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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN New Issues in Senate Tueiday, November 1. 1SS5 Farm Price 4 Support of First Major Oregon Farm for Land Pay Bureau Approves Out of Production Pendlton (U.P.) Ben Robin son, president of 'the Oregon Farm Bureau, told a hearing of the Senate Agriculture Commit tee yesterday that his organiza tion favored payments to farm er who take land out of produc tion. But I& said the government must enforce "cross compliance" to prevent acres taken out of one crop by government consols from creating a surplus in an other crop. 'Tough To Accomplish' This, he admitted, "will be tough" to accomplish. The hear ings audience applauded when Sen. Milton R. Young (R-N.D.) replied "it will not only be tough, it will break most wheat farmers if you force cross com pliance without payment for the diverted acres." Robinson said he thought "there would have to be some payment." He recommended also that plans for a reclamation project be temporarily "shelved until the farm surplus situation is eased, a recommendation the commit tee had received in other areas. Walter Ellis, a fruit grower from Milton -Freewater, Ore., said a meeting of 600 fruit pro ducers in his area agreed it was unfair for the government to support some crops without of fering them similar protection. 9 But Harry J. Beernink, Seat tle, Wash.' an official of the Washington cooperative associa tion which markets poultry and eggs, said his group was "con sistently opposed to price ceil ings and price supports." Opposition Expressed Beernink said national poultry groups had expressed opposi tion to high, continued, flexible, front-door or back-door support for poultry products." - Darwin Meader, Prairie City, Ore., representing the state cat tlemens' association, said the cat tlemen want the government to American Businessman Held on Charge in Korea Seoul, Korea (U.R) Amer ican businessman Fred Higgins, tried and acquitted by a Korean court last year on smuggling charges, faced trial again today on charges of issuing bad checks. Higgins, the first American tried in a Korean court, was formally indicted Monday for al legedly passing $4100 in bad checks. Trial date for Higgins, 27, Vinia, Okla., has not been set. be "ready to purchase" surplus beef in cases o? extreme emer gency as they did in 1952 and as they are? now doing for hog producers. Meador agreed cautiously in answer to a question from Sen. Young that low feed prices "probably will cause a little in crease" in meat production. 'Fringe Area' Sanitation Problems Slow Down Home Construction, Hart Says The fact that federal financing is not available for building or purchasing homes not connected to a sewer line is creating a prob lem in the Medford area, Bob Hart, county sanitarian, an nounced yesterday. Hart, who spoke at the weekly Chamber of Commerce round ta ble luncheon in the Jackson ho tel, pointed out that construction of new homes in Medford "fringe areas" has been slowed down and plans for at least one housing project have been drop ped because of the lack of sew age disposal facilities. Four Reasons Listed Dr. A. Erin Merkel, county health officer, listed four rea sons for the sewage problem in Jackson county. First, was the "bathtub" shape of the valley, allowing drainage from higher elevation to seep down and create a problem in lower spots. Soil type and the mean water level were given as another rea son for the problem. Most of the soil in the county is not suited to the use of septic tanks, Merkel said. He added that the mean water level Is so high that the waste water from an in creased population soon satu rates the soil, allowing drain-off. Difficulty in financing was listed as perhaps the largest problem. Hart pointed out that the cost of a sewage system was almost prohibitive in a fringe area without dense population and high property values. Bonds, for financing, can only be issued for (25 per cent of the assessed valuation of the prop erty in the area to be served by a sewer. In some cases, Hart said, this means that no sewage sys tem at all can be installed or only one barely adequate for the neetis of the area. When popu lation in the area increases, the system becomes inadequate, often, Hart pointed out, before it is paid for. , Project Plans Sroppod Plans for a large housing project in the Camp White area were dropped, Hart said, because the sewage line there is inade quate and the project couldn't get Federal Housing Association financing. People now owning homes are finding it difficult to resell them, in cases where FHA or G.I. financing is necessary, he said. Three possible solutions to the problem suggested at the lunch eon were the creation of individ ual sanitation districts; annexa tion to the city of Medford; or the creation of a large, metro politan sanitation district which would include much of the Rogue valley. John H. Pletsch, Jackson County Federal Savings and Loan association, was chairman at the meeting. Pickets Appear at Portland UAL Office Portland (U.R) Pickets repre- senting strikingaElight engineers appeared in front of United Air Lines' downtown ticket offices in Portland yesterday and began to distribute leaflets explaining strike issues. No flight engineers are sta tioned ' in Portland but Seattle units of the union sent the pick ets to the Portland posts. The engineers have struck the airline because of a dispute over job se ciirity involved in United's pro posal to use qualified pilots as engineers. The union said a com mercial pilot's license would be the principal qualification. United pilots (have not recog nized the engineers' picket lines EARLY . OPERATOR Maiden, Mass (U.R) Wil liam J. Pelissier, 94, was one of the world's first telephane oper ators. He worked on a switch board in Boston in 1878 as a boy of 17. Gasoline consumption in Nor way last year averaged 96 kilo gram per capita, fifth highest in western Europe. 'Rent' Subsidies May Be Used To Reduce Surpluses Pendleton, Ore. (U.R) Chair man Allen J. Ellender (D-La.) of the Senate Agriculture Commit tee, predicted today a new farm price support bill will be one of the first major measures before the Senate next year. Ellender said his committee, currently holding field hearings on the explosive farm issue, would complete its task of writ ing a farm bill in January. The House last summer passed a bill junking the administra tion's flexible price support pro gram and restoring the old Dem ocratic program of rigid supports on major crops at 90 per cent of "fair income" parity level. Rent Subsidies Ellender, however, said nei ther flexible nor rigid supports would in themselves restore farm prosperity. He told a wit ness who appealed for a "new approach" at a hearing here yes terday the committee "might be able to work out" a program un der which the government would reduce surplus farm producting by "rent" subsidies to keep a portion of the nation's farm land idle. The witness was Hyrum Gib bons, a Logan, Utah, farmer who also offered the committee a solution to the vexing problem of government farm surpluses $7,000,000,000 worth of wheat, cotton and other assorted crops "If I had a lot of stuff of ques tionable value on my hands, I'd just be trying to find a place to conveniently lose a lot of it," Gibbons said. Some of the government's wheat surplus is stored in sur plus maritime commission ships in East and West Coast ports. "Let's take it out in the ocean and kind of let it run out," he suggested. With Sen. Milton R. Young (R-N.D.) the only ' other com mittee member present today, Ellender was scheduled to tour three nearby wheat farms be fore leaving for Fresno, Calif., where another hearing was scheduled for tomorrow. Additional hearings will be held this week at Albuquerque N.M., Friday and Fort Worth, Tex., Saturday, e "" g2 i liandsonae new f- n i Handso'me outside, mellow inside yL no wonder Century Club li so PP"lar these days! 6 YEARS OLD $480 45 QT. Straiglit BcrliiJWTiisliey.-i86,3Prcof".JJaUonea OitiUeraL Products. Corp. N.v; Northwest Orient Airline Plans To Place Jet Order Portland (U.P.) Northwest Orient Airlines plans to place an order in the next year for deliv ery of jet passenger airplanes in 1960, according to airline Presi dent Donald W. Nyrop. Nyrop said that Northwest is reviewing both the Boeing 707 and the Douglas DC-8. "We want the plan that will do the best job for us and we want to buy one type of airplane," he said. Nyrop said the initial order probably would be for eight or 10 planes. Shelving Operations Changed at Library Shelving operations now in progress at the Medford public library will give added space to the fireplace reading room and will improve the order of books on the shelves so that specific authors and titles will be more easily located, according to mem bers of the library staff. The changes sf?so are expect ed to make circulating maga zines more readily available to readers. During the alterations, issues of periodicals for years prior to 1955 will be inaccessible. Old issue magazine service will be resumed as soon as possible. Two Sentenced in Circuit Court; Others Appear Two men were sentenced to three years each in Oregon State penitentiary, in Circuit Court, Monday. Sentencing of three others was continued. Claire Albert Hansen, 41, Po mona; Calif., was sentenced to three years on a charge of ob taining money under false pre tenses. Hansen wrote cltecks, to taling several hundred dollars, to seven different Medford firms. Three Year Term Stewart Ernest Partelow, 21, Ossining, N.Y., was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary for contributing to the delin quency of a minor. Arthur Vern Maxwell Jr., 20, Shady Cove, pleaded guilty to a charge of burglary, not in a dwelling. Maxwell is alleged to have burglarized O.K. Rubber Welders, 1760 North Riverside ave. Sentencing of Maxwell was continued pending receipt of FBI records. Walter Earl Adams, 33, Butte Falls, pleaded guilty to drawing a bank check with insufficient funds in the bank to cover it. Sentencing of Adams was also continued pending receipt of FBI records. Sentencing Continued A 17-year-old boy pleaded guilty to burglary, not in a dwelling. He is alleged to have stolen articles from two farms on upper Grave Creek Sentenc ing was continued pending fur ther investigation. Also in circuit court Monday, trial date for Fred Edward Stew art, 38, Payette, Ida., was set for Jan. 10, 1956. Stewart is charged with burglary. Automobile Executive On Atomic Commission Washington (U.R) Harold S. Vance, former Studebaker- Packard corporation executive, is a new member of the Atomic Energy commission. AEC Chairman Lewis L. Strauss swore Vance in yester day. Vance's interim - appoint ment to the term, ending June 30, 1960, was announced recent ly by President Eisenhower. MARK HATFIELD On SOC Program Hatfield Speaker For SOC Assembly Ashland Mark Hatfield, member of the Oregon state leg islature, will address she South ern Oregon college stugent body in an assembly Wednesday, Nov. 2, at 10 a.m. Hatfield will discuss political activities of European igouth in contrast to their American coun terparts. Those interested are in vited to attend. 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