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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (May 27, 1952)
i TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE V Tuesday May 1IM Farmers' Debt Higher Than Previous Years Washington ttJ.R) Far mers went 13 per cent deeper into debt last year and were $13,600,000,000 in the red at the start of 1952, the Bureau of Ag ricultural Economica said Tues day. BAE said a billion-dollar gain in short-term and real estate loans pushed total farm indebt edness from $12,000,000,000 on Jan. 1, 1951, to $13,6000,000,000 at the start of this year. Debts Hit New High It said farmer's short-term, or non-real estate, debts climbed 18 per cent during the year to hit a new high of about $7,300, 000,000. This excludes price support loans made or guaran teed by the Commodity Credit Corp. A spokesman said these short term debts consist chiefly of "production loans" money a New Poultry Disease To Receive Attention Washington (U.R) The Agri culture department plans to set up a research program to "throw more light" on the new poultry disease, "air sac." An announcement said that department officials discussed the newly-discovered respiratory infection with poultry patholo gists from seven states last week. Several experts attended the meeting, the department said, and agreed to visit areas in Delaware, Maryland, and Georgia where "air sac disease" Is most prevalent. farmer borrows to buy cattle, feed, or farm machinery. The report said there was an 8 per cent gain in farm-mortgage debts during the past year. This was one of the largest per centage increases since 1920. BAE said mortgage indebtedness rose in every state and hit a na tional total of $6,299,576,000. This increase lifted the farm mortgage debt to near 1942 lev els, BAE said, but left it still well below the $10,785,621,000 peak hit on Jan. 1, 1923. BAE said the value of mortgageable property at the start of this year was much higher than in either of the two other high mortoage years. Soil Conservation Payments Extended Washington U.R) President Truman signed a bill Monday extending for two years the pres ent program of direct federal payments to farmers for certain soil conservation practices. Under the Soil Conservation Act, the payment system was supposed to switch next January 1 from direct federal payments to federal grants in aid to the states, which would in turn make the payments to farmers. Some states have not yet set up machinery for handling the pay ments! The bill would continue the present system to Dec. 31, 1954, so that all states could change to the new system at the same time. Rogue River Club Officers Seated Rogue River Rogue River Civic club held its final meeting of the season on May 23 and Mrs. E. J. Green, retiring presi dent installed the following offi cers: president, Mrs. W. A. White; vice-president, Mrs. Phil Strahan; secretary, Mrs. Clint Hawkins Sr.; treasurer, Mrs. Walter Kasworm. The club voted in favor of the library being moved to the new building which the city is plan ning to construct, as'the, library has outgrown the room in the Civic club building, and it was stated they do not want to stand in the way of progress. Member Added Mrs. C. J. Douglas became a member of the club. Guests at the meeting were Mrs. Edward Kron, Mrs. J. F. Buck and Mrs. Warren Center. Mrs. Center thanked the club in behalf of the senior class and the school staff, for the senior breakfast served last Wednesday to the 25 seniors. Superinten dent Warren Center and Mrs. Center, Class Advisor John Knutson and his wife, and Dr. and Mrs. D. F. Barnett, speaker. Breakfast consisted of sausag es and scrambled eggs and bis cuits. Mrs. Dorothy Green, presi dent of the club presided and Mrs. Othello Strahan was toast mistress. Table decorations were in class colors of red and white flowers. Place cards were red sailboats with white sails. Red rose is the class flower. Hoffman Sees Ike " Solid South Winner Los Angeles (U.R) Paul G. Hoffman, former Economic Co operation administration direc tor, says Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower could "break the solid South" as the Republican party's presidential nominee. Hoffman, chairman of the ad visory committee of the national Eisenhower movement, told a meeting of Eisenhower support ers Monday night that the gen eral could carry "five and per haps six" southern states in the November election. He named Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas as the states he believed would swing to Eisenhower if he is nominated. TLEASE' COSTLY " Santa Monica, Calif. (U.R) Douglas Aircraft Co. said Tues day it would save $250 a year by deleting the word "please" from its notices. The company figured elimination of the costly cour tesy would save five 40-hour work weeks each year. Dead line Sunday Clajflfiedi iM at noon Saturday!. 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