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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
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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."
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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.
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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."
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America's heart. And that's just what Ford has earned. The
real secrets of Ford's success are the extra values that go
into building a Ford. Let's look at a few of these features.
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most expensive cars. But you get them at low Ford prices.
1. Only Ford in its field has a frame
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S. Only Ford in its field offers as
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