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10 A V" v 5S .'''WUS MEtTWm MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOTtB. MJGTJST 8. I960 , vj "OpJ Hit' e n WINGS FOLDED A Navy pilot flew an F8U Crusader jet fighter similar to this one from the Naval Air Facility at Naples, Italy, climbed to 5,000 feel, remained aloft for 24 minutes and made a smooth landing. It may have been a routine flight except that it was done with the wings folded car rier deck fashion, as shown. Officials at Chance Voight, makers of the plane, said the flight was made Aug. 2. (UP! Telcpholo) Importance of Farming To Economy Stressed by Journal New York - IUPI) - Before the farm problem gets kicked around too much in its usual role as a political football in the campaign months ahead the Farm Journal hopes to get across to the voting populace the importance of farming to the U.S. economy. The farm debate will ap- pear remote and apart from the basic issues to most peo ple because more than 90 per cent of the nation's population lives away from the farm. But, the Journal points out, since the two largest items in most family budgets are food and taxes, the issues relating to agriculture are not as re mote as many people suppose them to be. Income; Explained Using figures supplied by the U.S. department of agri culture, the Journal explains what farm Income really means to business and Indus try. The figures make inter esting reading. ' Farmers may be dwindling In numbers and in proportion to the population but they continue to be the largest customers of many of the big manufacturing Industries, (he magazine notes. The farm population may be Smaller but farming itself is bigger than ever. And it must continue to grow to feed and clothe an ever-growing nation. Agriculture's total assets of $208 billion at the start of 1he year not only were the highest In history but the largest for any American in dustry, according to the agri culture department' statistics. The size of agriculture is pointed up when it is noted that farming consumes more petroleum products than any single Industry, and farmers buy half as much steel as the entire giant auto industry. In addition, there is a great number of urban jobs, and, in many cases, the well-being of entire communities, depend ing on the economic health of agriculture, the Journal slates. Statistical Confusion II explains that much of the misunderstanding about agri culture's economic slalus and importance has resulted from the sheer statistical confusion of too many figures to de scribe the same thing. The agriculture department has undertaken to reconcile a number of these different fig ures '- the more popular one being the $11.8 billion cited in most dispatches as the 1059 farm Income. This figure, according to the DOA, Is what fanners had left over for their own and families' farm work, and for return on the capital in vested in their ) firms and equipment, after they spent $28.2 billion to produce crops and livestock. It is a net figure and ex cludes all of the billions of dollars that went to buy trac tors and trucks, gasoline, oil What Is The Law? This column is prepared at a public service by in College of Law, Willamette University, Salem, to explain basic legal principles, not to provide legal advice. The reader it cautioned not to apply these casoi to his own problems without an attorney's advice, lor differing facts may change the oulcome. and tires, chemicals and elec tric power, feed, seed and fertilizer, building materials and other equipment. The DOA says another con cept of farm income is the one that lakes into account all of the money farm people have available for purchasing goods and services. Under this concept the de partment adds to the $11.8 billion net income from farm ing another $8.6 billion that farms receive for work off their own farms, or from such sources as rents, royalties, dividends and interest. Must Command Respect Add the two farm income figures to the $26.2 billion spent for production costs, and agriculture emerges as a $46.6 billion a year customer for American business and industry. This, the Farm Journal declares, is economic stature that must command respect. The farm situation was put In a still different context recently by Farm Journal president Richard J. Babcock who attributed America's in dustrial leadership over Rus sia to the greater efficiency of American agriculture. Me pointed out thul Russia still requires 50 per cent of its working force on the land, while the United States needs less than 10 per cent - giving our nation a proportionately larger labor force to employ in business and industry. But, Babcock added, unless agriculture can operate at a profit on a bnsis fair to pro ducer and consumer alike, it cannot expect to continue to attract the kind of man and capital that such an efficient industry needs. Can a Man be Jailed lor A False Promise? George became acquainted with Maude, a lonely widow vho had just enough savings to keep her In comfort for the. rest of her life. After gaining her confidence, George asked Maude for a 85,000 lonn, promising: "It you will loan me the money loday I'll give you a first mortgage on a very valuable piece of real estate within a month." Maude trustingly handed over the $5,000. A month went by and Maude received no first mort gage. George was broke, and Maude was never able to col lect the money. She complain ed to the district attorney and George was charged with ob taining money by false pre tenses, a crime punishable in the penitentiary. Is George guilty? Crime Defined In most stales George would not be guilty. The crime of false pretense Is usu ally defined in substantially these words: "Knowingly and designedly obtaining the prop erty of another by means of untrue representations of fact with intent to defraud." If we assume that George had no intention, when he made his promise, of ever giving Maude a first mortgage on real estate, we must never theless prove that he made an untrue representation of fact. ; A promise is not a repre sentation of an existing or past fact. If George had told Maude that he had $250,000 in the bank that would have been a representation of fact. 'False Pretense' . A small but increasing mi nority of states holds that the making of a promise with no intent to keep Jt consti tutes a false pretense on the ground that intent or state of mind is fact which can be misrepresented. California is one of a minority of slales which hnlds that a promise made without intention to perform Is a misrepresenta tion of a stale of mind. Thus a promise is a misrepresenta tion of existing fact and Is a "false pretense." The diffi culty In that position arises from the difficulty of pro viding a stale of mind. Buckingham Palace May Have Heliport London - IUPII - Prince Phil ip reportedly is studying a plan to build a heliport for Buckingham Palace. The prince has used heli copters occasionally in the past to take him to appoint ments outside the city. The plans were reported to be laid out in such a way as not to damage the beauty of the pal ace grounds. EARN 6 THRIFTY THOM SAYS: For at little as $10 you can double your savings earn 6t'o interest. To learn how easy this can be done call Crater Finance Now. Name of Board of Directors on Request j CRATER FINANCE Latin American Visit Proposed .Washington - IUPJI - Senate Democratic Whip Mike Mans field proposed today that the U.S. president-elect make a "get acquainted" visit to Lat in America before his inaugu ration next January. Mansfield also urged the administration not to ram through the resumed session of Congress a large Latin American aid program be cause it would look like "a callous attempt to purchase favor." Instead, he said, the United Stales should support devel opment of an inter-American economic program with par ticipation by olher nations of Ihe Americas. Mansfield's proposal came as U.S. relations with Cuba reached a new low. The State Department accused the Cas tro regime of becoming a Communist tool and of try ing lo foment revolution else where in Latin America. Priests Urge Limit On Children's TV London -flJPD- Roman Cath olic priests Sunday urged par ents not to allow their chil dren to see more than two hours of television a day. The Redemptorist Fathers have prepared a voluntary TV code for Britain's 4.5 million Catholics which will be dis tributed to parishes. It stated that normal viewing time for children should be about 90 minutes a day, but never more than two hours. Boring Sawmill Damaged by Fire Boring - (UPD - Fire of un determined origin caused some $50,000 damage to the main sawmill building of the Summit Lumber Co. . here Sunday. ' The fire was brought under control about an hour after it broke out Sunday afternoon, but firemen remained on the job wetting down embers to protect the rest of the mill. The firm's planer mill and principal stockpile across the road from the sawmill were not endangered, : but about half of the conveyor for trans porting lumber to storage was destroyed. . . Shah's Recognition Of Israel Attacked Cairo OJPD Th conference of Islamic Organizations of the United Arab Republic Sun day charged Iran's Shah with "violation of the teachings of the Koran" in his recognition of Israel. Sheikh Mahmoud Zalout told the conference the Shah had breached the "wall of Islamic unity and made friends out of enemies." The group called upon the Shah to with draw recognition of Israel im mediately otherwise all Mos lems -and particularly Iranian Moslems - must make him see the error of his actions. FORMER ACTRESS DIES .New York-fllPD-Mrs. Stella Friedberg Cohn, 81, a former actress in Kansas City, Mo., died Sunday. California Rider Wins Tevis Cup Auburn, Calif. - HIPD-The 1960 Tevis Cup went Satur day lo Ernie Sanchez, Wood side, Calif., who , rode on horseback through 100 miles of rugged Sierra country and reached here just two seconds ahead of the second-place rid er. t Sanchez arrived here Sat urday night 17 hours and 50 minutes after he set out from Tahoe City. He bettered the previous record for the gruel ling ride by a full hour and and a half. Just behind Sanchez was Wendell Robie, Auburn, a three-time winner of the event. Twenty nine of the 40 rid ers who entered the annual race reached Auburn. 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