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OrgDD Fannni Bureau's
State President
Slated To Speak
At Annual Meeting
Ben Robinson, Imber, presi
dent of the Oregon Farm Bureau
Federation, is scheduled to ad
dress the annual meeting of the
BEN ROBINSON
President of OFBF
'-Oregon Farm Bureau, Thursday,
Nov. J8, at a morning general
session to be held in the Holly
theater. , ,
Robinson has been a chief
spokesman for the Oregon Farm
Bureau for the past two years.
During that time he has served
as state president of the state
farm organization.
Majoring in animal husbandry
at Montana State college, Rob
inson first started his agricul
tural career by teaching at South
Dakota State college and then
working for the Land Utilization
Division of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture.
He now farms a 557-acre di
versified farm near Imbler in
Union county and has special
ized in growing grass seeds and
raising hogs and polled hereford
cattle.
Robinson also has been active
in state affairs, with appoint
ments to the state education com
mittee and the education televis
ion committee. He served as a
state delegate to the Washington,
D. C. safety conference earlier
this year.
Convention Program
WEDNESDAY:
8 p.m. Social mixer in Social room of Medford YMCA
with Jackson County Farm Bureau as host.
THURSDAY: 4 .
7 a.m. Organization breakfast in Social room of Med
ford YMCA. Address by O. James Price, manager, of West
ern Farm Bureau Life Insurance company, with Cliff
Wright, OFBF organization director, presiding.
10 a.m. Morning session at Holly theater. Call to order
by Fred Rueck, first vice-president of OFBF. Salute to the
flag led by a 4-H club member. Invocation by Dr. Raymond
Balcomb, pastor of .the First Methodist church of Medford.
Insurance service report by Charles L. Proctor, insurance
company manager. Annual report by George W. Dewey
executive secretary of OFBF. Annual address by Ben Robin
son, president of OFBF.
" 1:30 p.m. Afternoon session at Holly theater. Call to
order by Ben Robinson, president of OFBF. Address by
James Slfori, director of Oregon State Department of Agri
culture. Address by E. W. Tiedeman, director of American
Farm Bureau Federation dairy department. Address by Dr.
' Elmo Stevenson, president of Southern Oregon college.
Special tour of Jacksonville, with special buses waiting in
front of Medford hotel.
6:30 p.m. Evening session at Ashland Elks building.
Buses will leave Medford hotel at 6 p.m. for those not hav
ing transportation. Annual banquet of OFBF with Jennings
Pierce as ioastmaster. Speech by George Wilson, president
of California Farm Bureau Federation. Presentation of Ore
gon Agriculture Distinguished Service award. Annual infor
mal dance with music by Johnny Lu.sk and his orchestra.
.
FRIDAY: . , '
Morning session in Banquet room of Medford holeL
Meeting of the House of Delegates of the Oregon Farm Bu
reau Federation, with call to order by Ben Robinson, presi
dent of the OFBF. Consideration of resolutions by elected
and accredited county voting delegates. Election, first sec
tion, confirmation of nomination of regional directors and
department chairmen. Election, second section, election of
, federation officers including first vice-president and second
vice-president. Old business and new business. Adjourn
ment followed by meeting of OFBF board of directors.
Shrinking Markets Problem
Of. Farmers, Officials Say
Magic Show Due,
Here Next Week;
Sponsored by KPs
Ormond McGill, noted illu
sionist, author and entertainer,
will bring his "East Indian Mir
acles" show to Medford for two
days next week, it was an
nounced today by members of
Fuhat Burkan Temple 224, Dra
matic Order of the Knights of
the Khorassan, and the Nomads
of-Avrudaka, which are sponsor
ing the event. '
The performances will be giv
en at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. both
days, Wednesday and Thursday,
Nov. 24 and 25, in the Medford
High school auditorium. ,
For Spastic Program
Proceeds of the shows will go
to the fund for the benefit of
spastic sufferers, a program of
the Knights of Pythias, parent
organization of the sponsoring
groups.
Tickets can be obtained from
members of either organization,
and also are on sale at Com
mercial Transfer and at the
service station at the Medford
hotel. '
The McGill show features f wo
acts, the first featuring a var-H
ied selection of magic ' illustra
tions, conjuring and prestidigi
tation, and the second act fea
tures feats of yogi and hypnotism.
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SOUND DOLLAR Farm Bureau is for rela
tively stable general price level which is es
sential to steady economic growth and a rising
standard of living. Farm Bureau also stands
for a sounder value of the dollar for when
money loses its value the whole economy is
affected. Keeping : government spending in
line with income is another Farm Bureau be-,
lief for the way government handles money
and credit greatly influences the general price
level keeping the tmaget unbalanced helps
promote inflation cheapens the dollar.
Medford
Tribune
Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1954 Pages 1-8
American farmers now have
a greatly "expanded productive
plant, but their foreign markets
are shrinking, according to Ore-
Grange
Central Point Grange
Central Point Grange and
Juvenile Grange will convene
in regular sessions f on Friday,'
November 19, at 8 p.m. The lec
turer's program will be in charge
of the Graces, Dorothy Strauss,
Freida Smith, and Lucille Frink,
who are planning a Thanksgiv
ing program.
Final reports on the November
13, turkey dinner will be made.
Plans for an Anniversary
party to honor all members mar
ried thirty years or more and
to present 25-year pins will be
discussed, also, election of Juve
nile matron or patron.
Juvenile Grange is exemplify
ing the Juvenile degree on Sun
day, November 21 at 3: p.m. in
the Grange hall. All subordinate
members are reminded they are
eligible for honorary memer-
ship..and it is hoped they will
avail themselves of this oppor
tunity to take the degree. Alt
Juvenile Grangers in the county
arp invited to attend.
Central Point Juveniles will
have their final practice Friday
night, and Juvenile Matron Mar
garett Wilson urges all Juveniles
to be Dresent.
Election of Pomona and Flora
will be part of the business for
Friday night. . ;
ASCC Ballots To
Be Mailed Out By
Nov. 29 for Vote
Ballots for the forthcoming
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation committee elec
tions will be mailed to all elig
ible voters on Nov. 29, it was
announced today by Delmar L,
Smith, county chairman.
The ballots must be returned
to the ASC office in the court
house or mailed in, on or before
Dec. 10.
County and community elec
tion boards have nominated 10
candidates for each of the coun
ty's seven communities. Addi
tional nominations can be made
by petitions signed by 10 eligible
voters and filed with the chair
man of the community election
board on or before Nov. 22.
Officers Named Later
Up for election in each com
munity will be three committee
men and two alternates. County
officers will be elected later at
a meeting of the seven commun
ity chairmen. The chairman in
each'community is the candidate
who receives the largest number
of votes."
Present chairmen of the com
munity election boards are
Charles C. Chittock, Appgate;
M. B. Caster, Central Point; A.
T. Wattenberg, Eagle Point; Olin
V. Poe, Jacksonville-Medford; C.
W. Jensen, Rogue River; Dick
Westerberg, Ashland, and Lester
E. James, Sams Valley. '
A map showing the commun
ity boundaries is available in the
county office in the courthouse.
gon Farm Bureau officials, it is
urgent that national policies
which are adopted at this time
be designed to expand farm mar
kets to the point where they
will provide an outlet for pro
duction, they say.
In addition, they list the fol
lowing broad lines of action as
fundamental to the prosperity
of farmers.
1. Full employment, high
productivity, and a good distri
bution of income after tax must
be maintained. General prosper
ity is necessary for continuing
form prosperity.
2. Monetary and fiscal policies
which will contribute to the
maintenance of a more stable
general price level must be used
effectively.
3. Government policies which
tend to place agriculture at a
disadvantage with the rest of
the economy must be corrected.
4. Exercises of monopolistic
power by any group govern
ment, industry, labor or agricul
ture must be prevented.
5. Practices which restrain
trade must be prohibited.
6. Policies which encourage
rather than strangle foreign
trade and investments must be
followed. .
L. S. TIEGS
Field" Representative
Tiegs Represents
OFBF in Region
L. S. Tiegs, Talent, is Oregon
Farm Bureau field representa
tive for this region. The area
he serves ranges from Polk
county to Lake county.
Tiegs has been associated with
Oregon Farm Bureau for the
past tw years.-He works ' with
county officers in promoting the
organization.,
Tiegs, who' is married and the
father of three children, has a
small acreage in the Talent area,
where he raises poultry. He
came to Oregon five years ago
from the Boise valley in Idaho.
AF B F Da i ry Depa rtment Man
Speaker for Farm Bureau
BOY SCOUTS
Pack 44
Cub Pack 44 will meet Thurs
day, Nov. 18, 7:30 p. m. at the
Lone Pine school. This isi the
regular monthly pack meeting
for Cubs and parents.
Howard J. Veal,
Committeeman. .
Legion Commander
Slates Visit Here
Camp White Carl 'R. Moser
will make his first visit to the
Rogue valley as department
commander of the American
Legion this week. Accompanied
by Mrs. -Marie - Wilcox,- Grants
Pass, department president of
the auxiliary, and other ; Legion
officials, he will attend the 13th
district conference in Ashland
Friday and visit the VA domi
ciliary center Saturday, accord
ing to present plans.
Moser expressed his intention
of .looking over the present
Camp White setup shortly after
he became head of the Oregon
department. In conferring with
Manager E K. Ricker and As
sistant Manager R. H. Denning,
Commander Moser with "speak
their language. He, was VA
manager at Billings, Mont., in
1949 and before that , was as
sistant manager at Roseburg for
more than two years. :
Moser has held continuous
membership ' in ' D e 1 b e r t A
Reeves Post 7, Silverton, since
it received its charter in 1919
For. 17 years he was department
adjutant.
Posts attending the district
conference at Ashland include
Medford. Central Point, Grants
Pass. Cave Junction and Ash
land.
E. W. Tiedman, director of
the Dairy department, American
Farm Bureau federation, has
been scheduled to speak before,
the dairy commodity meeting'
Wednesday and Thursday at the
general session of the Oregon
Farm Bureau state convention
now in session at the Medford
hotel.
Tiedman has a wide back
ground in the dairy industry
and from 1917 he. operated a
dairy farm in St. Clair county,
Illinois, and was a charter-member
of the St. Clair county Farm
Bureau.
Oragnized Cooperative
In addition to his dairy farm
ing, Tiedman organized the Cen
tral Dairy Sales cooperative, a J
sales agency for the operating
cooperatives who were members
of the Central Grade A.
' He acted as general manager
of the Central Dairy sales until
early 1951 when he became
Chief of the Dairy branch of the
Food and Restaurant division of
the Office of Price Stabilization.
In May 1952 he joined the staff
of the American Farm Bureau
Federation as director of the
Dairy department.
In addition to his business du
ties, Tiedman is a former presi
dent and member of the board of
directors of the Milk foundation
of Chicago; former president
and member of the board of di
rectors of the St. Louis district
Dairy council. He, is also past
chairman of the executive com
mittee and board of directors,
National" Dairy council; former
national chairman of June Dairy
month; former director of the
National Milk Producers federa
tion
Tiedman also served as sec
retary-treasurer of the Produc
ers committee for evaporated
milk under the Evaporated Milk
License and Agreement; was a
former associate member of the
executive committee of the Am
erican Dairy association:
Wasco OFBF Man
Attends Chicago
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School Segregation
Method Under Study
Washington (U.R) The Jus
tice Department has began
formulating the government's
position on when and how south
ern states should carry out the
Supreme Court decision outlaw
ing segregation in public schools.
Government attorneys studied
b-iefs on the question submitted
to the high court Monday by
eight states, the District of
Columbia and Negro parties in
volved in the original , segrega
tion cases. The government's
stand is expected to be ready
within a week or 10 days. '
Welcome Delegates ...
WE HOPE YOU ENJOY YOUR VISIT
While in. Medford shop. at one of
Oregon's largest gift stores
Lew Wallace Anxious
For, Senate Appointment
Portland a-U.R) Lew Wallace,
runner-up Democrat in Multnor
mah county's four-way race for
two state Senate seats, said yes
terday he is "very anxious to be
appointed to one of the two sen
atorial vacancies."
Portland U.R) Robert Bon
ney,' superintendent of -recrea
tion and parks at Klamath Falls,
has been named president of the
newly - formed Oregon Recrea
tion and Park association.
E. W. TIEDEMAN
Dairy Expert
Constitutional
Committee Will
Urge Convention
Salem U.R) A majority of
the Legislative Constitutional
Committee will recommend the
calling of a constitutional con
vention to the 1955 Legislature
for the purpose of revising Ore
gon's constitution.
- Members of the majority of
the committee met in the capitol
here yesterday to draft a report
embodying their recommenda
tions to the Legislature.
. After spending a year and a
half examining and studying the
state . constitution, the majority
group came to the conclusion
that of the 18 articles in the con
stitution, containing 233 sections,
only 70 of these sections should
be left unrevised. All others,
they said, are in need of im
provement, deletions or change
in position.
Other members of the commit
tee who favor revision of the
constitution by separate amend
ments submitted to the voters
will file a majority report to the
Legislature.
. If the . Legislature adopts the
majority report, the proposaL
for calling a constitutional con
vention would be referred to the
voters. ..
Farm Bureau representatives
from 17 wheat producing states
met in Fargo, North Dakota,
Nov. 5 to discuss the wheat sit
uation. Floyd Root, Wasco, Ore.,
Farm Bureau Field Crop chair
man, represented Oregon at the
meeting. They considered the
present wheat situation and pos
sible ways of solving problems
which currently face the wheat
industry. Discussion was direct
ed towards increasing under
standing of problems and view
points and towards the . listing
of matters which should receive
further study by American Farm
Bureau Federation's special
wheat marketing study commit
tee. : Charles Marshall, president of
the Nebraska , Farm - Bureau,
served as chairman, of the Far
go meeting. Marshall also is
chairman of a ; special wheat
marketing study committee
which was authorized by the
American Farm Bureau Federa
tion board of directors at its
last meeting to : assemble facts
and "devise ways and means
of increasing the sale of wheat
in the markets of the world."
Other members of this special
committee include Flake Shaw,
executive vice-president of the
North Carolina Farm Bureau,
Ralph Gillespie, president of the
Washington State Farm Bureau,
both of whom attended the Far
go .meeting, and Charles Shu-
man, president oi tne iiuuuis
Agricultural Association, ana
Herb Voorhees, president of the
New Jersey Farm Bureau, who
were unable to be present.
Dewey Coordinates
23rd Annual Meet
George Dewey, Salem, is con
vention coordinator of the 23rd
annual Oregon Farm Bureau
Federation meeting. Dewey, ex
ecutive secretary of the group,
is scheduled to give his annual
renort before the meeting on
Thursday jit a"generar session.'
Dewey has been actively as
sociated with the OFBF since
1950 and has served in his pres
ent position under Ben Robinson,
president. .
Raised in Pregon, Dewey was
an active member ef FFA in Leb
anon and is a 'graduate of Oregon
State college in agricultural eco
nomics. ' a. . -
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GEORGE WILSON
-; Speaks Thursday -
George Wilson of
California Group
Banquet
Speaker
-About 7,000 plant disease
cause enough damage each ear
to be considered economically
'important.
"The "Store of a Thousand Thoughtful Gifts"
Welcome Delegates
To The Oregon Farm Bureau
. . Federation Convention!
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California's Farm Bureau
Federation president, George
Wilson, will be the featured ban
quet speaker Thursday night at
the Oregon ' State , Farm Bureau
Federation. The banquet is set
for the Ashland Elks building..
Wilson started his career in
farm activities in 1915 as assis
tant county farm advisor for the
Agricultural Extension service.
Following World War I, Wilson
was placed in charge of the Un
iversity of California Range cat
tle experiment station. - '
After his work at the univer- -
sity,. he went into farming for
himself, raising a variety of
crops. ' ' ,
Wilson's Farm'Bureau activ
ities date back to 1916. He first
organized 4-H clubs for boys,
was a county Farm Bureau sec
retary, chairman and director qt
a county Farm Bureau; state
delegate to convention, chairman
of the State Field Crops depart
ment, and came up through the
ranks to his present position as
member of the AFBF Board of
Directors. '
'The banquet speaker besides
being active in Farm Bureau
work, in the rural church and
was a recent speaker at the Ore
gon Town and Country church
institute held -at: Oregon State
college. , - :
Kings Highway Wafer
Job Hears Completion
Work of laying pipe for the
Kings Highway Water district
expansion, program' is expected
to be completed in about a week,
lb was icpuncu ivuavt auc vuu-
tractor, Sugg and Cox, will then
install the master meter on Ste
wart ave. and test the lines. "
The project is costing about
$58,000. 5 - ' v - 5
The board of commissioners
recently set Dec. 1 as the dead
line for payment for connections
at the lowest rate, which is $90.
After midnight on that date, the
rate will go to $150 for connec
tion, with later progressive in
creases in the fees.'' ; - "
GEORGE, DEWEY '
Executive Secretary
Board of Control Renews
Buying Recommendation
Salem (U.R)- The Board of
Control voted unanimously yes-
State Emergency Board purchase
of the Williams and Hart farm,
three miles south of St. Paul, as
the site for the new intermediate
penal institution. :
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Extends A Cordiial
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to the Delegates of the Oregon
Farm Bureau Federation.
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