington, Oct. 29 M")
Ezra Van Horn, employer trus
tee for the coal miners pension
fund, told a federal court today
that John L. Lewis and Sena
tors Bridges (R., N.H.), his fel
low trustees, illegally "dissipat
ed" the welfare money.
Lewis, head of the United
Mine workers, represents the
miners on the board. Bridges
is the "neutral" trustee of the
funds built up by a royalty on
coal.
Van Horn's accusation was
made in his answer to a suit for
accounting of the fund filed by
a miner.
He said that his fellow board
members refused to give him
Information on how the multi
million dollar fund was being
disbursed.
The acts of dissipation, he told
the court, are the acts solely of
Lewis and Bridges.
Van Horn Joined the original
plaintiff, ex-miner George Liv
engood of Pennsylvania. In ask
ing the U.S. district court to re
quire an accounting.
The coal operators' spokesman
declared that If any liability for
damages exists on the part of
the trustees, Lewis and Bridges
are primarily liable. He filed a
cross-claim asking the court to
dismiss Livengood's complaint
against him.
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TODAY'S BUSINESS MIRROR
Steel-Coal Strikes Affecting
All Phases of U. S. Business
By SAM DAVIS
New York, Oct. 29 IIP) Steel workers have been Idle for four
weeks today. Coal miners out of the pits for 40 days. What has
it cost the nation so far in output, in wages, in earnings? Some
say it's already a national emergency, others say not yet.
How long will the bad effects be felt after the strikes end?
How much Justification is there
for the view, apparently held
by some who are bidding up
stocks in Wall Street, that out
of the strikes will come a busi
ness boom around the first of
the year, when the nation tries
to catch up again?
In the steel mill towns, in the
coal states, the effects are plain
for anyone to see in the stores,
in the banks, at the unemploy
ment insurances and relief agen
cies.
Elsewhere, in widening circles,
men are being laid off, or their
working hours cut, because steel
or coal is short at their mill or
factory.
And farther afield, in rural
sectors or those only loosely
tied to coal and steel, the ef
fects have yet to show up.
But looking at it. nation-wide
here is what we find:
Retail store sales down 14 per
cent from last year and falling
the strike hitting hard in steel
copiers, with sales off 24 per
cent in Ohio.
Bank clearings off more than
9 per cent from last year off 33
per cent in Pittsburgh.
Railroad freight loadings off
36.5 per cent from last year, and
the lowest since May, 1946. Rail
road earnings sharply lower.
Electric power output below
the similar period in 1948 for
the first time this year.
Money in circulation down
$99 million this week, as pay
rolls shrink.
Some 600 coal-burning loco
motives stalled by government
order, to save coal.
Perhaps six million tons of
steel production lost; coal pro
duction cut from eight million
tons a week before the strike
to two million this week.
Price cuts and reduced sales
of lead, zinc, tin and antimony,
all linked closely with steel.
But for the ordinary citizen.
the matter of losses is pretty
personal. It depends on whether
he has a job or not, whether his
take-home pay has been cut or
is unaffected, whether his store's
sales are decimated or as yet un
touched. Fall Induction
Hi Y Considered
Plans for the fall induction of,
Salem's Hi Y chapters will be1
discussed during the November
meeting of the Hi Y council No
vember 17. At that time the or
ganization will establish a mem
bership policy.
The Hi Y calendar for the fall
included a visit of members of
the Harrison Elliott chapter to
Willamette university fraterni
ties: a dance for high school
students at the YMCA under the
sponsorship of Able Gregg chap
ter and an initiation dance No
vember 19 by Parrish Hi Y
chapters, also at the YMCA.
Unionvale Mr. and Mrs.
Marion Boulden of Unionvale
are on a vacation trio to visit
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Teachnut
and Janet Lee at Valentine.
Nehr. While they are gone Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Dorsey are In
charge of their farm and Mrs.
Herbert Baxter of Dayton is
staying with Mrs. Tom A. Boul
den, mother of Marion.
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Farm Prices
May Fall in '50
Washington, Oct. 29 U.R The
Department of Agriculture pre
diets that the current price
squeeze on farmers will be a
little tighter next year but they
still will be better off than be
fore the war.
It said prices of farm products
next year probably will contin
ue to fall faster than the crop
grower's production costs.. This
would mean another drop in the
farmer's net income.
The department said the farm
price-farm cost scissors has "de
finitely" cut net income this
year. The extent of the decline
depends much on the type of
farm and the area:
Officials gave two examples:
Dairy farmers In the north
east it is estimated that 1949 net
cash returns on a commercial
family-operated dairy farm may
average about $3,970. That would
be a drop of $700, or 15 per cent,
from last year.
This estimate was given for a
farm with about 18 cows. The
department estimated that
"gross" cash receipts would be
down about $1,000 this year,
mostly because of lower milk
prices.
Wheat farmers Net average
farm returns on a commercial
family operated winter wheat
farm was estimated at about
$10,000 for 1949, a drop of $2,-
500, or 20 per cent, from last
year. This preliminary estimate
was made for a 700-acre farm.
"Further declines are expec
ted in 1950, with prices received
declining again somewhat more
than those paid," the department
said.
Rural Phone Loan
Bill Becomes Law
Washington, Oct. 29 04 Pres
ident Truman today signed a
bill authorizing a loan program
to expand rural telephone fa
cilities and said it will fill a
long-felt need and "strengthen
our private enterprise system."
The measure provides for
loans on the same principle now
used by the electrification ad
ministration which will admin
ister the new law. Congress al
ready has provided $25,000,000
to starj the program.
"The need of our farm people
for adequate telephone service
at reasonable rates is second
only to their need for dependa
ble, low cost electricity," Mr.
Truman said in a statement.
He said the imDortance of the
new act is aDDarcnt because
today only 40 per cent of the
nation's farms have any kind of
telephone service.
Gasoline Sales Drop
Choline sales in Oregon drop
ped sharply in September, Sec
retary of State Earl T. Newbry
reported today.
The September total of 45.
421.220 gallons was 4,000.000
less than in August, and was 3,
000.000 less than In September,
1948.
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Subs to Launch Guided Missiles This sketch is an art
ist's conception of the scene off Hawaii Nov. 7 when the U.
S. submarines Cusk and Carbonero will launch seven-ton
guided missiles to show how they could deliver an atomic
bomb if necessary. Missiles will be 30-foot "loons," elec
tronically guided from the subs. They will be fired from
launching platforms on the subs past a column of 60 ships
stretched out for 35 miles. The ships will fire at them with
anti-aircraft batteries. Loons will zip past the column of ships
at from 400 to 500 miles an hour at an altitude of 4000 feet.
(Acme Telephoto.)
Flood Control
Problems Aired
Lebanon, Oct. Represent
atives of the Lebanon Chamber
of Commerce met Oct. 27 in Al
bany with Willamette river basin
officials and army engineers to
take cognizance of the serious
flood control problem on the
South Santiam river.
F. L. Thompson, Linn county
chairman, who called the meet
ing stated that "The situation
should be brought more force
fully to the attention of our con
gressional delegation."
Col. Elligodt of the army en
gineers explained that his group
has gone as far as it can without
additional appropriations from
the next congress. The Portland
district engineer pointed out that
Green Peter on the Santiam and
Cougar Creek on the McKenzie,
while on first priority as far as
the Willamette project is con
cerned, have merely been ap
proved in a broad manner.
Ronald E. Jones, speaking as
chairman of the Willamette Riv
er Basin commission, followed up
the statement by Col. Elligodt
and urged the Linn county com
mittee to stress to the Oregon
congressional delegation the
need of specific appropriations.
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"It is up to the people in Al
bany, Lebanon and Sweet Home
to make known their wants if
they ever expect construction
to get started on these vital
dams," Jones said.
Representing Lebanon on the
Willamette River Basin project
for Linn county were Ralph
Reeves, Kenneth Sims, Oliver
Larson and Wendell Gronso. The
Linn county committee will
meet again on November 8 to
discuss a Wiley creek tri-city
water supply system for Albany,
Lebanon and Sweet Home. Chair
man of that project is Max Lan
don of Sweet Home.
Ban Lilted on Aid to
Single Able Males
Portland, Oct. 29 WV-The
state public welfare commission
today lifted its ban against giv
ing aid to single, able-bodied
men.
The order, put into effect Ap
ril 1, was rescinded because the
commission decided help was
warranted by a lack of employ
ment. Chairman John B. Luihn said
most counties have levied up to
the maximum of 4.5 mills for
welfare and any additional
funds for the aid of single, able
bodied men must come from the
state emergency fund.
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Washington, Oct. 29 M R) The
cost of living between mid-August
and mid-September made its
biggest monthly Jump In a year,
the labor department reported
today.
The department's bureau of
labor statistics reported that the
consumer's price Index rose one-
half of one per cent during that
period.
However, the cost of living in
dex on Sept. 15 was three per
cent lower than a year ago. It
was 27 per cent higher than June
1946.
All important prices of goods
and services, except clothing,
purchased by moderate-income
city families contributed to the
rise.
On Sept. 15 the price index
was 69.6 per cent above 1935-39
average of 100. And it was 72
per cent above the August, 1939
level.
Food prices advance eight-
tenths of one per cent in the
Aug. 15-Sept. 15 period. Fuel
e 1 e c t r i c ity and refrigeration
showed a nine-tenths of one per
cent rise. Prices of house furnish
ings advanced four-tenths of one
percent, and rents and miscel
laneous goods and services show
ed a three-tenths of one per
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Teamsters Fight
Clerk's Union
San Jose, Calif., Oct. 10 )
Three hundred thousand mem
bers of the AFL Teamstert
union in 11 western states were
urged today to adopt a policy of
"non-cooperation" with their
fellow unionists enrolled In tho
Retail Clerks union.
A $25,000 war chest to fight
the retail clerks was voted by
the 13th annual western confer
ence of teamsters, which wound
up its meeting here yesterday.
The $25,000 was voted for the
use of Einar Mohn, leader of
the teamsters' fight for jurisdic
tion over "back room" workers
in stores and warehouses now
controlled by the clerks.
The conference elected Frank
Brewster, Seattle, as perma
nent secretary-treasurer. Oth
ers elected Included Sam D.
Moss, Seattle, recording secre
tary; and Paul J. Jones, Los An
geles; Joseph Diviny, San Fran
cisco, and Phil Brady, Portland,
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