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( o o o ' S SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AGAIN HIT- BY FIRE Fire men stand helplessly by as a wall of flame races up the mountainside to the very edge of their firebreak refuge In Santa Susana Pass, Calif. Unable to continue on the road because of the flames, the firefighters were forced to wait until their firebreak completely burned itself out before they could bring their equipment into the area to join other firefighters forming a continuous fire line. Fire raged out of control for the third day near Chats worth defying efforts of more than 600 firefighters. An estimated 5000 acres have been consumed so far. Soil Bank Farmers Will Be Paid S600 Million; Bumper Crops Due Washington (IB The govern ment has contracted to pay about S600 million this year to soil bank farmers who agree to take surplus crops out of production. Yet government reports in dicate this year's production of wheat, cotton, corn, rice and tobacco will be a bumper corp comparable to the record output of 1955 and 1956. Taxpayers naturally are ask ing: "How come?. . .what hap pened to the soil bank program that was supposed to reduce pro duction 20 per cent?" Bank Said Working The Agriculture Department says the soil bank is working. "We're breaking even on it," a department official told the United Press. "We are not add ing to the surplus which is cost ly any way you look at it. "If the government hadn't agreed to pay farmers for tak ing land out of production of basic crops, early crop reports in dicate they would produce far more this year than last. The surplus would have increased, our price support losses would have increased, our prices sup port losses would have gone up, and we'd have the stuff in bins running up storage charges. Not Getting Bigger "But with the soil bank, our surplus is not getting bigger." As to why production this year is likely to be large even with 28 million acres in the soil bank, the official said: "Moisture conditions changed overnight in the Great Plains. The drought broke. Growing conditions are more favorable now than they have been for ' some time. The yield is going up. There has been a trending in-; crease in yield for years. Farm ers are using improved varieties of seed, better fertilizer, and better insect control methods." , Department officials usually consider wheat the No. 1 surplus problem. If the 10 million winter wheat acres and the 2,500,000 spring wheat acres in the soil bank had been p 1 a n t ed, the crop would have been increased by about 236 million bushels. Costs Run High The extra production would have gone under price support loan and eventually would have been taken over by the govern ment S2 a bushel, or S472 mil lion. The Treasury would have to pay about 6 cents a bushel to borrow the money to pay farm ers. The Commodity Credit Crop, would have had to pay about 16 cents a bushel to store the wheat. If the OCC sold the wheat abroad, the subsidy would have been about 72 cents a bush el. Administrative - costs , and other expenses would bring the tctal loss on the wheat to about SI a bushel. The sale abroad would net about -$236 million. The loss would have been the same. As it is, under the soil bank, the government has contracted to pay farmers about S231 mil lion to keep some 13 million acres of wheat land out of pro duction. So, give or take a few mil lion, the derartment figures the government is about breaking even without having a wheat surplus to store and overhang the free market. The example for wheat, ac cording to the department ex pert, works similarly for cotton, corn, rice, and tobacco. He fig ures the soil bank is a good deal. 52nd Year Medford Price 10c United Prets Full Leaned Wir Tribune United Prcm Full Leased Wire Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1957 Pages 1-6 Quotes From the News 0 By UNITED PRESS London Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin, on a Western proposal to set experts to work on details of an inspec tion system to enforce the ban on atomic and hydrogen weapons tests: "To bring experts together is a waste of time." Washington Sen. Richard B. Ruuell (D.-Ga.) promising an all-out fight against tht civil rights bill: "Call if a filibuster if you with. If we did not resist, wa would not be worthy to be called men. God gives us strength to demean ourselves as men and as our people expect us to." Washington Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D.-Ill.) urging approval of Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland's (Calif.) motion to have the Senate drop all other pending business to take up the civil rights bill: "What we are trying to do is to make effective in actual life the constitutional rights of all citizens regardless of race and color primarily the right to vote." Chicago National Safety Council President Ned Dearborn, praising motorists and traffic officers for keeping the July 4th week end highway death loll below the normal for a non-holiday period. "Drivers and traffic enforcement agencies now have demon strated on two successive holidays that extra traffic volume and danger can be offset by extra care and effort." New York Capt. Leif Hansen, skipper of the liner Oslofjord, on the unusually heavy spread of icebergs in the North Atlantic: "I have never seen it like this with so many icebergs. It was tha worst I've known in 12 years." Michigan City. Ind Convicted "mad dog" killer Leslie Irvln, on learning his execution scheduled for today had again been postponed: "It certainly was something to go through and I'm very happy." 3 BROOKS ELECTRIC & PLUMBING 1016 North Riverside Phone SP 2-5209 ja JE SS 1 H.P.-110 Volt -Model SW100C ' With Custom 8 Position Control WESTINGHOUSE Air Conditioner Runs on normal house current saves on installation, saves up 40 b on electricity! Thinner, low er, smarter too, there's no bulky overhang blends with your home inside and out. Has built-in thermostat, adjustable no draft grills, many more big features. - rSaDini Bill III mm m jw w NOTHING DOWN 4.00 A WEEK This Price Good Thru July 15 Only you CAN BE SURE. ..IP ITS Astinghouse WE GIVE S&H GREEN STAMPS Work as Therapy To Rebuild Fallen Man Declared Successful Sacramento, Calif. How do you save a skid row bum for himself and society? Vern Zook, an Air Force vet eran from Indiana, has come up with a new approach put him in a business of his own. "Work is the best therapy in the world," he says. "But with the work must go spiritual re discovery. The skid row derelict must return to God." Profits Buying House To prove his theory, Zook opened a restaurant run by tramps for tramps. If was so successful he opened a second in one of the city's better neigh borhoods and is using profits to buy a house to shelter his crew. He calls his operation "Chris tian Service Enterprises" and holds regular Bible classes to help his men build new attitudes toward life. The difference between Zook's scheme and the conventional res scue mission is that it provides regular employment in an atmos phere of understanding. The more common rescue mission, he says, emphasizes evangelism and provides odd jobs when availa ble. When there are none, their skid row inmates depart with their earnings to buy a bottle. Zook spent five years running such a mission in Stockton, Calif. Convinced that was the answer, he proposed his new approach to the board of directors, but they thought business and re ligion don't mix. ! I believe you can t divorce i the two," says Zook. ' Goes Very Well His Sacramento experiment has lasted only a year now but things have gone very well. Customers show interest in the workers. Zook and his wife themselves work up to 16 hours a day and take out only $50 a week for themselves. His greatest problem is that some of the men just don't show Reorganization Pleases Hatfield Salem M Secretary of State Mark Hatfield said Monday that he was well satisfied with the progress of the Department of State in its reorganization program. Hatfield said the department has reached a point in record inventory that indicates a 60 per cent reduction in file space. In other reorganization moves Hatfield, said that extensive re pair of the State Office building will begin shortly upon com pletion of which needs of the State Tax Commission will be met. He also said that a long range building repair and rehabilita tion program is in the investi gatory stage for presentation to the 859 Legislature. Hatfield added that guide service has been expanded with out additional costs and the Capi tol's role in furthering the tour ist industry will be furthered under plans yet to be announced. ANTHROPOLOGIST DIES Los Angeles W Dr. Harriet M. Allyn. 74, a leading anthro pologist and the first academic dean of Mount Holyoke College, died Sunday right. tin... ...l. -mm. J mien 4iuiii4t;i uv i Brings sleepless nights Take2TUMS To set things right! up for their shifts. On skid row only one man in a hundred fights his way back to be a use ful member of society, Zook guesses. "But for the 1 per cent, we're willing to put up with the other 99." EOS!! th n Remember This Date! 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