MICHIGAN~FARM NEWS THE ,ACTION PUBLICATION. OF THE MICv- RM BUREAU Vol. 42, No. 5 Published Monthly by Michigan May 1, 1964 / OLD SHAFT HOUSE OF THE QUINCY \\NUMBER-TWO" COPPER MINE, lode of copper ever found," in the region a short dist~nce north of HANCOCK. The mine, with shafts over 6,000 feet deep, closed in Calumet, may iniect new life into the copper industry. This painting 1927. The building was destroyed by fire about 10 years ago. A by Don Kinsey, is offered as a Michigan Week salute to the Upper recent discovery by the Calumet and Hecla Company of the \\richest Peninsula. (See center four pages for special U.P. features.) Farmers Forced to IO'Hara Changes Mind I The Administration's s<rcalled for the bill. AU Aiichigan Re- Face Federal Music' "voluntary" w h eat -c 0 tt 0 n bilI publican Congressmen voted The Wheat Certificate Plan is Law. fanner's costs of production if he could have been defeated by a against the bill. Farmers didn't want it and said so. Politicians pushed this sells it on the open market. The switch 'of only four votes from Olfara told members of the government can dump its stocks YEA to NAY, to cause a tie. Michigan Farm Bureau Washing- view aside. on the market to depress prices, The after-midnight ballot, ton Tour early in March that he The House passed the wheat-cotton bill on April 8, by a vote for one thing. "Certific~te" farm- taken under a one-hom debate expected to vote against the bill, of 211 to 203. The President's signature? It was his biU. ers will get a' bonus - but none rule, showed 211 Yeas and 203 and would use his influence as Will fanners sign on for the Certificate Prog~~? The .so- for the independent farmer. "regional Whip" to urge other The only other channel open to Nays ... party members to vote against it. called "voluntary program" leaves wheat growers little chOIce. the non-program fariJ!~r is to mar- The Is.sue was not deCided on A profitable wheat market for grow.ers is fast disapp~ng. ket his wheat through" livestock the ments of the wheat-cotton 'Instead he "changed his mind" The threat of the certificates to be paId for after July 1 IS al- With feed grains .alre':dy flood~': bill and wh~t. it would do for and ignored fanners wi she 5 to ready pushing the market price to a new l~w. Grain deaIe~s ing the market, and with the farmers, but Instead was .the out- vote for the bill. fear being caught with stocks of wheat for which they have paId government opening. heavy im- ~me. ~f a vot~ trade which g~ve around $1.90 per bushcl but on which they will have to pay portation of meat from foreigIl' bIg-CIty, ~~rats . an extenSIon 7~ per bushel in certificate value after J~y 1. So dealers are countries this market holds little of the politically potent Food promise. ' Stamp Plan .. unloading and wheat futures are on the skids. No-Congress has not bettered Representatives James O'Hara A low market price for wheat - ------------ the fanner's lot. It has., simply (D) of Michigan's 7th Congres- becomes pernlO;nent. Certificates been in other programs and oth~r added to .... problems. Never sional District, was among six wiU create price ceilings and be- ~es, - and this program wall yet has a 8.~mment program Michigan Dem~ voting to come a device to limit farm in- cost plenty. brought" ,acmer "out of the impose the same sort of farm comes by regulation. The farmer How independent can the income w~ .... The more compli- program that Michigailli! w he a t wiU have to depend upon the will fanner be under the ~ew. pro- cated the program. the deepe1' the farmers turned down in last year's of Cougress to boost his income gram? If he does not Sign m th~ fanner has found himself in the referendum by a vote of four-to- above the mar k e t price yield. program, he can grow ~ ~uc d woods. one. How ~~ Congress does by him wheat as he wants on s an It is safe to say that the new Rep. John Lesinski. (D) 00- will be related more closely to without penalty. But what can farm program wiU be no excep- stained from voting and Rep. program costs than to the farmer's he do with it? Such wheat c::;- tion. Martha Griffiths (D) was paired income needs. That is as it has not be expected to return e TWO May 1, 1964 MICHIGAN FARM NEWS Editorial Pr8Sid8ntii ColuDUl F.:B. in the U. P. Says F.B.in the U.P. ....Coms' on..,,.,.p •, .... ~'We~b'sCity" ~ ~ Michigan's Upper Peninsula has much ..to Recently, in Florida, I noticed the title ..of a offer. sermon ill one of the churches in St. Pete~s-. This is -hardly news. to anyone who -has lived burg. The subject, "How to Live With YourseH there, but may come as something of a shock and Like it - ~timulated some thinking on my to those who think of the "'U.P."'as the SibeI:ia part. _ attached to an otherwise fine state. It was especially fitting after reading the.-life story of James Earl Webb, who had foumled Each year thousands of vacationers discover -'and developed "Webb's City," rated by far the for themselves how refreshing ~he Upper Penin- largest one-stop shopping center on Florida's sula really is. Their reports to friends. and neighbors attract still more visito~~~"Permll- west roast. It is ~e sto~f !l..rt.an ';ho, be- nent residents. -' . cause of his vision' and <hive, was aWe in his lifetime "to build a mult:imiiIi.on dollar. business True; the great Canadian land-mass to the- fro~j~~a<?8caIly nothing. nortli and the nearly cir£.ular .. embrace of the It is ~it1eUnUS1:laL story of a man whO'-suc- Great Lakes cause the kina of weather changes' ceeded in doing what his business associates that are sometimes hard to predjct. Still, di- said couldn~t be done, and' prnvfng the so- yersity. in weather and fanning is what makes called experts to be wrong. Michigan great, and the Upper Peninsula offers Webb) City~s 75 retail stores, covering more its share of both. : - than a million square feet, is a shining example There are occasional detractors, who suggest .of what one man~s vision coupled with his that the U.P. be "given back to the Indians," initiative and know-how can do when all three or hint that its only future lies in fishing. The' of those personal qualifications are put to work. beef cattle and dairy men, the cash-grain fann- 'Vliat~ too many of us don~t realize is that ers, the potato growers, the mink ranchers, the man builds his own fences. His limitations are vegetable producers and timbermen know created, often if not always, by his own attitude better. toward things in general. The old maxim is too Living many miles apart, U.P. farm leaders true, "Conformity breeds Mediocrity."' The travel great distances to Farm Bureau meet- men who have made the greatest success in ings. Ignoring' the. miles or .winter snow, they life kiie~~q bo.undar\~s. -They were not Jimited turn out iIi numbers which, if on a membership by the- Coriventipn~ .wltrS'''.of :cloing things; percentage basis, would put any other piu1:.of and because they 'Weren~t,'1he1""were' ~b~ ~o the state to shame. 'prove the experts wrong, often times. ':'_' At the live-wire U.P. "State Fair" held each M~y n<itabl~ ~xampies of this roul~fbe .li~tfXl. year in Escanaba, .(scheduled this year for the Most of' the mcx!.t!m:methods used in agpcul.; dates of August 18-23) all of the county Farm . ture today which have' been so effective m in- Bureaus join together in a single booth, dec- creasing our production per acre or per;,animal orated and manned o~ a regular schedule by have come-about because somebody was williiig local Farm Bureau leaders, many of whom must to depart from the conventional way of doing travel considerable distances to contribute their things: In other words, they were not con- time and effort. - formists as far as methods of agricultural pro- It is no accident that visitors to the Fair's duction were conoem€d. livestock bams find Farm Bureau Regional . Robert VBrien, in his recent article -Chal- Representative, Hugo Kivi, serving as bam lenge of Confident Living"' says: "In some re- superintendent. A weU-known livesto.ck booster, spects, each of us is unique. There never has Kivi is one of the U.P.'s mo$f ardent supporters: been anyone like us. There never will be. Never , Such pride in doing a good job has placed - will anyone else possess our special individual- the Upper Peninsula Region into the Farm ity, our particular possibilities. This, in itself, Bureau membership "gain" column, the first is a challenge." region in the state to top last year's member- If we really realized this, maybe we would ship. be impelled to put more effort into using our Five out of eight counties reached member- individual talent. If no one else has the same ship goal by April 1, and the other three served talents, then no one else is going to do just what warnings that they do not intend to be left we can do in the way we can do it.