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o I, CuJay, Jun 15, 1958 Q IFaFfi Found T Be .enerally .Improved DDu ILLINOIS VALLEY Brush Pirc Extinguished Bf 5UTW 4USCH Ca function A brush fire on t0 W. O. Kohler place alorc lt fork of the Illinois tir a brought un der cot.tfo by the ftate fores try 9J?int Monday noon aftte hours of mop up time. It &M fttimated that the fire, goftbly caused ' by a cigafdtta cf careless fisher man, hflf ben smouldering since sotim Friday. It was reporJ 9 B. 9 . Randolph. The rfbtt of the past week has bee totty and has not been htgvy enough to relieve the fire hazard. The two lookout stations of the fogest service have been in operation for a week. Freda Thayer is on Tennessee fcnd Martin Sachse is on Waldo. Guard school is scheduled to be held at the Illinois Val ley Ranger station from June 16 to 20. The ranger station lookouts will go to their sta tions June 23, 24 and 26. College Student Killed in Accident Milwaukie, Ore. (UPI) Rodney Albert Alexander, 22, a student at Oregon State col lege, was killed early Satur day when the car he was driv ing plunged over a high em. bankment on Springwater rd one milejiorth of Carver. The youth was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Henry Alexander of Milwaukie. The coroner's office said Alexander and a friend, Dan Stockwell, also of Milwaukie, had gone to Willsada park in Stockwell's car. The two be came separated and Alexan der was afbne in the Stock well car when the crash oc curred. He was killed out right. SEESETERIOR&TIO Moscow (UPI) Soviet composer Dmitri Shostako vich,back in the good graces of the Communist Party after 10 year in semi-disfevor, be lieces that Western culture has deteriorated to the crisis point. He spoke to ft group of fellow Soviet composers Fri- "A BAD BEGINNING MAKES A BAD 1WDING" j- (Author's Blow) The beginning of any illnss is the best tin it rry b mora quickly cured. Seriou& sickness has rStet taken full hold. Some peo begin btdly by either neglecting to tak cre of themselves or attempting self treatment. Unless thy are lucky, sickness time is pro longed ancP sometimes life, it self, is endangered. A quicker, happier ending to any sickness is almost assured if you consult your physician quickly and take the s(Sfecific medicines he may prescribe for your particular trouble. YOUR PHYS1CIAM CAN PHONE SP 2-6239 WHEN YOU NEED A MEDICINE Pick up your prescrip tion if shopping near us, or let us deliver promptly without extra charge. A great many people entrust us with their prescriptions. May we compound yours? O HEATH'S Medical tenter PHARMACY !33 Northo Central Quotation by Euripedes (480-406 B.C.) Copyright 1958 (6W3) Friends and relatives sur prised David Sauer with a party to celebrate his ninth birthday this week at his home on Lone Mountain rd. in O'Brien. ' Those attending to share in the games were: David's cousins of Kerby, Sharen, Roxie, Jack and Mike Milner; friends from O'Brien, Mike Rogers, Hommer Lemm, Da vid, Bud, Sharon and Sandy Staples, Kathy Bottel, Lee and Claudia Woodbury, Robin and Mark Kirk, John and LaVeeta Cooke and David's brothers and sister Dan, Billy and Carol. Special guest was David's grandmother, Mrs. Rose Kirt- ley, of Kerby and his aunt, Mrs. Doris Milner, who assist ed in serving ice cream and cake. A combination farewell and welcome open house was held at the Illinois Valley Bakery Saturday jointly sponsored by the retiring owners, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hoffman, and Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Hendnx, the new owners. A large box of groceries and an elaborately decorated cake were given as first and second door prizes to Mrs.-E. O. Greene and Mrs. Lyle Prairie. Five other names were also drawn, the lucky ones are to receive a decor ated nine inch cake at the time of their choice. Names drawn were Irene McCasland, the Rev. Robert Kingsbury, Herb Falkenhym, Mrs. Wil liam J. Sowell Jr., and Mrs. Claude Reinoehl. Cake, cookies, coffee and punch were served tby the co hostesses. ' Elwood H u s s e y reported that the road signs directing the route to Browntown mines are now erected at the junc tions of the Holland Loop with Oregon Caves highway. Holland Loop affords a tour of historical Illinois valley, including old Fort Briggs. Hussey said a number of tour ists and local visitors have already been guests of the Browntown Mine. The rains have made the road slippery but it is still passable with caution. Ken Rosenberg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Rosenberg, is recovering from a knee injury contracted when he missed the net and struck the frame of t trampoline at Oregon State college. It was necessary to have several stitches taken. Ken has been released by the at tending doctor and expects to be home Saturday. He will report for work with the Aerial Project on Monday where he will be in training this year as a squad leader. Mrs. William Raines and daughter, Mrs. Carl Jolly, have returned from a week's trip to Seattle and Whalling, British Columbia. While in Seattle, Mrs. Rains visited six of her chil dren and their families. They were Norma Lee Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Raines of Renton, Donald Rames, and his wife of Ft. Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Messinger, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Smith and the H. L. Raines. In Everett, Wash., they stopped with Carl Jolly's par ents, Mr." and Mrs. Casey Jolly, and brothers, Jim and Walter, and their families. The guardian council of Job's Daughters Bethel 36 held their last meeting for the summer at the home of Mrs. Dan Piper recently. Guardian Fay Snider pre sided at the meeting. Joint installation of Ameri can Legion and auxiliary of ficers will be held at 2 p.m. today at the American Legion hall in Cave Junction. Your New WATCH FOR Carload Sale SPUN ROCK INSULATION THIS WEEK Benson Sentiment Found To Vary; Not All Sharing Editor's note: How do the farmers fare now? Farm income on the whole is op but the improvement in var ious areas is far from uniform. Which of the big Middle West farm ing areas are doing the best? And how do the farmers feel now about Agriculture Secretary Benson, who has been cordially disliked by many of them? United Press International sent one of its Washington farm writers, Bernard Brenner, on a grass roots tour into four key areas to ap praise such questions. He visited farmers, small-town businessmen and county-district politicians in the wheat area of Western Kan sas; in the livestock and grain counties of Eastern Iowa; the dairy district of Southern Minnesota; and the cotton country of the Rio Grande valley in Texas. His findings are summarized in the following dispatch. By BERNARD BRENNER United Press International "Recession? I don't believe this locality even noticed it." This was J. M. Concannon, a wheat farmer, talking as he leaned against the machine he was using to work the soil of a fallow field near the wheat belt town of Garden City, Kan. "We don't know what re cession is this year," agreed Arend Balster across a clut tered desk in his farm supply store at Scotch Grove, Iowa. This reporter talked to dozens of men like Concannon and Balster in a nine - day, four-state tour to sample the economic and political cli mate of the farm belt. The findings may be sum marized as follows: Business and farm in come prospects were general ly up in the Kansas wheat and cattle sections and in the Iowa hog and cattle feeding areas, typical of many other high - producing corn belt areas. Grumbling about Agri culture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson was fading in some of these areas under the impact of a bumper, wheat crop and good livestock prices. But not all farmers were TAKES LIFE Matsuzaka, Japan (UPI) Tatsue Hayashi was sent back to her parents by her husband when neighbors accused her of being a scandal-monger. Saturday she committed sui cide after writing her husband "a life of separation from you holds no attraction for me." sharing in the improvement. Cash grain growers in Iowa were "crying the blues as hard as ever," one merchant reported. Complain About Cut Farmers in the Southeast ern Minnesota dairyland were complaining about a recent cut in their price supports. In the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, despite prospects for an excellent cotton yield, farmers were worried about a Labor Department regulation which they said will raise the cost of harvesting the crop. The Agriculture Depart ment in Washington reported recently that farmers' re ceipts from marketing nation wide in the first four months of 1958 were 8 per cent above the same period in 1957. The improvement, dep a r t m e n t economists said, was due largely to reduced supplies of some major farm products in cluding livestock and vege tables, i To get the picture first hand, this reporter went to typical farming areas of West ern Kansas, Central and East ern Iowa, and Southeastern Minnesota. He also visited the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, which grows the nation's earliest-maturing cotton. "People vote their pocket books," said Dale E. Saffels, a Garden City, Kan., attorney and Democratic member of the state legislature. Saffels said there is "still a lot of anti - Benson sentiment" in Kansas' wheat-heavy 5th con gressional district which elected a Democratic con gressman in 1956 after more than 30 Republican years. But the grumbling has been shrinking as a record-breaking wheat crop matures, he agreed, and the size of the anti - administration farm "protest" vote will probably be down this fall. "When prices are down, farmers and people in our small towns vote for the outs," said James Bradley, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, attorney and Democratic chairman for Linn county. "It's not so much the farm ers we're getting about half of them it's the small town voters," Bradley added. "If farmers 'aren't spending FINISH CARPENTER Remodeling kitchens my " Spe cialty. Addition and All Phases of Building! FREE Estimate and References CALL SP 3-5941 Busy-Day Surprise! DAIRY MONTH v Quick... No cooking PEANUT BUTTER PUDDIN' .2 cups milk 1 pkg. Jell-0 Instant Pudding 2 heaping tablespoons peanut butter Just put two cups of our milk into a mixing bowl. Add 2 heaping tablespoons of peanut butter and 1 package of your favorite Jell-0 Instant Pudding flavor. (Vanilla, Chocolate and Butterscotch combine well with peanut butter!) Beat for 1 minute, then pour into dessert dishes and let stand to set. Makes 4 servings. Try this delirious ly easy surprise tonight! Try all 7 delicious flavors J I 7 FLAVORS pi SENDER'S DAIEiV and PRODUCE COMPANY and their pocketbooks are pinched, the small towns will vote Democratic. As of now, we Democrats will get clob bered in the small towns." At nearby Clarence, Iowa, hog farmer Elmer Meyer climbed off his tractor to ob serve that the vote in Iowa's recent primary was light in Cedar county. "That's a good indication that times are good, and it will likely be a good Republi can year," Meyer predicted. Almost Forgotten "Benson is almost forgotten now because prices are in pretty good shape," Meyer said. "I've been getting from $44 a head up to $52 for my hogs this spring, and when ever I can get over $45 I fig ure I'm making good money." At Rockester, Minn., center of a big dairying area, a Dem ocratic leader said Benson's order cutting dairy price sup ports April 1 will "help us some." But it won't be enough to elect a Democratic con gressman in the first Minne sota district where Demo crat Eugene Foley lost a hair line decision to Rep. Albert Quie in a special election sev eral months ago "unless we get a stronger candidate," the Rochester party leader said. Rex H. Gregor, a Southeast Minnesota Republican leader, said at Rochester that recent months have produced a steady drift toward support of Benson's policies among farmers in spite of Ben son's order cutting dairy sup ports. Some Farmers Quit Some smaller dairy farmers are getting out of the busi ness, Gregor said, and the effect of farm issues will be smaller in future elections. "I don't think that even farmers put as much stock in farm issues as the politicians do," Gregor said. R. V. Eppard, a farm ma chinery dealer at Fort Dodge, Iowa, said however, that anti Benson feeling was still high among the farmers he talks to. Farm income in the area will be up perhaps 30 per cent this year, estimated Os car Lundgren, vice president of the Union Trust & Savings Co. at Fort Dodge. The in crease will go mainly to live stock producers, leaving cash grain producers "pretty pinched." Eppard told UPI at Fort Dodge his machinery sales are up 50 per cent over last year in spite of a 7 to 10 per cent increase in prices and stiffer bargaining by farmers. Machinery and equipment sales by Arend Balster, who retails from his Scotch Grove, Iowa, store and distributes throughout Eastern Iowa as a wholesaler, are up 20 per cent for the first four months of 1958. Farmers, however, com plain repeatedly about the high cost of equipment. At Kasson, Minn., in an area, hit by the slump in farm milk prices, a salesman at Ralph Engelstad's equipment dealership reported business was "not quite up to last year, Red Fir Slabs Next Winter Big Double Load 12 or 16 inch Order Early Be Happy MEDFORD FUEL CO. 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