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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1963)
v Mf.iiumn M.n, tkihi'.ms. .MKDHWP. OREGON SUNDAY. OCTOBER 13. 13 g j Russian Women Line Up To Buy Bread from Sufficient Supply (Editor's note: Russia has .number of hakorios. imrorls , rail io;,i mo. j . m-n . . . j... ... i .,,.,, J: ... m m m had harvest setbacks, has been buying wheat in huge quantities from the West, and there are bread lines in Mos cow. But are there actual shortages? Here is a first hand report from the Soviet capital.) By JAY AXE1.BANK United - Internali---'I MOSCOW (UP1) - "There is pjenty of bread for everybody look for yourselt, said a ba bushka's housewife as she point ed to row upon row of white and black bread in a Moscow bakery. The woman was standing in a Mg line and when she count ed the 24 shoppers ahead of her, she sighed. "There is always enough bread and other things," "he said, "but these lines always lines for everything." 1u the casual observer in Moscow the sieht of bread lines together with the uproar in the Soviet press about bread wastage might indicate se vere shortages this winter. But this does not appear to be the case. A check of Moscow shops and bakeries sh6ws plenty of bread to go around, even though some have limited sales to one loaf to a customer to prevent rush buying. Scare Fond Buying News of the poor grain har vest led to a rash of scare food buying in many Moscow stores earlier this month but this has largely subsided. Even restau rants are still "piling it high ' despite government warnings to go easv on bread. The spotty wheat harvest has, however, led to one shortage, flour for baking is unavailable at retail stores in the Soviet capital at present. The Soviet government has assured that there will be adequate supplies this winter as a result of wheat purchases abroad. As the housewife walked out of the bakery clutching two loaves of white bread they are usually not wrapped in this country she smiled at a Western reporter, saying: Lines Are a Habit "Lining up to buy anything is a habit with us. I must aver age an nour a nay un mie. All over the capital city there are lines and not only for bread for watermelons (now in sea son and very tasty), tomatoes, polatoes, milk and cheese. The main reason for the queues, Russians explain, is not i only that Soviet farms and processing plants still don't turn out supplies fast enough: it is also due to poor distribution. That the Soviet Union has in-1 sufficient detail shops was ad mitted only this month by the ' magazine "Soviet Trade." The number of food shops In fact, stores of any descrip tion is only a fraction of the number to be found in New York or Kansas City, London or Par is. By a rough estimate the Six Parcels of Timber Are Sold Six parcels of timber were sold at oral auction by the Med ford district, bureau of land management, Thursday. The first parcel of 6,849,000 board feet was purchased by Kogap Manufacturing company, Medford, at the appraised price of $145,814.25. It is located in the Dead Indian area. Parcel two, Kerby Mainline, containing 73,000 board feet and appraised at $2,231.70 was sold to M and Y Logging, Selma, at a bid price of $2,246.30. C. H. Taylor was the unsuccessful bidder. Brown Brothers Lumber com pany purchased a parcel in Josephine county containing 5,527,000 board feet appraised at $116,819.05 for a bid of $116, 819.10. Two parcels in Douglas coun ty containing 628,000 and 3.911,000 board feet were sold at the appraised price. K and C Timber company, Grants Pass, purchased the first one at $16, 323.60 and Superior Lumber company, Glendale. the second one for $88,526.20. There were no other bidders. Spalding and Son, Grants Pass, was sold the last parcel on Mill Creek, in Josephine county, containing 9.134.000 board feet at the appraised price of $219,430.95. They were the only bidder. The next regular district lim ber sale will be held Nov. 14 at the timber sale room, Arm ory dr. Information concerning timber for sale may be ob tained from the district man ager, bureau of land manage ment. 1133 South Riverside ave., Medford. number of bakeries, groceries i rail yards outside Moscow due aiiu iruu ana vegeiame siores to transportation foulups. in Moscow can De no more than such reports of spoilage come York, for example. Rotting in Rail Yards Poor distribution is manifest ed in other ways. The Commu nist party organ Pravda report ed on Sept. 27 that hundreds of tons of fresh tomatoes and other vegetables were rotting in Kew almost daily and account for tne tact that on a given day in Moscow there may be a glut of peaches or cucumbers while there will be none of these items the next. The Soviet Union has a long way to go in catching up wilh American food production by 1970 a target date set by Premier Nikita Khrushchev. This year's poor harvest and agricultural ills generally make this target exceedingly remote. Feeds Only 6.43 People One Soviet farmer still feeds only 6.43 persons in this coun try which was the situation in America in 1900. Today one American farmer turns out enough food to feed an average :rfe. ., ; a ;f: ; .V: of 23 69 persons, according to U. S. Department of Agriculture statistics. Nevertheless, despite grain shortages this year, poor utiliza tion of farm machinery, and in sufficient use of fertilizer and irrigation facilities, Russian ag riculture is making forward strides. The trade journal "Soviet Trade," reported that in the 10 years since Khrushchev has been at the top, agricultural pro duction has gone up 67 per cent. Land under cultivation has in creased by 14.4RO.OOO acres, the bulk of this in the virgin lands of Kazakhstan. In 1953 the Soviet Union, ac cording to these statistics, had 3J,500,O00 head of horned cattle. Today the figure is 62,400,000. The production of meat and meat products is up 2.4 times. Output Up Each Year Although the farm output goes up each year, it has not been enough to satisfy Soviet leaders. In this connection the Soviet Union last year had a claimed production of 147 million tons of grain. The gain crop this year is poor due to drought and bad weather in the Ukrainian and Kazakhstan virgin land bread basket areas. Even so it is esti mated that the output of grain this year will amount to approx- Deposits, Loans Show Increase Deposits, loans and tolal re sources of the U. S. National bank registered substantial gains during the past 12 months, according to figures released Sept. 30 by the comptroller of the currency. The Medford and North Med ford branches reported com bined deposits of $28,909,851.49, according to Allan F. Perry, manager of the Medford branch. Loans and discounts totaled $17, 107,188.65. Total resources for the U. S. National statewide system of 92 offices were $1,094,245,195, an in crease of more than $60 million. imately 140 million tons with the difference between this fig ure and that of 1962 being made up for by purchases abroad. The fact that an output of grain almost equal to last year's yield constitutes a grain short age, Western experts here say, is due to the increasing require ments of rising population, and demand from Russians to he better fed along with being better supplied with consumer necessities. More Slress on Meat With the passage of years Ihe Russian palate has been at tuned to better food and more of it wilh greater stress on meat, fish, fresh vegetables and while bread. In many oilier respects, too, the average Russian wants more and is getting it. While agri cultural production has risen only 67 per cent in a decade, . is sharply lacking. gross industrial production has ..Soviet Trad... also negiects risen 300 per cent. to point out ,nat although the The magazine "Soviet Trade" rate of growth is higher than in claims Russia's annual industri- America, Russia has much far al growth rate is 10.7 a yearjther to go. And it ignores tha compared to America's 2.9. It economic fact that industrially cites such statistics as these: advanced nations such as tha Output of fabrics up 58 per United States inevitably have a cent, leather shoes up 92, TV tapering off of their growth rate. sets irom ,)7,IKKI in 19.l3 to a There are manv more item production ot 2.200.000 now, re frigerators in the same period from 31.000 to 838.0110 now, and washing machines up from 4, 300 to 1,800,000 in 10 years. Production Is Low Despite these impressive claims, production of consumer goods by any standard is far too low to meet demand and prices are far too high by Western yardsticks of compari son. In many cases, and the Russians don't deny it, quality in shop windows for Russians those days than a few years ago but the average Soviet citi zen waits on "line" for practi cally everything he wants even for appliances. For the latter the wait may take several months. 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