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.
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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."
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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.
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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)
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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."
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MHS Seniors Compete
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Medford High school seniors
will be offered an opportunity
to compete for 100 four-year
scholarships under the General
Motors National scholarship
plan, Lester Harris, principal,
has announced.
The plan provides for at least
one scholarship in each state
and 50 at large to any college or
university, of the contestant's
choice in any field of study.
Details of the plan, including
registration dates for examina
tions, are available from Mrs. El
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