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Farm & State Official Talks on Bills By MARY KELL Howard Fujii, state agricul- ture commodity director, re ported on a number of bills effecting farm problems now before congress, in a talk be fore the Jackson County Farm bureau recently. He slated that the farm stabilization act is the most far-reaching farm labor bill yet introduced. In summary. this bill, he said, would es- tablish a domestic farm labor program patterned after the Mexican farm labor program The Secretary of Labor would be authorized to re cruit domestic workers, pro vide them and their families transportation, food, housing, subsistance and medical care until they went to work for employers, and guarantee workers payment for earn ings lost by breach of contract by employer. This bill would be an agreement, he said, between the government, farmer and worker with the agreement entirely in favor of the work er. Fujii stated that this bill would open the door to labor unions, providing almost a closed shop with the Secre tary of Agriculture as the head. Minor Workers Fujii also reported on Bill 1123 concerning the employ ment of minors. This bill pro hibits children under age 12 from employment and limits condition for those from ages 12 to 14. He stated that chil dren need the opportunity to work and earn money as well as to learn the responsibility involved in a job. Farmers generally do not solicit work ers under 12, but the opportu nity to- work should not be denied as It would be by this bill. Fujii stressed the fact that the Farm bureau is interest ed In issues only and not in partisan politics. He urged that letters be sent to United States representatives charg ing that these bills would ad versely effect farmers and be detrimental to the economic and social welfare of Oregon. Tidewater O 1 1 Company representative Robert Hayes Jordan Named To Dairy Group Neal W. Russell, sales man ager of Farmers Cooperative Creamery in McMinnville, has been named Oregon state chairman of the "June Is Dairy Month" campaign, it was announced today by Cal vin H. Crandall, executive secretary of the Oregon Dairy Products commission. Russell will coordinate state "June Is Dairy Month" activities and promotion of the theme "Dairy Foods are Quick, Cool and Casual." Key committee members serving as county chairmen assisting Neal Russell on the statewide dairy industry "June Is Dairy Month" cam paign are: Commilttt Mtmbtrs Mrs. Roland George, Baker County; Tom Thompson, Ben ton; Jolan Bjork, Clatsop; Bill Kessi, Columbia; Stuart Gourley, Coos; Kclsey Kite, Crook, Deschutes and Jeffer son; Herb Northcraft, Doug las; Ray Jordan and Dick Wcsterberg, Jackson; Mrs. Dorothy Spratling, Josephine; Stan Masten, Klamath; M. O. Timms, Harney; E. A. Ray ley, Lane; Vern Troxcl, Lake; John Massie, Linn; Ken Ce dargreen, Lincoln; Clint Tur ner, Malheur; Randy Smith and Bob Sterling, Polk; Pete Sutton, Tillamook; Charles Gavin, Union; Bill Haider man, Washington; Norris Mc Lung, Wallowa; Herman Plass, Umatilla, and Bill Johnson, Yamhill. After a lifetime in dairy ing, Russell knows the indus try thoroughly. Born and raised on a farm In Gettys burg. S.D., Russell moved to Oregon in 1937. He milked cows for room and board while finishing high school and a year of college. Russell joined Derignld Milk Farms in 194S after serv ing four years in the U. S. Army. After six years as of fice manager, Russell trans ferred to the sales department which he now manages for Farmers Cooperative Cream CUTTER REPELLENT New cream formula Is concrntraied to thai a little bit goe a long, long way. Noivgrtasy, non-sticky. Pleasant-smelling, easy to use. Comes in i pocket size, unbreakable flask. TUESDAY. MAY 1. 1962 Garden introduced sales representa tive H. E. Hill. Hill encour aged members to take ad vantage of the petroleum pro gram offered by the company or the program will not be successful. Reporting on insurance, Al Lcmly said that the present fire insurance premiums on farm buildings and property are 40 per cent less than the standard rates and that this percentage will have to be ad justed in the future. Lemly explained the com- pulsary insurance petition is now being circulated and stressed the dangers of this petition. Under this bill, un insured motorist ' coverage would be mandatory with the state setting the rate and ex tent of coverage. As neither party would be able to cancel its policies, competition in this field of in surance would be eliminated and there would be an inevit able raise of premiums, he charged. Several candidates seeking the party nomination in the May 18 primary spoke. They were David S. Blair, county commissioner; Homer Conger, county Judge; Don Stathos and Lynn Newbry, state sen ator, all Republicans, and Evan Rasmusson, county judge. Democrat. The next meeting of the bureau will be Tuesday, April 24, at 8 p.m. in the auditori um at the county extension building, Medford. Winter Pears Fall Below Crop Level, Cherries on Rise Corvallis-Oregon's 1961 tree fruit and nut crops are val ued at an estimated $32 Vt million - 27 per cent above 1960, reports Stephen C. Marks, Oregon State Univer sity extension agricultural economist. Heavier production of all major tree fruits, with excep tion of apples, boosted total Income even though average prices were down slightly for most crops.. Post-harvest estimates by the U.S. Department of Agri culture showed more tonnage of Oregon pears, peaches, prunes, cherries, and nut crops than in 1960. With the exception of prunes and win ter pears, these crops also top ped the 10-year average Marks reported. Apple orchards, hard-hit by rainy weather at blossom time fell below production levels for both 1960 and the past 10-year average. Pears Btlow Average Yitld Increased production of Oregon orchards was general ly in line with better than average 1961 tonnage through out the country. Nationally, only pears, prunes, apricots, and walnuts fell below aver age yields for the previous 10 years. Bumper orchard crops were reflected In larger stocks of frozen fruit In warehouses on Dec. 1. Frozen fruit stacks on hand totaled some S62 mil lion more than a year earlier lion more ahn a year earlier and 61 million more than the Dec. 1 average for the previ ous five years. Frozen cherries show the biggest increase over a year earlier, Marks staled. Freez ers still had 117 million pounds on hand at the start of December. Frozen strawberries - still the king-pin among frozen berries-were down about 8 million pounds from a year earlier but totaled more than 168 million pounds. Frozen caneberry sticks of some 60 million pounds on Dec. 1 were only slightly above the holdings of a year earlier. Larger stocks of blackberries and boysenber ries more than offset smaller supplies of raspberries, the economist reported. LOSES HIS HAT Fort Worth, Tex. - aw - De tective Sam McC-ee has a per sonal interest in a petty lar ceny case. Someone stole his hat Monrtsy horn a criminal court vestibule while he was testilying at a theft trial. INSECT r i x nun unnim Chit r JOE COWLIY Mail Tribunt Farm Editor Although the Common Market in fcurope has suddenly blossomed forth in the news recently, Its development was a gradual evolution starting In the post-war years. It's an important development since new economic group ings are being considered, also, outside of Europe - for Cen tral and South America, in Southeast Asia, in the Middle East, and in the independent states of Africa. In relation to the United States, Isaiah Frank, author of the new book, "The Common Market" sums up the situation pithily: "The fact that trade discrimination against outsiders is at the core of the moves toward economic regionalism, raises the whole question of relationship and compatability of these new developments with the basic multilateral prin cipals of commercial policy that the United States has been espousing at least since World War II." The European Common Market consists of France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxemburg and the Netherlands, and perhaps in the future, England. After World War II Europe faced a period of economic disintegration. The first step taken under the paternal guid ance of Uncle Sam was to draw up new world-wide agree ments directed to gradual restoration of multilateral system of trade and payments. These were aimed at reduction of trade barriers and elimination of currency exchange restrictions. Instruments used to carry this theory into practice were the articles of agreement of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). However, the European countries felt like an under nourished, flabby boxer entering the prize-wing of interna tional trade against the heavily-muscled well-fed larger na tions. The world-wide multilateral (many-sided) approach represented by GATT and the IMF did not offer sufficient trade stimulation and protection of faltering European eco nomics, It was felt. Something was needed to build the eco nomic strength of Europe and to unify it politically. The European officials in the striped pants faced several major problems which they felt could be solved only through unification. One, need to revive European economies near col lapse. Two, need to cope with the acute dollar shortage. Three, necessity to deal with rapidly encroaching Soviet power. Four, need to establish their economic independence in a world dominated by the two great power of the USSR and the U.S. and also face the growing challenge of Asian and African nationalism. Also, Germany must be bound more firmly to the west to prevent recurrence of France vs. Germany rivalry which led to two World Wars. This meant a tight regional development something along the lines of the "United States of Europe" proposed by Clar ence K. Streit. The European statesmen felt the regional approach should have two definite phases. Phase I would be the elimination of governmental and other artificial barriers to free move ment of goods, services and would consider factors of pro duction in the region. Phase II would result in the unification or coordination of Internal governmental actions which con trol or are involved in private GATT provided the basic started the work on world-wide larly in the early years. It allowed governments to make con cessions over a broader field. It provided that all parties coming under the agreement could receive benefits from free trade negotiations between two countries. Reductions of tariffs started at Geneva in 1947 and fol lowed at Annecy in 1949 and Torquay in 1950-51. France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands were charter members of GATT and were in on the early rounds of tariff negotiations, ftaly joined at Annecy and Germany came in in connection with the negotiations at Torquay. All of these later became members of the Common Market. Main results came with the joining of Germany. And the U. S. provided leadership. It was also pushing a European recovery pro gram under the Marshall plan at that time. Then difficulties arose. The customs union Idea develop ed in western Europe to handle these problems. The program for greater freedom of- trade came under the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC). It was estab lished in 1948 mainly to distribute Marshall plan aid. Later it promoted itself into a permanent body to de velop the recovery and growth of western Europe through cooperative means. It started a study of possible customs unions which were to become a nucleus for the Common Market. It also studied such arrangements as free trade areas and possible reduction of tariffs and other barriers to ex panded trade. Although the U. S. had taken the leadership in develop ing OEEC, its main aim, at least at first, was to ease trade restrictions on a European basis rather than on a world-wide basis. In November, 1949 OEEC countries tried first formal commitments to remove quantitative restrictions up to a minimum percentage and at specified dfatcs. This set the early pattern for the Common Market. Future problems in the the fruit shippers In the U. stage. Benelux and the Scandinavian countries were tradi tionally low 4arri( countries. Others had higher tariffs, par ticularly France and Italy. As the low tariff countries met each stage of tariff reduction they began to feel they were dropping tariff protection around their home industries, yet their European partners were eliminating quotas but leaving high tariffs as is. France was one of the latter, but it had problems of post-war inflation. The U. S. took a strong new French and Italian tariffs, a stand which it would not take for the benefit of U. S. fruit shippers later when the Common Market became a reality. GATT also failed to resolve differences In European tariffs. The Benelux countries made the first proposal. They asked for a unilateral reduction of duties by the high tariff countries. Then, in 1951, the French countries reduce their tariffs by 30 per cent on a weighted average level in each of various sectors of the import trade. This average level of. tariff protection was measured by a ratio of total duty actually collected to the value of the im ported goods. Following reductions would be made on the idea that Import trade would be essentially the same as the base year. However, the low tariff countries were required to reduce their tariffs far less than 30 per cent. A loophole allowed government to choose the commodities in each sector on which to make reductions and to determine how much reduction would be made on each. This applied to industrial raw materials, seml-flnished goods, manufactured articles and agricultural product. There were some other protective provisions, also. From then on formation of the Common Market officially was encouraged by the U. S. These various plans were cred ited with influencing establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1952. This has been called the direct forerunner to the Common Market. On May V, 1950 French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman proposed the coal and steel production of France and Ger many should be pooled in a community open to other Eu ropean countries. In April, 19JI the treaty for this commu nity was signed and became effective in July. 1952. It was ratified by France, the Germany Federal Republic, Italy, Bel gium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg Authority over the coal and steel cn.. .nunltv was placed In an executive body. This broke with the GATT and OEEC Chat economic activities. machinery for the overhaul. It reduction of tariffs, particu Common Market especially for S. were first Indicated at this stsjid against the high rates In plan proposed all participating MEDFORO MAIL Berry Maggot Needs Spraying DON BERRY County Agent Home gardeners who have had trouble with worms in their gooseberries should be gin spraying now to control the gooseberry maggot. These maggots hatch from eggs which are deposited beneath the skin of the fruit by flies. These Insects overwinter in the soil and the flies emerge during April. Once eggs are laid no controls are effective. Therefore, control measures are directed against the adult flies to kill them before they lay eggs. Three pounds of 50 per cent Methoxychlor per 100 gallons of water, or one heaping ta blespoon in two gallons of water should be applied im mediately and repeated at ten-day intervals until har vest. The addition of two pounds of Ferbam or Captan per hundred gallon of one level tablespoon in two gal lons of water for leaf spot disease control would be ad visable when applying the spray for control of Roose berry maggots. License Needed By Dairymen Selling Raw Milk Salem The state depart ment of agriculture reminds dairymen who sell raw milk in jugs or bottles to contact the Department for inspection and licensing. All dairies with more than one dairy cow, which are deal ing with gallon jug or bottle trade in raw milk, must be licensed to operate legally. Only licensed dairies come under the state sanitation in spection and laboratory check of milk and cream for whole- somencss and butterfat con tent. Every spring, when the cows are turned out to graze on new grass, there is a great er surplus of fluid milk. Dairy men who bottle and sell this as raw milk operate as "jug dairies". From 50 dairies sev en years ago, the jug busi ness has climbed until at the present time there are 102 under state license. Sales of these gallon jugs are made on the dairy premises. They can qualify for grade A or B license. Unlicensed dairies can be shut down by state au- toritics and are subject to pos sible prosecution. Kenneth Carl, chief of the dairy and consumer service division, SDA, warns, "per sons who obtain their milk supply from a one-cow dairy should realize they do so at their own risk with relation to sanitation and cow health because of lack of controls." He explains that dairies with only one cow or three dairy goats are not subject to licensing. As a result they do not have sanitary inspection nor are the animals required to have the brucellosis and tuberculosis tests as often as licensed raw milk dairies. ideal of gradually negotiated This coal and steel community or the Schuman plan was never thought to be an end in Itself by those who created it and pushed it. The Benelux countries shifted their interest to a broader approach of a customs union or common market. Other countries wanted a coordination of integration of mon etary policies. The Spaak report completed in the spring of 1956 became the basis for negotiating the Common Market and Euratom treaties. The Suez crisis showed how vulnerable Western Europe could be. Treaties were signed in Rome, March, 1957 and were ratified early In 1958 thus creating the beginning of the Common Market. These developments were watched closely by Ray Reter, of Reter Fruit company, who is recognized as an expert, at least in this area, on trade and trade developments. Ray has a basic background in accounting. He received his original accounting education from a C. P. A. correspond ence course. This, he studied while going to school in Jack sonville. His early day experience in the fruit packing and shipping business was under the original cooperative "The Rogue River Fruit and Produce Association" starting in 1915. Al fred Carpenter was a director and later manager. In 1917, Ralph Bardwell. former cashier of the Rogue River Fruit and Produce association, and Reter became the Bardwell Fruit company. The original Bear Creek orchard had been a client pack ing and shipping through the association. It became a client of the. Bardwell Fruit company about the time Harry and David's father died in Seattle leaving them as residual lega tees of his estate. On taking over the property, Harry and David asked Reter, as an accountant, to insta of books. This corrects erroneous column earlier to the effect Bear Creek Orchards. FRANKLIN CUTTER --SWg INSTRUMENTS! xP'- J'BC West Main Pharmacy (Farmarlv Cain Dlvil Pharmacy) "Whan frtlcnpliom art Filled Up t Standard. Not Down hi Phta." 135 Wtst Min Ph. SP 2-2330 TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON 378 Cattle Sold At Midway Yard In Friday Sale A total of 378 cattle, 37 hogs and 35 sheep were sold at the Midway Auction yard on Friday, April 27, accord ing to Bill Bray, owner manager. The market was active on stockers, feeders, veal and all slaughter classes except fat cows which were about SI lower. Good Hereford steer calves sold for $27 to $29.25. Pens of calves weighing from 465 to 500 pounds sold for $28.25 to $28.60. Heifer calves sold for most ly $25 to $25.75. Heifers weighing 475 to 505 pounds sold for $25.10 to $25.75. Medium quality heifers were selling from $22 to $24 with some plain kinds going from $19 to $22. Y arling steers were scarce and in good demand. Steers weighing 550 to 600 pounds sold for $25 to $26.25, 650 to 700 pound steers sold for $23.50 to $24.75. Lots of crossbred steers sold at $20 to $23. Yearling Heifers Several consignments of yearling heifers were offered. Heifers in penlots weighing 515 to 690 pounds sold for $24.25 to $24.70. Medium grades went out at prices ranging from $19 to $24 de pending on horns and weigh ing conditions. Good cows with catves sold for $220 to $230 per pair. Medium cows with calves sold for $187.50 to $210 per pair. Springers sold from $160 to $187.50 per head. Holstein feeder steers in penlots weighing from 677 pounds to 800 pounds brought $20.60 to $21.30. The veal market was high er. Choice calves sold for $26 to $30, medium calves $24 to $26 and common veal $21 to $24. Fat cows were slow. Heavy overfat cows were down from the previous week and sold from $15 to $16. Good, young cows sold from $16 to $18.70. Holstein cows were about steady at $15 to $15.90. Yellow cutter cows sold for $12.50 to $14.10 and canners and light cutters sold for $8.50 to $12.50. A load of short-fed steers from a local feed lot sold from $23 to $24 with most of them going above $23.50. Top on fat hogs was $18. Most butcher hogs went out at $17.10. Weaners were high er. Small weaners sold for $10 to $11 per head. Others went out at $12.50 to $16 per head. "Our farm sale at Myrtle creek attracted the largest crowd seen at a farm auction in years," Bray commented. "Pruitt's sale grossed over $15,000 with one tractor go ing at $2,200. Another 1954-J model sold at $1,350. The HD5 bulldozer brought $3,000 and the baler sold for $1,900. The tillage tools and haying equipment sold accordingly. removal of tariffs and quotas. Reter 11 their first and original set L i ! Y J, 7 2 (.- - . WW- " !-v information printed in this "4 " I , J , H? t V "i 1 r was once an employee of1 Ct 1 'J - 1vV' ' ! ' I-. 1 VACCINES! j : I 3f V h . J jV . ,1 : ' ; MEDICINALS! fTl V ' . J Now Is the Time To Plant To Achieve a Good Lawn By J. VERNON MARSHALL ELEMENTS OF GOOD LAWN Many of my read ers are putting in lawns this spring and have asked me to run this story again. This is a good time to start your lawn. You have plenty ot moisture to effect good ger. mination this early in the spring. I am sure if you will follow these basic rules that you shall obtain a lawn of lasting beauty. An open sweep of lawn, no matter how large or how small the grounds, is needed to go with the home itself. Plant the shrubs as thickly as you want, along the out skirts of a lot or at the front or rear, but have an open stretch of lawn somewhere, to give character to your home and plantings. A lawn doesn't want to be dotted with trees and shrubs, for real beauty, it wants to be open. Get away from the big center bed of geraniums or cannas in the main lawn, you can find other places for them if you look around enough, but don't cut up a sweep of green turf. The smaller the grounds, the more the lawn means and the less one can afford to sac rifice it for other purposes. A shrubbery border, or one with flowers means nothing unless a lawn leads up to it Reward Offered On Rustlers Tiller-Trail-A reward for i information leading to the ar rest and conviction of anyone stealing or killing livestock, range rights, and the legality of the herd law along Elk Creek, were discussed at the annual meeting of the South Umpqua Livestock association Friday, April 20. The meeting was held at the Club 227 hall at Drew. Also on the agenda was election of officers. Present officers were re-elected by a unanimous vote. They are Ralph Staunch, president; Vir gil McNees, vice president; Richard Gilliam, secretary treasurer; and Gilbert Bon ney, Don Gilliam, Ivan L. Wilson, Paul Crume. and Richard Slater are the execu tive board. The association voted to pay a $500.00 reward to any one presenting them with in formation leading to the ar rest and conviction of any person or persons stealing or killing livestock belonging to an association member. The executive board will henceforth meet quarterly. Meetings will be open to all members. Salt used in road construc tion not only gives a smooth, dust-free surface for summer driving but also curbs spring frost heave. ,J 'it; .u .'.TiaMj.;;,,,,;.!.- x :;f : H '..1 .. T.fif - I v: 'Pf-, i ; v-'rxi With al! our modern meth ods. Lawn Groom. Lawn fun gicides, weed be-gone, to con trol weeds and fungus, Liqui nox, 18-16-8, amonium sulph ate and many other good feeds, with modern methods to put them on, there is no reason, why your lawn should not be of outstanding beauty the year around. Fundamental! In order to obtain a good lawn, you should start out with well drained and deeply worked over soil. These, to my mind, are the most essen tial reouirements. You can ul timately establish a good turf on the stiffest slay but it takes time. This is true, to quite an extent, of almost any lawn on heavy or light soil. In most cases where a lawn has run out, it is usual ly the owner's fault, it take proper attention to keep a lawn in good order. I don't care how rough a piece of land may be or how stiff the clay from the basement or celiar excavation of a new residence. A little work and handl ing the soil at the right time, when it is not too wet nor dry, can obtain a fairly smooth surface. It will also lay the foundations for a good lawn without going to a lot of expense as in top dressing the whole area with top soil, manure and sand. I do not mean to say that this would be wrong. If the owner wish es to go to this expense, well and good. However, you can get along nicely otherwise and still have success. The deeper you can work the surface over, the better for the roots of the grass and the better will the soil retain moisture during the hot summer months. In heavy soil, after it has been plowed, follow up with the disk, or pulverizer and a pole-scraper or heavy planks to do the leveling. Use Fertilizer Follow with a good fertilizer, such as Liquinox for lawns. Since t his is a liquid, it is better to sow seeds first. If you use dry fertilizers, work well into the soil before you sow the seed. Water as often as nectary to keep seeds from drying out. If seeds and ground get dry, you may lose the germination. Cover seeds with peat, bark or sawdust, to assure holding of moisture. Apply a good crab grass kill er, such as (Millers crafi grass killer or Pax) through July when the seedling's start to grow. The cost is not too great to install a sprinkling system if you use plastic pipe and fittings, which is reputed to hold up just as good as gal vanized pipe. Lawns love lots of moisture, and with a sprinkling system it is much easier to supply plenty of moisture and extra feed with out fear of burning. Growers who know their apples (and use Ke thane Kelthane milicide kills European red, 2-spotten. Willamette, apple rust, Cyclamen, brown almond and many other orchard miles. Kelthane kills n-sf-and its long resid. ual action finishes off migrants and late-hatching colonies. Safe even for new foliage and sensitive fruit-finishes whem used as recommended. Compatible with most orchard! pesticides. W on't harm beneficial insects. For hard-to-we6 foliage, add Triton B-1 956, the non-oil spreader-sticker. Your dealer has both products. See him soon. Program Changes Noted for Wheat BY EUGENE WINTERS County Agent New legislation enacted by the Congress last year make it necessary that all wheat growers of Jackson County acquaint themselves with the necessary program changes. The county official, Albert Straus, chairman of the agri cultural stabilization and con servation county committee, in a statement today, noted some of these changes. First-the 15-acre marketing quota exemption does not ap ply to a farm s wheat crop as it has in past years. The quota exemption is now figured on the basis of 13. 5 acres, or tha highest acreage on a farm for the years 1959, '60 or '61, whichever is the smaller. Straus also said the amount of wheat subject to penal, ties will be twice the farm's normal yield on all of tha acres in excess of the allot ment. Wheat farmers of Jackson county will avoid marketing quota penalties on their '62 crop if they comply with their farm wheat allotment, or their wheat quota exemp tion, if this is larger. Officials and personnel of the county ASCS office urge farmers to come into the of fice and get all the details. You May Have TERMBTES Those "flying Ants" may be swarming termites. 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