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20 A WEDNESDAY. MARCH 6. 19B3 MEDFOBD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Farmers Have S200 Billion Invested, Rotary Club Told Farmers of the U.S. have $200 billion invested in their business, the equivalent of three-fourths of all the assets of all the corporations in the nation, John Nicdermeyer, Jackson County farmer and businessman said in an ad' dress here Tuesday Speaking before a luncheon meeting of the Medford Ro tary club at the Rogue Val ley Country club, Niedermey- cr said the Inventory of the equipment on U.S. farms greater than the assets of the steel industry and five times those of the automobile in dustry. Further emphasising the impact of agriculture on America's economy, the speaker pointed out that the farmer employs nine times more people than the giant U.S. motor car industry and 12 times the payrolls of all the country s steel plants. Aisociation Director Nicdermeyer,. who is a di rector of First Federal Sav ings and Loan association and the Rogue Valley Memorial hospital, and an active church and Grange worker in addi lion to his farming, remind ed Rolarians that farmers spend $42 billion in the na tion's market places for sup plies and services. "Any reasonable effort on the part of the federal govern ment to keep such a vast seg ment of our economy healthy and solvent reflects itself in added business for every body," he said in discussing the highly controversial farm subsidy problem Since the closing days of I lie Hoover administration, there have been more words spoken and more words writ ten about agriculture than any other single business or indus try in America, Niedermoyer said, and cited the farm pro grams which have emerged during the Roosevelt. Truman. Eisenhower and now the Ken-1 nedy administrations. Scandals, surpluses and subsidies have kept agricul ture in (he limelight end con tributed to a critical altitude toward farms on the part of the U.S. public. Publicized Budget The widely publicized budg ed and growing personnel of the Department of Agricul ture, for which farmers seem to receive the major blame, also includes such agencies as the U.S. lorcsl service, the school lunch program, Com modity Credit and huRe ap propriations requested by the state department tor foreign aid. Actually, the speaker re minded his audience, the por tion of the $6.5 billion budget of the department of agricul ture concerned directly wilh agriculture is estimated at $2 billion. "America lives In the midst nf an abundance of food and fiber which is the envy of the world, especially Soviet Rus sia and Red China" he said. "Carrying home an average of 1,500 pounds of groceries an-1 nually, spending $120 million per year for reducing aids and another $360 million a year for cat and dog food, we proclaim to the world that we have a problem. Although we represent only 6 per cent of the world's population, we eat 29 per cent of the world's supply of meat." Nicdermeyer pointed to sta tistics to prove that food prices have advanced far less than rents, medical care and other goods and services. To day 20 per cent of income is spent for food while only a century ago 67 per cent was food's share. In the same pe riod the percentage of people engaged in producing food dropped from 67 to eight. The "population explo sion" which has America growing at the rate of 300 per hour adds to the responsibil ity of the farmer, the speaker said. Farmers are selling some of their best land for high ways, airports, shopping cen ters and housing at the rate of a million acres a year. An other half-million acres are lost because of erosion, wind and water but new lands are being brought under cultiva tion to off-set the loss The speaker concluded with Daniel Webster's reminder: "Let us never forget that the cultivation of the soil is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization." Jackson Introduces Power Priority Bill Washington (UPD A bill to give the Pacific Northwest first call on electric power produced in tlu area was in troduced Monday by Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wasli.). Jackson said the bill would "safeguard the firm power supply on which long-established industries and utilities of the Northwest rely." "OIL TO BURN" Mobilheat S 4 H Green Stamps MEDFORD FUEL CO. 772-2111 Hi 1 k k'f III N. 7. N. V II r.iiwT T- I ll I,IEV I RAYO-VAC II ill i i . r k it r !$h i ixlccincw i n rVn nOn I jrfTTK (TTHfrYTl NE" GV3m I ticqiicc FLASHLIGHT I If 1 . 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The hearing, which is expect ed to last more than a week, was called to determine whether the PUD should he given a federal license Spokesmen tor the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries and the Bureau ol Sports Fisher ies and Wildlife, said the prot ect would be "definitely harmful and possibly fatal" to three fishery conservation installations near the pro posed dam site. But Riley said, "a hatchery and a hydroelectric project can coexist." He said the di version dam would be near three of the fishery installations. SI 88 4 VINYL 4 FOLDING DOORS To REG. 1.49 REG. 1.98 REG. 2.98 SHEllMAN DOLL CLOTHES Ft Ken 4 Bamble . 87c 1.19 1.79 CORNING WARE SPECIAL P-11-D SAUCE PAN SET l HoPi Qt. 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