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1 . V 1 'Cross - Compliance' Provision Dropped From Farm Control Plan Washington (U.R) The , toughest-ever control measures last remnant of a super-tough farm control program went out the window today as Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson decided that drought and the flexible price support law made the program unnecessary. - Benson told a news confer ence yesterday that the "cross compliance" provision of the program, scheduled to go into effect next year, was being junked along with it's partner, "total allotment," which was dropped last fall. He said proposed limits on commercial plantings scheduled for next year also are being re moved. Would Protect Growers The "cross - compliance" pro vision would have required far mers to comply with all of the individual crop allotments set for their farm to get price sup ports on any one crop. The vegetable limitations would have barred plantings on acres idled by controls on basic crops as a protection to traditional commercial vegetable produc ers. When Benson proposed the last summer, he described them as a "necessary evil." Since then, he said, Congress has passed the flexible . support Fishing Equipment Looted From Cabin A Laurelhurst rd. cabin, own ed by Frank O. Stinson, 311 Vancouver ave., has been looted of a large amount of fishing equipment, according to a re port filed with the county sher iff's office. Evidence found at the cabin indicates the burglary took place some time ago, according to the report. Taken, in the burglary were a .22 caliber rifle, three bamboo fly rods, two steel fishing rods, four fishing creels, four fishing vests, and other items, the re port said. Entry to the cabin was gained by breaking a lock on a gate and removing or breaking a window. More than 10,000 colors, hues and tones comes from coal. law, the drought has reduced production in some places, and "it was our best judgment" that the controls should be dropped. More Allotments Due The action means farmers will just have to comply, as us ual, with any one individual crop allotment and there will be more than ever next year to get price support on that one crop. Allotments are in prospect for all six basic crops corn, cotton, wheat, rice, tobacco and peanuts as well as sugar beets and sugar cane. Rice con trols have not yet been announc ed but they are likely, As anticipated earlier, Benson also cut 1955 price support lev els of oats, barley, grain sorg hums and rye about 18 per cent from this year, moving them all from 85 per cent of parity props to 70 per cent of the so-called "fair price" level. He said the lower level will help assure the grains are mar keted rather than stored in fed eral warehouses and provide some . relief for poultry and dairy farmers whose dairy, egg and poultry prices have dropped recently more than feed prices. Exchange Student Gets Settlement Portland J(U.R) A $200 set tlement ha been received by a Nigerian exchange student, end ing the first legal action under Oregon's civil rights law against racial discrimination. Godfrey Ibom, a student at Portland State college, got the out - of - court settlement from Frank Leach, operator of the Athens hotel restaurant after Ibom had accused Leach of re fusing him service in the cafe last June 21. Otto Rutherford, president of the Portland chapter of the Na tional Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People, said the settlement resulted when the association told Leach that suit would be filed under the law unless an "amicable settlement" could be reached. Ibom, who was working for a cannery m Athena last sum mer, said he was refused serv ice because he was a Negro. The hotel operator denied this. James Monroe is the only pres ident in the nation's history, be sides George Washington to be unopposed for a second term of office. Tuesday, December 14, 1954 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THSE Truman Receives Fund tor Library Philadelphia (U.R) Former President Harrv s! Truman heads home today with a $58,- 000 check from the Pennsylvania Committee for the Truman Library Fund. The check, was presented to Mr. Truman at a banauet here Monday night and raised the total of contributions to the fund to $70,500. The library is to be built at his home in In dependence, Mo. Although the: former Presi dent discussed politics at a press conference earlier in the day, he declined to take any pot-shots at Republicans during the $70-a-plate dinner. The more than 800 guests, in cluding Gov. Robert B. Meyner of New Jersey and Gov.-elect George M. Leader of Pennsylva nia, shouted "Give 'em hell, Har ry." But the former chief execu tive confined his remarks to the importance of collecting and cataloguing presidential papers. He stated that scholars and his torians then would be , able to understand why presidents took certain steps. ' New trackless trolleys and buses are being designed so they can easily be converted into em ergency ambulances, according to the nation's civilian defense authorities. It's never too late for Boxed or Personalized Christmas : Cards at Walt Young's MEDFORD STATIONERY 210 East Main Phone 2-6780 Colorado's highway depart ment is expert in locating av alanche danger areas riear moun tain passes where wind builds up masses of snow on steep slopes. By analyzing snow depth and density and keeping an eye on local weather conditions, it predicts potential slides, usually within eight hours, says the National Geographic Society. 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