Picfures Tell Pipeline Story
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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.
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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
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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.
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