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-
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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. Hubbard, Prospect;
Mrs. Phil Engle, Rogue River
Evans Valley; Mrs. William Zieg
ler, Ruch and Applegate; Mrs.
Frank Straus, Sams Valley; Mrs.
Ann Briggs,r Shady . Cove, and
Dr. Loren Messenger, Talent.
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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.
The President outlined rea
sons why the nation "must work
toward the maximum practical
use of our water."
The letter listed an increased
population, expanded irrigation
and industrial needs as among
the reasons.
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