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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 11, 1958)
MAIL TRIBUNE, MtdforJ, Or., Thursday, SeptMibtr 11, 195S B Sunday Will Be First Day of GOP Finance Drive Sunday, Sept. 14, will be the first day of the "Neighbor to Neighbor" finance drive for Republicans in Oregon, according to Don Stathos, chairman of Jackson County Republican Central commit tee. The campaign, based on door-to-door solicitation, is a new method of political fund raising and is being tried this election year as a means to give each voter an opportun ity to "Buy a Share in Your Political Party," Stathos said. The idea has been adopted for vigorous promotion by the Amprican Heritage Founda tion and the American Ad- j vertising Council with the co operation of both major politi cal narties. No Special Groups Local Republican leaders have stated that their party has no desire to be supported and controlled bv special in terest groups. They believe that by getting the support of many citizens representing the general interest, the Re publican party can best serve the country. "Americans have built for themselves a political system that is the most expensive in the world," Stathos said, "and since the money has to be raised somewhere, this drive affords an opportunity for each registered Republican to perform a valuable political duty." Mrs. Al Littrell. local chair man of the "Neighbor to Neighbor"- campaign, has asked that residents be pre pared when his Republican neighbor calls. Each Republi can is urged to "back your ballot with your buck," she said. A Farming Costs Push Age Bracket Upward in State Corvallis High cost of op erating a modern farm is push ing the age brackets upward for Oregon farmers. Oregon now has the small est proportion of farm oper ators under 35 years of age and -the largest percentage over 65 years of any census year dating back to 1920, says D. Curtis Mumford, Oregon State college agricultural eco nomist. The report, based on the 1954 federal census of agri culture, shows that while the average age of Oregon farm ers has changed little in the past two decades, tnere are fewer "young" farmers. That times have changed since an ambitious young man with a plow and good team of horses could break into farming is emphasized by the fact that only, one per cent of all Oregon farmers were un der 25 of age in 1954. At the other end of the age scale, 17 per cent of Ore gon's farmers were 65 years or older at the last census. Average age of farm oper ators in Oregon is 50.4 years. While slightly higher than the 49.7 age for 1950, it is sim ilar to the 1945 and 1940 figures of 50.1 and 50.6 years, respectively. Little or no change in the state average-coupled with a decline in percentage of young farmers has resulted in a marked "bunching up" around the 50-year average. Twenty five per cent of alt Oregon farmers are in the age group of 45 to 54 years, and 88 per cent are at least 35 years old. Jefferson county rates, the distinction of having Oregon's youngest farm operators-average age, 45.3. Multnomah has the oldest 52.4 years. Youngest average ages are in eastern Oregon. Of the state's 15 counties having farm operators averaging less than 50 years of age, only two were among western Oregon's 10 counties: Tillamook with 47.9 years and Linn with 49.2. Only four of eastern Ore gon's 17 counties average 50 years or more. Baker, Har-. ney, Umatilla, and Union were a fraction above the 50-year mark. - Hood River Man Guilty of Homicide The Dalles-OIPD-Jimmy Lee White, 27, Hood River, was found guilty of negligent homicide by a Circuit Court jury Wednesday night in con nection with a traffic acci dent which took three lives near Mosier Jan. 9. Charles E. Webb, 22, driver of one car, and his father, Charles T. Webb, both of Pull man, Wash., were killed. 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