Craier Ag. Dept.
Winds Up Courses
In Farm Shop
Central Point-Fifty-two stu
dents in Agriculture I of the
Crater High school vocational
agriculture department have
completed a six week course
in farm shop skills, according
to Ed Griggs, instructor.
Skills include practice in elec
tric welding, brazing, acety
lene cutting, tap and die
work, gorging,' tool sharpen
ing, rope work and carpentry.
Skill projects constructed by
the boys i n c 1 u d e d bolts
threaded and made from
round steel rod, hay hooks,
and rope calf - halters. Each
boy sharpened two twist drills
and was required to drill a
hole in a piece of steel with
one of the drills, Griggs said.
The Agriculture I students
are starting a course in be
ginning livestock, diseases. A
skill chart will be posted to
credit each member as he be
comes Capable of performing
various terinary skills. The
chart will include 22 skills
including drenching aiimals,
giving Aibcutaneous,:. intra
muscular, intraperitoneal and
intravenous shots with a
veterinary syringe.
The morning Agriculture II
class has returned to its daily
two-hour periods of shop. The
afternoon Agriculture II class
wilD enter the shop after a
course in land-jadging. The
Ag. II boys have spent' the
last six weeks in the class
room studying poultry,' soils,
farm electricity, agriculture
mathematics and; livestock
feeding.-
The Ag. Ill boys - are en
gaged in a study of advanced
crop production. The Ag.-IV
boys are constructing projects
in the shop. 0
Crater Future Farmers of
America President, John Cas
ter, is preparing an instruc
tion course in. beginning
swine production which will
be presented to , the Ag. I
class in two weeks. Each year
a senior boy is offered the
opportunity to teach a two
weeks unit of study to be
ginning agriculture students.
The senior selected to teach j
is generally a boy witn a
potential interest in educa
tion or technical agriculture
as a career. Last year, Allen
Barnes, chapter president,
presented a study in agricul
tu mathematics. Prelimi
nary plans are being made
for the Crater FFA parent
and son banquet which will
be held in the Crater High
school gymnasium April 28.
Committee chairmen select-
MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ, Or. I
U C Thursday, March 3 1 , 1960
This Week's Homes of Distinction
eel by-John Caster, president
are: Don Denning, decora
tions; Don Ryan, invitations;
Pete Melsted, food; and John
Caster, program.
Four currently enrolled
Crater chapter members now
hold the State Farmer degree.
John Caster, i and Don Ryan
received the degree last year.
This year, two juniors, David
Foote and Jim Frank, were
elevated to the State Farmer
degree.
Winter adult courses in
crops and soils science and
farm electricity were com
pleted this week. Readers are
urged to investigate the pos
sibility of attending one 'of
the two adult courses which
will be offered next fall. Ac
tual selection of courses will
be made by the school admin-'
istration and advisory council
this summer. ,
Recent visitors at the Cra
ter FFA chapter include Doris
Owens, last year's chapter
sweetheart, Allen Barnes, past
chapter president; Bob Eldon,
past chapter president; and
Mike Redmond, last year's
chapter treasurer. Miss Ow
ens, Eldon and Redmond,
are attending Oregon State
college. Barnes is a student
at Southern Oregon college.
Fir Seedlings
Now Available
The state department of
forestry has received a new
supply of excellent 2-0 Doug
las fir as of March 24, accord
ing to Charles R. Ross, farm
forestry specialist at Oregon
State college.
It now has on hand 300,000
Douglas fir seedlings.
"It is urgent these seed
lings be put in the ground
within the next two or three
weeks," Ross said. "Time is
of the essence."
Orders for more than 15.
000 trees will be accepted,
Ross said. It has been a rule
that orders larger than 15,
000 Douglas fir would not be
accepted, but because of the
time element, this restriction
has been lifted, Ross added.
The forestry department al
so has about 20,000 Scotch
pine and an ample supply of
2-0 ponderosa pine.
"Some favor spring plant
ing because the trees are ex
posed to less damage from
animals and severe weather,"
the . forestry specialist point
ed out. "If the ground contin
ues to have a good supply of
moisture through April, sur
vival may be; as good as
would be the case in other
seasons.". '.' ' ;
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colored plastic .panels are at
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members which extend from
the gable roof, past the alu
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ground.
An oversized-carport with
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kitchen wall. The kitchen 'is
open to the fa.nily room as
there is a partial wall at the
rear of the built-in range top.
Large sliding glass doors in
both the living and family
rooms open onto the roofed
patio. With the new types of
glass available, these large
glass areas can now be en
joyed in the colder climates
as well as in the warmer sec
tions of the country.
The covered porch opens to
the center-hall entry which
leads to all parts' of the home
and hall space has been kept
to a minimum. The living
room is separated, -from the
dining-ell by a long planter
-with storage below. A wall
could be located between
these two rooms if more pri
vacy is preferred.
;' All three bedrooms are ex
ceptionally large and offer an
unusual amount of wardrobe
space. The dressing room, off
the master bedroom, has
wardrobes on all walls except
where a dressing table has
been located. A. feature of the
master bath is .twin pullman
lavatories. .
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Utilization of Timber Crop
Washington - (UPD - A key
House ., Democrat has charged
the Farmers Home adminis
tration with "dragging its
feet" at a time when, hard
pressed farmers have the
greatest need for low-cost fed
eral credit.
Rep. Jamie L. Whitten (D
Miss.), chairman of a House
agriculture appro priations
subcommittee, said 'It looks
to me -like somebody is try
ing to dry up" the farm credit
agency.
Whitten's remarks were
made public in a transcript of
closed - door hearings by his
subcommittee into the budget
needs of various agriculture
department agencies.
The Farmers Home adminis
tration helps farmers finance
homes, farm land purchases
and farm operations.
Its overall loan program
budget for next fiscal year,
starting July 1, calls for $203,
349.000, compared with a cur
rent estimated spending level
for this year of $251,435,000.
Congress gave the agency
$279,044,615 last fiscal year.
The department's own state
ments indicate that farm net
income is at. the lowest level
in 20 years, Whitten. said,
while interest rates" are at
about their highest level.
Whitten said that this would
indicate to him that the emer
gency type of farm credit
provided by the agency
"would probably be looked to
more than at any time pre
viously." The agency is asking for
$25,700,000 for its home loan
program as against $42,900,
000 estimated spending this
year. .
Director Kenneth L. Scott
of the Agricultural Credit
Services explained the eligi
bility requirements, liberal
ized in 1958 "as an anti-recession
" measure," had been
tightened. , Whitten contend
ed the program was not in
tended "to pump-prime," but
This plan will be available at these
Drices until July 27. 1960. Please
allow two weeks for delivery. If
the above home does not entirely
meet with your saisfaction. a new
home, plan book, HOMES OF DISTINCTION,-
may be purchased for
SI. 00. Send all orders for either
plans or books to: Hiawatha Estes,
P.O. Box 404-T, Northridge, California.
to provide farmers similar
benefits provided by the Fed
eral Housing Authority, for
city dwellcs. : -v
.Testimony showed the
agency seeks $20,249,000 next
year for farm owner ship
loans, against 524,300,000 this
year. Applications in this
field have been dropping for
the last two years, Scott said.
The soil and water conser
vation loans budget was. set
at $3,000,000, compared to J.3,
485,000 this year, and the
farm operating loans, largest
item in the budget, at $154,
400,000, against $180,800,000
for the current year.
Whitten reminded Scott
that Congress provided $180,
800,000 last year, plus a $20
million contingency fund, de
spite the fact that only $160
million was requested.
Racial Origin
May Be Told by
Type ol Blood
Washington - (Science Serv
ice) - The blood type of a
person living today might give
a clue to his racial origin if
compared with, blood type f
the ancient dead.
Paleoser ology has long
sought to determine the blood
types of ancient dead people
in an attempt to establish
whether the different . races
have predominant blood type
traits.
Blood stains of mummifsd
tissue and bones have been
studied to determine blood
types of these people who
lived in past ages. This blood
typing is based on the stan
dard test and hag been made
possible by the, discovery that
the blood-group sbstace is
not only in tbg blood but dis
tributed throughout the body.
To Relate Information
Anthropologists trained in
these blood typing techniques
are now working in two labra
tories in fifitn and two i
the United States. They hope
to relate their information
the distribution of blood types
in modern peoples.
It has been found that type
O blood is predominant among
the people now living on the
American continent, fftis is
more generally true in South
America. . However, ; the inci
dence of type A incwases with
the increasg in Igtgude in
North Ameriw. The scien
tists offer n explanation (ior
this.- 0 - O '
The work as reported in
the Journal Science- by Dr.
Madeleine Smith of British
Museum, London.
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Nixon One of
10 Best Dressed
New York -(UPD- Vice Presi
dent Richard ' M. Nixon has
been named one of the 10 best
dressed men in America by
the Custom Tailors Guild of
America. ...
' James Scali, chairman of
the guild, said Nixon, who is
eoolrinrf tint Pnnhliran nresi--T
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dential nomination had come
a long way sartorially since
he arrived in Washington.
"Mr. Nixon, who didn't
know how to dress at all when
he first arrived in Washing
ton, is now a fashion plate,"
Scali said.
The annual list of 10 best
dressed men actually included
11 men, with two representing
the business world - Earl
Cohen, a Los Angeles invest
ment 'broker, and Harry E.
Gould, of New York, who is
in the paper business. ;
Others named were Robert
Stack, television; Rock Hud
son, movies; Sammy Kaye,
music; Dan Topping, owner of
the New York Yankees,
sports; Arthur Rubloff, Chi
cago and New York real estate
man; Sportscaster Mel Allen,
radio; Brian Aherne, tailor,
and Chief Justice Earl War
ren, judicial.
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