'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
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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.
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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE riVE
Robinson Promoted In Forest Service
cheese, Pillsbury flour, and
others, Reter said.
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
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