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4 Ths News-Review, Roieburg, Ore. Tut., June 21, 1955 Published Dally Except Sunday by tht News-Review Company, Inc. Entereo ucend elm mallaf May T. 1920, peit eftlce al Hoaeburf, Oreion, eider aot el March t. lilt. CHARLES V. STANTON, Editor and Manager Member of tha Aisociated Praii, Oragon Nawtpapar Puoir.hari Afiociation, tha Audit Buraau of Circulation! Bepraeenlee by HEST HOLLIDAt CO., INC., ollloae la Naw fork, Chlcafe. San Franolioa. La Aneelai, Seattla. Portland, Denver SUBSCRIPTION BATES In Oregon By mil Par Ifaer, llt.Ofl; all mentae. le.Mi Mraa Banlhi, l.:a. Oelilde Or.ioo By Hall Par Year, Ill.eO; III nonlba, t7.aoi three manlba. i3.it. . 8t Newe-Bevlew Carrier Par Tear, Ill.Oe (la edvaneel, leaa Ibaa ana rear, par month, 11.2a. 'Can't SleeD With" That Light ' Bumina All 'the Time PLYWOOD JUBILEE Charles V. Stanton Fifty years ago the first plywood panel was manu factured in rortland. That lirst panel was ensnrinea in a permanent memorial last Sunday as the Western J-ir Ply wood Manufacturers staged their Golden Jubilee celebra tion. . Plvwood created a trreat sensation when it was placed on exhibit at the spectacular forestry building erected for the Lewis and Clark World's Fair in Portland a half cen tury ago. As the thousands 'of spectators strolled through the huge log building erected in Portland to exemplify Ore gon's timber resource, many must have had visions of a new industry resulting from the invention. Others prob ably looked skeptically upon the new product, aneeringly asking who would be dumb enough to use that stuff when good stout boards were available. But we doubt if even the most optimistic spectators encompassed in their vision the actual potential of the borning industry. : Interestingly, several men, who were employed in the Portland Manufacturing Company plant when the first panel was produced, were present for last Sunday's color ful dedication ceremony. Doubtless their minds recalled many events in the march of plywood across the indus trial field of the Pacific Northwest Golden Jubilee Celebrated The 50th anniversary of plywood gave rise to a cele bration reportedly attended over the weekend by thousands of persons including plywood manufacturers, industry sup pliers, plywood jobbers and visitors.. The three-day cele bration was marked by many educational and entertaining events. But serving as a theme throughout all programs was the remarkable progress achieved in so few years. Oregon's great forestry building, built with Douglas fir logs, was one of the outstanding attractions of the 1905 fair. Several years ago, when it became necessary eith er' to repair the aging building or raze it, public opinion forced renovation. It now stands as a memorial to the forest industry. The plywood panel, when first entered by the Portland Manufacturing Company, drew great interest as a new product and received more inquiries than any other ex hibit. In fact, inquiries developed enough orders that the company began commercial production of plywood in the fall of 1905, just as the fair drew to a close. The panel was preserved. When it began to show de terioration about three years ago, the Douglas Fir Plywood Association financed complete refinishing. It is now mounted in a lighted memorial as a permanent exhib it of the start of an industry that has assumed gigantic proportions. Since the first panel was laboriously produced, the in dustry has manufactured more than 40 billion feet of ply wood. Plywood production now is worth approximately $500 million annually. New Uses And New Product's ' The demand for Douglas fir plywood mounts steadily. Each day finds new uses for this handy product. The build-it-yourself fad which has hit the country in recent years would not have reached its present impetus with out the stimulation afforded by plywood. Many improvements have been made to the product since that first panel was originated.1 One of the great ad vances followed discovery of a waterproof adhesive. This adhesive made possible the construction of the plywood boats which played an exciting part in the last World War. It also permitted use of plywood for outdoor construction Combinations of plywood panels with plastic facings have recently been introduced. Bonding of plywood with metal was achieved a number of vears ago. More re cently there has been success with plywood facing on cores made of pulp, thus permitting utilization of waste material. Plywood has had much competition in recent vears from various types of chipboard, hardboard and other products, but its production charts mount steadily upward Pessimists many years ago decided the saturation point nad been reached m plywood production, yet the demand maintains as mill after mill is installed to add to the total output. , . , , The plywood industry has good reason to celebrate its ouin anniversary, its contribution to U.S. economy should nave unanimous public appreciation. " Freed Austrians Tell Of Red-Held Yankee Prisoners WIENER NEUSTADT, Austraia, lift . A group of 184 Austrian war prisoners and civilian intern ees released by the Soviet Union arrived here Monday. The returnees said they had met several American, British and French prisoners in Russian camps along with several thou sand Germans. They laid that while at Camp Alexandrovsk, in Siberia, they met an American whose name they gave variously as MiXe FinePage or Murray Feingersch of Brooklyn a man in his 30s. They said he had been beaten to such an extent that hs appeared mentally unbal anced. The American, they reported, told them he had been serving with U.S. forces in Germany and DRIVER FINED William Arlhiir TTnmillnn Aa Wilhur was tinoA Z?Sft in Aict-i, pleaded guilty to drunken driving. Hamilton was arrested FriHav hu slate police. had been arrested by the Czechs after inadvertently crossing the German Czech border in 1349. lie said the Czechs handed him over to Soviet occupation forces in Aus tria and he had been sentenced to 25 years in jail. They said they also met a sol dier named Eisenhower, but they didn't know whether he was, re lated to the U.S. President or any ucitiiis auuui mm. Another American thev identified as Charley Brown (homeiown un known) died in a Ural camp in 1952, the prisoners said. They said he had been arrested :n Romania at the end of the war. The newly freed Austrians S3id they believed Brown was a U.S. diplomat. Some reported Capt. Fabian was from Chicago. "U.S." Captain Reported The prisoners also reported that while in a camp at thj Mongolian border, they met an American Army captain identified as Jimmy Fabian (Hometown unknown) who said he had been arrested in 1948. In Camp Vladimir near Moscow,; the prisoners reported mee'.ing two American soldier who fled from Japanese POW eamos during World War II but fell into Russian hands. They were unable to recall the names or hometowns of the pair. They recalled meeting a U.S. Air Force Captain named Hopkins at the Russian camp Verehe Ur alsk but they did not know any details about him. In a Siberian camp th-;y met an American named Schwab who said he had served with U.S. counter intelligence in Austria. (In Washington, the Stale De partment said it had no record of a Charley Brown nor that the Rus sians had arrested any U. S. dip lomat in Romania.) I O.O.F. PHILETARIAN LODGE No. 8 Meets Every Thurs.. 8 p.m. Visih'nq Brothers Welcome Noble Grand, Arte Stephens Secretary, T. B. Busenbork Son- v. i " " t . ' '. t v - S.7 1 i in ii i earn ilea aaiwaojuafHi. MIA TeleeJief. ADENAUER WANTS SOLIDARITY President Eisenhower (left) and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer shake hands following their meeting at the White House. In center are James B. Conant, U. 5. ambassador to Ger many (left), and Secy, of State John Foster Dulles. Adenauer pressed for a common Western lineup in the forthcoming Big Four "summit" talks with the Soviets. He also urged a bold disarmament plan to ease the cold war and help unify Germany. , . WASHINGTON (NEA) In spile of all the objections, Ameri can foreign aid programs roll on year alter year. Last year Congress ordered the Foreign Operations Administration liquidated as of June 30. But the U.S. Senate has now approved con tinuation of this spending under a new International Cooperation Ad ministration in the Stale Depart ment. New funds of nearly three and a half billion dollars are authorized for next year. This is 800 million dollars more than was appropri ated last year. It is some 17 mil lion dollars more for technical assistance lhan Mr. Eisenhow er recommended to Congress. The battle now moves over to the House of Representatives, where the usual opposition to for eign aid is expected. It will be maintained that any country having trade with Iron Curtain countries should not get one nickel of aid so long as any Americans are held prisoner by Chinese Communists. FIGURES WILL BE CITED that the foreign aid' programs have eight billion dollars worth of carry over funds and that therefore no new appropriations are necessary. It will be patriotically declared that no American economic aid should be given to build up the in dustrialization of foreign countries so thit they will become competi tors. These principal arguments will be backed up hy recommendations made in the latest task force re port from Ex-President Herbert Hoover's Commission on govern ment reorganization. The Hoover report recommends savings of 360 million dollars on nonmilitary foreign aid for the conling fiscal year. This is a lit tle over 20 per cent of the 1.7 bil lion dollars economic half of the foreign aid budget. It is noteworthy that the Hoover task force recommends no cut at all in the military aid budget of 1.7 billion dollars. Also, it does not recommend that the economic aid program be com pletely discontinued. It merely wants the program reorganized. GENERAL MARSHAL, as Sec retary of State, thought foreign aid should be administered by his de partment. Congress wouldn't have it that way and set up an inde pendent operation. v So, after seven years of kicking the dog around under various names ECA, MSA, and FOA the Eisenhower administration and the Hoover Commission recom mend that the business be pul back in the Stale Department kennel, to complete the walk around the block. Secretary of Stale John Foster Dulles apparently isn't too keen to have this responsibility thrust upon him. John B. Hollister, desig nated as the new administrator of the program, hasn't revealed what his ideas on the subiect are to be. Anyway, it's their pup now. And what all this administrative jug gling has accomplished is impos sible to determine. Friends of the foreign aid pro gram, maintain that it would have been far belter to set a firm policy and then stick to it. This would have created more confidence in American intentions among the countries being helped. It would also cause more consternation among potential enemies. FOR AS THE HOOVER TASK FORCE report declares, and as the majorities in Congress always conclude after they've held all the hearings, raised all the objections and had them beaten down: . we believe that the government of the United States must continue economic assistance among cer tain free countries of the world in order to secure the maximum mili tary security for ourselves and to take part in the advance of the living standard in the free world." In The Day's News (Continued from Page One) parks advisory committee and the highway interim committee are represented on this tour. Oregon has approximalely 100 stale parks, of which some 40 are located on Highway 101, the Ore gon Coast highway. These two .score parks on the scenic Coast highway are undoubtedly a tre mendous asset. They range all the way from the magnificent park at Coos Bay donated by the Simp son estate and mainlained by the state and the spectacular Sam Boardman state park embracing some 40 miles of fabulously, beau tiful coastline at the slates south ern border down to little waysides where the traveler may pull out to the side of the road for a brief rest They add immensely to the coast highway's value as a tour ist attraction. They include parks recently developed for overnight camping. d3ruce (ISioii a t ' The current crop of reports from the revived Hoover Commission has not aroused the same general admiration that greeted the orig inal recommendations several years ago. But the newest report urging expansion of research and development is clearly commend able. The commission believes the federal government is not spend ing enough money on eiUiw civil ian or military research pro grams. It described as "dangerous and false" economy any ip proach which would hold appro priations for these purposes to minimum levels. Perhaps the commission's most serious charge is that U.S. armed services lack daring and imagi nation in the development of rad ical new weapons. This is not the first time such a rharge has been made. The rec ord of World War II and after contains many examples of super ior technical advances by other nalions. The United States either matched these very late in the game, or is still behind. The evidence suggests that some of the gains we have managed have come almost in spite of the Pentagon, rather than because of it. It Is said to he common know ledge among scientists who work with the military that only steady prodding by researcher! and oth ers outside normal channels pro duced some of our most exciting developments. Those in positions of control too oflen stood as a roadblock to progress. Apparency conservative a I ti - tudes are partly to blame, but so also are habits of complacency in appraising what other countries are doing. On the basis of the record, one finds it difficult to I understand what real ground there can be for complacency. When all else fails, and we ac knowledge in certain specific fields that a friendly competitor or a potential enemy has cither equaled or surpassed us, we fall back on the old American stand by superior production know how. But we can be lulled into riskv complacency by Uus as well. Recent fresh evaluations of Rus sia's capacity to produce an inter continental bomber and some fighter types illustrate the peril. Evidently we have known for some time that the Soviet Union had developed these craft. But we blithely assumed it could not pro duce them in any significant num bers for a good vnile to come. Now thct we know diffeientlv. we are hiking our output of B 52 intei continental bombers by 35 per cent. ' Americans ni- hncValli a high ly1 inventive people. But if we are io gei me maximum peacetime benefits and maximum security from this rharartnricli. u. i mnci give free play and ample funds to our Doiuem men. mat is tne mean ing of the latest Hoover report Ohio U. Prexy Named To U. N. Council Post i WASHINGTON I - The White House announced Monday Presi dent Eisenhower has named John C. Baker, president of Ohio Univer sity, to be this country's permanent representative on the United Na tions Economic and Social Council. Baker's name was sent to lh Senate for confirmation. He was nominated to succeed : Preston Hotrhkiss of Los Angclea, j who resigned last week. i These parks where overnight parking is permitted have care takers. Their accommodations in elude cooking facilities, shower baths with hot and cold water and toilet facilities. All of these lin provemenls are new and are ir spic and span condition, as over night camping is a relatively new departure in Oregon s state perks, some ot mese overnignt paiKs are equipped with a new and dur able type of electric stoves, with slot attachments providing a half hour s current for a dime. Others have outdoor open stoves, with fuel provided. It is an odd fact that these open stoves fueled with luewood appear lo ne more p-jp ular than the fancy electric stoves which, by the way, are housed in open shelters. When people leave their modern homes and take to the great outdoors, ;ncy seem to prefer to do their cooking over an open fire. C. H. Armstrong, state parks superintendent, reports that t h e charge for the use of these over night camping facilities a litUe more than pays the cpst of the attendants at the cam-ping parks. How have these parks been acquired? The answer is both by gift and by purchase. Many of tl-.em have been given to the state by public spirited citizens. Most of them have been purchased. What have they cost? The outlay so far (for land) has been about ten million dollars. Su perintendent Armstrong estimates that if purchased NOW the land would cost about 2 million dol lars. Fortunately, Oregon beg.in the job of acquiring its state parks early enough to get in ahead of the big increase in land values. What is their upkeep cost' The st,ate highway department is spending presently on state parks about a million dollars a year. This includes both upkeep and acquisition of new areas from time to time, as attractive sites become available. The money comes out of gasoline taxes. The use of gas tax money is justified under the theory that the state parks are an adjunct of the state .system of highways, maintained for the pleasure and the convenience of the users of the roads who are chiefly auto mobile owners and users. That brings us to the question raised in the legislature last win ter: Shall we leave administration of our Oregon state parks in t h e hands of the highway department, where it has been since the state parks system was created? Or shall we take it out or the hands of the highway commission and turn it over to a new and in dependent state parks commis sion? That is the problem that will be studied for the next two years by the new parks advisory committee and by the legislative highway in terim committee. . The answer will be provided by the t9S7 Oregon legislature, which, will hear the reports of both bodies. TO BE PRACTICAL Mrs. L. L. 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