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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."
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Attorney Testifies
In Favor of Dam
Tortland -lUPli- An attorney
for the Skamania county,
Wash., Public Utility District
said Monday a proposed hy
droelectric project bv the
PUD on the Little White Sal
mon river would guarantee
water tor operating existing
fish hatcheries.
John W. Riley, Seattle,
spoke at a federal Power
commission hearing here be-
lore txaminer Allen C.
Lande.
The project would be lo
cated near Willard, Wash.
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.
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