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Show Page 4 UTAH FARM BUREAU Study Urged On Wheat Support Prices request that Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman study the disparity in basic wheat support rates at shipping terminals, under the Commodity Credit Corporation wheat loan and purchase program, was made by Sen. Wallace F. Bennett, Sen. Bennett, in a letter to Secretary Freeman, pointed out that the present rate per bushel for Grade No. 1 wheat at Portland, Oregon, is $1.46, while at Beaumont, Texas, it is $1.67. "The national average basic support loan rate for wheat is $1.25. The rates received by Utah farmA R-Ut- ah. Elmo Hamilton, UFB President, right, and son Cletus, survey the complete loss of their crop of early peas, flattened by hail. ers, who transport their wheat either to San Francisco, or Los Angeles, varies from $.97 for Daggett County farmers to $1.18 for Millard and Beaver County producers," Sen. Bennett said. The Utah Republican added, "This disparity is due to the higher cost of transporting wheat from Utah to terminal points where it is marketed. The support loan rates affect the value of wheat whether it is exported, or used domestically." Sen. Bennett said, "An intensive review wheat of marketing patterns, prices, loan rates and price support activity is necessary in view of the expanding export demand for wheat and procedural changes in the wheat price support program." The Utahn also requested a study Acres of tomatoes were destroyed by Spring hailstorms. on changing market patterns "in view of the pending new wheat agreement provided for in the Geneva Kennedy round negotiations. I , am confident that increases in west coast terminal loan rates will be Justified by the study," ' Sen. Bennett said. "WHOLESALE ZIPCODE DIRECTORY 35,000 Post Offices Wholesale SI.00 MAILMART (How many?) Dept. 95, Carrollton, Kentucky 41008 All June, 1967 NEWS Burton Points at New Cuban Missile Crisis For some time now, Americans have been so concerned about the in Vietnam and more recently, of course, the Mideast situation that we have largely forgotten about a very grave danger right here on our doorstep: Communist Cuba. There is reason to believe that we soon may be facing a new . Cuba's crisis there a as Russian rapid development missile base. Just the other day, Paul Bethel, a former Foreign Service officer who now serves as director of the Citizens Committee for a Free Cuba, told the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee about what he referred to as "completely credible" eyewitness accounts from more than 60 different refugees of the movements in Cuba of missiles 70 to 80 feet in length and five to seven feet in diameter. This would place them in the interme- war ballistic missile diate-range category, capable of attacking targets 800 to 1,500 miles distant. An acknowledged Cuban author- ity, Bethel also reported that five Russian missile experts, two of general rank, arrived in Cuba last November. He said they took charge of a battery of long-range ballistic missiles whose warheads are now aimed at American targets. Obviously, the Soviet Union did not send their missile experts of general rank just to show the Cubans their smart new uniforms and their brilliant disA Red plot is play of ribbons. being hatched 90 miles off the Florida coast and the U.S. and other Latin republics are the victims! Some government officials have recently tried to play down the Russian-Cuba- n threat, claiming that it had subsided. But, in my judgement, the threat has virtually been growing. Recently, there has been an alarming and mysterious increase in the number of Soviet bloc ships arriving in Cuba. General Robert Porter, head of the U.S. Southern Command, testified before Congress that high-ranki- ng during one recent seven-da- y period, 70 to 75 vessels arrived with vast amounts of military supplies and additional Soviet troops. The general noted ominously that this traffic represents the largest number of Soviet bloc ship arrivals in Cuba since the 1962 crisis. I am afraid that we have to face the fact that the Communists are plotting a series of Vietnam-typ- e wars in South America in order to sap U.S. resources and also to sap our determination to win in Vietnam. General Porter is convinced that the situation in Cuba is going to worsen. In recent testimony before I quote Congress, he said--an- d "Serious disorders, riots and insurgency could develop rapidly in a dozen Latin American coun- tires Colombia, Guatemala, Panama, Haiti and the Dominican Republic are all targets." The generals comments sum up what we're in for in the months ahead. Of interest is a quote from Castro's "blueprint for Latin subversion made public by him oily last month. In it he caUed for "two, three or many Vietnams" to sap Americas strength. This document, which leaves no doubt as to the viciousness of his efforts or the target he is aiming at, states: "In order to focus Bolivia, destruction on imperialism, we have to aim at the head which is none other than the United States of America." Castro, in short, is determined to step up his war of subversion in this hemisphere and it can only mean more trouble for the United States. We must be on guard, lest the war in Vietnam blind us to the Communist threat just off our southern coast. The pioneers would have shed big tears. And thrown away their axes, If in a dream they'd caught but a gleam Of what we pay in taxes! WHAT A TIME FOR MY PUMP TO BREAK DOWN Irrigation can't wait while you send that pump back to the factory for repairs. You need service fast! Our service trucks are on call day and night. 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