Better Understanding Now
Between Growers, Officials
By JOE COWLEY
Mail Tribune Farm Editor
Medford district fruit grow-
ers feel today they have
reached a better understand
ing with state and federal
officials on fruit harvest labor
problems peculiar to this area.
U.S. Department of Labor
representatives during the
meeting at the Rogue Valley
Country club Saturday night
with fruit industry leaders
agreed local growers this year
have done all "that is reason
able" to obtain domestic pick
ers for the critical winter
pear harvest period from ap
proximately Sept. 1 to Oct.
15.
They Indicated lo the 10
fruit growers present that
Mexican Nationals may be
brought into this area when
they are needed. But, they
did not commit themselves
as to Uie number and time.
Further negotiations were in
dicated. Labor Deparlment
Representing the U.S. De
partment of Labor Saturday
night were Jack S. Dom
nachie, deputy assistant direc
tor, bureau of employment
security, U.S. Labor Depart
ment, Washington, D.C.; Clin
ton Johnson, regional direc
tor, U.S. Department of La
bor, Seattle, Wash.; and Joe
Bccson, farm field representa
tive from the Seattle regional
office. David Cameron, Ore
gon commissioner, department
of employment was present.
Carl Saltveit, assistant slate
labor commissioner, repre
sented Norman Nilsen, Ore
gon commissioner of labor.
Cameron's office coordi
nates labor recruitment ac
tivities and farm labor place
ment with the U.S. Depart
ment of Labor offices and
Clinton Johnson, of the labor
department's regional office.
Cameron stated he would.
as he has in the past, do all
in his power to assist local
growers with their problems.
He was complimented by the
growers for his past services,
His office has not been under
criticism.
Domnachle told the grow
ers: "You have been treated
no different from any other
group of farmers. You may
not get justice, but you will
at least get equity."
The labor officials agreed
growers had done all they
could towards hiring domes
tic labor, after a number of
shippers and growers testified
thai less than half of the do
mestics slay in the orchards
longer than two or three days.
Senator Morse declared that
Medford orchards should not
become the dumping ground
for social welfare cases from
Portland.
Navajos Impractical
The Oregon senator re
marked, "All this talk on
bringing Navajo Indians In
here is a pipe drcaml This
would involve lots of social
problems. 1 have talked to
the Indian bureau about this."
The federal labor officials
agreed. Cameron, Oregon em
ployment commissioner, noted
there have been conflicting
reports on the efficiency of
Navajos as orchard workers.
His personal experience with
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a crew showed them to be
good workers, Cameron add
ed. Robert Norris, horticultur
ist for Reter Fruit company,
opened tl"e issue of whether
Mexican Nationals should be
authorized to pick peaches.
He declared an arbitrary de
cision was made by the fed
eral labor officials two years
ago not to allow the nationals
to pick peaches In the Med
ford district.
"This was my decision be
cause I wanted to open up
job opportunities in other
areas," Johnson said. "I will
consider modifying that."
"Every type and variety of
fruit should be considered
now," Ray Reter, owner of
Reter Fruit company, urged.
"I'm asking for a conference
now on the Jobs the Mexicans
can do!"
Need Mexican! For Peachas
Lyle Kinney, Bear Creek
Orchards, replied his com
pany has used Mexicans "to
dig out of an emergency"
when not enough pickers were
available to pick peaches
which are more perishable
than pears. This problem has
to be solved in three or four
hours when it" occurs, he
said, and cannot wall for a
telephone call to start through
Harold Clement
Gets Promotion
Salem - A Clackamas coun
ty man, John Cramer of Mol
alla, has been named assist
ant personnel officer of the
state department of agricul
ture at Salem.
He retired about a year ago
from U. S. Army service, with
his last assignment as person
nel officer with the Sixth
Army at San Francisco pre
sidio. The department also an
nounced the promotion of
Harold Clement, Medford, to
assistant supervisor of the
district federal-state shipping
point inspection office at
Hood River. He has been with
the department since 1949,
with Medford his base sta
tion. In another promotion.
Charles Stewart has become
assistant supervisor of the
Klamath district shipping
point office at Merrill. He
joined the department in
October 1945, working first
at Ontario. About a year ago
he was assigned to the Kla
math district.
In a third promotion, O. E.
Heman, of the grain division
at Portland, was advanced to
grain weigher-sampler fore
man, succeeding Frank Strell-
man who retired under state
service several months ago.
Two resignations in the
veterinary division will be
effective shortly. Dr. James
S. Locke will leave after a
year with the department to
be associated with a private
practice In Redmond. Dr.
Hans P. Vinkel-Jenscn, vet
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Salem district, will enter
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government channels lo ob
tain the needed permission.
Senator Morse suggested
labor department officials al
low the fruit growers to act
to meet emergencies, but in
vestigate any violation of the
agreement.
The Oregon senator assured
the group he has made a
thorough study of the Mexi
can National problem. The
Medford pear district deserves
an assured labor supply and
should know in advance how
many Mexican Nationals they
are allowed.
Norris and Medford fruit
grower Howard Bush assured
the labor department officials
use of Mexican Nationals
only when qualified domestic
workers are unavailable. It
costs $85 a man to bring them
to this area, he said. (Last
year only 15 per cent of the
daily crew were Mexicans,
growers said.)
"Because of the cost, we
hire less Nationals than we
require and it means drag
ging out the picking at the
end of the season because we
do not have enough help,"
Bush added.
Bush agreed with Reter
that the number of unem
ployed given in federal sta
tistics does not mean that a
certain number of people is
able and willing to pick pears.
Growers already have a labor
shortage In current thinning
operations, Bush noted.
Regarding the tentative la
bor department ruling on a
$1 an hour minimum wage
for pickers, Morse repeated
that the question should be
-is the piece rale now paid
a fair one? He suggested some
supervision at the time the
piece rate is established at
the beginning of the picking
season. The community has a
right lo be assured that a
picker will receive a fair
wage for a fair piece of work,
Morse added.
Cameron assured local fruit
growers Monday of his 100
per cent cooperation. Grow
ers praised him for his coop
eration and noted he has a
difficult job as liaison man
between federal labor offi
cials and growers.
Local Soldier Gets
Congratulations
Warren B. Heinbach of Med
ford and five oilier soldiers
stationed at Greenland have
been congratulated by U. S.
Army officials for making a
nigged trip through the snow
and ice in record time.
The six drove a huge trac
tor from Thule to Camp Cen
tury, a trip that normally
takes 10 days. Using special
new equipment, they made it
in 22 hours.
Word of the expedition
and subsequent congratula
tions was received here by
Heinbach's mother, Mrs. C. O.
Lack, 2i;)0 Harrison ave.
Of the six-man party that
made the trip, five were from
Oregon, prompting the colo
nel In charge lo remark that
the Thule lo Camp Century
route should he named "The
Oregon Trail."
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Farm &
Chit Chat
By JOE COWLEY '
Mail Tribune Farm Editor
There have been a number of zoning meetings in rural
areas recently. Much of the opposition has come from people
who don't understand the purpose and benefits of zoning.
So, we feel a pamphlet issued by the U. S. Department of
Agriculture on zoning for rural areas is appropriate.
These are some of the questions which rural area residents
should ask themselves when considering zoning the pamphlet
suggests: Is your rural neighborhood changing? What kind of
place will it be in next year? In five years? after that?
Will it develop into the kind of community you and your
neighbors want? Or will it become such a haphazard mixture
of conflicting land uses? Such a mixture often depresses
property values and causes friction among neighbors.
"The principal public way available to citizens for guid
ing the growth of their community toward desired ends is to
use the planning zoning process. More and more rural people
are doing this through their local government bodies aided
by community planning and zoning boards.
"Planning and zoning boards are local public agencies
established to serve their counties, towns, or townships. The
boards are usually appointed by the elected local governing
body. Public hearings at which all interested citizens may
appear and be heard are required before proposed plans and
zoning regulations, or changes in them, can be officially
adopted. Appeal procedures and other safeguards are pro
vided by law.
"Zoning is most successful in a community that has
worked out a masterplan of development. Such a plan out
lines what the community wants in the future and suggests
how present and future improvements and land uses should
be related.
"The master plan should be based on a study of re
sources, problems, needs and potentials of the community,"
according to the pamphlet. Jackson county is making such a
study now.
Zoning is a two-parl process.
First, the community is divided by means of a local
zoning ordinance into suitable kinds of districts (or zones)
for different general uses.
Most county ordiances establish industrial, business, resi
dential, and agricultural zones as a minimum. Some forested
counties have created only three kinds of zones forestry,
recreational, and unrestricted.
Fast-growing counties near a big city may need two or
three kinds of zones each for residences, for business, and
for industry, in addition to one or more kinds of farming
districts.
Regulations within each zone are applied to limit: (1)
dimensions of buildings and other structures. Farm buildings
are usually exempted. (2) Size of the building lot or tract
used for non-farm purposes and the part of the tract that
can be covered by buildings. (3) Density of population,
especially In residential area, (4) The broad purposes for
which the buildings and land may be used.
"Most of these regulations are used in nonfarm zones.
Those used in farm zones are designed to protect agriculture,
not to regulate it," the pamphlet stated. Although regulations
vary by zones, within each zone all properties of the same
kind or class must be treated alike.
FROM
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By BART BARTLETT
This period of hot dry wea
ther is exceliont for many
tasks that have to be done on
local farms and ranches.
Haying during (his weather
should be accomplished in a
minimum of time as it is good
curing or drying weather. II
is also a fine time for killing
weeds by mechanical means
such as tillage tools and even
by the use of hoes.
The growers of many crops
especially garden and fruit
crops will want to he especial
ly careful now and keep the
spider mites and leaf hoppers
under control. Either of these
pests can cause the loss of
great quantities of the leaves
from a large variety of eco
nomic plants. Any pear trees
that have brown leaves from
mile damage have already
been neglected too long and
it will be very difficult to
control their mite population.
If the leaf loss is very great
on pear trees the resulting
crop will be of small size and
poor quality. The same is Irue
of peach trees and more so on
older aged trees than on
young trees that are growing
very vigorously. Consult your
spray ehemu-al salesman for
malerials and advise if you
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Farmers and ranchers
should disc or otherwise pro
vide a fire lane between dry
grass and stubble fields and
any public roads. Even after
this has been done, additional
fire lanes should be separate
such fields or fire hazard
areas from their buildings and
such other valuable items as
equipment and stacks of hay.
The fire danger is great now
and such simple precautions
as fire lanes may prevent
heavy losses to fire that start
ed in a dry field.
A recent inspection of some
fertilizer plots that were
established in a hay field last
spring and in accordance with
the results of soil tests show
that no benefit was gained
from the use of potash or
phosphate fertilizer. The grass
plots that received nitrogen
fertilizer however, were far
superior to no fertilizer in the
amount of hay produced.
Many teen aged boys from
I he area have been employed
on farms and ranches this
season. Some of these boys
have made good hired hands
and have benefited from the
experience. A far larger num
ber are not employable for a
number of reasons. Most are
lazy or have led such a soft,
protected life that work
makes them unhappy. Their
parents often agree that they
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TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
Sawyer Gives Plans
On State Milk Audit
Salem - General policies
which Kenneth W. Sawyer
expects to follow in adminis
tration of the state milk audit
Grain Price Gain
Likely To Hold;
Seed Prices Mixed
Corvallis-Most of the past
season's gains in Oregon grain
prices seem likely to be main
tained this fall, reports Ray
Teal, Oregon State Univer
sity extension seed marketing
specialist. Hay supplies are
shorter than expected and
seed price prospects are mix
ed. Writing in the new Oregon
Farm and Market Outlook
circular, Teal notes that
prices of some feed grains
this summer and fall are ex
pected to be somewhat higher
than a year ago. Supplies of
Northwest feed grains are
smaller than last year as
harvest approaches, feeding
has been heavy, and there
are some indications exports
may improve.
Prospects now are that
Oregon barley yields will be
better than last year, off-set
in part by acreage cuts under
the feed grain program. New
barley and corn prices may
be a little above last year,
Teal said. Based on feeding
value, oats have been over
priced and other feed grains
are being substituted.
Northwest white wheat
prices have been adjusting up
ward toward the new support
price levels for the 1962 crop,
but whether prices will con
tinue above loan value equiv
alents as in 1961 remains to
be seen, he points out.
This price level could con
tinue if export markets are
maintained or increased be
cause Northwest white wheat
carryover is the smallest in
years and the 1962 crop is
expected to be about the same
as 1961, the specialist writes.
Hay Outlet Changed
The hay market outlook
was changed by the cold wet
spring weather with the re
sult that prices for the 1962
63 season could move above
this past season's levels, Teal
states. Stocks of hay in Ore
gon and Washington are
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This Message
Another Public Service of
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program were outlined in a
letter he sent July 11 to all
Oregon milk dealers and pro
ducer marketing agents.
Following resignation of
Audit Supervisor D. P.
Shoup, now manager of Ore
gon Milk Producers, Director
of Agriculture J. F. Short
combined the milk audit and
producer milk stabilization
programs into a new division,
with Sawyer as chief. Ken
neth Hickok, vetern on the
auditing staff, was advanced
to audit supervisor undef
Sawyer.
Sawyer wrote dealers and
agents that he does not antici
pate any basic changes in the
milk audit activity but that
he hopes to clarify policy and
understanding in several
areas, including possible re
visions and simplification of
report forms.
"Every effort will be made
to cooperate with the in
dustry," he promised, "and
still carry out department re
sponsibilities in seeing that
producers are properly paid
under their contracts and
agreements."
(This means dealer pay
ment to the producer of the
smaller than a year ago, feed
ing was heavy, and prospec
tive higher alfalfa and red
clover seed prices could di
vert some acres from hay to
seed harvest.
As far as seed prices are
concerned, Teal makes the
following observations in the
Outlook:
Ryegrass seed-hard to pre
dict because supply manage
ment programs being consid
ered and final size of the
1962 crop are unknown. Com
mon ryegrass supplies are
about in line, but supplies of
perennial seed are considered
much larger than recent dis
appearance. The combined
supply of these two crops
may have effects on each
other that are difficult to ap
praise now.
Bentgrass seed prices this
year should hold around last
year's levels. The supply on
hand is small now, but the
1962 crop may be larger than
a year ago.
Fine fescue seed is still in
trouble with large carryovers
of seed in Canada which may
be dumped in the United
Stales this year. Prices to
growers may be lower this
' year than last.
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established stabilization price
on class 1 milk and for class
2 milk on basis of the indi
vidual pool contract or agree
ment price.)
Plans Mora Help
He said his office hopes to
give more assistance, especial
ly to smaller dealers where
needed, in pooling proce
dures, records and reports.
He said immediate attention
will be given, in person or
by mail, to some matters of
this nature.
Producers pay, indirectly,
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the fees which support the
audit program. He point: out
confusion exists as to who
makes the fee payment on
milk purchased from pro
ducer marketing agents. Thu
confusion in records may be
avoided if dealers and mar
ket agents will remember
this simple rule: the person
who issues the check to the
individual producer should
deduct and pay the aduit fee
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