Medford mail tribune., March 22, 1960, Image 7

Livestock Theft Cases Noted;
Statistics, Histories Given
Of 23 (reported livestock
thefts during 1939, eight ani
mals were recovered with
out going into court, accord
ing to statistics from the state
department of agriculture.
Of seven larceny complaints
filed, five resulted in convic
tions and suspended senten
ces, two were convicted and
sentenced.
Josephine county stockmen
suffered five livestock thefts.
No recoveries nor convictions
were reported.
Klamath county stockmen
had five livestock losses. One
case was cleared which was
not larceny. No convictions
were reported, according to
the state records.
However the cases of Paul
Robert Wilson and Eldon
Lyle Shafer in Klamath coun
ty required extended trial
time in 1959 although they
were arrested in 1959. Ac
cording to the newspaper
stories published the Wilson
and Shafer cases are probably
the most interesting the state
livestock officers have en
countered for some time.
Both men have appealed the
seven-year convictions to the
state supreme court.
Both Wilson, 28 -year -old
Fort Klamath rancher, and
Shafer, his 35-year-old assist
ant, were indicted for .the
theft of a black, white-faced
cow from Chiloquin rancher
Lerenz G. VanderKamp last
spring.
The two defendants were
indicted also for the theft of
three white-faced Herefords
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from rancher Adlai Johnson.
Shafer was charged with a
third theft, a Johnson calf.
Case More Complicated
To make this even more
complicated, the defendants
were tried last summer on a
cattle theft charge. This re
sulted in a ZVz day trial. The
judge declared a mistrial be
cause of prejudicial testimony
from a state witness. "The
state subsequently dismissed
the charges against Wilson
and Shafer because the court
would not accept the state's
mothering-up process of iden
tification " according to news
accounts. Cattlemen have felt
that if a calf goes to a cer
tain cow this should at least
indicate that it belongs to that
cow and the owner of the
cow. Generally, courts do not
consider this evidence.
A charge made in district
court in Klamath Falls at the
time of the pending charge
was dismissed because a
rancher who . had signed a
complaint refused to acknowl
edge ownership of the cow
involved.
While this was going on,
Wilson and Shafer, through,
Ramirez, filed civil damage
suits against Adlai Johnson
and two state livestock in
spectors on grounds of harass
ment and persecution. These
suits totalling more than
8200,000 are still unsettled.
During the lengthy trial in
February, Wilson' and Sha
fer's attorney tried to have
the trial shifted to another
county. He claimed that ad
verse publicity had been
"widely spread" by newspa
pers, radio and television and
that state brand inspectors
had personally contacted the
majority of stockmen, farm
ers and ranchers and told
them Wilson was guilty. The
motion was denied. The judge
said he saw nothing in the
motion to prove such state
ments. He added that he had
failed to find any such inflam
matory newspaper accounts.
Jackson County Cases
What happened in Jackson
county during 1959?
Ralph Eugene Murphy,
Medford. charged Dec. 30,
1958, with larceny of live
stock. Bound over to the
grand jury on Jan. 2, 1959;
jailed in lieu of 82,000 bail.
Court order of April 27, 1959,
susDended three - year sen
tence and placed under direc
tion of state board of parole.
Ralph Bn.ce Keys, Central
Point, charged Dec. 30, 1958,
with larceny of livestock.
Bound over to the grand jury
on Jan. 2, 1959; jailed in lieu
of $2,000 bail. Court order
April 27; not to exceed three
years in the state penitentiary
and committed that date.
DeWayne Earl Keys, Med
ford, arrested May 5, 1959,
charged with larceny of live
stock. Jailed in lieu of $1,500
bail. Court order June 11,
1959, suspended two-year sen
tence and he was placed un
der direction of the state
board of parole.
John Wesley Perkins, Rex
hotel, Medford, charged with
larceny of livestock on Nav.
17, 1959; pleaded guilty in dis
trict court TSTov. 19. Received
six-month suspended sentence
Dec. 4, 1959, after charge was
reduced from grand larceny
to petty larceny.
Cecil Jefferson Worthing
ton, Central Point, arrested
Farm Notes
Washington - (UPD - Cali
fornia, Iowa, and Texas were
the nation's leading agricul
tural states in 1959 on the
basis of total cash receipts
from farm marketings. Each
ran up a total of more than
two billion dollars in cash
marketings.
Others in the first 10, on
the basis of total cash re
ceipts, were Illinois, Minne
sota, Nebraska, Kansas, Mis
souri, Wisconsin, and Indiana.
These states each had total
cash receipts of more than
one billion dollars.
California was easily the
number one farm state with
total receipts of $2,977,890,-
000. This amount represented
receipts of $1,853,308,000
from field crops and $1,124,-
Nov. 17, 1959, charged with
larceny of livestock. Nov. 18
probation revoked and he was
sentenced to one year in the
county jail.
Charles William Marshall,
Medford, arrested on Nov. 18
on charges of larceny of live
stock., Pleaded guilty Nov.
19 in district court On Dec.
4 received one-year suspend
ed sentence after charge was
reduced to petty larceny.
Lee Roy Hancock, com
plaint charging larceny of
livestock filed Sept. 28, 1959;
pleaded guilty on Oct. 5,
1959. On Nov. 4, 1959, re
ceived a suspended three-year
sentence.
Events Related
What really happened in
the Perkins-Worthington-Mar-shall
case?
A tip-off from a Jackson
county woman started investi
gations which led to the ar
rest of three mert. She became
suspicious of frozen meats
which the men had.
Guy Hughes, livestock offi
cer who was recently trans
ferred from this area, state
police, city police and the
sheriff's office all cooperated
in this case.
Five days after the tip two
of the men had signed state
ments and all three were in
jail. Also on the fifth day, one
man's probation from the state
penitentiary was revoked. He
was sentenced to a year in the
county jail. The two other
men's cases were reduced to
charges of petty larceny. On
Dec. 4, 1959, one man re
ceived a six-month suspended
sentence. The other received a
year suspended sentence.
In statements signed the day
of their arrest, two of the men
admitted re - wrapping the
meat taken from a home
freezer and one of them sold
some to a Medford cafe. After
the first sale, according to the
statements, the trio returned
to the same freezer, took more
frozen meat and frozen chick
ens and sold them to the same
place after removing the iden
tifying wrappers which car
ried the owner's name. Offi
cers recovered five packages
each of pork and dressed
chicken and returned them to
the man from whose deep
freeze they were taken.
In another case in Jackson
county livestock theft and
brand inspectors discovered a
man was selling three calves
belonging to a dairyman. The
man admitted to taking three
stray calves that came to his
place to the auction with two
of his own and putting them
up for sale. Result was a
three - year suspenden sentence.
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582,000 from livestock. These
totals placed California first
in crop production and third
in livestock production.
Second - ranking Iowa in
over-all production' had total
receipts of $2,388,232,000.
Iowa ranked first in livestock
receipts with $1,961,196,000
and eighth in crop receipts
with $427,026,000.
Texas had total receipts of
$2,195,561,000, consisting of
livestock receipts of $886,
682,000 and crop receipts of
$1,308,879,000.
Texas farmers took the big
gest state bite in 1959 from
the federal government's kitty
of payments for various agri
cultural programs to aid farm
income, according to the Ag
ricultural Marketing Service.
Government payments to
Texans last year totaled $81,
862,000. They included $25,
066,000 from the Agricultural
Conservation Program, $68,
000 from Sugar Act payments,
$15,058,000 under the Wool
Act, $41,100,000 from- the
Soil Bank, and 51,560,000 un
der the Great Plains Conser
vation Program.
North Dakota farmers got
the second largest amount -$31,189,000.
Others among
the 10 largest recipients of
government aid were Minne
sota, $31,018,000; Kansas,
$28,062,000; Missouri, $26,
910,000; South Dakota, $26,
370,000; Colorado, $24,906,
000; Oklahoma, $24,357,000;
California, $23,712,000; and
Iowa, $20,668,000.
Washington-flJPD-The Agri
culture Department reports
egg prices are up now, will
go down in a few weeks, and
will rise again during the last
half of the year.
Egg prices rose sharply in
March when widespread snow
storms over the Midwest,
Northeast, and parts of the
Southeast disrupted transpor
tation and marketing. De
pending upon market reac
tions when a normal flow
of eggs is resumed, prices
may drop within six to eight
weeks.
The government's weekly j
weather and crop bulletin
reports the fall-planted wheat
crop in the southern Great
Plains came through the win
ter in good condition.
The crop has continued to
make slow growth, the Weath
er Bureau said, although
grazing of some early wheat
fields has been discontinued
in Texas. Snow still covered
wheat areas of Kansas and
Nebraska.
Soil-moisture reserves are
the most favorable in years
for much of the southern
Great Plains' wheat acreage,
the bureau said.
In the .Northwest, winter
wheat survived the winter
with only limited localized
damage. Beneficial amounts
of moisture fell in the area
this past week, but snow cov
er is about gone.
Development of small
grains in the Southwest con
tinued very favorable as tem
peratures averaged above
normal. In the Southeast,
small grain development con
tinued slow, and only slight
drying of soils took place.
The Agriculture Depart
ment said Thursday the spring
pig crop in 10 corn belt states
was expected to be roughly
13 per cent below last year's.
This is in line with last De
cember's forecast of farrow
ings for the December-May
period.
The department's quarterly
report estimated at 5,297,000
head the number of sows far
rowing this spring in Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri,
South Dakota, Nebraska, and
Kansas.
Washington -(UPD-New Zea
land dairy farm workers re
cently got a 24 per cent gen
eral wage increase. Even with
the increase the New Zealand
ers still are paid far less than
hired hands on American
farms.
The rates for full time New
Zealand dairy hands now
range from $12.62 per week
for a worker under 17 years
of age to $28.50 per week for
a worker over 21 years of age.
In contrast, American farm
hands as of Jan. 1 received an
average wage of $34.50 per
week with board and room.
Agriculture Secretary Ezra
T. Benson is a great traveler.
Since he became secretary, he
has gone around the world,
been to Europe several times,
traveled to South America,
and crisscrossed the United
States numerous times. Such
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State Farm Prices
Dip in January;
U. S. Level Rises
Corvallis Prices received
by Oregon farmers moved
downward in February in
contrast to national farm
prices which showed a small
uptrend, reports Mrs. Elvera
Horrell, extension agricultur
al economist at Oregon State
college.
Oregon's gain in farm prices
during January was lost last
month and farm prices now
stand at the same level as
at the end of 1959, Mrs. Hor
rell found as she studied re
ports from the U.S. depart
ment of agriculture. This
leaves present farm prices in
the state at just about the
same level as a year ago.
Hog and lamb prices moved
up in the state last month, as
did prices on wool, eggs, farm
chickens, milk cows, and pota
toes. But these upturns were
more than offset by lower
prices on cattle and calves,
turkeys, dairy products,
wheat, feed grains except
oats, hay, and apples. As a re
sult, the farm price index in
Oregon dropped one per cent,
Mrs. Horrell said.
Nationally, meat animals
and most fruits received a
boost in price that was only
partially offset by lower
prices on dairy products, cot
ton, most vegetables, eggs and
turkeys. As a result, farm
prices nationally moved up
nearly one per cent for the
month, but still stand nearly
4 per cent below a year
earlier.
Farm costs, on the other
hand, leveled off during Feb
ruary after equaling earlier
highs, Mrs. Horrell also found.
Higher price tags on things
used in poducing farm prod
ucts were offset by lower
price tags on items used by
farm families in their daily
living.
The slight improvement in
national farm prices, coupled
with the lack of change in
farm costs, improved farm
product purchasing power
slightly over the nation, Mrs.
Horrell noted. The parity ra-tip-the
relationship between
prices received and prices
paid by farmers-moved up
one point to 78.
However, this slightly im
proved parity ratio is still 4
Best Way to Pack, Ship Seed Studied By OSC Laboratory
Corvallis Oregon, which
took the lead in developing
seed growing into a major
industry, is leading again
with research to find the best
way to package seed for stor
age and shipment.
Dr. Te May Ching, assistant
agronomist in charge of the
farm crops seed research
laboratory at Oregon State
college, is directing a study
of nine different packaging
materials , and 20 packaging
methods. '
Mrs. Ching explained that
seed deteriorates quickly
when exposed to heat and
humidity. This is a serious
problem with seed shipped
to warmer states or countries
-or even to cool areas via
a warm ocean voyage. Prop
er packaging and storage can
extend the life of seed.
The researcn will continue
for three years. Packaging
points below a year ago and
22 points below the level set
by Congress as a fair ex
change rate, Mrs. Horrell
pointed out.
materials being studied in
clude combinations of burlap,
polyethylene, paper, asphalt,
and foil. Eight ways to seal
the packages also are being
studied. These include com
binations of sewing, heat seal
ing, taping, and others.
As part of the study, seed
-packaged in the different
ways-is shipped to other coun
tries and tested for moisture
content and germination upon
arrival.
Man Gets Pay for
Watching Clock
Belvidere, N. J.-W. Frank
Burd is a clock watcher and
gets paid $50 a year for do
ing it.
For the last 20 years, Burd
has climbed into a bell tower
once a week to wind the 100-year-old
clock in the Warren
County courthouse.
And he knows he s not the
only 'one watching the clock.
"When it strikes the wrong
time, stops or is wrong," Burd
said, "I really get the phone
calls.
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. "7
Tuesday, March 22, 1960 '
Since Oregon's climate and
growing conditions produce
top-quality seed, the agrono
mist pointed out the necessity
of protecting the state's repu
tation by keeping seed alive
until it reaches growers. .
Oregon currently grows
more kinds of field crop seeds
than any other state in the
nation. The seed growing in
dustry is worth $20 to $30
million a year to the state.
Poetic Burglar
Misies Big Loot
Wilton. Conn. - A burglar
ransacked a home here and
left this message, scrawled in
lipstick on a bedroom mirror:
"It is with regret
'"Your good I beget,
"But for over a week,
"I ain't won a bet."
Not much of a poet? He
isn't much of a burglar either.
He took a medium priced cam
era but overlooked a $4,000
mink coat.
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RESULTS WITH GYPREX
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"Couldn't find a scabby
apple at thinning time'
"One block of my 1958
Newton crop had a
high percentage of
pin point scab, so it
all went to the can
nery none to the
fresh market. This, in spite of the fact
that I had applied a delayed dormant
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crop. In 1959 I applied one Cyprex
spray and followed it with another
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sure took care of the scab. It stopped
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I couldn't find a scabby apple at thin
ning time. My Newtons in 1959 were
the nicest I've ever grown good fin
ish, foliage slick and healthy. I'll use
Cyprex to control my scab in 1960."
Wilfred Walter
Box 99, Route 2, Hood Rivar
''Only 3 scabby apples out
of 600 boxes picked"
'"In 1958 1 sprayed 10 :
times with other ma
terials for scab con- 5
trol and ended up with (
25 scabby fruit'
and another 25 rus-
setted fruit from the use of these ma
terials. This past season I sprayed four
times with Cyprex and found 3 scabby
apples out of 600 boxes picked so far.
Cyprex has made it possible for me to
continue raising apples in this area."
Alfred Hopper
Box lit, Route 1, Freewater-MUto.
"prex is our most
economical fungicide"
"In 1959 we used
three Cyprex sprays
in one block of trees
and three sprays of
other fungicides on
the other block. Tim-
ing was at pink, about 30 bloom and
calyx. On May 4th, the non-Cyprex
trees had leaf scab so we put Cyprex
on them. This stopped the scab. At
picking time there was less than Vi of
1 scab in the straight Cyprex com
pared to about lVa'o in the rest of the
block. Fruit finish was better on the
straight Cyprex and the trees had a
better appearance. There was no dif
ference in fruit set. Just before pickt
ing time there was enough scab in all
except our straight Cyprex block to
require another treatment. Even under
weather conditions last spring favor
able to scab development Cyprex did
the job. In view of better control, less
cullage and less down-grading, Cyprex
is our most economical scab fungicide.
It gets the job done. Cyprex is nicer to
handle, does not irritate your skin like
some fungicides do. In 1960 we will
use Cyprex for scab control on all our
pears."
Gilkerton & Fletcher
Box 79, Route t. Hood River
We beat scab...
with Cyprex"
"We have always had
to battle to control
scab because of the
location of our or
chards. Last spring
was especially warm
and humid. Like a hot house, really
good weather for scab. Cyprex was a
big help in our scab control program.
In past years we have used up to five
scab sprays on Seckles. This year we
used only three sprays. The first two
were non-Cyprex sprays one at 90
bud separation and one at advanced
popcorn. The two sprays were about
five to seven days apart. This standard
program was not holding so we put
on Cyprex at advanced calyx. That
. stopped the infection. Some fungicides
give our pears a rough finish, but
Cyprex does not It goes into solu
tion easily. Cyprex is a "mustv for us
in 1960."
Hob Deuel, Jr.
Del Rio Orchards, Gold Hill
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"Cyprex Is our scab
fungicide for 1966"
"In 1958 we did not
pick the north half of
our interplanted block
of d'Anjou and Bart
letts because it was
almost 100 scab.
The south half was not as bad, 15 to
205 scab. This even though we put on
a delayed dormant of lime-sulphur and
oil, a pre-pink and a calyx spray. We
tried Cyprex for the first time in 1959.
It was applied in the worst scab spot,
the north half of the pear block, at
pre-pink and calyx. Two non-Cyprex
sprays were used on the south half at
the same timings. The control was not
holding on the south half so we ap
plied one Cyprex spray. Later, a Cy
prex spray was applied on the whole
block. Our Bartletts had the smooth
est, most shiny finish that they have
ever had. Some fungicides curl our
young leaves, making insect control
more difficult, but Cyprex does not. On
apples we used a dormant and pink of
non-Cyprex fungicides. Then we put
on two Cyprex sprays. Before our first
Cyprex there was a scab spot on every
leaf, even the small ones. The Cyprex
stopped it. The scab was dead three to
four days after spraying. We are con
vinced that without Cyprex we would
not have harvested half our pear crop
or held our apple scab in 1959. Cyprex
is our scab fungicide for 1960."
R.W. Perry & Son
Box i30, Route 1, Hood River
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