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Show Your Congressman by Henry Aldous Dixon , PRODUCERS TO VOTE ON WOOL LAMB PROGRAM Through ballots cast not later than Aug. 19, producers will vote In a referendum to decide whether whe-ther or not an agreement providing provid-ing for advertising, promotional, and related market development activities on wool and lambs under un-der Section 708 of the National Wool Act of 1954 will be put into effect. The agreement between the recently re-cently organized American Sheep Producers Council and the Secretary Sec-retary of Agriculture provides for deductions from wool incentive and lamb and yearling sheep payments made to producers under un-der the National Wool Act of 1954. These deductions will provide pro-vide a mpans of financlnn the market development program. Before the agreement can be put into effect, producers owning at least of the sheep and lambs represented by votes In the referendum must vote their pro-program, pro-program, to be made In the summer sum-mer of 1956, will be lc a lb. from shorn wool payments and 5H a 100 lbs. of live weight from lamb and yearling payments. Producers who have owned sheep or lambs for at least 30 days any time since Jan. 1, 1955, will be eligible to vote. Ballots are being distributed this week. While the Act and USDA regula-tlons regula-tlons permit cooperatives to vote as a group, the major large cor-poratlves cor-poratlves have advised the USDA that their members will vote individually in-dividually In the referendum. - DRAFT: The Senate and House this week agreed to a compromise bill extending the draft law for four years. It passed the House by a 333-5 vote; the Senate acted ac-ted by "voice" vote. This bill visions. Major amendments in this new bill are: 1. Doctor's Draft was cut from four to two years and the upper age limit reduced from 51 to 46 years. One hundred a month special spe-cial pay was also authorized for physicians, dentists and veterinarians. veterin-arians. Exempts from induction any individual 35 years of age or older who has applied for a commission com-mission and been rejected on physical disability after July 1, 1955. 2. Individuals deferred because they Joined the National Guard before they reached their 18th birthday if they do not remain in the Guard are liable until they reach 30 instead of 35 for military mili-tary service. L. D. S. MISSIONARIES AND DRAFT: This week I clarified in the House (as Senator Bennett did In the Senate) the status of LDS Missionaries as far as the Draft was concerned. In a speech on the floor of the House I stated the position of L D S missionaries missionar-ies and asked for a statement from Mr. Carl Vinson (D.-Ga.) chairman of the House Armed Forces Committee. Mr. Vinson stated: "It is my understanding that these young men are exempt so long as they are ordained min isters and assigned to serve in the missions of the church. As soon as they have completed their work In the missions, which I understand Is 2H years, the exemptions ex-emptions then cease and they become be-come subject to induction like all other Individuals." This was made a matter of record In the official Congressional Congression-al Record as a guide to draft boards throughout the country. |