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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 18, 1952)
wrcoNTCsnAY, .h ink in, inr2 HERALD AND NKWS. KLAMA TH FALLS. OIIRGON PAGK SEVKNTTTM Mae's Mitt to caiil voimiis ' y wgei) yi !l":!!!,'Mi. 90 Parity Price Set WA8HINOTON Wl Tile House Agrlcu.'Uire Committee Tuesday ap- proven a bill to peK farm price supports at 80 per cent o( parity (or cotton, wheat, porn, peanuui, rice and tobacco. The bill fixe a floor under price support on then baalo commodi ties through 10(6. Wesent legislation permits a sliding scale under which supports for these crop can range between 75 and to per cent of parity. The Agriculture Department haa an nounced It will aupport 1062 cropi at 90 per Cent. An It goes to the House, the new bill also would require that through I WW the parity price for these crop be the higher parity price computed under either the original parity formula or the modernized formula adopted three years ago. The BO per cent price support would apply except where produc ers have disapproved marketing quotas. Parity Is the price for crops the government determines Is fair to the farmer In relation to the things he buys. Since 1060 farmers have been allowed parity prices for tho basic affect rlco and tobacco, which crops computed on the old formula, obtain higher parity prices under which afforded higher prices thin the new formula, legislation extend this permission The American Farm Bureau for another two years. Federation and the National Orange However, this actually would not opposed the legislation In testimony Flood Prevention Plan Readied WASHINGTON l The Agri culture Department would be au thorized to cooperate with local groups In planning upstream flood prevention dams under a bill ap proved Tuesday by the House Agri culture Committee. Under the bill, the government would pay part of the costs of any projects Congress approves. ONE HAND'S GOTTA be picking oranges in Florida while the oilier is pianling spuds in the Klamath Basin for tho above guy. Carl Voorhccs is probably one fellow who has g- accomplished more In 36 years of lifetime than anyone else at least numerically. The 6-foot 2-inch '220-poundcr, who sprawls modestly wherever he sets himself, is presently homesteadlng 153 acres between tho Frogpond and Peninsula in the Newell area. At the same time he's attempting to grow a dozen and a half varieties of citrus trees on a 20-acre grove along Florida's gulf coast. His story would be the envy of Horatio Alger: (i:dllor's Nolri This Is the first of a series of features on local farmers and farm people to be published In the Herald and News Farm Section. The Idea was originated by the late (llendon Smith, manager of the Tulelake Grower's Association. II seems only (air that the first "Milt" should go to Carl Vor hres, a close friend of Smith's. M.E.I Carl a. Voorheea was born In 1018 near Miami, Kla. His lather died when he was 10, and a year later he left home to work on it Florida cattle ranch. He remained there, working (or ta a month and room and board until he had com pleted hla high schooling. In the middlo 1930's he came west, but stuck to cattle by work ing as a puncher on Arlsona ranches. During that time he also ;- -y r rirrww f rB I ' urn ,! ;. . i . mm . I 1 l CARL VORHEES toured tho V.B. on a rodeo circuit. Versatile Voorhccs could do most anything In the rodeo line. But steer wrestlln' was my favorite," he Bays. Oamo 1040 and the draft law wna enacted, Voorhccs settled down to studying for examinations (or pi lot's training with tho Air. Force. His trouble waa he had no collego education. But he passed entrance tests anyhow, only to wash out In pilots training. , So imdauntod, Voorheea took pi lots training on the sldo from civilian Instructors. He learned to fly', all right. He soon became an Instructor htmsolf, and Inter' In Texas was commissioned an In gtructor in the U.S.A.F. ' Overseas during the war he served as a glider pilot, flying troops and equipment into aotlnn over the Rhine. After the war he returned to the U.S., married a i Fresno girl, and In 1047 was dis charged from the service as a captain. In the San Joaquin valley ho did a little cotton farming, (lew as a cluster pilot over the cotton fields, and finally was selected as the recipient of a Tulelake Homostoad InTjhe 1049 drawing. For some time Voorheea flew back and forth between hla Tula Vejk XjT MALCOLM EPI.EY, Jr. (s.VCSr' XT Farm Editor J Rangemen Set Canadian Trip A visit to the Dominion Range Experimental station near Kam- toops, urui.Mi uoiumoia, in in more for those who participate In the summer field trip June 24 and sponsored by the northwest sec tion, Amorlcan Society of Range Management, Chairman Floyd Iv crson, Portland forest service em ployee, has announced. Visitors will see Cnttalo, off sprlng of a Buffalo and Hereford cross. The second day of Uio tour will be In the Nicola valley which the Canadians claim has Vie finest grassland range on the continent. June 33 Is tho date for the an nual British Columbia Hereford breeders association field day and range management visitors have been Invited to participate. It will be at Vlnsula about 36 miles from Kamloops. homestead and his San Joaquin cottonflclds. He (lew a four-place Piper Clipper tho 600 miles. Later he decided to concentrate entirely on his homestead. Ho had built an airstrip right on his place and kept right on flying. Several trips he made to Florida by plane, one of them ending when ho re turned with the deed for the orange grove In his pocket. That ornngo grovo, though meant tho end of his flying his own plane, He Bold It, along with his cattle, to help finance the Florida deal. Now vooihees (nrmu here part of tho year, then hur ries off to Florida the rest, He can name a half dozen varieties of oranges, three or four types of lemons grapefruit, tangerines Just about any citrus grown which he Is producing down there. He's one Callfornlan who ap parently thinks something of Flor ida's oranges, But that California- riorum complex is signmcani in Voorheea' cosmopolitan, modest and yet thorough personality. Incidentally . . , the oranges Carl brought back from Florida definitely are competition for Cal ifornia's. Ask any number of Tule lake people who drop around the Orowcrs' office there. OSC Info Man Takes Mag Post R. O. Fowler Jr., Information specialist with the Oregon State col lego extension service for almost five years, will resign effective July 13 to become west coast field editor for Farm Journal, the na tion's largest farm magazine. Ho will be one of two western resident editors. The magazine will soon start a special western edi tion serving the area from Denver to Uio Pacific. Following his graduation from OSO In 1039 with a degree In agri cultural economcs Fowler spent two years with the Colorado exten sion service before returning to Oregon to take a post with the forerunner of !hn present produc tion ana marxeting administration. Ho served three and one-half veara in the army air corps during world war it ana lonowmg aiscnarge Be came Information specialist for the extension servlco lnrm labor pro gram. Later he moved to Berkeley Calif., as assistant to the western farm labor director, and roturned to OSC In December 1047 to as sume tho position he Is now leav ing. In recent years he has be come widely known as an agricul tural free-lance writer. Oregon GOPs To See ike SALEM Ml -V 8even Oregon delegates to the Republican na tional convention and four alter nates will fly to Denver Wednes day to meet Son. Eisenhower. The party, headed by Gov. 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