> 11TTTO& ' FEDERAL REGISTER VOLUME 3 \ 1934 NUMBER 141 i/AHTED^ W a sh in gton , T h u rsd a y, J u ly 21, 1938 Rules, Regulations, Orders his hand and caused the seal of the De­ CONTENTS partment of Agriculture to be affixed in the city of Washington, District of Co­ RULES, REGULATIONS, ORDERS TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE lumbia, this 19th day of July, 1938. T itle 7—A griculture: [ seal! M. L. W ilson, Agricultural Adjustment Ad­ AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT Acting Secretary of Agriculture. ADMINISTRATION ministration: Page [F. R. Doc. 38-2079; Filed, July 20,1938; Fresh prunes grown in Uma­ P roclamation W ith Respect to B ase 9:32 a. m.] tilla County, Oreg., Walla P eriod to be U sed for P urpose of Walla and Columbia M arketing A greement and O rder Counties, Wash.: R egulating H andling of F resh P runes Base period for marketing G rown in U matilla County in State Order R egulating the H andling in In ­ agreement and order__1779 of Oregon, and W alla W alla and terstate and Foreign Commerce, and Order regulating handling Columbia Counties in State of W ash­ Such H andling as D irectly Burdens, in interstate, etc., com­ ington Obstructs or Affects I nterstate or F oreign Commerce of Fresh P runes merce_________________ 1779 By virtue of the authority vested in G rown in U matilla County in State Mainland cane sugar area the Secretary of Agriculture by the terms of Oregon and W alla W alla and Co­ ferais, determination of and provisions of Public Act No. 10, 73rd lumbia Counties in S tate of W ash­ normal yield of commer- . Congress, as amended, and as reenacted ington daily recoverable sugar and amended by the Agricultural Mar­ per acre, etc_______ _ 1786 keting Agreement Act of 1937, as Whereas, it is provided in Public Act Sugarcane production, Puerto amended, the Secretary of Agriculture No. 10, 73rd Congress, as amended, and Rico, farming practices, hereby finds and proclaims that, in con­ as reenacted and amended by the Agri­ crop year 1938-39______ 1786 nection with the execution of a market­ cultural Marketing Agreement Act of Bureau of Agricultural Eco­ ing agreement and the issuance of an 1937, approved June 3, 1937, as amend­ nomics: order regulating the handling of fresh ed (hereinafter called the act), as Land utilization program, follows; prunes grown in Umatilla County in the delegation of authority_1786 State of Oregon, and Walla Walla and Sec. 8c. (1) Hie Secretary of Agriculture T itle 24— H ousing Credit: Columbia Counties in the State of Wash­ shall, subject to the provisions of this sec­ ington, the purchasing power of such tion, issue, and from time to time amend, Home Owners’ Loan Corpora­ orders applicable to processors, associations tion: fresh prunes during the base period of producers, and others engaged in the August 1909-July 1914 cannot be satis­ handling of any agricultural commodity or Authority of contract brokers factorily determined from available product thereof specified in subsection (2) to incur charges and to of this section. Such persons are referred statistics of the Department of Agricul­ to in this title as “handlers.” Such orders make payment____________1788 ture, but that the purchasing power of shall regulate, in the manner hereinafter Bond of indemnity for lost such fresh prunes can be satisfactorily in this section provided, only such handling checks___________ 1787 determined from available statistics of of such agricultural commodity, or product thereof, as is in the current of interstate Consolidated Manual, Section the Department of Agriculture for the or foreign commerce, or which directly bur­ 703 revoked_____________ 1788 post-war period August 1919-July 1929; dens, obstructs, or affects, interstate or for­ T itle 26—I nternal R evenue: and the period August 1919-July 1929 eign commerce in such commodity or prod­ is hereby found and proclaimed to be uct thereof. Bureau of Internal Revenue: Estate tax regulations the base period to be used in connection Whereas, the Secretary of Agriculture, amended________________ 1792 with ascertaining the purchasing power having reason to believe that the issuance Gift t a x regulations of fresh prunes grown in Umatilla of an order would tend to establish and amended________________ 1788 County in the State of Oregon, and maintain such marketing conditions for Walla Walla and Columbia Counties in fresh prunes grown in Umatilla County T itle 31— M oney and F inance: the State of Washington, for the purpose in the State of Oregon, and Walla Walla T r e a s u r y : of the execution of a marketing agree­ and Columbia Counties in the State of Office of the Secretary: ment and the issuance of an order regu­ Washington, as would establish prices to Newly-mined domestic silver. 1794 lating the handling of fresh prunes in growers at a level that will give such T itle 43— P ublic L ands: that area. fresh prunes a purchasing power with Division of Grazing: In witness whereof, the Secretary of respect to articles that farmers buy Arizona, establishment of Agriculture has executed this proclama­ equivalent to the purchasing power of Grazing District No. 3___ 1795 tion in duplicate and has hereunto set such fresh prunes in the base period, did, (Continued on next page) 1779 1780 FEDERAL REGISTER, T h u rsd a y , J u ly 21, 1938 CONTENTS—Continued unstable marketing conditions for said fresh prunes and consequently depressed Securities and Exchange Com­ prices to growers; FEDERÄLÄREGISTEB mission: (4) That the regulation of shipments of fresh prunes l5y grades and by other <*(ITEO’ Hearings: Pa®e Continental Securities Corp., methods prescribed by this order will 15-year 5% debentures, tend to prevent fluctuations of prices to etc ___________ ________ 1802 growers, particularly prices which are so Published by the Division of the Federal Federal Water Service Corp— 1803 low as to represent losses to growers, and Register, The National Archives, pursuant to thereby establish and maintain a more the authority contained in the Federal Utilities Power & Light Corp_ 1803 Register Act, approved July 26, 1935 (49 stable market for said fresh prunes and Stat. L. 500), tinder regulations prescribed tend to restore prices to growers of fresh by the Administrative Committee, with the prunes to a level that will have a pur­ approval of the President. chasing power with respect to articles The Administrative Committee consists of pursuant to the provisions of the act and that farmers buy equivalent to the pur­ the Archivist or Acting Archivist, an officer regulations thereunder, on the fifteenth chasing power of fresh prunes in the base of the Department of Justice designated by day of April, 1938, give notice of a hear­ the Attorney General, and the Public Printer period; or Acting Public Printer. ing to be held in Milton, Oregon, on May The dally issue of the F ederal R egister 3, 1938,1 on a proposed order regulating (5) That the methods provided for the will be furnished by mail to subscribers, free the handling of fresh prunes grown in regulation of shipments are fair and of postage, for $1 per month or $10 per year; equitable; single copies 10 cents each; payable in ad­ Umatilla County in the State of Oregon, vance. Remit by money order payable to and Walla Walla and Columbia Counties (6) That this order is limited in its Superintendent of Documents, Government in the State of Washington, and did application to the smallest regional pro­ Printing Office, Washington, D. C. duction area and to the smallest re­ Correspondence concerning the publica­ upon said date and at said place, con­ tion of the F ederal R egister should be ad­ duct a public hearing thereon, and did gional marketing area that is practicable, dressed to the Director, Division of the give opportunity to all interested parties consistently with carrying out the de­ Federal Register, The National Archives, to be heard concerning the said proposed clared policy of the act, and that the is­ Washington, D. C. order; and suance of several orders applicable to Whereas, the Secretary has found and any subdivision of such regional pro­ proclaimed that the purchasing power duction and marketing areas would not effectively carry out the declared policy CONTENTS— Continued of fresh prunes grown in Umatilla County in the State of Oregon, and Walla Walla of the act; and and Columbia Counties in the State of (7) That this order and all the terms T itle 43— P ublic L ands— Contd. Washington, during the period August and conditions thereof will tend to ef­ General Land Office : Page 1909-July 1914, cannot be satisfactorily fectuate the declared policy of the act Mineral leasing acts, disposi­ determined from the available statistics with respect to fresh prunes grown in tion of filing fees accom­ of the Department of Agriculture, but the said area by establishing and main­ taining such orderly marketing condi­ panying applications for that the purchasing power of such com­ leases, etc_______________ 1800 modity can be satisfactorily determined tions therefor as will establish prices to Oregon and California Rail­ from available statistics of the Depart­ producers thereof at a level that will give such fresh prunes a purchasing road and reconveyed Coos ment of Agriculture for the period Au­ power with respect to articles that such Bay Wagon Road grant gust 1919-July 1929, and the period Au­ lands, sale of timber— a 1795 gust 1919-July 1929, is the base period producers buy equivalent to the purchas­ ing power of such fresh prunes in the Phosphate, leases or use per­ to be used in connection with this order base