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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1956)
Salem, Oregon, Thursday, June 21, 1956 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL' Section 2 Page 3 Wary Eye Kept By Producers Of Livestock Cattlemen Feel Long Drought Breaking, Hog Prices Up By SAM DAWSON . DENVER m - The men who nave steaks, bacon and lamb chops still on the hoof are feeling , better today. But they are keep ing a wary eye on the life ex pectancy of the general good times as well as on the livestock markets. With good, times have come some of the meat industry's best friends: The big baby crops, the spreading custom of backyard grilling of steaks, the popularity of the hamburger with the young, the upgrading of consumer buy ing and increased meat consump tion. Livestock men are counting on the prices they g-'. firming up a little more after their long drop. But they know that full pay- checks and a feeling of prosper ity throughout the land has a lot to do with boosting meat con sumption to record highs.- They also know that good times determines to a large extent which of their individual meat products gets the public's money. The housewife switches quickly from expensive to cheap cuts, or even to meat substitutes when pay checks shrink or stop altogether for a while. Cattlemen feel that the long drought is breaking, especially on the ranges to the north of here. Hog feeders in the Midwest have perked up since prices bounced back some from their lows. Sheep men out here hope for firm prices on lambs, and also count on the government's new incentive pay ments on wool. . I There's going to be plenty of meat going to market this fall. But people have been eating all that's offered, points out Radford Hall, executive secretary of the American National Cattlemen's ; Assn. There are no big inventories! in storage. The cattleman's trou bles stem from high production! pushing prices to the weak side, ' from rising costs, and above all from drought in most regions to the south of here. I Despite the drought inroads the! number of cattle in the nation has been growing. There are around 974 million head, some 60 million of them beef cattle, both record highs. The association estimates more than 13 billion pounds of beef will be eaten by Americans this year, some 82 pounds per capita. Both Hall and Dave Rice, Colo rado Cattlemen's Assn., secretary, agree that the drive in recent years to halt the steady growth in the cattle population hasn't suc ceeded yet. Both say there will be a record number of cattle ready to move to the market or to the feeders' lots when the first snows drive them out of the higher ranges west of here. . Rice and Hall boast that cattle men have "never asked a direct subsidy from the government." However, the Agriculture De partment has agreed that if a big run to market this fall should de press prices badly, it will buy meat at the market price for such things as school lunches with the aim of halting the drop. The department also will aid wool growers with an incentive plan that would supplement the price they'll get for their clip if the market stays depressed. KentuckyDemo Rejects Offer Of Senate Seat FRANKFORT, Ky. tft-A Dem-! ocratic appointee to the U.S. Sen ate has declined the post and the Republican party has delayed se lection of a senatorial nominee for Kentucky's November election. Joseph J. Leary, 49-year-old Democratic leader, was appointed to the Senate Monday by Gov. I A. B. Chandler. In announcing his I decision, Leary yesterday told re-! porters "a sincere desire to bring: peace to the ranks of the Demo-i cratic party in Kentucky" had led ' him to consider the senatorship. Leary, who has served as a speech writer and adviser to both Chandler and Sen. 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