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Newspaper Page TextMEDFOKD MAIL TKIllL.Vt;, MKDFOHD. OKtfiON TIII RMI.W. OCTOBER 17, IMS B 7 Proposed Wheat Sale to Russia Spells Money to U.S. Farmers By GEORGE B. BROWN Initfd Press International MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., (UPI) Picture a freight train loaded with wheat stretching almost from New York to Chicago. Imagine one sale involving more wheat than the entire wheat-producing state of North Dakota turns out in a year. Reflect on placing possibly up lo $500 more in the hands of a typical North Central wheat grower. This is the possible scope of the proposed 200-mi!lion bushel wheat sale to Russia a deal which has its origins among the wheat shippers of Minneapolis St. Paul. The $380 million deal has not yet been completed because American government policy so far has discouraged sales to un friendly countries. Haggling con tinued over price and there were warnings that the Russians might be short of the gold and cash needed to pay for the grain. Figure The Take While negotiations continued, wheat men figured the take. One twin cities association fig ured that a 200 million bushel sale could possibly boost the price of wheat by about 20 cents a bushel. For an average farm in the heavy wheat-growing area of Northeast North Dakota, for ex ample, the farmer would have about 2,500 bushels of wheat to sell on the basis of 24 bushels to an acre. A 20 cent per bushel price increase would give him an pvrra AOH Snread nnt over many farmers, the deal could give agricultural states a big boost. The sale would also be an ec onomic shot in the arm to other segments of the economy. For example, the grain would have to be shipped from the collection points to the ports and then to the soviet union. Tops State Crop If one railroad train were used to pull the wheat to a port, it would stretch 776 miles nearly the distance from New York lo Chicago. An average 40-foot box j car can hold about 2.000 bush els of wheat. For 200 million bushels, about 100.000 freight cars would be needed. Two hundred million bushels is more than the entire state of North Dakota, one of the leading wheat producers, will grow this year. The state's wheat produc tion is estimated at 1.37 million bushels. Price was a big barrier in the negotiations. If the government granted the export license U m'II wheat at world prices, about $1.90 a bushel, then American taxpayers would be paying the growers a subsidy of possibly up to 50 cents a bushel. That's the difference between the world market price and the price in this country. Russia has admitted a short- , age of wheat. Russians are I bread eaters, consuming about i four times as much per person ' as the average American. Sov : iet Premier Nikita Khrushchev I has asked his people to i'se bread carefully. He told them I that bad weather had led to a ! poor crop of wheat this year. 19S8 Crop Recalled ; American agriculture experts ! believe the soviet union has not had a really good wheat crop since the bumper year of 1958. As a result, the reserve supplies 'built up in 195R have steadily i dwindled, and this year's poor crop finished off surplus slocks. Selling wheat to the Russians, pro-sale men argued, could make money for U. S. 'armors and at the same time give So viet agriculture a black eye. The United States has a sur plus of wheat, presently esti mated at about 1.2 billion bush els. Wheat men said this is not staggering, since it represents only about one year's supply. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman estimates this year's crop of wheat at 1.1 billion bush els, or about 200 million bushels less than domestic and inter- . national demand. As a result, ! Freeman has estimated Amer i ica's surplus will decline to about an even 1 billion bushels. Private Sale Favored Despite the surplus, exporters were nearly unanimous in feel ing that any wheat sold to the Soviet Union should come from current production and not irom government-owned stocks. They said a private sale would help boost the price for wheat in this country and thus help the farm- How did the negotiations get started'.' All Our Prices BABY RUTH, BUTTERFINGER CANDY BARS Reg. 10c Ban , - HUNT CLUB BURGER BITS 50 lb. Bag $J99 SPECIAL PURCHASE TO SELL AT V4 PRICE-LADIES FLIRTATION TERRY SCUFFS Completely washable Sizes 4-9 Indoor - Outdoor Soles Reg. $2.00 MEN'S LINED ZIPPER . TANKER JACKET Water repellent Sm., Med., Lg. Knit cuff and neck Reg. $8.95 SC88 5 MEN'S IRREGULAR Thermal Underwear Shirt or Drawers, Sm., Med., Lg. Reg. $1.98 511 7 YOUR CHOICE tU BUSTER SALTED SPANISH PEANUTS 49c CARNATION INSTANT MILK 10 Quart Indiv. 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But, several ma. jor COmDanies. inrlitHin0 a nai. of giants in the business Car- riii ana continental announced iney would not take part in ne gotiations because Dip II S. government had not granted its approval. JOSeDh also ran tntn fira nrt the fee he would collect for act ing as broker for the sale. Ha said any money he would collect Would be turner) nver tn I ha government since a fee "might ue misunaersiooa because of my wife's position in the party." .Mrs. Joseph In Politics Mrs. JoseDh is the Demor-rat. ic Committeevtoman from Min nesota. Other grain merchants want. ed the government to stay out of the transaction. One spokesman for this group said that when tne farmers turned down tha administration's wheat program last spring, government agricul tural policy makers said they would have to depend on sales in tne tree market. 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FILM 127-620 SHAMPOO Youlh 2 Pack TOOTH BRUSH VIGKS EU3 KISS GLARCL Burma Shjvt eo;o Sho-Curl HAIR SPRAY OSU Professor Points To Adult , Sexual Deception NEW YORK (UP11 An fire. 1 Ron State University professor r said Wednesday adults "indulen in the comfortable deception" mat sexual misbehavior is pri marily a problem aliening America's youth. Dr. Lester A. Kirkendall, pin. lessor of family life at the uni versity, said the traditional sex ual ethic based on "fear of negative consequences" is out dated among young people be cause "youth simply docs not scare any more." Addressing the annual meet ing of the Planned Parenthood- World Population Organization here, Kirkendall declared that the "major irresponsibility" in sexual misbehavior should b a held by adults. Minor Hypocrisies "The confusion of youth i 9 only a mirror of the hypocrisies of the older generation and its studied refusal to acknowledge that a problem. . . exists," he said. He called for a new code of sexual responsibility, bringing sex into a "meaningful, purpose ful pattern of individual and social living." Kirkendall said that certain films dealing with sex should be discussed by church groups which, instead, have banded to- gether in efforts to prohibit them from exhibition. After seeing the movie in question, he said, the groims should have "a searching dis cussion about the quality 'and nature of the relationships and the nature and place of sex as was portrayed in the film and as they exist in actual life. "But our irresponsible at titudes toward sex would not permit this," Kirkendall said. aawwiassgarairg ...iiiiCTa ft CORNER JACKSONVILLE HI WAY AND LOZIER LANE Wheat Sale May Cost Taxpayers SPOKANE (UPI) - Sales of wheat to Russia may prove most costly to the Amcrican-tax- paycr-consumer than a lot o f them realize, a grain official said today. Merrill D. Sather, executive secretary of the Pacific North west Grain Dealers Association, said Canadian and proposed American wheat sales tj Rus sia already have pushed thi wheat market up. "For every cent per bushel thp nrirp nf whont in the ttnitpH j States goes up, the cost tn tha American consumer is about $15 5 million," Sather said. "It will take only a two cent average increase over the crop year to offset the SM-mil'ion which the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates will b e saved In a year In storage costs by reducing our surplus by lad million bushels," he snid. Sather explained the increased costs would result from higher subsidy payments on the wnent we export and higher prices on the wheat we use domestically. 0