Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 11, 1936, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextNfEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. TUESDAY, AUGUST 11. 1936. PAGH FIVE 'LOSS BY DROUGHT SHOWN IN REPORT Corn Yield Predicted As 1,439,135,000 Bushels Against 2,244,834,000 Bushels Expected in July WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. UP) Drought's toll on the nation's crops was shown today when .the depart ment of agriculture forecast this year's corn crop, based on August 1 conditions, at 1.430,136,000 bushels. A month ago 3.344,834,000 bushels were Indicated. Last year 3,391,629.000 bushels were produced. Wheat production wu forecast mt SS3.745.000 bushels, compared with 638.309.000 a mouth ago. and 833. 444.000 produced last year. The preliminary estimate of the winter wheat crop Is 019.007,000 bush els, compared with 813,088,000 a t month ago, snd 464,303,000 produced lsst year. , All spring wheat production. In cluding Durum rfheat, Is Indicated as 113,648.000 bushels, compared with 136,314,000 a month ago, and 159, 241.000 produced last year. Durum wheat production Is Indi cated as 9.031.000 bushels, compared with 9.810,00 0a month ago, and 33. 957,000 produced last year. All other spring wheat Is Indicated as 104.817.000 bushels, compared with 118.704,000 a month ago, and 136, 384.000 produced last year. The oats crop la Indicated as 871, . 703.000 bushels, compared with 805. ' 430.000 a month ago and 1,106,668,000 produced last year. Indicated production of other Im portant crops: Barley, 146,037,000 bushels, com psred with 164.866.000 last month nd 283.226,000 last year. Rye, 27,096.000 bushels, compared with 26.380,000 last month and 6B, 938.000 last year. Flaxesed, 6.343.000 bushels, com pared with 9.468.000 last month and 14.133.000 last year. Grain sorghums, 81,588,000 bushels. compared with 97,833,000 last year. Beans (dry edible). 10,200,000 bags of 100 lbs. each, compared with 11, 685.000 last month and 13,799,000 lsst year. Apples, 103,487.000 bushels, compared with 103.214.000 last month and 167.283.000 lsst year. Peaches. 43.131,000 feuahels, com psred with 41,260,000 last month and 63.808.000 last year. pears. 23.519.000 bushels, compared with 23.284.000 last month and 23. 036.0CO last year. Potatoes, 294.537,000 bushels, com psred with 315.259,000 last month and 387.878,000 last year. Sweet potatoes, 86,367,000 bushels, compared with 63.806.000 last month and 83,198.000 last year. Sugur beets, 8.808,000 tons, compar ed with 8.819.000 last month and 7. 908.000 last year. Broom corn, 41,000 tons, compared with 69,000 last year. Hops, 33,316,000 pounds, compared with 36,994,000 last month and 47, 746,000 last year. The condition of the rarlous crop, on August 1 was: Corn, 49 8 percent of a normal, all spring wheat 33.8. Durum wheat 30.9, alia other spring wheat 34-5. oats 55.0. barley 48.4, buckwheat 683. rloe 88.1. grain sorghum 85.8. hay (tame) 57.8, pasture 41.6, beans (dry edible) 85.6, soybeans 69.5. oowpeaa 65.9, peanuts 73.4, apples 40.3, peachea 49.9, peara 68.8, grapes 66.6, potatoes 59.8, sweet potatoea 66.1, tobacco 81.7, sugar beet 76.9. broom corn 455, hops 43.3. The corn crop of only 1,439,135,000 bushels Is the smallest Indicated har Test In more than 80 year Secretary Wallace, who la now pre paring a general drought report, told newsmen the official crop estimates will furnish an accurate yardstick on whst help will he needed by thou ssnds of farmers. The exsct figures will guide many farmers who have cattle, hogs and sheep which ordinarily would be fed for marketing or carried through the winter. LANDRYlLECTED head OF LAKE ASSOCIATION Paul O. Landry of Klamath rails was elected president of the Lake of the Woods Recreation association at It annual meeting held Sunday at the summer resort. He succeeds C. Ostea, 'Medford automobile dis tributor. E. A. Thomas of Klamath Falls was re-elected secretary-treasurer. Direct ors elected were C. H. Gate. I. B. PYldegar of Ashland and C. H. Onder rsr.d o Klamath Palis. The association Is composed of owner of csblns at the lake resort. PHOTOGRAPH all the family. Pour photos for a dime. Orer Medford Pharmacy. Be correctly corseted la an Artist Model by Ethelwyn B Hoffmann. PHOTOS. 4 for 10c. 304 East Main SCREEN DOORS WINDOW SCREENS Made Right-Priced Right Trowbridge Cabinet Wks. IF Mac Can't Weld It THROW IT AWAY 40 9. fU St ill prORO. ORE. Little lLniTtMii J f . J Panev-J - L iviua Iooja fl ' ' ..(. Cut Loom . JL l. i - 7 This model home was built at 1619 Walnut Street, in (he heart of Philadelphia, under the sponsor ship of the residential planning division of the American Homes' Exhibitors, with the cooperation of the Federal Housing Administration. The plans for the house were approved by the architectural division of the Housing Administration before the building was started. It is estimated by the builders that the house would coat approximately $6,000, exclusive of the land, The house is of concrete and is said to be 100 per cent fireproof. The roof and downspouts are of copper. Beside the rooms shown in the, plans sketched here, there Is a full basement with a recreation room, laundry, and utility room. IS ACTIVE PACKED PEARS The markt for packed fruit 1a gradually Improving end there la an actlva f. o. b. demand for its packed Bartletta, it la stated In a trade bul-; letln laaued today by American Fruit Growers, Inc. Th company, the bulletin a&ld, la shipping on orders as fast aa they are being packed, already having sold more than one-third of He packed Bartletta on f. o. b. orders, the pears to be shlppped from here as soon aa they are pre-oooled. The net price to growers ranges from 135 to a30 a ton, the bulletin stated. "Although we cannot guarantee It, the bulletin said, "we are hopeful that we shall be able to balance out our entire packed Bartlett deal here this year for prices of around 12? to $38 a ton, and better If at all poasl ble. Bartletta for packing, however, should be In the packmg houses this week and the early part of next week at the very latest." Growers wore urged to speed up picking operations so that the fruit could be moved from tree to storsge with a minimum delay. Quick stor age, It was emphasized, will keep the fruit at it bpst quality. MIHBTES TO BUY I Mamas to fm. ON THE BUDGET PLAN TIRES AS LOW AS 47 PER WEEK ALSO AUTO SUPPLIES Rliertlde A Ninth Pi. one 320 tiiem re the Vlrr f fitrtumm, Mndt, Walnut Street House The company said It had already sold its entire Cornice tonnage "at very satlsfacory prlcea that will net growers a aum about In line with prlcea paid two years ago. Our Com 1c will all tenv here during .Sep i Continuous distilling experience since 1892 and the tremendous production of four of America's largest distilleries, enable The American Distilling Co. to bring to you at low prices, quality products of . . . THE AMERICAN OLD nmepucfln BRAND STRAIGHT M RYE WHISKEY OLD OLD AmeRicnn BRAND STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY OLD AMERICAN PMII-4T MUM6I WHISKEY C I nffi&' WM' m6lH ORANGE 6IN ffoiSS II established and Incor- OTX A nr BtDte zn .io'.txf W I U'l '':e'J Elc? I aiilJlllll i tember which means a prompt cash settlement to growers." LA WNM OW15R3 called for and de u re red. Phone 361 Sims Bros.. 33 N Fir. DISTILLING CO L0NGW00D ruiiMT iouoioi RUM AMERICAN WHISJfEJf Ml L,i,$dUm AMERICAN PIPING ROCK tmioKt mi s I C MM (or THE AMERICAN DISTILLING CO. established and Incor porated in 1892 Is a National Manufacturer with plants at Pekln, Illinois;Hoboken,New Jersey; Philadelphia, Boston, New Orleans and Sausaliio. Calif. lU- $33,849,030 FOR RELIEF PURPOSES Expenditures by Government During Fiscal Year End ing June 30 Are Shown 22,317 Worked in Maroh WASHINGTON. Aug. 11.- (AP) A Works Progress Administration 're port showed today a total of 933, 840,630 was spent In Oregon under the 14,880,000,000 relief appropria tion act of 19SG. The report covered expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936. Allocation by the President, em bracing dlsbursementa approved by federal authorities, totaled 46.730. 300. Actual obligations Incurred, or project for which funds have been expended or are obligated for expen diture, aggregated 44.276.83ft. The obligations were Incurred for purely WPA work relief projecta and those carried out by the agriculture. Interior, commerce, and treasury de partmenta. the civilian conservation corps, army engineers, resettlement and veteran's administrations, and other agencies. The 1.435,000.000 relief appropria tion act passed by the 74th Congress covers such unexpended balances of the 1935 act "aa may be made avail able by the President." the report said. These funds are to remain available until June 30, 1937. and are to be used at the discretion of the President. Men and women employed by the Oregon state WPA. exclusive of ad ministrative employees, averaged 33, 317 during March. 1936, the report showed. Men workers totaled 18,905. or 84.7 per cent; women. 3413. or 15.3 per cent. The average March wage was 86.16. The average for men was $56,87; wo men, J57.74. March earnlnga aver nee 49 93. The WPA also listed 13 airport projecta approved for Oregon at a total estimated cost of 333.764. CELEBRATION SLATED WALLA WALLA, Wash., Aug. 11. ( AP) The arrival near here 100 years ago of Dr. and Mrs. Mux us Whitman, missionaries to the Indians and foun ders of the first American home in the piclflc northwest, will be offi cially commemorated by seven na tional organizations here Aug. 13-16. The four-day Whitman centennial will open Thursday with a pageant entitled "Wagons West" with a Mat CARIOCA c refreshing AiVKBH. I H ' I HrMVFeif II SUMMER DRINKS StUisrelHls)i yffj II if J of more than 3.000 Walla Wall rsi ley residents. Graves of aereral of the Whitman mission party massacred Nov. 39. 1847, ana the granite shaft to the Whitmans erected io yesrs ago on the mission site will be toured. ALL STUDENTS FROM NON - HIGH DISTRICTS TO PILE INFORMATION Non-high school district students attending any of the county high schools will all be required this year to fill an lniurmatton blank which must be signed by the pupil, the par ent, and the school clerk of the dis trict In which the pupil lives. This new regulation applies to all students expecting to get their tuition paid by the nonhtgh school district board. The Information blank can be ob tained from any high school princi pal or from the county school super intendent at hla office In the court house. When It Is filled and properly signed It must be brought to the county school superintendent's office In the court house In Medford snd If found In order It will be exchanged for a certificate of eligibility which must be given to the high school principal before the pupil can be registered as a tuition studont under the non-high school district law. Pupils are urged to attend to this matter before school begins. In formation blanks may be obtained aa stated above after August 16, rOR PERSONAL LOANS OF ALL KINDS W. B. Thomas. 45 3 Central make these sports coatl outstandlm values at 1498 Intricately cut beautifully stitched carefully lined I Soft kashas and fleeces In styles aa-smart as the "Rip pled Back" sketched'. 11-48, Colorful Sports Coats 9.M Tailored or Lacy It YOS 23c Well msde ptnties. briefs er itepins that retain their shapt after many laundering,. Values I Even Cottons TT go fa,Uwrc,,! ' 4 jr fffi-llk Charming tubfost print whose j JP iw? trim cloan out lines (some with -jtira Jfe"Sy 3 iifSM aotion back) reflect the tailor- fflppos iFS'-If Ifyjjffi-SI d mode for summer, novelty ftSPrfei SnIw ilifW buttons and buokles in women's tSjffcJK aP&liip and misses' sizes 14 to 62, L Vtsr'vf Mimitgiiiier y WaiM The Grange I'pper Applegate Grange. Upper Applegate Orange opened Saturday evening, August 8, In the new hall. Mrs, Orvllle May field resigned her position ss chaplain. Worthy Mas ter Val Ha skins appointed Mrs. Bert Harr to fill the unexpired term. Lecture hour was omitted. Only the business was transacted In order to allow time for a farewell party for Mr. and Mrs. Orvllle Mayfleld, and their niece, Miss Phyllis Noel who will leave soon for their new home in Washington. As a token of apprecia tion for the services that the May fields have rendered, the Orange pre sented them with a blanket. Refreshments were served and a pleasant evening of dnnclng was en Joyed. RENT-A-BIKE by day r hour Phone 361 Sims Bros. 23 N Plr. Phone 942. We'll haul awej youi refuse City Sanitary Service. SPECIAL! THIS WEEK ONLY I YOUR CAR WASHED And interior thoroughly vacuumed a Galled for and Delivered, by Licensed ! VB g Careful Drivers. Complete mjr J WEST'S ASSOCIATED SERVICE! Riverside and Jackson RAYON TAFFETA 'los siipS 69 i A mk our retvlar Wo vnluel jf-i m,m N v,s :f An exceptional Slip fl t, )' , for the pricol Bias VVtf A cut with non-rip v 4 seams, sdjustabls IA V - -3' straps. Has lac, 7 s mbroldered or tsl- S v ? "j . lored V neck. 34'4y J Spain's last royal ruler, Alfonso XIII, was born a king. Medford's only Auto Paint Shop OUIng s. & II. Oreen Stamps Daily's Auto Painting 92 South Bartlett They're RCS'GLESS They're FULL FASHIONED They're fllESII SILK CniFFOS Rinftleis, alonif with other ex pensive features, yet these hos cost so little I They're firet qual ity, have garter run stops, snd reinforced feet' 47 117 80. CENTRAL TELEPHONE 283