Show J congressman in washington illy dy enry aldrup bixon i im W 31 house votes voles wool woo act acl exten sion kanson r farm arm policies e s in a few days tile the congress wilt will trani transact ito lt last business and ha recoil will ill pass into history Itei hence ice this will be my lost last wash ington 1 I have retrained refrained from injecting partisanship into the reports leports and yet have hav tried objectively to analyze ond and interpret national issues of at feet fec ing bilig us farm turnabout denson wine the house of Re presenta live five voted to extend tile the wool act arid and also gave see sec rotary denson benson a thumping this week assurance of 0 the lie wool act extension will give stability and confidence to our wool gi glowers utah Is the fifth highest sheep producer of the 48 states oates we produced 1 14 4 mil lion head of sheep and 12 4 million pounds of wool in 1057 1957 the three year exten sion of the wool act and the other elements of the farm bill will undoubtedly be passed by the senate and signed by the president early this year a vocal minority of congressmen were calling for secretary den bell sons resignation V t I 1 could see a change coming about in the minds of farseeing fars eIng con gressmen they were private ly admitting the validity of secretary bensons Ben sona long range proposals tor for ture for example on january 10 1 I reported publicly to you that southerners southern ers had come to realize that high prices on cotton had caused their mar bets to dry up and disappear cotton acreage had dropped astonishingly from 44 million acres to 17 million acres high price supports but small volume meant low income I 1 reported to you that south erners now hope that by low tring cring price supports they can win back foreign and domestic markets which were captured by other producing nations and by synthetics there la Is more chanco chance of secretary Dent mentions ions program being ini adopted this year than in previous years this prediction and secretary bensons program received extraordinary vindication this week when the house of representatives voted to establish a new program for cotton which will lower price supports to 05 percent by 1012 1902 in the hope of increasing the demand for or and production of cotton this will help utahna because it will mean a smaller drain on oil taxes paid by utahna lower prices on cotton clothing and textiles textile 5 bought by utahna and pos sibly ably the removal of some land from competing prodoc tion such as livestock the house bill similarly lowers price pi ice supports for rice and established corn at 65 percent of parity with the elimination of acreage restrictions if corn farmer farmen vote for the new program compliance corn is now supported at 1 36 per bushel and under the new law was passed at 1 14 utah school lands dill bill A bill being pushed by dawson 11 utah and me which will allow the utah land board to select from the federal domain sections of mineral lands which were taken from tile the state when federal reservations were circa created ted has been placed in the house calendar for monday revenues from these lands are to be used to help operate public school system the state will have approximately a half million acres to select from federal lands though not all of it will be mineral lands Meat packer enforcement several food chain stores have flagrantly escaped federal trade commission jul ju Is diction by buying an interest in iiii a packing plant my bill of two years ago helped draw attention to till this loophole on monlay monday the house voted to transfer from the department of agriculture to the FTC the enforcement of unfair trade practices in all merchandising activities excepting meat this places the food fair giant and other chains back under the FTC and requires the meat packers to adhere to strict regulations in selling their oleo margarine ice cream etc I 1 wanted also to transfer meat merchandising activities over to the FTC which has a vigorous trained en staff to protect con coll sumers and independent producers against monopolistic activities however the bill was brought out under an undemocratic method which prevented any amendments on the floor the house bill solved one half the problem but not the other half drouth relief thursday day the house acted favorably upon a bill requiring state government pation in the cost of feed and seed furnished to farmers ranchers or stockmen stoc kmen in disaster areas the experience of the department of agri culture in administering disaster assistance programs under public law 75 indicates the cost to the federal government would be much less there would be a more equitable distribution of assist once ance and the local people would tike a much greater interest in the economical administration of disaster assistance programs if the state participated in the cost of the assistance obscene Litera literature this week the senate con forces agreed to a house ver slon sion of a bill to curb dis tribu tion of obscene literature by allowing prosecution where the material Is delivered as well as its point of origin in march I 1 wrote all members of the house judiciary committee urging them to report this measure to tile the I 1 loor nor the senate also adopted a hause bill to prohibit the selling of switchblade knives in interstate commerce gioth these bills were supported by cli church groups and civic organizations i |