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EIGHT MEDFORD OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuesday, January 10, 1958
ke's Agriculture Program
eclared IViainly Long-Range
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Farm Organizations
Comment on Program
For Aid To Farmers
Farm Belt Solons
Promise To Seek
Immediate Help
' By UNITED PRESS
Farm belt coneressmen
charged today that President E?
senhower's new agriculture pro
gram is mainly long-range. They
promised to try to get more im
mediate help for farmers.
Regardless of party, congress
men generally supported in prin
ciple most of the nine farm pro
posals Mr. Eisenhower sent to
Congress Monday. The program
called for a two-phase "soil
bank," speeded up disposal of
the present huge farm surpluses
and other steps to ease the cost
price squeeze on farmers.
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey CD
Minn.) said Congress will have
to go beyond the President's rec
ommendations if it wants to
avoid a farm depression. Senate
Democratic Leader Lyndon B.
Johnson (Tex.) said it "fails to
meet the emergency situation
confronting America's farmers."
Some congressmen urged an
Immediate return to rigid price
supports of 90 perocent of "fair
income" parity on all basic crops
as a means of quickly bolstering
sagging farm prices.
Tax Plans Submitted
Other congressional news:
Congressional staff experts to
day handed Congress 20 "alter
native plans" for cutting person
al income taxes. They would
cost the Treasury from $18,000,
000 to $8,303,000,000. ,
. SenPPaul H. Douglas (D-IU.),
who has been conducting lengthy
hearings on problems of de--pressed
areas, said the adminis
tration's new proposal to help financially-distressed
communities
is grossly inadequate." He urged
Congress to pass a Democratic
aid bill he introduced last July.
Congressional sources hinted
that President Eisenhower's
Democratic appointees from now
on can expect a tough going
over from the Democratic Sen
ate. What the Senators will want
to know is whether the GOP ad
ministration, in selecting men
for jobs which by law are sup
posed to go to Democrats, is
picking "regular" or "Eisen
hower" Democrats.
Defends Negotiated Deals
v Assistant Vrmy Secretary F.
H. Higgins said in testimony be
fore the House Armed Services
Committee that taxpayers get
their money's worth when, the
Pentagon buys military goods
under negotiated contracts. Com
mittee Chairman Carl Vinson (D
Ga.), has accused the administra
tion of "shocking" abuse of mili
tary buying practices by virtu
ally scrapping the use of open,
competitive bids.
The Commerce Department, in
a special report to a House News
print subcommittee, reported
that newsprint supplies for
American newspapers have
reached a "dangerously low
point." It urged increased ex
perimentation and perhaps gov
ernment help in finding new
ways to boost new spring produc
tion. A Senate Civil Service sub
committee today called on Civil
Service Chairman Philip Young
to explain statements that the
Eisenhower administration root
ed out thousands of security risks
inherited from the Democrats.
Washington (U.R) Com
ment on President Eisenhower's
new farm program by national
farm organizations ranged from
"disappointingly weak" to "fine
as far as it goes."
James G. Patton, president of
the National Farmers Union,
called the President's message
to congress yesterday "disap
pointly weak." He said it "does
not propose a single thing to
raise farmers' income above the
present depression level." He
added that the new program "is
designed to save the political
hide of the sliding scale" of flex
ible price supports."
Economists See
Little Impact on
Prices at Grocery
Washington (U.R) Agri
culture Department economists
said today the administration's
new farm program would have
little or no impact on prices at
the grocery.
"I can't see that the new pro
gram would have any immed
iate effect on consumer prices,"
said Dr. Frederick V. Waugh,
director of the Agricultural Ec
onomics uivision. mere is
plenty of food in the country.
If the soil bank plan works out
so there is a substantial reduc
tion in commodities, we will
still have plenty of food.
Taxes Biggest Effect
"The biggest effect on the con
sumer as I see it would be the
taxes he might have to pay to
support the ' program."
Dr- Don Paarlberg, economic
assistant to Secretary of Agri
culture Ezra T. Benson, said
"the decline in farm prices has
not made a lot of difference"
in the price housewives pay for
food, "and I can't see that the
new program will make a lot of
difference."
Paarlberg said the new pro
gram would cause some "buoy
ancy" on the market, but "no
upsurge in farm prices."
Charles B. Shuman, president
of the American Farm Bureau
Federation, found many good !
points in the message and com-
mended Mr. Eisenhower on his ;
"thoughtful understanding of
the overall farm problem." But
Shuman added the message
"falls short of the policies advo
cated by the membership of the
Farm Bureau on a number of
points."
A spokesman for the Nation
al Grange called the soil bank
plan a "production control
gimmick - and a possible fail
ure." Only Temporary Thing
"It will be a failure unless the
payments to farmers are pretty
high," the spokesman said- "Ev
en then, it's only a temporary
thing. The administration is
asking for a 20 per cent cut
back in acreage, leaving the far
mer 80 per cent of his land on
which to produce crops. I'm bet
ting on the 80 per cent that's
left being able to produce a
whopping crop." '
The spokesman said that the
Grange won't fight the soil bank
plan, but won't endorse it.
Half of Stanford
Students Have Jobs
Stanford, Calif. (U.R) A cam
pus fact-finding board, bent upon
disproving the popular thought
that Stanford is a "rich man's
school," polled the student body
to see how many labored at a
job as well as over the books.
It found that half the institu
tion's 6,800 attendants earn all or
part of their expenses with part
time jobs.
An employment questionnaire,
sent out by the board and
answered by 4,874 students, also
revealed that:
1 Another 12 per cent expect
to need part-time jdbs before
they graduate.
2 Over 13 per cent receive
scholarships and loans from the
school.
3 Nearly nine per cent get fi
nancial aid from the govern
ment. e
4 Over nine per cent receive
non- family aid from other
sources.
Many among Stanford's work
ing student population toil on
campus in such jobs as "hash
ing," library assisting and work
ing in various school offices.
Close to 25 per cent of all those
paying their own way were
women, and many of the part
time workers also meet their
$1,800 a year monetary output
by holding summer jobs.
Michigan ranks first in the
growing of tart cherries. One
half of the entire U. S. crop is
grown in this state.
Religious Course
At Central Point
Central Point a "course of re
ligious' instruction for Catholic
high school and grade school
children who attend public
schools in Central Point will
star a 8 p.m. Wednesday a the
American Legion hall here.
The Rev. Robert Tomisser of
St. Mary's school, Medford,
urged parents and children inter
ested to attend the meeting to or
ganize and arrange a program
for various age groups.
Mr. Tomisser said anyone in
terested was welcome to attend
the school.
Boy Scouts
Eight awards were presented
by Cubmaster Kent Blackhurst
at a meeting of Cub Pack 14
held at Roosevelt school last
night. Those receiving awards
were Joe Reeder, lion badge;
Steve Blackhurst and Wayne
Evans, assistant denner badges;
Tom Ness, denner badge and sil
ver arrow; Mike Hoover, one
year pin, and Gary Niedermeyer,
Tom Ness and David Doty, den
ner badges.
Eleanor Farner's Den 4 won
the attendance award for the
second consecutive month.
Lt. C. W. Lacey of the Med
ford police department intr
duced several boxers from the
Pal club and officiated at several
boxing demonstrations and
answered questions regarding
boxing and the Pal club. Jackie
Puscas, national AAU light
weight champion, also was introduced.
Committee chairman Shirrell
Doty announced that the annual
Blue and Gold dinner will be
held on Feb. 13.
Benson Sees Cut
In Farm Surplus
New Orleans (U.R) Secre
tary of Agriculture Ezra T.
Benson predicted today the new
farm program will reduce
"mountainous surpluses," and
solve the nation's No. 1 farm
problem-
Benson told the American
National Cattlemen's association
that Agriculture . Department
economists estimate farm prices
would be .10 per cent higher
now and net farm income might
have been 20 per cent higher in
1955 if the government-owned
surplus of farm commodities did
not exist.
Bold Plan Strikes Directly
Benson said the administra
tion's soil bank program will be
the main device used in cutting
into the $7,700,000,000 in surplus
farm commodities.
The soil bank program, Ben
son said, is a "bold plan that
strikes directly at the prob
lem." "It will remove the crushing
burden of surpluses that it our
most serious farm problem," he
said.
"It will prevent a further di
version of acres out of surplus
crops and onto other producers."
Benson said there has been
"no hard and fast estimate of
how much the soil bank will
improve prices and incomes."
Prospect Club To
Elect Directors
Prospect New directors will
be elected at a meeting of the
Prospect Community club at 8
p.m. Thursday, Jan. 12. Reports
of activites of the past year also
will be given.
Candidates for directors are
Hestin Grieve, Ward Blaine,
John Gartman, Ray Maurer,
Wayne Griffeth and Bob Green.
Nominations also will be ac
cepted from the floor. Five
members will be elected to serve
two years terms.
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on January 20, 1 956, to shareholders
of record as of December 30, 1955.
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