4 Ths News-Review, Roieburg, Ore. Tut., June 21, 1955
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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.)
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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.
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