la Th-
Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS i
The National Association of Soil
and Water Conservation Districts
issues from time to time a bulle
tin that it calls its Tuesday Let
ter. The current Letter contains
this interesting little item:
"Like everything else, govern
ment has changed with the pass
ing years. The U.S. Department
of Agriculture hadn't been organ
ized 162 years ago (when the cap
ital of the U.S.A. was moved from
Philadelphia to the new capital
city of Washington I but five other
federal departments were in busi
ness. "The Washington Daily Adver
tiser reported on June 11. 1800,
that the Treasury, War, Navy.
Post Office and State departments
had moved from Philadelphia to
the new governmental village on
the Potomac. Washington then had
only 3 000 inhabitants, but the t:
tal number of government em
ployees moved into it would not
swell the new capital city's popu
lation to the bursting point.
"The Treasury department then
had a personnel of 69, the War de
partment 18, the Navy department
15, the Post Office department 9
and the State department 7 a to
tal of 118."
Hmmmmmmmmmm.
Let's do some comparing.
According to the World Alman
ac, the Treasury department in
1960 had 76,011 civilian employees,
tlie War department (Army only;
in 1800 there was no Air Force)
405,848 civilian employees, the
Navy department 357,108, the Post
Office department 549.951 and the
State department 35,783 a to
tal of 1,424,701.
For purposes of easier compar
ison, let's tabulate it. The tabulat
ed comparison looks like this:
1800
69
18
15
9
7
1960
76,01
Treasury
War
Navy
Post Office
State
TOTAL
405,848
357.108
549.951
35,783
118 1,424,701
Back in 1800, of course, our na
tion was very small, lis popula
tion then was only 5.308.000. By
I960, it had grown to 178.000,000.
We must all agree that it takes
more government employees to
service a population of 178.000,000
than to service a population of
only a.JUB.uuu.
So let's put it this way:
Back in 1800, there was one
federal employee to each 44.987
persons in the U.S.A. In I960, in
these same five departments, each
federal employee serviced only
125 people.
At any rate
In these modern days
We ought to be getting a lo!
more service.
Presumably, that Is exactly
what has happened.
We have a lot more federal
employees, and so we get a lol
more service. Which, of course, is
nice.
Bul-
Every year, when taxpaying
time rolls around, we can't help
wondering if we couldn't get along
with a little less service in the way
of government, thus leaving a
little more money in our pockets
with which to pay for a lot of the
other tilings we'd like to have in
these modern days.
Police Comb
Springfield
For Gunman
SPRINGFIELD 'UPI' - About
70 police officers were making a
house-lo-housc search of a 30-hIock
area here Saturday for a man
c h a r g e d with kidnapping three
persons and wounding a policeman
in a shooting fray at Junction
Citv.
Being sought was Edward Dean
Riley. He was earlier thoueht to
have escaped through a cordon
r'ar Springfield.
In custody on a kidnapping
charce was Shirley Mae Peterson.
22. Eugene. Bail was set at S15.
ono. The violence started when off
duty officer James Cornell ol
Cottace Grove, his wile, and a
friend spotted Riley and a woman
companior. Friday night. Although
be was not working. Cornel!
stopped Riley's car to arrest the
man on a parole violation war
rant. Police said Cornell lost his re
volver and he. h.s wife and friend
were abducted They were left
south of Eujone.
Officers said Riley and Mi.'.s
Peterson were seen in Junction
City. Thry were striped by Pa
trolman Dale Ko'ln
Police said Kolln and the want
ed man exchanged show and
Kolln was struck by a buliet in
the forehead. He . treated at
Eugene hospital where his con
dition was described a gr-.i.
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Tshombe
LEOPOLDVILLE. The Congo.
UPI i United Nations forces
hombed and strafed the main
Katanga Airbase at Kolwezi Satur
day, captured most of Elisabeth
ville and occupied the presiden
tial palace to find that Katanga
President Moise Tshombe had
fled.
U.N. reports from the Katanga
capital 1 ,000 miles to the south
east said heavy fighting raged in
the plains and jungles outside
Elisabelhvillc. Ethiopian and lnrii
an troops were said to be driving
forward relentlessly toward gen
darmerie and mercenary strong-
points.
Britain called for an immedi
ate cease-fire lo prevent heavy
casualties. Members of the Bel
gian parliament requested "ener
getic action" from the Belgian
government to halt the U.N. of
lensive that threatens the blood
iest fighting of the Congo's turbu
lent history.
Belgian refugees were reported
pouring across the border into
Southern Rhodesia. The govern
mcnt of Southern Rhodesia moved
up federal troops and aircraft to
cope with the crisis. Britons were
flown out of Elisabethville. but T2
American missionaries in the
bush outside the city were re
ported safe.
Desperate Afrlraa
Desperate Africans reached the
border town of Kasumbalesa in
Northern Rhodesia in cars, trucks
vans and anything that would
move only to be turned back be
cause they did not have the
Gun Accident
Kills Youth
A 13 year-old Klamath Falls lad
was killed about 5 p.m. Friday
when a shotgun in the hands of
14 - year old companion dis
charged hitting him in the chest
and killing him instantly.
Dead is Stanley Reider Hoff
Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Stan
ley Hoff, 2221 Lindley Way.
The youth was hunting rnday
afternoon with two 14 year - old
companions. They had gone hunt
ing about 1 p.m. in the area of
Lake Ewauna and the Klamath
llivcr south of town.
As the story was related to
authorities, the three were re
turning from hunting when the
accident occurred. The three ap
parently had unloaded their shot
guns and were walking single
(Me down the railroad tracks to
ward Klamath Falls w ith the Holf
bov last in line.
The youth in the middle told
slate police he turned to hear
something the Hoff boy had said
and as he did. he stumbled, and
the 20-gauge double-barreled shot
gun fired.
One of the youths ran up to the
highway and flagged down a pick
up. Driver of the pickup had a
lirst aid kit in lire car and they
hurried back to the scene, but
the Holf vnuth was already dead
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FIREMAN HONORED Dennis A. Depuy, 35, of 4125 Avalon Street, locomotive
fireman on the Southern Pacific, was honored at a special luncheon Friday at the
Willard when he was presented with the November tefcty awjH of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen end Enginemen. Here, Deouy, center, is thown with his wife
ei he wei presented the special award plaque by S. C. Phillips, assistant president f
the union from Cleveland, Ohio. ,
Price Ten Cents 10
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Flees
necessary papers. One who got
through was David Tshombe,
brother of the president. He ar
rived with a carload of women
and children.
Other refugees said Katanga
troops and mercenaries had fled
into the bush from Elisabethville.
These reports said the Katangcsc
were planning to cany out threats
by Tshombe to burn and destroy
everything possible in a scorched
earth policy.
The air strike at the main mili
tary air base at Kolwezi, 150
miles west of Elizabethville, de
stroyed "an assortment" of planes
on the ground. A hangar and fuel
stores went up in flames. The air
port tower was damaged and the
U.N. hinted a Katanga plane
might have been shot down.
U.N. Message
A U.N. message from Elisabeth
vine said tlie air action was
continuing. It listed as destroyed
one Katanga Vampire jet, one
piston engine Dove, and a Harv
ard trainer. Another Harvard was
damaged.
While heavy fighting raged in
the outskirts of Elisabethville, re
ports circulated that Tshombcl
had fled to 'he little mining cen
ter of Kipushi on the Rhodesian
border, 18 miles south of the city.
Indian light infantry were driving
toward Kipushi.
Heavy lighting also was re
ported on the road to Jadotvillc.
indicating U.N. forces were ad
vancing in tint direction. Jadot-
ville is about 70 miles northwest
of Elisabethville.
Casualty reports were far from
complete. The U.N. said six Ethio-I
pians had been killed and eight
wounded and a number of Katan-
ese soldiers captured. No Euro
pean mercenaries were captured
the U.N. said.
In the city of Elisabethville.
Tunisian troops occupied the post
office in the center of town, ap
parently without resistance. U.N.
sources said the mercenaries-
white soldiers of fortune had fled
into tlie bush leaving their weap
ons behind.
Palace;
Cub Scout Saves Young
Soy From Icy Drowning
A 4 i . year old lad is today
alive and well because a 9-year-
old Cub Scout remembered some
advice given him by his parents.
Some youngsters were playing
on a pond that had been frozen
over in the Pelican City area
about 3 p.m. Friday. They were
running and sliding on the ice.
A 4'2-year-old boy, Tommy
Hutcheson. son of Mr. and Mrs.
Earl Hutcheson. 4200 Lakeport
Boulevard, slid across the ice and
into a hole. He fell into ice cold
water that reached about to his
chin.
As he began to slip under the
ice. Brad Dorschci. 9-ycar-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Dorscher. 703 Hemlock, slid
across the ice on his stomach and
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SISTER CITIES BRIDGE LONG DISTANCE This large sign indicating the distance
from Rotorua to Klamath Falls will be presented to Rotorua by Mr. and Mrs. Walt
Mclntyre when they visit our New Zealand sister city durlnq the week of Jan. 26.
Supporting the s:gn in the picture, left to right, are George Kovich of Weyerhaeuser
Com.pany that donated the pure pine board for the sign, Walt Mclntyre, and
Mayor Rc-bert Veatch. Sign lettering was done by George Wardell and Elbert Young
of the Klamath Forest Protective Association.
Tunnel Digger Handed Life
Sentence
BERLLN (UPI) A Communist
court Saturday sentenced a young
West Berlin bicycle racing cham-j
pion to life imprisonment at hard;
labor for digging a refugee escape!
tunnel under the Berlin wall.
The defendant, 24-year-old Har
ry Scidel, was convicted after a
two-day show trial in East Berlin.
He had been captured Nov. 15
when he emerged into the cellar
of an East German house at the
end of a 70-yard tunnel leading
irum the U. S. sector of Berlin.
An informer was believed lo have
betrayed him.
SeideU himself a relugee from
East Germany, wa accused of
taking part in "organized provo
cations against the state border".
and being a member of a West
Berlin "terror organization."
Stiff Sentence
The stiff sentence apparently
aimed at deterring other West
Borliners from aiding refugees-
was denounced by West Berlin
Mayor Willy Brandt as a wan
grabbed the Hutcheson boy under
both arms, pulling him from the
water.
He then carried him to h i s
home nearby.
A third grader at Pelican
School, and a member of Cub
Scout Pack 4. Den 4, Brad aaid
his parents had cautioned him
on how to save someone it they
fell through Uio ice.
He also stated that he had wit
nessed an incident several years
ago in Washington where they rc-
'sided before coming
which his father had
hcre, in
saved a
youth from drowning on an ice
covered stream.
Other than being severely
chilled, the Hutcheson youth ap
parently suffered no ill effects
Irom the frigid dunking.
C0IP
KLAMATH FALLS, ORF.GUN,
KLAMATH FALLS
TAin MI1ES
By Commie Court
dalous verdict of a modern inqui-iU.
sition.
Brandt called on the world to
protest the Communist verdict
which he called an "act of ven
geance", against a man who "fol
lowed the commands of humanity
and his conscience to bring to
gether persons forcibly separated
from each other by the wall."
In West Berlin, meanwhile, the
Thirty Die
In Uprising
SANTO DOMINGO I UPI I Fed
oral troops pursued some 400
guerrillas into mountains near the
Haitian border Saturday, after
five self-styled "messiahs" from
back-country religious cult led
thousands of peasant zealots in a
bloody uprising that claimed over
30 lives.
Anti-guerrilla troops, many of
them veterans of a 1959 action
that smashed a Cuban-led inva
sion force in the same mountain
ous region, were being ferried by
small plane into Palma Sola.
about 80 miles from the Haitian
border and 125 miles almost due
west from this capital.
Suitor Plans
To Catch Girl
SAN FRANCISCO 'UPI 'Gab
riel J.m-on. 24. led behind by his!
girl who is sailing to Honolulu on
the ketch Neophyte, hatched a
plan Saturday for catching up
with her.
He is looking fur a sympathetic
pilot willing to parachute him
alongside tlie vessel, ncv about
75 miles west of Monterey. Calif.
"They would have to take me
aboard," he said. "They couldn't
let me drown.''
His girl, Giselle Mayer. 21. is
one of four crew women, all with
out ocean sailing experience, on
board tlie Neophyte. Tlie kelch Is
-kippered by Lee Quinn, who has
vowed lo have no males aboard
except himself.
Dairy Pians Price
SALKM i LTD - One dairy's
plans to cut milk prices, and a
dairymens' as ociaiion meeting lo
consider a final draft ol a milk
marketing law, were revealed to
day just two days belore Ihe
present milk stabilization law ex
pires at midnisht Dec. 31.
Kenneth Sawyer, chief ol Ihe
milk audit, and stahilizalion divis
ion of Ihe Stale Deportment ol
Agiicullurc. conlirmed the price
cut notice had been filed
It would reduce tl price of
milk about 2-rents a quart, fiom
the preseni lo Sd r 100 pounds
to 4 90.
Sawyer said the reduction would
go into effort Jan. 1. the day the
present stabilization law expires.
The meeting to consider a ot nit
of a proposed new stabilization
law will be held here Jan. 7. ac-
cording to Frank Kaod of North i
Bend, president of ine O r K o n I
SUNDAY, DKCKMBER 30, 19B2
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OREGON
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USA
S. Army gave tlie Distin
guished Service Medal to its re
tiring Berlin commandant, Maj.
Gen. Albert Watson II, for keep
ing U. S. troops ready to fight to
defend the isolated city through
out recurring crises.
The medal was presented by
Gen. Paul L. Freeman Jr., U. S
Army commander in Europe, at a
farewell ceremony for Watson,
who leaves his command here
Jan. 2 after 20 months of Berlin
service. Watson will return to tlie
United States to command the 3rd
Army at Fort McPhcrson, Atlan
ta. Ga.
Mcidel was sentenced under a
rarely-used "law for the protoc-.
lion of peace a catch-all meas
ure covering all anti-Communist
activity.
Death Toil
Starts Slow
By United Press International
The nation's motorists, who
killed each other at a record rate
in the first II months of the
year, were off lo the safest start
on record for tlie New Year's
holiday period Saturday.
The early toll may have been
held down by bad driving condi
tions over the eastern third of the
nation, the National Safety Coun
cil indicated. There was sleet and
freezing rain from Indiana to
Chesapeake Bay, heavy rain in
Dixie and earlier storms left high
ways hazardous in other parts of
Ihe Northeast.
By early evening Ihe tempo of
raffic deaths increased slightly
a rate of I S an hour, well
above the pace earlier in the day
but still far below advance es
timates. A United Press Interna
tional tally at 6:30 p.m. EDT
showed 38 persons dead in traf-
ic accidents since the start of
he holiday at 6 p.m. local lime
'riday.
The breakdown
Traffic 3D
Fires 3
Planes
2
a
Miscellaneous
I Total
52
Dairymens' Association, and
chairman of an industry wide
committee winch is seeking a so
lution lo the industry's problem.
Hood said an association com
mittee "has been working for
some time on Ihe problem," and
has drafted a proposed market
ing law.
If approved it will be submit
ted to the legislature, he said.
Conference Set
Tlie committee meeting will
highlight a Jan. 7-9 meeting ol
the association lo be held here
Sav.)er said the state milk audit
law requires dealers lo file with
Ihe slate copies of their contracts
with pioducers.
Sawyer refused lo identify Ihe
dealer. He said only that it was
not a Portland or Salem lirm,
hut "an average size Willamette
Valley dealer.
Sawyer said be expected more
Telephone
Free' C
m limn
MIAMI (UPD-President Ken
nedy told 40.000 emotion-choked
Cubans Saturday that the proud
battle flag of Brigade 2506 the
contingent that staged the abor
tive Bay of Pigs invasion will
one day fly over a "free Havana."
The President's wife, Jacque
line, followed him to tlie speakers
land and brought down the house
by delivering a brief, touching
speech in Spanish.
Many in the huge assemblage
dabbed at their eyes with hand
kerchiefs when, after gazing over
the ransomed prisoners, the first
lady said simply:
"It is an honor for me to be
today with a group of the bravest
men in the world..."
The drama unfolded in Miami's
huge Orange Bowl stadium, where
more than 1.200 khakl-uniformed
survivors of the ill-fated invasion
stood at stiff attention while the
President slowly reviewed the
ranks, stopping to talk to about
every third man.
The stadium was a bedlam
throughout much of the one-hour
and 20 minute ceremony.
When Kennedy stepped into the
arena the stand resounded with a
roar of "viva" and "viva Ken
nedy,"
Call For War
Then the crowd started a rhyth
mic applause and chanted:
"Guerra, gucrra (war, war).
This apparently was intended to
Income Hike
Costs Funds
SALEM (UPI) Increases In
the per capita Income level
Oregon may cost the "state up tn
$850,000 in federal welfare fund:
over the next two years, Publli
Welfare Administrator Andrew,
Juras said Friday.
Jui as made the announcement
at a meeting of the Stale Public
Welfare Commission here.
The announcement was n o t
welcome news lo the Hatfield
administration. The proposed pub
lie wellare budget will have to be
recomputed to make up for the
loss in federal funds, Juras ex
plained.
The department of health, edu
cation and welfare informed Jur
as of the change, and said the
formula for federal assistance lo
Oregon had been reduced from
52.4 to 50 per cent in some grants.
French Airliner
Hits Mountain
A.IACCIO. Corsica IUPP A
four-engincd French airliner with
24 persons aboatl crashed Satur
day on a mountain in the heart of
this rocky Mediterranean island.
A French navy search plane
spotted the wreckage on Ihe slopes
of 7.773-fool Ml. Itenoso. about 25
milrs northeast of Ajaccio.
It was not immediately known
if there were any survivors.
The plane was on a flight 70
miles across Corsica from Bastia
to Ajaccio. with its final destina
tion to have been Nice, France.
Inhabitants of a mountain vil
lage in the center of the island
reorled that llvy had heard a
loud explosion shortly after the
plane's pilot gave his last position
leport about Ml. Vizzanova.
Cut As
sue h price cuts "during January."
The announcement whipped up
more concern In the already
worried dairy industry.
Producers hopefully pleaded
against price cuts.
Distributors indicated they
wanted la hold the line, but would
slash prices if forced to do so.
Grocers were unsure what they
iiouid do.
A skesman for Ihe Portland
Dairy Co-op said "No drop in
price at present Is warranted.
"If any major distributor cuts
the price, we all will have to do
the mih," he added.
Another distributor said "T h e
grocers are getting worried, they
don't know what lo do. Thty
don't know what In expect."
Hugh Galligher. manager of Ihe
Carnation Comp-my in Portland
and a member of tlie Legislative
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edy s
indicate that the Cubans wanted
Kennedy to lead them in the fight
to restore freedom lo their home
land. -
One of the invaders, squadron
commander Tomas Cruz, became
so carried away with emotion dur
ing the review that he grabbed
Kennedy when he passed and
gave him a big "abrazo" a hug.
Another unidentified veteran
told Kennedy:
'Do not forget our country, Mr.
President." Kennedy smiled, and
shook his head and said Cuba
rould not be forgotten.
As he made his way down the
line oi troops, the President
paused frequently to extend his
hand and say: "It is good to have
you back," or "It is f,ood to see
you."
The Bay of Pigs prisoners were
astro Irked By Honor
Given Freed
HAVANA (UPI) Fidel Castro
and his top Communist advisers!
have had second thoughts about
the wisdom of releasing the Pigs
Bay invaders and are "highly in
dignant" at honors accorded them
by Prcsiuciit Kennedy, sources
close to the Cuban premier said
Saturday.
Castro was reported enraged by
reports thai tlie leaders of the
abortive invasion said, almost
upon stepping out of their libera
tion airplanes, that they would
continue to fight against his re
gime and were ready to particl
pale In a new Invasion attempt
The prime minister was also
miffed by open demonstrations in
Havana by crowds of up to 1,000
.,... i.,,i- f, rw.rmi.cmn
to leave his Marxist-Leninist Is-
land, the source said.
President Kennedy, received
five top leaders of the invasion in
his "winter White House" In Palm
Thousands
Seek Flight
From Cuba
HAVANA (UPI) Thousands
of relatives of the Cuban inva
sion prisoners Saturday awaited
furl lier word from Premier Fhlel
Castro's government on Ihe
iiidden ban imposed on their de
partures for the United States.
Between 5,000 and 6.000 rela-i
ives of Ihe 1.113 released pris
oners have filed petitions to Join
them in ll'e United Slates, ac
cording lo inlormed sources. Cas-
ro already has permitted 9il rel
atives tn do so.
But Friday, a government
spokesman announced without
arning that no more relatives
ould be permitted to leave Cuba.
No reason was given for the ban.
hut at the same lime. Ihe government-controlled
Cuban press
nd radio bitterly attac ked Presi
dent Kennedy for honoring the re
lumed prisoners.
The Communist newspaper Hoy.
in an editorial that was also read
over Havana radio, laid Ihe
President's greeting lo the pris
oners was "a new act of aggres
sion." Milk Lav
Committee of the Oregon Dairy
Industries, admitted he was cur
ious "about rumors of pending
price cuts."
Sawver Accused
"I don't see how the industry
will be any different next week
than it Is this week," he com
mented. He said his firm had no plans
to cut prices.
Gordon Hofstctter of Curley's
Dairy in Salem said his firm has
no plans to cut the price of milk
He charged Sawyer was "trying1
tn stir up a stink, trying to cause
turmoil so the legislature will pass
another stabilization law.
"Sawyer is trying In perpetuate
himst'.f into a job. This law has
hurl us all. Milk is being brought
in from out of state because of
it."
Producer Clarence Chapman of
Weather
Klamath Falls, Tulelake and
Lakevlew Increasing cloudiness
with rain or mow Sunday. Lowi
18-23. High Sunday 36. Westerly
winds 5-1! m.p.h.
Specl
freed last Sunday and Monday by
Fidel Castro in exchange for medi
cal supplies and other materials
valued at about $70 million.
Kennedy received a prisoners'
delegation at his Palm Beach
home last Thursday and agreed
to come here Saturday to review
the famed brigade.
Castro's government has bitter
ly denounced Kennedy for honor
ing the prisoners and has an
nounced that no additional rela
tives of the prisoners will be re
leased. A group of 922 relatives
were freed immediately following
tlie ransoming of the invaders.
The review lasted 30 minutes
15 minutes longer than had been
scheduled and then tlie President
walked back to the speakers plat
form. It was at tli is point the
"war" chant went up.
Prisoners
Beach, Fla., Thursday and Satur
day addressed the survivors of
the invasion force in the Miami
Orange Bowl.
Cuban Reaction
In Havana, a member of the
directorate of the Integrated rev-
olutionary organizations Cuba's
Politburo was quoted by the
source as saying "now they act
really brave, quite different from
Ihe way they did when they were
captured.
He was referring to a "call to
war" made by civilian invasion
leader Manuel Arume in Miami.
Artime wasi one of the released
prisoners, j
There hat been no official' re
action to Kennedy's reception of
oivadeTi so far, except for
bur5.u of outra .the govern-
".em press, paracuiany me corn-
munist newspaper Hoy which ac
cused Kennedy of "new aggres
sion against Cuba in receiving
the invasion leaders.
Castro's indignation may stem
from having misjudged his cap-
lives. Western diplomats here
speculated. The sudden reprieve
after nearly two years of prison
might have been expected to
evoke a more docile attitude
among the former prisoners, they
said. And all Cubans recall that
an overwhelming majority of the
prisoners went on television 11
days after the abortive invasion to
bitterly denounce the Central In
telligence Agency and the U. S.
government for failing to back
them up.
Oregon Demos
Pick Secretary
PORTLAND (UPI) Oregon
Democratic Chairman E. D. Spen
cer announced the appoint
ment of Mrs. Gene Wiley of Port
land as executive secretary of the
Oregon Democratic Party.
Mrs. Wiley was campaign co
ordinator for the Re-elect Wayne
Morse Committee this year. She
was business manager for the Uni
versity of Oregon Theater from
1951 until 1902 except for ont year
working for Morse in Washington,
D C, in 1959.
Mrs. Wiley will take over Jat
2 from Joan Raker, who has -'
signed in order to attend law
school in Washington, D.C.
Expires
Oregon City, president of the In
dependent Milk Producers, said
he had heard rumors that a price
drnp was planned at Bend, but
hoped If it developed it would not .
pread. f
"A price war would and could
bankrupt many producers," he
warned.
"It la my plea that anyone con
nected with the industry will hold
the present price level and give
the industry time to come up Willi
a solution.'
Bob Fish of Echo Springs Dairy
in Eugene said his firm had no
plans to drop milk prices.
Asked what he would do If th
price was dropped by others, he
answered, "We'll roll with the
punches."
He said he bad not heard of
any planned price cuts In the Eu
gene area.