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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.
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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.
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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
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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,
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Kan., are the best in many
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