EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Friday, October 28, 1955
Benson's Resignation Demanded at Agriculture Committee Hearing
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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.
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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.
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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. There was
not a word of criticism of the
farm program and there hasn't
been since."
'Phone Company Liquidation Starts
Central Point Final liquida
tion of assets of the former Cen
tral Point Mutuel Telephone
company will be started late this
week when checks totaling $56
will be issued to stock holders.
W. B. Kincaid, former direct
or and a liquidation trustee, said
about $33,872 would be paid to
former holders. In addition to
payments to stock holders, gov
ernment tax agencies will re
ceive final payments to complete
liquidation.
The local company ceased op
eration April 2, this year after
the Pacific Telephone and Tele
graph company dial system went
into operation. Equipment and
other assets of the local company
have been sold, and a portion of
the Central Point firm was pur
chased by Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph.
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