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Russian Women Line Up To Buy Bread from Sufficient Supply
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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. At present delivery
rates, a washing machine may
take three months to be deliv
ered, a new car two years.
But as the woman in tha
Babushka said, "Lining up to
buy is a habit" with Russians.
LINE LP TO BLY This picture, taken in De- almost all tvpes of goods. Lining up lo purchase
cempcr, 1957, still is typical of Russians buying has become a habit with Russians." (UPI)
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