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TTK MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tburiday, Octobtr 27. 1955 Politicians Exaggerating Plight of Nation's Farmers Benson Declares Storm Deliberately Kicked Up Without Cause, Is Claim Washington (U.R) Secre tary ot Agriculture Ezra T." Ben ion laid today politicians are exaggerating the plight of the nation's farmers. Benson, central figure in the controversy about farm policies, declining farm income, prices of farm produce, and the new pork purchase program, asserted that politicians are deliberatly kicking up a storm without cause. . i "The farm program now in operation is the result of a year's tudy and was adopted on a bi partisan basis," Benson said in an interview with United Press. "A farm program should not serve partisan political purposes. "Yet a determined effort is un derway to paint the picture blacker than it really is. Not Helping' Farmers "Some politicians are not help ing farmers much by their com ments." He answered with a grin only when asked if he-thought those persons who advocate a return to 90 per cent of parity price supports should shut up. Advo cates of 90 per cent of parity say it would jack up farm income. Criticism of the administra tion's farm program has been severe. Benson has been pres sured by high ranking politicians of both parties, farmers and farm groups in the Midwest, and others to do something about the economic situation of farmers. An indication of the severity of the pressure was the an nouncement late Wednesday that Benson had cancelled a trip to Europe: He had planned to leave next month to make a personal on-the-spot study of markets for U.S. surplus commodities in Eu rope and also was to deliver a speech before the Foods and Ag ricultural Organization of the United Nations in Rome,. Convinced Program Sound Benson is convinced the farm program is sound. He is convinced the present flexible support policy is cor rect and that farmers realize its correctness. He thinks .the vot ers next year will agree to its soundness. "A price support policy of 90 per cent of parity is a bankrut program," Benson said. "It never did a good job." . Ha said high, rigid suports stimulate excessive production, build up huge surpluses, and cause farm commodities to be priced out of the market. Flex ile supports, he said, will stop this by bringing production into line with demand. "We are right about the pork purchase program announced oMonday," Benson said. "It will offer help to the farmers. The timing was good. It will give good returns .for the money spent." Young Pianist Gets Praise for Concert At MHS Auditorium Medford Active club offered Medford music lovers a treat last night in the form of a con cert by a fine young pianist, but only a few availed themselves of the opportunity. The artist, a young woman of West Indian descent, played to an almost empty house at Medford Senior High school. , Miss. Mary Hill, who drew comments of "utterly charming" and "exceptionally pleasing" from those who did attend, dis played much poise, as well as line musiciansnip, lor one so young. She opened her program with a Bach fugue, bringing out the rich full tones of this com poser's music. Her talent was equally displayed in Handel's "Variations in E Major," which she gave its full melodious value, Substitute Number The artist substituted a Straus number for one by Beethoven, saying she felt she could not do . justice to the latter when play ing in an almost empty-auditorium. Her middle group of . num bers were less frequently heard compositions of Gershwin and Debussy, and she closed her pro gram with three Chopin num bers, the "Scherzo" being parti cularly outstanding. Liszt and Chopin numbers were played for encores. . Miss Hill's program, complete ly unhackneyed, was played with vitality and authority and deserved to be heard-by a much larger audience. Those who did hear Miss Hill went back stage, en masse, to meet and compli ment her on the excellence of the evening's music.- - One of every four school pu pils in the United States rides to school in a school bus. Princess Margaret Calls on Archbishop of Canterbury Amidst Speculation That Guidance Sought in London U.R) Princess Mar garet called today on the Arch bishop of Canterbury, Episcopal head of the Established Church of England. The visit aroused immediate speculation that she had gone to ask for guidance about her romance with Peter Townsend. The primate of the Church of of England received Margaret shortly after 3 p.m. in what could be one of the most dra matic developments in the ro mance of the Princess and the pilot. Margaret drove in a royal lim ousine from Clarence House to Lambeth Palace, the official London residence of the arch bishop. Eden Ducks Answer Margaret's visit lasted not quite an hour. She went directly home to Clarence House. , While she was in session with the archbishop, the government again ducked giving an answer in Parliament to a question Frost Lingers In Southland By UNITED PRESS A frosty cold snap lingered in the southland today and floods plagued the Pacific Northwest. - ' In marked contrast, a forest fire raged out of control in Mon tana woodlands and wide areas of: the nation enjoyed Indian summer. . The southern chill relaxed a little after spreading a general frost from Mississippi to the Carolinas. ' But local areas were still, in danger of more frost, with Tuscaloosa, Ala., thermome ters registering 37 degrees and New Orleans 41. In the state of Washington, meanwhile, a 150-foot rip in the bank of a fresh water slough sent flood waters pouring' over 1000 acres of low-lying land near Mount Vernon. The flood halted harvesting of broccoli crops and the weather bureau predicted rain for the next two days. Rain was a sorely needed commodity in Montana, where a forest fire blazed out of control across about 2000 acres in the Lewis and Clark National For est. The fire was apparently started by a carelessly thrown cigarette and it leap-frogged across Half-Moon Pass towards the Lewistown watershed. Japanese Defense Budget Asks Military Increase Tokyo (U.R) The Japan ese Defense Board submitted to the finance minister today a bud get calling for a 21,000-man in crease in the nation's military forces during fiscal 1956. To pay for the increase, the defense board asked the finance ministry for $287,000,000, a hike of $45,830,000 from the amount allotted for defense during fis cal 1955. SmW & DANCE TONIGHT -OCT. 27 , , : j P we 7 n fifirtf? MostCoforful This brand new show is bigger and better than ever . . with entirely new routines and specialties. ADDED ATTRACTION: Rosie and Retta ROGUE VALLEY BALLROOM "Don't Miss This Terrific Show and Dance" about her plans. Prime Minister Anthony Eden maneuvered the question period in Commons so that he did not have to reply to the same questions posed in vain Tuesday by Socialist M. P. Mar cus Lipton. Lipton wanted to know if the government would amend or re peal the royal marriage act of 1772, the law which would gov ern any match between Marga- Gang Saw Installed At Mistletoe Mill ' Ashland Installation of a Marathon gang saw, recently completed at the Mistletoe Wholesale company's sawmill, will provide a manufacturing outlet for small logs formerly sent to mills in White City. The new saw, first of its type in the Ashland area, will in crease production of the Mistle toe mill by about one third, ac cording to Arthur M. Peters, president of the wholesale com pany and owner of the Mistletoe planing mill. Installation of the saw re quired remodeling of the mill building. Total cost was approxi mately $25,000. Gang saws can profitably handle logs down to a six-inch diameter at the top. "The new Marathon gang saw will result in far more efficient handling of the logs," Peters said. "There will be less waste and more boards cut out of every log." iThe Mistletoe operation, which employs' about 50 men, has logs enough on hand to en able them to operate during the winter without shutdown, Peters stated. Marilyn Monroe's Divorce New York (U.R) The mar riage of Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio ended officially today, and the blonde star said she had no plans for remarriage to any one. Miss Monroe filed for divorce j a ?ear ago today in California, i oniy nine months after she and ' DiMaggio were married. She said her husband had treated her j with "coldness and indiffer ence." She and DiMaggio are both in Manhattan now, but going sep arate ways. Marilyn is busy studying serious acting at the Actor's Studio and. DiMaggio spends considerable time . hand ling his personal investments. They haven't been seen out to gether since June 1, when Di Maggio gave a party for Mar ilyn's 29th birthday. "I have no time for that now," Marilyn said, referring to any new romance. She livs now in ar apartment cn the swanky East Side of Manhattan and says she will only returqj to Holly wood "when and if"she makes any more pictures. ret and Townsend. The official question period again expired without an answer. So far the archbishop, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, has been a si lent antagonist of the 25-year-old Margaret's possible .marriage to the 41-year-old divorced Town send. Methodist Critical But he said only two days ago that the church cannot relent in its stand against remarriage of divorced persons because it "cannot change its teachings every few minutes." The head of the British Meth odist church likewise was criti cal of the Princess' reported ro mance. Dr. Leslie Weatherhead, pres ident of the British Methodist conference, said that even if the princess renounced her royal role, "her example does not make it easier to uphold the ideal of Christian marriage." For the first time Britain was Soviet MIG Designer Gets Order of Lenin .London (U.R) Radio Mos cow said today the Order of Len in had been awarded to Artem Mikoyan, designer of the Soviet MIG jet fighter plane. The broadcast said the order was presented to Mikoyan Wed nesday by Soviet President Kli ment Voroshilov "on his 50th birthday and for services in the sphere of new aviation technology." why pay mm The iEST-For LESS CRISP SOLID LETTUCE, FANCY SLICING TOMATOES U.S. NO. 1 FANCY YAMS or SWEETS RED OR RUSSET NO. 1 POTATOES FINEST LARGE, FRESH APPLES GOLDEN or DOUBLE RED DELICIOUS, SPITZENBERG JONATHAN ROME BEAUTY, YELLOW lliMBtf TODCK OR- TREAT Bandy Jack-o-Lantern PUMPKINS' ADO Sizes Uimveimteiry Every few months, we have to count stock, and oh, what a job. Please help us out by coming in before Monday and buying lots of Groceries. We will have a big assortment of good pack age and canned foods at Reduced Prices, to clean up odds and ends Real Bargains. For example: Minute Man Frosting Mix, Reg. 29c Down to 19c- Hundreds of cat.s of Peaches, Reg. 25c Down to 19c can. WHILE THEY LAST-Look Them Oyer, and GOLD ARROW STAMPS, TOO! showing open impatience with the couple's steady dating m the face of stony silence in official quarters on whether they wish to marry. Referring to the throne, the Manchester Guardian declared in an editorial: Olympus, we may as well admit, has been shaken." Weatherhead heads the larg est Protestant denomination in Britain outside the Church of England, which has strongly re affirmed its opposition to the marriage of divorced ' persons Stevenson Seen as Strongest Candidate Harrisburg, Pa. XU.R) Gov. George M. Leader said today that "currently" Adlai E. Stevenson appears to be the strongest can didate the Democrats could nom inate for the presidency in 1956. The governor told a press con ference today that Stevenson "is a stronger candidate" than New York Gov. Averell Harriman. But Leader added immediately that he is not committed to any candidate "And I don't intend to be at this point." THEY'LL STICK . Pottsville, Pa. U.R) The Tower City High School Band Mothers' Club voted recently for a name that would stick. The or ganization is now the Band Aides. EACH 4W 2 lbs. 29 WHY PAY MORE? 10 lbs. 39 WHY PAY MORE? BANANA WHY PAY MORE? YELLOW Romance through its primate, the Arch bishop of Canterbury. Second Thoughts Some of the wide support for the Margaret - Townsend match appeared to be giving way to second. thoughts as the constitu tional and religious implications were debated in public. The Manchester Guardian had already given its support to the marriage and even made the almost . unheard-of suggestion that in a modern democracy, Townsend, a commoner, had just as much right as someone of royal blood to be a queen's con sort. The Guardian criticized sen sational . press coverage of the affair but admitted that "the royal family's 'public relations' have been very badly mishan dled and that a great deal of the unpleasant invasion of personal privacy has come because of the ineptitude of the royal advisers Halloween Dance (Masquerade If You Like) r A CU DD I TEC F0R THE BEST AND VHOn rKICd FUNNIEST COSTUMES SATURDAY, OCT. 29th ROGUE VALLEY BALLROOM -at WHY PAY MORE! U.S. PICNICS WHY PAY MORE? '.sffg 'POPCORN" APPLES Tomme UMC Aims, Purposes Outlined for NOMA - The aims and purposes Sf the United Medford Crusade were explained by Dick House at a meeting of the Medford chap ter, National Off ice'-Managers association held Monday eve ning. Paul Anthony, program chair man, introduced Dr. William Sampson, instructor at South ern Oregon college, who gave a talk on- the training of elemen tary teachers. Numerous teach ers were there from valley schools and a number of busi ness persons from Medford firms attended. 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