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Agricultural Department Authority Listed in Law rN'ot: Uili if another In a serltfl frAm the title department nf arri rnlture about lu flrU 25 yean. The department wat created July 1. 193 1- Salem Laws spell out the work of the state department of agriculture and beyond their scope it has no authority to serve. The laws it administered after being created in 1931 have little resemblance to the agricultural code of today. Some have under gone drastic face-lifting or mod ernization. Only last year the legislature substituted a short ened, modern basic livestock sanitary law for the whole patch work of laws on this subject which had developed through the years. Some laws have been tossed out entirely due to changing times. Two examples are repeal of the stallion registration law and the gasoline standards law, both within recent years. In 1931. Oregon still had a lot of horses on the farm and nearly 200 stallions, mostly draft horses, were on the state registry. The gasoline law of 1933 died on the vine, too, because its useful days were past; once the department laboratory tested all gasoline sold. New Legislation Shifts and development within aericulture and allied industry broueht about new legislation and operations throughout the 25 years of department me Among the more recent were laws embodying the new concep tioin in contrast to quarantine of stopping plant pests and diseases on arrival through sys tematic surveys; the regulation of all commercial applicators of herbicides; the weather modifi cation act which requires regis try of all who would change na ture's ways'with rain, hail and frosts; and the livestock auction ales market law. Court tests were called over some laws, both in the depart ment's formative years and la ter. The produce dealers' act of 1933 was challenged in the courts but was declared consti tutional. But the agricultural adjustment act of that same year was unconstitutional. To replace the lost AAA act, the 1935 special session voted a new agricultural marketing act. Under it, the director soon mailed 20,000 questionnaires to farmers but the act was never actually used for a farm com modity group. It was repealed later to give way to the present commodity commission enabling act. Naw Aid Last year a new aid to mar "keting problems and develop ment in Oregon came in a law creating a division of market de velopment in the state depart ment of agriculture. Another field in which far reaching changes have occurred in the past 25 years is dairy leg islation. It was a big step in 1933 when a permissive grade A milk and cream law was passed, and again in 1935 when the first Bang's disease control act re quired compulsory inspection in dairy cattle countries. Probably more battles have been fought, boih before and after enactment, over dairy laws than any other phase of the de partment work. The first act (1937) setting ud price differen tials on milk and cream was held constitutional after a court suit. Parts of some other dairy laws have been tested in the courts with some decisions for and some against the' legislation. The fluid milk act and Bang's codes wer ecompletely rewritten In 1945. The versions have since been amended but they set the pattern for today's sanitation programs in the dairy field. Standard Container Many will recall the days when the department set up a standard 12-ounce container for strawberries, raspberries and other berry items. (During the department's first five years, grades and standards were writ ten for virtually all Oregon com mercial perishables.) The berry hallock order was contested, too, but upheld in courts. Another milestone in the de partment's operations for bene- HASN'T TAKEN A DRUG LAXATIVE Ifeorutipatinn due to lack of bulk it imur pmblem.rad what All-Bran didltor Mr. C. E. Grcff. Sprinefield. O. "for 2S years I tried etery eonstu potion remedy imaginable. Today I'm a happy man and reailv regular, thinks to Kcllogg's All-Bran." Good-tasting Kellogg's All-Bran cor rects a common cause of constipation (lack of bulk). All-Bran supplies the natural laxative bulk you need daily for regularity. Kellogs 's the original. ready-toot bran cereal has helped millions regain regularity. Try All Bran for 10 days. If not satisfied is every way. return empty carton and get twice wh2t you paid. fit for both producer and con sumer came in the wood act (1941) patterned after the fed eral pure food act. The law creating the depart ment gave to it regulatory and inEpc-tional powers and to the state college extension service and experiment station farm edu cation and research work, respec tively. This basic division still holds. In a like manner, but not until 1945, the department and state board of health mutually sup ported a law which put the in spection of places where food is consumed on the premises under the health agency; other food in- Three Medford Youths Get Elk Scholarships Portland Six southern Ore gon youth, including three from Medford, have been named re cipients of Elk Lumber company scholarships to Lewis and Clark college, according to an an nouncement from Dr. Lewis A. Thayer, chairman of the college scholarship committee. The three Medford high grad uates who will enroll this fall at Lewis and Clark are Richard S. Arnold, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil bur A. Arnold, 1011 Reddy ave.; Robert E. Avers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer V. Ayers, 26 South Orange St., and Walter H. Knight son of Mr. and Mrs. Horace F. spection remained in the department. Knight, 452 Fab-mount st. Also honored with Elk awards were Joan M. Kuhnhenn. Brook ings; Barbara L. Moore. Klamath Falls, and Janet M. Robinson, Rogue River. Arnold, who has been active in all Medford high music or ganizations and local and na tional Boy Scout work, will ma jor in music education. Also ac tive in music and speech proj ects, Ayers will major in pre law. Knight, a member of the rally squad. Boys' league and physics-chemistry club, will pre pare for laboratory research. Use Tribune Want Ads Quick in Results! Easy. Just Dial 2-614 1 Mrs. Anna Nye Dies " In Hospital Friday Mrs. Anna E. Nye, 89, of Tal ent, died at a local hospital Fri day, Aug. 3. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, Aug. 7 at 1:30 p.m. at Perl Funeral home with the Rev. John Reynolds, First Presbyteri an church, officiating. Interment will be in Siskiyou Memorial park. Mrs. Nye was born in Meno monie, Wis., in 1867. In 1895 she was married to Stephen A. Nye at Devils Lake, N.D. The couple moved to the Medford area in 1907 where they resided until Mr. Nye's death in 1951. Survivors include one daugh ter. Miss Ruth J. Nye; a son, Ste- Sunday, August 8. 1956 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUKZ SEVEN Tom Edwards Named Construction Engineer Salem (U.R) Tom Edwards, southwestern Oregon division en gineer for the State Highway de partment, has been named con struction engineer for the de partment. Edwards' post at Roseburg will be taken by Frank D. Mor gan. Edwards joined the highway department in 1930 after gradu ating from Oregon State college. He is a native of Condon. phen G. Nye, Medford; and three grandchildren, Philip and Ste phen Nye of Medford and Mari lyn Jones, Ketchikan, Alaska. Wlllhejtl Distributor "OIL TO BURN" Let Us Fill Your Tank Now Medford Fuel Co. Tel. 2-2111 Court t McAndrewi We Give "S Cr H" Green Stamps SALE ALL THE DEPENDABLE QUALITY OF GENERAL ELECTRIC AT FAR LESS THAN YOU'D EXPECT TO PAY FOR UNKNOWN BRANDS! 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