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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1955)
'ESDAY, DECEMBEIl 13. inr.5 IIERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE NINE fe.4 1 1 vrY T. M. . U. I " H OH. ir. IKS bj hZA 8r. , Inc. "That's too ornate and affitction 6wsfE-4iat M af ci ould brinf el! your uto . art urwfcfc Iwag ift a k!" fost Ofsff It i iws Set tpittsf PriceSsqmts J WASHINGTON i f) It may come t b shock to law-maliers now aiuing the merits of flexible vs. rteid farm supports but the largest augment of Oregon farmers, re , spending to a poll by Rep. Ells wrth (R-Orc doesn't want either. More than 47 per cent of tho.se replying said they felt the "sound ed agricultural program" would provide no price supports with Urm products . permitted, to find their own price level in . the market. Thirty nine per cent favored the administration's system of flexible price supports while my 13 per cent endorsed high, rigid supports for basic crops coupled with pro duction controls. i Parmer support for the open market was described by Ells worth aides as the "most surpris ing" result of the 11-questlon poll sent to 12,000 residents of Oregon's fourth congressional district. About 10 per cent were filled out and returned t The congressman s office said the questionnaire was sent to per sons on a composite mailing list Without regard to politics or voca tion. It included an occupation Check list which permitted a group Check on individual questions such as farmer reaction to the support program. ; Overall response to the poll differed with the farm vote on the support issue with 54 5 per cent favoring flexible supports. 39 per cent for the open market and only 6.5 per cent backing the high support program. a The closest division of opinion Cnme an the question of "increased social security benefits supported by larger deductions from pav envelopes." This was favored by 48.4 per cent of those responding 'but opposed by 43.9 per cent. The remainder were undecided. On 1ft ie controversial power issue. 59.8 pa r cent said multiple-purpose dams should be built and fiance M "parti; by the federal gevernmcnt and t irtly by private enterprise." This question, which Ellsworth aids said was challenged by severa 1 as "loaded." was asked on the premise that the Pacific North west "will suffer serious power shorta ge within the next six years unlc:w new generating capacity can Joe built about three times fas tea? than present and anticipated futupa federal appropriations can be .tccured." Aaj other 22.5 per cent favored conS ruction partly by the federal govej nment and partly by state and local publicly owned power bodies, while 17.7 per cent held out for strictly federal develop men t. Oj i eight other questions, put on a 'do you favor" basis, those responding to the poll marked up th'B following rounded percentages, not including those who said they haven't made up their minds: in increase in postal rates to nii!et post office department defi cits, 73 yes, 23 no; tax reduction bes'ore a balanced budget, 15 yes. &Z no; federal grants to help states build schools, 54 yes, 41 no; a h.ie a 1 t h re - insurance program vi icreby the federal government Mould encourage expansion of private health insurance by assum ing exceptional risks, 33 yes, 54 President Eisenhower's construe J on program to modernize the p nmary road system. 81 yes, 11 :no; more federally subsidized pub lic housing, 19 yes, 72 no; exchange nf atomic secrets between the United States and Its allies, 37 yes, , I6 no; reduction of federal govern tment competition with privately owned business and industry, 77 yes, 18 no. Dixon Group Begins Suit On Contract WASHINGTON Wi The Dixon Yates power group Tuesday sued the government for $3,534,178 (or expenses in connection with the now-cancelled contract for a priv ate power plant In the Tennessee Valley Authority area. The suit was filed by the Mis sissippi Valley Generating Co. in the U.S. Court of Claims. E. H. Dixon, president of Mis sissippi Valley Generating, said in a statement: "We commenced this HtiRation with every confidence in its re sult." Dixon also is president of Mid dle South Utilities Inc. which to gether with the Southern Co. set Witness Lauds Ute Action FT. LEWIS. Wash, ifi "I feel Col. Liles was responsible for sav ing my life by persuading the Ko reans to take me from the caves." An Army court Monday heard this testimony from an Air Force veteran called as a defense wit ness at the court martial of Lt. Col. Paul V. Liles. 39-year-old Kirmingkam. Ala., career soldier, being tried on charges he collab orated with the Communists while a prisoner of war hi North Korea. William R. Hanneman, now a Donners Grove. 111., salesman, was one of seven defense witnesses who testified Monday. Hanneman told the court he was shot down while on a boinbinc mission over North Korea and after spending 20 days in a 5x10 hole at Pyanfcyang was moved 'to caves near Pangyang where other prisoners of war were held. Most of ihe prisoners were ill. he said. The caves were damp and lacked food, water and med ical facilities. Hanneman said Liles fMally per suaded the Communists to move him from the caves o a, POW camp where prisoners were quar tered in buildings. The transfer saved his life, the witness told the court. He said all but one of the POWs left m the cave died. up Mississippi Valley Generating to build a 107 million dollar gen erating plant at West .Memphis, Ark. . The purpose was to supply power to the TV A system to replace pow er used elsewhere by the Atomic Energy Commission. The contro versial contract was cancelled last summer and on Nov. 23 the Atom ic Energy Commission announced it would i.ot pay Mississippi Valley Generating for money already ex pended. AEC. in taking this stand, said Adolphe H. Wenzell "while havini a conflicting private Interest, acted as one of the principal advisers to the government In the negotia tion of the contract." Wenzell. New York investment banker, acted as Budget Bureau consultant. Democratic critics of the Dixon-Yates contract he con tended play a dual role. His firm, the First Boston Corp., 1 a t e l served Dixon-Yates as financial agent. In his statement Monday. Dixon said the contract with, the govern ment was in full force for more than six months and during that time his company proceeded with the performance "of all our obliga tions under it." Dixon added: "The decision of the government to repudiate Its contract presum ably was based upon legal opinion which rests upon important mis takes of facts and we' disagree with Its conclusions. We will piose cute our rightful claims with the same vigor which characterised our efforts to fulfill our part of the contract." It leaves you fao$ breathless jjgy qrurttstt VB Dnn SOproof.Midtfrom 100 grain neutral spirits. Sir. Pierre Smirnoff Fit. Inc. .Hinlord. Conn. Grind I e To Get Term Wednesday THE DALLES i A. C. Grind. e, who pleaded guilty Monday to em bezzling city funds while clerk treasurer of The Dalles, will be sentenced Wednesday. He resigned last June after a shortage of $2,678 was discovered in the cify's general fund. Grindle. who now is free on S3, 000 bond, faces a sentence of tip to 15 years in prison. LEGAL RIGHTS WASHIngton The U. S. Cir cuit court of Appeals says the Post Office Department is within its le gal rights in sending some ordi nary first class mail by air. 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