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Thursday, January 5, 1956
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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.
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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.
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Detroit (U.R) A confessed! I
shoplifter who tried to fit the j
words of a popular song, "Six-j
teen Tons," to his personal trou- j
bles was in jail today.
Sherman Galvin admitted !
stealing from a downtown store ;
but said he was "kind of like
thaf guv in the sons." : p.
"I owe my soul to that store,"
he said. "If you send me to jail,
I can't go."
Said Judge John A. Ricca:
"Your body is my jurisdiction,
not your soul. Thirty days."
Arizona gains about 38,000
persons in an average year by
incoming residents.
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