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Tuesday. NoT6mbr 8, 1953 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREK Cotton Crop Production Expected Washington (U.R) The Agri culture Department today esti mated 14,843,000 bales of cotton vill be produced this year, up 915,000 bales or nearly seven per cent from last month's fore cast. The estimate, based on con ditions Nov. 1 when the crop was virtually all harvested, com pares with output last year of 13,696,000 bales and 10-year av erage production of 12,952,000 bales. This year's prospective crop, combined with a carryover of more than 11,000,000 bales, will meet consumption demands both foreign and domestic for about two years. The supply of the fiber is so great the Secretary of Agricul ture Ezra T. Eenson already or dered a four per cent cut in cotton acreage for 1956 in an effort to cut down the mounting surplus. He has set the 1956 acreage at 17,391,304 acres and proclaimed a national market ing quota of 10,000,000 bale's, the minimum required by law. Farmers will vote on the mar keting referendum Dec. 13. The 1955 acreage allotment of 18,113,208 acres atao was sup posed to produce 10,000,000 bales. The crop was underplant- ed and actually was grown on 16,514,000 acres. Favorable tech niques shot the production far above the marketing quota. The Crop Reporting Board estimated cotton yields this year will average a phenomenal 431 pounds of lint an acre. This compares with last year's 431 pounds the previous record and a 10-year average of 279 pounds. Veterans Day Plans Slated Final plans for Veteran's Day observance will be announced at a meeting of the Medford Ameri. can Legion post 15 at 8 p.m. to- day, M. E. (Bud) Fisher, com mander, said today. Fisher urged legion members to attend today's meeting and Veterans Day, Nov. 11. The reg ular French 75 breakfast will be held between 7 and 10 a.m., and following a parade there will be a Dugout. A membership stag party of the Medford and Central Point posts was held recently in Cen tral Point at which Congress man Harris Ellsworth spoke. De partment Vice-Commander Don Eva of Portland conducted ini tiation ceremonies. Use Mail Trinune Want Ads Read and Use Classified Ads. . . The Community' Biggest Marketplace Nor field s m OPEN WED. 'TIL 9 Hand -Rubbed CcSf dds festre to the craftsman's towch . m smartly tailored Red Cross Shoes. , Ingest selling bremd of fine $Q95 $f095 looweor "n the wor W. Styles from m to I Am t NORFIELD'S SHOE STORE "Southern Oregon's Oldest Shoe Concern" 221 East Main St, Phone 2-2123 t hm the Isssk C',: f A it y l PROMOTING 1935-56 SCHOOL savings plan, Margo Humphrey, 13-year-old granddaughter of Treasury Secretary George M. and Mrs. Humphrey, holds savings bond poster which will be presented in certificate form to all students who enroll iri plan. (International) Committee Urged To Force Benson To Halt Farm Income Decline Stillwater, Okla. U.R) Oklahoma Gov. Raymond Gary (D.) called on the Senate Agri culture committee today to "force" Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson to halt the de cline in farm income. Gary's demand came in a statement filed with the commit tee here as it opened the 11th in a series of coast-to-coast "grass roots" hearings to gather advice on farm price supports. Further hearings this week were scheduled tomorrow and Thursday at Alexandria, La., and Saturday at Macon, Ga. Sen. A. S. (Mike) Monroney (D-Okla.), joined Gary's blast at the Republican administration in a statement saying Benson's flexible price support program has "completely failed." Regain Parity Income Farm prices are made in Wash ington by the administratiton and Congress, Gary asserted. "That is why Congress must . . . force the secretary of agriculture to immediately reinstitute pro grams halting the 'price' decline and regaining parity income for farm families," the governor said. "We beg for, a working farm program but we get only plati tudes and evasions," from the administration, he charged. Gary offered the committee his own farm program which includ ed supports at 100 per cent of the "fair income" parity level on all farm commodities. This would be 10 per cent above the ceiling provided in the administration's 75-90 per cent of parity flexible supports scale. Earlier, three Republican members of the Senate commit tee criticized their party's charge that the committee's tour is part of a Democratic "smear cam paign." Statement Criticized "A very unfortunate state ment," said Sen. Milton R. Young, (R-ND), and Sens. An drew F. Schoeppel (R-Kan.), and Edward J. Thye, (R-Minn.), con curred. Young said the charge, issued by the GOP National commit tee, indicated "a lack of under standing on the committee's part." Monroney said in his prepared statement that the "continued to bogganing" of farm prices is a result of the administration's "sliding parity supports that slides only downward." The senator said prices of per ishable products, like pork. should be boosted back to 90 per cent of parity by govern ment purcases when they fall be low that figure. Film Actor Files Suit for Damages Hollywood (U,R) British screen actor Leo Genn sought $35,000 damages today in a suit filed against Russ-Field Corp., the movie producing unit headed by actress Jane Russell and her husband, Bob Waterfield. Genn said the corporation agreed to pay him $3,500 a week last July plus travel expenses to work in "Run For The Sun," a film being made in Mexico. Genn said when he arrived in Mexico he found that the script had been rewritten and the role assigned to him was not as im portant as it had been when he agreed to play in the movie. Leo Genn Productions Ltd. filed the suit, yesterday in Su perior Court." It seeks Genn's salary for at least 10 weeks plus his expenses. Kaiser Declares Quarterly Dividend Oakland, Calif. (U.R) A quarterly dividend of 18 cents per share on common stock has been declared by directors of the Kaiser Aluminum and Chem ical Corporation. A 37.7 cent dividend was also declared on the corporation's new i3A per cent preferred stock. Henry J. Kaiser, who was re elected chairman of the board and president of the firm, told stockholders "all key facilities are running at or above rated capacity, and based on a strong aluminum market, there is every indication that this high rate of production will continue for the forseeable months ahead." Chickens weighing IY2 to 2Vi pounds dressed are just right for barbecuing. Order Now Personalized . . . Christmas Cards On the It's Later than you Think! Give yourself time to ad dress your cards before the Holiday Season. To Exceed Land Lease Sought for Clackamas Project Washington (U.R) Portland General Electric Co., has ap plied to the Federal Power Com mission for a license to lease cer tain national forest lands for its proposed north fork hydroelec tric project on the Clackamas river in Clackamas county, Ore., the FPC said today. An FPC spokesman said about 25 per cent of the land for the proposed project is lo cated in Mount Hood national forest. He said it will be neces sary for the Portland firm to get FPC approval to lease the land from the government before it can proceed with the project. The proposed development would include a concrete dam about 180 feet high, a reservoir about four miles long with 7,700 acre-feet of storage capacity, a 43,500-kilowatt powerhouse and other facilities. Estimated total cost is $13,300,000. ion To Dismiss Filed by Attorney A motion to dismiss charges of disorderly conduct against Sherman Francis Egger, 38, Grants Pass, was filed by At torney George Rode in Medford city court today. Egger was arrested by Med ford police Oct. 16 at the Vet erans club, 24 North Front st. Rode asked that charges of disorderly conduct be dismissed on grounds that the Veterans club is not a public establish ment since membership cards are required for admittance. Municipal .Judge James Main took the motion under advise ment and asked that briefs be submitted. Testimony in the case con tinued with several witnesses scheduled to take the stand to day. William Lester Hurst, 34, 1125 West 10th st., Medford, who was arrested with Egger, is sched uled to appear in city court Thursday on charges of disorder ly conduct and resisting arrest. He has pleaded innocent to the charges. EL AUJA j EGYPT 2t a au STATUTE MIUS BIGGEST battle since end of Palestine war rages along Israeli-Egyptian frontier. Is raeli army launches attack to drive the Egyptian forces out of the El Auja demilitarized zone. (hUerrtational Sotendphato) Balcony at it .T.V.I A I HBfOCtl. CPSOMf AgAf A I V W Output of Humanizaiion Need Stressed San Francisco (U.R) Auto mation is placing a greater em phasis on the need for humanza tion in business, according to A. C. Beeson, former member of the National Labor Relations board. Beeson, now general manager of the Valley Fair Shopping Cen ter in San Jose, addressed 500 West Coast businessmen attend ing a three-day meeting of the National Office Management as sociation conference and equip ment show which opened yes terday. Because of automation, Bee son said, office managers can no longer be mere straw bosses they must stress the human needs of employees. ' Ear lie, J. Howell Turner, em ployee relations director of the C&H Refining Corporation, told the meeting that putting the right man in the right job is the key to the merit rating tech nique and increased office pro duction. Merit rating, or job perform ance rating, Turner said, enables management to discover immed iately if an employee is suited or prepared to do work which he is assigned. Sixth Graders End Magazine Sales Griffin Creek The sixth grade of Griffin Creek school won the annual magazine selling contest just completed at the school according to Mrs. Myrna Frink, principal. Sixth, seventh and eighth grade students sold a total of $697.25 in magazine subscrip-j tions sne reportea, realizing a profit of $201.63 for the student body. The sixth grade won a large teddy bear which will be sent to a child overseas through CARE, it was said. Prize-winners within the grade were Linda Painter, first, who won a flash-equipped cam era; Diane Roberts, second, a travel clock and Dean Evern ham, third, a camera. Mrs. Frink expressed the ap preciation of the school for the 1 cooperation of citizens who pur chased magazine subscriptions during the annual sale, said the most successful ever held by the school. A LOT OF SODA Memphis, Tenn. '(U.R) A man in a supermarket here moved into the checkout line with 38 boxes of baking soda in his bas ket. Tally Hanlin said the cus tomer explained to the checker that he worked for a railroad and used the soda to clean diesel engines. Mines at Yellowknife in Can ada's District of Mackenzie pro duce gold molded there into 60 pound bricks. A ton of ore yields ounce of the metal. Each brick, about the size of a build ing brick, is valued at about $25,000. Last Year Navy Pilot Killed In Crash of Plane Moffett NAS, Calif. U.R) An unidentified Navy pilot was kill ed last night when his single engine AD6 attack bomber crashed and burned in a plowed field 1000 feet west of the Mof fet field runway. The plane crashed just west of Bayshore highway, which runs along the field, causing a traffic jam which police straight ened out. Identity of the pilot, who was attached to the air station, was withheld pending notification of next of kin. CONVERSATION PRICE New Richmond, . Wis (U.R) Pete Blankenheim, barber, likes plenty of conversation from his customers and likes to talk him self. In his shop in this sign: Haircuts 50c; conversation 75c; haircuts without conversation $1.75. Blankenheim says its worth 50c extra "to keep me shut, up." We're Celebrating Our ONLY 1 ( y With .(- Irt.'-'. -ss"- I jj I ' - .. 1 WED TIL 9 1 Medford's and Ashland's Exclusive "Hotpoint" Dealer 127 No. Central Avenue 137 East Main Street Medford - Phone 3-5306 9 Ashland - Phone 9-5831 ? 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