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Survey Shows Farmers
Want 100 Percent Parity
WASHINGTON url-An Agrlcul
Cure Department survey alio"
most American larmera want lull
parity price aupports (or their
products, ays (Secretary Uinnimn.
Ha issued a summary ol lindinits
In a uauuivwme uicy ii,6 ue
partmcnt conducted a year ago. OI
price aupports, Brannan's sum
mary said;
"Specific approval of the price
support program constituted the
cenual tlieme ol the wide general
approval. ... A heavy preponder
ance of opinion favored 100 per
cent ol parity supports, with rel
atively few suggestions for discon
tinuing price support."
Parity Is a standard for mea
suring farm prices, declared by
law to be equally lair to farmers
and to those who buy their prod
ucts. The survev called the "Family
Farm Policy Review" kicked
up controversy In agricultural cir
cles when it was made a year
ago. The summary issued yester
day drew Immediate fire from the
powerlul American Farm Bureau
Federation.
"It is significant to note," said
the federation's statement, "that
NATO Nations Now Have
2 Million Men Under Arms
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON I The State
Department reported today this
country's European Allies now
have more than two million men
under arms compared with Rus
sia's four million.
The figures were cited In a 50
page departmental report designed
to answer Inquiries from Congress
and private citizens about progress
made in building Europe's de
fenses under the 3-year-old North
Atlantic Treaty.
Although indicating a relation
ship in the balance of East-West
military power, the figures do not
include other forces which fit into
the overall picture.
Not mentioned Is the total Am
erican strength of 3 1 i million men
under arms, the armed manpower
of friendly nations like Australia
Yugoslavia and Spain, or the arm
ies of Russia's satellites and Red
China.
The report also referred to Rus
sian possession of the atomic
bomb as a major element In Soviet
Fireball Stirs
Four States
BALTIMORE Wl A firey object
that streaked through the night
sky with a "great greenish-white
light" stirred "flying saucer" talk
among residents of four states
from Maryland to Tennessee last
eight.
Weather Bureau observers here
saw the object but made no of
ficial report of it. One observer,
who wished to remain anonymous,
said It probably was a meteor.
The streak of fire first was re
ported over Baltimore shortly
after dusk, about 8 p.m. EDT. In
quick succession came reports
from the west from Frederick,
Hagerstown and Cumberland, Md.,
and Charleston, Whe e ling and
Parkersburg, W.Va .
Washington viewers flooded the
Weather Bureau, Naval Observa
tory and even the Pentagon there
with calls.
No blips showed on Washington
area radar screens to record the
object's passing.
Persons throughout Virginia saw
what they variously described as
"a big star," "a flying saucer"
and something "like a flaming jet
plane.'
They said It ranged in color
from pale yellow to greenish and
reddish and was noiseless. It
moved from east to west.
A ball of fire seen in the sky
over Kingsport, Tenn., about the
same time, set oif a fruitless
search for a wrceked plane. There
were no reports of missing air
craft, but Tennessee highway pa
trolmen, the Kingsport lliesaving
crew and several ambulances
combed an area of about 15 square
miles after an aerial object was
reported to have struck the ground
alter streaking across the sky.
A spokesman at Trl-Clties Air
port near Kingsport said the ob
ject had been identified as a
meteor."
Operations personnel at Andrews
Air Force Base near Washington
put a similar label on it. And
Naval Observatory officials said
rerwrts they received made it
sound to them "like a typical
meteor.'
Reports of the size of the object
ranged from "as big as a foot
ball to "the size ol a washtub.
The Civil Aeronautics Adminis
tration said its tower men in
Wheeling and Parkersburg saw
the bright object and a pilot en
route to Wheeling from the east
reported sighting it in the vicinity
of Front Royal, Va.
Persons In Southwest Virginia
saw at lesat three flashing objeets
that were described as meteors.
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the digest of the review has been
held uu and released during the
height of a political campaign."
The iederaiion called the survey
"grounded In politics." It con
tinded the survev "will undoubt
edly be used in an attempt to
influence farm thinking in the cur
rent political campaign."
Brannan and the federation have
long been at odds over farm pol
icy, including price support levels.
The farm group favors flexible
supports, ranging from 7S per cent
to 90 per cent depending upon sup
ply. Brannan advocates support at
full parity. The top limit now is
90 per cent.
Brannan's summary was based
on meetings held by the depart
ment in each of the more than
3.000 agricultural counties of the
nation where farmers meet to dis
cuss department programs.
It said most reports gave gen
eral approval of present farm aid
programs, policies and agencies.
Many, it said, recommended ex
pansions in some of these.
The department said more than
J00.O0O persons attended the meet
ings. There are five million farm
operators in this country.
power a reference reflecting con
victlon among officials here that
Russia has such a bomb, although
not in quantities equal to Amer
ica's. Interest in Russia's actual or
assumed possession of nuclear
weapons was freshly aroused re
cently when Carlton S. Pioctor,
New York engineer who once
worked in Russia, said he did not
believe the Soviets have succeeded
in mastering the complex task of
producing atomic weapons.
The White House has announced
three atomic explosions in Russia.
Other sources have estimated that
Russia has a stockpile of 100 or
more A-bombs.
But Proctor, president of the
American Society of Civil Engi
neers with wide experience in Rus
sia and behind the Iron Curtain,
said in Chicago Sept. 3:
"I do not believe Russia has
one single bomb. ... I think every
one of the atomic explosions in
Russia was just a premature ex
plosion, in an effort to produce a
bomb."
The departmental survey of
progress said that, aside from the
men under arms in western Eu
rope and in Russia, millions more,
are in reserve and that Russia's
strength includes 175 front line di
visions "with loo deployed in soviet-occupied
Euorpe"
The department cited the Soviet
forces as evidence of why it con
sidered the job of building up v. ext
ern power far from completed.
The great current problem of
the North Atlantic Treaty, the
booklet said, is how to balance the
security requirements of the North
Atlantic powers against their ca
pacity to arm, which Is limited
by their industrial and financial
resources.
The State Department said the
United States must continue to
give "full support" and argued that
American financial help Is "an es
sential underpinning for the de
lense program of our allies."
As to how long it believed the
present defense build-up should go
on, the Slate Department said the
answer depends largely on Rus
sia's behavior, but that the em
ergency will not necessarily "con
tinue indefinitely."
The report showed that defense
spending in the other Atlantic al
liance countries has gone up stead
ily, and that the total may reach
511,700.000.000 in the present fiscal
year (1953).
It declared that morale and unity
in Europe have gone up along with
defensive strength, and that Com
munist influence as shown in Com
munist party membership has
steadily dropped. The report said
Communist party membership in
the 12 European area NATO na
tions has dropped 34 per cent, or
from 3,900.000 in 1946 to 2,600.000
in 1951.
Manslaughter
Charge Dropped
TOLEDO, Ore. I A man
slaughter charge against a motor
ist whose car was alleged to have
killed a pedestrian on July 19 was
dismissed in Circuit Court Friday.
Judge Victor Olliver said tne
indictment against Dennis LeRoy
Henderson, 30, Toledo, lacked
enough grounds for the charge.
Mrs. Dorabelle Stocking was the
pedestrian.
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NEW PRESIDENTIAL GRAI IAG The center of political gravity hat shifted wa.tward for tht
1952 election. The only appreciable change in the electoral college, which mmti the President
is in tht I I Far Western states which will hava eight mora votes than they had in the 1948
alection. Abova Newsmap shows number of ale ctoral votes each state will hava in the five
sections of tha country. Each state is assigned a lectoral votes to correspond to tha number of
representatives they hava in tha Congress.
Coal Strike Threatens U. S.
By RICHARD FISKE
NEW YORK I industry hit
a fast clip this week. Businessmen
were optimistic for the weeks
ahead.
However, a coal strike could
throw a monkey wrench In the
works. And mingled with the high
production and the forecasts of
even better business were some
warning notes.
Government officials were
Minister Reported Involved
1 In Fantastic Cash Swindle
A TTHTTDV anllf IX . a ni-nm.
lnent Presbvterian minister was
named by District Attorney Al B.
Qrni'BM V.iHaD ae tha MinfocCCll
master mind in a fantastic $23,000
swindle in which, he said, the pas
tor posea as a aunmii.
Broyer said that the Rev. Wil
liam C. McCalmont, minister of
the First Presbyterian Church of
Cea.-Ula an1 HalTV DnTlteU.
Southern Pacific trainmaster at
Roseville. had admitted Dinting
the operators of a fruit stand of
their life savings on Aug. 24.
Th. tmn nn arrncrafl Thllrs.
day. were held In the Placer
County jail on formal complaint
charging grand theft. McCalmont
Is moderator of the Sacramento
Presbytery.
chArirr rharlM Ward mioted the
minister as saying he had made
three trips to me nome w tc ..-
. . vf- and Mr. .ln.Anh LemOS
T mU ..h tha intaantintl Of
taking the' money by violence" but
had decided against it.
Broyer related this story:
t-v. Bav xfinimnnt and Dan
iels went to the Lemos home on
the night of Aug. 24 alter uie
haa rla.liva.raH his RundaV
serman. McCalmont was dressed
as a woman, wearing 'B-
1-1... aala i-rtrntpri themselves
as Federal agents. They told Mrs.
Lemos they had learned the couple
kept a large sum of money in their
house and the Treasury Depart
ment was prepared to investigate.
Ine Visitors uviatu aire ,......
to get the money out of the house.
Cleanup Job
Follows Flood
nriw kl VK Tpy. lfl It was all
dirty work today cleaning up
after three days of cloudbursts
turned South Texas streams Into
raging torrents.
Ine last nooa uireav hi bi
-nr4aH hara last nlirht When the
Guadalupe River rose to 34.3 feet.
remained stationary iur
hours, then began slowly subsiding
about 1U p m.
Above Gonzales at the conflu
ence of the San Marcos and
Guadalupe Rivers there was a
stretch of muddy flood water two
miles wide.
The major damage was to crops
in the lowlands. A few houses were
flooded. Some livestock was lost.
It was much the same story in
seguin. new Dmuiucw, tfwuwvu
mtu liana anri other small towns
of the Texas hill country.
At least eigm oeains, aim
sibly nine, have been blamed on
the sudden, violent end of the dry
weather in South and South Cen
tral Texas. , . .
As much as 23 Inches of rain had
been measured In some spots since
the storm rtegan iao. lucaua,,
NIGHT
among those who urged Industry to
plan now lor the tune when detcitee
production timer off.
Almost on the heels of President
Truman's statement that defcne
output would hit a peak around
the middle of next year came pre
dictions defense spending Is level
ling off well ahead of schedule.
Secretary of Commerce Sawyer
told sales executives they should
plan now for the day defense nc-
else Lemos would get 10 years 11
it was found. She accepted the
offer to take the money on the as
surance that 11 would be returned
the following night.
Sheriff Ward said:
"Rev. McCalmont made a com
plete confession in the presence of
witnesses. I had been calling him
by his title of Reverend and he
stopped me, saying, 'call me Bill.
You are an honest man. You have
defrocked me'."
Ward said he called the minister
in for questioning Thursday alter
noon after learning that McCal
mont had made lnrge deposits 111
three Placer County bunks.
The sheriff said the pastor, after
reading a newspaper story on the
swindle Aug. 29, five times tele
phoned Mr. and Mrs. Lemos and
assured them the money would be
relumed. There would be a delay,
however, the caller said, because
of a "complication."
The Lemos did not report their
loss until late In August.
Russell Fears
March to Left
NEW ORLEANS i Gov. Adlal
Stevenson will lose a lot of presi
dential votes in the south If "he
continues his march to the left,"
Sen. Richard B. Russell (D-Oa)
said here yesterday.
rne senator, wno ran a strong
third in the balloting for the Dem
ocratic presidential nomination.
said he intends to vote for Steven
son, but thinks the Illinois governor
risks alienating a lot of good Dem
ocrats by the trend of his recent
public utterances.
Russell declined to elaborate ex
cept that "a lot of good, conserva
tive Democrats thought Stevenson
was a middle-of-the-road candidate.
Now it appears that he is being
influenced strongly by the ADA
and the PAC t Americans lor Dem
ocratic Action and the CIO's Politi
cal Action Committee)."
The senator flew here from At
lanta and is scheduled to sail today
on a vacation trip to Venezuela.
He said he plans no part In the
presidential campaign until his re
turn about Oct. 1.
Peaches
Excellent (or canninq, freezinq and eating
fresh, but do not qualify for our qift boxes. An
exceptional buy for the. thrifty housewife.
ZkC
per
BRING YOUR OWN CONTAINERS
SUNDAY and WEEK DAYS 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
BEAR CREEK ORCHARDS
2 Miles South on Highway 99
Medford, Oregon
artlettis
FOR CANNING
These will make mighty fine eating this winter
5c
per
BRING YOUR OWN CONTAINERS
SUNDAY and WEEK DAYS 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
BEAR CREEK ORCHARDS
2 Miles South en Highway 99
Medford, Oregon
Economy
tivliy slows down.
When that comes, he said, pri
vate enterprise must carrv Ihe
burden of keeping production ca
pacity ut work.
Currently, however, tile key in
cluMrml niul flminrinl figures made
Mime good reading.
Hie untlnn's steel plants returned
to their highest tonnage since Ihe
week of May 19. prior to the
strike. American Iron and 8trel
Institute estimated the week's pro
tlurlion at 3.108.000 net tons of In
gots and steel for enstings.
The week of Mav 19 brought out
put of 3.i:i4.0O0 net tons, second
highest figure of the venr.
The automobile factories rojled
passenger cars and trucks oil the
assembly lines to Ihe tune of 13.
CHU units. This was the high for
the year and the best production
week since Inst Sept. 23.
The Federal Reserve Board re
ported department store sales
about one ner cent below a venr
aiio on a dolliir basis and Dun &
Bradstr-et snld retail ourchrne".
generally were a bit under 1051
figures.
Prices on the New York stock
Fxchnnce took their sharpest drop
on the average. In nearly a year.
Bullet Proof
Jacket Works
WASHINGTON m The Navy's
surgeon general credits a new bul
let-resisting jacket wun reduc
ing deaths and seriousness of
wounds among the Marines fight
ing in Korea.
Reur Adm. Lamont Pugh, who
relurncd yesterday from an Inspec
tion trip around the world which
took hnn to the Far East, said at
a Pentagon news conference the
laminated plastic jacket is now
general issue for all combat Ma
rines in the front lines.
The admiral snld the Jacket, per
fected by the Navy and Marines
in this country, had been Improved
bv the Leathernecks on the spot
m Korea.
The combat area modifications
included an extension of the Jacket
in the rear so as to provide more
protection for the region of the
kidneys and a lengthening of the
front portion so that It now looks
something like a baseball catch
er's chest protector.
HOT STOVE
Suburban firemen at 7:10 this
morning were called to the home of
Scottle Davis, 5201 Walton Drive,
when an oil stove became over
heated. The firemen reported no
damage.
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Fun For Everyone
DEMOCRATIC PICNIC
MOORE PARK,
Sunday, Sept. 14
EVERYBODY WELCOME
Pound
Pound
Truman Lays
15-Day
WASHINGTON i.fi PreMclr.nl
Truman can led the rieniociiillc
National Committees blessing to
day lor an tVSOO-iiille, 16-dav "give
'em-hell" campaign carrying linn
Inlo 34 tales.
His Job, as the President has
outlined It, la to be a sort of chief
guimer In the presidential buttle.
He will champion his own and the
Franklin o. itoosevell record and
fire away al the Republicans from
coast to coast, while Democratic
presidential nominee Aillul Steven,
sou charts the parly program for
the Inline.
Truman's news conlereuee asser
tion Thursday ho will speuk wher
ever the National Committee wnuls
him to was followed by a White
House announcement yesterday ol
a li'iiiis-conllneiilul trip embracing
major itpccchcit as Iur apart as
New York and Sun Francisco
The i'leslUenl'a canipulgn tram,
between the time ol his depnrturo
irom Washington al 10:30 p in.,
EST, Saturday, Sept. 37, until his
return Suniliiy. Oct. 13. will cruss
enough states to assure a minimum
oi m rear platform whistle stop
talks.
Already tentatively lined ui are
six major talks. They are; Oct. 1,
uruiviuiiig me nungiy norse Duiii
In Northwestern Moiituna neur
Kallspel; Oct. 3, Seattle. Wash.;
Oct. 4. Sun Francisco; Oct. 8,
Nlienandoah. Iowa; Oct. 9 llulfiilu,
N Y.; and Oct. 11. New York C'ltv.
The schedule Is Iur from coin.
Ipleted. And other speeches prob
Truck Speaker
New Public
A strong plea for better public
understanding of the trucking In
dustry und the revolution In trims
IMirtutlon Invulvlng the motor ve
hicle was made yesterday at the
noon Rotury Club meeting- bv Wul
ter W. llelson ol Washington. DC.
who is director of Ihe public re
lations for the American Trucking
Association.
Belson's Job Is to put in a good
word lor trucks and Ihe trucking
Industry, and he is an admirable
speaker. His talk here, however,
did nut touch on mutters which are
to be decided by Oregon voters at
Ihe Nov, 4 general election.
At the election voters of the state
will decide whether to put Into
operation a weight-mile truc k tax
system, which has been enacted by
the legislature an.1 referred for a
vote al the Insistence of the Oregon
Highway Council, or to put certain
limitations on Ihe type of taxation
the state can Impose on trucks, as
proposed by the highway council.
Belson's talk was on the subject
of revolution In transportation, the
change in business, industry and
everyday living wrought by the In
ternal combustion engine by cars
and trucks since early this cen
tury. Two out of every three tons ol
freight moved in the United States
now, Belson declared, moves some
part of Its trip by truck, although
the railroads are atill the greatest
carriers of tonnage on long hauls.
Trucks aren't driving the rail
roads out of business, he said, be
cause the railroads are handling
more freight this year thnn all
forms of transportation (trucks,
rails, air, waterways, pipelines i
handled In this country 10 years
ago.
But trucks have changed the
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gallon li revolulioniiing crop
production throughout Ihe na
tion by supplying CONTROLLED
. moisture in the proper amount,
lo keep your crops growing
rapidly lo full maturity.
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Plans For 8,500-Mie
Whistlestop Campaign Tour
ably will be announced before Ihe
di'piiilor date.
The Taimiiii campaign I rain will
cms parts ol Maryland. Weat Vir
ginia. Ohio. Indiana, Illinois, Wla.
cousin, Minnesota, North Dakota,
Montana, Idaho Washington, Ore
gon, Ciillloinla, Neviida, Utah, Col.
ornilo, Kniisan, Nebraska, Iowa,
Missouri, Pennsylvania, New York,
New Jersey and Delaware.
There seemed every prospect
Truman would talk at any day
light atop where a crowd gathered
except on the threo Sundays he
will be oil the rouil. Ha aya lie
will not make political speeches
on the aabbuth,
Preparation of the ma J o r
speeches as well as material for
buck platform tulks has been un
derway ut the White House lor
weeks under Chnrlea S. Murphy,
the President's special counsel and
chief speech writer.
Truman had two day of target
practice for the lull-itcale gunning
when he iniide a number of rcur
pliillorm speeches on his trip to
Mllwuukce Iur a Labor Duy ad
dress. In the Milwaukee talk, he In
itiated that the voters must elect
heuvy Democratic majorities to
the next Congress. This, he auld,
would bolster the hands of what
ho called the liberal Democratic
majority In the fight with wlml
he described as an overwhelmingly
reactionary Republican reprrseii
tutlou. This note, luklug cognlrainco ol
Calls For
Understanding
economy . . . they' put any place
In the United Stales, so long as
it's on a ntreul, roud or alley
on Ihe main line to anywhere else
In Ihe United Stales. Uelsnn de
clared. Trucks have made muss
production possible, and have made
II unnecessary for luctoiies lo keep
big inventories. They can get their
mnterlul In by truck In the morn
lug and a lew hours later ship out
the llnlshe.l product.
Tlie big problem of the trucking
Industry, Belson aald, la one of
selling Itself to Ihe public, and II
Is complicated by the lact that the
public Just doesn't understand the
transformation In our way ol life
the trucks have brought about.
Highway construction In this
country. Belson said, Is sadly out
of date. The big construction boom
was about 35 years ago When the
movement was lo "get the country
out of the mud."
The problem, now he said, la to
get the country "out of Ihe traf
fic mudalle."
Mod. By
STUDIO
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O.ublat m4 TraWn YMIeal
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STATE. ,
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Intuition by ttoiun Hoiitliitrit l-icniu-cllltn,
In PXil'Hril III plliv II 1 1 It 1 1
III his fiii tlii'tiniiuv ti l III Willi h
hit will rinplm.il'n a plcu for Ilia
flection ol liriiiocintlti conurpn
loiml ciiiHllilitlc.n,
TIicno will liirlmlo T)iMiiouintn
ri'iimnriitiiliv-n Mlkn Miiinllrlil of
Moiiliinii, llcnry M. Jm'knnit of
Wii'liliiulon mill Wiillcr K Omnitrr
ol H t it h, now nri-kliiu Sciime ttrata
lirlil by Itriiiilblciinr,.
Trillium will bimrd lih uull-U
prool iiilvntc rnr 1 1 n iilulit ol Hcpt.
11 liniiirilliilrly ii Hit u ruillo niul
tPlrvlMnu btniuU'iiM front tlm
Willie llounit III I'olllircUiili Willi
the aiiminl Community CIicnI drlva.
The Drinocnillo Nntluiiiil Com.
lllllU'tt will pick up llin illlrck for
lliln iiiluutlt'illy lulwli'ui'tt pollllcul
trip.
Tint ln-cliiy nuliiit by tha Pieitl
(Inn will bo lollowetl nliortly by
Himllirr nwltiK tliiouuii llir En'it
In which hi) will iiiiike npcccbrn In
llonlon and other clllen.
The Pre.tldt'iit plnnn lo cumpnlKn
lilihl up until election dity, cIoiiIiik
With npeechen In MlrMHltl.
"Wlierp linen- live!" Men', aland
l.numlry, 1Mb and Klun.ulli, I'liono
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