Scholarships Won
By File Members
Of Slate 4-H Clubs
Coryli Five Oregon 4-H
club IWfcrjier'i have been award
ed (300 college scholarships In
a statewidi contest. Announce
ment of winners was made by
Bsjrton Hutton, state 4-H club
extension leader at Oregon State
college.
Winners are Suzanne Lozier,
EnteQrise; Janice Powell, Hood
River; Mary Klock, Troutdale;
Carolyn Eickworth, Coos Bay;
and Judy Wilcox, Milwaukie.
Each will receive a $300 col
lege scholarship presented by
Standard Oil company of Cali
fornia. All are 18 and all but
Mi6s Powell are attending Ore
gon State college. She is en
rolled at Northwest Christian
college in Eugene.
Selection for the awards was
based on demonstrated achieve
ment in project work, leadership
and sportsmanlike attitudes.
Club members also had to sub
mit a story of their 4-H record
showing how 4-H club work con
tributed to their development
as members of home, school,
church and community.
Slate Clothing Winner
Miss Lozier was 1955 state
clothing winner and represented
Wallowa county several years at
4-H summer school. Her par
ents are Mr. and Mrs. C. M.
Lozier.
. Miss Powell Is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Powell,
Hood River. In her 10 years as
a 4-H member, she has won 110
ribbons and taken 17 champion
ships at state and county fairs.
Recently, she was named Ore-
fon4-H leadership winner. Miss
owell i3 now sharing her 4-H
skills with younger club mem
bers as a cooking club leader.
Miss Klock is a former state
poultry winner and national 4-H
club congress delegate and is an
active junior leader in her com
munity. She is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Orval Klock.
Miss Eickworth was president
of her high school FHA chapter,
and took the lead in develop
ment of a senior-or older 4-H
group in Coos Bay. Her parents
are Mr. and Mrs. Lorance Eick
worth. O
Miss Wilcox was Oregon's
1956 state winner in recreation
and won a trip to the national
4-H club congress ln Chicago. A
8-year club member, she has
taken projects In usual home eco
nomics subjects and in rabbits,
and poultry. In her community,
she has planned and led recrea
tion for county 4-H leaders as
sociation meetings, spearheaded
club fund raising drives and pro
vided entertainment for hospital
programs. She is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Wilcox.
Alternates named In the schol
arship judging contest were
Elizabeth Job, Hillsboro; Eliza
b e t h McEntire, Brownsmead;
Catherine Carroll, Eagle Point;
Don Walls, Hermiston; and Hel
en Potwin, Newport.
Voting Change Suggested
For Commodity Commission
The state board of agriculture )
brought out and will petition the
legislature to amend the com
modity commission act to make
a 51 per cent affirmative ma
jority sufficient for the forma
tion of a commission.
This action was taken Thurs
day in the first of a two-day
session being held at the depart
ment offices.
Under the present law, a two
thirds affirmative vote is needed
I Sign-Up Date Set
j For Fryer Voting
J Salem Oregon broiler and
fryer producers must register
with the state Department' of
; Agriculture by Nov. 18 to be
; eligible to vote in the referen
: dum to be held from Dec. 9 to
L 21 on creation of an ' Oregon
- Fryer Commission, it is an-
. nounced by Market Develop-
; ment chief, Paul T. Rowell.
: This is in accordance with
Oregon's Commodity Commis-
: sion Act under which producers
must register at least 20 days be
fore the referendum is held,
' Rowell said.
Tb registration period began
In rirfd-September and was ex
tended once because of the low
number of early registrations,
Rowell added.
Rowell stressed that all pres
ent broiler or fryer producers in
Oregon are eligible to register
and vote on the proposal for a
self-help commission to promote
Oregon's fryer industry. Any
producer who did not receive a
registration form by mail should
Q obtain one through his county
extension agent or direct from
the state Department-of Agricul
ture in Salem.
Plans For Dinner To
Be Made at Meeting
Gold Hill Final plans for
the turkey dinner, which will be
held In the dining room of the
Community Methodist church
Saturday, Nov. 16, will be made
at a meeting of the Woman's
Society Friday, Nov. 8.
The group will hold a potluck
luncheon at noon at the church,
according to Mrs. Ferd Jones,
president of the Society. Each
member Is to bring someone
who has not been attending the
regular meetings.
Officers Elected
For Antelope Club
During Recent Event
Bill Hubbard, Eagle Point,
was elected president of the An
telope 4-H community club dur
ing the recent meeting. The
meeting was held in conjuction
with the annual achievement
and pot-luck dinner at the Eagle
Point Grange hall.
Other officers elected were:
Ronny Anderson, Eagle Point,
vice president; Nyla Murray,
Medford, secretary; Betty Ann
Higday, Eagle Point, reporter;
and Darrell Stanley, Eagle Point,
treasurer. '
Alan Eames, assistant manag
er of the Medford branch of the
First National bank of Portland,
gave a short talk to the 4-H club
members. Gene McCurley, agri
cultural field man for the bank,
presented cards and pins for pro
ject work.
Other special awards present
ed included county style revue
medals to . Nyla Murray, Karen
Jossy, and Georgia ' Hubbard;
county achievement medal to
Robert Hayes; clothing achieve
ment medals to Jo Anna Mal
loroy and Nyla Murray.
Club members receiving cards
and pins were Robert Hayes and
Mar jo Murray, tenth year; Nyla
Murray, eighth year; David
Woolford, Fred Jossy, Sharon
Coffman, Diana Gardener and
Arthur Gardener, seventh year;
Vernon Harper, Jo Anna Mallor
oy, Bill Hubbard and Larry
Meyer, sixth year; Alice Wool
folk, Beverly Little and Donald
Higday, fifth year; Karen Jossy,
Judy Bradshaw, Ronald Ander
son, Georgia Hubbard, Charlotte
Bush, Marlena Coffman, fourth
year; Steve Geren, third year;
Donna Geren, Ricky Anderson,
Christene Bartels, . Marvin Lit
tle, Eldon Little, Errol Coffman,
Judy Hill, Carol Jaffrey, and
Phyllis Jaffrey, second year;
Mary Ann Gardener, Bobby Hub
bard, Florence Woolfolk, Mike
Reid, Sandra Bayliss, Vance
Harper and Paulette Anderson,
first year.
Land Reserve Idea
Helps Land Uses
Farmers with land to retire
from production should find
the soil bank's conservation re
serve program of particular
benefit in shifting such land to
other uses, according to Albert
L. Straus, chairman, Jackson
tion and Conservation Commit
tee.
In the past, the chairman ex
plained, many owners have
been unable to shift land out
of crops because they could not
afford to lose the income, and
at the same time assume new
expense in establishing the al
ternate use.
The conservation reserve, ac
cording to Mr. Straus, meets
this problem by providing two
kinds of payments to farmers
who participate in the program.
For removing general cropland
from production and establish
ing . such practices as grass
cover or a stand of trees, farm
ers may earn annual payments
during the life of the contract
This gives them some income
from the land. They also may
earn up to 80 per cent of the
cost of establishing such conser
vation practices as permanent
cover of grass or legumes, ap
plication of lime for permanent
cover, planting trees for for
estry, using shelterbelts or
windbreaks, water storage for
irrigation, stock ponds or fish
ponds, wildlife cover, wildlife
water and marsh management
Benefits continue even after
the term of the contract, the
chairman pointed out. Trees
produce forest products; shrubs
continue to provide shelter and
food for widllife; and grass can
be used for grazing.
The signup under the 1958
conservation reserve program
is now under way, Straus said.
Farmers who wish to take part
in the program or who wish
further information should call
at or get in touch with the
Jackson County ASC Office.
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to create a commission, in addi
tion to the requirement that all
who vote must represent at least
one-third of the entire commodi
ty grown in the state. The board
agreed that this latter require
ment should remain the same.
Suggests Petitions
The board also passed a mo
tion directing a petition to be
prepared to Oregon's congres
sional delegation urging that
the Production Credit Associa
tion in this Internal Revenue
district be permitted to build
tax-free reserves for loan losses
equal to the amounts now ac
corded commercial banks.
It also recommended that the
Production Credit association
petition the state tax commission
to allow the organization to set
aside a non-taxable reserve for
protection against bad loans, ac
cording to Ward Spatz, board
member from Medford.
Robert J. Steward, secretary
of the Board and state director
of agriculture, will work with
John Horn, chairman of the tax
commission and Philip Brandt,
manager of the Willamette Pro
duction Credit Association in
preparing the first petition.
If federal funds are to be kept
coming into agricultural re
search programs, the people
must be educated on the direc
tion this research is taking, Dean
Earl Price told the group. The
board agreed that phases of pro
duction research still necessary
actual and potential agricul
tural diseases and insect emer
gencies, improved marketing,
and new and improved process
ing and uses of agricultural
products must be emphasized.
Steward brought out that 'the
layman sees surpluses recorded
in commodity after commidity,
and consequently misunder
stands the aims of present pro
duction research.
Robert Pierce, board member
from Ontario, emphasized that
farmers must take a stand on
marketing, , and suggested more
of the state circulars distributed
to Oregon farmers and ranchers
carry marketing news, instead
of production information.
Still on the problem of more
effective marketing! the board
discussed the need for convin(
ing small growers or livestock
people to pool their products
and form cooperatives in order
to compete more successfully on
the market.
A marketing research study
of unnecessary processing done
by Oregon cattlemen will be
initiated as a result of Thurs
day's discussion.
Thursday, NoTember 7. 1957
December 5-6 Set
For Horl Meeting
Corvallis Oregon State
Horticultural Society, oldest
farm commodity group in Ore
gon, has scheduled its 72nd an
nual meeting, Dec. 5 and 6, at
Oregon State college to review
latest production and marketing
practices for the multi-million
dollar fruit and vegetable indus
try. Electrical gadgets to measure
soil moisture, mechanical bean
pickers, plastic mulches for vege
table crops, and a host of chemi
cals to kill weeds or boost fruit
yields through hormone action
are .among new advances slated
for discussion.
President Ross Hukari, Hood
River fruit grower, says top
scientists and industry represen
tatives from throughout the
west will report on topics se
lected through a poll of grow
ers. Committees have been
working for1 the past six months,
Hukari stated, sounding out
growers and industry fieldmen
in shaping the program.
About 1000 growers are ex
pected for the meeting, accord
ing to Secretary C. O. Rawlings,
OSC horticulture specialist. The
bulk of the program is scheduled
in four sectional meetings to
handle special interests for
growers of apples . and pears,
stone fruits, small fruits, and
vegetable crops, Rawlings said.
Sectional meetings get underway
Dec. 5 at 9:30 a.m.
Two-hour general assemblies
are scheduled the opening after
noon and the morning of Dec. 6.
First day assembly speakers are
G. E. Korzan, OSC agricultural
economist, discussing probable
impact of market organizations
on Oregon growers; and M. H.
McVickar, chief agronomist,
California Spray Chemical cor
poration, Richmond, Calif.
Water rights In Oregon as
affected by the state's new
ground water act will be re
viewed by Lewis Stanley, Ore
gon state engineer, at the Dec.
6 general assembly.
Bob Blackburn, Portland,
KEX radio sports director, will
be banquet speaker, Dec. 5, and
Don McCutcheon, KODL, The
Dalles, master of ceremonies.
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List of Odd Names for American Tcwns
Continues To Find Way To Quigg's Desk
BY DOC QUIGG
United Press Correspondent
New York (IP) There are
are some things that, once you
get them started, just keep roll
ing along, like Old Man River
or the Sputniks in their cour
ses. Such a thing is the game of
digging up fine place-names from
the fertility of the American
map.
This department has been
showered with communications
from all over the country since
listing a few of our great towns,
such as Slap Out, Ala., and Ham
bone, Calif.. The contributed
names keep coming and include
such quaintness as Bowlegs,
Okla., and such sweeping poetry
as Skygusty, W. Va.
There is Nitro, a wee town
in West Virginia which produced
an explosion on the national
.scene last fall in the form of a
native son who made good in the
World Series. Nitro was an ex
plosives manufacturing town in
World War I. Now, a modest
sign at the city limits proclaims:
"This is the. home of Lew
Burdette." '
Burdette From Nitro
The sign was there even be
fore pitcher Burdette won three
games in the World Seriesi
There is also, in the mail, a
kind and only mildly chiding let
ter from a lady whose enormous
ly gifted husband, the late Ste
phen Vincent Benet, was mis
quoted in the first column on
names. I said that he ended his
Yreka Meeting Set
To Discuss Freeway
Yreka A public meeting will
be held Dec. 10. in the Siskiyou
county courthouse, Yreka, Calif.,
at 11 a.m. when the California
district highway engineer will
explain plans for rebuilding
U.S. Highway 99 into a freeway
between the Oregon-California
line and Henley way near Horn
brook. The meeting, to be held in the
supervisors room, will give in
terested individuals an opportun
ity to express their views.
The project calls for 6.7 miles
of construction for a four lane
freeway built to interstate stan
dards. Opposite lanes of traffic
will be separated by 60 feet, as
now proposed, and the basic
right of way would b 184 feet
wide.
Included in the plans are four
traffic interchanges which will
be separated by overhead cross
ings or underpasses.
Rhode Island Joins
Income Tax Field
Chicago (IP) Many states
adopted sales and cigaret taxes
in the decade sinces war but
only one has voted in income
tax.
The Federation of Tax Ad
ministators said that since 1946
11 states have adopted cigaret
taxes and 10 sales taxes. This
brought to 42 the number of
states with cigaret taxes, and
there are 33 states with sales
taxes.
Rhode Island became the 34th
state in the income tax field in
11947 when it enacted a net
corporation Income tax as an
alternative base for its business
corporation tax.:
Daily's U-Drivo
Medford Airport
poem on American names with
the line: "Bury my Heart in
Painted Post" which is a town
in New York.
Mrs. Benet said he was fond
of the town, all right, but re
minded that the poem actually
ended: "Bury my Heart at
Wounded Knee" (South Dakota).
The contributor of Bowlegs,
Okla., is a gentleman from Tex
as, Bruce L. Parker, of Pampa.
He also says that, the towns of
Edna, Tex., and Louise, Tex., are
on either side of a fine place
named Comfort, Tex., which has
a big highway hotel sign read
ing: "Sleep in Comfort Between
Edna and Louise."
Laney. Was Zaney
But the man who really show
ered down names to the glory of
his state is Rex Laney, a Louisi
ana patriot. Consider, he says,
the great names of Happy Jack,
La., Cut Off, La.; Plain Dealing,
La.; and Yamn, La.
He presents the pairings of
Topsy, La., and .Eva, La.; Hold
up, La., and Trial, La.; Hotwells,
La., and Cold Water, La.; Perry
La., and Como, La.; Hite, La.,
and Lowe, La.
And then, he says, there are
Franklin, Delano, and Roosevelt,
La., none of which was named
for FDR.
Laney resides In Baton Rouge,
La., right on top of a magnificent
southerfi name that crowns the
street where he lives Honey
suckle ave.
There must be some glorious
names of streets kicking around,
and I herewith offer one on
which I once lived in Honolulu.
The thoroughfare's moniker was
Menehune Lane. The Menehune,
in the Hawaiian or Polynesian
languages, are the little people
probably far Pacific cousins to
the Gremlins and the Leprech
aunsand, as everbody knows,
they'll gitcha if ya don't watch
out."
California Man, Niece
Arrested by Police
A California man and his 15-year-old
niece were arrested by
Medford city police early Wed
nesday at the corner of South
Central ave. and . Stewart ave.,
and charged with vagrancy.
Earl Duane Miles, 24, San
Mateo, Calif., was lodged in city
jail and the Compton, Calif., girl
was taken to county jail pend
ing action by juvenile authorities.
Police reported the man ad-1
mitted writing several bad
checks in the Portland and Calif
ornia areas. He is being held
here pending reports from those
authorities.
Free Parking Time .
Eliminated by Device
Chicago (IP) Cities may
earn more money from parking
meters with a gadget tested in
San Francisco, according to the
American Municipal Associa
tion. The device makes every one
pay, eliminating the "free" time
left by the previous parker. It
works through a photo-electric
cell set into the street about 30
inches from the curb.
When the car leaves its park
ing space over the electric eye,
the ' light strikes the cell and
throws a switch, raising the
meter's "expired" flag.
San Francisco found that rev
enue rose 37 per cent in a 12
day test of 50 meters.
Federal dole (direct relief)
ended Nov. 29, 1935. It had cost
$3,694,000,000 since May, 1933.
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