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Wednesday, October 26. 1955 Hearings Start on Farm Price Props; Farmers in Midwest Declared Divided rOtJRTEEJf MEDTORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Committee Also Hopelessly Split, Mundt Maintains De Moines (U.R) The Sen ate Agriculture Committee open ed hearings on government farm price props in this farm belt capital today with a warning from one of its own members that farmers are "hopelessly di vided" over the issue. Sen. Karl E. Mundt, a Repub lican from the farm belt state of South Dakota, added that the committee itself is hopelessly split between advocates of the administration's flexible farm support program and of the old Democratic program of high, rigid supports. 'Qiher Antweri' Sought "But there are other answers and we must find them," Mundt told an audience of Des Moines businessmen and Iowa farm lead ers at a dinner Tuesday night.' Today's hearing is the third in a series scheduled by the Seriate committee, which plans to write new farm support legislation in January. At Worthington, Minn., Tuesday, the senators heard an excited audience cheer demands for the removal of Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson and a return to high supports 'on hogs and other farm" products. Iowa Shows Split Low hog prices have also stir red up farmer unrest in this state, where the newly-organized National Farm Organization has called for Benson's resignation and asked for - a government floor under hog prices. But the administration farm program aiso nas siauncn aeienaers in Iowa in the leaders of the power ful Farm Bureau Federation. Mundt's mention of "other an swers" to the politically touchy problem of farm Income was a reference to his earlier statement that a solution might be found in government land rental pay ments to farmers. . Such pay ments could keep farm income up and surplus production down, he said. Sen. Edward J. Thye (It Minn.) appealed to his colleagues to leave politics aside and write a new farm bill quickly when Congress reconvenes in January. Iiiue Very Serious They, who listened with other committee members to some ICO witnesses in earlier, hearings this week at Worthington and St. Paul, Minn., told the dinner aud ience "we can get exceedingly serious listening to these prob lems. We mustn't sluff them off as chronic farmer complaints. It's far more serious than that." At Worthington Tuesday, an overflow crowd of 400 farmers and small town businessmen booed a late witness who de Bounced the senators for bring- jjp wllilll BEAMING WITH HAPPINESS following Chicago wedding ceremony are Author James Michener and Mari Yoriko Sabu sawa, assistant editor of the American Library Association Bulletin. The noted writer and his American-born bride plan to tour the world on their honeymoon. (International) Guidance Clinic Membership Drive The Southern Oregon Child Guidance Clinic association's an nual fall county membership campaign is making good prog ress, according to Mrs. Earl Law son, county membership chair man. i The annual fall campaign is conducted outside the area served by the United Medford Crusade. The association . is a UMC member , organization. The number of association members in Gold Hill has dou bled, Mrs. Lawson said. Mrs. C. Norman Gail is local chairman for the Gold Hill area. Teachers at a Gold Hill school have a 100 per. cent membership in the association. . ing their hearings directly to farmers. Douglas G. Vandegrift of Al bert Lea, Minn.,a Farm Bureau member, said the committee should get advice .from farm or ganization spokesmen in Wash ington. "You are showing contempt for farm organizations when you ignore therii and hit the road like this, he said.'" ., "Farmers are much better off to depend on themselves rather than some salaried lobbyist in Washington," Sen. Milton R. Young (R-N.D.) snapped as the crowd cheered. Mrs. Lawson explained that the membership drive is three fold in' purpose. She listed the aims as creation of interest for new members in the clinic through educational materials; keeping the interest of current members in continuation and expansion to meet growing needs in the community, and helping finance the clinic. The clinic is financed in several different ways. , Local chairmen in the .various communities are the Rev. Ross Knotts, Ashland; Mrs. John Bohnert, Central Point; Mrs. W. H. Young and Mrs. Glenn Hale, Eagle Point; Mrs. Jim Sawyer, Elk-Trail; Mrs. Gail, Gold Hill; Mrs. Irving Thomas, Phoenix; Mrs. G. A. 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A 75,000 BTU Siegler furnace-volume heater can only be compared to a central heating plant. So don't let BTU's confuse you. Insist on high USEPUT with a Siegler heater. mi ka U. 1 OIL HEATERS ounnniniE Pror M crt your Settle Dean's Store ncke the "MATCH. TEST sr. far farther intofcrtton. Wilt 31?lar, cratranak PIONEER 'HARDWARE- HEATING DIVISION MEDFORD O GRANTS PASS 128 N. Bartlett 1 742 6th Street Phone 2-8043 o Phone GR 6-3286 Sen. Russell Demands Congressional Crackdown on Free Travel in Government Airplanes by Federal Officials Washington . (U.R) Sen. Richard B. Russell (D-Ga.), de manding a congressional crack down on free travel in govern ment planes by federal officials, said today airplanes are avail able for personal use of "30 to 40 assistant secretaries" of the Defense Department any time they want to use them. Russell said these planes often carry only a few officials per trip and that it costs as much to haul them as congressmen. The assistant secretaries gen erally are heads of sections with in the Defense Department. Ac cording to Russell, planes will take them to Europe or wherever they wish to go. He did not say whether the assistant secretaries had abused their privileges but only made known that- free transportation was available. Chides Executive .Russell's call for a curtail ment of free travel by govern ment officials at the taxpayers' expense was directed to other departments in the executive branch as well as the Defense Department. Russell 4old newsmen execu tive agencies use government aircraft far more than Congress does. His comment was an out growth of a Defense Department charge, later retracted as an er ror, that two senators had de manded plush air transportation to return them from European inspection tours. The senators, John L. Mc Clellan (D-Ark.), and John1 Sten nis (D-Miss.), returned on a reg ularly scheduled military flight rather than on a special plane flown from Washington to pick them up in Madrid. Wives Given Trips It was learned, meanwhile, that the Defense Department provided free transportation . to the wives of McClellan and Sten nis and two other senators and two committee staff members for a month-long tour of U. S. mili- Expanded Water Resources Plan Asked by Army Engineers Chief Lincoln, Neb. (U.R) The chief of the Army Engineers called today for a revitalized, accelerated and expanded wa ter resources program to combat the "growing menace" of both shortages and floods. "We can no' longer afford the luxury of procrastination," Lt. Gen. Samuel D. Sturgis said in a speech before the National Re clamation association here. "I believe the time has come when America must decide whether it is to permit its water resources to be developed sep arately and piecemeal as expedr iency and pressures may dic tate, or whether it will recog nize that water resources needs are not separate and divisible," he said. Nationwide Problem Sturgis said the problems are "nationwide in scope and must be planned for and accomplish ed as elements in a unified, com prehensive plan." Election of officers and adop tion of resolutions were sched uled for later in the day. C. Petrus Peterson, Lincoln, President the last four years, was not expected to seek, reelection, despite strong support. Salt Lake City was the fav orite contender for, next year's convention. Sen. Arthur Watkins (R-Utah) told the group last night that reclamationists "must go positive in arguing their case before the people. Cost it Repaid It is dangerous to assume that Congress and the American peo ple understand these principles" Watkins said. The whole burden Potomac River Pollution Worries , Washington U.R) pollution in the historic Potomac river is a growing problem. The situation was underlined this fall when swimming and diving exhibitions at the annual President's Cup Regatta were called off at the request of the district health director. Dr. Dan iel I. Seckinger, to safeguard the health of the performers. Dr. Seckinger said he was "shocked that such exhibitions were planned." Pollution of the river is even greater this year than it was last year," he added. The downstream stretch of the Potomac that lies between the nation's capital and the Virginia communities of Alexandria, Ar lington and Fairfax receives thousands of gallons of raw and partially-treated sewage daily. . A recent editorial in the Wash ington Post and Times-Herald de scribed the river as "... a foul, disease-laden conduit for sludge, little better than an open sewer." The newspaper called for a. con ference of the district commis sioners and governments of near by Potomac communities to dis cuss the problem. Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), ap pearing on a local telecast called "Our Beautiful Potomac," said he was "shocked at the pollution I saw and smelled." . . "Come January, 1956, I am going to make the pollution of the Potomac one of the major issues of the District of Columbia committee in the Senate," he said. - Rep. Joel T. Broyhill (R.-Va.) of nearby Alexandria announced on another TV program that he will introduce a bill in the next session of Congress to create a metropolitan Washington sewage disposal authority "to eliminate pollution 100 per cent." Weed Control Technique Saves Rose Men Money Riverside, Calif. flj.R) A new weed control technique expected to save commercial rose growers thousands of dol lars has been developed on the University of California campus here. ' A fihgle application of the i new chemical has been found to provide effective control of weeds during the spring months when growers normally are forc ed to weed by hand. The chemical, CMU, was se lected after hundreds of tests involving 15 herbicides, and its use cuts costs from a normal S60 per acre by hand to about $5 per acre through the chemi cal treatment. Help Enlisted in Search for Slayers Chicago (U.R) Authorities enlisted school children, utility workers and suburban officials into the hunt for the slayer or slayers of three young boys to day. The sheriff's office, state po lice, and city police, despite the support represented by reward offers totaling $30,000, were at the start over stage, of their ef forts. They admitted little pro gress in their hunt for those re sponsible for the deaths of Rob ert Peterson, 13, John Schues- sler, 13, and his brother, Anton, 11. ' Sheriff Joseph Lohman called upon the police chiefs of 11 sub urbs to meet with him as a co ordinating step. Presumably, Lohman planned to seek ' closer cooperation with them in a hunt for sex deviates believed respon sible for the crime. tary bases in Europe. In addition to Mrs. McClellan and Mrs. Stennis the free plane travel was provided for the wives of SensHarley M. Kilgore (D-W. Va.), and Dennis Chavez (D-N.M.), and committee staff members Arthur T. Hannett, the group's legal counsel, and Har old E. Merrick. McClellan and Stennis said they plan to pay at least part of their wives' expenses although this is not required by the De fense Department. An aide said Kilgore also expects to payis wife's transportation costs. Chavez and his wife are still in Europe and were not immed iately available for comment. - of reclamation, he said, "should not be carried by a few dedi cated men." "We should make clear that one of the substantial financial supports for the reclamation program comes from resources held in trust by the federal government for the people of the public land states," Wat kins said. The senator referred to the income from sale and lease' of public lands within the 17 rec lamation states. He said the in come . was authorized by Con gress to be paid into a revolving fund for reclamation purposes. Letter From Eisenhower Repayments by beneficiaries of the program of the cost of construction also were allocat ed to this special fund, Watkins said. When the people realize this fact, he said, they will un derstand "how false the charge is that all money appropriated for reclamation , development burdens all taxpayers." Fred A. Seaton, administra tive assistant to President Eis enhower, appeared at the con vention last night and read a letter from Mr. Eisenhower to the group. 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