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.
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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
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'Good To Excellent'
Portland (U.R) Oregon's
1956 water supply outlook is
"good to excellent" although
much early snow has been re
moved by warm weather, it was
reported today.
W. T. Frost, snow survey su
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tent of mountain snow cover
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tive changes 'to insure that ade
quate credit "remains readily
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Soils in mountain watersheds
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9. Gasoline tax: Exempt farm
ers from paying the two-cent
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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
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devised shows promise of doing
anything but hurting the beef
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President ; Eisenhower's farm
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General Strike in Chile
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Santiago, Chile (U.R) The
nationwide general strike called
last midnight by the National
Union of Workers to protest the
government's anti - inflationary
program was described official
ly today as a failure-
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that not a single important in
dustry was seriously affected by
the walkout. ;
Troops strategically . , concen
trated in various sections of the
city kept out. of sight..
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