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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 27, 1959)
In the Day's N By FRANK JENKINS. At an election held the oth er day, the nation's wheat farmers voted by a better than four-to-one margin to continue rigid government controls over their 1960 crop. The alternative rejected at the election was unrestricted plantings and sharply reduced price props. The present rigid control program (which the wheat farmers approved by an over whelming vote) calls for plant ing allotments totaling 55 mil lion acres, marketing quotas based on the allotments and price supports at the present minimum level of 75 per cent of "parity," or NOT LESS than $1.77 a bushel. If the wheat farmers had REJECTED the controls, they would have received price supports of only 50 per cent of . parity-or about $1.18 a bushel. rpHAT is to say: - The rejected program would have meant a SMALL ER wheat -subsidy. The pro gram that was overwhelming approved means continuation of a HIGHER wheat subsidy. - To make the situation more understandable, it should be added that the nation's ware houses are already stuffed with so much wheat that we could go for a year or so with out raising a single bushel and still have plenty of wheat to go around. billion. Business subsidies (transportation and such) to tal up to about 1.4 billion. The balance of about 0.2 billion goes for grants for public housing, slum clearance proj ects and such. On a per capita basis, each billion dollars spent by the federal government costs you as an individual about $5. So this 15 billion dollars in sub sidies costs you about $70. If you're the breadwinner for a family of four, it costs you about $300. It might pay you to figure up some time how much you GET BACK. HOW did subsidies get start ed. Politicians found - quite a long time ago-that subsidies are a good way to get votes. TJMMMMMMM. Before condemning the wheat farmers too severely, consider this: If called upon to vote on a bill requiring you to work longer hours for less pay, what would you do? You'd probably do what the wheat farmers did. As long as subsidies are available, their beneficiaries will probably vote to accept them. FOOD for thought: . TOTAL federal . subsidies amount to about 15 BILLION dollars per year. Of this total, the farmers get about 3.5 bil lion. Foreign aid gets about 3.8 billion. Public aid gets about 2.0 billion. Grants to local governing bodies get about 1.8 billion. Subsidies to veterans amount to about 2.2 State fo Produce Contents of Bag West Covina, Calif. -(DPD-The state said it would pro duce at a preliminary murder hearing today the "highly significant" contents of a brown bag found near the spot where Dr. Bernard Finchv 41, allegedly shot his socialite wife, Barbara, 33, July 18. Finch was not expected to testify at the hearing, at which Municipal Judge Arthur H. Miller will decide whether the state has suffi cient evidence to hold him for murder trial. Deputy District Attorney Fred N. Wichello declined to reveal before the hearing the contents of the brown bag he said was found near the $80,- 000 home where Finch's es tranged wife lived.. Finch's girl friend, Carole Tregoff, 22, and Marie. Lid- holm, 19, a. maid in Mrs. Finch's home were among seven witnesses subpenaed for today's hearings. Both have admitted being at the scene of the killing, but neither saw the fatal shot. A housewife would save 40 feet of walking and a third of the time she spends making a bed if she just did one side at a time. Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERF- ROBERT MURPHY, one of rateable trouble shooters. State department's most valuable trouble shooters, picked wp a neat trick from Winston CbarchilL Trapped in We conference in Algiers oro years back, Churchill casually paBed a fresh pair erf socks from his pocket, kicked off bis shoes, and changed socks. Murphy was in j' much more intrigued with this performance than wife fhe speaker of the mo aaent, and leaned over to ask Churchill what he was p to. "I find," explained CbarchilL "that changing seeks in the middle of a tir- ing day is a great refresh- Mow when Robert Murphy lacks time to shower and effect a complete change of costume, he settles for a fresh pair of socks, . progMBslw school yotngstaRS wC6 Aseusstog fhefr? domestSc pvoMcms -My mother was depressed when X was bora," confessed the first Bttle girl. "Why?" asked th other. Vid she want a boy?" No," answered the first. "She wanted a divorce. O 1959. br Bennett Orf. Distributed by King Teatares Syndicate. "Gee! They Weren't Kidding About Being Conveniently Located." Our location is only one of the convenient things about us. You'll also like our promptness in making the loan' that you need, and the convenient terms we'll -for its repayment. Come in and see what we mean! , . 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