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POTATO GROWERS OF KLAMATH SEE T Defense Program Due To Increase Prices, Belief Good Times After Jan. 1. Br Art Bremer Klamath Falls. Sept. 11. (P) The national defense program means hard work, and hard work means more meat, potatoes and gravy on more tables for the workers. The men who grow the potatoes in this rich Oregon garden area hope this means the defense program will .not continue to pass them by. For five years the potato growers assert they have strug gled against lean prices, and as the sixth harvest rolls around they find labor and material costs rising while the market price has sunk 10 to IS cents lower per hundred pounds than! last year's opening figures. Toi i make things worse, growers hereabouts are not confident that enough labor will be on hand to get the crop out of the ground, particularly if weather ! conditions slow down the har vest late this month. Good Times Ahead Henry Semon, president 0 the Klamath Potato Growers' association, predicts hard times for the growers until January 1 at least. After that, he says, the effects of early dummng by growers in need of ready cash will wear off and the market will begin to react to an ex pected lower national yield. "Then we'll have pretty fair prices," predicted Semon. Semon thinks the national production estimates, already nearly 30. million bushels below last year's 397 million-bushel crop, will continue to decline toward a normal crop, or about 360 million bushels. Semon's deductions are sup ported by County Agent C. A. "Goodrich GOODRICH COMMANDER Full sise lifetime Sy MA Guarantee. 600x16 f aOJ LEWIS SUPER SERVICE STATION 8th and Front h S3 YEARS OF KNOWING HOW k I EprW r'oi VrW-TV ffl k.,.. i . . - . mm j j Kuzk dum&mfrKj j New Army Bomber Gets rzrnmmmmmm Smfi$mM:r fU The new B-17E, four-engine d bomber soars over Puget sound in a successful air test. The war department described t he ship, built in Seattle, as a "bigger, improved flying fortress." The department said: "Power tu rfets both on top and bottom of the fusilage and a 'stinger' turret in the tail provide for resistance to attack from any direction." The plane has been ordered Into mass production. Henderson who says the im mediate future is not bright but looks for gains in 1942. In line with an estimated 10 per cent reduction in potato yield in the iu western states, nenaerson re ports the Klamath acrebge has been reduced from 19.500 acres, wh,ich Prduced, a" all, time ,rec ocd 10.000 carloads last year, to 18.000 acres which are run- ning from 15 to 20 per cent board to investigate the facts in lighter in yield than in 1940. I the dispute between most of The reduced supply will have America's railways and their the effect of boosting prices, the employes a dispute which agent points out, but rising costs: threatens to stop rail operations may offset any gain in the mar-1 at a time when vital defense ket. Growers recently increased : materials are moving over the harvest wages from 25 to 39 perjrips. cent and will have to buy their The personnel of the five sacks and other material at'man boar(j wjn be announced prices sometimes double those of j ater. last year. Adding to the dark side of the Portland, Ore., Sept. 11. JP picture, Henderson states thati The Oregon Journal, quoting unfavorable prices have reduced an authoritative Washington early shipments, beginning in I source, said today that Wayno August, to half those of last L. Morse, University of Oregon year, and that the effects of a1 law school dean, would head nation-wide farm labor shortage are still to be reckoned with On the brighter side, Hender son reported that the quality of the Klamath potatoes is good this year and that purchases by the army and navy will greatly nelp to reduce any surplus. Growers are hopeful, he said, that the government will install a flat price system of buying agricultural commodities for the; military forces. Potato men have complained that the system I of buying from the lowest bid-1 der tends to drive the market price down generally. I 8Uir ft';"""! w ww warn.. 57 DISTRIBUTED BY SNIDER DAIRY k PRODUCE CO. MEDFORD MAIL '-"V' - -i turn AmA E Hyde Park. N. Y., Sept. 11. tJPi President Roosevelt or dered the creation today of a the president's rail mediation board. The board, the newspaper said, will meet Monday in Chi- cago. KLAMATH PUD PLANS WAIT SHASTA LINES Klamath Falls, Sept. 11. tiP) Public utility district plans for the Klamath area will nrob- ably be delayed until Shasta dam power lines extend to this district, J. W. Wauchope, city electrical inspector told the city council last night. Mjitij after Gnrril Cuter made In uliint tted ob tit Lrt'e B:q H:n ii 1E7B. ri at ltd bjjic itt'e reitbri Ptrtkii It vu im tio ..M l krfjrj sow! Bel 01 thit rreMM data, 65 fin a;g. the hir brewed btu tli pritili recipe al Hrarj Keiskard hi leei a Rirlwtsl livonrt fcr over 20 aem. Tcdi) Bl:!:-n'!inhjrd Goaranf'id Sifcsfjiso, Eter J brei fc;a Sat aaie retije . . sl3 krtw-d j lie ia:i a;rf...t':Il lrefd (rra ti:r:it si jran asd topa, i!k port Ball tit TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, Sky Tests eM1eJaaeaeav jaapuM R0SE8URG LOSES LUMBERING PLANT Roseburg, Ore., Sept. 10. Pl Aquisition of a 25-acre site at Green station, five miles south of Roseburg, for construc tion of a lumber remanufactur ing plant and loading station, costing $100,000, was announced here today by Rube Day, timber superintendent of the Coos Bay Lumber company. The company had previously selected a site in Roseburg, but difficulties encountered in the effort to get needed trackage, due to the congested condition of Southern Pacific railway yards, forced removal projected plant to an location. of the outside RED INK FOR S. P. San Francisco, Sept. 11. iiP) Southern Pacific company re ported today It made $4,829,031 net profit in July this year, con trasting with a $175,637 net loss in July 1940. The earnings for the transpor tation system, including solely controlled affiliates, rose for the first seven months of this year to $18,664,318 out of red ink for the 1940 period of some $5 431,392. The seven months profit amounted to $4.93 a share on the 3,772,763 shares of capital stock outstanding. That was the railroad's best showing since the depression deluged the books with red ink. Poughkcepsle, N. Y., Sept. 11 OP) Sara Delano Roosevelt left the bulk of her estate of "over $5,000 real and over $3, 000 personal property" to her president son in a will filed for probate today with the surrogate of Dutchess county where she had lived many years. The will, dated September 20, 1928, placed one-tenth of the residue in six equal trust funds for her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, and five grandchildren, Mrs. John Boettiger, and James, Elliott, Franklin D. and John A. Roose velt. Bulgaria Building Sofia, Bulgaria P) More than 40,000 men in the Bulgar ian labor service are building highways and reconstructing railways in territories Bulgaria got from Greece and Yugoslavia in the Balkan campaign. Ger man military railway authori ties in Belgrade formally turned over title of Serbian lines to Bulgaria. Routes are chiefly those leading into and out of Skoplje. A recent survey of school children in New York City dis closed that one out of every seven pupils had eyesight faults which needed correction. Cloatnf time (or Claaamd Ads m Toe Late to Claaaifr tajo p POISON OAK? Try a bottle et ZEMACOL fee men ee aatliriee t reel mmnnty I mil refunded OH a ftvtlti at SUIUU lUtUi L OREGON. THURSDAY. ORGANIZATION FOR m raid warning WELL UNDER WAY Medford Scheduled As Con trol Center For District Ed Martin In Charge Salem, Sept. H.h.4) Organ ization of the air raids precau tions service in counties west of the Cascades will begin inv mediately, State Civilian De fense Coordinator Jerrold Owen said today. This service will provide in formation about enemy air raids to civilians, while the aircraft warning service, operated by the army air corps with per sonnel provided by county de fense councils, will give infor mation to the army so that fighter planes may intercept enemy bombers. Control Center Here Under the aircraft warning service, there will be control centers from which warnings will be broadcast throughout their respective districts. These centers will be located in Port land, Hood River, St. Helens, As toria. Tillamook, Forest Grove, McMlnnville, Salem, Albany Corvallis, Eugene, Marshfield. Roseburg Grants Pass and Med ford. Each center will be oper ated by an air raids precautions supervisor, to be appointed by the county defense council chair man. Owen said these control cen ters should be established at once by the county defense councils, and he recommended that they be located at fire or police stations where there will be persons on 24-hour duty. The control centers will re ceive their information from observation posts, to be estab lished in each six square miles throughout western Oregon. Ed Martin of Ashland, retired master sergeant of the regular army, is air raids nrerautinns supervisor for this county, Capt. S. M. Tuttle. chairman of the Jackson County Council of De fense said today. Organization work has al ready been in progress here and tne southern half of the county IS fairlv thoroughly nrannircH now, Capt. Tuttle said, adding mat Mr. Martin was now per fecting the sct-lin in the nnrlh- ern naif. The u. -S. forest serv ice, with its summer lookout stations, and the snow survey service, with its winter outposts, will be a part of the observation set-up, both having the added advantage of being equipped with short-wave radio systems, the chairman stated. Where the control center will be estab lished has not been determined definitely, though it will prob ably be in Medford, he said. Before he retired last year. Mr. Martin sunervised ih in stallation of the army's air warning service in northern California. SEEK BOMBING RANGES IN MOSS LAKE REGION Spokane, Sept. 11. (,11 Con demnation proceedings against 10.245 acres of land In the Moses lake area, which the govern ment wants for air force bomb ing ranges, were instituted yes terday in federal district court here. A value of $17,805 has been placed on the land which is south of Ephrata and 72 miles east of Ellensburg. MARION RESERVES TO HOLD MOBILIZATION Salem, Sept. 11. (JP) Marion county's civil reserves, with a strength of more than 3,000 vol unteers who would protect the civilian population in case of enemy air raids, will have a practice mobilization September 18. the county defense council said today A series of alarms will call volunteers from their homes and placet of amusement, with1 the reserves to assemble in Marion square. Salvador (Bahla) is Brazil's oldest city and for 250 years was Its capital. From there the United States obtained the orig inal seedless orange trees. Oae UaU rnbuDO want ada "Goodrich onr: J GOODRICH COMMANDER Full sise lifetime $y aa Guarantee. tOOxlf ,09 LEWIS SUPER SERVICE STATION . Ith and Front SEPTEMBER 11. 1941 f Ms f n i jru I Vvs' jit (. wvwewe;; H A R V E S TRrM now. Iris Wilson's main mfutlon In life Is to advise everyone that there's going to be nome colossal grapes at the eighth annual Lodi, CaU I rape festival. ALCHEMIC FEAT Atlantic City, N. J., Sept. 11. (P) A feat in Alchemy which produces a new chemical more powerful than radium was re ported to the American Chemi cal society today by Dr. J. D. Kurbator, of Ohio State univer sity. The new chemical has raya of 2,000,000 volts compared with an average of a few hundred thousand volts for radium rays and are the same rays which physicians use in radium. Dr. Kurbator reported. The new stuff was made by atomic bom bardment in the Ohio cyclotron. The bombardment converted strontium, the chemical used to color fireworks pink, into radio active yttrium, a chemical which does not exist in nature. It de cays slowly Into ordinary yttrium, a rare earth, but in so doing, its useful rays last about a week. NEW RADIO STATION IS KETCHIKAN PLAN Washington. Sent. 11. JP lne treasury department an nounced plans today for a new jo,uuu coast guard radio sta tion at Ketchikan, Alaska. The station will consist nf en operations buildlntf. aimrtera fnr a staff of 18 men and tor the families of eight, an equipment building and a water supply nlant. all nf relnfnreH Roads will be built to it. Work will not start for possibly 80 days. 0ice Job Waits - Ensign Roosevelt Boston. Sept. 1 1 . (JP) En sign John Roosevelt, son of the president, will be assigned to the naval air station at San Diego as assistant supply officer when he graduates from the naval supply school at Harvard Fri day. The assignment was an nounced by the navy depart ment. ClotiDt time for ClaMinad Ada a. in Tno Late to Claaaify U:io p Inexpenshe In downtown LOS ANGELES HOTEL CLARK nrrs and bill aery facility ens' ap pointment of thte bo "I bJ been elenaed Uv maatmum of oomfort and eobven Mno. Laret enough. In bouae e tbouaaod praone. eet email anoum to permit pee armal aeretoa Bad rrierxlllneaa to be trulr emphaalaea e eSee m!nute from nrtlftfi mt B) Tem.lnel OOMS 5 5 5 HATH. IS - minutee f rece 'HoUrwood - a SVoflbl ffatae from 92 bo N Washington, Sept. 11. (t?) The state department has au thorized consuls in Great Britain to grant permission to Ameri cans stranded there to return home on other than American ships, Secretary Hull disclosed today. For a long time. Hull said, there has been a terrific clamor among Americans in Great Bri tain. Europe and Asia to return to the United States. Between 75 and 100 In Great Britain alone, he explained, must come back within the next few weeks or lose their citi zenship. They are naturalized American who must live a prescribed time In the United States. Among others who desire to return, the secretary said, were a large number of technicians who had gone to England on various duties connected with the war and American assistance to England, and who now wish to return. Astoria Navy Base Placed in Service Astoria, Ore., Sept. 11. OF) A $500,000 naval section base, supporting coastal patrol ves sels, formally went into opera tion today. Commissioned by Command er M. C. James of the 13th nav al district yesterday, the base will be manned by 11 officers and 242 men. '"mm1 J SHOES FOR. MEN '5i7 fv Toa ara mTlte4 to eee oar XL &''''' eomplete selection ( fha i lAV newest Jarmaa styles foe r". M showing Im nr window. "Z4-Carat- styling, ' Perfect fltting qnalitlea, auid cs:- ' . '' ' oabtan'u,1 t' A Vy m,de ,rn"u Shoe Amer-' I V vV'lSl, lea's favorite in the popular' M. M. DEPT. 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