Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 12, 1962)
8 B THURSDAY, JULY 12, 135i MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON i 5 SJ 4 4 ? i-',oi 'Z. LA..- , 1962 Crop To Have Smallest Acreage In Past 53 Years i CAUGHT IN ACT - While two men armed with pistols held L up the St. Clair Savings and Loan Co. at Cleveland. Ohio, a hidden movie camera recorded the bank robbery. More than $13,000 was taken. Note the robber in the background with a drawn pistol. (UPI) HURRY! FRIDAY and SATURDAY ? PDMP nfe ess rawo htM THE EVENT WITH 60 YEARS SELLING KNOW-HOW BEHIND ITI TO C3-E3 T cBnow A SPECIAL SHIPMENT... COME IN EARLY! Jd A. jL. Jk Jbn A. .A. THE FABULOUS FUR TRIMSI NATURAL NORWEGIAN BLUE FOXI NATURAL MINK! NATURAL RACCOONI DYED SQUIRREL! AND MORE! ARE NEWSI NEWS I NEWSI u oy STARRING rJOTUEifll MINK plus a special group at s39 EXTRA ADDED ATTRACTION ! the most divine FUR TRIMS we could find . . . featuring color-cued NATURAL MINK! tha wonderful WOOLSI plushes! plaidsl tweedsl zib elines! mohairsl boucles! are WONDERFUL BUYSI M TVTT V -ca.j.i j f s WW SIZES FOR EVERYBODY MISStS lis II AJNIOIS K1MOW rfTITIS HAIP SIZIS S la 1 1 HURRY! JrlUTRTY-i HrjTRjRYi remember, at PENNEY'S you can CHARGE IT, or 0 use LAYAWAY, or arrange TIME PAYMENTS NOWI Washington -0IPI)- The 1062 crop will be harvested from the smallest total acreage in 53 years, the Agriculture De partment has announced in its first big production report ol the year. Although the department delayed until next month an estimate of a production in dex, indications were that this year's output of food and feed would be abundant. Crop prospects of good to excel lent" were reported for many major producing areas, crop development appeared to be ahead of last year's, and yields of major crops were es timated to be close to the high yields of a year ago, The department estimated the harvested acreage this year would be 288 million acres - 8 million or 3 per cent 1cm than the 1961 total and the smallest since 1909 The planted acreage of 300 million acres is 10 million le?s than last year and the lowest since 1929. The reductions are the re sult of government efforts to reduce output of surplus crops, chiefly wheat and corn, LAY MISSIONARIES New York-flJPO-The Protest, ant Episcopal church is study, ing the possibility of enlist ing Americans living abroad as lay missionaries. The Rev. Samuel Van Culin Jr., assist ant secretary of the denomi nation s overseas department, said: "The question is how to make these lay people, in the international community through government, b u s I ness and educational ex change, more attentive to their roles as missionaries." and the ability of the Amer ican farmer to produce effi ciently and abundantly on fewer acres. The 1962 corn crop - re cently planted - was esthna ted at 3.5 billion bushels This is 3 per cent less than in 1961, primarily because of a 2 per cent reduction In acre age. The prospective yield of 61.2 bushels an acre is second only to last year's record 61.8 bushels and is 15.5 bushels above the 1951-60 acreage, The corn crops last year and this were planted under program which called for large acreage reductions to clear away the surplus. Department officials said corn consumption during the current feeding year would total about 3.9 billion bush els. Production last year was 3.62 billion bushels. This means the current carryover will be down about 300 mil lion bushels. Tuesday's esti mate of the 19G2 crops .ippar. ently means that the 1962-63 feeding season will cut an other 300 million bushels from the corn carryover, as suming there will be little or no change in consumption volume. Less Wheat Carryortr The 1962 wheat crop, est. mated at about 1.05 billion bushels, means the wheat car. ryover next July will be down 150-200 million bush els. The acreage reductions this year about equally divided between the food and feed grain groups. Corn, oats, and barley show smaller acreages than last year while a small expansion of all sorghums Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc. 'VISIT U.S.A.' A TRICKLE OF SUCCESS un us urst ornciai birthday, the "Visit U.S.A." program designed to increase the number of foreign visitors to this country from a trickle to a flood so we can earn a lot more from tourism and thereby help cut the deficit in our inter national financial accounts is still in the "trickle" stage. The program is alive, it's getting results in several direc tions, which is encouraging for the long range but it's a success on only the most modest of scales. Yet today the need for giving the program a great forward push is greater than ever. It was a year ago that Congress passed the International Travel Act of 1961 and set up our government's first official travel promotion agency the U.S. Travel Service under the Dept. of Commers. Many lofty motives were given for the step such as "promoting understanding and good will among people of foreign countries and of the United States" but the primary motive was strictly money. lor tne difference between what Americans spent as foreign tourists and what foreigners spent as U.S. tourists (including the costs of their tickets) came to a towering $1.1 Diuion in 1901 alone. This "travol gap" raproitntad approximately 40 per cent of the total deficit in our balance of payment!. Obvi ously if tourism here could bo yaitly expanded doubled, tripled, quadrupled the favorable impact en our balance of payments position could be enormous. Thus, the USTS was created with a first-year budget of $2.5 million peanuts compared with what other countries spend to promote tourism within their borders. Now what has happened and is happening to tourism? In the first four months of 1962, overseas visitors to the U.S. rose 16 per cent over the comparable 1961 period to a total of 147,000. They spent an average of $520 each to give us a total revenue of $76.4 million. Visitors from France climbed 52 per cent; from Switzerland, 25 per cent; from the United Kingdom, 11 per cent; from Germany, 9 per cent. On the other hand, visitors from Japan fell off 14 per cent, even though the USTS has set up an office in Tokyo. Japan's currency restrictions virtually prohibit all but busi nessmen from traveling here, however; so spending time and money promoting U.S. travel to those who cou'dn't come no matter what their desires seems rather futile. It's hardly an inipiring record, despite the fact that Voit Gilmore, USTS director, insiits on itreiting "the long rang nature" of the program. But there have boon ac complishments. The USTS has opened eight offices with multi-lingual taffi in London, Paris, Frankturt. Rome. Sao Paulo, Mexico City, Tokyo, Sydnoy, and it will open ona in Bogota soon. It has distributed 4.5 million pieces of literature all over the globe, in seven languages, and has started an advertising program aimed at convincing foreigners "that traveling here can be inexpensive. This program has been sharply attacked as not only misleading but also dishonest. Sample from a recent ad in the Times of London: "Expenses for a party of four traveling by car come to less than $12 a day. That includes food, sightseeing, and lodging in motels with swim ming pools." Four people traveling by car getting all that in this country for less than $12 a day? Other samples from the ad: you will sleep at "Indian trading posts . . . Photograph bald eagles on the wing . . . For lunch, catch your own Chinook salmon and cut-throat trout ... Go maplc-sugering . Watch an ox-pull . . . Eat Apple Pan Dowdy . . Oh, well, Gilmore says that travel experts agreed a "block buster of a campaign was needed to convince the British they could afford to come here," and they are receiving 300 inquiries a day at their London office. Most Importantly, it has sparked additional "Visit U.S.A." promotions and special economy deals by commercial organ izations, it Is spurring hotels, stores and banks throughout the U.S. to develop multi-linguHl staffs for foreign tourists and it is making headway In slashing the red tape which repels foreigners from the start. i Says Gilmore, "World travel habits cannot be changed In one season and the U.S. has much homework still to do for the proper handling of our rising tide of visitors." Correction, Mr. Gilmore: "It's a rising trickle now. That rising tide'' is yet to come, and farther off still is the flood. CUTTER INSECT REPELLENT Ntw cream lormula is concentrated so that a little bit goes a long, long way. Non-greasy, non-sticky, Pleas-ant-smelling, easy to use. Comes in pocket sue, unbreakable flask. mm liPttiiKi acreage is expected. In the food grains, acreages of win ter wheat and spring wheat other than durum are down from 1961, more than offset ting increases in durum wheat, rye, and rice. A new record high soybean acreage and an expansion of flaxseed acreage from the drought- shortened 1961 crop more than offset declines in cotton and peanuts in the oilseeds groups. Total hay acreage is slightly below last year. To bacco, sugar crops, drv bean.i. and sweet potato acreages tn creased, but declines are ;ndi cated for each seasonal group of potatoes. Pi; jariWhiiViir-eiliaaitoJ r Rver I1 Quarf DOUBLE BOILER VALUES TO 12.95 YOUR CHOICE 99 5) NO MONEY DOWN CHARGE IT 3 SOLID FOAM TV CUSHIONS 4 STEAK PLATTERS, WOOD SERVERS CUP ELECTRIC PERCOLATOR ELECTRIC WAFFLE MAKER ECONOMY PRICED QUALITY ITEMS FOAM TV CUSHIONS. Idel for pdlio. fleer. Sturdy, nv-ocln vinyl cov er. Moisture, mildtw proof. STEAK PLATTERS. Four heavy w.ht aluminum pljtltrs with four hardwood serving "planki". ELECTRIC PERCOLATOR. Md.t cups. Durable mirreMinuh -igimnum Vrith safety thermostat. ELECTRIC SANDWICH TOASTER. Nick. 1-ptatid steel grids and chrome firw ith. Eaiy-to-rred dal indicator. ELECTRIC WAFFLE MAKER. Catt aluminum -inch waftle gridi. Chrome finish. Eaiy-tO'read dial indicator. 'A Reg. CSIZ I 17.53 W I POHTABI.C f'i TABLE if i ICE CRUSHER ft I ,9M1 1 TiVi-tjj portiWf, holds 2 t-;1 full t:is nli-'T fine e Ti uA cc;--: ice. Hfcs ict au'.o- j3 tf Ri'ifiliy. 5-ltar suiririlte. Jxti lifill Shimmering Crystal HAWAIIAN LEAF 8-piece SNACK SET i.m fiQQ Value Pi CHARGE IT! Four plates shaped litre Hawaii Ti Leave with four o-6i. crystal cups. IX P- mzm I r 5L?f Vff Garden Hose 1 Wt-., Ha,,'ress.sl I w.,. r i I il , R J-. n y ...... sj y a hv "Hf! 2553 far ki '. J W BULOVA ft"Sr Aluminum '! r" 1 if- f wlh 1,1. r Wrist Watches 7 3p 0u,d"' fei A "iSSSj ) 20 Off IB LounS Sets I Nr I V.lua. 12.95 I T HI Re 29.95 . MIXING BOWLS I am Mi C9- Re'"' Mi t , il h4 gJ -1 Ifox 10' OSCILLATING f.. Jtm&'H ' (IM I ELECTRIC FAN ' 1788 HlffM- mSm H lift. 0uhl-4ladti V KMWfifl ' tilfa .a..aiMffl ii OSCULATES OR NO! I f ' Af " tff 1 ; 'l 8 II Your personal breeze whenever T ' "'j BEVERAGE SET end wherever you desire So FtTt r 5049 1 easy to operate, so refreshing ? SilVH ! Vole M ch.rce it: - iwrTTil. ii iil ' ce licctd IS-gi. beveraoe a'atiei. Automatic Dual Purpose Portable Air Cooler USE AS A COOLER OR A FAN PAY ONLY 39 q Connitt w.l.r ikut-olt control lor muogy waatliar Aulom.He watat-laval Indicator Pow.rfglctn!ritu,l blowar 3-tida wrtp-arownd fiUar All.plutic w.l.r diit'ibutio" tytttm Ffont lill w.lar ctiuta low at 3.50 a Month lrr'TTTi 'iii rl i aii.-.ca;' !' Famous Revere 4 WHISTLING j 3-qt. Teakettle j REG. VOO a rse TS & 15501 Uta Wtld , Convenient Simplified Credit Plan! Stort Houri: 9;30 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. OPEN Fridays Until 9 P.M. 122 EAST MAIN Phone 773-5348 Downtown Medford uOM'fl.'.'i
