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2A MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford. Oregon, TTwrsday, January 22, 1959 Highlights of Upcoming Aqriculture Laws Released Salem-Highlights of propos es legislation affecting laws administered by the state de partment of agriculture were released , today by Director Frank McKennon. Without discussing the mer its of each, McKennon noted that the following bills to be entertained by the 1959 legis lature are principally from three sources: (1) those the department has suggested as "housekeeping amendments" to make laws more workable or to modernize existing statutes; (2) proposal resulting from conferences of the de partment's advisory groups and officials; (3) and changes affecting the department which originate from inde pendent sources. Seed law-Would establish funds for control work by budget rather than by con tinuing appropriation. Produce Act-Remove wal nuts and filberts from the law. Control area law-Author-Ue department to receive and expend funds to enforce con trol areas. Allow publication of control area orders in a local newspaper where appli cable. . Insecticide application-Control application of insecticides to protect polinizing insects. (Move for this legislation originates from Malheur coun ty alfalfa growers.) Hay dealers act-Establish a flat $1,000 bond requirement; provide more adequate funds for enforcements Livestock brands-Authority to use simplified procedures in re-recording. Amendments to improve brand procedures upon death of recorded own er, and to correct conflicting statutes with, respect to es trays. Predatory animal and ro dent laws-Revisions to bring both programs under a single law administered by the state department of agriculture; provision for an advisory board composed of represen tatives from O.S.C., state game commission and other interested agencies. This Week's BEDROOM BEDROOM W9iM By HIAWATHA ESTES Much of the charm and character of this 1639 square foot home lies in its hand wrought detailing. Band sawed rafters outline the gables of the split cedar shake roof. Painted horizon tal siding is combined with board and batten for design interest and for color con trast, rich-hued used brick veneer is used in front and repeated in the chimney and the planter beside the en trance. Shutters at the win dows, diamond lights in the corner bay and a cross-buck motif on the garage doors add additional rustic touches. From tha sheltered en trance center hall channels traffic to every room Built on the open plan, the kitchen commands a view of fcj s iatm J Mooy - - r v ip i rnfw 71 I J 2 FTl l- KITCHEN PATIO d ) )' t-l El "iA Too ENTRY t?t BEDROOM 1" T"l J 10x15 TXmw i i i Auction markets - Special provision for the holding of one-day horse sales and pro viding adequate supervision by the department. Meat inspection - Require operators to pay full costs of overtime inspection. Permit department to establish ex empt areas for farm slaughter, with farm slaughterers to sell output within the area. Elimi nate hearing requirement in designating slaughter time be tween given plants. Confine slaughtering of ex empt custom plants to their own establishment. Require retail meat markets and lock er plants not licensed to laughter to have carcasses of animals they handle slaugh tered at an officially inspect ed plant or to identify as un inspected farm slaughtered meats received for custom processing. Permit farmers to sell farm slaughtered animals direct to a home consumer and give the department the option of requiring an inspected or un inspected tag on such products. Milk Sampling Proposed Fluid milk - License milk truck driver to take samples for bacteria tests. Authorize department to set frequency of butterfat sampling of pro ducer milk by regulation (now established by law). Change frequency of . department's city milk inspection surveys to every two years instead of annually. Amendments de fining milk and establishing standards of identity for vari ous milk products. Frozen desserts - Raise li cense fee for retail freezers from $5 to $10 plus $2.50 for each freezer head and fee for wholesalers from $15 to $25 plus $5 for each freezer head. Also eliminate present maxi mum licenses of $20 for re tail and $50 for wholesale; and license each business es tablishment. Eggs Make standards of quality (no change in sizes) same as federal' grades. Set annual $5 license fee at whole sale and producer levels, ex empting producers who sell Home For Living Q m ' II II. FAMILY ROOM 17 12 o LIVING ROOM I9il4 - T . ' ' - - PI AM WD 3701 mSs.6'9 SQUARE the patio and, play yard. Meal preparation and clean-up will be quick and easy in the effi ciently planned work area, with its window-enclosed din ing corner, built-in appli ances and pantry closet. Gathering spot for the fam ily is the big family room. A wall of slicing glass doors ex pands this activity area to in clude the patio. A second door leads directly into the work shop area of the double gar age. The big corner fireplace dominates the living room. With a sliding door between the living room and family room, these areas can be unit ed for parties or separated when either adults or young sters are entertaining separ ately. The family bath, with re their eggs only on their own premises. Apply case tax fee to producers as well as whole salers. Give director of agri culture authority to lower case fee tax below legal maximum. Producers selling to whole salers would not be subject to license or case tax. Warehouse law Require non-licensed warehouses to post appropriate sign and let department check their busi ness records to make sure they are not subject to this law. Adopt compulsory insur ance for warehouses. Storage of grain as basis for farm credit-Repeal pro posed by department. Fryer and broiler labeling To require container or tag to. show state where grown and name of any chemical preservative used. (Sponsored by fryer industry committee.) Produce dealer bonding-To require bonding of all dealers in agricultural produce; prob ably will be submitted as amendment to Oregon pro duce dealers' act. (Originates from Klamath potato growing region.) Provides Law Repeal Breed milk-Proposal to re peal existing law. " Financial-Authorize depart ment to regulate extension of credit; authorize bad debt charge-off; increase depart ment revolving fund to $2,500. Commodity Commissions -Proposals as a result of legis lative interim reorganization study would (1) relieve the leg islature of commission budget approval-put them ori an an nual basis and require a pub lic meeting before commis sion adoption, certification and filing through the direc tor of agriculture; (2) give commission direct control of their banking; (3) require con sideration by governor of pro ducers' recommendations on commission appointments, and (4) make state services by Department of Finance and Administration optional on cost basis to commissions. -r- GARA6E Oi20 . -f FEET: "I cessed fixtures and pullman lavatory can double as a guest powder room. The three-quarter bath opens to both the service area and master bed room. For all-year comfort the centrally located forced air furnace could be equipped with air conditioning. Both the forced air furnace and the water heater have been cen trally located for economy of installation as well as oper ation. Complete working drawing of the above "plan can be obtained at a cost of S7.50 for the first set and S5 for each additional set. when ordered at the same time. This plan will be available for a period of four months from this date. Please allow two weeks for deliv ery. If the above home does not entirely meet with your satisfac tion, a new home plan book. Homes for Living may be purchased for SI. Send ill orders for either plans or books to Hiawatha Estes, P.O. Sox 404-T. Korthridge, CaW. CHIT CHAT ' By JOI COWLEY Mail Tribune Farm Editor This is the time of year when the agricultural people seem to be concentrating on sales - either working or worrying about 'em. From what we have observed recently the beef people and the pear people are both working for better sales and the pear people are also doing considerable worrying. A little directed worrying often produces results. The aimless kind doesn't. The beef people after doing some directed worrying on their sales volume - the amount of meat actually on the table in American homes - are doing some promotion work. The pear people are, already famous for their product promotion program but now seem to be doing some aim less worrying about the growing trend toward concentrated buying power in a few hands. Dale Carnegie in his well-known book, "How to Stop Worrying and Enjoy Life" suggests that the worriers study their problem, do all they can to solve it, then forget about it. You don't always stop worrying after you have done all you can about the problem, but at least, while you're busy doing something about it you don't have time to worry. . Anyway, the beef people are doing something about it. Here Thursday to tell beef men of southern Oregon all about what is being done about meat promotion on the national level was Richard J. Nolan, Denver, western repre sentative of the National Livestock and Meat board. Also present at the courthouse meeting was Howard Fujii, com modity director of the Oregon Farm Bureau, the sponsoring organization for the meeting. After listening to a steady stream of facts and figures on this nation-wide beef promotion program and thumbing through the concise, eye-appealing little pamphlet put out by the National Livestock and Meat Board, we decided the brightest spot in the whole promotion program and prob ably the most effective is the work done on the state and county level Mrs. Don Nichols, representing the Jackson county and Oregon Cowbelles, in a clear, well-modulated voice, told how schools in the county and state are given $10 for home economics departments with which to buy beef for cooking instruction. With the money goes promotional material to explain how cheaper cuts of beef can be prepared to make nourishing and tasty meals. Seven schools in Jackson county have received the money this year. The Cowbelles also sell beef cookbooks and last May saw the first printing of state place-mats colorfully illus trated with state maps showing the location of various brands with a key to the ranch name and ownership. These place-mats make colorful table decorations, especially dur ing this Oregon Centennial . year. Hostesses please make note and contact Mrs. Nichols at Ashland to place your order. They are comparatively inexpensive. ' Mr. and Mrs. Ed Coles, Prineville, (he is secretary of the Oregon Cattlemen's association) have developed de hvdrated beef candy and are now working to develop a fcandy bar, Mrs. Nichols informed the group of 18 people attending the meeting. The Cowbelles also sponsored various cooking schools. A beef cooking school in Phoenix Tuesday drew 100 people and not all of them women we understand. Bev Lyons, California Oregon Power company's home-economist, put en a savory demonstration of cgoking various meat recipes and these recipes were passed out to the crowd. Trowbridge and Fiynn electric company sponsored some prizes. Beef, Inc. - a beef promotional agency in Oregon, is planning a colorful exhibit in Portland for the Centennial, ft will consist of an old-fashioned butchershop, movies will give a little of the romance of the industry and meat will be cut and wrapped for the various meat counters in the area right in front of the visitors. , During his talk, Nolan explained that the National Live Stock and Meat Board represents all segments of the in dustry. Sixteen directors of the 30-rhember board represent the growers and feeders, five represent the livestock market ing agencies and four represent meat packers and five represent the retail meat trade and one represents the restaurants. The program is financed by voluntary contribu tions from livestock growers and feeders, and meat packers, Nolan said. As explained in the pamphlet, the board works for the beef industry through a diversified program of meat pro motion, education, information and research. Through re search, it uncovers scientific facts to strengthen the position of meat as a food. Through its work in promotion, educa tion and information it carries these facts to the nation. To build what it calls a "meat-minded Arnerica," the board stretches its program to cover motion pictures, meat research, cooking schools, television, news, radio, clinics, exhibits, test kitchens, posters, medical groups, literature, contests, schools and demonstrations. Under the classification of meat research, we under? stand there are over 200 grants for research on the nourish ment from meat. Doctors have learned, for instance, that senior citizens need substantial amounts of meat in their diets. We were shown recently, a refrigerator room, stocked full of meat at the Jackson County Farm Home. Pear industry people are becoming increasingly wor ried over the trend toward placing buying power in a few hands. Now chain stores seem to be merging wth other chain stores. Thus they can place a demand on sizes and grades of pears, and pretty much set prices. , These power-buying groups have knoeked down the strength of the auction to practically nil, we understand. The result is that the auction is no longer the bellwether of pear prices. This also means that the auction program has been discontinued in many areas resulting in practically squeezing out the small shippers and brokers. One bright spot in the pear market picture is the fair revival of the export market. However these outlets can't be depended upon, we are informed. Acceptance pf Rogue valley pears continues to be good, industry sources state. The answer to this problem, according to some pear men, is obvious. Concentrated buying power requires con centrated selling power. In other words, packing house men could hold daily meetings, scan market reports, decide what they will accept for their fruit and aim at those prices. This may not be the solution and better ones could be offered but we haven't seen any in action yet. What Is Marketing Told In New OSC Publication Corvallis-How do farm foods move to family tables? This is one of the questions answered - in a new bulletin published by the Oregon State College, extension service. Titled, "What Is Market ing?" the new publication points out that marketing moves a product from the per son who produces it to the person who uses it. And, sec ond, it returns money through marketing channels to the producer. This makes it possible for farmers . and pther producers Ao exchange the products they raise or manufacture for items such as clothing, furniture, or machinery produced by others. Without marketing, it would be difficult for anyone to get the items used in every day living, it is explained. "A glance at the people over the earth shows that producers who have good markets for exchanging their produce have the high levels of living, while people who do not have markets live the sub- Not Promising One By GRACE N. PEARSON Grange Correspondent The past three years have been tough going for. the dairy business and the present national picture is not a prom ising one. Lynn Bramkamp, Sacra mento, Calif., manager of the California Milk ' Producers' federation, told those attend ing the annual meeting recent ly of the Rogue River Jersey Cattle club that dairymen shouldn't expect a "glorious future because of government control or subsidy. "It is probable," he said, 'that many of the old reme dies, none of. which has ever proved effective in the past, will be tried again under government auspices. In a free economy, good prices un der government sponsorship result in over-production of dairy products in order to se cure a profit; and conversely, low prices bring precisely the same result because the pro ducer must increase his ef forts in order to meet his costs of operation Thus it is that the problems of the dairy business are eternal and self-perpetuating. If they ever are to be solved, it must be accomplished through the initiative of the dairy farmers themselves, Bramkamp said. To this end, the organiza tion which he represents composed of fifteen producer marketing groups and includ ing approximately 50 per cent of the Grade A dairy farmers in California, outlined a self- help plan for the industry which was presented to gov ernment leaders in Washing ton, D.C., last year. Immediate objections were raised by both state and U.S. departments of agriculture first, because the proposed bills made no provision for control by the USDA; second, because they provided for sale of existing surplus dairy products on the world mar ket, he said. This would Con stitute "dumping"; and third, because they made request for a government loan to establish the program with no provision for its repayment. Bramkamp said. Irradiation Use In Preservation Studied at OSC Corvallis - Preserving sea foods by irradiation, a by-product of atomic fission, could extend the market for fresh Oregon crab and provide fresh fish for army menus in distant areas of the world. A new $14,000 grant from the Quartermaster Food and Container Institute has been made to Oregon State college to investigate irradiation-pres. ervation of seafoods for armed forces use. Precooked seafoods, includ ing fish sticks, shrimp, smoked sablefish and smoked cod will be tested in the study. Fish will be treated with high dos ages of gamma rays, the atomic rays that will kill spoilage organisms and per mit storage of foods without refrigeration. Fish will be shipped frozen to the materials testing reac tor at Idaho Falls, Ida., and the Quartermaster Ionizing Radiation Center at Dugway, Utah.. In tests, fish will be "shot" with high frequency rays, then returned to OSC food and technology depart ment for six months storage at "tropical" temperatures of 100 degrees F., and two years at 70 degrees F., or room tem perature. Previous tests at OSC on ir radiated oysters, crab, shrimp, kippered sturgeon and sable fish were completed last year with the U.S. Fish and Wild life service. "Taste testers" eould detect little or no differ ence between treated and un treated seafoods. According to Russell Sinnhuber, food tech nologist in charge of the proj ect, irradiation has little or no effects on the nutritive value of foods, any more than usual processing methods. sistence type of life," the bulletin states. What marketing is, and how it is done, is clearly explain ed through illustrations. Each of the nine marketing func tions -selling, transportation, Standards and grading, finan cing, market information,' pro cessing, storage, risk-taking and packaging and buying -are described in simple lang uage, t Role of housewives in help ing set prices is also explain ed in the new publication. There are also hints on ways farmers may be able to save some of the cost of marketing their products. The bulletin was written by Harold F. Hollands and Mar ion D. Thomas, agricultural economists at OSC. Oregon residents can get a copy from their county extension office, The proposed legislation co- sponsored by the National Milk Producers' federation and the Grange, was killed in Congress because of to three factors, the speaker asserted. Three years earlier, members of Congress representing dairy interests refused to lend their cooperation and support to legislation being sponsored by those representing the cotton interests. So, in return for support by cotten men need ed for passage of the dairy measures, was refused. The bills offered opportunity for political by-play to discredit Secretary of Agriculture Ben son. Break up of the so-called farm bloc in both houses dur ing the session, was respon sible for final demise of the proposed legislation, Bram kamp said. These self-help proposals held great promise because they were indicative of the dairyman's realization that he must solve his own prob lems, but didn't go far enough, he said. Future legislation should include provisions for improving the quality of all dairy products marketed by establishing uniformly high standards of quality for milk and for all products from it, for a greatly expanded re search program, and for man datory deductions from re ceipts of milk producers to finance an adequate program for the advertising and pro motion of dairy products. Best Approach Explained Since it is believed the most valid approach is on a com modity basis, the drafting of such legislation is currently on the agenda of the West States Milk Producers' asso ciation, an organization com posed of Grade A Dairy Farm er groups in 11 western states of which Richard Westerberg, Jackson County Guernsey dairyman, is president, and Bramkamp is secretary. When these drafts have been com pleted and ratified by the membership, Bramkamp said, support for them in Congress will be sought from repre sentatives and senators of the 11 states concerned. Also included on the after noon's program was a resume of Jersey, club achievements during 1958 given by past president J. E. Parsons of Gold Hill. These" included spring and fall classification tours with five herds partici pating in each; sponsorship of a Junior Dairy Cattle show in May at the Josephine Coun ty Fair Grounds in Grants Pass; 100 per cent participa tion of active club members in exhibiting Jerseys at the Josephine County Fair where they also maintained a Jersey information booth; sponsor ship of trophies for 4-H Fairs in both Jackson and Josephine counties; assistance to 4-H and FFA members in securing animals for Jersey projects; sponsorship of one meeting of Rogue Valley Purebred Dairy Cattle association; assistance to one new all-Jersey dis tributor in establishing his business. Three junior members of the club who were present, were cited by Parsons for out standing achievement during the year. They were Joyce Rogers of Grants Pass, who exhibited the 4-H grand cham pion Jersey cow at the Jose? phine County Fair; Tommy Case, also of Grants Pass, who won championship honors in showmanship at the Spring Show; and Jerry Moore of Eagle Point, who exhibited the 4-H grand champion Jer sey cow at the Jackson Coun ty Fair, Miss Rogers, who also represented the club as Jersey Princess at the Oregon State Fair, was presented a gift in appreciation for this service. During a brief session, Karl ; Schutzwohl, Grants Pass, was i named program planning chairman for Josephine Coun ty. It was voted to change the regular meeting day, on an experimental basis, from the first-Friday to the first Saturday of each month. Next meeting will be held Feb. 7 at the H. L. McColm resi dence near Grants Pass. The gathering, attended by 87 members . and guests of ! the club from Jackson and Josephine counties, was held at the Rogue Riviera near Gold Hill, and was preceded i by a noon no-host dinner. ' I HERTZ TRUCK RENTAL Available at ' HOPKINS RICHFIELD SIRVICI McAndrtws at Court Phone SP 3-9068 Carol von der Hellen Outstanding "I would lots rather clean out the barn than my room!" Carol von der Hellen, 17-year-old 4-H member remarked recently. This over-ruling interest in farming is probably one of the reasons that her leaders and other members approve hr choice as 4-H girl of the month. Her junior leadership and the many awards she has won in various phases of 4-H work provide other reasons for their choice. Miss von der Hellen has Phoenix Youth Top Speaker In District Contest Phoenix-Leon Small, Phoe nix, won the Rogue-Umpqua Future Farmers of America district public speaking con test held at Phoenix commu nity center last Thursday. Title of Small's speech was, "Consequences of Care lessness," a talk on farm safe ty. Second place went to Don Denning, Crater chapter, Cen tral Point; third place, to Jim Ross, Marshfield chapter, Coos Bay; fourth, Bill Hubbard, Eagle Point and fifth Mike Burnett, Illinois Valley. Illinois Valley placed first in the parliamentary proced ure contest, Crater chapter second, Grants Pass, third, Phoenix fourth and Eagle Point, fifth. Semi-Finals Announced . First and second place speakers and the first and second place parliamentary team will meet in a state semi-final contest to be held at Cratei- high school at 1 p.m., Feb. 26. These two speakers and parliamentary procedure teams of Illinois Valley and Crater high school will compete against repre sentatives of the upper Wil lamette valley district repre sentatives Central Linn and Harrisburg-schools located be tween Albany and Eifgene. From this contest a first place speaker and first place par liamentary team will go to the state contest in Corvallis in March. ' Members of the Crater par liamentary procedure team are John Caster, chairman, Pete Melsted, Don Denning, Nate Banry, Don Rayan, and Dave Foote. Jim Frink arfd Mike Redman are alternates. Crater also has a second team of 12 freshmen and sopho more boys. Supply doesn't always keep up with the de mand! It may be only a question of time before your needs and wants for better farming and ranching may depend on increased investment. Sec about a modern, safe Land Bank Loan, the low cost way for long term credit. . Foe rout m - 1212 Court St., Medford, Ore. F. Bowman - Sec'y-Treai. DIRECTORS: J. W. Bigham , Eaglo Point A. E. Stevens Phoenix Oliver H. Roundrree Williams Wm. C Higinbotham Central Point Albert L. Straus Gold Hill 4-H Member been in the county 4-H pro gram for six years and during that time has been to the Cow Palace and to the Pacific In ternational Exhibition in Port land where her Hereford cow was rated choice. She also made showman in the San Francisco event. She was on the beef judging team from Jackson county which placed second at the state fair, won a citizenship award in 4-H, took championships in bread, sponge-cake and in cooking demonstrations. Freezing is the newest of her three projects of beef, cooking and freezing. She has only had this project a year, she said. Carol hopes to use money earned from the sale of her six Herefords to help put her through Oregon State college. There she will major in either home-economics or teaching, she said. She doesn't know which. Meanwhile through her beef project she is interesting her father, Roger von der Hellen in raising beef. During the summer she helps him on the 60-acre truck farm. Actually, she would like to major in animal husbandry at Oregon State, but then girls don't take such studies, Carol twinkled. Epidemic Reported On Poultry Disease Salem - Epidemic propor tions of infectious bronchits, a highly transmissible disease of poultry, were today report ed in Marion, Washington, and Yamhill counties by Dr. L. E. Bodenweiser, state vet erinarian with the state de partment of agriculture, who blamed "bootleg vaccines." Dr. Bodenweiser further warned that no one, whether in possession of a permit for purchase or not, can buy the vaccine from any source other than the state department of agriculture which supervises sale and distrbution. Iowa is one of the major corn states, but it also pro duces about a million tons of bituminous coal a year. BRILL ; METAL WORKS Commercial Industrial Residential Sheet Metal Work Stainless, Galvanized and Copper Fabrication 2287 West Main PHONE SP 2-4440 ' FARM LOANS Contact Your National rtm"Va Astocintio SOUTHERN OREGON NATIONAL FARM LOAN ASSOCIATION SP 2-4002 Association Members: Remember Your ANNUAL MEETING NEXT WEDNESDAY
