POTATO GROWERS
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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- 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
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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.
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Temporary Head
For Deaf School
Salem, Sept. 11. (JP) Tha
state board of control today
appointed Marvin B. Clatter
buck, 30, to be superintendent
pro tern of the state school for
the deaf, succeeding J. Lyman
Steed, who died recently.
The board said it would not
make a permanent appointment
until it had considered all ap
plicants for the position.
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