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TEW MTOTORD fORZGOIf) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, January 5, 1956 art o Soil Bank To Be Farm Program, Congress Will Be Asked To Bolster Disposal Program Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower said today that a soil bank plan will be the heart of his ' imaginative new pro gram to save farmers from de clining prices and rising costs Mr. Eisenhower said in his State of the Union Message that he also will ask Congress in a special farm message Monday to approve measures to bolster the surplus disposal program, step up research, and promote new farm markets. Although he did not say so specifically, he indicated the ad ministration will stand solidly behind the flexible price support program which has come under heavy fire from many farm con gressmen of both parties. Mr. Eisenhower did not spell out the details of tl.e new soil bank proposal. But he said it will call( for "an acreage re serve" to reduce surpluses and a "conservation reserve." Democrats Blamed Congressional leaders who were briefed yesterday said the program will involve cash pay ments to farmers, who reduce their already allotted acreage on the four big surplus crops, corn, wheat, cotton and rice. "Our farm people are not sharing as they should in the general prosperity," Mr. Eisen hower said. "They alone of all major groups have seen their incomes decline rather than rise. They are caught between two millstones rising production costs and declining prices." Mr. Eisenhower blamed the situation mainly on policies of previous Democratic administra tions. But steps to solve the problem, he said, should be "above and beyond politics." What is needed, he declared, "is a bi-partisan, many-sided as sault on the stubborn problems of surpluses, prices, costs and markets, and a steady, persistent imaginative advance in the rela tionship between farmers and their government." Disposal of Surpluses Basic to his new program, the President said, will be a new ttack on the surplus problem through the soil bank plan and measures to strengthen the gov ernment's surplus disposal pro gram. Several House Republican leaders at yesterday's farm brief ing by Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson said the two phase soil bank would work this way: 1. The "acreage , r e s e r v " would be an emergency program In which growers of corn, wheat, cotton and rice would be paid to cut their, already allotted acre age voluntarily. They would be paid at current support prices, less estimated production costs, for the estimated crops they did not grow. 2. A long range "conservation reserve" 'in which about $350, 000,000 would be paid in the first year to farmers who take acres out of the four crops and use them for conservation crops such as grass. All Support Plan Although the form and size of the soil bank program will be argued, all sides apparently sup port it. The Eisenhower administra tion, Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress, all advocate giving farmers millions of dol lars for taking land out of production. Democrats have been talking C U 1 1 r: e J? m me idigesi iigures so iar a minimum of $750,000,000 for such soil bank" payments. Most reports have put the administra tion plan at about half this amount. A Democratic proposal gaining support also would increase the income of some farmers by giv ing them federal price supports of from 90 to 100 per cent of the "fair income" parity level for high quality corn, cotton, pea nuts, rice and wheat. Benson Increases Efforts Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson stepped up his ef forts to sell the administration program with two meetings to day. He invited GOP members of the Senate Agriculture Com mittee and Agriculture Appro priations subcommittee to a hotel breakfast. " - The secretary also asked Chair man Allen J. EUender (D-La.), of the Senate Agriculture com mittee and Sen. George D.' Aik en (R-Vt.), ranking GOP mem ber of the committee, to ' a luncheon in his office. Benson planned to fly to Key West, Fla., later today to con fer with President Eisenhower on the final draft of the message the Chief Executive will send to Congress next Monday giving details of the administration program. s ' - LEADING HOUSE in prayer, Rev. Bernard Braskamp, chap lain, is at microphone as 84th Congress convenes in Washing ton. On rostrum is Speaker Rayburn (D), Tex.( International) Ike Asks Speed on Water Conservation About 25 per cent of all U. S. cancer victims die before they are 45 years old. ... ... Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower asked today for "faster progress" on water con servation programs. He said in his State of the Union message that a compre hensive legislative program for water development will be sub mitted to this session of Con gress. Meanwhile, he renewed endorsements for two ' specific projects, the $1,000,000,000 Up per Colorado Storage Project and the $156,000,000 Fryingpan Arkansas project." John Day Dam Asked - He asked also for passage of a bill to authorize "partnership" construction of John Day dam on the Columbia river. And, he endorsed a bill calling for feder al contributions to the cost of small projects sponsored pri marily by state and local gov ernments. "The development of our wa ter resources-cannot be accomp lished overnight," he said. "The need is such that we must make faster progress and without de lay." Congressional action is already underway or planned on most of his proposals. The Senate has passed an Up per Colorado bill .and a mea sure is ready for House action. Backers of the House bill, how ever, are considering taking it back to committee for revision. Introduced by Coon A bill . to finance John Day dam through advance payments for electric power from private or public utility systems was introduced by Rep. Sam Coon (R-Ore.), last year. A deadlock Heavy Fog Lifts Along East Coast By UNITED PRESS A pea-soup fog which blinded New York and New England for days lifted today, ending trans portation ; snarl-ups on city streets, at airports and in the harbors. The murky shroud disappear ed about midnight in New York City, some 12 hours before the Weather Bureau forecast the sun would break through. A car killed a Brooklyn pe destrian in the fog, and, in Huntington, L.I., Mrs. Marion C. Hill drove her auto onto the Long Island Railroad tracks in the mistaken belief that she was taking the Pulaski Road. Mrs. Hill thought it was a bumpy ride as she rolled along. Then she heard a train whistle and scrambled out minutes be fore the engine plowed into her car. A new cold wave moved across the Canadian border and forecasters predicted zero' tem peratures, high winds, and snow for a wide area. -r ,,But farther south freak dry air sent the relative humidity readings diving. The 7 per cent reading at Trinidad, Colo.,, for instance was lower than that of most desert regions. over small projects legislation developed which sponsors are trying to work out. " The President also voiced sup port for more spending on na tional parks. "The visits of our people to the parks have increased much more rapidly than have the fa cilities to care for them," he said. "The administration ' will submit recommendations to pro vide for more adequate facilit ies.". . French Music Hall Beauty Succumbs Paris (U.R) Mistinguett, the ageless beauty of the French Music Hall whose "million dol lar legs" charmed three genera tions of theatergoers, died to day in an oxygen tent. She was actually 82 but for years she insisted she was only 67 and her friends who had watched her play the role of a beautiful young girl only a few years ago went along with that. She suffered a stroke on Christmas Eve and a few days later developed double pneumon ia. Yesterday she was placed in an oxygen tent by her 51-year -old doctor son who remained by her bedside. Mistinguett didn't marry until the middle 1940s, but before that she had many love affairs. One of them was with the French comedian Maurice Chevalier. It lasted ten years. Myrtle Point Man Killed in Collision Roseburg (U.R) Woodrow Wilson Chase, 37, of Myrtle Point, Ore., was killed in a head on collision north of here last night and four other persons were injured, one critically. Chase's wife, Gladys, 37, was taken to Community hospital in Roseburg with critical injuries. Also injured were their son, Wayne Chase, 13; Jerry Schle gel, 25, Forest Grove, and Tony M. Rayburn, 21, of Drain, Ore. State police said Rayburn was apparently trying to pass anoth er car heading south when he col lided headon with the Chase car. Officers said both cars were to- Cowboy Singer Admits Shooting in House Hollywood (U.R) Cowboy singer-guitarist Merle Travis, 37, composer of the hit song "Six teen Tons," maintained today he didn't slug his wife on the head with a frontier pistol but admit ted he did do a little shooting in his house. The entertainer gave up meek ly to police yesterday after they barricaded his home on a report by his wife, Betty, 31, that he was armed and threatened to shoot anyone trying to enter the house. Officers, armed with. riot guns and tear gas, had sur rounded the North Hollywood dwelling for two hours before Travis gave up. Mrs. Travis, although having called the police, refused to sign a wife-beating complaint against her spouse. He was booked on a drunk charge, but it was drop-" ped for a lack of witnesses. HOT OFF THE WIRE Smoke pours from the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris after fire broke out. Strain of broad casting election returns was too much for electrical TV equipment installed in the 905-foot platform. Firemen had to run up 1710 steps to douse the blaze. Only rubber in stallation on TV cables was damaged. About two acres of farm crops are required today to feed one adult, the department of agri culture estimates. tal losses. The accident occurred on Highway 99 three miles north of Winchester. About 25 per cent of all chem icals made in the United States are derived from petroleum. Within a few. years this figure is expected to be increased to ap proximately 50 per cent. nari and Use classified Ads The Community's Biggest Marketplace QUITTING BUSINESS SALE EVERYTHING TOGO! V TO W OFF Photographic Paper Filters Projectors & Movie Camera Darkroom Kits 8 & 16 mm. 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