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0 Thursday, December 8, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVBjg Expected To tween rice ousewite an Spread Farmer Grow Larger O New Navy Jet Plane Crashes in Flames Patuxent, Md. (U.R) The first model of a revolutionary Navy jet bomber, considered the potential forrunner of an atomic powered airplane, exploded and crashed in flames into Chesa peake Bay Wednesday. One crew member was killed. Three others were missing and presumed dead. Especially for YOU S.S. Teacher Training With Rev. Ulphin O. Davis, one of the Northwest's leading Sunday School ex perts. Director of the Evang. Sunday School Service Thursday, 7:30-9:30 P.M. MEDFORD FRIENDS CHURCH Merriman t DeBarr Ave. Rev. Clynlbn Crisman, Pastor Friday ' 7:30 9:30 p.m. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH North Central at Fiftji QRev. James W. Neely, Pastor YOU ARE WELCOME Iff- llf The plane was the 600-mile-an- hour Seamaster, powered by four turbojet engines and only recently ordered into produc tion at the Glenn L. Martin Co. of Baltimore. Divers Seek Bodies A salvage barge began pulling wreckage from 55-foot-deep wa ters of the bay today. Divers searched for the bodies of the missing men. The Navy had fostered great hopes for the new plane. It was hailed as the world's first multi jet seaplane and compared favor ably in range and speed with modern land-based bombers. The Air Force was interested in the Seamaster as possibly being capable of carrying the first atomic plane engine when it is developed. An atomic plane would require an extremely heavy airframe and broad areas for takeoff and landings. The Seamaster would have almost limitless ocean runways on which to operate. Nevy Probe Underway Navy investigators began an intensive effort to determine why the first model crashed. A second Seamaster, fitted out with complete military equip ment, will be ready to enter the water for initial taxiing tests near Martin's Baltimore plant later this month. A. company spokesman said he saw no im mediate reason to postpone the tests. Maryland state police identi fied the man whose body was recovered as James Hentschel of Baltimore, flight test engineer. The Navy identified the miss ing as Maurice Bernhard of Towson, Md., the pilot; Herbert Scudder of Chase, Md., senior flight engineer, and Lt. Cmdr. Victor Utgoff of the Patuxent Naval Air Station, Navy project officer.- Hentschel was thrown clear of the plane when it exploded. His parachute opened as he fell but his head apparently was crushed when he was thrown from the plane. Routine Test Flight The Seamaster crashed six miles south of Point Lookout, Md., just below where the Poto mac river enters the bay. It was on a routine test flight from the Martin plant. D. H. Buus, control tower op erator at Webster Field, an aux iliary field near Patuxent Naval Air Base, said the huge seaplane exploded at an altitude of about Jury Picked for Trial Of Reyes at Corvallis Corvallis (U.R) A jury of nine men and three women was chosen late yesterday in the trial of Martin Reyes for the shoot ing of James Appelgate, a Ben ton county posseman. The 12 jurors were selected from an original panel of 82 names. A man alternate was se lected from an additional list of 20 names. The 13 were chosen after 51 persons had been questioned. RILEA'S KIN DIES Portland (U.P.) Mrs. Grace Coe Webster, 72, mother-in-law of Oregon Adjutant General Thomas J. Rilea, died yesterday in a local hospital. 5,000 feet. Buus, who watched through field glasses, said: "All of a sudden there was a flash and then flames, sort of in combination and right behind the two starboard engines. They had exploded. Then, almost right after, the engines of the other side blew up." He said the plane then "just nosed over and went straight down." Use Tribune Want Ads Parsons Herd Tops November DHIA List Owner of the top dairy herd for the month of November -is J. E. Parsons, according to fig ures released Tuesday by the Jackson Count' Dairy Herd Im provement association. Parsons' herd of 34 cows pro duced an average of 40.6 pounds of butterfat each and an average of 755 pounds of milk. Other top herds for Novem ber were the P. K. Nelson herd with 25 cows which produced an average -of 40.3 pounds but terfat and 698 pounds of milk; the R. L. and Blanche Wyant herd with 28 cows producing 40.2 pounds of butterfat and 633 pounds of milk; the J. H. Stan ley herd, with 42 cows produc ing 37.8 pounds of butterfat and 633 pounds of milk; and the E. B. Poyer herd with 14 cows producing 35.0 pounds of but terfat and 591 pounds of milk. The top cow of the month was Shorty, owned by Minear Bro thers. Shorty produced 106.9 pounds of butterfat and 1,425 pounds of milk during Novem ber. Other top cows were owned by Gilman's dairy farm, Straus rap You're Not Trading at the GROCETE RIA You re P aying Too iuch (Em SIXTH AND GRAPE STREETS OPEN 7 DAYS gj) A WEEK UNTIL V P.M. o IF YOU WANT ANOTHE TURKEYS LIKE YOU GOT A -WE HAVE THEM FROM TH HOSE FINE T THANKSGIVING SAME GROWER! o To Be SURE You Get the SIZE YOU ANT PLEASE ORDER NOW! o Fine For Stuffing k BIES as asiy weet Crisp C as JB SNOBOY 111 V CHRISTMAS SIZE SUNKIST'S FINEST DOZ. SWIFT'S PREMIUM BRAND Fully Cooked READY TO EAT SMALL SIZES GUARANTEED FRESH PACK REPEAT SPECIAL Sorry We Ran O Last Week ut 1 8 lb. YOUNG, TENDER, LEAN CENTER CUT, SHOULDER U.S. GRADED "CHOICE" STEER-CENTER CUT 43 MORRELL'S PRIDE-SEALED, CELLO WRAPPED Old Fashioned Thick Sliced POUND PACKAGE YOUNG, TENDER-VERY MEATY SMALL SIZE U.S. GRADED "CHOICE" STEER-WELL TRIMMED Aged To Perfection EXTRA FANCY NO. 1 COLORED MEAT TYPE - PAN READY u u NO WASTE TO BUY Meal prices good through Sal., Dec. 1 0, or uniil slock is exhausted! Article Explains High Food Costs, Marketing Bill Editor's Note: "If farm prices have fallen so sharply that the govern ment is taking emergency action to help the farmers, why does food still cost so much?" That question, in many different forms, reflects a wide spread puzzlement among housewives and others about the "spread" be tween farm prices and retail food prices. The following dispatch ex plains why the spread exists, how great it is, and why it's likely to grow even greater. By GAYLORD P. GODWIN United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) The farm er gets considerably less than half of every dollar the house wife spends -on food. And this "price spread" is expected to grow even wider. Despite bumper crops and lower prices to farmers, the Agriculture Department pre dicts that the housewife's food bill in 1956 will average about the same as in 1955. This poses the question as to why retail prices don't come down propor tionately to the decrease in farm prices. The answer is in marketing and processing charges. They in clude labor, transportation, pro cessing, wholesaling, retailing, profits of firms making and sell ing food products in short, all me services connected with looa handling. The cost of these serv ices has increased steadily in recent years and the outlook. for next year is "further moderate increases. Consumer Pays Cost The cost comes out of the con sumer's food dollar. The market ing bill for 1955 is estimated at $28,000,000,000 dollars. This is 60 per cent of the $46,300,000,- 000 that housewives will spend across- the grocery counter for farm produced goods. Forty cents for each food dollar goes to the farmer. The Department of Agricul ture computes the farmer's share and the marketing bill through use of a "typical mar ket basket" for average wage earners or clerical workers .in an urban community. The bas ket contains all farm-produced foods. Fish are excluded. In the latest report July-September all items of the market basket cost at retail $983.35. Of this, the farmer's share was $393.25, or 4 per cent. The 60 per cent marketing bill was $590.10. The farmer does not get the same per cent of return on all items. For example, a pound loaf of bread in the market bas ket retails at 17.7 cents. The bread contains 0.912 pounds of wheat worth at the farm 2.5 cents, or 14 per cent of the cost of the loaf. The marketing bill which in this case includes mill ing the wheat into flour, adding other ingredients and baking it into bread is 15.2 cents. Sieer-on-lhe-Hoof A pound of choice grade beef retailing at 67.4 cents represents 2.16 pounds of choice grade steer-on-the-hoof. The marketing charge on the pound of beef is 26.5 cents, leaving the . farmer 40.9 cents, or 61 per cent. Most of the marketinr costs are fixed. They do not fluctuate like the Drices received by farmers. Therefore lower prices at the farm do not bring any where near as much of a reduc tion at retail. Furthermore, many consumers have been willing to pay for the convenience of getting foods al ready prepared or partly pre pared for the table, and the pro cessing cost m these is oi course proportionately higher. Coast Crab Fishermen Protest Cut in Prices Charleston, Ore. (U.R) Crab fishermen at Coos Bay, neeas port and Newport tied up their crab boats yesterday to protest, a price cut by local crab dealers. Fishermen voted 34-1 to halt operations until local crab deal ers pay 13 cents a pound for their catch. Dealers cut prices to 11 cents a pound following a 2-cent drop by San Francisco dealers. Tillage in either fall or spring to germinate and kill wild oats should be shallow. Bandit Escapes In Portland Crowd Portland (U.R) A bandit escaped on foot through crowds of Christmas shoppers laS yes terday afternoon after holding up a downtown loan company. The bandit obtained $1070 from the Budget Industrial Loan company. Patty Schach, loan office cash ier, said the bandit placed a rumpled paper sack on her counter and, keeping his hand in his'pocket as if holding a gun, demanded all her money. He fled, on foot before she could get help, Miss Schach said. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday. 10 a.m Monday for Monday, other days 5:30 oreviousday. Brothers. Jean Bitterling, R. L and Blanche Wyant. Victor and Nita Birdseye, Richard Wester- berg, P. K. Nelson, and J. H. Stanley. 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