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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1955)
o o o o Cotton Farmers Vote on Market Quotas for 1956 Washington vV'.S) Cotton farmers in 21 tf.t vottd today on whether to ccrp marketing quotas on th 1851 eotton crop. An Agriculturt department of ficial expected heaa to rote heavily for quotf. About 1,300,000 rmers -were eligible to caft btlloti in the referendum. . o a he referendum vas ordered by Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Bensonwhen he set the na tional quota at 10,000.000 bales based on a national acreage of 17,391,304 acres. The 10,000,000 bale quota is th legal minimum which can af set. Two-Thirdi Vote Require In a similar referendum last year, about 359,000 votes were cSt, 92 per cent in favor of quotas. In 1954, tlmost 490,000 farmers approved quotas by a margin of 94 per c?r,t. At least two-thirds of the growers voting must approve quotas if they are to b contin ued in effect. If the producers approve quotas, marketing quotas will be in effect on all farms grow ing cotton, penalties will apply on excess cotton, acreage allot ments will be ig effect and price supports will be available at the full level of support to growers o who comply with acreage allot o ments. The support rate will be be tween 75 and 90 per cent of par ity. The exact rate has not been et. The 1955 rate was 90 per cent. The 1956 rate, because of tlie huge surplus of the fiber, is expeefcd to be somewhat under 90 per cen Extra Long Staple If the producers disapprove quotasfithere will be no market ing quotas for the 1956 crop, acreage allotments will continue in effect and price supports to eligible growers will be avail able at 50 per cent of parity. Farmers in six states Ari zona, California, Florida. New Mexico, Georgia and Texas also voted today on a 1956 mar keting quota of 35,300 bales of extra long staple, or American Egyptian cotton, to be grown on 45,305 acres. The producers of upland cot ton, the common type of fiber, voted in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California,. Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Ken- I'M 40?: EVANGELIST Arthur Arnold, above, will open a three-night series of services at Medford As sembly of God church, 1108 West Main st., today at 7:45 p.m. He is an evangelist and a converted Jew, who has had extensive min istry throughout the country. Services will continue through Thursday. Evangelist Arnold is a member of the national evangel ism committee of the Assemblies of God. tucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico. North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. Spiritualism Sect Plans To Build Home Newark, N. Y. (U.R) A rep lica of the famed Fox cottage, home of modern spiritualism which was destroyed fcy fire re cently, will be built at the birth site of the sect on the Hydes ville Road just northwest of this northern New York community. Mrs. Margaret Lewis, presi dent and founder of the Minis try of Spiritual and Divine Sci ences at Hydesville, announced plans for the building project on the exact site which is mark ed by a stone edifice. She said the replica of the cottage, which was moved to Lily Dale, N.Y., in 1916, will contain furnish ings of that period. The cottage also will house many relics own ed by the Fox sisters, Katie and Margaret. A memorial shrine park is un der construction on a triangular three-acre plot at the birthplace site. The Fox cottage was destroy ed by fire of undetermined ori gin on Sept. 21. UNFAIR EXCHANGE Covington, Ky. (U.R) Police here hunted throughout northern Kentucky for a trace of a ''dog trader." Douglas Brewer told of ficers a motorist stopped at his filling station for gas. After he left, Brewer noticed his full-bred beagle pup was missing. The trader was not completely heart less though; he left a mixed-breed dog. 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Tuesday December 13, 1S5S MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE Area Farmers To Get Share of Dividends Some 184 Jackson and Jose phine county farmers and stock men will share a $2,740.75 divi dend declared by the Southern Oregon National Farm Loan as sociation, F. E. Bowman, secretary-treasurer, has announced. The dividend is part of the 8359,000 dividend declared by the Federal Land bank of Spo kane, Wash., Bowman said. Read and Use Classified Ads Timberline Lodge Travelers Need Chains Salem (U.R) Motorists trav eling to Timberline lodge should carry chains, the State Highway department advised today. No new snow was reported overnight and chains were not suggested elsewhere. Spots of ice were reported at Wilson River summit. Sunset summit, Astoria, Santiam pass, Willamette pass, Lapine, Sisters and Seneca. 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