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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, May 11, 1950 r ' 1 I Acme Telmhoto) WATCH ON THF RED RIVER Anxious citizens line the Norwood Bridge In Winnipeg, Canada, fear lully witching as tile "rampaging Red Blver continue to rise. With three more feet ol water Bearing down on the city, Hood control authorities ordered the bridge abandoned and residents ol the area evac uated. Some 3000 homes and six square miles ol the' city are under water (Acme Telenhotoi RED RIVER RAMPAGE Floodflghter watches as a building, torn loose by the ever-rising flood waters of the Red River, floats down- stream past Inundated Winnipeg, Canada. Thousands have left the city and thousands more are preparing to leave as the wild river continues to rise. Jackson County Farm Notes Compiled by County Office O. S. C. Extension Service Tours for Farmers To Start on Tuesday Everyone likes to see good stock and crops. Some produc ers seem to be able to produce a better dniry cow, a pig, a crop ef alfalfa or a ladino seed crop superior to the average. The "why" of some of these questions will be available to those farm ers who participate in the meet ings, tours and demonstrations scheduled for this week and next. On Tuesday, May 16, the purebred Jersey tour will start at E. B. Poyer's farm at Ash land, and thence to Delbert Mon gold's La Pine jersey farm north of Eagle Point. If seed production Is your chief concern, then you will want to attend the meeting in the courthouse auditorium at 8 p. m. on Wednesday, May 17. We have word that some of those alfnlfa seed growers that harvested over 800 pound!) of seed per acre will be there, also those ladino seed growers who know hoy to secure over 300 pounds per acre. Perhaps your Interest Is in beef cattle. If so, you will want to learn some of the points to look for In selecting your foun dation herd. A beef cattle grad ing tour will start at George Nichol's farm south of Ashland on highway 99 at 0:30 a. m. on Thursday, May 18. The tour will continue to Central Point to grade some more fine registered neretora cattle on the R. H. Field and John Bohnert farms. Pork producers, or those con templating raising swine, can not afford to miss the tour on Friday, May 19, which starts at A. T. Lalhrop's farm at 10 a. m. This tour will then visit Mrs. Hanley Heffprnan'i Ross lane farm. From the Heffeman farm the tour will continue to the Charles H. Elmore farm at Applegale. The major factors af fecting swine production will be emphasized. Top Dairy Herds, Cows Tested by Dairy Group With two testers on the Job during April the Jackson County Dairy Herd Improvement asso ciation tested 802 cows under the standard plan of testing, and 250 more cows were tested un der the owner-sampler plan. Those cows produced 818.884 pounds of milk and 2,801.7 pounds of bullerfat, or an aver age of 772 pounds of milk and 3S.2 pounds of butterfat prr cow. Following are the five top herds and the 10 top cows test ed in April: Five top herds: Delbert Mongold. owner; 047 average pounds milk, 50.3 av erage pounds butterfat, 23 cows in herd, three dry cows. Jim Tate, owner; 982 average pounds milk, 49 average pounds butterfat, 23 cows In herd, two dry cowa. H. C. Callihan, owner; 1,238 verege pound milk, 48 aver age pounds bultcrfnt, 14 cows in herd, one dry cow. R. E. Van Deusen, owner; 782 average pounds milk, 45.9 aver age pounds butterfat, 21 cows in herd, three dry cows. P. K. Nelson, owner; 908 aver age pounds milk, 44.9 average pounds bultcrfnt, 17 cows in herd, no dry cows. Ten top cows: Design Golden Shirley, 2,025 pounds milk, 113.4 pounds but terfat, Delbert Mongold owner. Bim, 1,902 pounds milk, 91.2 pounds butterfat, Jim Tote own er. Roxie, 1,626 pounds milk, 86.2 pounds butterfat, Tate own er. Lcnne, 1,388 pounds of milk, 78.2 pounds butterftit, P. K. Nel son owner. Queen, 1.305 pounds milk. 75.7 pounds butterfat, R. E. Van Deu sen, owner. Norm. 1,302 pounds milk, 75.5 pounds butterfat. Nelson owner. Blnckie, 1,161 pounds milk, 75.5 pounds butterfat, Jack Caldwell owner. Star, 1,218 pounds milk. 75.4 Organ at Salt Lake City Rated Almost . Infinite in Range Salt Lake City (U.R) The thousands of visitors and radio listeners who have heard the or gan play from the Salt Lake tab ernacle of the Latter-Day Saints church long have known the in strument had a wide and beau tiful range. But it took a mathematician to figure out just how wide the range was. Using an electronic calcula tor. Prof. Pierce Ketchum of the University of Illinois worked out the figures for his friend, Frank W. Asper, tabernacle organist. Ketchum announced that the slops have "36 thousand vigin tillion" combinations. That's 36 followed by 66 zeroes. 10,000 Pipes Used The organ has 10,000 pipes. The console has 183 stops with two to five Dositions on. off. an octave higher, an octave low er on a combination of the note played plus an octave higher and an octave lower. Foot pedals provide 40 more stops. The choir and positif or gans add 33 more controls with various positions. In the "great organ" sections are 23 two-position stops. The "swell organ" contributes 29 more stops, the solo and bombarde section 20 stops, and the lntiphonal organ nine more controls. It's the combination of these stops that furnish the astronomi cal number of variations, not counting the difference when t,he organists play loudly or softly. RESERVE PRESIDENT Bend. Ore.. May 15 (U.R) Capt. V. L. Nunckamp, Astoria, was elected president of the Oregon Reserve Officers' associ ation at the windup of a con vention here Saturday. TO ADDRESS TRAINMEN Seattle, May 15 U.R) Sen. Warren G. Magnuson said today he had accepted an invitation to address the Brotherhood of Rail road Trainmen's annual north west association convention here next week-end. pounds butterfat, J. H. Stanley owner. Bell, 1.536 pounds milk, 76.3 pounds butterfat, Paul Stevenson owner. Dell, 1,503 pounds milk, 72.9 pounds butterfat, Mongold own er. County extension agent. Earle Jossy, YOU CAN COMPLETE HIGH SCHOOL Now - At Home - Low Payment - All Book Furnished No Claiiet DIPLOMA AWARDED If You Are 16 or Over Write tor Free Booklet AMERICAN SCHOOL Dept. ME0.-S-15 1 440 Broadway, OakUna U, Calif. irraet Address , , , City Sure "sorry mom can't come to the phone SHE'S AllyTlEP UP IN THE KITCHEN.'" Don't overload your electrlc'clrculti. When yoe build or modernise provide A0IQUATI WIMNO.1 SEE YOUR ELEC VRICAL CONTRACTOR Farm Bill Introduced As Answer to Brannan Plan By Vincent J. Burke United Press Correspondent Washington, May 15 U.R) Rep. Harold O. Lovre (R S. D.) today introduced a farm bill which, he said, is designed to provide record high government support prices for farm products at little cost to taxpayers. Lovre said in a statement ac companying the bill that his self-financing plan would insure farm prosperity "without using taxpayers' hard-earned dollars." The plan involves a two-price system and marketing quotas. Answer io Brannan Plan It is Lovre's answer to the administration's controversi al Brannan farm plan which also promises record high supports. Like the Brannan plan, the Lovre plan has no chance of en actment by this session of con gress. It does not have the sup port of the GOP high command. Unlike the Brannan plan, it would require consumers to pay higher prices for their food and it would require no sizable out lays from the treasury. Farmers would be assured 100 per cent of "parity" prices in the mar ket place for products consumed domestically. The Brannan plan would provide about the same support level, but would let sup ply and demand set the actual market price for perishable foods, with farmers receiving subsidy payments to make up any difference. No farm product is supported now higher than 90 per cent of parity; many supports are set lower. Parity is a price at which sale of a given amount of a farm product will return the farmer about the same purchasing pow er as he received in a past rela tively favorable period, usually 1910-14. North Dakotans Help Under the Lovre plan farmers would get lower prices only on the surpluses channeled off do mestic markets by government buying. On this portion farmers would receive only that amount which the government received In disposing of it. Lovre said North Dakota farmers helped draft his plan. He said it is in "substantial agreement" with a recent 10 point farm proposal advanced by Axel Beck, republican na tional committeeman from South Dakota and chairman of a GOP agriculture sub-committee. However, congressional GOP leaders already have thrown cold water on Beck's proposals. Some GOP senators and con gressmen from midwest farm states believe that the repub lican party should plump for rigid higher farm supports. Marketing Quota Under Lovre's plan each farmer would have a "marketing quota" which would limit the amount he could sell. The quo tas would be set to equal the normal domestic demand for a given product. If a farmer want ed to sell more than his quota, or "fair share," he would have to buy a marketing certificate from the government. The price of the certificate in each case would be set high enough to Shady Cove Residence Destroyed by Fire; Neighbors Give Aid Shady Cove, May 15 The home of Mr. and Mrs. George Hook, located at the corner of Long branch and the county road near here, was complete ly destroyed by fire early Sun day. Virtually all the family's personal possessions were lost. But before nightfall, friends and neighbors of the Hooks had constructed a temporary garage- shelter, where the Hooks will live until a new home can be built. In addition, the community it planning a dance and box social io raise funds io aid the family. The family includes two young boys. The fire was said io have started in a flue. offset the lass the government would suffer in disposing of the surpluses it would have to buy as a result of the extra market ings. The government would have a standing offer to pay the full support price for any product. The surpluses would go on the world market or be divided into the school lunch program or in to lower-priced, non-competitive uses. School Vacations to Start in May, June Schools in Jackson county will i soon wind up the current school year with a flurry of finaPexami nations, class parties and picnics and graduation exercises. Luckiest kids in the county are those attending the Shady Cove school. They are to be dismissed for the summer vacation May 19. Most of the other schools will I close in June or the end of May. Closing dates that have been reported so far to the county school superintendent's office are: Jacksonville, June 5; Griffin Creek. June 2; Ruch-Sterling, May 31; Phoenix, June 9; Cen tral Point and Gold Hill, 4une 9; Eagle Point, May 31; Lone Pine, June 2; Talent, June 2; Rogue River, June 2; Applegate, May 29; Elk-Trail, May 31; Medford, June 9; Wagner Creek, June 2; Evans Valley, June 2; Oak Grove, May 31; Butte Falls, May 29; West Side, May 31, and How ard, June 2. 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These items offered as is on the Water Department's property in Cave Junction, where they may be inspected. FOE? YOUR FUTURE ! A decade of prosperous days have been predicted ... a veritable decade of opportunity for America, beginning now. The next 10 years can. be glad and golden ones for enter prising men and women. These 10 years will offer each of us, individually, a grand chance to get ahead ... to provide for the future . . . to plan security for our old age and protection for unforeseeable emergencies. Now, at the start of these exciting times, make sure that you'll be financially able to take advantage of the opportu nities the next 10 years can bring. Make sure by beginning a plan of regular saving by regular purchases of U. f Savings Bonds. ' Do it through either the Bond-A-Month Plan or yrf roll Savings Plan. ' ' Remember, $3 will get you $4 in 10 years. , ' For your financial independence buy U. S. Saving! Medford Mail Tribune Tin's is art officia V. S. 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