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NEWS-REVIEW. ROSEBURG, OREGON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1948 SEVEN Republic of Haiti, Beset by Poverty, Disease, Ignorance, Suffering, Seeks 'Survival' Loan From United States By DAVID FERNSLER WASHINGTON The Republic of Haiti is asking the United States lor a $3,000,000 "survival" loan to revive her once-prosperous agriculture. , . The Institute of Inter-American Affairs, a State Department Agency, says its a question of survival In Haiti. The Institute believes the loan sound. Four hours by air from Miami this country of 3,000,000, free since 1804, is beset by poverty, disease, despair, Ignorance and suffering unmatched In other parts of the Caribbean. The na tion has about 10,700 sqflare miles of territory. Mountains and hill sides, long since stripped of tim ber that would bring dollars, make about 8,000 square miles unsuitable for farming. Vexed through a quarter of a century by 524.000,000 in 6 per cent loans floated In this coun try, the little nation lifted Itself out of the dilemma with shoe string bonds, got on Its own fi nancial feet and now offers a $3,000,000 food production plan which the Institute says will pay out in 20 years. Haitians have endured long years of revolution, dictatorship and occupation. U. S. Marines landed In 1919 to protect Ameri can Investments. They stayed un til 1934. We regulated economic life to safeguard our bondhold ers. We controlled the customs. Our own rates of Interest drop ped, but Haiti continued to piy us 6 per cent. The turn came in 1946. A pec pie's government staggered out of the revolution which chased President Elie Lescot to Canada. The Communist party there had been attacking the Good Neigh bor policy as "the most cruel policy" in the world. But for the sake of national unity the Com munist party of Haiti disbanded. Deumarslas Estime, a business man who had long been fighting absentee ownership investments in Haiti by U. S. financiers became president. He found his hands tied. On a 1923 loan float ed by U. S. banks, the nation had already repaid $17,300,000 as well as $21,000,000 In that 6 per cent Interest. . Amortization and Interest took first cut out of the budget despite all sorts of claims of graft against us. The country could incur no new lunaed in debtedness without our permis sion. Argentina and the Domini can Republic were both extreme ly sympathetic, but we had tied a financial knot and we held it tight. With his back against the wall Estime asked the U. S. for a loan of $20,000,000 and got nothing. He wanted to pav off the re maining $7,000,000 of that 6 per cent debt. He wanted to put agri culture on its feet. He wanted to encourage industrialization, sani tation and education. Feeling against the U. S. flamed not and high over that refusal. So hot and so high that the Haitians raised the money themselves. Taxi drivers and waiters boueht 20-cent bonds. The rich threw In plenty. A prlia team of Boy Scouts cancelled a trip aDroao in oraer to ouy t ree- dom bonds." 'Our national Income Is less than $10,000,000." Estime told me early In 1947, shortly after he naa taken oince. r rom inai is first taken $2,000,000 for princi pal and Interest on the old United States debt. There Is too little left for sanitation, for national education In our land, where U- 1 teracv Is est mated at 55 per cent and nothing for developing this nation wnicn nas so long been exploited by everyone." in thumoins down tstimes proposal for a $20,000,000 loan the u. s. left tne aoor open. There was a soothing suggestion that something specinc, wen sur veyed and authenticated, costing less money, might be favored. Now Estime is standing In that door ajar. He is asking for S3, 000.000 instead of $20,000,000. The Institute of inter-Amencan ai fr. jiv that his nlan to re claim 80,000 acres of land that was ncn and proauciive in French colonial days Is sound, that it will pay oft easily In SO years. Tourist possibilities are attrac tive. This nation has everything for the tourist save adequate ac commodations. The flowers are more vivid In Haiti. Your morn ing grapefruit tastes as if it h grown on a sweet cedar uee. There Is everything except the hotel accommodations which the government promises will be adequate next year. Scott Now Optrating Reedsport Buslntu Harry L. Scott, former owner and operator of Scott's Shell Service Station at Reedsport, is now operating the K. 1L. Serv ice Station and Garage on High way 101, in Reedsport. This was formerly known as Aren's Ga rage. Ernie Elmlund, mechanic at the garage, is associated with Scott In this business. Wayne Kavlor. one of the former own ers of the K. A ,L. Service, has been ill recently and unable to operate the business. Trolling Boats Titd Up Became Poor Conditions Ocean trolling boats along the coast, from Newport south, are finding fishing poor at present, and many are tied up tempo rarily awaiting another run of fish. Most of the fishermen fig ure the last of September as the end of a normal season, but ex pect to fish later this year If weather conditions permit. Caniiw Caddy Expert At Retrieving Balls WAYNESBORO, Pa, Sept. 13. (JPi A little dog named Brownie is me answer io a goner s aream. The seven - year old Belgian heeler Is a retriever of lost golf balls and within three months has found close v 120. The dog's master, Chester B. Snlvely, has no idea how It all began. He savs she romped up to him one day at Waynesboro Coun try club with a ball clenched be tween her teeth. Oddly enough, the dog ignores balls in play on the open fairway. Her retrieving record, Snlvely says, is 18 in one hour. Emit Pearson Retains Golf Club Championship Ernie Pearson retained his Roseburg Country Club cham pionship by defeating Maurice U Hallmark In the championship playoff last weekend. Pearson, however, lost out In the Calcutta finals to Al Hennlnger In the first flight play. In the Calcutta matches Pete Pearson beat Bob Harris In the first flight, so Hennlnger and Pearson will be matched for the top prize this week. Charlev Kash defeated Pete Pearson for the winner's cup In the first flight of the champion ship play. In the second flight, Lee VVlmberly will play the win ner of the Bill Courier -Rj'ey match. Fred Sears defeated Fay Osterhaut for the third flight championship. The Calcutta consolation prize was won by Clyde Knight over Charley Kash. Portland Commission Will Improve Airport PORTLAND, Sept. 11. P The Port of Portland Commission went ahead with plans today to spend $2,000,000 In Improving the Portland airport, providing an 8,500-foot runway. Henry L. Corbett, commission president, said a bond Issue prob ably would finance the work, which he said might be finished within a year. Yilal Statistics MARRIAGE LICENSES HANSENPONTON Robert Vern Hansen. Glide and Mary Jane Ponton, Cottage Grove. MIIXERFUGATE Michael Miller and Lela Fugate, both of Oakland. TAYLOR T H O M A S Jack Worth Taylor, Glide, and Rita Margaret Thomas, Portland. EARL-COOKSON Lyle Eldon Earl and Margaret La Verne Cookson, both of Reedsport. Reedsport Mills Lose Time Due Low Humidity Some of the logging camps In the Reedsport vicinity have lost considerable time during the past jveek, due to low humidity. Those located nearest the coast, where the foe cornea in every nluht. were not troubled so much. Both the Bridge Mill In Reedsport and the Glrdlner Lumber Company' mill In Gardiner, both operated by Long-Bell, were closed down Friday. General repair work was done, and the refuse burner at ' the Bridge Mill was repaired. I Pigeon Hunting Good In Smith River Area The 15 day open season lor pigeon hunting will close Sept. 15. Exceptionally good kills have been made on Smith River by lo cal hunters, with only fair results reported from other localities nearby. Several elk were killed during the short -special elk sea son In this vicinity. LANGDONHUCKINS Rob ert Stanley Langdon, Yoncalla, and Patricia Antoinette Hucklns, Drain. ""FLOORING"" PAGE LUMBER & FUEL 164 E. 2nd Ave. S. Phone 242 r AUTUMN TQAVEL 41 trains daiEij Autumn perfect travel tfma days pleasantly warm, evenings cool and brisk the country, rich in harvest, presents a colorful and ever-changing scene. Eaattrn cities the great industrial centers of the nation offer their best in weather. Make your business or pleasure trip now by Union Pacific. Three fast, comfortable trains daily to the East carry you to your destination relaxed and refreshed. DON'T DELAY THAT TRIP... NOW IS THI TIM! 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Phona 468 m A IL ARRUV 12 i, 2 Ml to Over the years, oil Industry wage levels have compared most favorably with those in other Industries. Today . . . from casual labor to skilled craftsmen . . . wage rates are as high, or higher, than those in other manufacturing Industries. LATEST WAGE OFFER CAREFULLY CONSIDERED When we offered 12V2 cents an hour wage increase to the oil workers, we didn't just pull that figure out of the air. We studied these items carefully: 1. The increase in today's cost of living.' 2. Oil industry wages compared with other Industry. 3. Latest oil industry wage increases in other sections of the country. 4. The effect of inflationary wage Increases on the public. Let's look at each one of these items: WAGE SCHEDULE OFFERED IS AHEAD OF INCREASE IN LIVING COSTS Latest government figures show that the cost of living has gone up 72 sinee 1941. Oil workers pay increases, including the latest schedule offered, would amount to an 83 increase eleven per centage points ahead of the cost of living increase. Since the end of the war, oil workers wage Increases including our latest offer add up to an increase of $5.22 a day. Our latest offer of 12Vj cents an hour actually amounted to a full $1.00 a day raise. OIL WORKERS GET MORE PAY THAN MOST Including the latest increase offered, the average oil worker's pay per day for those affected by present negotiations would amount to $14.39. This includes casual labor and skilled labor. It IB ED AT n r n ITMIIXI U UU VI m w m does not Include overtime pay or the wages of supervisory errc ployees. Average daily wages in other representative Industries Includ ing overtime: Food Processing .. $11.52 Industrial Chemicals SI 2.64 Iron and Steel Products SI 2.48 Automobiles ....... ...... . $12.56 (Figures are from the State of California Department of Labor Statistics Bulletin Number 288 July 1948.) WAGE INCREASE OFFERED MEETS THAT ACCEPTED BY OIL INDUSTRY ELSEWHERE The wage Increase offered brings the total increase per hour to 65.4 cents since the end of the war. This equals the Increase ac cepted by the oil workers union in other parts of the country. WAGE INCREASES BOOST INFLATIONARY SPIRAL To agree to an excessive and inflationary wage Increase In one Industry exerts pressure on all other industries. Everyone Is pain fully aware that increases In wages are followed by further In creases in the prices of all things we buy. It would be a disservice to the public and to our employees who are part of the public to contribute unnecessarily to the inflationary spiral. THE OIL STRIKE CAN BE SETTLED QUICKLY AND FAIRLY The individual companies are continuing negotiations with the OWIU-CIO In good faith as always. We sincerely believe the offer we made to be fair on the basis of the documented facts outlined above. We believe it is in the best Interests of the public and our employes themselves to get this strike settled quickly and fairly to everyone concernd. STANDARD OIL CO. OF CALIFORNIA O SHELL OIL CO., INCORPORATED O UNION OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA TIDE WATER ASSOCIATED OIL CO. RICHFIELD OIL CORP0RAT0N O THE TEXAS COMPANY ! 5 !
