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9 Cost of Producing Farm Crops To Be "Somewhat Higher' in 1957 Washington U.R) The Ag riculture department said today ttia cost of operating a farm and producing a crop next year will average "somewhat higher" than in 1956. The department, in its publi - cation, "TUe Farm Cost Situa tion," gave this outlook for 1957 r arm property taxes per ! acre, interest rates, farm wage rates, and prices paid for farm machinery, motor vehicles and . motor supplies-are expected to be moderately higher. Fertilizer Lower . . "Farm real estate values, and ? prices paid tor building and fencing materials, farm supplies, feed, feeder livestock, and seed re expected to be about the same or slightly higher. The price of fertilizer is ex pected to average slightly lower par ton, of plant nutrients but p iljihtly higher per ton of gross - weight: The department said as of mid- October this" year, the farm cost ( index0 was 8 per cent higher than last year. The Index includ ed interest, taxes and wage rates Pt ices for all items comprising the index, exffept fertilizer, feed er livestock and seed, have in- Greased1 since a year ago, and most of the increases have taken 3 place recentry, the department csaid. ( Archeologists Win .Excavation Race Vermillion, S.D. (U.PJ - Archeologists have won another lap ef their race to excavate pre historic Indian villages along the banks of the Missouri river be fore they1 are inundated by gi- . gantic reservoirs. Most of the diggings so far In South Dakota have been of an cient villages dating as far back as the 16th century. The villages were Inhabited by thenow virtually extinct An kara Jlndians, who first were "discovered" by Lewis end 3 Clark. Ctark described them as "durtey kind, poor and extravi- ' gent." The Arikaras were primarily an agricultural people who lived ' Irv, permanent villages of earth lodges. Their homes were fram ed with timber and partly sunk Into the ground. They tilled the soil with primitive hoes made from th shoulder bones of buf falo. It is believed the Arikaras moved uj) the Missouri river from the country which Is now Nebraska in the early 16th cen 1aVy to escape a drought. They settled in the river bot toms, where they lived for cen turies, apparently undisturbed, until the war-lika Sioux en croached uon their territory and the white man brought smallpox and other diseases. Scores of the villages ate be- ing excavated by archeologists in their effort to learn all pos sible aboait the earliest inhabi tants of the northern Great Plain before their ancient home sites j are lost forever under the wajer of the reservoirs. Rock Salt Damage To Highways Studied Chicago (U.S) The league of Wisconsin Municipalities has conducted a survey on damage caused by rock salt or chlorides to concrete highways. The survey was conducted i-among 30 cities, according to the American Muncipal association. All used chlorides in some form to control ice, and half reported some damage to the concrete. . g, " But seven of the cities report ed no damage to air-entrained concrete. . ' A recent development, air-en trained concrete contains billions of tiny cells per cubic foot. These cells elieve internal pressure -in concrete by forming tiny cham bers for expansion o( water as it freezes. The special concrete O is mad by grinding small am o!y!0ts of aoap-like. resinous or tty materials into the oement clinker, . Only three municipalities re fSorted damage to air-entrajned conerats, c Twenty-one of the cities said thoj- nw raquife all concrete for ptibUc pavement to be air-en-UraMed, or will require it in the ctuftire ' o fcf $$'$-$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Next year, the department said, the rural labor supply and farm wage rates will continue to be influenced by non-farm em ployment opportunities. The ex p a n d e d highway construction program, for example, may de crease the labor supply for the farms, because young men who are skilled operators of modern farm machinery can be trained readily to operate roadbuilding equipment. Farm Machinery Higher The cost of farm machinery is expected to rise slightly, the de partment said, because there will be Increased competition among machinery manufactur TV SPEED OF THE WIND A Aeev's mawipicewt cutKmtwpr ALMOST UN6eueUA0LE spnc reecRDS w Twe e&oae MOTORIZE? VE&SEU6 TOOK Cleg TUB TRACE SOOTE.TH& CLOTOU. 'sommHormfUAa -ilep aK FfCOAA NEW NCRK TO SAM FAMC!60 M 62 MVS. ON ONE OCCA30N HE COVEBEO S.QOO MILES IN THREE WEEKS. SOUND YOUR BEE MATE BrV BEES IS CAUSED 6V TwB SAPID FLAPPING OP TUBR WINGS ACT TUB RATE OP OVt FOUR HUNDRED AtOVCMfTS PBt SECOND ENTIRELY AWOMANS WOtTLtt BUT aAANV AMdCCAN WOMEN KNOW TUE VALUE OP U . 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The panel will also consider methods of -raising funds similar to the Christmas seal sale, which supports health associations in this country. JRoss pointed out that the United States is unique in en trusting tuberculosis control to local volunteer groups, as in roost countries efforts of this sort are controlled by the gov ernment and staffed by govern ment workers. Grange Shady Cove Grange The public is invited to the Shady Cove Grange social eve ning Nov. 28. A pot luck dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m., fol lowed by travel pictures shown by Ben Bones of Grants Pass, and other entertainment. Ladies are asked to bring a main dish and a salad or dessert. Cecil Kee wishes to remind all elected officers that the installa tion of officers will be held at the Eagle Point Grange hall Dec. 2, at 1:30. Members are asked to be pres ent if possible. Mrs. Reed McKay $ $$$$$$$$$ One of the. biggest words at this time of the year is MONEY!!! For your Holiday need:, arrange a CASH loan with STARK FINANCE CO. . . Money for every worthwhile purpose and a payment .scheduled to fit your budget. : Stark Finance Co. 2739 No. 99, Medford Phone 3-1817 ers for the available supply of steel, labor and other commodi ties. Prices of feed, feeder live stock, and seed will tend to flue tuate with prices of farm prod ucts in general, the department said. Prices of feeder cattle will depend chiefly on range condi tions and prices of fat cattle. Prices of feeder pigs are likely to increase in relation to prices received for market hogs. The soil bank, the department said, may tend to increase the demand for farm land and re duce the demand for hired la bor, machinery, arid certain oth er production items. W'4vTOSAv?AW"e -'CT:ST-,- Secretary Two representatives of the Na tional Tuberculosis association will also attend the internation al meeting. There will be repre sentatives from almost every country in the world, with the U.S.S.R. sending 40 delegates and Red China sending five. Ross added, in purely scien tific meetings such as these, there is some advance in politi cal amity, as most countries are meeting with a common prob lem to solve, tuberculosis, so the atmosphere is not one of acrimony. Injunction Sought In Seattle Strike Seattle (U.R) Thousands of Seattle residents got their first real taste today of "transporta tion without bus" while Mayor Gordon S- Clinton sought a court injunction to halt a four-day-old transit strike. , Some 12,000 school children who usually ride buses and thousands of Boeing Airplane Co. employees who enjoyed a four-day Thanksgiving holiday with, the kids, were expected to create a traffic nightmare. The strike began early Friday morning when the Street Car Men's Union, Local 587, and the Seattle Transit Commission fail ed to reach agreement in last ditch negotiations in their wage dispute. Scotland Radio Blasts English Political Parties Edinburgh, Scotland (U.PJ "Radio Free Scotland" interrupt ed a British Broadcasting Cor poration television program Sat urday night with a 25-minute blast against "London dominat ed" political parties. The broadcast apparently was a prank by super-nationalists. Technical experts believed it came from a mobile transmitting unit. Bayonne, N.J., is the home of the world's largest wax refin ery, which produces 20 per cent of the world's wax supply. ILLINOIS VALLEY Highway Span Started By FRANK STRICKLAND Cave Junction Seven units of heavy earth -moving equip ment are at work in the Illinois Valley building a two -mile straightway on route 199 at Cave Junction. The S273.000 road building contract calls for a high fill across the lowlands of both the east and west forks of the Illinois river. The project, which is being carried out by the Durbin Bros., contracting firm of Eugene, Ore., lines up with two reinforced concrete bridges nearing com pletion across these 'southwest Oregon streams. It is estimated the realignment at this point of the Oregon-California route will be completed by midsummer, 1957. Rockydale road, south of the town's incor porated limits and the only traf fic artery crossing the new route, -will be altered to Inter sect the high road by easy grade some two blocks south of its present location, according to Walter J. Durbin a member of the contracting firm. . From a well planned seven day elk hunt through a 50-mile stretch of northeast Oregon wil terness, nine Cave Junction and three Prineville men returned Monday with 11 animals in the bag. The hunters, equipped with nine inflatable boats and a week's supply of food, embarked on the Grande Ronde river at Minam and floated the entire distance through uninhabited wastness of the Wallowa - Whit man National forest. They came out near the village of Troy at the Washington - Idaho border seven days later. The Cave Junction contingent left here Nov. 7, joining their Prineville companions the third day at the point of embarkation. According to Marshall Burrows, local insurance man and a mem ber of the party, the trip turned out as originally planned and the group killed 11 elk, some of enormous size. Burrows said from one of the various camping sites along the way, they pene trated so deep into the mountain range it took six hours to pack out the game. A large tent, which served as camp headquarters, was pitched at convenient intervals on the river and the surrounding area combed for Oregon's rare spe cies of American elk which reach a height of five feet and a total length of nine and one half feet. Burrows said they saw many large deer and other wild game during the hunt: Others in the party were: Darrell Monta, Mayburn and Stanley Campbell, Paul Lewis, Paul Willis, Don Fulk, Delbert Scott, and Roland Tresham, all of Cave Junction, and Howard Harker, Sam Cole and Bill Prine of Prineville. A new office was created Mon day by the Democratic club ot Illinois Valley when Herbert Gage, retired telephone man, was appointed political histor ian. A year's subscription to three leading American newspa pers, the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, and Medford Mail Tribune will be paid for by the. club and deliv ered to Mr. Gage for the purpose of gathering political data for use n the 1958 and 1960 elec tions. Gage, whose mail address Is route 1, Cave Junction, Ore., re sides on highway 199 one and a quarter miles south of the busi ness district. Mr. and Mrs. Odus Green, prominent Illinois Valley They depend on us W take hospital core for oranted but the victimi of war, famine and disaster -overseas cannot. That is why your religious faith maintains clinics and dispensariet in many areas of need. Support your FAITH In Miis,work... in Protestant Churches, give to the SHARE-OUR-SURPIUS APPEAL In Catholic Churches, give to THE BISHOPS' CLOTHING COLLECTION. In Synagogues, give to the ' UNITED JEWISH APPEAL SPECIAL SURVIVAL FUND. Give thanks by giving GIVE THROUGH YOUR FAITH I PMiihri at a public wrrire cooperation vith The Adtertmru, Council and the S'ewspaper Advertising Executive! Association. Democrats, agreed to pay for the Monitor subscription. Nomina tions were accepted for new of ficers for the ensuing term and the election set for the Decem ber meeting. Ralph Messenger is president of the club. Mrs. Frank Gibbons served refreshments to those in attendance. Caroline Hicks, of Taoga, Okla., mother of Mrs. W. R. Raines, who resides in Cave Junction, has been visiting the Raines home on River st. Mrs. Raines is employed as checker at the Illinois market in Cave Junction. Among many truths brought out by the national election is a report received here Wednesday that the Peoples' Utility district at Klatskanie, near Astoria, Ore., is giving its customers $15, 000 worth of free electricity this month because the Republican branded "socialistic" enterprise has paid off the last of its bond ed indebtedness and is operating debt free. Officials of the PUD say their residential rates averaged 8.8 milles in 1955. Matched with pri vate power rates, informed pub lic power advocates here are proving that Clatskanie, Myger, Westport and Wauna electric rates are three to four times lower than most Oregon com munities served by private com panies. Alc Clarence Gilliam, of the U.S. Air Force, son of Mrs. Net tie Sowell of Cave Junction, and his wife, Virginia and their baby son, are here from Blytheville, Ark., air force base on furlough. The Gilliams have been trans ferred to Ladd Air Force base at Fairbanks, Alaska, and will leave soon by automobile via Seattle and the Alcan highway. Both Mr. and Mrs. Gilliam are natives of this region. Virginia is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed DeMersseman, Rockydale road. ' W. D. Miller and family are here from Coos Bay visiting Mr. and Mrs. Russell Davis on Rockydale road. Miller, an em ployee of Menashia Plywood Corp., is convalescing from an injury received on the job some Die Tnoune Want Ads i-ri WAIT FOR WHAT? The Greatest FURmTWlE Southern Oregon Has Had In Many Years! SEE COMPLETE ANNOUNCEMENT IN MAIL TRIBUNE WED., NOV. 28 You Might Be Sorry If You Do NOT Wait! '-JUll UMJ 1UU8 STANDING BY... 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Virginia lys, 20, possible fornia, Jack Ubell; his wife, , 40, and daughter, Mar were in jail awaiting extradition to Cali where Ubell said the killings took place. Ubell, stationed in Japan, wrote Bakersfield, Calif., au thorities, telling of three chil dren born to his daughter out of marriage that were murdered. Officials dug up the body of a 7-month-old child, wrapped in a magazine called "Personal Ro mance" at Edwards Air Base near Bakersfield. Ubell's letter also recalled of ficials to the records of 1952, when the corpse of an 8-month-old by was found in the city dump. The airman said in his letter that his wife and daugh ter also were guilty of that murder. Chief Criminal Deputy T. R. Egan said Marlys named her father as parent of the last two babies, and both women said that Ubell disposed of all three bodies. months ago. Otis Green and Frank Gib bons took a 20-mile drive down the highway into California Monday and brought back a 28 inch steelhead caught in Smith river. Frieda Thayer and Mrs. Roy Moore spent the week with rela tives and friends at Areata and Eureka, Calif., last week. Both of these ladies live on Rocky dale road. Mrs. Frank Rauber, owner-operator of Cave Park motel at Cave Junction, spent Thanksgiving with son Donald and family at Grants Pass. Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Dietrich of Bay ard, Neb., are here visiting their son, M. Dietrich and wife Dee, who live on Rockydale road. (And be sure to renew promptly MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE . MEDFORD (REGQN) Book Exhibit Due At Junior High School This Week : A variety of 550 new child ren's books will be oh display Nov. 29 through Dec. 5 at the Hedrick Junior High school li brary, according to Mrs. Mildred E. Rogers, school librarian. The books fall into 33 subject categories and cover all age in terests from kindergarten through high school. Both fiction and non-fiction will be represent 'ed. The exhibit will be open daily from 9 a.m. to' 4:15 p.m. to all interested persons. 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