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From the plains of eastern Washington to western Nebraska's prairie, wheat farmers last week voted overwhelmingly (83.3% in early returns) for continuing federal quotas-and high price supports-on the nation's No. 3 grain crop. Prime incentive in the voting: a $1.78-per-bu. federal guarantee for wheat grown under the quota system (v. $1.19 if controls were dropped). Spat Farmer D. O. Yost of Emporia, Kans.: "It's just like offering a kid the choice of 50? or 75? allowance a week, and asking him which he'd rather have...
RECORD CORN SURPLUS will bulge Government granaries this fall, prove Agriculture Secretary Benson's contention that present high-fixed supports, instead of lower levels he wants, have not trimmed surplus and never will. Stockpile will soar from previous high of 992 million bu. last January to 1.3 billion bu., including 480 million bu. of new crop, 825 million of carryover...
...seaway and connecting channels, U.S. and Canadian lakeside ports are expected to spend about $50 million for improvement by the end of 1960. Chicago alone is putting $24 million into its Lake Calumet Harbor Development, has already added a mile-long dock, two grain elevators (total capacity: 13 million bu.), three modern cargo sheds (capacity: 300,000 sq. ft.), ten miles of railroad and five miles of access roads. Milwaukee is investing $11.2 million. Among its projects: a $5,500,000 steel pier that will jut 1,020 ft. into Lake Michigan and a $1,300,000 pier...
...signed up 233,453 farmers to take 12,784,968 acres of wheat out of production in return for $230,974,475 in payments. This should have cut output 20%, but the now ripening winter-seeded wheat crop (the bulk of the crop) is expected to be 703 million bu., only 4% under the 1956 total of 734 million. Moreover, per-acre yields of 22.5 bu. (v. 18.6 average for the past ten years) will break all records...
Officers of the HUERA show no reluctance in picking up this challenge, however. They have compiled facts and figures to try to show that wages and benefits for University employees top those at institutions other than MIT, which the Local represents: Radcliffe, BU, Simmons, and Tufts...