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MEDFOKD MAIL TRIBUNE, BEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 9, 1938. PAGE NTNT5 FOR EXPERIMENT 3TATI0NRELATED Heavy Crop Surplus Is Cited in Brief Advocating Loca tion of One of Proposed New Laboratories. OORVALHS. Sept. B (yfV-More than a score of civic and agricultural representatives tiled a brier with the secretary of agriculture today, citing a heavy crop surplus as their resson for advocating the location of one of four new federal experiment stations in th northwest, preferably In Ore gon. Dr. W. H. Dreesen, Oregon State college sgrlcultural economist whose studies were used in the campaign for seslocks st Bonneville dsm, pre pared the 40-page Illustrated brief under the direction of William A. Schoenfeld. dean of the college agri cultural school. Cities Put In Bid. The Portland Chamber of Com merce, Pendleton and Dayton offered supplementary petitions recommend ing their cities as possible cites. The stations, authorized In a 4, 000.000 appropriation, will be estab lished In major fsnnlng sections snd will be devoted to the development of by-products snd markets for crop sslde from the regular channels of consumption. "The Pacific northwest, consisting of the states of Oregon. Washington. Idaho snd western Montana. Is one of the major agricultural areaa of the United Ststes," the brief said. "It Is an area of surplus agricultural products, many of these products constituting not only surpluses above local consumption but surpluses of national consumption as well. "The area's geographical isolation from the great centers of population intensifies It transportation and marketing problems and consequently enhancea the economic Importance of finding new Industrial uses for Its disposable surpluses." Trsde Loss Cited. The report said the government should consider the region's serious losses In foreign trade in recent yesrs and the advantage of a laboratory nesr Bonneville snd Grand Coulee dams. Oregon's central location snd Port land's position as "the greatest rail way center In the northwest and the greatest transportation oenter on the Pacific coast, next to San Francisco," were suggested for consideration be fore final assignments. The state was described as con taining "the greatest diversity of soil and climate conditions and conse quently the greatest diversity of agri cultural products." The wheat problem alone was held sufficient Justification for locating one of the laboratorlea in the northwest. Provolt PROVOLT. Sept. . (Spl.) Miss Dorothy Kaufman of Wlldervllle spent a few days Isst week as a guest of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Kaufman. Mrs. Lou Hansen has been unable to pick hops because of hop poison ing. She Is much Improved at the present writing. Terry Roberts, who has been work ing at Florence, Oregon, returned home Wednesday for an extended visit with his father. E. R. Roberts. Terry is now working at the Francis Krause home. Tom Lewman and sons. Marian and Flayd. returned home Sunday from the Charles Cook hop ysrd. Mr. Lew man has been drying hops there for Uie lsst two weeks. Mrs. Roy Williams went to Med ford on business Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Williams and Mr. and Mrs. Oayle Larlmore of Murphy were callers at the Roy Williams home Thursday. School bells begsn ringing again at the Provolt school. A large attend, ance was reported. Mrs. Jean Wool- folk la beginning her second year as teacher. Betty Messenger who has spent tht summer with her grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Messenger, left Tuesday for her home In Modford. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Forbes and son. Edward, were callers at the Tom Lewman .home Friday evening. They were also callers at the John Brltt ssn home. 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