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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
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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
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TB Association
to Attend Meeting in India
Kenneth Ross, executive sec
retary of the Oregon Tubercu
losis and Health -Association,
will travel to India in January
to take pa'rt in an international
union against tuberculosis pro
gram, it was announced re
cently. Ross will be' on the voluntary
organization panel along with
representatives from Venezuela,
India, England and Scandinavia.
He will offer information and
suggestions on forming organ
izations, such as the National
Tuberculosis association, which
ar mainly administered by vol
unteers. Local Organizations
This panel will consider the
setting up of local volunteer
organizations, such as the Jack
son County. Public Health asso
ciation, for the control of tuber
culosis and the accompanying
preventive measures of raising
public health standards in gen
eral. 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.
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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.
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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 '
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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
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Air Force Sergeant
Quizzed in Deaths
St. Paul, Minn. U.R An Air
Force sergeant was held today
on suspicion of murder after
his wife and daughter, whom
he accused of murdering three
illegitimate infants, counter
charged he disposed of the
bodies.
T-Sgt.
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.
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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.
Catalogue Available
A complete graded and annot
ated catalogue- of the exhibit is
available for free distribution to
teachers, librarians and other
school people.
The 33 subjects the exhibit
covers include adventure, aeron
autics, animals, the arts, biogra
phy, careers, classics, conserva
tion, exploration, fairy tales and
folklore, fiction (with 16 sub
divisions), foreign lands, games
and parties, geography, history,
hobbies and activities, humor,
Indians, information, intecult
ural relations, inventions, lang
uages, nature, picture books,
pioneer life, religion, science,
ships, social studies, sports, Story
books, transportation and verse.
Cooperative Enterprise
Books on Exhibit, a coopera
tive enterprise, of many of the
country's publishers, has set the
exhibit here. Purpose of the ser
vice is to make available to
schools, and libraries a repre
sentative collection of junior li
brary books to meet particular
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Fire al Gresham
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Grftsham (U.R) Two small
girls eyed in the flaming ruins
of a rural Cft-esham home eiy
yesterday "when an 9verheated
wool Stove ignited the walls of
the frame house oand fan9
trapped the victiiSs in a bed
room. Dead we. Margaret Juanita
Underwood, 13, gnd Jacqueline O
Rose Iichele, 5. Both collsedo
near a bedrocgi windc Sere
they apparently had made a
futile effort to escape.
Firemen said a strong (gist
wind fanned the flarfies and by
the tima thev receded the alarm
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house, Mrs. Mary Eliifeeth Un
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a gjtnddaughter, nise Marie
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the blaa'sg building.
Mrs. Uaderwood's i&usband
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Photographers have an open
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training installation at Fort Dix,
N.J on week eeds and take shots
of facilities and troi activities.
Every high scfiool senior class
in New Jefcey -as invited to
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past school year.
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