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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, October 28, 1955 Benson's Resignation Demanded at Agriculture Committee Hearing (Vodka in orange juice) Gift Presented To Longtime Worker Fellow employees of William OR, Callender at California Ore gon Power company presented him a typewriter and pen to use in his continuation of a business administration course. Callendar, a linesman or Copco,, received a broken back while working for the company at Days Creek, Ore He was presented the gift by Dale Jefferson, assistant super intendent of the Medford dist rrict; Claude C. Haggard, direc tor of safety, and Donald R. Rut- ter. assistant safety director, The presentation was held at the Robertson 'School of Business, Callendar enrolled there at the beginning of the fall term. Leslie B. Robertson of the school as gisted. e Callender is a long time em ployee of the firm who returned to the Rogue valley recently from Days Creek where ie had feeen assigned for a five-year pe riod. Calender and his wife live at Central Fpint, witn tneir two sons, Richard and William Cal lendar, Crater high school stu dents, nd their daughter, Pa- icia, a third grade student at Central Point. McKay Receives Honorary OSC Degree Corvallis U.R) -Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay was the recient of an honorary docto rate of law degree yesterday at Oregon State college's 87th Charter Day observance. " Luang Suwan of Kasetsart univetity in Thailand was also awarded an honorary doctorate degree. Charter Day speaker Chancel lor Clifford M. Hartin of Uni versity of Nebraska told the audience that increased college enrollments were providing a test of the country's traditional commitment to broad and equal educational opportunities. Gov. Paul Patterson also poke briefly. o on Wot Wct BUY THE NEW to AUTOMATIC " t ELECTRIC 3 Water Heater Wash a Load of Clothes EVERY HOUR -All Day Long- ONLY $5,00 A MONTH NOTHING DOWN HOME APPLIANCE 115 EAST MAIN Authorized Dealer IENttAlOl"TRie Water Heaters Farmers Said Due For More Equitable Land Ownership Minot, N. D. (U.R) The touring Senate Agriculture Com mittee today heard new calls for the resignation of Agricul ture Secretary Ezra T. Benson and a warning that "we are due for some land reform which will distribute the ownership of land more equitably." . Oswald K. Ophaug, a spokes man for the Nelson county chap ter of the Farmers Union, told the committee in a prepared statement there will always be a "farm problem" while farmers are divided into classes by the size of their farms. Interest Said Not Served "We ask for the resignation of Ezra Taft Benson because of lis attitude toward the farm prob lem, which we feel does not serve the general national inter est," Ophaug added. Ophaug testified at the fifth in a series of Senate farm hear ings scheduled to gather "grass roots" advice before the commit tee writes a new farm price law next year. The Farmer's Union is strong in this state and many witnesses scheduled today were local of ficers of the organization. The echoed its attack on the adminis tration's flexible price support program and demanded rigid farm price props at 90 or 100 per cent of the "fair income" parity level. " Complains of 'Benson Blues' Under the administration pro gram, wheat and four other major crops are supported this year at 82V to 90 per cent of parity. Next year the range will be 70-90 per cent and Ben son has already set the 1956 sup port level for wheat a major crop in this northern Plains area at 76 per cent of parity. Robert E. Lee, a Larimore, N.C., farmer and Farmers Union leader, said in prepared testi mony he "highly recommended" Benson's removal. "My take-home pay is down to the point where I'm not making expenses. I've got a bad case of the Benson blues," he said. Benson is scheduled to go into Minnesota today to speak before the Farmers Day observance of the Moorhead Chamber of Com merce. Harry Bloom, a Taylor, N. D., farmer and county leader in the more conservative Farm Bureau Federation, criticized planting re ductions forced under present support and control laws. Democrat Wants lo Testify Acreage has been cut so far that farms of less than 640 acres "are no longer economical and efficient units," he said. Bloom recommended that price support premiums be offered for high quality milling wheat. He suggested that low grade, "spoiled" wheat now in govern ment surplus storage be dumped and destroyed. George Mikkelson, a Garske, N. D., farmer, told the commit tee neither rigid, high supports nor flexible props have solved the wheat problem. He advo cated a two-price plan a guar anteed high price for the portion of the crop used as domestic food with the rest moving at free market prices. Raymond Vendsel, a 3,000- acre farmer and Democratic Party leader, told reporters he hoped to testify to "counter Re publican propaganda ' against high price supports." North Dakota farmers are "disgusted with the administra tion of the present farm law" and may put this solidly Repub lican state in the Democratic column in 1956, he predicted. Rice supplies the major food requirements for about one-half the world's population. It is 70 to 80 per cent of the entire food intake in many countries. Benson Takes Defense of Farm Policies Into Minnesota; Denies Some Cabinet Members 'Are After His Scalp1 Washington (U.R) Secre tary of Agriculture Ezra T. Ben son took the farm problem to the people today. He flew to Moorhead, Minn., center of a big wheat, corn and hog area, to make a vigorous de fense of his farm policies before a farmer audience at a Chamber of Commerce dinner tonight. Much criticism of the farm pro gram has come from the corn belt area. No Split in Cabinet Before he left Washington, Benson in an unusual gesture Thursday called in press associa- 40 Per Cent of Phoenix Graduates Attending College Phoenix More than 40 per cent of Phoenix High school graduates last spring have enroll ed in institutions of higher edu cation. Some 17 students of the 40 who were graduated are en rolled in colleges. Registered at Oregon State college are Nancy Hammers, Robert Webster, David; Kelsoe, Martin Heitkamp and Larry Brown. Several of them, accord ing to information from OSC, ranked above the median in the aptitude test for college work given all freshmen.. None of those attending OSC from Phoenix were required to take freshman English, and were qualified to start regular college composition. In mathematics placement, four of the five stu dents from Phoenix were enroll ed directly into college level math, with one placed in a course of reviewing second year algebra. Three of the boys are planning an engineering course. Attending SOC Entered at Southern Oregon college at Ashland are Raydene Chisum, Kay Fisher, Barbara Hendrickson, William Garner, Audrey Hite, Doris Maesse and Brison Stovall. Audrey Hite ranked among the top five fresh men in entrance examinations, and four Phoenix High school graduates ranked aboye the med ian. Kay Fisher was one of three freshman girls elected on the ex ecutive committee of the assoc iated student body. Other students who have con tinued onto universities and col leges include Janice Stevens, Pacific university, Forest Grove; Donna Davis, San Jose Bible col lege; Fred Oldham, Oklahoma Baptist college; Ronald Vreeken, Pierce Junior college in Calif ornia; and Dieter Trost, Calif ornia State Polytechnic college. Ten of the 17 former Phoenix students are attending higher ed ucation institutions under tuition and fee scholarship from various sources. Scholarships were ap plied for last spring, and award ed at graduation. Eight Married Of the remainder of the grad uating class eight girls, have mar ried and several are working. Five boys are in the military ser vice and four are working. ' E. R. James, superintendent of Phoenix schools, who compil ed information on high school gradutes, said records of pro gress of graduates will be main tained to evaluate the high school testing and guidance pro gram. The program was initiated four years ago; and is presently under the supervision of Wil liam E. Ruck, vice-principal. The program provides valu able information concerning the individual student's aptitudes and interests, through which stu dent counselors may direct stu dents into fields in which they are capable of making a success. The RIGHT Food for RIGHT Now! - TRIANGLE X-TRA EGG PRODUCER Cold, rainy weather need not cut down your egg profits. Triangle X-Tra Egg Producer is a famous formula feed designed to give your layers the extra nutrients they need for better body condition to withstand winter con ditions. And, of course, this feed is packed with special egg-producing elements to help layers hit their highest laying average. Ask your Triangle dealer for X-Tra Egg Producer NOW. r -a xja m i In Mash or llit Farm SAMSON FEED & SEED CO. 4th A Front - Madford - 2-5295 03-6S N. Tillamcak POtTlANOU OREGON tion reporters in an attempt to scotch reports that some cabinet members were after his' scalp. He said flatly there is "no split in the cabinet" over farm policy. The White House immediately backed him up. Assistant White House Press Secretary Murray Snyder also denied there is a cabinet split. He said in a state ment that "the entire adminis tration is working with the sec retary of agriculture toward the objective of assuring the nation's farmers a fair share of America's prosperity." "I'd like to set the record straight," Benson told the re porters. He said the Oct. 7 cabinet meeting had on the agenda a "full and frank discussion" of the farm problem "at my sug gestion." He said he discussed the farm situation for 45 minutes and "then there was a free and frank discussion as we always do in the cabinet. Everyone spoke without fear." "There was no division on farm policy," he said. "There was complete support for the pro gram. We all expressed concern over the price squeeze and talked PHOENIX Couple Back From Trip Phoenix Mr. and Mrs. Guy Cobleigh returned the first of the week from a vacation trip of 11 days. With their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs Ralph Coggins, Medford, they went to Idaho Falls, Ida., and v:sited with another daughter and son-in-law and their chil dren, Mr. and Mrs. George Weh mann. From there they went to Yellowstone park, Wyoming, Utah, Virginia City and Reno, Nev., and back home by way of Ft. Klamath. While in Utah they visited the largest open pit cop per mine in the United States and watched the operations. John Whitman is very ill at the Community hospital in Med ford after suffering a heart at tack. . He has been making his home with his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Whit man. Mrs. Lesley Ferls' mother, Mrs. Grey, Woodland, Wash., came last Friday to visit with the Feris family for a few days. Mrs. Olen Barlow visited her sister, Mrs. Olena Martin, at Monroe, Ore., last week. While there her son Bill, who is at Corvallis, came to see her and her daughter Barbara came from Longview, Wash., to visit. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bisseger and daughter Avis visited with friends at Madras last week. Phoenix grade school young sters are being asked by the Phoenix Lions auxiliary to share their Halloween "Trick and Treat" this year by collecting old eyeglasses with metal frames. These metal frames are melted and redeemed for cash, and the funds used to " secure new prescription glasses for per sons financially unable to afford them. The need for optical scrap is greater now than ever. (Lenses without frames cannot be used.) When the children turn their collections in at the Phoe nix Community club on Hal loween evening,, they will be served refreshments. The auxiliary also asks that anyone having discarded eye glasses with metal frames that are not picked up on Halloween leave them at Gier's Drug store or the Triangle market in Phoe nix before Nov. 10. It is hoped that the response to this request will enable the Phoenix Lions auxiliary to make a substantial contribution toward providing glasses to thejrisually handicapped. about what we could do that would be sound and helpful to the farmer. "No one suggested that we turn back from the flexible sup port principle "That's the story. 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