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Show Givn;c cun wchld the Once Over There has been general uncer tainty as to whether a government price prop will be put under alfalfa seed, with the local concensus of opinion holding that probably noth ing will be done. However, a mimeographed mim-eographed letter from the Utah office of Rep. Henry A. Dixon indicates in-dicates that there is a possibility of some constructive action being taken. The letter carries the date of last Friday, December 2, and contains the following information: "On November 23 I formally re quested the Secretary of Agriculture Agricul-ture to acknowledge the alfalfa seed industry as a critical industry indus-try and to take steps to provide a loan or set-aside arrangement for seed at 25 cents per pound, which is 65.5 of parity. Senator Wat-kins Wat-kins is supporting this recommendation recommend-ation and following through from the Washingtoon end." The recommendation is justified according to the letter, for the following reasons: 1. Prices are down to about 16 cents per lb. which gives the pro ducer only 42 of parity. Few if any crops are receiving such a low percent of parity. 2. It conforms to the arrange ment worked out between the Secretary of Agriculture and the President regarding loans and the purchase of over supplies which produce gluts on the market, 3. The normal yield of alfalfa seed is 106 million lbs. while the yield this year is 213 million lbs. caused largely through diverted cotton acres in California as a result of high rigid price supports and acreage limitations on cotton. The, Department of Agriculture reports re-ports that at least 50 of the increase in 1955 over 1954 comes from this source. Utah's crop in 1953 was' 10.350,000 lbs. with an estimate for 1955 of only 10,260,000 lbs. California's crop in 1953 was 45,000,000 lbs. with a 1955 estimate of 85,410,000. California acreage jumped from 99,000 in 1953 to 178,000 in 1955. 4. While a large group of seed growers in one area requested loans or set-aside at 28 cents, other groups and the Department of Agriculture favored 25 cents. The reason for the latter figure Is that many of the growers brought in some evidence that our chief competitors could produce at a profit at 28 cents and continue to ruin the market while we can live on the less attractive figure of 25 cents, a figure that would be quite unattractive to our competitors. Rep. Dixon's letter continues with the following comment on the official Outlook Reports on the seed crop, which many producers believe to be based upon estimates of seed buyers whose interest it is to overestimate the crop: "The Department of Agriculture assures me that the Report never has been based upon seed buyers' estimates. The Report, however, is none too reliable for reasons as follows: (1) It is based upon very limited random samples. (2) Too few growers respond to requests for crop reports. (3) Frosts, drought and uncertainties of weather great lly affect the forecasts and the yields. "While I did not become aware of the critical situation of the seed growers until I started my clinics in the state," continues Rep. Dixon's letter, "I feel that there Is still time to do considerable good this season, because only a small fraction of the crop has been sold. "I shall continue to push this 25 cent floor price or loan with all possible speed. The action of the State Farm Bureau is definitely heartening and most helpful. We must also push hard for rigid control con-trol of diverted acres or some soil bank plan that will not injure the cattle industry and at the same time prevent a recurrence of the serious invasion of diverted acres upon our Utah industry. "Sincerely Yours. "H. A. Dixon, "Member of Congress. ' Of course a lot may happen be tween the time the above was received, re-ceived, last Sunday, and the day this is published. Perhaps the next few days will tell the story of whether any effective action is to be taken for sure, or not. It is at least heartening to know that the nature and seriousness of the situation sit-uation have at last been made clear to the authorities, and that they show an inclination to let the government bring relief to the people whs are the helpless victims vic-tims of its efforts to bolster another an-other crop. In the long run, the "farm problem", pro-blem", probably never will be solved sol-ved until the government eases out of the whole picture, just as England's chronic unemployment problem of two decades ago refused re-fused to respond to the treatment tet up for It In the form of end'.ess dales. Any price prop for seed now should be regarded as a stop-gap measure, in the nature cf redress for a wrong inadvertently done. By Dick Morrison should be truly free, and not subject sub-ject to either government or monopolistic mon-opolistic influence, and the value of the dollar should be kept steady. stea-dy. This last is the responsibility of the government, and it is almost al-most the only form of control the government should exercise over the system. It is an impersonal, impartial sort of "control". In fact, it was the lack of this very form of control that brought on the depression, which in turn aggravated many other lesser troubles and which led to the rise of the chronic farm problem, from which it now seems almost im possible to extricate ourselves. On The Air As a vociferous advocate of lost causes, I'd like to put in a good Package Letters Win Approval Of Post Office For the long term, the objective should be for the government to cease such activities, not only In farming, but in labor relations and business subsidies, where they exist. ex-ist. A free enterprise system can and will bring about its own need-f need-f A adjustments, usually before thy become excessively difficult, but If it is to do so, two ccr.ditior.s ihouia exist: tf.e free markets word for radio. It isn't that I don't think television is here to stay, but only that I think radio is, too. There's at least something to be said for the medium which brings us talk and entertainment without requiring us to watch as well as listen. The new doesn't always displace the old. Sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn't. The auto replaced re-placed the horse and buggy, at least for the time being; yet on the other hand the radio did not displace either the newspapers or the phonograph, as some once pre dicted it would. Nor is TV likely to displace radio. As a rule, when new inventions come along, we find room for both the new and the old, and quite often the competition com-petition from the new has the effect of bringing about improvement improve-ment of the old. Phono records are an example of this. Once they reigned supreme in the field of home entertainment. Then came radio, and after the early squeaks and squawks were worked out of it, it did threaten to put records out of business. By the early 1930's, records really hit a low point. But about then, radio commenced to take on respectable tone quality, and record makers borrowed the electronic techniques to improve their product. The result, re-sult, as we know today, is records which are superior to all but the very best radio reception, and equal, even, to that. And radio and records have formed an entertainment entertain-ment partnership that is really excellent. Radio never did prove a competitor of the newspapers. Their respective forms of news dissemination dis-semination are so different that they complement, rather than compete com-pete with each other. The fact that radio has lost a little of the favor it once enjoyed was brought home to me when I tried to buy an antenna kit. If there is a store in Delta that has any in stock, I didn't find it, and I asked every likely prospect. Finally Fin-ally had to send to Chicago. They used to be commonplace merchandise. merchan-dise. People don't seem to bother with radio antennas any more. They just use portables, or else take the manufacturer's word that the set doesn't need one. But the fact is, to get the best and clearest radio reception, an outdoor antenna is needed, in this area, for exactly the same reason high TV towers are. The signals reaching here are rather weak, and the network oi grounded wires built into every house tends to ground out the radio signals before they can reach an indoor set. So, no matter now good the radio set in fact the better quality it is the more tnis is applicable to it it can bring in better, steadier, clearer recep tion with an outdoor antenna than And. since I like a good radio, I maintain an outdoor antenna for the living room set; also one for the smaller set in the kitchen. It still is fun for me to pick up distant places. Most of our nighttime night-time radio comes from Los Angeles and San Francisco, througn ciear channel stations west of the Miss- !.. I l,.r.,ii.hl issippi can an usuany w in- inH ttu short wave used to bring in Tokyo. London, Rome, Berlin Ber-lin and Moscow during the war. I don't listen to short wave anymore. any-more. The other Sunday evening, I happened to tune KFI, during a broadcast of II Trovatore. The announcer an-nouncer told the story, during the pauses between the acts, the renditions rend-itions were superb, and I found it most enjoyable entertainment, ly-inj ly-inj there on the sofa, eyes closer, just listening. It reminded me of a time out on the farm, more than twenty-five years before, when we picked up KFI on our battery t. and listened list-ened to a live broadcast of that same opera minus mot of the 1D53 tone quality. KFI asked listeners list-eners to send in twenty-five cents each to help defray expenses, and I dutifully sent them a dollar. Since then KFI has become weal-thv. weal-thv. having devised other means of raising money. For that matter, I KFI. in Los Angeles, has been my favonte ra;o sia;;on rrorn ir.e start. Anyway. I didn't learn until th end of II Trovatore that this time the broadcast was of commercial phono records. If anything, the recorded re-corded broadcast was better than most live ones. And I recommend these Sunday n!ght raiio broad-cs'i broad-cs'i cf recorded c;en, en KFI t5 WASHINGTON (UP) The Post Office will allow you to put a letter in your Christmas packages this year for only 3 cents additional postage. Up to now any such enclosure would have subjected the sender to fines up to $100 unless first-class first-class postage was paid on the whole package. The department's new "com bination' mail service starts next Monday, Nov. 28, on a 60- day trial basis. For the first time in history a written mes age may oe piaeea inside a parcel post package or inside a magazine moving at second-class second-class rates without payment of first-class postage on the entire mailing. The sender must indicate on the outside that a letter is enclosed en-closed and pay an extra 3 cents in addition to the regular parcel post or magazine rate. Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield said if the new system works out the familiar phrase 'we are sending under separate cover" no longer will be needed. Summerfield said persons who might find the new service helpful include mothers sending laundry to students in school; business firms sending substi tute products and wanting to ex plain why; magazine publishers sending gift certificates with first copies to new subscribers, those who really like really good music. Stuff like this doesn't need either a movie or TV screen; in fact it's better without one. There's nothing "video" can add to good records, either. These broadcasts come on at 8 PM, our time, and run about 90 minutes. Last Sunday the opera, Lucia, was broadcast, the next Sunday Verdi's The Masked Ball, is scheduled. Oak City Mrs. Mae II, Shipley Sunday evening was Family Hour under the direction of the Sunday School. Willis Dutson's family gave the entire program, which was opened by prayer by May Von Dutson. Poem by Lambert Dutson, the family sang "Dixie," and Mrs. Thelma Dutson told stories. Willis and their boys sang, after which Willis talked. Wilna Wixom gave a tape recording of the story of The Good Samaritan. Everyone enjoyed the meeting. Elder Vance Finlinson left Tuesday Tues-day for the mission home in Salt i : and companies including sales j letters with samples of merchandise. Miss Margaret Sheriff and Larry Densley from Salt Lake City, spent the weekend in Oak City. Mr. and Mrs. Reed Arnold and children spent Saturday and Sun day in Oak City. Their son, Leo, enters the mission home Dec. 7. preparatory for his mission in California. DeLynn Nielson and friend visited vis-ited in Oak City last week. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Roper and Mr. Marvin Sheriff from Milford, visited in Oak City a few days last week. We are happy to have Collier Lovell home from the hospital in Salt Lake City, following his treatment treat-ment for his hip. He sustained his injury in a fall. We wish him a speedy recovery. Sunday Mrs. Sadie Chn'stensen MILLARD COUNTY CHHONICLE ana daughter, Marta Overson. of i with Aurora, visited in Oak City her father, Collier Lovell. The wedding dance for Mr. and Mrs. Willord Wulfenstein Saturday Satur-day night had a large attendance. An interesting program was given and there was dancing until mid night. Many beautiful and useful gifts were given the couple. They will be happy to meet their many friends at their new home in St. George. Junior Sunday School preparation prepara-tion meeting was held Wednesday evening at the home of Mrs. Zella Lovell. Mrs. Julia Bliss gave her first lesson, work on the sewing class Monday evening. Three children were baptised and Delta. Utah. Thurs. Dec. 8. 19S5. confirmed Sunday. They were Linda Lin-da Anderson, Moyle Anderson and J. Barton Lovell. Larry Shipley did the baptisms at Delta. Visitors from Salt Lake City noticed no-ticed were Mr. and Mrs. Gayle Nielson, Larry Shiolev. Dalr. Mel ville, Darla Alldredge and Sonja Memmott. The 3-act pllay, "Forever True," a drama, is being rehearsed under the direction of Mrs. Macel Anderson. Ander-son. It is well cast, and the time of the performance will be announced an-nounced later. Mrs. James Anderson was in Oak City last week from Overton, Nev. a little luxury is good for every man stiuichtBOURBONwhiskby 6 years old STVLI ... so enjoy IwA i - x r "vv v v v ,A S' . . N - I Vv. 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