SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 1958
HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
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MIKE CROFT, MALIN
Oregon Farm Bureau Winds
Up Membership Study Meet;
Shy Over Tax-Paid Programs
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DANNY AND TOMMY TOFELL, MALIN
Weed Control System Found
The mid - summer resolutions
on the tenure of office. To facil-
conference of the Oregon Farm
Bureau finished discussion on pro
posed resolutions for membership
study at Bend, August 1. Results
of the organization's study commit
tees showed a general scepticism
for government programs involv
ing use of tax money and proposed
increases in taxes.
The committee on transportation
suggested the following change in
the present Farm Bureau stand
on the highway use tax. "Although
the matching funds program for
highway construction proposed Dy
the federal government sounds
attractive, we feel that it would
be inequitable to increase the gas
tax or use tax to raise additional
money. We feel that there is a
possible source of money available
if our highway department was
streamlined or made more enic
ient."
One committee member voiced
the tenure of the meeting when
he said. "It doesn't seem right
to ask the public to finance in
creased costs in highway construc
tion while a small segment of the
people are raising the price of high
way construction." The referral of
' the small segment was directed
at the construction strike now in
progress in Oregon.
The committee on farm labor
voiced concern over the migrant
labor problem in Oregon and the
distortion of facts on the problem
as portrayed in recent news stor
ies. The state department of la
bor was also criticized for the
manner in which recent surveys
have been conducted. It was the
concensus of the committee that
farmers should be on investigating
committees surveying the migrant
problem in Oregon and that sur
vey teams should receive the farm
er's permission before interviewing
employes on the farmer s private
property. The farm labor commit
tee reaffirmed previous resolutions
in regard to health insurance for
employes with the premium to be
paid by employes. They alo rec
ommended that farmers carry
farm comprehensive and employ
ers liability for employes.
Oregon commodity commissions
figured strongly in the commodity
actions of the mid summer Farm
Bureau conference The committee
strongly recommended that Ure
gon Commodity Commission mem
bers be elected by the commodity
producers and that terms of otficc
be staggered with a definite limit
itatc electibns by producers the
committee recommended that a
nominating committee be appoint
ed from the parent association or
associations to select nominees
who are representative producers
of the commodity concerned; that
at least two men from each dis
trict or producing area be nom
inated and that producers vote
only on nominees in their own dis
trict. The committee also recom
mended retention of the require
ment for a two-thirds majority
vote to form a commission
A total of 150 farmers and 30
Oregon counties attended the mid
summer parley. The committees
met to study and recommend ac
tion for membership study prior
to the center and county policy
making meetings this fall. Final
resolutions on the many subjects
discussed will be taken to the
annual meeting by county voting
delegates in November.
Controlling the weeds that grow
alongside roads has been a tedi
ous job up until now.
A new method of killing roadside
weeds by the use of oil - based
chemical sprays is catching on
fast, and hopes are high that be
fore too long most of our roads
will be as handsome and weed
free as parkways.
Naturally, appearance is impor
tant. But it isn't the only con
sideration in keeping road edges
clean: Up to nine per cent of al
tratlic accidents are caused direct
ly or indirectly by the weeds and
brush that create blind corners and
other visibility hazards. In areas
where chemical weeding has been
used, the number of such acci
dents has dropped significantly.
Hay-fever sufferers will benefit
too. Most of the ragweed respon
sible for this miserable ailment
grows by our roadsides and plagues
nearby residents and motorists
alike.
Scientific weeding is done by
specially - constructed trucks,
equipped with low-pressure sprays
which saturate the road-edge with
oil - derived weed killer. Farmers
can grow their crops right along
the roads without fear of damage
from the spray. And there arc
fewer weeds on the farm when the
roadside is clean of seed-bearing
pests.
Ruin sIppii ?
Willi MWWf
Radioactive Water
Used To. Irrigate
Strawberries
PEVERAGN'O. Italy (UPI'
Radioactive water that is unfit to
drink is growing strawberries as
big as tomatoes in this northern
Italian town, two ot feveragno s
strawberries weighed close to one
pound.
Peveragno claims mat us straw
berries are so big because of high
ly radioactive water in the dis-i
met. the water comes nom a
small river about two miles away
and passes through the heart of
a uranium lode by means ot man
made tunnels.
It was only after the tunnels
hod been completed that experts
discovered the high radioactive con
tent of the water. Health author
ities at once stopped domestic-
usage, but allowed the water to be
used for irrigating the Peveragm
strawberry beds.
The strawberries thrive on n
and authorities saw no danger U
health because the radioactivity
disappears 48 hours alter passiiv.
through the uranium.
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