British Demands On American Trade May Result In Cutting Synthetic Rubber Subsidy Bv SAM DAWSON NEW YORK -Ut-An American war-baby, the synthetic rubber Industry, may soon get a chance to show Just how strong it has grown in its short life. It's doubtlui if the coddled In fant will he forced to ti-v tn stand lina no.nita Rritieh i1omin,l! that Uncle Sam kick the child out Into the cold world of competition with natural rubber, where the British dominate. The United States will probably continue to keep a firm paternal hand guid ing the youngster, but apparent ly synthetic rubber in the months ahead must learn to do with less artificial support. Holding Own Many in the rubber trade think that synthetic can hold its own Dependobley? Performance jfcf J 3SSTONCMM SAW Designed and built by Distlon, America's foremost saw manu facturer, this is the saw you need to lower your costs and step up your production. It's asy to operate, and built far trouble-free service, let us give you all the facts about the Disston Chain Saw with Mercury Gasoline Engine. Com in and talk it over. CARL J. PEETZ 920 S. Stephens Phone 279 at last In competition with natur al rubber. They base their belief on two factory: 1. For tome uses synthetic Is better than natural rubber; and 2. The price for syn thetic has been pushed down to a point where it competitive. In fact. In recent months the syn thetic price of 18 12 cents a pound has determined the price the British could get for their natural rubber and the British don't like it. Now the United States has agreed, as part of its helping hand across the sea. to give the British a break. First, we are going to review our stockpiling program the Implication being that we'll buy more natural rub ber from Britain and store it for as long as possible, considering that It loses Its prime qualities after a while. Second, we appar ently are going to lower the syn thetic quota which we impose on our rubber manufacturers. This presumably would open the door for the British to sell more natur al rubber to American tire mak ers. War Baby Our synthetic rubber Industry was a war necessity, when Japan cut off the sources of natural rubber. As a guard against that emergency arising again, the United States has decreed that the synthetic plants must keep running. And to make sure they do, the government forces rubber manufacturers to use at least 200.000 tons of general purpose synthetic rubber each year, and more than 20,000 tons of special synthetics. Actually, our manufacturers have been using between 300.000 and 400.000 tons a vear. Their chief gripe has been that the gov ernment has set up rules as to how much synthetic must go into various products. Some manufac turers insist that if all such rules were eliminated, that total syn thetic consumption would be Just about as high, although more na- BP C01UM9IA SKlWItllS, INC. IACOMA, WASHINGTON Distributed in Roseburg by Bate's Candy Co. LEARN TO FLY! FREE! G. I. Flight Training Is Available To Any Veteran Who Has Over 90 Days of Service Previous to July 1, 1948. Training is given only in new modern fast airplanes. Enroll now before your eligibility expires. ALSO Round trip charter trips to all points Save Time and Money Try our U-Fly Service and Save up to i on your trip We invite your inquiries on all your flight problems. Freight up to 1200 lbs. taken for immediate shipment anywhere. GREEN FLYING SERVICE Cessna Dealers Inquire at airport any time for more detailed information. Roseburg Airport Phone 1225 J Roseburg, Ore. o SMASHING VICTORY Charlie Fusarl leans heavily on the ropes u Rocky Orasiano pounds him with fury In the 10th round ot their scheduled 10-round bout in New York. Knowing he had lost the fight on point confirmed by the tally ot the judge's cards later Rocky came out punching tn the loth to win a TKO victory over Fusart and smash his way back Into the "big time." Importance Of Iodized Salt's Use In Ordinary Diet Told Democracies May Decide On Separate Peace With Japan By FRANK CAREY A.of lated Preu aVt.nc Editor (For James Marlow) WASHINGTON P Th? government wants every salt shaker in the nation filled with iodized salt." That's ordinary table salt with a little iodine added to it. Government and other authori ties have just announced a new program to encourage Its u?e. They contend this will give the average person enough iodine to: 1 Help prevent one ot tne commonest forms of goiter. 2 Help fortify the peoples health generally because iodine is an essential food element and some folks don't get enough of it from their regular food. History Told Iodized salt Is not new. As early as 1831 Its use was suggest ed to prevent goiter. Over the years various health groups have advocated its use. Now the gov ernment, the medical profession, public health authorities and the salt Industry have joined to at tempt to get everyone to use it. Dr. W. H. Sebrell of the Na tional Institutes of Health (NIHI says In an article in "Public Health Reports" "Many people who take vita min tablets and are careful about tural rubber would go Into tires. They don't object so much to be ing told how much to use as how to use It. Lower Grade Cheaper But with all rules off, tire mak ers can use a lower grade natural rubber that has been selling around two cents a pound cheap er than synthetic. The best-grade natural rubber has been about the same price as synthetic. British producers of Malayan natural rubber would like to raise prices. In fact rubber prices Jose one cent a pound yesterday In Singapore in hopes of more Am erican buying. They say they need higher prices to meet higher production costs. And Britain can use the dollars. The champions of American synthetic think they have a good brake to apply to the British price hikes. When the price of natural rubber goes much higher than synthetic, it will make the American-made product attractive pricewise to manufacturers, who have learned they can use it. The Malayans apparently rely more on the promise that Uncle Sam will buy their product for stock piling. Dealers In Singapore pre dict prices won't jump much he cause the stockpiling plan will be a slow affair. For one thing, Congress has to appropriate the money for buying the rubber, and lately it has been cutting down on the amount the stockpllers can spend. Another thing the Malayans are noting Is that production of tires In this country dropped 15 per cent in Julv. The United States, even with Its synthetic rubber quotas, Is still the world's greatest buyer of natural rubber. And It buys more today than it did before the war. Many believe there is plenty of room for both natural and synthetic rubber in our economy. LET US MAKE YOUR ENGINE LIKE NEW AGAIN WITH A Every part it brand new i i i M merely reconditioned Exactly the same at vmfs Installed in new Ford cars and trucks BRAND NEW (fenuitte ?vicL CYLINDER BLOCK ASSEMBLY '231' 1 00 Installation Extra getting an adequate supply of vitamins neglect the iodiwd salt which will insure a health mini-, mum of iodine for the normal person." Sebrell Is director of NIH's Institute of Experimental Biolo gy and Medicine. Easily Corrected He says that it has been shown many times In this country and abroad that "iodine deficiency is easily corrected and better -health achieved through the daily rou tine use ol a table salt to which tiny amounts of iodine have been added by the manufacturer." This salt is just as pure as ordinary salt, he says, just as cheap, and tastes no different. Caution: iodized salt Is not suggested as the answer to all nu tritional needs. You have to have other essential elements In your food iron, calcium, copper and many others. Iodized salt is a handy way of getting enough io dine, but only iodine.) Why is iodine so essential any way? Produces Hormone In your neck is a gland called the thyroid. It produces a "hor mone" or chemical messenger that is carried by the blood stream. This hormone controls the rate of heat production In your body, it aids in stimulating the normal growth of bones, hair and skin. It helps the normal development of the brain, helps stimulate sex ual development at the age o( puberty. It helps In the mainte nance of a normal pregnancy. And it aids in the production of an adequate milk supply for nurs ing mothers. if the gland doesn't get enough iodine it doesn't function prop erly. One possible result of such Iodine-starvation is the disease called "simple goiter." One form of "toxic (poisonous) goiter" may result as a complication of sim ple goiter. 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Should this happen It would ot course mean two distinct trea ties another stone added to the wall dividing the totalitarian states and the democracies. The stalemate hinges on Rus sia's insistence that the treaty be concluded by the big four for eign ministers council (America, Britain, Russia and France!, whereas the United States and Britain insist that it be handled by the Far Eastern commission. This commission comprises the eleven countries that fought against Japan the United States, Russia. Britain France, China, the Philippines, The Netherlands, Canada, Australia, India and New Zealand. Veto Important The Russian attitude may be explained largely by the fact that the veto li permitted In council proceedings, whereas it is not used In the commission. On one thing there appears to be unanimity the need of ge ting ahead with the job. The necessity of early action was emphasized recently by Gen eral Douglas MacArthur for the second time. On top of that the conversa tions In Washington last week between British Foreign Secre tary Bevln and Secretary of State Acheson reached the con- President Truman Gives National Guards Plug WASHINGTON President Truman, an old militiaman him self, put in a plug for the Nation al Guard recruiting drive. He told a news conference that the national guard and the re serve are the backbone of this country's defense and he hopes the forthcoming drive will be a success. He said he Joined the National Guard on Flag day In 1905. When he was moved from tne rear to the front rank, he thought it was the finest promotion he had got ten up to that time. He Joined up with the then Bat tery B in Kansas City. This bat tery later became a part of the 12!i'th Field Artillery of the 35th Division. Subsequently. Mr. Truman commanded Battery D of the 129th Field Artillery In the First World War in France. elusion that a Japanese treaty Is long overdue. And Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vlshinsky, who is heading the Russian delegation to the new United Nations meet ing at Lake Success, is expected to press for a Japanese treaty to be made by the foreign min isters council. Secretary Acheson has indicat ed that Britain and the United States may try again to end the two-year-old deadlock over who should draft the treaty. And what If this effort fails? As the signs now read, the question then will arise whether the allies represented on the Far Eastern commission, headed by America and Britain, shall go ahead and make a treaty with Ja pan without Russia. Certainly Washington and London can't he expected to agree that Far Eastern countries like Australia and the Philippines, which had more to do with the Japanese war than did Russia, shall be left out of the treaty making. Eugene's Amusement Tax Test Comes To Courts EUGENE (It The question of whether Eugene's almost forgot ten three percent amusement tax is to continue in effect will face the circuit court here Wednes day. At that time, Judge G. F. Skipworth will try the case of Eugene Theater Co. vs City of Eugene, which was filed in May, 1948. An ordinance passed by the city council In April, 19-18, pro vided that three percent of the ad mission charges for public amusements in Eugene, after other taxes, should be segregat ed and turned over to the city. Since April 9. 1948. all thea ters operating in Eugene have turned over the money, under protest, while the suit was pend ing. Henry Bclstel, city record er, said this week that the tax has collected a total of $32,953 since it went Into effect. Tuei., Sept. 20, 1 94 The Newt-Review, Roseburf, Ore. 7 Drinks No Longer Served To Dogs In British Saloons PRESTWICH, England. Sept. 20 (.P) With bloodshot eye and trembling paws the drinking dogs of Prestwich scuttled into their favorite saloons today. They got a shock. Their drinks are cut off. Dr. C. H. T. Wade, the city health officer, said the wave of tippling by dogs at the local pubs has got to stop. "They have dirty habits." he said, "and most pubs only rinse the glasses." Alderman A. L. Williams ot the health committee agreed. "We don't say our dogs are drunkards," he told a reporter, "but too many of them are drink ing beer from the same glasses used by other patrons." Bernard Hadfield, proprietor of the Ostrich, said most of the drinking dogs he knew were mod erate about It half a pint or so a night. But he said he had seen at least one who'd had a drop too much. "Mind you." said Hadfield, "he may have been new to It, but he certainly staggered home." CORONER DIES MEDFORD (JP Hemerly W. 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