| Summary: | Grain Men Join Rail Rates War: Form Tri-State Wheat Council—Dayton Man Chosen Chairman of Board. Grain Men Join Rail Rates War. Form Tri-State Wheat Council—Dayton Man Chosen Chairman of Board. DAYTON, Wash., May 10.—As the result of recent meetings of grain growers and farm organization leaders at Lewiston, Spokane, Dayton and Walla Walla a tri-state wheat transportation council has been organized. Articles of association were filed at Salem, Ore., today by Senator Clyde Kiddle of LaGrande, Ore. J. J. Edwards, Dayton, was chosen chairman of the board of control, consisting of 15 wheat growers, five from each of the three states in the council. Edwards states that the immediate objective is to arrange for adequate representation at the approaching freight rate hearings. The prospective profits from 1937 crops is threatened by the proposed increased freight rates, with in-roads already amounting to $5,000,000. The long-time objective is to obtain the same level of rail freight rates on wheat and flour to north Pacific ports as are in effect to north Atlantic ports in intra-coastal and inter-coastal ocean rates. The council voted to ask each wheat grower to subscribe 1 1/2 mills per bushel from each of three years' crops for the council treasury. Interested business men are to be asked to subscribe additional funds. Committees will be in the field immediately to collect money.
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