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Bke Offers 9-Point Program for Easing Plight of Farmers '.- (Continued From Pag 1) age allotffed to farmers for grow ing5 wheat and cotton. This would mean a cut of 12,000,000 acres for wheat, and about 3, 000,000 acres for cotton. Mr. Eisenhower suggested that .Con gress also consider bringing rice and corn under the program. It would work like this: A farmer would sign a voluntary contract with the government to cut his already allotted acreage. He could not use the "reserved land" for any other kind of crop or for . grazing. In return, he would receive a "cashable certi ficate" equal to a "percentage of the value of the crop he would have normally harvested" from the reserved acreage. These cer tificates would be redeemed by the government either in casheor "in kind," that is, by giving the farmer surplus commodities from the government's own ware houses. Conservation Program Because of this feature of "us ing the surplus to reduce the sur plus, Mr. Eisenhower said the "real cost" of the program .wil ' be substantially less than the ap parent cost" of the certificates. 2. A "conservation reserve." This would be a long range pro gram under which farmers would be "asked to contract vol untarily with the government to shift into forage, trees and water storage" croplands which are n ow most in ' need of conserva tion measures. Mr. Eisenhower set a goal or 25,000,000 acres. He asked Congress to votg $350,000, 000 a year for the program for the next three years. He said this would be on top of the $250,000, 000 a year spent under the exist ing soil conservation program, making a total of $600,000,000 a year for this part of the plan. ' - Urging Congress to adopt his program with . "m aximum speed,'.' Mr. Eisenhower said that "no problem now before the Con gress demands more urgent at tention", than the ; plight of the farmers. . ..: "They find their prices and in comes depressed amid the na tion's , greatest prosperity,' he said. Other highlights of his nine point program: Surplus disposal: Recommend ed a change in the law to permit sale of government-owned sur plus products on the domestic market at lower prices than are now possible. Present law de quires 'a minimum, price of 105 per cent of the support price, plus carrying charges. Mr. Eisen hower said the minimum should be reduced to the support level plus carrying charges. He also asked for relaxation of export laws which, limit ex ports of surplus farm products to "friendly nations only," a hint that efforts may be made to sell or' trade some farm surpluses to Iron Curtain countries. Mr. Eisenhower announced that . Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson is appointing a - top-level "surplus disposal' ad ministrator" to a supervise tne overall surplus disposal -.. pro: gram. Corn: Mr.. Eisenhower offered Congress two alternatives for attacking the corn surplus. One method, he said, would be to work out a way of adapting the acreage reserve program to corn. The other would be "to eliminate acreage allotments for corn . and put price supports for corn on a discretionary ba sis comparable with other feed grains." Wheat: The overall soil bank plan is "particularly well suit ed" to wheat, but other changes should also be made. The House should "promptly" ' pass a bill, SKEPTICAL OF STORY that he was present at 1947 slaying of Los Angeles woman known as "Black Dahlia," New York police are holding .Ralph Von Hiltz, 44, dishwasher, for investigation. More than score of persons have confessed slaying brunette named. Elizabeth Short. (International) already approved by the Senate, exempting from marketing quo tas those wheat farmers who use all the wheat they raise as feed, food or seed on their own farms. He also recommended legisla tion to authorize sale of low- quality wheat owned by the government for the livestock feed, a bill to expand the non commercial wheat area beyond the . 12 states now designated, and a one-year extension of leg islation exempting Durum wheat from controls. Cotton: Congress should "con sider replacing acreage allot ments on cotton with quantity allotments beginning with the crop year of 1957." "Rapidly advancing technology" has so stepped up cotton yields per acre that the old acreage allot ment system no longer is an adequate production control, as witness the fact that nearly 15,- 000,000 bales of cotton were grown in 1955 on an acreage calculated to yield only 10,000,- 000 bales. He also urged a change in the price support laws to require that parity- prices for. cotton be computed on the basis of, the "average grade and quality of the crop," as with other major commodities. Present law arbi trarily fixes middling -inch cotton as the standard grade for parity and price support calcu lations, but Mr. Eisenhower said that less than 5 per cent of the nation's cotton crop is of this grade or lower. Rice: As he did with corn, Mr. Eisenhower offered Congress two alternative solutions: Place rice, under the acreage reserve program; " or eliminate all pro- auction controls and ' put price supports on a "discretionary ba sis as levels .which would per mit rice producers to improve their : competitive market posi tion." Rice is now one of the "basic" crops which must be supported at - 75 to 90 per ; cent of parity. . ',' Sugar: "The legislation to re new the sugar act of 1948, as amended, should promptly - be completed." School . Milk: Recommended two-year extension with author ity to spend $75,000,000 a year instead , of the current $50,000,- 000. : ' i '. Livestock: The pork purchase program now in progress "will shortly- be 'stepped up." Other "special programs of " an emer gency nature will be provided to ' help livestock producers as needed." ' Thursday Hearing On Recreation Site Portland U.R) Arguments for and against a proposed tem porary injunction to restrain use of the South Auditorium site as Portland : recreation - exposition center will ;be heard in Circuit Court Thursday. ' . Circuit Judge Paul -R. Harris today :refused to . issue the tem porary, order sought by Joe Dob bins,an east Portland merchant, and assigned the case to Judge Martin -W.' Hawkins. Dobbins petitioned for the temporary injunction pending disposition of a court suit which seeks : to -,. block development of the $8,000,000 center, at. the South .Auditorium site! on the grounds that the exposition-recreation- commission's choice was not valid. '.Seventy-eight units of the Ore gon , Army - National Guard ; are serving in . over 38 communities throughout the state. ;:r - , Nine Points of Eisenhower's Farm Washington (U.R) The nine points of President Eisenhower's farm program: 1. Soil bank: two types 'of gov ernment payments to farmers to cut their already allotted acre age of major crops, and to divert croplands to trees and grass. Would cost more than one bil lion dollars a year. 2. Surplus disposal: New laws to give the government greater freedom to sell surplus farm products at home and abroad. 3. Strengthening commodity programs: Specified proposals for modifying present price sup port and production control plans for corn,., wheat, cotton, rice, peanuts. Stepped-up govern ment purchases of school milk and pork. Flexible price sup ports would be retained. 4. Dollar limit on . price sup ports: To keep huge commercial farms from cashing in on price supports which are' designed mainly to protect "family farms." 5. RuraV development pro gram: New appeal for program, first proposed last year, to help low-income farm counties raise their living standards through attracting industry, etc. 6. Great Plains program: New legislation to expand the exist ing program for combating A successful day starts with im d&&m MsdfN i breakfast . . . And thats especially import ant these nippy mornings when you need plenty of pep and energy. "How can I plan a different breakfast?" Look over this great variety of foods suit able for countless breakfast combinations ... . Here are ideas that'll turn breakfast time into a new, exciting family experience. . 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Frost said that normally, 35 to 40 per cent of the total win ter snow is accumulated by Jan. 1. This year, nearly, 50 per cent of the normal winter's snowfall already has ' been accumulated. a successful piLLSBURY Bag r 24 oz. Bottle $4 69 89 Brand No. 303 Can No. 303 Can . No. 303 , Can No. 2V4 Jar 19c 23c 21c 43c 46-oz. Can Frozen Defrost Slightly and place in oven for 5 minutes markets for farm products 8. Credit: Minor administra tive changes 'to insure that ade quate credit "remains readily available" to farmers. Soils in mountain watersheds which were dry at the start' of winter now contain 'a "satisfac tory" amount of moisture, he said. Stored, water in 20 important Oregon irrigation reservoirs is now 18 per cent greater than last . year and only three per cent less than the 15-year aver age from 1938 "to 1952. How ever, storage in Malheur county reservoirs is only 35 per cent of of the 15 year average and is below last year. Storage in Ochoco reservoir above Prine ville is under that of last year but the total is nearly up to average. Statewide precipitation in Sep tember through November of 1955 was about 120 per cent of the "15-year normal. In Decem ber it was about 194 pSr cent of normal. BUTTERMILK Pancake Mix Bag Y3 NALLEY'S Lumberjack, Syrup hg j&lV f 5-lb. Can 69' Grapefruit w2 19 Mf "eii Pride 'r ' - ; . ' ; Sausage Grapes Fi-eT.ksy . 2 lbs. 29" jj p AppleS Lwsl Delicious 2 LBS. 25 : SWEET PICKLED ' Cauliflower js. lb. 15- y 7& . Del Monte Brand Grapefruit Juice Orange Juice 33 Churchill MUFFDMS PKG. OF Program 9. Gasoline tax: Exempt farm ers from paying the two-cent federal tax on gasoline used on the farm for tractors and ma chinery. Cattlemen Warned On Price Supports New Orleans :(U.R) - Some 2000 members of the National Cattlemen's association today heard their president, Jay Tay lor, Amarillo, Tex., open a, three day convention here with ' a warning against government price support plans for the cat tle industry. , Taylor told cattlemen from 24 states that "we have been against price supports on cattle for two reasons. First, because of the support-control programs denial of the fundamental rights of liberty and enterprise; sec ondly, because no program ever devised shows promise of doing anything but hurting the beef business instead of helping it." . Principal speaker here tomor row will -be Secretary of Agri culture Ezra T. Benson, who was expected;. to elaborate on President ; Eisenhower's farm proposals. 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