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g % Ï ë 0 AROUND THE FARM Don Coin Walrod 8 JS Community committeemen Pat Zimmerman and Jim Hoard, Rai nier; Ken Asburry, St. Helens, and Bernie Roth, Scappoose met re cently with county ASCS commit tee members Everett Skeans, El mer Loyd and Max Oblack and USDA representatives on the pro visions of the 1966 agricultural conservation program. This session was for the purpose of determin ing which of the national and state approved practices will be sanctioned for cost-sharing assis tance for county farmers during the coming year. Walt Thompson, U.S. forest ser vice, State Farm Forester Ken Palen, Work Unit Conservationists Andy Pavelek and Calvin Gregg, ASCS office manager William Armstrong, and your writer met with this committee. The objective of the agricultur al conservation program is to help achieve additional conservati o n practices on land now in agricul- Oernonia Eagie 8 THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1966 little ’ole me? HOUSEWIVES Because you use your car only for shopping and socidl calls you can qualify for, SPECIAL LOW RATE on FARMERS AUTO INSURANCE YOU MAY QUALIFY . . . CALL LLOYD QUINN HA 9-5211 tural production. Assistance is not applicable to the development of new or additional farmland by means of drainage, irrigation, and land clearing. Costs of conserva tion practices are shared with a farm er on satisfactorily performed jobs for which assistance is re quested before the work is done. Conservation measures lor which assistance is offered locally in clude liming, permanent seedings of grasses and legumes, planting of forest seedlings and woodland improvement, drainage with open ditches or tile lines, construction of ponds for irrigation, planting of cover crops, and some special practices such as controlling nox ious weeds (tansy ragwort and tussock). Financial assistance provided to farmers is usually limited to maxi mum of 50 percent of the cost, but in Columbia county, the total maximum assistance for any one farm owner is $1,000. As payments go in this county, few practices ever reach this amount. Seed potatoes for next year’s commercial potato croo are now beginning to be bought and sold. Every year certification agencies receive questions from growers and gardeners who bought and planted “ Foundation” seed potatoes that developed excessive amounts of leaf roll and other virus di seases. Perhaps this questioning is justifiable, but part of the dif ficulty can also be attributed to a lack of understanding of what a “Foundation” or “Certified” tag means. Seed potatoes are certified on the basis of the level of virus in fection and genetic identity. Di sease presence and trueness to va riety are determined by two field inspections, digging and bin in spections, and by a growing-out test in university greenhouses or Southern California field test plots during the winter. Several states, including Wash ington, California and Oregon make provisions in their certification standards for the sale, tagging, and shipment of seed potatoes pri or to the completion of winter growing-out tests. This is based on the relative freedom from disease on field inspection. Any lot quali fying for “Foundation” or “Certi fied” grade may be tagged and sold with the appropriate tag. These potatoes are called “Foun dation” or “Certified” potatoes which meet the n e c e s s a r y standards in the winter growing- out test. Every grower should be aware of this distinction between pota- B ring all your minor car problems to us! 0"b here you get Super Service with a smile! B o b ’s specializes in all your car’s needs! 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The cost for tuition and books would be $44.75 each. The course will be held once a week, for 11 weeks, starting January 13, 1966. Commissioner Wasser moved and Commissioner Clark seconded that permission be granted, and that the persons involved would use one of the appraiser’s cars for transportation. Motion carried. An offer of $600 was received from Mrs. Thelma Davis, for Lots 16-21, Block R, Roxy Park Addi tion to Rainier. Said offer was taken under advisement. The court approved a liquor li cense application for the Lumijar- vi Store at Quincy. A letter was received from Mrs. Hazel McKee of Warren regard ing the installation of ramps at the new fairgrounds for use by handicapped persons. An offer of $350 was received from D. Ben Rand of Beaverton and James J. Hill Jr. of West Covina, California, for property known as Tax Lot 10, in Section 32, T7N, R2W, WM. Commission er Wasser moved and Commission er Clark seconded to reject said offer as being an insufficient amount. Veteran Service Officer H. J. Erickson met with the court and presented his quarterly report. He also discussed a replacement for his position, as he wishes to re tire. Neil Wilburn and Sam Jauron met with the court to discuss the various activities of both the coun ty court and the circuit court. Jim Day met with the court to seek renewal of a wrecking license. Commissioner Wasser moved and Commissioner Clark seconded to approve said recommendation. Mo tion carried. Commissioner Wasser moved and Commissioner Clark second ed to sign Orders to purchase prop erty for the fairgrounds site. Mo tion carried. Orders and deeds were signed in favor of Alton Hoffman, for Lots 9 and 10, Block H, Roxy Park Addition to Rainier, and Mrs. Ol lie Hoffman, for Lot 2, Block H, Roxy Park Addition to Rainier. Nothing further coming before the court, the same adjourned until January 5, 1966. Dated at St.Helens, Oregon, this 29th day of December, 1965. toes sold on the basis of field readings and those sold on the basis of winter test plot results. In some cases, test plot results are not feasible to obtain, but whenever possible, a commercial potato grower should specify that he wants to purchase winter test ed seed potatoes. The tag itself may give an in dication to the grower of the con ditions under which it was sold. In Washington and California, seed potatoes sold on the basis of win ter-testing are eligible to be tag ged with certification tags stamp ed “Test Plot Approved.” Those sold on the basis of field read ings only are tagged with regular certification tags which are not so stamped. In Oregon, seed sold and shipped prior to the comple tion of greenhouse tests must be tagged with a certification tag ov erprinted "Field Approved Only.” Those sold and shipped after com pletion of greenhouse tests must be tagged with certification tags bearing no overprint. Therefore, Oregon tags overprinted “ Field Approved Only” are similar to Washington and California tags bearing no stamp. Oregon tags with no overprint are equvalent to Washington and California tags stamped “Test Plot Approved.” Growers should always make an effort to purchase seed which has met the standards required on grow-out tests to insure the best quality seed. Information about di sease readings obtained on field inspection or in winter plots may be obtained for many states from the OSU seed certification office through county agents or by con tacting the certification office in the state of origin. M I HARDWARE and ELECTRIC Unofficial, subject to change be fore approval by the County Court. By ë ë /A6/.t<M</A<M4AtfM9M4M9M4M9AA9ZA4M9 W County Court Minutes - - - - F U R N IT U R E WE D E L IV E R - Thermostatically Controlled Auto. 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More than one-third of all weekly and published by this news transportation equipment, 1.96 per nearly 40,000 employers paying un cent and other manufacturing, 1.79 paper as a public and education employment taxes in Oregon had al service. If you have questions percent. no charges whatsoever against Transportation and utilities in their tax accounts and more than with regard the Oregon State Em ployment Service and/or Unem dustry average tax is 1.63 percent 15000 paid the lowest rate in ployment Insurance, please address with transportation at 1.85 percent 1965. them to Oregon Department of Em and utilities at 1.34 percent. Trade ployment, att., Informational Rep unemployment tax averages 1.78 There’s no kidding about skid resentative, 402 Labor and Indus percent with wholesale at 1.66 and ding. The Traffic Safety and Ed tries Bldg., Salem, Oregon 97310.) retail trade at 1.85 percent. The finance, insurance and real ucation Division of the Oregon QUESTION: How many fraudu estate industry average U. I. tax Department of Motor Vehicles lent claims are filed for unem is 1.45 percent and service and says: Here’s how to get out of a ployment insurance? miscellaneous at 1.77 per cent. dangerous skid. If the rear end ANSWER: A small fraction of Thus canning and preserving, a of your car skids left, steer left. one percent of all claims filed are seasonal industry, is paying the If it skids right, steer right. determined to be fraudulent and are investigated by internal audi 1623 Gales Ct. - Forest Grove - EL 7-2300 tors of the Department of Employ For Living Insurance — ment. However, during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1965, the division received 2,676 cases which requir Life - Medical - Disability Income ed field investigation. Of these THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE cases, 1,726 were detected as the SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES result of post-auditing 12,182 local HOME OFFICE-NEW YORK, NEW YORK office claim files, the cross-match ing of wage records and benefit payments and through the depart ment's first line of defense with respect to fraud detection—the lo cal office claims personnel. After investigating the 2,676 cases, 839 deputy decisions were written and 9,947 weeks of benefits were dis qualified and denied due to wilful misrepresentation. Based on the approximate average value of be nefit checks issued for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1965, the po tential value of the weeks disquali fied exceed one-third of a million dollars. Of the 839 determinations made, 42 cases resulted in prosecution. The penalties applied by the courts varied in each case: the lightest sentence being a 30-day suspen sion, while others received 30-day jail sentences plus various per iods of probation. 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