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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1961)
Picfures Tell Pipeline Story IV, XJ A TRUCKLOAD OF MPE it delivered fo the ditch from the storage yards at Sprague River. The pipe is 80 feet long and presents a unique problem for truck drivers. Tires of trucks are strained by tbe weight of the huge sections and a spare supply of tires if kept on hand. MMAIB A MO Newt. KlMMftl Fllta, JM. 1. I Ptl) $ Farm Land Values Drop, Reversing Oregon Trend Farmland values in O r e g o i lipiwii the middle of 1960. rev'er. ng the steady upward trend r he last seven years, reports Mr: Rivera Horrell, extension agricu! iral economist at Oregon Stat College. At midyear, tlie USDA Agri ultural Research Service (AUS laced tlie index on Oregon'? armlands, with improvements, al 54 per cent of the 1947-49 avet ige, Mrs. Horrell said. While thi ,as J pcr cent below the high cached last March, it is still a Tract ion of a per cent above tliat of a year earlier. Over the nation, the average of 11 farmland values also edged downward, but the drop totaled Oregon Admits Man's Residence Only For Taxes SALEM (API Atty. Gen. Rob ert Y. Thornton today received a complaint from Army Capt. John R. Berry, who said only the Ore gon Tax Commission recognizes him as a state resident. Berry left Oregon for the Army last summer and now is stationed at Fort Myer, Va. Berry wrote that, since he had no Oregon address, he was told by the registrar of elections he was not entitled to vote in Ore gon, by the Department of Motor Vehicles thai lie was not entitled to register his car in Oregon and by the state Game Department that he was not entitled to a resi dent hunting and fishing license. Berry said the Tax Commission did recognize him as a resident and said he is entitled to pay his state income lax. Thornton w rote Berry the com plaint is justified and said he would confer with various depart ment heads in an effort lo straighten it out. ss than one per cent. This aver se still stands a shade above aat of July 1959, Mrs. IloiTcll loted. Tlie ARS attributes the general .veling of farmland values to a adjustment in tlie unusual re al ionship between farmland mar ;et values and farm income, Mrs. forrell said. Land values have doomed up a third since 1954, .he pointed out, while farm in ome has changed little. As a result, price of fai-m real restate is now nearly 10 times I lie net income per acre from farmland the highest ratio since the caily thirties. I ine general easing in uie na tional economy may have also had some effect on farmland val ues, Mrs. Horrell thinks. And, in Oregon, cash reccits from farm sales are down as reduced outMit from farms more than offset slightly higher farm prices. But nationally, there are no new developments in Die agricultun.l situation to account for tlie slip page, Mrs. Horrell said. Farm in come was down in 1959, but lev eled off this year and is expected to hold about the same next year. Farmers made up more than 'hree-fiflhs of the farm buyers in 1959-60. a slightly higher pro portion than a year earlier, she said. Nonfarmcrs bought nearly a third of the farms, slightly less than the previous year. Tcnanis continued to decline as farmland buyers, Mrs. Horrell found, but 'owner -operators bought a higher proportion. Oregon was one of aliout a d( :cn stales where farmland values decreased 2 per cent or more, Mrs. Horrell also noted. Values continued io rise in some states, but except lor California and Flor ida where nonfaim uses continued lo bolster the market, these rises were held to 2 per cent or less. PIPE IS TRANSPORTED by a sideboom "cat," which lifts the huge sections by means of a counterweight and cable mechanism. Scenes such as this are common on the proj ect where pipe is being moved from storage yard to right-of-way and then info the ditch. In this picture, one man is guiding the pipe onto a wooden platform while an other is giving hand signals to the tractor operator. Consumer Service To Get Emphasis x r? Here's the Answer Tlie State Board of Agriculture, meeting in Salem on Dec. 1, ap proved unanimously the State De partment of Agriculture reorgan ization packet suggested by J. F. Short, director of agriculture. The plan will go to Governor Mark 0. Hatfield for study and if he approves it will be imple mented by easy steps beginning early in 1901. Tlie plan includes expansion of consumer protection services and agricultural development, as well as rearrangements lo unify the various present divisions into one closely knit organization. Short said he will place more emphasis on consumer services, grouping all work the department is authorized to do in this field under a single division. This in cludes intrastate processing plant food sanitation, eggs, bakeries, carbonated beverages, retail pack aged check weights, food labeling, packing and advertising and sam pling for additives and residue. In the agricultural develop ment field, work of the present division of market development will expand to meet the 1959 legislative mandate to work to ward the greatest possible contri bution of agricultural resources to the state's future economy. Objectives in this field would be quality improvement in market channels; activity to aid improved processing and packaging mcth- ods; reduction in marketing and freight costs; expansion of pres ent agricultural-based industries and establishment of new ones;j improved relations from produc tion to consumption. This will en tail doubling the size of the pres ent market development staff from two (the chief and his sec retary) to four persons. In other moves, Short proposes two assistant directors, one for consumer and trade services and one for livestock industries and both under civil service. The as sistant over livestock industries, agreed to when the old animal industry division was split last June, will not be named for some lime, Short indicated. The other assistant directorship will go to O. K. Beals, presently chief of the division of foods and dairies which will be dissolved. He will also be chief of the new consumer and dairy work and the directors liaison in plant division activities, departmentw ide labor-1 atory services and the weights and measures program. Short will elevate business man agement to division status under him and will create a new audit service to combine milk audits, grain storage liability audits and other department auditing. Legal and information services will con tinue under the director. With age-limit retirement of W. E. Upshaw on Dec. 19 as Portland office manager, Short plans no immediate replacement. On a trial basis that office will be a working center for inspec tors with Mrs. Margaret Smith continuing as secretary and ac tivity direction from Salem. Other minor changes are in cluded in reorganization, which will have no material effect on finances due to offsetting of ad ditions and promotions with dis continued and underfilled posi tions. In other fields, the board es tablished a policy "to ask future legislatures to assign new agricul tural programs, not clearly in re search and extension fields, to the state department of agriculture." In resolutions, the board asked for: 1. a lump sum department appropriation because the organ ization plan was drawn after the budget was submitted; 2. restor ation of four items (roughly $60, 000' cut from its projwsals for general fund support ; and 3. prog ress information on a Department-Finance and Administration study of an apparent trend to use more dedicated money to support administrative services which have grown as result of general fund appropriations. By ANDY LANG AP Newsfeatures Question: In our backyard, we have one of those standing metal frameworks used to supixirt a hammock. Over tlie years the metal has become rusted. How much of the rust must be taken olf before the metal can be painted? Answer' Not too many years ago it would have been neces sary to remove all the rust be fore painting unless one want ed the rust to eat through t h c ipaint later on. Today, however there are rust primers on t h c market which stop the spread of rust and permit paint to be ap plied directly over the damaged areas. The first step is to re move all loose rust particles Willi a wire brush so that there is n smooth, reasonably sound surface even though considerable rust remains. Next comes the applica tion of the rust primer, which can be brushed or sprayed on. Com plcte coaling is essential, sinci. any area which is not covered will give rust a chance to star! and then :-pread under the finish coat. When the primer has dried, the finish coat is applied. Thi finish coat can be regular metal paint or, if double protection i: desired, a special paint contain ing some of the same rust pre venting materials which are ii the primer. While the primer usu ally is red, Ihe finish paint come; in a full range of colors. Ford Trucks Last Longer on the FARM Soe your Farm ; Truck Headquarters BALSIGER MOTOR CO. Main at Esp. Ph. 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