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Medford "ilA XT Tribune Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1956 Pages 1-6 Ike's Dilemma on Farm Bill Also Faced by Oregon's Sam Coon It i L'iA Ai illJ A By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington An illustration ot the dilemma that faced Presi dent Eisenhower last week as he studied whether to sign or veto the farm bill, is the wav in which Rep. Sam Coon (R-Ore.) switched his vote on the same issue. The omni bus agricultu ral measure contained fea tures that are both accept able and ob jectionable to Robt. smith the Eisenhow er administation but the presi dent finally decided his negative view outweighed the other. Congressman Coon, who last year voted against the farm bill when it passed the House by a narrow margin, this session has come out in favor of it. "I voted for the bill because it contained several things I fa vor," Coon explained. "It also had some things I do not approve of, but the benefits I believe are greater than the points I ob jected to." Favors Soil Bank Plan Coon pointed out that he fa vors the two-price plan for wheat, which is now embodied in the farm bill substantially as ad vocated by Oregon and Wash ington state wheat growers. That was not part of the bill when it passed the House last year. He also favors the soil bank plan, which is in the bill and was not In it last year. Coon, like the President and Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson, is opposed to high rigid price supports on all the basic crops. This was the main feature of the House-passed farm bill last session. The Senate accepted the high rigid support feature and added the soil bank, two price plan for wheat and numer ous other features to the bill. Eisenhower's dilemma was worse than Coon's, for his ag riculture secretary was opposed to the two-price wheat plan as well as higher price supports which would have resulted from enactment of this farm measure. Yet he favors the soil bank plan, which he advocated to Congress eanier this year, and which the Congress included in the omni bus bill. Fair Income for Farmer Coon said he favored the soil bank because "this will give the farmer his fair income while re ducing surpluses which are now a bad depressant on the market." He pointed out that it would not permit soil bank lands to be grazed at least until Jan. 1, 1959. Other members of the Oregon congressional delegation stood firm on their previous positions taken on the farm bill. Reps. Harris Ellsworth and Walter Norblad (R) both backed up the administration by voting this past week to try to send the bill back to committee with instruc tions to restore flexible price props. Sens. Wayne Morse and Rich ard L. Neuberger (D) both sup ported the bill, for they had pre viously joined in advocating the two-price wheat plan and help ing get it into the bill in the Sen ate after the House had failed to include it. Rep Edith Green CD Ore.) also supported the bill this time as she did a year ago. Stand Unanimous Washington state Sens. War ren G. Magnuson and Henry M. Jackson were both in favor of the high price support measure as well as the dual-price wheat plan. So was Rep. Don Magnu son, making the stand of the 1 state's Democrats unanimous. Rep. Hal Holmes (R-Wash.) voted for the Republican effort to send the bill back to commit tee with instructions to kill the two-price wheat plan and reduce ' price supports. So did Reps. Tom Pelly, Russell Mack and Jack Wesland (R-Wash.). Rep. Walt Horan, like Con gressman Coon, switched his vote. Last year he voted to kill the bill but this time helped put it across by voting for it. Rep. Thor Tollefson almost did the same thing. Last year he voted against the farm bill, but this time he announced he favored it but did not vote. The Family Council Government Sued In Klamath Drowning Portland (U.R) The gov ernment has been sued for $20, 000 by the father of a three-year-old boy who drowned in an irrigation canal at Klamath Falls, last September. Arthur Callahan, the father, charged the government with negligence in failing to fence the "main" or "A" canal which runs through the city. His-soa Patrick, drowned when he fell from a path along which he was walking beside the canal, the Federal Court complaint said. Editor's note: The Family Council consists of a judge, a psychiatrist, a newspaper editor, a women's page ed itor and two newspaper writers. These consult with clergymen of all faiths and denominations. All letters are held in complete confidence. GEORGE Her sister should be allowed to marry. EVELYN She's unnecesar- ily desperate. GEORGE My wife, Evelyn, has a younger sister who is en gaged to a young man to whom my wife strongly objects. Evelyn insists her sister would be ruin ing her life is she married this man. I object to my wife taking this wrong attitude. When Evelyn and I first became acquainted, her parents were very much against her seeing me. Had she listened to them, we would have had to separate, yet we have now been married five years and are v5g"5fkgb PAY$ to swop u pM-' 111 ii -11.111 2fffiTTITI1S k ram 1 The World's Most Beautiful Floor Covering Outwears Printed Linoleum 3 to 5 Times! Never Needs Waxing! Lies Flat Without Cementing! Stainless Beauty Wear Guarantee! Reg. $1.89 Sq. Yd. WE GIVE S&H GREEN STAMPS urm 'i7.xj j I'm I si very happy. I feel, therefore, her younger sister should be allowed to decide for herself how she should spend the rest of her life. The young man she wants to marry may not be a good bread winner or may have other faults, but how can another person judge what attraction he may have for Evelyn's sister. EVELYN I'm afraid my lit-j tie sister is panicky about not j being able to marry and is grasp- ing at a straw. This man is not j much more than a straw. He lives off his parents, refuses to j work because no job is good ,' enough for him and treats my j sister as if he were the fountain head of all wisdom and she lit-; tie more than a moron. I'm very much afraid she will j have a hard life with him and : she will feel some day we let 1 her down when we did not point out the dangers to her. My sister ; is a wonderful girl, but she is naive and insecure. When I mar-I ried, she felt very lonesome and i deserted and hoped to marry ! right away, but she is only 23 and has no reason to feel as des- '. perate as she does. THE COUNCIL: George is' right in holding that the girl should decide the question of her marriage without interfer- ence from her sister. ! He is wrong, however, in con- fusing honest advice, however strongly stated, with "interfer ence." It is Evelyn's duty to be honest with herself and her sis ter. She should speak her mind about this suitor and she should do it now before her sister is committed any further. The younger sister is entitled to the benefit of seeing her suitor j as her sister sees him. If, after j weighing what she hears, she j still feels she wants to marry him. she will do so with her eyes open. If Evelyn remains si lent and the marriage does not work out, she will always feel , guilty, not only for her sister's sake, but because the whole fam ily is influenced and affected by any member of the family. Evelyn should, of course, make every effort to be fair, ; calm and patient in discussing , this delicate problem, but she should make clear to her sister her reasons for advising against this marriage. If she fails to speak up now, she will be de priving her sister of an import ant right the right of honest and confidential discussion of major problems within the in timate family circle. Evelyn should not listen to the counsels of evasion and default. Her husband, instead of attempt ing to silence her, should " help her to state her cise to the younger sister with the utmost in tact and wisdom. (Copyright 1956, General Features Corp.) Salem (U.R) About S160 in cash was stolen from the safe of St. Boniface school here Sunday night. vj TOP SPEED "On the Spot" L N Relief for Heortburn n B MEDFORD ! j PLAYSHOE CARNIVAL B H H r A tm IT T valum a GALORE Look! Spring's opening wedge! MILAN STRAW SLING Penney'i first sign of Spring (and Summer) af our year-round value price! 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