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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.
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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.
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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.
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the major part of her life to the
care of her parents, she is left
high and dry
when this
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comes to an
end.
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lived with my
mother until
she passed
away two
years ago, I
D. Hurlock now find it
very lonesome. I have a job but
that does not keep me busy all
the time and I miss the compan
ionship of my mother. It is very
lonesome living alone. I am 52
years old, single, and neither
drink or smoke. I attend church
regularly and try to live a good
life. I would like to find a nice
companion to live with but
where can I find such a person?"
Miss R.
(A) There are two places you
should begin your search for a
person who would make a con
genial companion, your church
and your work. 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.
That is why it would be wise
for you and the person you
think you would want as a com
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Probationary Term on
Naone Terminated
Portland 0J.R The three
year probationary term imposed j
in 1953 on Charles Naone, 22,
former , Willamette University
football player, has been termi
nated. Naoine pleaded guilty to
selling marijuana cigarettes in
Salem. ....
Federal Judge. Gus Solomon
ended the probationary control
after , hearing Probation Officer
John McFar land report that Na
one had made a good adjustment.
The . former Willamette athlete
now is employed by a steamship
company in his native HawaiL
Probation term for Charles J.
Lewis, Jr., 23, Seattle, ' who
pleaded guilty , of the narcotics j
charge along with Naone, was I
kept in effect.. j
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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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By MISS HELEN WEBSTER
Medford Librarian
One of America's greatest con
noisseurs of the mystery novel
recently published a list of .13
he selected as the very best of
all those published during the
past year. All of them are avail
able at the Medford Public li
brary in both the free and the
rent'' collections.
As the "prime specimen of the
purely formal whodunit, . fairly
clued and fiendishly deceptive,"
Anthony Boucher picks "Tour
de Force," by Christianna
Brand. "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." "The
Tall Dark' Man," by Anne Cham
berlain is the suspense story of a
13-year-old murder witness.
Others on List
Others on the Boucher list are
"All Through the' Night," by
Whit Masterson, and "Beast in
View," by Margaret " Millar.
Poised between detective-story
and story-of-detectives is ex-po
liceman Procter's "Somewhere
in This City," considered by
Boucher the best of the eeason'i
Medford Jaycees
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The Medford Junior Chamber
of Commerce unanimously voted
in favor of the fluoridation of
Medford city water at its meet
ing last week.
The action was in accord with
a recent resolution passed by the
Oregon State Jaycee organiza
tion, ' endorsing proper fluorida
tion of municipal water supplies.
The measure has been adopted
by many cities on the basis of
scientific tests showing it cuts
dental cavities as much as 70
per cent in some localities.
George Flanagan, manager of
Elk Lumber company, was
speaker at last week's meeting,
telling of the problems involved
in sawmill operations. He out
lined new methods and improve
ments which are being or will
soon be used in the industry.
The original term of a copy
right in the United States is 28'
years, but it may be renewed
within, one year prior to expir
ation for another 28 years.
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