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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Bumper Surplus Crop In Prospect For '56 Washington (U.R) A bumper surplus-loaded crop is in pros pect for this year despite ad ministration pleading and pend ing legislation to cut production by reducing farm acreages'. The Agriculture Department's March 1 report on prospective plantings, which were issued Friday showed farmers intend to plant 352 million acres of the nation's 59 principal crops. This compares with the 355 million acres on which last year's near- record crop was grown. Biggest Cut O The biggest cut in planting acreage is expected in corn. The department said farmers expect to plant a "remarkable small corn crop of 73,686,000 acres this year. This would be 3.5 per cent below 1955 and the smallest acreage on record. The three-million-acre overall reduction is far from the 35 million acres Secretary of Agri culture Ezra T. Benson said should be retired from crop pro duction under the soil bank plan and other restrictive legislation now being considered by Con gress. . If farmers carry out their planting intentions and the grow ing season is good, this year's crop should come close to 1955 production. Such a crop would Graff Probe Recesses; To Resume Monday , Salem (U.R) A Marion coun ty grand jury investigating charges of graft in state in stitutions will resume meetings Monday after a weekend recess. Nine witnesses were heard Fri day as the probe shifted from Fairview Home to Oregon state hospital. Al Richardson, who launched the charges when he resigned as food manager of Ore gon state prison and filed for Democratic nomination as state .treasurer, was first to testify. District Attorney Kenneth Brown said witnesses from two of the six institutions under scrutiny have been heard so far. He said he hoped to finish the state hospital Monday and to wind up the entire investigation sometime next week. Three Die in Fire Of Trailer House Wapato, Wash. (U.R) ' Two men and a woman were burned to death Friday in a trailer house fire here. Two of the victims were iden ted as Eugene Hoffer, 29, Ag ness. Ore., and Rosaline George, 28, Wapato. The third victim was ar unidentifed man. Hoffer andSMiss George were botlj part Indian, acocrding to the bureau of Indian affairs. Sm $200 ti $500 mr otter lest! tractors in its power diss4 Mtf FORDSON If you are looking for lower cost, more dependable tractor power, you'll want to see and try the new Fordson Major Diesel Tractor, o See how quickly it starts on diesel fuel. Hitch it to a tough pull and notice how it "hangs right in there" real lugging power! Try its light steering and smooth, positive brakes. Touch the hydraulic control Ievfer and notice how easily you can raise, lower and control equipment. Check the features that count for long life arid easy servicing. I Add them ell up end you will probably oree here's today's best buy in the 3-4 pfow tractor class! So in soon. Beaver Tractor & Implement Co. 634 North Central Aye. PHONE 2-6425 add to the administration's sur plus woes. Acre Planted The report on 16 specific crops, the big ones from a pro duction and consumption stand point, showed about 283 million acres would be planted. This is 3.4 million acres less than in 1955. Besides corn, principal reduc tions from last year's crops in clude: oats, 2 million; barley, 1.3 million; rice, 750,000. Slight reductions in acreages are in prospect for potatoes, sweet po tatoes, peanuts, dry beans, and tobacco. Indicated increases are soybeans, 2.1 million acres; spring wheat, 700,000, flaxseed, 273,000, and moderate to slight increases for hay crops, sorgh ums, dry peas, and sugar beets. Irene Joliot-Curie Dies in Hspilal Paris (U.R) Irene Joliot Curie Nobel Prize-winning dis coverer of artificial radioactiv ity, died in a hospital here Fri day night: She was 58 years old. Madam Joliot-Curie was the famous daughter of famous par ents, Marie and Pierre Curie, dis coverers of radium. She became one of the most noted women scientists of her time but was refused member ship in the Ame: .' Chemical Society in 1954 because of her pro-Communist leanings. She and her husband, Jean Frederic Joliot, won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1935 for their discovery the year before of artificial radioactivity. They both became involved in leftwing French activities, though, and the French govern ment dropped him from its at omic energy commission in 1950 and then in 1951. In 1948, Madame . Joliot Curie was held on Ellis Island for one day by U.S. immigration officials when she flew to New York for a speaking tour under the left-wing Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee. Bulldozer Brings Up Burried Treasure Columbia, S. C. (U.R) A bull-dozer which sliced through a buried treasure cache, scatter ing old coins and silver spoons, looked as good as new Saturday. The county sheriff's office said souvenir hunters have been plucking bits of silver from mud encrusted on the machine and then - scraping the mud off in search of more bits of silver. As a result the bulldozer is al most as clean as when new. Sm hi fvtl nsts mr plow fjsofiw tractors MAJOR Big savings In fuel costs over gasoline tractors in the same power class Extra lugging power on tough pulls More hears of operation between overhauls Six speeds forward, two reverse speeds e Built-in hydraulic system e Thrte-point linkage for rear at tached equipment Easy starts in cold weather volt starter 12- BiMrf Upon Comparison of Suggeoed List Price T.OJS. Port of Entrv and Published SugjKtted Litt Prices of Com pter net Tractor F.O.B. Factory. j Sunday. March 18. 1956 Russian Freighter Permitted To Dock k Honolulu Harbor Honolulu (U.R) The Russian freighter Jana was permitted to enter Honolulu harbor Saturday after coast guardsmen subject ed the vessel to an inside-out, top-to-bottom search. A coast guard spokesman in Washington said the investiga tion was in accordance with U. S. regulations authorizing port officials to search alien vessels for fissionable materials, bombs or other illegal cargo. The Jana arrived here Friday towing a floating drydock and trawler from Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea to Vladivostok. All three vessels were thor oughly searched, with ..coast guard skin divers examining the outside of the hull below the wa ter line. The trawler and dry dock were allowed to tie up at a pier Friday night but the Jana was kept in the "explosives an chorage" until noon Saturday. Officers Ashore Lt. Cmdr. Kenneth Wilson, coast - guard port captain, said only the officers of the three vessels would be allowed ashore, and then only under strict su pervision of the ships' agents, Oahu Land and Railway Co. Newsmen went aboard the drydock and trawler and inter viewed the captain, Nikolai Pe trovsky, 51, Leningrad, who ex pressed surprise at. the coast guard precautions. He said the three vessels left Kaliningrad Nov. 15, 1955, sail ed through the North Sea to the Atlantic and stopped off at Trin idad before passing through the Panama Canal, Feb. 22, 1956, without incident. Team fo Study Wafer Condition Named San Francisco .'U.R Crown Zellerbach Corp. named Dr. Her man P. Amberg Saturday to head a research team to find means of improving water con ditions on the Columbia river. Amberg, assisted by Dr. J. E. Cormack, of Camas, Wash., will begin by studying the causes and possible remedies for slime 'fun gus growth in the Columbia which has concerned commercial fishermen. The project will be started at the Camas branch of the Zeller bach firm and will work with Dr. E. J. Ordal, University of Washington microbiologist, di rector of the Washington Pollu tion Control Commission, to di rect the slime fungus study for the state. Before accepting the Zeller bach research post, Amberg was West Coast resident engineer for the National Council for Stream Improvement with headquar ters at Corvallis, Ore. -. Cutters Wage Increase May Boost Meat Prices Portland (U.R) Several Port land meat dealers predicted yes terday that higher wages promis ed Friday to organize meat cut ters would mean a one-half to one-cent increase in meat prices in the city. The wage boost was offered in a last minute effort to avert a strike of meat cutters in chain and independent markets. Ray Hiatt, chairman of the Oregon , Independent Meat Deal ers Association, said retailers had, in the past, tried to absorb most increased labor costs but that the latest increase would probably have to be passed on to consumers. One retailer claimed that 10 to 12 cents of each meat dollar represented labor costs. , ' Firemen Thank Thief Who Stole Fire Truck , . Farmington, Iowa (U.R); Fire men said the thief who ' stole their fire truck apparently did them a favor. - The drive shaft broke, before the thief could get more than three miles away and firemen, who have repaired the truck, said it was a good thing that didn't happen on the way to a fire. Pre-World War II models make up about 18 per cent of the passenger cars in use today. : SONOTONE ; All-Transistor jj HEARING AID ! WHAT IS IT? In simple terms the Sonotone transistor Hearing Aid Is a very small perfectly engineered in strument. It is most economica.1 to operate and easy to wear. 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Surely your minister knows widows or single women of a suitable age who are in much the' same boat as you and who would welcome an op portunity to find a congenial companion to be with. In your work, do you not find other women who are single and who are not living with their families? One of them might be only too glad to share a home with you and thus eliminate the lonely hours she. spends when she is not at work. Because you have been accus tomed to living with your moth er for so many years, you would find sharing a home with a stranger or near-stranger diffi cult at first. It would therefore be better to invite the person you thought might be congenial to visit you for several weeks to see how things work out. " Anyone would, I am sure, appreciate the fact tthat living with another 'means many adjustments. People you like and find congenial in work or social life might not prove to be congenial companions if you were with them all the time. 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Be sure to have the . under standing that if you both agree it wouldn't work out, you will not feel hurt or allow it to inter fere with your relationship as friends. (Copyright 1956, General Features Corp.) No Indication of Psittacosis Here, County Agent Says In Jackson county there are no indications of psittacosis, an acute infectious disease affecting fowl and often transmitted to humans, W. B. Tucker, county agent, reported Friday. Earlier this week outbreaks of psittacosis were reported among Sauvie island and Scappoose commercial turkey flocks. Inves tigation is now underway to determine whether or not two human deaths were the result of psittacosis. Meanwhile, inter state shipment of turkey eggs has been barred in the state of Washington. Respiratory Disease Tucker said psittacosis is a type of respiratory disease which is highly contagious among fowl. Until recently it was considered similar to bronchitis. Recent research, however, has divided the disease into several classifications including "blue comb." " Some types of psittacosis, Tucker stated, can be prevented by vaccinations. On others, how ever, vaccinations have had no effect. - Two deaths which authorities are investigating at possible results of psittacosis have not been definitely classified, re ports indicate. Both had report edly been working with turkeys and had psittacosis, but it is not known whether or not other ill ness contributed to their death. Dr. S. B. Osgood of the state board of health said there is no "clear-cut proof"- that the virus can be transmitted to humans by turkey eggs. In humans, psitta cosis is characterized by high fever and pulmonary disorders resembling pneumonia. Tucker said there has been no serious trouble with psittacosis in Jackson county in recent years .... 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"The years' most origin al and off-trail variant on the private-eye theme," is Boucher's description of "The Best That Ever Did It," by Ed Lady. The critic considers "Scales of Jus tice," by Ngaio Marsh, not only one of the best mysteries of the year, but that author's finest de tective story in many years. New Top Charlotte Jay continues to rank near the very top of ser ious novelists using the mystery form with her "The Yellow Tur ban." In "F.O.B. Murder" Dolor es Hitchens, an ever-popular mystery writer, collaborates with her husband in a combina tion of mystery and railroading novel. Doris Miles Disney gives us a purely pleasant mystery, gentle, humorous, memorable, in "Room for Murder." For those who savor shorter murder tales Thomas Sterling has written "The Evil of the Day." Those who like exotic ad venture will prefer "The Rare Adventure," by Bernard Fergu son. The best of the year's hard boiled entries is Thomas Dew ey's "The Mean Streets." 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