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Migrant Workers Should Stay in Mexico, Is Feeling Mexico City CU.R) Mexican officials say a recent two-year extension of the Migrant Worker Ict with the Unitd States is "hi-ily beneficial." But they would like to see more Mexicans staying on this side of the border. Most Mexicans feel' it would i be more patriotic for migrant workers to devote their labors to : Mexico than to seek employment outside. I While no one has been able to stop the exodus, the govern ment has inaugurated irrigation and public works programs, and many organizations have offered their own pet plans to keep the "braceros" home. Last year 428,416 migrant workers contracted to work on American farms and in food-processing plants in Texas. Cali fornia, Arkansas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Uncounted others swam the muddy Rio Grande or bought forged papers to enter j the United States. Barbado Quintcla, heading a I group of Mexican professional leaders, said they will offer the j government a program to pro-, vide employment for more "bra ceros" through greater use of hand labor on Mexico's huge public works program. He said greater income for the now unemployed would raise living standards, distribute more wealth to the working class, and ' encourage more workers to serve Mexico. Irrigation Plans Others say the program would actually reduce jobs and benefit , the people from public works since projects would have to be curtailed. President Adolfo Ruiz Cor tines hopes Mexico's dramatic "March To The Sea" port and road rehabilitation program will employ many who would other wise seek seasonal jobs on Amer ican farms. But agronomists say the only way to solve the farmer's prob lem is. "to tackle it head-on." They are encouraged by "the government's energetic efforts to alleviate the drought situation we face in the north." Agriculture Secretary Gilberto Flores Munoz said recently that 500.000 acres of land will be irrigated in northern cotton-producing areas during the coming planting season. He said the ad Ylitonal irrigated land will pre sent "a considerable increase" in this year's ootton crop. Companies affiliated with the National Cotton Growers' asso ciation have agreed to spend $1,920,000 to drill 100 wells. The government is already drilling 279 wells at a cost of S6.000.000. Another program calls for the diversion of the San Lorenzo and other rivers flowing into the Pacific basin of the Nazas river. Engineers expect to drill huge tunnels, some more than 100 miles long, to irrigate now un used land on the eastern side of the Sierra Madre. "However, irrigation is but one step along the road toward putting Mexico's farmers on their feet," say farm confederation of ficials. U. S. Wag Attract The association recently re ceived a report from economist Salvador Camelo Solar stating that "many farmers cannot make ! enough from their small land I grant farms to earn a decent liv- i ing." He said more than 51 perl cent of the nation's sugar crop comes from farms smaller than ; six acres. j Texas growers point out that Mexican pickers were being j paid 50 cents a hundred at a ! time when U. S. pickers earned : $2.50 even though Mexican grow- ers wVe getting about two-thirds j of the price paid to American ! farmers. j One Rio Grande Valley farm- j er says low prices paid for pick- j ing in Mexico "are a direct in-! centive for packers to risk their very lives in the dangerous river crossing to pick at higher prices." Farmers complain, "everyone tells us to be patriotic and stay in Mexico; but no one tells us how to live on an empty stom ach." Though Mexicans and Ameri cans blasted the migrants pact when it was first signed in 1951, observers on both sides of the border admit today that most of the pay, racial discrimination, housing ,and insurance problems have been ironed out. The pact has been renewed in recent years with only slight changes. "Mexico needs her farmers and every ounce of food they can grow," says the farm confedera tion, "therefore they must be helped, must be educated to be better farmers, not given 'made' work to do. There is more than enough work for all Mexicans." Living Room Rockets Due Next Christmas New York -UR) The kids are going to be blasting off rock ets in the living room come next Christmas morning, if some evi dence at the spring Toy Fair here can be credited. And it can. A new pride of the A. C. Gil bert line of electric trains is something called a rocket launcher car. The chassis is of the regulation flatcar type, but mounted on it is a gadget with an arrow-like head and a finned tail. This rocket rides the rails in horizontal repose on the car, but the proper touch by electric re mote control will raise it into perpendicular firing position and send it wooshing upward into the household stratosphere. It can be fired whether the train is standing or in motion. The rocket is guaranteed to turn before hitting the ceiling and drop back harmlessly to the floor. If you want to switch from the rocket age to one of the haz ards of early-day railroading, there is an electrically controll ed cow that can be made to am ble onto the track in front of an onrushing train which grinds to a halt just short of catastrophe. Crime detection equipment is a new addition to the line of chemistry sets. Probably just co incidence that the firm's new vice president, Harvey Rath, is a former special agent of the FBI. Measure Defining ! Border of Oregon Sent to Governor Salem UR) Gov. Robert D. Holmes today had before him Senate bill 1 which sets the boundary between Oregon and Washington. The House yesterday passed the bill unanimously after find ing its engineering descriptions of the boundary were correct. State Highway Engineer W. C. Williams had 'hought the de scriptions were inaccurate, but later decided they were correct. The vote came in the second afternoon house meeting of the 72-day-old session. A joint commission from Ore gon and Washington set the boundary by running straight lines through 191 geographic points. Rep. George Annala," Hood River Democrat and a sponsor of the compact, said that little land will change hands if the agreement is okayed by the U.S. Congress. He said Washington already had passed boundary legislation identical with the Oregon bill. Channel Creates Problems Annala explained that the boundary between the two states in the past has been considered the center of the main channel of the Columbia river. But the changing channel created prob lems of jurisdiction in industrial accidents on dams and bridges between the two states. Admin istration of other laws was also made difficult by doubt over the boundary. Engineers have said that by using the descriptions of latitude and longitude in the compact, it will be possible to determine the boundary at any point with no more than an inch and a half of error. Sand island near Vancouver, Wash., will come i nder Oregon's jurisdiction rather than Wash ington's if the compact is rati fied by Congress. Evicted Tenant's Bomb Try Foiled Rome UR) An angry tenant under an eviction notice tried to blow up a Rome apartment house by turning his apartment into a gas-filled bomb, police dis closed today. He used a cuckoo clock to try to set it off. The 60 other tenants were res cued when police arrived sooner than expected with the order to evict him'. They entred the apart ment just before the cuckoo clock bomb was to have gone off. They saved the day by switching off the electric cur rent. Detectives identified the ten ant as Attorino Natali, 67, a former artillery officer and an electronics expert. He escaped and police ordered a citywide search for him. Natali had sealed all doors and windows with plastic tape, spread gasoline-soaked rags on the floors and then opened a number of bottles containing gas. Three electric wires running from the gas-filled room to a metal plate provided the fuse. Wednesday. March 27, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE nvE, by DURHAM Two Styles Both Beautiful Each Lightweight under 9 lbs. WIREBACK This gracefully modern, decora tor style, multi-purpose chair has washable white Saran seat with gold stripes. Vinyl Foam in front edge for extra comfort. Adds to the appearance of your rooms and is an invitingly cool outdoor chair. $995 PADDED BACK Lum-Puf Saran with lux- urious tufted effect. Washable. Durable. Choice of locked-in decorator colors accented with woven-in, non-tarnishing metallic yarn. Round, smooth plastic fibers resist soil. Comfortably padded back. W Cordially Invite You to $195 STOP mo IN and BROWSE) OXDCDOQ t i i New Home Owner Settles With City Detroit, Mich. U.PJ Albert Hatala bought a lot in Royal Oak that exactly suited his needs as the site for a home in a rural setting. But when he petitioned Royal Oak for water and sewer per mits, he was told he couldn't have them unless he paid an as sessment for paving the street in front of his lot. ' Hatala fumed. He said he bought the lot mainly because it was on an unpaved street. He wasn't going to pay for some thing he didn't want. The compromise Hatala's street will get a coating of gravel. Pendleton Round-Up Due On National Television Pendleton U.R) Plans for national television coverage of the Pendleton Round-Up this year were announced yesterday and a CBS camera production crew visited the city to make initial surveys of the location and confer with local officials. Officials announced that the j Round-Up will be carried on a national nooK-up ior one nour during each of the four days it is slated to rim. Time for the broadcasts has been scheduled 'i for 5-6 p.m. (PST). Smelt Lovers Enjoy Field Day on Sandy Troutdaie UPJ Smelt lovers who like to get their fish first hand had a field day on the banks of the Sandy river yester day as the silvery fish took to the stream in substantial num bers. Dippers reported encounter ing little difficulty in taking a 25-pound limit take. State Game Commission offi cers said that several thousand of the 50-cent licenses for smelt fishermen had been sold. Highways in Oregon Said Clear of Snow Salem (U.R) Roads remained clear of snow throughout Ore gon and motorists didn't have to worry about chains on any of them, the State Highway De partment said today. The Olds Ferry-Ontario sec ondary route remained closed at Malheur river bridge with traf fic being detoured via tempo rary connection to U.S. 30. Red Cross Official Tells of Work at Vale Vale (U.R) Mama Murphy, representative from the San Francisco office of the Red Cross and in charge of flood relief work here, said yesterday that more than $18,000 has been spent thus far by the Red Cross to aid local flood victims. She said that this amount will go to slightly more than $30,000 by the time work is finished. Search for Prospector Ends in Nursing Home Salem (U.R) The search for a 76-year-old North Santiam prospector ended yesterday when he was located in a nurs ing home at Gresham. Police had been seeking Gus Waldisberg for a week after he was reported missing from his remote cabin by a friend. A Portland address found in the elderly man's cabin led po lice to the nursing home where Waldisberg was found to be staying. In Dinosaur Park near Rapid City, S.D., stands a monstrous, man-made brontosaur that shows visitors what this giant reptile of some 135,000,000 years ago was like. 1 JUDICIAL ADJUSTMENT New U. S. 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