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ems.
Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, l'imsyl
vniila, mid Texas combined contain
more than one-fourth n ihn IiIkU
hdiools in lha Unltrd Htnle.i.
It luih been rnllinalPtl Hint the
American nubile snenda uiiun limn
triii.ooo.wio.ooo iinmnilly lo live.
L.T MALCOLM tPI.EY, Jr. IT. C
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COFFEE ING UP The ladies, for the most part, did the inside work at the auction,
sponsored by the Midland Grange. Here they partake of refreshments themselves. They
''are (left to right) Mrs. Hip Largent, Mrs. Floyd Hoover, Mrs. Roy Huff and Mrs. Ralph
'Benoist.
: MRS. JOHN MISTLER, Midland Grange officer, offers doughnut to Carrie Jean Haw
kins, granddaughter ef Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Hawkins of Tionesta.
Bond Law Clarified By
Salem on Air Sprayers
Financial responsibility bonds
Which the state may accept from
aerial operators under the 1951 ag
ricultural chemical control act re
guliting the application of agricul
tural materials will cover only land
owners situated within a legally
established protected area. v
, Furthermore, these bonds will
protect only Innocent, or third,
parties to the spraying operaions.
Triey will not protect the landowner
.who has contracted to have his
crops or orchards treated.
: This Information has just been
received from the state department
of agriculture at Salem. The de
partment bases Its policy with re
gard to the bonding provisions of
this law upon an opinion received
this month from the office of At
torney General George Neuner.
This opinion holds that the de
partment may accept for filing as
proof of financial responsibility a
bond or policy of insurance which
indemnifies only landowners situ
ated within a legally established
protected area. (The control set
outlines the procedure for estab
Usning such an area.)
The opinion also holds that not
the owner of land sprayed but the
owner of adjacent lands which
might suffer from the negligence
of an aircraft oiyrator is the party
protected under the liability clause
of the agricultural chemical con
trol stature. Under the act. a
landowner is defined as a person
who owns three or more acres
within a proposed protected area.
The financial responsibility sec
tion of the act requires all aerial
operators to file such proof, which
may be either a deposit of money,
certified check, liability insurance
or surety bond, in the sum of
$10,000 prior to execution of any
contract for aerial spraying.
Any action against operators for
damage must commence within one
year from the date of alleged wil
ful or negligent operation. .
Land surface of the earch is esti
mated at about 52,500,000 square
miles, according to the Encyclope
dia Eritannica.
Illinium. Element No. - 6i; was
discovered by Dr. B. 8. Hopkins,
of the University of Illinois, and
named after that institution.
By MALCOLM EPLEY JR.
Tile Midland Grange Hall and
the grounds around it saw the re
vival of an old country-style In
stitution last Sunday. It was a
highly successful revival, too.
The Midland Orange sponsored
its first in a series of semi-annual
country-nide auction sales, and
some farmers found they had gold
In their farmyards. An estimated
crowd of some 300 persons splashed
through mud puddles and mire as
young Auctioneer Jerry Fales of
fered several hundred items to the
highest bidders.
High bidders? There were some
pretty low high bids. Some ducks
went for 10 cents each. A 1838
Bulck coupe sold for $60.
yet farmers and outsiders from
throughout the basin who con
signed to the sale probably figure
they got their money out of their
offerings. Most all the consigned
stuff probably would rust away to
nothingness behind the barn or in
the tool shed bad not the owners
decided to get rid of It.. Surplus
materials which may hve been set
aside and depreciated still further
were sold while there was still
money in them.
When the sale was completed
the books showed receipts were
pushing the (4000 mark. Not bad
for a starter.
The Grange clans to hold a sale
similar to this one right after har
vest, or pertiaps sooner, later en
this year.
What wasn't offered Sunday Just
gum boots (size nine), chains.
chokers, tires and tubes, wheels,
fuse boxes, electric' fence .controll
ers, washing machines, a refriger
ator, ducks, geese, chickens, a
combine, aide-delivery rakes, tan
dem discs, a tractor, plows, shovels
axes sledges, hiry-baler, light fix
tures, a house trailer, baling wire,
chairs, furniture, stoves, and a
Ford Pickup thai went for tub.
As the Farm Journal recently
said. In an article on this very
type of country auction, everyone
profits front the sale In one way
or another
Says the Farm Journal:
Farmers who sell say their equip
ment brings more than If sold at
a farm sale or If traded In on new
equipment. (And how wives do like
to get the farmstead cleaned up).
Farmers who buy find that bar
gain priced equipment often serves
for years
Implement dealers don't have to
take nard-to-move equipment as
trade-ins. -
Scrap dealers don't -need to make
an extensive farm-to-tarm search.
Incidentally, the Farm Journal
story reports a nine-year total for
auctions nae this In Clinton coun
ty. Ohio, brought J227.363.U for al
most 7000 pieces of "useless" farm
equipment.
Midland's auction, off to a good
start, offers something for towns
people, too. There's always equip
ment on the block that can be
used in gardening. Odds and ends
are cheap. And rubbing elbows
with people gathered from through
out the Basin does far more good
than harm.
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PERHAPS Paul Sneddcn (loft)
buy at tho Midland country
high. And, perhaps, Bunyard
Oregon Agricultural
Planning Commission
Meet Set Thursday
' CORVALLIS I Probably the
biggest and most important agri
cultural meeting held In Oregon
for more than .a quarter of a cen
tury will get under way at Oregon
State College Thursday.
Farmers and businessmen from
throughout the state will be on
hand for the three-day Oregon Ag
ricultural Planning Conference out
of which are expected to come
some important decisions' affect
ing the future of the state's farm
ing. Attendance Is expected to be
more than 1,000.
Nearly 400 prominent leaders of
Oregon agriculture have been
working on committee assignments
for moro than a year in prepara
tion for the conference. Their re
commendation for future farm
policies will be the basis for con
ference forums and discussions.
The program will kick-off Thurs
day morning with a general assem
bly in tne osc coliseum, speaaers
will include F. L. Ballard, associ
ate director of the OSC Extension
Service: Dr. A. L. Strand, OSC
president: F. E. Price, OSC dean
and director of agriculture: Gov
ernor Douglas McKay: and Paul V.
Maris, retired director ot tne farm
ownership division of the Farmers
Home Administration.
Conference delegates will go di
rectly to 12 committee forums
Thursday afternoon to begin con
sidering problems in the major ag
fields. Committees Include agricul
tural regulations, dairy, farm crops,
farm forestry, fur farming, horti
culture, land economics, livestock,
poultry, rural life, soil and water
and specialty crops.
Main speaker at Friday's gener
al assembly will be Dr. Tyrus R.
Tlmm, Texas A it M economist.
Son Takes On
Ceylon Post
COLOMBO. Ceylon Itl Dudley
Senanayke Wednesday agreed to
succeed his father as prime min
ister of Ceylon.
The 41-year-old son of the late
Don Stephen Senanayke, veteran
CeyloncM statesman and the Brit
ish Commonwealth country's first
and only prime minister, had re
fused earlier to take the post left
vacant when his father died Sat
urday of Injuries suffered In a fall
from a horse.
Wednesday, however, he bowed
to the urging of his father's United
National Party, the dominant fac
tion. The younger Senanayake Is due
to serve until elections are held
In about six months.
is telling Bob Bunynrd he'd
auction if taxes weren't so
is grinningly agreeing.
Pest control spray
ing pays on Dig . . . j
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la nut unusual.
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His topic will be "The Role of the
Citizen Farmer and the Land-Orant
! College in Planning for Agricul
ture." .
Committees will make their final
reports to Uie entire conference
group In 30-minule relays begin
ning Friday afternoon and winding
I up Saturday morning. .
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