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
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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.
Hatfield ha$ been active in
the Citizenship Clearing House
committee of th legislature and
in connection with this body
took a political science study
tour abroad in 195
He is dean of students at Wil
lamette university and has long
been active in sta and national
educational activities.
Brazil, Ind. Uft Pennsyl
vania Railroad officials an
nounced a crackdown on "grain
sweepers." They said someone
had been sweeping leftover grain
from freight cars after they were
emptied and selling it at the mar
ket price.
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Girl-Scout Leaders
Gather in Convention
San Francisco (U.R) Some
adults in the Girl Scouts of Am
erica gathered today for the or
ganization's 33rd annual convention.
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The convention delegates were
to receive reports on the pro
gress of projects involving the
two million girls who are mem
bers of the Girl Scouts. They
will determine the organiza
tion's policy for the next two
years.
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