Arab
By PETER WEBB
(Jniied Press Correspondent
Amman, Jordan '.U.R; While
the Western powers strive to
Svert the threatening Mid-East
war there are nearly a million
dispossessed Arabs secretly long
ing for the first shot to be fired.
They hope it will restore them
to their lost homes.
These Arab refugees were
driven from their Palestine
homelands in the 1943-49 Arab
Jewish conflict and they are liv
Consolidation
Approved by Three
School Districts
Residents of Medford, Oak
Grove and West Side school dis
tricts yesterday voted over
whemingly for consolidation into
one district.
The vote in Medford was 252
to 61 in favor, Oak Grove resi
dents favored consolidation 163
to 23, and West Side patrons
- voted 93 to 1 in favor.
Votes will be canvassed by the
Jackson County Boundary board,
which will notify districts of the
effective date of consolidation.
County School Superintendent
Alf B. Mekvold said he prob
ably would call a meeting of the
board later this week.
Tentative Date
Tentative effective date Is
July 1, start of the new fiscal
year, Mekvold said.
During fiscal year 1956-57,
three separate budgets will be
drawn up and voted on by the
Individ' tal districts. The budgets
will be administered from the
Medford school district.
The following year, one budg
et will be drawn up for the
entire district, according to
Leonard Mayfield, city school
superintendent.
Consideration of consolidation
resulted from the belief that the
mutual economic and education
al interests could best be served
by the change, school officials
said.
Mew District Name
The new district will be
known as Medford, No. 549C-1,
when the consolidation is com
pleted. If and when later con
solidations are approved, the last
digit will be changed to show
the number of the consolidation.
Portions of Kenwood and
Dewey districts; -which- have
been inoperative for some time,
will also be joined to the Med
ford district at the same time.
Red Cross Appeals
For Blood Donors
Red Cross workers this morn
ing appealed for "drop-in" blood
donors at the Elks temple on
North Central ave., where the
bloodmobile will be stationed to
day until 6 p.m.
Mrs. J. A. Burba, blood bank
chairman, reported this morning
the donor appointment schedule
was far from filled. She said
Jackson county would fall seri
ously' short of its 250 pint quota
unless there is a significant num
ber of "drop-in" donors this aft
ernoon. The bloodmobile will be in
Ashland Wednesday at the Elks
temple there, also from 1 to
6 p.m.
An average of 125 pints of
blood is used monthly in Jackson
county, the chairman said, and
the reserve is nearly gone. Resi
dents donated more than 300
pints in the February bloodmo
bile visit.
, Several donors representing
the oil industry in Jackson
county have made appointments
through the efforts of the Oil
Information committee here.
Annexation Discussion
Scheduled for Tonight
Advantages and disadvantages
of annexation will be discussed
at a meeting of residents of the
Grandview-Kenwood district and
Medford city officials. The dis
cussion will begin at 7:30 p.m.
in the Medford city hall.
It will be the second of three
meetings planned by the resi
dents, the first having been
with county sanitarians. A third
meeting will follow at which
residents are to decide what to
do concerning annexation or
formation of a sanitary district.
DOW -JONES AVERAGES
Ne York U.R) Dow-Jones
final stock averages: 30 indus
trials 510.04, off 8.48; 20 rail
roads 168.54. off 2.36; 16 utili
ties 66.68, off 0.39, and 65 stocks
179.46, off 2.51. Sales today
were about 2.590,000 compared
with 2,760,000 yesterday.
Weather
FORECAST: Considerable clou
diness, becoming partly
cloudy Wednesday. . Scattered
rain showers tonight. Low to
night 40. High tomorrow
60-65.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday 56
Lowest this Morning 45
Refugees
ing today on dreams of hatred
and revenge.
In terms of human tragedy
they are an indelible stain on
the world's conscience.
More than half of them al
most 500,000 live in the tiny
Hashemite kingdom of Jordan,
packed like cattle into sprawl
ing mudbrick camps which en
circle the main towns in signs
of sullen menace. Their one idea
is just to go home.
But home is today's modern
Yesterday's vote makes the
Medford district the fifth largest
in the state. On the basis of
1954 school census figures, they
are, in order, Portland, 87,094;
Salem, 15,937; Eugene, 15,283;
Springfield, 8,160, and Medford
6,754. The sixth and seventh
largest are Roseburg with 6,752,
and Coos Bay, 6,362.
On the basis of the 1955 school
census, the number of pupils in
the consolidated area is esti
mated at about 6,964.
National Guard to
Hold Demonstration
Of Firepower Here
Medford National Guard Com
pany A will hold a public night
firepower demonstration at the
Camp White rifle range Satur
day for two hours, starting at
6:30 p.m.
The exhibition, said to be the
largest show of its kind in
southern Oregon, will feature
firing of live ammunition, trac
ers, smoke grenades, flares and
other pyrotechnics.
Also included in the exercise
will be a battle mission, featur
ing a mock attack on an enemy
position with blank ammunition
and pyrotechnics. Members of
the unit will fire the Sniper
scope at the conclusion of the
demonstration. This weapon al
lows riflemen to deliver accu
rately aimed fire in total dark
ness. -
In issuing an invitation to the
public - to . view the- demonstra-n
tion, guard officers explained
all safety precautions are being
taken. Chairs are being provid
ed for the public.
Lt. Jack Phillips, who is in
charge of the operation, explain
ed that the demonstration is
part of the week end training
which guardsmen receive each
spring.
The range is located approxi
mately two miles east of White
City on the first major road to
the right off Antelope road.
Burton Lowry Dies
In Portland Today
Burton G. Lowry, 43, Portland
engineer and member of a well
known Medford family, died at
his home this morning, accord
ing to information received here
by relatives. Lowry's wife, the
former Barbara Wall of Med
ford, said her husband left the
house on his way to work but
collapsed and died before start
ing the car.
Two of Mr. Lowry's br6thers'
Fhilip Lowry, Medford attorney,
and David Lowry, valley or
chardist, went to Portland this
morning to make arrangements
to have the body brought here
for funeral services and inter
ment. Mr. Lowry was born in Med
ford, Nov. 24, 1913, and was
graduated from Medford schools.
Later he attended Oregon State
college and in the early 1940's
went to Portland. In recent years
he had worked for a Portland
shipbuilding firm as an engineer.
Survivors include his wife,
four children, Linda, Bonnie
Ann, Douglas and Burton; his
father, Burton B. Lowry, Fern
Valley road, Phoenix; three
brothers, Philip and David, Med
ford, and Wallace, on the faculty
of Virginia Polytechnical insti
tute, Blacksburg, Va.; a sister,
Mrs. Neill Vosburgh, Fairbanks,
Alaska. A younger brother,
Wayne, died a few years ago.
Mrs. Lowry's mother, Mrs.
Alonia M. Wall, lives at 1064
Ellendale dr., Medford.
Roger H, Flagg Joins
Medford Police Force
The addition of Roger H.
Flagg, Jacksonville, as a patrol
man with the Medford Police de
partment was announced today
by Chief Charles Champlin.
Flagg, a 1953 graduate of
Medford High school, serves
with the first platoon from 12
midnight to 8 a.m. The force
now has 20 patrolmen, Chief
Champlin said.
Salem (U.PJ Carleton J. Mc
Leod, Brooks, has been elected
president of the Oregon Aberdeen-Angus
Cattle Association.
tly
ecre
Israel, already overcrowded
with Jewish immigrants tilling
the soil and cultivating orange
groves which once belonged to
Arab owners. And Israel has no
intention of giving up.
In Jordan the refugees are
concentrated mainly in the west
bank territory of the former Pal
estine which was annexed by
Jordan's King Abdullah after
the 1949 armistice. They can
look out in many instances
across the twisting demarcation
Hammarskjold in
Israel on Mission
To Prevent War
New Clashes Imperil
Diplomat's Purpose
Jerusalem, Israeli Sector
U.R) U.N. Secretary General
Dag Hammarskjold arrived to
day in Israel to try to prevent
war in the Middle East. But a
new series of clashes between
Egypt and Israel imperiled his
urgent mission.
An Israeli army spokesman
announced that one Arab com
mando was killed and another
wounded and captured today in
an engagement near the Jordan
border and that Egyptian com
mandos dynamited the water
works in five Israeli villages
near the Gaza strip.
The attacks by the Arab Feda-
yen or suicide squads have in
flamed Israel even more than re
cent border fighting, and Israel
labeled them premeditated ag
gression. Cairo radio said the
raids were in retaliation for Is
raeli shelling of Arab refugee
settlements.
Met By Burns
Hammarskjold flew to Lydda
airport outsid Tel Aviv from
Beirut, Lebanon, where he ar
rived shortly after midnight. He
was met by Maj. Gen. E. L. M.
Burns, the U.N. truce supervisor
for Palestine, and briefed. Ham
marskjold flies to Cairo later to
day. The two men talked 30 min
utes in the Lydda airport restau
rant and then drove into Tel
Aviv for lunch. Burns, who cau
tioned Egypt that further Feda-
yen attacks might cause it to be
labeled an aggressor, planned to
fly to Cairo too.
Albert Grand, U.N. truce com
mission spokesman, said no re
ply "had been1 received from!
Egyptian Premier Abdel Gamal
Nasser in reply to Burns' re
quest for an immediate halt to
the commando raids. Ten of the
commandos have been killed
deep inside Israel since Satur
day.
Declines to Talk
Hammarskjold declined to
talk with newsmen on his arri
val. Two British members of
Parliament who were waiting
for a plane to London also fail
ed to talk to the secretary gen
eral. They were told he would
talk only with Burns.
Hammarskjold flew here as
western diplomats in Jerusalem
warned that a delay of even a
day or two in his mission might
be too late to prevent war. Their
warning was heightened by to
day's clash, 10 miles northeast
of Beersheba, near the Israeli
Jordan border.
Russia Holding Out
On Disarmament Plan
London U.P.) ""The United
States, Britain and France were
reported near agreement on dis
armament plans today, but Rus
sia was said to be holding out
for major changes in the emerg
ing Western blueprint.
The four powers reconvened
with Canada to consider "dis
armament secretary" Harold E.
Stassen's warning that U.S.
armed forces will be held at
their present levels for at least
a year, if not increased, unless
Russia agrees quickly to join in
a cutback to 2,500,000 men.
The United States now has
about 2,900,000 men under arms,
compared to an estimated 4,
000,000 in Russia, 5,000,000 in
Red China, and some 1,000,000
in the European satellite states.
Princeton, N.Y. (U.R) ince-
to University resident Harold W.
Dodds said he would not inter
fere with plans for a speech by
convicted perjurer Alger Hiss
here April 26.
Ike Sets Major Speech
Augusta, Ga. (U.R) Presi
dent Eisenhower, deeply con
cerned by tinder-box conditions
in the Middle East, today sched
uled a major foreign policy
speech to the nation from Wash
ington April 21.
The President will speak to
an evening banquet of the Amer
ican Society of Newspaper Edi
tors at the Statler Hotel.
One Draft Finished
Mr. Eisenhower has finished
one draft of the speech and a new
draft worked over by his foreign
policy and speech advisers in
Washington was scheduled to
reach here today by special aerial
for
line and see the farms and hous
es they once occupied in the
hands of Israeli settlers.
Foods arid shelter for the refu
gees is provided by the United
Nations Relief and Works agen
cy which distributes basic ra
tions and tries to resettle and re
habilitate the refugees. Its an
nual budget for Jordan is $14,
000,000, of which $12,000,000
goes for food.
That provides each refugee
with nine cents worth of food a
M
EDF0RD
51st Year 20 Pages
Air Force Tells
Plans To Speed
Atomic Airplane
Washington (U.R) The Air
Force today announced a' new
move to speed development of
an atomic-powered airplane.
It said a $7,500,000 reactor
will be built at the Air Force's
Wright Air Development Center
at Dayton, O. It is expected to
be completed by the first of
1958.
The announcement came a day
after the Air Force reported it
has given Lockheed Aircraft
and Convair contracts calling
for "further development" of an
atomic plane.
Actual Construction Seen ,
The announcements-, seemed
to indicate that the big atomic
plane program has progressed to
the point where actual construc
tion of an atom airplane is
about to start.
The Atomic Energy commis
sion and its contractors have
been working for years on a nu
clear power plant capable of
driving airplanes of the. future
indefinitely in supersonicf.Ught.
Building the planes is Vnet(
big step forward; -' -
The Air Force said the new
reactor at Dayton will be a 10
megawatt model. It will be used
to test aircraft materials, com
ponents and systems being de
veloped for nuclear-powered
planes.
Water-Cooled Reactor
The Air Force said the chief
feature of the facility will be a
water-moaerated and water-cooled
reactor similar to the mater
ials testing reactor the Atomic
Energy commission has at Ida
ho Falls, Ida.
The Air Force said that the
Army Engineers' Louisville, Ky.,
district has supervision over de
sign and construction and has
contracted with Ralph M. Par
sons Co.. Los Aneeles. to carrv
out all work except construction
of the reactor itself. A contract
for design, fabrication and in
stallation of the reactor will be
awarded under competitive bids
after the basic facility is design
ed.
Harry Dorman Joins
Bonneville Power
Portland (U.R) Harry S.
Dorman, former Oregon direc
tor of finance and administra
tion, today was appointed assist
ant to the administrator of the
Bonneville Power Administra
tion, effective immediately..
Administrator William A.
Pearl said Dorman's primary re
sponsibilities would be to assist
the administrator in working out
improved procurement, contract
and management programs.
Dr. Pearl said His long ex
perience with the budget and fi
nance problems of the state of
Oregon and his other accomp
lishments eminently qualify him
to assist us."
Salem (U.R) The State
Board of Control has postponed
decision on construction of a
medium security facility for 90
boys at MacLaren school.
courier. He will work on refine-
ments of the text during his
golfing vacation at the Augusta
National Golf course.
Press Secretary James C.
Hagerty said "It will be a major
address on foreign policy." Rare
ly does Hagerty use the word
"major" in advance description
of a presidential utterance.
Presumably the President's
ASNE speech will be carried
transcontinental by television
and radio and overseas by short
wave radio outlets.
Hagerty said Mr. Eisenhower
discussed the outlines of the
speech over last week and with
First
day. Its 1500 calorie content
equals the lowest rations ever
distributed to conquered Ger
mans at the end of World War
II. It is an exercise in border
line starvation.
For those who are undernour
ished, and there are thousands,
there are "supplementary feed
ing tents" inside the camps A
medical certificate permits one
to get a hot meal there. I saw
one being served in Jordan's
largest camp, outside Jordan,
MEDFORD, ORt "
HONEYMOONER'S SPECIAL A group of Chinese Cana
dians pose happily aboard the American President Liner
President Wilson in San Francisco after arriving from
Hong Kong with their brides. In center are the latest of
the newlyweds, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Yipp of Saskatoon.
Chinese who have lived in Canada for five years or more
are allowed to return to China to bring a wife home.
Planners Consider 2
Freeway Routes Here
A letter from the State High
way commission describing the
two proposed routes for High
way 99 through Medford was
considered last night by the
Medford city planning commis
sion. The letter had been forward
ed from the city council with
the request that the planning
commission make a recommen
dation as to which route would
be most suitable. The highway
commission has proposed the
new freeway take either a Hill
crest road or Genessee st. route.
Members of the planning com
mission decided to study the
letter because a decision at this
time would be "too premature."
A public hearing on the two pro
posed routes will be held in
Bedford next month, according
to the highway commission.
Recommend Garage
The planning commission also
made a recommendation to the
council that space adjacent to
tie new East Side fire hall be
provided for a garage for the
Jackson County Disaster car.
A recommendation was made
that the council make the pro
posed change of the city zoning
ordinance to include an agricul
tural zone. Members also rec
ommended that the north and
south alley in Edwards place ad-
Two Are Fined on
Driving Charges Here
Two drivers were fined 255
apiece, given suspended 30-day
jail sentences and lost their op
erators licenses for 90 days in
district court Monday.
The two, Harley Leonal Wat
son, 22, of Grants Pass, and John
Edward Southwell, 54, post of
fice box 705, Ashland, pleaded
guilty to charges of driving while
under the influence of intoxicat
ing liquor. '
April 21
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles.
Dulles and the President
teamed up Monday in a new
warning to the war-troubled
Middle East that the United
States, within constitutional lim
its and the findings of the United
Nations, will oppose "any ag
gression in the area."
To Dominate Report
Because the Middle East is the
current international powder
keg, the situation around the
shores of the Mediterranean was
certain to dominate the Presi
dent's report to the editors and
to the nation.
in
where 40,000 refugees are gath
ered four times the population
of Jericho itself.
Outside the door of the mud
walled, cane-roofed dining room
stood a group of ragged children
holding tin plates pathetically
in their hands, waiting for scraps
that might be left. But there was
nothing left. A toothless old
woman burned almost black by
the 140-degree sun clawed at the
camp superintendent's arm ask
ing to be put on the undernour
1956
ditibn near Medford Bowling
lanes be vacated.
Approval was given the final
plat of Country Club Manor sub
division presented by Robert
Mclntyre.
.Recommendation was made
that 55 feet of Marshall ave.,
through Garfield subdivision be
vacated to provide a footpath to
Jefferson school.
Laborers Picket
CP School Project
Central Point - A picket line
was established at the site of the
new Central Point elementary
school by laborers yesterday.
It was reported pickets were
placed at the site in a dispute
over fringe benefits for laborers
between the contractors associa
tion and the local laborer's un
ion. Robert Peebles, secretary and
business agent of the Construc
tion and General Laborers Lo
cal 1400, said today he had no
comment on the picketing.
H. P. Jewett, superintendent
of District 6C schools, said he
did not know what effect the
work stoppage would have ' on
constructing the building, which
is scheduled to be ready for use
next fall.
The Central Point school was
apparently the only one affected
by pickets. An elementary school
being built in Gold Hill appar
ently was not affected, although
work is being done by the same
contractor constructing the Cen
tral Point school.
Solon Sees Evidence
Ike Is Not President
'Washington XU.R) Rep. Ush
er L. Burdick (R.-N.D.) said to
day he has often wondered if
President Eisenhower actually
is President. He said '"there is
strong evidence" in the farm
fight that he is not.
Burdick said he found this evi
dence in a published report that
Agriculture Secretary Ezra T.
Benson "will not accept" the
pending farm bill.
"I guess that settles it," Bur
dick said in a news letter.
"There is no use trying to see
the President, which I was
tempted to do ... I hope some
one . . . will go down and see
Mr. Eisenhower and suggest to
him in a roundabout way that
he, Mr. Eisenhower, is the
President, and not Mr. Benson."
ml A
-East
ished list.
"I have to turn her down ev
ery time," the superintendent
said. "There's only so much food
and so many mouths to feed.
There are others who need it
more."
The food and medical supplies
given -by the United Nations
keep the refugees going but has
no effect, on their attitude to
ward their lost lands. Listen to
65-year-old Ramadan Abdel Ha
di, who once owned two orange
xlIBUNE
Price 5c
No. 17
Stevenson Faces
KefauYer Write-in
On Illinois Ballot
Chicago (U.R) Voters in the
Illinois presidential primary de
cide today whether to start Ad
lai E. Stevenson's band wagon
rolling again with a big vote of
confidence.
The alternative would be a
sizeable write-in vote for Sen.
Estes Kefauver in Stevenson's
native Illinois.
Stevenson, Illinois' former
governor, is officially unop
posed on the Democratic ballot.
But in a last-minute appeal for
votes he called the Illinois pri
mary "the most important ref
erendum" he will enter in his
campaign for the presidential
nomination.
Two Million Voters
About 2,000,000 voters, about
half of those eligible, were ex
pected to cast ballots. Fifty con
vention delegates will be elected
in both parties, but the presi
dential primary results are not
binding upon them.
The polls were to open at 7
a.m (EST) and close at 6 p.m.
Results may not become definite
until late tonight, particularly
if a hard to count write-in surge
develops. Cool, cloudy weather,
with a chance of rain or snow,
was forecast.
There was little doubt about
the outcome of the Republican
contest. President Eisenhower
faces, token opposition from Sen.
William ' Knowland (R-Calf.),
who would have got out of the
race if he had the chance, and
perennial campaigner Lar Daly.
State Level Fight
On the tsate level, Republican
Gov. William G. Stratton is in a
brisk fight with four opponents,
led by state Treasurer Warren
E. Wright. There is a two-way
fight for the Democratic guber
natorial nomination, but Repub
lican Sen. Everett M. Dirksen
and Democrat Richard Stengel
are unopposed for the senatorial
spots on the ballot.
The Democratic presidential
race is complicated by write-in
drives for both Kefauver and
Ohio's Gov. Frank Lausche.. The
Kefauver camp denies it is mak
ing an organized drive for votes,
but hopes to collect 10 per cent,
of the total.
Benson's Son Says
Democrats Stalling
Portland U.R) Republican
Campaigner Reed Benson, son
of Agriculture Secretary. Ezra
Taft Benson, today accused the
Democrats in Congress of delib
erately stalling President Eisen
hower's soil bank legislation "to
keep the farmer in hot water."
Benson told party leaders at
a breakfast meeting here today
that it is now practically too late
for the soil bank plan to bring
relief to farmers this year be
cause spring planting has al
ready started.
"The President pleaded for
the soil bank, but it was six
weeks before the Senate called
my father to testify," he said.
He charged that Sen. Hubert
Humphrey (D.-Minn.) v delayed
consideration of the farm bill by
reading a 350-page speech in the
Senate.
Corvallis Students
To Follow Custom
Corvallis 'U.R) If the mid
morning coffee break is good
enough for adults, it's good
enough for teen-agers. Thai's
the opinion of Corvallis school
officials who today ordered a
10-minuie observance of the
American custom for high
school students. But school
clubs will serve fruit juice
and pastries, no coffee.
School officials said the
practice will cease immedi
ately if student abuse the
. privilege
Unres
groves, a tractor and fertile
farmland and is now living in
a one-room mud hut.
"The British aid to Jewish col
lonization forced me to leave
my home. The British were our
friends and allies and we were
their friends. But they betrayed
us. They brought Jews and put
them in our midst. But we will
go back by force if necessary. If
the British don't support the
Jews we can deal easily with
them."
Mid-East Crisis
Object of Talks
By Congressmen
Dulles, Leader Meet
No Requests Made
Washington (U.R) Secretary
of State John Foster Dulles and
14 congressional leaders today
discussed the question of con
gressional authority to use Amer
ican troops if necessary, to keep
peace in the Middle East.
But leaders emphasized that
the administration did not re
quest such authority at this
time. They said there appears
to be no immediate emergency
requiring congressional action
now.
Dulles and the leaders dis
cussed the rising tension in the
Middle East at a 90-minute con
ference at the State Department.
Dulles called the meeting with
the express approval of Presi
dent Eisenhower.
Aggression Warning
The conference followed a
formal warning by Mr. Eisen
hower last night that the United
States will "support and assist"
any victim of aggression in the
Middle East.
- House Republican Leader Jo
seph W. Martin Jr., of Massa
chusetts, said there is "no par
ticular pressing emergency that
we know of at this time." But
he added that such an emergen
cy could come up at a time when
"nations are shaking their fists
at one another."
Martin said Mr. Eisenhower,
intends to request congressional
action "if danger" arises. But,
he said, there is no reason to
expect such a request at this
time.
No Immediate Action
Sen. Styles Bridges (R-N.H.)
said Dulles was "asked if he was
proposing any congressional ac
tion now. and the answer was
no." Senate Republican Leader
William F. Knowland of Cali
fornia likewise emphasized that
"no request was made for any
congressional action."
In his statement from Au
gusta, Ga., last night, Mr. Eis
enhower said he gards the situa
tion in the Middle East "with
the utmost seriousness."
Norblad Denies
Irregularities
Washington(U.R Rep. Wal
ter Norblad (R-Ore.) said today
there was no basis for charges
of illegality in his filing for the
Republican nomination for Con
gress from the first Oregon dist
rict. He said it was unnecessary
for the Oregon Attorney Gen
eral to spend his time on a ques
tion that did not even exist.
State Rep. Richard Groener,
Milwaukie Democrat, recently
requested an opinion from At
torney General Robert Y. Thorn
ton about the legality of trans
ferring a filing fee from one
candidacy to another. Norblad
switched his candidacy from
governor to congressman.
But Norblad said in a letter
to Thornton that there had been
no transfer of filing fees and
that the Groener charge was
apparently based on misinforma
tion.
Norblad said he paid a new
filing fee with a personal check
for $100 when he abandoned his
candidacy for the gubernatorial
nomination and filed for reelec
tion to Congress.
He offered to make the can
celled check available to Thorn
ton's office.
Winter Wheat Crop
Harvest Estimated
Washington 4U.R) The Agri
culture Department today fore
cast a winter wheat crop of
716,477,000 bushels will be har
vested this year.
With plantings held to the le
gal floor of 55,000,000 acres for
the third straight year by rigid
federal controls, the crop would
be up 11,105,000 bushels from
the 705,372,000 produced in
1955.
The estimated winter wheat
crop, added to the previously
estimated production of 188,.
000,000 bushels of spring wheat,
would mean a total wheat crop
of 804,477,000 bushels for 1956.