SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13. 1959
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
PAGE THREE
Tule Lake Battle Taken Up
By State Of California As
Wildlife Men Add To Worries
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REPRESENTING the dairy industry otJDregon on the board of directors of the Oregon
Dairy Council are, from left, seated, timer Haulce, Astoria, secretary-treasurer; Elmer Pe
terson, Portland, president, and Vic Birdseye, Medford, vice president; standing, same
order: Floyd Hopeman, Albany; Dale Scheller, Hillsboro; Stan Masten, Klamath Falls
(past president), and Reed Garrison, Eugene, all directors. Not pictured were board
members Dewey Burt, Portland, and Henry Gantenbein, Boardman. The 1959 annual meet
ing was held at the Sheraton Hotel in Portland on December 4. It was reported to the
council that milk consumption in Oregon had its biggest increase in history in 1959, with
fluid milk consumption up 29 per cent over I 958.
Crop Yields Down, But
More Land In Production
May Lead To New Record
Crop yields in Oregon and
across the country are lower, on
the average, than last year be
cause or less favorable weather.
Still, by planting more acres,
farmers are turning out a record
equaling crop tonnage, and record-breaking
supplies of livestock
products.
Among this year's crops, corn
is hitting a new high in Oregon
as well as in the nation as a
whole, reports M. D. Thomas,
Oregon Stale College extension ag
ricultural economist.
In a story in the fall issue of
the OSC agricultural experiment
station magazine. "Oregon's Agri
cultural Progress." Thomas noted
that Oregon's corn crop would
have been even larger if spring
and early summer weather in
the Willamette Valley had not been
so cold and wet.
Part of the corn increase comes
from a shift of acreage away
from barley, oats, grain sorghum
and other crops and from plant
ing land that was temporarily
in the acreage reserve. Increase
in corn production more than off
sets the decrease in other grain
crops, and points toward a further
buildup in feed grain stocks de
spite record numbers of cattle and
hogs on feed.
In looking at immediate pros
pects for some of Oregon's prin
cipal farm products. Thomas re
ported the following situations:
Drought isn't as much of a fac
tor in this fall's cattle market as
was feared earlier. Even so. the
improvement in forage doesn't
seem likely to be enough to push
either feeder or fat cattle prices
up this winter. It will just keep
them from slipping as much as
they might have.
Strongest forces in the current
cattle market picture are the high
level of employment, record in
comes and the strong consumer
preference (or beef. The abun
dance of corn and sorghum grain
also favors feeder cattle.
On the other hand, the fat cat
tle market is under pressure of
record numliers in feedlots and
large supplies of poik and poultry.
Hog producers may be easing
tip some on further increases in
pig crops. For the time being.
Thomas believes it is safest to plan
that the worst hog prices in the
current cycle will conie next fall.
Foreign suppliers have found
the U.S. lamb and mutton market
rather thin and easily depressed,
but chances are they will continue
testing it. Meanwhile, pelleted
feeds are giving a boost to lamb
feeding in Oregon and other parts
of the country.
Pressures to inciease efficiency
in the dairy business continue
strong. Prices of feed, labor and
other costs of Willamette Valley
dairymen have averaged highest on
record (or this "time of year.
Poultrymen can expect better
prices this winter than last, but
l.'iey still may not be exactly good.
The potato market picture looks
quite bright, mainly because the
nation's fall crop is a tenth small
er than last year. But Thomas
cautions against over optimism,
for potatoes aren't scarce by any
means. This is a year when it
should pay to follow markets close
ly, he emphasized.
Strawberry growers across the
country are planning about the
same acreage for WHO as harvest
ed this year. Oregon and Califor
nia growers are planning modest
increases, and Washington grow
ers will hold about even. Kecent
studies indicate that Oregon's com
petitive position in the strawberry
business is about on a par with
its neighbors to the north and
south.
Copies of "Oregon's Agricultur
al Progress" are free on request
to Oregonians. Requests (or the
current issue, or to be placed on
the regular mailing list, should be
sent to Bulletin Clerk. Industrial
Building. Oregon State College.
Corvallis.
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Stales has soared from 15.0i0 in
I'ijo to more than 181.000 doing
an annual volume u( business in
excess of II billion dollars, ac
cording to oil industry statistics.
Ocean Study
Fund Granted
OREGON STATE COLLEGE
Oregon State College plans for ex
pansion of oceanography research
off the Oregon Coast have re
ceived "a $50,000 assist from the
National Science Foundation.
The $50,000 will be used to pur
chase special, equipment for the
S250.000 ocean research vessel ap
proved under a $319,555 grant made
to the college in July by the Of
fice of Naval Research.
Architects are now preparing
plans for the special research ves
sel with construction scheduled to
begin sometime next spring and
completion expected in the (all of
twiO. The boat will be a specially
designed "floating laboratory" that
will permit OSC oceanographers
to probe the depths of the ocean
and explore the ocean floor off
Oregon for the first time.
The boat will he approximately
75 Seel long with quarters for 12
to 15 scientists and crew mem
bers. Newport will be home port.
Part of the $50,000 grant from
NSF will go for purchase of deep
sea winches that will let the OSC
scientists lake ocean floor sam
pies of sediment and marine life
and collect water samples at
depths down to more than two
miles. Latest electronic devices
(or measuring temperature and sa
linity and navigation equipment, in-
cl iding radar, also will be pur
chased with the grant.
Or. Wayne V. Hurt, head of the
oceanography department, calls
Die boat "the key to unlocking
I ho unknown of Oregon's ocean
area.
Burt diimself slatted the first ex
tensive studies of Oregon's 350
miles of coastal water fourth
longest coastline of any slate
when he joined the OSC slaff in
liivt. Aside from his work, almost
no research has been made on
the ocean immediately off the Ore
gon coast.
Burt's studies to date have in
cluded research on tides, inlets,
water temperature, salinity, and
oxygen content.
The new grants will permit the
research efforts to be tripled dur
ing IIK10 with great advances seen
during the next decade by Burt.
The average milk bottle i re
used 33 times
By DE VAN L. SIIL'.MWAY
SACRAMENTO (UPH Califor
nia's Fish and Game Department
has a sort of second-hand interest
in a controversy now underway
in the extreme northern part of
the stale near the Oregon border.
The dispute over the water level
at Tule Lake actually is between
the federal government and the
Tulelake Irrigation District as well
as sports groups.
But Frank Koslick, waterfowl
supervisor for the slate, says that
although the Tule Lake area is a
federal area, the state is interest
ed because it affects waterfowl in
the slate.
The problem is that the water
level at the refuge is below its
minimum level, thus resulting in
the possibility of ruining the refuge
as a home for ducks and geese.
"We are concerned because we're
responsible for fish and wildlife
in California," said Koslick, "and
anything that affects Tule Lake
ufleets the Pacific Flyway."
The lake is a key part of the
ilyway. Koslick said that during
the fall birds come into the area
at a fast rale. During part of the
year there are millions of birds
at the refuge, making it the larg
est on the continent.
Koslick was frank in his hope
that Interior Secretary Fred A.
Seaton will rule that the water
level must be maintained adequate
lo keep the waterfowl nesting and
feeding area. Thousands of hunt
ers use the area annually.
What would happen if Sealon
ruled against maintaining the wa
ter level?
A disaster to waterfowl, said
Koslick.
"Birds use that area during the
spring and summer for nesting
and their young are born there."
lie explained. "Lowering the lake
level would destroy much of the
habitat.
"In time there would be no
birds."
And that isn't all.
"This might have the result of
reducing the waterfowl populations
in the entire state of California."
he added.
Koslick said failure of the lake
lo maintain the birds would also
affect another part of California's
economy: the farmer.
lie pointed out that the area,
located in an area where farmers
plant a great deal of barley,
fetds millions of birds during
what normally is the crop depre
dation season.
The birds start arrivrng in July
Tor the summer season and dur
ing September and October there
are millions of the birds at the
lake.
The federal government goes so
t.ir as to plant and grow barley
to feed the birds so they won't
go to adjoining crop areas for
meals.
But if the bird were unable to
gel food at Tule Lake, they would
be required to go elsewhere.
And elsewhere in Ibis case might
be nearby fiarley fields.
Then, too, elsewhere might be
along the Sacramento-San Jna
r(uin Valley where lush croplands
are available and ripe for the
buds during their flight soulh.
Koslick pointed out that as a
lesult, the situation at the lake
could well affect crops in the Cen
tral Valley of the state.
One propnsal has been to sus
pend the Tule Lake Irrigation Dis
trict's contract in an attempt to
force maintenance of the level of
waler sufficient to keep die water
fowl nesting and feeding in the
area.
Interior Secretary Sealon, in
San Francisco recently, told news
men that he was going to take a
personal hand in the matter. He
said be would have bis aides in
Washington look into it and take
whatever action was necessary.
California's Fish and Game De
partment hasn't officially entered
into the negotiations directly, but
Koslick puts it flatly:
"We are concerned."
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CLEVELAND tUPU More than
1,700 corn-panics in the U.S. are
using radiosotopes to "look into"
and detect inner flaws in thick
castings, to measure and control
thickness of sheet metal or paper,
to inspect the welds in ships, sub
marines and aircraft, and to find
leaks in pipelines or refineries,
according to radiation experts at
the new SI million Picker Re
search Center here.
In dedicating the center recent
ly, Dr. Paul C. Aebersold. director
of Isotopes Development (or the
Atomic Energy Commission, said
radiosotopes arc- saving industry
"hundreds of millions of dollars
every year and the figure may
soon be in the billions."
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