Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 19, 1958, Image 5

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Newspaper Page Text'Easier Said Than Done7 is Word for Hitting Inflation By LYLE C. WILSON United Pres Correspondent Washington Wl Easier laid than done is the trite phrase for what President Ei senhower has been learning the hard way. Consider how it was back there in 1952 lj u j ii i mi if i- & M d5iSwl'en Gen f T-i t-v -c: tr-fj'i 8 senhower had rr- pf J just snuckea fcfel J&LamA n i 8 uniform Lyie c. wuon and was cam paigning for the presidency. Came Oct. 22, 1952, and candidate Eisenhower was in Troy, N. Y., seeking the votes of shirt and collar makers. Harry S. Truman was presi dent of the United States and candidate Eisenhower charg ed on that day that the Tru man administration deliber ately had caused monetary Inflation as a political policy in order to create an illusion of prosperity. "This always is done," Ei senhower said, "by adminis trations that care more for the next election than for the next generation." He tartly added that dom estic policies "make for a false prosperity when they are predicated on arms produc tion with no end in sight." He accused Truman of com batting inflation merely with weak stop-gap price controls while ignoring "the real ef fective controls those over money and credit which would have paralyzed their scheme to use cheap money for their own ends." Candidate Eisenhower pro posed to combat inflation by 'knocking down the adminis tration idol of cheap money, getting unified action from our economic agencies and slicing the fat out of our fed eral budget." And, how is it now more than five years after with President Eisenhower's latest budget? It is like this: Where as the Truman budget (for fis cal 1953), which Eisenhower was attacking that October day in Troy, proposed to spend a whopping S73.9 bil lions the new Eisenhower budget proposes also to spend $73.9 billions. Budgeted For Surplus Truman, however, had an all-out inflationary budget for fiscal 1953 compared to Eise nhower's for fiscal 1959. Dem ocrat Truman budgeted for a deficit of nearly 10 billion dollars. Republican Eisen- has budgeted for a surplus of $466,000,000. There is more doubt than confidence, however, that the '59 budget will show a surplus at the end of the fiscal year. More likely, the Treasury will be in the red in the new fiscal year. And, somehow, the little burp of further inflation which a Treasury deficit must represent does not greatly dis turb Eisenhower if it disturbs him at all. He told his news conference this week that he preferred a deficit to a tax increase. A needle in the economy, he said, would be vastly better than a check rein. Back there in Troy the balancing of a budget and the checking of in flation seemed to be a reason able and realizeable objective On the record, Truman was a better economizer than Eis enhower. Truman had govern ment spending down to about 34 billion dollars in 1948. The 1950 Korean war caught Tru man in so bad a defense pos ture that he had to fire his cost-cutting defense secretary and almost double the cost of government. Eisenhower still was spend ing high, wide and handsome when Sputnik I erupted and forebade economies demand ed by angry voters. iMer Says Pear Industry Can Look to Good Future In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS President Eisenhower rec ommends to the congress a farm program designed to take the government increas ingly out of agriculture and put the farmer more on his own. To accomplish this, he asks the congress for authority to do these two major things: 1. Set .lower price supports (subsidies) on the so-called basic crops, including dairy products. 2. Increase acreage allot ments for cotton, wheat, rice, peanuts and tobacco. rf ADDITION, Ike recommends: 1. Repeal ot the escalator clause in price support opera tions for basic crops. 2. A one-year extension of the surplus disposal act and an additional 1V4 billion dol lars to cover sales of surplus agricultural products for for eign currencies instead of dollars. T ET'S take a look first at this "escalator clause the President wants repealed. It works like this: As soon as a surplus is REDUCED that is to say, whenever by fire-sales, give aways or any other device, the stored-up surplus of ANY CROP is reduced the PRICE SUPPORT MUST BE RAISED AGAIN. What that means is that as soon as one surplus is mov ed out of storage incentives are automatically provided to BUILD UP ANOTHER SURPLUS. Than that, nothing could be more absurd. HPHE foreign currency device -- isn t much less absurd, What that has meant is that U.S. agricultural surpluses can be sold for foreign money pounds, francs, lira, zlotys, yen or what have you. The trouble with that is that all over the world (ex cept in hard-headed, finan cially competent West Ger many) the American dollar commands a high premium due to the fact that we are selling more abroad than we are buying abroad. About all we can do with this foreign currency we get for our agri cultural surpluses is to stash it away in a vault and hope that someday it will be worth something to us. rpHERE will be plenty of -- blood on the moon as a result of Ike's farm program proposals. The political farm ers who farm the farmers for votes instead of farming the land for crops will howl like wounded wolves. They will be joined in their howl ing by the big scale farmers who have benefited from mass production of the subsi dized crops. The proof of the pudding is the eating thereof. Here in southern Oregon and far nothern California the pudding hasn't left a very good taste in our mouths. As land has been taken out of these so-called "basic" crops, it has been put into crops that over the years have been our specialties. The result has been a GLUT in the markets for our spe ciality crops. NO WHEELS Manchester, Conn. (IB State police found a loose trailer-truck wheel beside the Wilbur Cross Highway, then set out to find the vehicle. They located the big rig 10 miles away. The driver Ernest E. Washington of Dor chester, Mass., was standing beside it he couldn't go any farther after losing a second wheel. "Count your blessings:" Ray Reter, local owner-manager of a fruit packing house and president of the International Apple Growers association told pear growers at the an nual Jackson county Growers League meeting Friday. Reter said the pear indus try is enjoying a relative period of price stabilization compared to other perishable products. "The pear industry has a good future to look forward to," Reter predicted. Favorable Position "It would appear we are soon to be in a favorable posi tion as to water for irriga tion," Reter commented aft er hearing reports by Jack and Walter Hoffbuhr of the Medford and Talent Irriga tion districts. "Skill in the use of it will be required. Both irrigation and thinning should be re lated to our marketing prob lems. Excessive large sized fruits, even though we secure more pounds to the tree, can well result in less return in dollars per tree," Reter said. Reter noted the last sea son in which the Medford pear district produced exces sive quantity of extremely large sizes in D'Anjous and Bosc. Friday's New York auc tion sold size 135 and 150 U.S. No. 1 pears at $6 and better delivered. This amounts to approximately 4 cents per fruit, considering about 46 pounds of fruit to the box. Size 90 pears brought about j $3.60 delivered which means about 4 cents per pear at 46 pounds to a box. This is a merchandising problem that has not been answered in any kind of fruit, he noted. Oranges and apples and other products have the same problem, Reter pointed out. Washington Apple Crop "This season the Washing ton rpple crop is heavy to extreme large sizes resulting in a demoralized red ink crop," Reter said. "So, con sideration must be given to the size range we grow." Reter questioned whether Medford district pear growers realize they are considered "a very cooperative group. He pointed to the fruit grow ers league which handles such common problems as hail suppression, Mexican labor camp, industry experimenta tion on growing problems, tree tax problems and others. He mentioned also the Med ford pear shippers associa tion composed of all shippers and handlers and the over all northwest perishable in dustry organization kriown as the Northwest Agricultural council. The latter organiza tion handles all freight rate problems, national legislative problems, and those of wage and hour, Mexican labor and of the export market, Reter said. Fruit Export Council The council is also a mem ber of and is represented by two members on the board of the U.S. Fruit Export Coun cil. The organization consists of several fruit organizations, Reter explained. It is accept ed as the advisory council to the secretaries of agriculture and state in connection with export problems. "Largely through the ef forts of this organization many European trade barriers have been reduced or elimi nated," the International Ap ple association president said. Because of short crop con ditions in Europe this year as dairy distributors, Kraft and the council's efforts, win ter pear producers will ex port approximately 1,200,000 boxes of fresh pears, mostly fancy grade and heavy to small sizes which also are not particularly desirable for the domestic fresh market." Prevent Demoralizing This prevented demoraliz ing these grades and sizes in the domestic market which would have adversely affect ed the value of the higher grades and desirable sizes, Reter pointed out. Reter also mentioned the Oregon-Washington-California Pear bureau, a voluntary shipper-contract organization. The organization is the oldest of its kind and is now in its 27th season, he said. As sessments of eight cents a box are being paid by more than 90 per cent of the winter pear producers. "Other areas and producers look on the pear bureau as the most successful and best organization of its kind," Reter added. Advertising Promotion Joint canning pear adver tising and promotion spend ing this year totalled about $200,000, to which Medford contributed $7,500. The or ganization participated in the equivalent of $1,400,000 in advertising space last year through tie - in advertising with other commodities such Vehicle Funds Due For Distribution Salem (IP) More than $2 million will be distributed to both counties and cities soon as allotments from Motor Ve hicle Department contribu tions to the statl highway fund, the department an nounced Friday. Counties will share $2,185, 032 as their 19 per cent por tion of the $11,500,172 in re ceipts from gasoline taxes and registration and licensing fees during the last quarter of 1957. Apportionment is made on the basis of the number of motor vehicles registered in each county. 'Cities will divide $2,352, 017 as their 10 per cent por tion of S23, 520,172 in gaso line taxes and registration and license fees. Apportion ment is made on the basis of city population. TUNNEL Bingham, Utah (IP) Crews from the Utah Construction company building a tunnel to speed up ore haulage at the Bingham Open Pit Cop per mine set a new drilling record when they bored 1, 080 feet in 24 working days. The crew hewed out a 21x 25-foot opening in the hard abrasive quartzite and hauled out 27,000 cubic yards of rock. At the same time other workmen brought in 3,300 cubic yards of concrete to support the roof and sides. At the end of the month 960 feet of the tunnel had been covered with a 16-inch con crete coating. SLOW DOWN , Rose City, Mich. HP) Police here have a sytem that they say works better than fines in reducing ' speeding. An apprehended speeder is forced to drive through town again with a patrol car fol lowing right behind his auto. jjAPfi. sol HM5-17-23-23 ML43-9-87-8Sl 4f- Budget conscious? Planning will help yon get maximum protection for every life insurance dollar you spend. 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He summarized estimates of the nation's economists and predicted the effect of trends on the pear industry. Pear production will not material ly increase for the next 10 to 15 years, he said. Of the 250 million popula tion predicted for the United States in 1980, 80 per cent will be in the 20 to 30-year-old bracket. Four million babies are now born each year, five million are pre dicted for the 60's, Reter said. New Consumer Markets New consumer markets will become available to the pear industry with population in creases in California, Oregon and Washington. Estimates for 1970 shows California heading the list of the three states with an increase of 7,335,000 people or 57 per cent, Oregon 631,000 or 38 per cent, Washington 852,000 or 33 per cent, Reter said. "Our pear industry located almost entirely here on the coast should be in a better position to take advantage of these many favorable factors than other commodities wide ly grown such as citrus and apples," the pear shipper remarked. "We must guard against ! fXpttinir Mlicrhf in tho pnet. 1 price squeeze. We should de velop our nearby expanding markets such as Los Angeles, the Bay area and the expand ing southwest," Reter con cluded. (See Slory on Page 1) Wallace R. Robinson has been promoted to line staff officer in the Rogue River National forest, Supervisor Carroll E. Brown has an nounced. The position was established recently because of the increased work load in timber management, recrea tion and land use activities. Before the office was cre ated, all three activities were handled by a staff officer. The new position will enable staff assistants of the supervisor to give more attention to timber management, including tim ber sales, and in recreation and land use activities. Robinson started as a tech nician and assistant ranger in the Wenatchee forest in 1934, and has been project staff officer in Rogue River National forest since June 3, 1946. He is a member of the Society of American Foresters and the local chapter of the Izaak Walton League. Rumford, Me. (NP) An An dover, Mass., hunter searched woods near here all day for a deer but failed to find one. Driving home, Philip Caudet struck a deer. But it struggled to its feet and bounded into the forest. Gaudet had to pay about $400 for repairs to his auto. Grange Notes The Desert Pegasus The Eagle Point Desert Pegasus' meeting was called to order by Vice President Marcia Ackerman. Three new members, Don Arnold, Caro lyn Hackney and Jerry Rog ers were introduced. The retiring treasurer, Jim Ackerman, gave his final re port. Plans were made for a Val entine party to be held at the Teen Age club in Eagle Point Friday evening Feb. 14. Mr. Dunn, our leader, in troduced Betty Ann Higday as our new Junior Leader. This is Betty Ann's eighth year in 4-H. She will help HUNG UP West Jordan, Utah Burglars successfully robbed Jordan Builders Supply her of a truck loaded with $800 worth of merchandise but abandoned everything after carelessly hanging the vehi cle's wheels over an embank ment during the get-away uue. with the first year boyi and girls. Our club is going to have a skating party Friday, Jan. 17 at Grants Pass. Mr. and Mrs. Dunn and Mr. and Mrs. Krambeal will accompany us. Our next meeting is Feb. 1 at 2 p.m. at the Dunn ranch. Jim Ackerman, Reporter Beat Spring Prices . . M EABLYB BK BE FREE Push-button Torqueflite Transmission, Constant Control Power Steering, Fresh Air Heater and Defroster a gift to you from Dick Knight if you buy DeSoto now during Earlybird Sale! Equipped DeSotos at low as $3,195 big value at a new low price. Come See Us, Won't You Dick Knight Co. AT Riverside at 8th St. 33 S. 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