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Untold Story. Caught between rapidly rising farm costs (up 2% in the past year) and declining prices for their products (down 7% in the same period), farmers are bitter and increasingly rebellious. "The biggest untold story in America," declares Oren Lee Staley, head of the militant National Farmers Organization and leader of the milk-dumping drive, is the unrest and dissatisfaction of the farmers." Even na ture seems to be conspiring against them. Cutting a wide swath through the southern Great Plains, a serious drought has gravely endangered the winter wheat crop-which accounts for three-fourths of the nation...
Newest and brashest of all is the militant National Farmers Organization. Headquartered in Corning, Iowa, N.F.O. opposes Government farm programs as vociferously as the Farm Bureau; on other matters it is even farther to the right. Under President Oren Lee Staley, 42, N.F.O. (estimated membership: 200,000 in 25 states) maintains that the only workable approach to the farm problem is to control the flow of supplies to market. Staley claims that contracts with six of the nation's 15 major hog processors are now in effect, and that grain marketing is next on the agenda...
...seniority system. Williams was first elected to the House in 1946, and today, at the age of 46, he has 18 years' seniority. He is the second-ranking member of the House Foreign and Interstate Commerce Committee and he is years younger than the Committee's comparatively liberal Chairman, Oren Harris...
Barnyard Battle Plans. Bonduel was no isolated incident. It was one result of a militant livestock-farmers' crusade unleashed on Aug. 19 by the National Farmers Organization (estimated membership: 100,000) in 23 states. Hatched by N.F.O. President Oren Lee Staley, 41, onetime Missouri farmer turned big-league farm organizer, the scheme called for thousands of livestock men to withhold their products in a massive market boycott that would eventually boost meat prices all over the U.S. Then, as Staley planned it, he would negotiate longterm, high-priced contracts with meat packers on behalf of legions of farmers. Staley...
...Besides Mills, who weighs 170, the all Democratic delegation includes Senator J. W. Fulbright, 165, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee; Senator John McClellan, 180, chairman of the investigation-prone Government Operations Committee; Representative Oren Harris, 165, chairman of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce; Representative Ezekiel C. Gathings, 168, noted mainly for his investigation of obscene literature; Representative James W. Trimble, 155, the delegation's No. 1 liberal...