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I 14 .The News-Review, Roieburg, Ore.- BUSINESS BETTER? American Industry Meet Reveals Some Optimism NEW YORK JPh-Therms an air of cross-lingered optimism at the Waldorf-Astoria , today. In Its opulent grand ballroom, America's most glittering pageant of industrial might is under way. And this time, as contrasted to last year, the boys tending the congress of American Industry aren't scared half to ' death. They were last year. Most of the three thousand top men in our . manufacturing industries, who gather annually for the ' meeting of the National Associa tion of Manufacturers, were en joying the very peak of record prosperity, when NAM met a year ago. But many of them were on record as warning that a bad slump could be expected in 1943. You could fairly see the hair standing up on their heads. This time, most of them admit 1949 turned out to be a pretty good year, after a bad start. And most of them appear to believe - that 1950 will be a better one. Some even think a new boom may be starting. . Of course, there'll probably -be , a good deal of viewing it with alarm during the next three days at the Waldorf It's pretty hard for most manufacturers to face in the direction of Washington with composure. And NAM speak ers will stress the things they think are wrong, dangerous or threatening in our economy, and list the things they'd like to see changed particularly In taxes and government Interference with business. Expeot 1950 Better But as to business prospects, most manufacturers are reported' to be expecting to do better in 1950, especially in the first half Thurs., Dec. I, "491 Labo. - Perfection Asked By Senator Taft of the year. And in this optimism there Is some evidence that manu facturers lead both wholesalers and retailers. The last is closer to the public, and more Impressed by the tight string John Q. is keeping on his purse when he goes shopping. Some 300 manufacturers were questioned at the end of Novem ber by Dun & Bradstreet, and 77 per cent said they expect to equal or exceed their 1949 first quarter levels in the first three months of 1950. New orders, 81 per cent predict, will equal or surpass last year's volume. The business agency interviewed an equal nuro ber of wholesalers and retailers and found them a little less opti mistic. However, three fourths of all the manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers queried think sales volume In the first three months of 1950 will equal or exceed first quarter 1949. Two-thirds of them think net profits will be as good or better, and four-fifths of them hope to hire as many or more employes. Members of NAM are also cheered by the quick recovery in dustry Beems to be -making after the steel and coal strikes, and by the higher than expected level at Mm r II II til::! I I . These are famous BLUE LAKE BEANS. tne most lenaer ana f LOOK FOR THE BRIGHT YELLOW PACKAGE I Ready-To-Cook FLAV-R-PAC GREEN BEANS ELIMINATE ' 30. Sorting WaTte At Your Grocer's WASHINGTON, Dec. Senator Taft' (R-Ohio) called to day for a "perfected and im proved" Taft-Hartley labor law as one of the planks In ft repub lican plaLLiiirii tur Uie 1950 elec tions. He offered the idea in a repot t to Ohio voters, released here. Taft also said his party Js "op posed to excessive taxation and to government Interference with business through price-fixing, wage-fixing, rationing -or gov- mucin t-UIIipClltlLMl, "The ReDubllcan Dartv Insists on a sound basis of fiscal secur ity by a balanced budget and a level of taxation which does not deter business expansion as it has done in Great Britain," he said, adding: "It is completely opposed to socialism as destructive of liber ty and progress." Taft said the Federal govern. ment should concern Itself with preventing the destruciton of bus iness freedom through monopoly and unfair competition. "Furthermore," he said, "it must concern itself with the abo lition of all special privilege for employers or employes and the maintenance of equality between business and labor in labor-man agement relations as it has done through the Taft-Harley law. That law should be perfected and improved." As chairman of the Senate GO- P policy committee, Taft is ex pected to nave a nana in aran ine a proposed statement of Re publican policies for the 1950 Congressional elections. He indicated that so far as he Is concerned, he wants that pro posed platform to bear down on the theme that too widespread government Interference in the lives of the people deprive them oi tneir UDerties. . "We should recognize that free government service ultimately deortves the recipient oi liberty as well as initiative and self-re liance," he said. Deferred Living Plan To Be Tried At U. Of Oregon TOUGH JOB FOR SANTA CHICAGO P) Give the kids Christmas gifts that will make them use their heads and hands. advises Miss ' Melba Reay, instructor of arts and crafts at George Williams college, 'Chicago. "Because most toys are ready- made, children are learning to expect ready-made answers or printed instructions for all of life's problems, and never have a chance to develop the imagi native, creative spirit and skill that are so urgently needed In the adult world, she says. "Chil dren need practice in executing their own Ideas with their hands." which industrial production held during the strikes. Employed Inereaslng The Census bureau reports this week a half million increase in the number of employed in November, and a drop in the total of jobless. (The bureau doesn't count strikers as unemployed). It Is noted, however, that the job less still total 3.4 million, com pared with 1.8 million just a year avo. The manufacturers seem to be counting on fairly steady buyjng from their customers, now that retail inventories have been worked down in many cases. And some In the NAM may have caught the feeling prevalent in sectors of the financial district that Inflation Is about to play a return engagement. And Paul G. Hoffman delicate ly brings up another thing. With notable restraint, the economic cooperation administrator, who was a manufacturer once himself, says In his prepared speech: "There Is no need for me to condemn Russian communism to you gentlemen. There are not now and never have been any commu nists in the NAM." EUGENE UP) An eight-member student committee Is work ing out detailr of the "deferred living" alms of the university. The plan requires all first-year students to live in dormitories whether or not they are pledged to sororities and fraternities. The school administration has expressed a desire that the sorori ties also oerer pienpincf new tn. dents, but has left that to the students. Another campus activity draw ing student attention was a com plaint against food served in the veterans' dormitories. The Ore gon Inter-dormitory council and university administrators will confer on the subject. Petitions signed by 397 stu dents said the food was "at times Blmnat nd!W." Santa Dismissed For Dumb Eyes Awarded Back Pay PITTSBURGH -UP) A part time Santa Claus must look the role right up to the merry spar kle in his eyes. So testified Charles Ross, oper ator of a photographic studio in a local five-and-ten-cent store, as he appeared before Leonard A. Civlll. The matter of Santa Claus and his expression came up when Ev erett Frlsbee, 31, filed civil suit against Ross asking $45 back pay. Frlsbee contended Ross reneg ed on a verbal contract. Ross said he had to let Frisbee go be cause his woeful eyes repelled children. "He's got size and everything else for a good Santa," said Ross, "but those eyes send the kids away." Alerman Civill awarded back pay of $41.50 to Frisbee, who said he would be happy to return to his old job as a janitor. The first Indian Totem poles are believed to have been built less than 200 years ago In Brit ish Columbia or the Queen Char lotte islands to the west of the Canadian province. Beam transmission Is a direct ional system for the sending of short wave signals that result in higher efficiency. . Large Uranium Ore Find Told DENVER, UP) A mining company official says a 3,600 foot tunnel into the heart of the rockles has pierced what may be an important mother lode of pitchblende prime source of uranium. The tunnel was drilled on what the official termed a half million dollar gamble in America's race fui atomic Aupieuiacy. Alexander Pregel of New York, vice president of the Canadian Radium and Uranium corpora tion, said here in an Interview with the Denver Post that the tunnel, its location picked by scientific deduction, pierced the lode. Pregel constantly referred to secrecy demands in connection with the atomic program but did give these details: The lode was located in the old Caribou Mine district high in the mountains west of Boulder, Colo. Geologist's long have felt some primary source of ptichblende along the backbone of the rockies provided the scattering of secon dary deposits found near the sur face. A number of these deposits were located with eelcer coun ters, recording the radio activity of uranium. A tunnel was oriven Into tho ilHo nf a hill. NOW in 3,673 feet, plans are being made to fan out with other tunnels to adjacent areas In a search for more deposits. "I can say this much," Pregel added. "We re in proouciion. First work in the area was heralded a year ago as possibly making the United States self sufficient in uranium ore. Atomic Energy commission officials treated this statement with skep ticism. Pitchblende, which can con tain from 40 to 90 percent uran ium oxide, is the source of the precious mineral In the Belgian Congo and the Great Bear Lake region in uanada, two oi tne ma jor sourced of ore. Production In Western Colorado and Utah comes principally from carnotite, a secondary ore. Statisticians figure than an automobile radio set is used on the average by 12 percent of the U. S. population 50 minutes a day. New Federal Buildings Planned Total About 575 WASHINGTON. UP) More .i - ann wwt nffine and other uiau f . , federal building projects have been selected lor preparation oi plans and acquisition of sites for future construction. i Olin rt .Tnhnstnn in SO of the Senate post office and civil service committee, told a re porter the apprcvc!i tm, prf -nTca iu iiiiii "lv 1 ment, will be followed in the next few weeks by aaomonai lists jo bring the total number of federal building projects up to about 575. ll.'ll . $40,000,000 appropriation for site acquisition and plan preparation for urgently needed federal build ings throughout the country. With a few exceptions, no post offices nave oeen duiii suite ueiure -World War Two. FLOORING f) Siding Finish PAGE LUMBER - FUEL 164 E. 2nd Ave. S. Phone 242 J idtma5 Stents Table Decorations When you set the table for your Christmas dinner make your centerpiece equally at tractive with our gay decora tions. Santas, angels, trees ate Just a few of the many candles to add to this joyful season. 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