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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.
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