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IftfTlliFfirT"' - MEDFORD M An, TRIBUNE, MEPEORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, .TTTLY 21, 1937. PAGE TWO MARKETQUOTAS Measure Proposed by Texan Would Give Secretary of . Agriculture Power to Es - tablish Selling Limits Moderator WASHINGTON, July SI. VP) Chairman lonti (D., Tex.) ol tlw house agriculture committee proposed today new general farm bill em bracing the ever-normal" granary and crop production control figures. The bill, which Jones Introduced when the house convened, would use the present Mil conservation benefit payment and penalty processing taxes as machinery to eltoct crop oontrol. It would give the secretary of agri culture authority to eetabllah a mar keting quota tor all produce ot such producta as corn, wheat, cotton, tobacco and rice. Farmers who aold more than their quota would be de nied soU conservation benefit pay ments, which last year totaled ap proximately MOO.O0O.00O. Process Ti Provided. When the granary threatened to overflow,' the secretary would havo authority to establish processing taxes on the products of which there was an oversupply. The tax would be as follows: Cot ton, two cents a pound; wheat 10 cents a bushel; rice, 10 cents a bush el, and 36 cents a hundred pounds on hogs when there was an over supply of hogs. (Most of the corn crop la maruet ed as hogs.) The measure contained many pro visions of the proposed "agricultural adjustment act of 1937." sponsored by the American Farm Bureau feder ation and endorsed In principle by Agriculture Secretary Wallace. It did not contain, however, a pro vision for cash payments from the treasury to supplement growers' In come when term prices fall below the "fair" price level. It was this pro vision of the federation bill that drew Jones' objection. The measure alio would establish a fund for the purpose of disposing of surplus commodities both at home and abroad. It would give the ecre tary of agrloulture authority to file application on behalf of farmera for adjustment In freight rate. Fix Base Acreage. Th measure would direct the agri culture secretary to fix base acre ages for each farm. To be eligible for soil payment, the farmer could .. nimt litrror nnrflftae. 1WV CI - The total national acreage on which benefit payments wouia no pm: Cotton, 4H.600.0OO; wheat, 67,4.00, 000; field corn, 103,800,000; rice. tas.OOO; flue-cured tobacco, 1,080,000; Maryland tobacco, 90,000: Burley to bacco, 025.000; other tobacco, 480.000 Surpluses of heavy production years would be stored for release In poor years. The marketing quota system would go Into effect when production ex- needed tor domcatlo consumption and trnry neeos Dy lonowinj amounts: oent; corn 10 percent; tobacoo, 10 ' nmtnt. ftnti lit!. 10 Mr Cent. The bill would establish a 100, 000.000 aurplua reserve loan corpora tion with authority to lend to farm- era on storea surpluses. IGEWMD iE! HTPPNER. July 31. (AP) The Morrow county farm bureau sug , seated a minimum wage scale today for agricultural employment during the harvest awason. The scale, Including board, estab lished the pay for truck drivers at 13 to M i day, aack sewers, as .60 to as, Jigging 13. sacking and Jigging, aa.50 to W. cat aklnner 3 to $4. separator tender 10, header tender, 8.50. picking straw 2 to M50. The proposed scale will vary ac cording to the worker's experience. Men employed In fields where the wheat yield Is higher per acre will receive more than those working on low-yield land. i in ' ? I v Ik v v i :: : i? DR. J. HUDSON BALLARD Dr. J. Hudson Ballard, noted edu cator and pastor of the First Presby terian church of Portland, Is moder ator of the Portland iwbytery. SEARCH FOR AMELIA NO ADDED DRAIN ON POCKETB00K OF NAVY WASHINGTON, July 31WAP) President Roosevelt said today no ad ditional cost -was Involved In the navy's search for Amelia Earn art who disappeared In the south Pacific. He made that statement at his press conference when his attention waa oallled to reports that some quar ters on Capitol Hill Intended to ask a congressional Investigation of the exepndlture. Mr. ' Roosevelt pointed out that every navy plane has to do many hours annually In the air and that ships burn fuel oil regardless of the duty to which they are assigned. The money would have been spent for these purposes regardless of wheth er planes and ah Ips bad been en gaged in the Earhart search or In maneuvers, the chief executive said. The cost to the government was no greater than It would have been It there had been no search, he added. He described the search now offi cially ended as a sad mission,' es pecially since It resulted In no trace of Miss Earhart or her navigator, Fred Noonan. WINDOW u LASS-We sell window glass and will replace your broken windows reasonably. Trowbridge Cab inet Works. LAND GRANT BILL E Measure Expected to Solve Financial Problems Grown Up in Recent Years Now Goes to Senate wAfniTHnrnN .imv al. (API The new Oregon and California land grant bill, affecting 18 Oregon coun ties, passed the house yesterday. The revised bill, drafted by At mih rtnv nmvlon of Roseburic, MnTWHntlnff th association of Coun ty courta which received money In lieu of taxes on tne revesiea . nH t.h interior denartment repre sentatives now goes to the senate. The new law waa expected to solve the financial problems which nave grown up in reuem yow the restrictions of the original Stan field act Introduced by former Sen ator Robert N. Stanfleld. Mott Sees Benefits, rommentlns uDon the act. Repre sentative Mott of Salem, stated. "This bill makes a permanent so lution to the land grant problem. mu 1.111 nrmiMal fnP a Sustained yield, which means a perpetual for.- -i . . i rf.nlnn est. me revenue biiuuiu wo.wwj. enough to reimburse the counties for lost taxes." Mott, who has worked with the Oregon association to put through m ...i,. rinHniv thA nresent ses sion of congress added that "fur thermore, tne money comes iru um Ian. ituir inri nnt frnm the treasury. The Stanfleld Oregon and California Din nas niwuys uwu -, m n nn fh lur.toi. sroundii and we have attempted repeatedly to get arouna ino ruwng 01 wtc wiuy-roller-general. Judges Sattsfled. 10m. .... ma niipillMi nM where the money comes from: It la from revenues of timber and land sold The bill Insures counties receiving up to 66 per cent of the tax loss and when times Improve I believe the counties will be paid In full. All the county Judges Interested In this problem are satisfied with the bill." The measure also affects the old Coos Bay wagon road grant. In Coos and Douglas counties. TWO FACE CHARGE OF RUSTLING 36 HORSES PENDLETON. July 21.J(AP) Pac ing horse rustling charges, Alfred Hogg and Prank Hogg, said to be or Ephrata, Wash., today were taken there by Sheriff Adams of Orant county, Wash after being held In the county JaJl here since yesterday. The two are accused of stealing 86 horse valued at 92900 from Rodney Hucaey of Ephrata on July 4. Author ities aald the horses were driven through the Pendleton area on the way to a corral at Kamela, Ore. Six were sold, 10 escaped and 20 were re covered, it was said. TOMMY FARR ARRIVES TO TRAIN FOR FIGHT: NEW YORK, July 20-flV-Tommy Fnrr, heavyweight champion of the British empire, arrived on the Beren garla today to begin training for hli title fight with Joe Louis, the Amer ican champion, In the Yankee sta dium. August 26. Parr, weighing 208, looked In prime condition. whip this fellow sure. Parr told reporters. "I've . fought nine Negroes In my time and knocked all of . them out In . less than four rounds. r . Estate of Meier Is Left to Son PORTLAND, July 31. (AP) A will admitted to probata In the circuit court yesterday placed no estimated value on the estate or Julius L. Meier, former Oregon governor and ex -president and general manager of the Meier 5s Frank Department store. All property was bequeathed to son, Julius L. Meier, Jr. Previous pro vision had been made for the widow and two daughters. FREE TREATMENT FOR SYPHILIDS ADVICEOF CHIEF Half of Present Sufferers Unable to Pay for Treat ment Says Surgeon Gen eral of Health Service DENVER, July 21. (AP) Public clinics must liberalize their Indigence requirement In the case of syphili tica, Dr. Thomas Farran, - surgeon general of the TJ. 8. public health service, told 600 doctors attending the Rocky Mountain medical confer ence today. The health chief, who would like to see syphilis added to the list of communicable diseases subject to compulsory treatment, estimated at least half of the syphllltlcs of the country Including 600,000 new ones a year cannot afford to -pay- for treatment even at the - minimum prevailing rates In private practice Need New Yardstick. "The same yardstick used In de termining eligibility for public re lieffood and shelter la not ade quate to measure the Inability ot a syphllltlo patient to pay for treat ment," Dr. Parran said. ' 'Yet all over the land, there are clinics which will admit only those psttents who are already on the re lief rolls. "State laboratories In a dozen states will not examine a blood speci men unless the doctor sending It certifies that the patient la Indi gent." The surgeon general told the doc tors there la only "slight foundation" for fears the clinical treatment ol syphilis would Intrude on private practice. ' "No patient who can pay a pay slclan is willing to subject himself to the Inconvenience of a crowded public clinic. This la true even of a good clinic. Very few of our clinics as yet are good clinics, he said. Some cities Unprepared. He added that some cities of con siderable size have no public or ele mosynary provision for treating Indi gent cases of syphilis. Dr. Parran etted the recommenda tion of the national conference on venereal disease control that public clinics be maintained that can care for these three types ot patients: 1. Any patient for diagnosis and emergency treatment if Infectious. 2. Any patient referred by a pri vate physician either for treatment or for examination, consultation and return to private care. 3. All other patients unable to pay private physicians. , WORKERS ALLIANCE TO MARCH ON 'FRISCO SAN FRANCISCO. July 21. (AP) The stat committee of the Workers' Alliance announced plans today for a "march on San Francisco" next Monday In protest to WPA layoffs and anticipated wage cuts. The march will be a part of a sim ilar nationwide demonstration next week, and the committee announced, preliminary to a proposed hunjer march on Washington. D. C, August Jl unless "something Is done to save WPA." WOMAN POSTAL AIDE : HELD AS EMBEZZLER BOISE. Idaho, July 21. (API Georgia M. William, 62, Boise post office employe, was arrested today on a complaint signed by Postal Inspec ts Fred W. Vinson on a charge of embezzling 6590 from the United States postofflce. , The complaint charged her with misappropriating postofflce funds from Jan. 1, 1936 to March 1, 1937. ssk Salem Brewery Asi'n, Salem HOW IS YOUR HEARING There will be a factory representative at the JACKSON HOTEL Friday, July 23rd TU1 3 P. M. Demonstrating the RABIOEAR Made to order hearing aid. 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