Northwest Flour Industry
Faces Crisis; Output cut 50
Seattle, Wash., Feb. 6 Virtual closing of export markets and
loss of eastern markets by prohibitive freight rates were cited
today as twin factors responsible for the current crisis in the
Pacific northwest flour milling industry, according to John L.
Locke, president of the Millers' National Federation, national
miller's group.
Locke, head of a Seattle flour
mill, made the statement in the
face of a crisis becoming pro
gressively worse and threaten
ing the economy of the entire
region. Flour milling is a basic
northwest industry, he pointed
out, and wheat is the northwest's
biggest dollar crop. However,
mills are now operating at an
average of SO per cent capacity,
and the crisis is spreading to
poultry and other industries
which cannot weather mounting
feed costs springing from the
flour milling situation.
"The export situation in flour
is grim, indeed," Locke stressed?
"Latin America is short of dol
lars. China, once a big outlet,
has neither the dollar nor a
government the U.S. recognizes.
The Philippines, once a number
one market for U.S. flour, are
now getting 50 per cent of flour
from Canada, whereas the ratio
used to be 85 per cent U.S. 15
per cent Canada. The swing to
Canada has been brought about
by a paradoxial situation under
which Canadian millers can buy
wheat cheaper than the U.S.
millers can under government
price supports. Devaluation also
gives Canada an edge in this
market.
"Prohibitive freight rates also
loom importantly in the flour
milling crisis. Percentage in
creases have added 30-35 cents
more per hundredweight on
Northwest flour than for com
petitive midwest flour. There
have been three successive rate
increases since 1946, and flour
shipments have shrunken some
90 per cent since that time, or
a shrinkage amounting to 37,
200,000 pounds of flour.
"The Pacific Northwest Grain
& Grain Producers association
is now seeking relief from hamp
ering freight rates but even if
efforts are successful the proce
dure is not a speedy one, by any
means. An overall freight rate
reduction of 16 cents per hun
dredweight to the Missouri River
is sought by the Pacific North
west group.
"It will be seen that north
west flour industry problems
have a definite parallel with
those of other primary indus
tries fruit, for example. Pro
hibitive freight rates and in
roads of Canadian price competi
tion are bringing similar dis
tress to the fruit industries."
Locke pointed out that the
center of the distress area
the flour milling industry is in
Washington, Oregon and North
ern Idaho. Southern Idaho is
not included because of another
paradoxial situation i.e., gov
ernment support prices for wheat
are set by counties, and in south
Idaho, the support prices run
about 15 cents a bushel under
that for Oregon, Washington and
Northern Idaho. Locke said
that the differential is without
historical background and alters
the normal flow of wheat from
South Idaho. Instead of moving
eastward, this wheat has gone
into California, cutting Washington-Oregon
sales in the grow
ing California market.
Undoubtedly the most im
mediate remedial step which
should be taken is to increase
the South Idaho 12 to 15 cents
bushel and reduce the support
price in the Pacific Northwest
3 and 4 cents a bushel, Locke
said. This would return the two
markets to a normal price relationship.
Outside markets are absolute
ly essential for the wheat pro
duction of Washington, Oregon
and Northern Idaho, it was em
phasized, as approximately 110
million bushels of wheat are
priduced and only 30 million
consumed in flour and farm
needs. While wheat growers do
not immediately feel the pinch,
as the government continues to
buy up the surplus wheat, even
tually the government is ex
pected to cut this production
and this would have drastic ef
fect on Northwest economy.
Deadline on G.I
Training July 25
Washington, Feb. 6 W) The
veterans administration is get
ting ready to close up its $30,
000,000,000 free schooling program.
A regulation to be issued April
1 will bar veterans with cer
tain exceptions from the gov
ernments training and education
program unless they enroll by
July 25, 1951.
Further rules changes will
make it hard for veterans to
change their pieaci-t courses,
and will prevent them, after
completing one course, from
starting another, even though
they have some unused school
credit.
"The vf.terans readjustment
act specifies that a veteran must
start his schooling within four
years after discharge or after
July 25, 1947, the official end
of the war, whichever is later.
The VA estimates that if the
15,000,000 eligible veterans took
all the training they are entitled
to, it would cost the government
$60,000,000,000. Actual cost of
the program from its beginning
to the 1956 windup date is ex
pected to range between $25,
000,000,000 and $30,000,000,000
The next six years will cost
about $16,000,000,000, VA estimates.
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Auctioneer Puzzled at Slow
Bidding in Gilt Sale Here
By CLAUDE STEUSLOFF
Cold weather psychology must have been operating at Satur
day's fifth annual Oregon Swine Growers bred gilt sale when
slow, low bidding on the 30 gilts offered dropped averages to
$89.58 compared to the $123.18 average set last year.
Six animals went through the ring unsold.
For the first time, a Harnp-'
shire topped the sale when Neal
Elliott of Lakeview bid $127.50
for a gilt consigned by Lyle Mc
Kinley of Shedd, who is presi
dent of the Oregon Swine Grow
ers. Durocs have sold highest
at three previous sales while a
Chester White gilt sold for a top
of $185 last year.
Ed Stritzke of Winchester,
Douglas county, was the only
other buyer outside the Willam
ette valley. He purchased two
Durocs at $85 and $77.50 each.
Onlv five animals sold for
more than $100. Auctioneer H.
J. McMurray of Iowa was at a
loss to explain inactivity of the
100 persons who attended the
sale. He said it was the quietest
sale he had ever handled and
noted that in the 25 years he has
been selling he had never seen
better values going through the
ring.
MODEL TOWN:
Memories Live
In Miniatures
BACK YARD TOWN Rostan'i miniature village.
By ROBERT M. SUNDT
Kane, Pa., Feb. 6 W) Rostan village is a pretty little commu
nity in northwest Pennsylvania with churches, stores, a postoffice
and a bank but you'll never find it on a map.
Nobody lives in Roston. Yet the town has had hundreds of visi
tors since it was founded three years ago.
It is the creation in miniature
of Joseph Rostan, a retired gro-
cer, who found that raising
chickens and growing flowers
wasn't enough to keep him busy.
Rostan came to this mountain
town with his wife in 1946 to
seek relief from an asthmatic
condition.
- The little town in Rostan's
back yard is a village of memo
ries for the talented builder
almost a biography in itselt
Every structure is a reproduc
tion of a building which played
an important part in Rostan's
life.
Prominent among' these is the
church from his native village
in Yugoslavia, where Rostan
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was baptized. Also present is
the chapel from the cemetery of
that village.
"The churches really bring
back memories," commented
Rostan. "I started out there as
an organist."
When the Rostans came to
ROSTAN and his work.
America they settled near Pitts
burgh and soon staned operat
ing a restaurant at Langeloth,
Pa. Later Rostan was the first
postmaster of Slovan. Pa. Then
for 25 years he operated a gro
cery store at Saranac Lake,
N. Y.
In the miniature village, elec
trically lighted at night, you
will find the store from Saranac
Lake, built to scale as are all
the buildings.
There's the postoffice from
Slovan, a town hall like Sara-
nac's, a bank, a hotel, a shrine
and various homes.
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Mindful of rapidly lowered
feed bin stocks during the cold
spell prospective buyers may
have taken too literally McMur
ray's illustration of a possible
8,179 offspring in a five year
breeding program from two
times a year litters of eight pigs
each, starting with one bred gilt.
Consignors said high support
prices on wheat are preventing
normal hog feeding in Oregon,
Breed averages were topped
by two Yorkshires at $108.75;
two Hampshires averaged $105
three Chester Whites averaged
$95 with two withdrawn: seven
Durocs averaged $88.93; four
Berkshires averaged $87.50, one
withdrawn; one Minnesota No.
1, $85; two Poland Chinas aver
aged $78.75, one withdrawn: one
Spotted Poland China, $75, two
withdrawn; two Herefords aver
aged $73.75.
FFA boys took home five
gilts at prices ranging from $110
to $75. In 1947 an FFA boy
set the all-time high for the sale
at $285. The high sale average
of $152.70 was also set that year.
Sal summary:
Berkshires Conisnor, Oregon State Col
lege, Cor va Ilia, S100, to Jack Rider, Can
by; cons in nor, E. L. Sawtell & Son, Mo
lella, (100, to Dareld Jeffery, SUverton;
Aonfiignor, Richard Schaeler. Salem, $75
to Herbert Bartel, Independence; ALso (75
to Jerry Jeskey, Aurora.
Chester Whites Consignor. Alton Mar
shall, Mullno, JB5 to Milo Schneider, New-
nern; aiso ua,ou to taui u. rieimice, Bcitts
Mills; consignor, Glen Hawkins, Shedd,
$107.50 to Arthur Franke, Salem.
Durocs Consignor, Edwin Rdlder, Sher
wood, $97.50 to Galyn Lefller, Canby; on
slffnor. O. E. Stretcher. Beavertnn. lD7.sn
to Mynard S, Newton, Corvallls, also $110
to Donald W. Newton, Corvallls; consign
or Averin nansen, junction (Jiiy, tsu to A.
J. McLarty, Independence: consignor Ou?
Hansen, Junction City, $75 to Alton Mar
shall, Mullno; consignor Homer Zlelinskl,
Oervals, $85 to Ed Stritzke. Winchester;
consignor, James Lorenzen, SUverton,
$77.50 to Ed Stritzke.
Hampshire. Consignor. Lyle McKinley,
Shedd, 1127.50 to Ncal Elliott, Lakeview;
consignor, F. C. Putnam, Hlllsboro, $82.50
to Dean Hall, Turner.
Herefords Consignor. Earl nmrv. Fall
Creek, $70 to John W. Pitcher, Fall Creek;
consignor, Harold W. Schmidt, Newberg,
177.50 to John W. Pitcher.
Minnesota No. 1 Consignor, Hugh Bev
erln, Prospect, $85 to 0. A. Evans, Inde
pendence. Poland Chinas Consignor, Forster &
Forster, Tangent, $70 to John Jeffery, SU
verton; consignor, Wendell Wlllard, Day
ton, $87.50 to R. C. Lenhardt, Aurora.
spotted Poland China Consignor, WIN
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Professor Loses
Life in 'Game'
Princeton, N.J., Feb. 6 A
young Princeton professor bet
his life against Lady Luck at
Russian roulette and lost.
Dr. Allison Williams Bunkley,
his friends told police, demon
strated the deadly "game" late
Saturday night at his 25th
birthday celebration.
They said he put one cartridge
into a .32 caliber revolver, spun
the cylinder, and placed it to his
temple. The first two times he
won the hammer fell by chance
on an empty chamber.
Just once more," he told his
protesting friends, five men and
a girl who had gathered in his
apartment.
When he spun the cylinder
this time, the bullet came oppo
site the hammer. When he pull
ed the trigger the bullet crash
ed through his temple. He was
dead on arrival at Princeton
hospital.
He was the son of retired Rear
Admiral Joel W. Bunkley of
New York City, and his grand
father was the late Senator
John Sharpe William of Missis
sippi, former senate democratic
leader.
Mothers' Club
Given Program
East Salem, Feb. 6 The Jan
uary meeting of the Washington
school Mothers' club was held
at the schoolhouse.
For the program hour Super
intendent Frank Bennett spoke
to the mothers as to questions
asked by the parents in regard
to schooling. Mrs. Lake, a teach
er at Bush school, gave a report
on new trends in report cards
and explained the faults of the
old systems. Children of the
sixth grade sang several numbers.
Mrs. Cleo Keppinger, presi
dent of the club, presided at a
business meeting, with Mrs. Lar
son acting as secretary in the
absence of Mrs. Harvey Page.
A traveling apron will be passed
among the members as a method
of raising funds for the club.
Members discussed organizing a
cub scout troop. They will spon
sor the Camp Fire Girls troop
of Mrs. Margie Goodman. Re
freshments were served by the
mothers of the sixth grade pu
pils with Mrs. W. L. Hamilton
as chairman.
Swegle Mr. and Mrs. Raleigh
Welty and daughter have driven
to Los Angeles, Calif., for a win
ter vacation trip.
Mr. and Mrs. Rchard T. Wick
lander had as their guests the
past week former schoolmates,
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph La From-
boix of Los Angeles, Calif., who
are .also visitng in the home of
a son and family in Portland.
The Swegle Woman's club
will meet Tuesday afternoon at
1 o'clock in the home of Mrs,
Louis Newman on 38th street.
YMCA Worker Dies
After Saving 4 Boys
New Orleans, Feb. 6 (ff) A
volunteer YMCA worker drown
ed after saving four boys from
the same fate yesterday.
Don Wiltse, 18, of 115 South
Wolfe road, the Chicago su
burb of Melrose Park, was in a
skiff which turned over with
the four boys at Fontainbleau
state park, north of here.
William McLachlin, YMCA
director of boys activities, said
Wiltse righted the boat and
placed the boys so they could
hold on until help arrived. One1
youngster slipped and Wiltse
helped him regain his hold.
"A few moments later Don
slipped into the water feet first
and disappeared," McLachlin
said. 'He must have been ex
hausted with saving the kids. I
consider him a hero."
The boys, eight and nine years
old, were rescued by campers
in the area.
Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Monday, February 6, 195011
Venus Changes Address
From Evening to Morning
By I. HUGH PRUETT
Astronomer, Extension Division, Oregon Higher Education System
Venus, so splendid in the southwestern twilight the past sev
eral months, has very recently disappeared from her accustomed
place in the heavens. But as an eastern astronomical writer stated
the situation a few years ago, the goddess of beauty has simply
changed her address from the evening to the morning sky.
On January 31 Venus passect
Boy Drowns
Hoquiam, Wash., Feb. 6 (ff)
Six-year-old Carl Edward War
bington, Jr., drowned yesterday
after tumbling through the thin
ice of a frozen slough at nearby
Newton. Firemen used a row
boat to break through the ice
and reach the hole where the
child's body was found.
mer Lyon, Junction City, $76 to Herbert
Bartrt, Independence.
Yorkshires Consignor, Elmer SIRngel,
Wllsonvllle, 1103.50 to John T. Wavra,
Woodburn; consldnor, P. h. Zlelinskl, flt.
Paul, S116 to Elmer atananl.
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almost between the earth and
the sun. This brilliant planet is
now on the western side of the
sun and is rising in the dawn
before sunrise. Very soon it will
be up early enough to be seen
a dark morning sky. Even
now it rises in the east south
east almost an hour before Old
Sol. Jupiter is almost "in the
sun" so is entirely lost in the
solar brilliance. Mercury rises
about with Venus, but nearer
the southeast.
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Saturn and Mars are now
closely grouped with the moon.
On February 5 Luna will be
between the two. By 10 o'clock
or shortly alter all three
will be above the horizon. Mars
will be clearing the skyline al
most due east with the moon
and Saturn higher. The next
night the eastern motion of the
moon will place it near Mars,
now becoming quite bright.
Let us observe the fixed
stars around 8 p. m. High in the
south the fine Orion group is
very conspicuous. Note the three
stars in a short line marking
Orion's belt. Higher, the red
star Betelgeuse in his shoulder
is prominent. Lower than the
belt, blue-white Rigel twinkles
brilliantly. Almost due east of
Betelgeuse, bright Procyon in
the Little Dog is the only star to
attract attention
Much lower than Orion and
near the south southeast, a glor
ious star is scintillating. This is
Sirius, the dog star, the bright
est stellar object in the evening
sky. Fairly well above the east
ern point of the horizon, blue
white Regulus glitters. A little
inspection of this region will
show that Regulus is at the
lower end of the handle of the
Sickle, which is composed most
ly of rather dim stars. Nearer
the zenith the twin stars, Castor
and Pollux, stand side by side.
The orange one is Pollux.
Bright, yellow Capella is al
most overhead. Considerably
south and a little west of Ca
pella we note a little letter V
composed of stars all dim with
the exception of orange Aide
baran at one of the upper points.
A little farther west, the charm
ing tiny group of the little atari
of The Pleiades appear almost
like a flock of flying birds.
Low toward the north north
west bright Deneb is at the top
of the Northern Cross. And do
not forget to look well up in the
northeast for our familiar Bia
Dipper ai it is balancing pre
cariously on the end of rt
starry handle.
Seek Skilled to Push
Agriculture Abroad
Washington, Feb. 6 (U.R) Tht
agriculture department announ
ced creation today of a com
mittee to help recruit techni
cians to carry out present U.S.
programs of technical aid to
agriculture in foreign lands.
If and when congress approves
the broad "point four" technical
aid program envisioned by Pres
ident Truman, the job of find
ing skilled personnel to spread
U.S. know-how abroad will be
one of the toughest jobs facing
the administration.
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