Tuesday, April 23, 1957
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
Vast Storehouse of Pacific Northwest Wheat May Be Gone By Late Summer,
By A. ROBERT SMTH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington The vast store
house of surplus Pacific North
west wheat that has been stored
in everytning
from elevators
to Liberty
ships in recent
years will be
gone by the
end of sum
mer, officials
here now predict.
That includ-
RobL smith es the estima
ted 90 million bushels of wheat
expected to be harvested this
year in Oregon, Washington and
Idaho.
Reason for the anticipated el
imination of the wheat surplus
problem in the Northwest is the
success of one aspect of the gov
ernment's foreign aid program
by which a number of countries
have been obtaining large ship
ments of wheat.
The unusually heavy market
demand from abroad for North
west wheat has had two major
consequences; increasing the do
mestic market price for white
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wheat to some 40 cents a bushel
above the government support
price; and reducing the surplus
stocks of. wheat from recent
years when the market demand
was below the level of produc
tivity. Depends on Congress
How long this condition of
higher prices and strong demand
will last is uncertain, depending
on how long foreign desires for
wheat hold up and how long
Congress may continue the for
eign aid program that has made
it possible.
Last July, the wheat surplus
in the Northwest amounted to
112 million bushels well over
a year's production for the re
gion. By last month it was down
to 65 million bushels. Depart,
ment of Agriculture experts pre
dict it will be gone by late sum
mer, provided all export expec
tations come through.
The same depletion will not
be true of wheat stocks else
where in the nation, although
there has been a modest decline
from the 890 million bushels
stored last July to 736 million
bushels as of last month.
Preferred in Many Countries
The reason for this contrast,
officials say, is that Northwest
wheat is preferred by many
countries that have been buying,
as well as being closer to their
market. Much of it has gone to
India. Other countries in South
east Asia have been buying
white wheat in the Portland
market.
Last fall, USDA adopted a
new approach from its former
practice of selling directly to
foreign buyers from government
wheat stocks. It said all wheat
would have to be bought in the
open domestic market, and that
existing stocks held by the gov
ernment would, in effect, be held
off the market for the time be-
Cancer as Deficiency Disease
Proposed; Oregon Doctor Helps
BY DELOS SMITH
United Press Science Editor
New York (U.R) Because the
formulation of a sound theory
capable of explaining known
facts often has led to extreme
ly important scientific discover
ies, it is of interest that a new
theory proposes that cancer is
a deficiency disease.
Interest is sharpened by the
fact that this theory was form
ulated at the same time but in
dependedently by Drs. L. A. Erf
and B. J. Miller of Jefferson
Medical College, Phi ladelphia,
and by Dr. Edwin E. Osgood of
the University of Oregon Med
ical School, Portland.
Erf, Miller and Osgood theo
rized that the deficiency was in
whatever substances cause new
body cells to mature and take up
their vital roles in body chem
istry, Such substances except
in one- instance, are not now
known to exist. The theorizers
proposed that they do exist.
Erf, Mill and Osgood took per
nicious anemia as a' theoretical
base. There was a time when it
was considered a form of can
cer, since it was marked by un
controlled multiplication of im
mature red blood cells and as a
disease it was uniformly fatal.
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Then it was discovered it was
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Howl to stimulate moderniza
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buildings will be one of the im
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at the annual convention of the
Oregon State Association of
Plumbing and Heating Contrac
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Other subjects on the agenda
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The meeting will be attended
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Exams for Positions
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Salaries are $1.63 to $1.94 an
hour for boiler fireman; $1.65
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electric utility materialman.
Full information and application
forms may be obtained from
Chester W. Silliman, U. S. Post
office, Medford.
Erf Miller and Osgood pro
posed that the maturing sub
stances of -cells could be many
and varied and differ from cell
type to cell-type. They proposed
that these substances could or
iginate inside the cell or could
reach the cell from the outside
by way of the blood and other
body fluids.
In either case cancer would
represent a disruption in supply
and distribution. The causes of
disruption could be many. This
would explain why cancer has
so many forms and appearances.
Pointing of the theorizers was
toward more research in the sub
tle chemistry, of normal cells.
This would mean a change of
emphasis in cancer research
which now accents the study of
cancerous and other abnormal
cells. I
Body Chemistry Stimulated
Basically cancer is an uncon
trolled multiplication of prim
itively immature u?n d i ff erenti
ated cells. As Erf and Miller
pointed out in stating the theory
in the technical journal of the
American Academy of General
Practice it is only necessary for
one cell to become cancerous
"to eventually cause the death
of the organism."
Cellular damage could block
the delivery of maturing sub
stances to immature cells which
can divide and so multiply with
out ever maturing. This would
explain how certain chemicals
and excessive radiation cause
cancer. Also it could explain the
strange phenomena of cancer,
such as the 15 cases of remission
of leukemia which Erf and Mil
ler have seen personally follow
ing broncho-pneumonia. One re
mission lasted nine years. Ac
cording to the new theory, pne
umonia stimulated body chemis
try into a greater activity which
produced the missing maturing
substances for a time.
Osgood proposed the theory in
the technical journal of the Na
tional Cancer Institute.
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ing. This had the desired effect,
officials declare, of stimulating
the domestic price as foreign or
ders came in, thereby boosting
the market price above the gov
ernment support price and mak
ing it unprofitable for farmers
to dump their wheat into gov
ernment storage for the support
price.
Subsequently, USDA permit
ted sales of its own wheat at 105
per cent of the support price
plus handling charges, which put
the price at about $2.56 for hard
white wheat. The market price
for hard white last week was
about S2.61. Last August the
market price for hard white
was about $2.20 and the support
price S2.26.
Reimbursed in Two Ways
Under public law 480, which
officially is called the agricul
tural trade development and for
eign assistance act of 1954, des
ignated foreign countries are al
lowed to purchase our agricul
tural commodities with their
own currency rather than with
American dollars, which are
hard to come by. The American
exporter who handles the deal
is reimbursed- in two ways by
the government: he is given dol
lars for the foreign currency,
and he is granted a, quantity of
wheat comparable in , value to
the difference between the U.S.
market price the wheat he sold
cost him and the lower world
price at which it was sold to the
foreign buyer. . World wheat
prices run 60 cents to 90 cents
below domestic prices.
The stimulated domestic price
may have future surplus prob
lems, however, for Northwest
wheat growers seem to be de
sirous of cashing in on it while
they can. They have not respond
ed to the government's soil pro
gram of retiring acreage' . from
crop production as . much as
wheat growers elsewhere, offi
cials concede.
For the country as a whole,
former wheat acreage has been
cut about 20 per cent 12 mil
lion acres out of 60 million
ials Say
acres.
Pledged io Soil Bank
B u t in Washington state,
wheat acreage has been reduced
only 8 per cent. Of the 2.5 mil
lion acres planted in 1956, 221,
617 acres . this year have been
pledged to the soil bank.
Oregon wheat growers have
cut back 12 per cent from the
919,000 acres of wheat for 1956
by putting 110,000 acres in the
soil bank this year.
Agriculture officials stress
that the depletion of surplus
wheat is not a permanent cure
for the imbalance between pro
duction and consumption, but
they are enjoying it while it
lasts.
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