Legislation on Land
Administration Posed
Secretary of the Interior Fred
A. Seaton today announced de
partmental sponsorship of pro
posed legislation he says is aim
ed at providing authority for
more efficient public land ad
ministration. Embodying a five-point pro
gram to improve administration
of the public lands, the proposed
bill as submitted to the Congress
applies to all lands subject to
the public land laws, including
the O&C lands of western Ore
gon and public lands in Alaska.
Most of the lands affected are
administered by the deparment's
Bureau of Land Management.
Proposals Listed
BLM Director Edward Wooz-
Soil Bank Loophole
Told in Testimony
To Subcommittee
Washington U.R Congres
sional testimony revealed today
that a loophole in the soil bank
law will permit farmers to re
j ceive federal checks this year
for taking some 26 million acres
out of production while actually
reducing plantings by only 12
million acres.
- Assistant Agriculture Secre
tary Marvin L. McLain said the
department has legal authority
to close the loophole. But he
indicated it hasn't dared to do
so for fear of the political "heat"
such a move would stir up
among farmers.
'No Guidance' Provided
He said Congress in enacting
the soil bank, which will cost
taxpayers a total of about $1 bil
lion this year, provided "no
guidance" as to whether it want
ed the loophole closed.
"We could do it, if we fit
that we could take the heat to
do it," McLain explained to a
House Appropriations Subcom
mittee behind closed doors April
11.
The subcommittee published
the testimony today without
comment.
Rep. Carl Andersen (R-Minn.)
raised the issue at the hearing
by asking McLain to explain a
"discrepancy between the 26
million acres farmers have
agreed to put into the soil bank
and the reduction of only 12
. million acres In total 1957 crop
plantings forecast by the depart
ment. Cut Not Required
McLain said the department
is not requiring any farmer to
reduce his total crop plantings
as a condition for receiving soil
bank payments. They are paid
fr- keeping idle some govern
ment allotted acreage for plant
ing of wheat, cotton, corn, rice
and tobacco, he said.
If such restrictions were im-
posed, McLain said, the total
reduction in crop plantings this
year -would equal the amount of
land which farmers are paid to
keep idle.
Without such "safeguards," he
said, many farmers who have
land that is normally idle have
simply offset their planting re
ductions in the five surplus crops
by planting to barley, soybeans
or other uncontrolled crops land
that would otherwise be idle.
ley noted that the bill proposes
to:
1. Authorize the Secretary of
the Interior to conduct investi
gations, studies and experiments
and to enter .into cooperative
agreements in order to carry
out his responsibilities with re
spect to the federally owned
lands administered by the sec
retary through the Bureau of
Land Management.
2. Authorize the secretary to
modernize provisions for the
payment of fees required as serv
ice charges.
3. Authorize the secretary to
rehabilitate lands damaged by
defaulting timber purchasers,
and permitting the use of for
feited deposits or bonds for that
purpose.
4. Permit the secretary to ac
cept donations of money, serv
ices, or property for the im
provement of management of the
public lands under his juris
diction. 5. Authorize the secretary to
require users of roads or trails
on public lands to deposit suffi
cient money to enable the sec
retary to maintain them in a
satisfacory condition. ,
Wouldn't Affect Rentals
Woozley said sections of the
proposed legislation pertaining
to fees would affect only those
services which the department
performs on a fee basis and
would not affect rentals for the
actual use of the public lands
such as the grazing fees required
by the Taylor Grazing act. The
bill would not affect the price
of copies of records distributed
to the public. Fees with respect
to stenographic services are in
particular need of adjustment,
he added, because stenographic
help is not obtainable for the
low fees fixed a long time ago.
The legislation would facili
tate the policy of the Congress
to place these kinds of services
on a self-sustaining basis, Wooz
ley said.
ARMY'S RIFLE Kc. Joe L.
Beard holds an M-15 auto
matic rifle at Fort Leslie
McNair at Washington, D. C.
The M-15 and the M-14,
which has a slightly lighter
barrel, are known as the
T-14 to the Army and will
be adopted as standard rifle.
The T-44 is capable of either
fully automatic or semi-automatic
fire and can be
fired at the rate of 700
rounds a minute.
Davy Crockett
Becomes Idol
Of French Youth
Paris (U.R) Davy Crockett
this spring has replaced Napo
leon and the Three Musketeers
temporarily as the idol of French
youth.
According to the popular wom
an's magazine. Marie Claire,
this legendary American hero
has become a $3 million business
for French department stores.
And Walt Disney, of course,
reaps the benefits. Attached to
all Davy Crockett products is
the label "Walt Disney's Davy
Crockett." The movie and TV
producer cleaned up with Crock
ett in the United States two
years ago.
The magazine's survey count
ed more than 200 such articles,
running from coon-tail hats to
guitars, pistols, puzzles, knives,
sweat-shirts, belts, etc.
Manufacturers promise next,
a Davy Crockett bicycle, com
plete with its own furry tail fly
ing at the back a fashion as yet
unknown in France although it
has been popular in the United
States for years long before the
Crockett craze there.
Women's Hats
The gun-toting hunter's fame
has even invaded the over-21-year-old
group. Ballet star Lud
milla Tcherina had a "trapper's
hat" especially designed for her
a happy combination of the
Russian Cossack style and
Davy's coon-tail model.
Leading hat designers now
show the western bonnet in
everything from opossum to Per
sian lamb, ermine and mink.
A year and a half ago, "the
king of the far west" was un
known here. Youngsters played
in the Napoleon cockaded hat
and fought duels in true mus
keteer style.
Then French television launch
ed the Davy Crockett song with
the aid of singer Annie Cordy
and gave away 200 coon-tail hate
to promote it.
After six months of indiffer
ence Crockett suddenly caught
on. Today there are 15 different
recordings of the ' same ballad,
and a stirring account of the
hunter's life as recounted by
the night club star, Francois
Perier.
Sheet Metal Men
Walk Out on Strike
Spokane U.R) Some 550
sheet metal workers in eastern
Washington, northern Idaho and
northeastern Oregon "were on
strike today after contract nego
tiations with the Inland Empire
Sheet Metal Contractors associa
tion failed.
Pickets were set up at most
shops in the area. Federal Medi
ator Louis Ziman was attempting
to bring both sides together to
approve a new contract to re
place that which expired April
30. -
The workers asked for a 28
cent hourly wage increase. The
association, representing 75
firms, offered an increase of 14
cents an hour with a six-cent
hourly increase for health and
welfare programs.
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Girl Receives Minor
Injuries in Accident
Teresa Lynn Stickley, 22-
rfionths-old daughter of Mrs.
Esther Alice Stickley, 920 South
Central ave., Medford, suffered
a briused forehead Sunday when
a Tar operated by her mother
was involved in an accident, ac
cording to city police.
The girl was taken to Sacred
Heart hospital where she was
released later Sunday. Hospital
attendants indicated her in
juries were not serious. '
The accident occurred on East
Main st. between Lindley and
Willamette aves., it was report
ed. Operator of the other car in
volved in the accident was Co-
rinne Inez Bobbins, 502 Park
St., Medford, police said. No
citations were issued.
Of the 4.3 billion pounds of
poultry slaughtered in 1955 in
commercial plants, about 88 per
cent was turned out in ready-to-cook
form.
icial Sweden
Slops Romance
Stockholm, Sweden OI.R)
Royal disapproval of Swedish
Princess Margaretha's London
romance has not dulled the ar
dor of her British boy friend, a
Stockholm newspaper reported
today.
The palace issued a communi
que Sunday reporting that Mar
garetha's mother, Princess Sibyl
la, had rejected as "impossible"
the bid of a piano - playing
nephew of a British nobleman
for her daughter's hand in mar
riage. The Briton is Robin Douglas
Home who earns an average of
$84 a week by working in an
advertising agency and playing
the piano in the luxurious Ber
keley restaurant by night.
The communique is "pure non
sense," the newspaper Stock
holm Tigningen quoted Douglas
Home as exclaiming today.
"From my side it is far from
finished." 2
Monday, May 8, 1957
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
LEANING FORWARD, President Eisenhower receives ,
first American Legion 1957 memorial poppy from Kathy
Zeller, 7, Barrington, 111. Solemn youngster is grand
daughter of Mrs. Carl W. Zeller, national president, Ameri-
can Legion Auxiliary. (International Soundphoto)
Two Feared Drowned
In Snake River
Clarkston, Wash. U.R) A
search was underway today
along the Snake river near
Clarkston for two men feared
drowned.
Harold Withey, 30, and his
uncle, . George McKinnon, 49,
both of Clarkston, disappeared
Friday afternoon.
Withey's car was found Satur
day south of Asotin. The boat he
always used to cross the river
to a ranch where he worked was
missing.
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