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ROLLINC THE CRAVY TRAIN
By Charles V. Stanton
Economist throtiRhout the country are beeinninjr to
pet quite vocal concerning economic condition. Some tell
us we're heading headlong into a depression. Others tell
us we're simply uroinjr through a period of mild recession
while we're readjusting inventories. Others say we've
fouled the whole economy by tifrht money processes design
ed to halt Inflation.
Far be it from me to pose as an expert economist.
But readers of this column will recall that many months
ago I said the slowdown in home construction eventually
would affect the whole economy.
It was, and is, my opinion that when people build
homes they also buy refrigerators, washing machines, ra
dios, televisions, carpets, furniture, bedding, dishes, pots
and pans. In other words, they spend monev for THINGS.
When people spend money for THINGS they keep the
wheels of production -rolling. When peonle are busy manu
facturing THINGS, to sell to the people who are buying
THINGS, the man working in the manufacturing plant has
money so that he, too, can join the people buying THINGS.
When people spend money we have prosperity. When
people don't spend money we have recession or depression.
When people buy or build homes they spend money.
Home Building Slow
Politicians opposing the present administration are By JACK RL'TLKDGE For HAL BOYLE
screaming that administration policies are responsible forj MEXICO C ITY, iP) Bullfighting is at a low ebb in
the present economic situation. Although the administra-i Mexico. Tourists are about the only ones who get very
tion cautioned against the danger of what at the time ap-1 excited at what's going on in the bull rings nowadays,
peared to be an inflationary rise, the tight money nolicy. ! Experts blame the situation mainly on lack of real tal
against which everyone rails, was instituted by the Federal ent among the matadors, and the poor quality of the bulls
Reserve Board, composed nrincipallv of Democrats and themselves. But there are other factors: Mexico has some
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G"What Do You Hear ?rorrj) the grass Roots?"
Health Hazards Possible
From Mice Infestation,
Oregon Experts Warned
-Hal Boyle-
controlled only by Congress and not by the administration.
But, forgetting the political situation, (if we are per
mitted to do so) the fact still remains that the building of
homes has been proven to be, more or less, the governor
controlling the rate of our production machine. The tight
money policy hit the home construction field the building
trades first. For a loni? time our lumber economy and
the building trades were castaways on the desert island ( on "'e jb
of recession In a sea nf nrnsneriiv. Now. howevpr. thp fact .- l. ,e.
that people aren't huyinr the things thev would have , Imascr 7",, buildigh.ing just XlMunA
v,..i,f l i i, u..:m: j -u....:.. ,.t,.i, ,..! ,i, . a wn.mi,r "d an'e- worm nue p
mjitKiii. mr inrtrn uuiiiuiiK nnu uuv uik ii"iur.-s i.-. iniv 11- j "
top-notch prize-fighters now who receive the adulation once
reserved for the matadors; and it has baseball, soccer,
American football, jai alai, and other sports.
Back in the 1920s bullfighting "
was Ihe major sport. II was a , by strike and rings in smaller
week-Ion topic of conyersalion. U cllies have operated onlv spas-
Ing up with other areas of production, and the whole na-inmed Armillita came a
4' i. ri; ' :u j ... : ...itu ,ua '" caiicht ire again. Bi
ir. .cc.i.., in cvuM.Muit iMniii, mm i- i " 1 1 1 i . " - ni5 pmid of popularity pi
pain that we ve been experiencing for the past year andiing gained in favor, football be
a half. I came a major sport, and there
f . T .. . ... ,. were more and more movies to
Economists, as I said earlier, are coming up with allmre the scarce pesos away from
kinds of explanations. But, if they want the real explana- the bullring.
tion, in my opinion, it is to be found in the slowdown in
home construction. It isn't necessary to search far, I be
lieve, to find the cause of mounting unemployment through
out the country.
Better Times Ahead
got so Dad tne government nanneu moclicallv. Sometimes they don't
bullf.ght talk by employes while have fights once a month.
i .if.. i-io So un,i' another Gaona. Mano-
Icte or Arruza conies along the
hot
youngster' ""' 7." . f"-
alunu and ' soccer
along ana malrh d, ,. . h..llr.no
Irifnl'iPhi1 ldo1 aPP'a'S atih them flock
K back to the arena!
Sawmill Workers
Feted By Company
For rolling up a 1957 safety rec-
. Rtfttorad Intartst
The alltime great Manolete. a
Spaniard, brought bullfighting ord of no "loss-time accidents
back to its almost fanatic enthus-j sawmill departmc.it workers of
asm in the 1940s. He fought often Martin Bros. Container and Tim
in Mexico, where he was paid as ber Products Corp. at Oakland
much as 150.000 pesos ($12.0001 were feted bv company officials
Of course, no big-shot economist is going to believe that 'or '" ho"rs work. But he was at a ban'uet last weekend.
the econnm.c disease from which we suffer can be so ,"nd ."' ln Spa",lll. ' v. The affair was neld in the Oak-
simnlv diatrnosed Thp prnnnmUt mint o-n infn Hie sl-itnsl , Arr"z ,ne n.exl Ind American Legion hall with "5
simpiy niagnosen. i ne economist must go inlo uie status ,palk He w , Mexican, and a W()rk,.rSi Kllcs and o(fK.iai, ,t.
ol inventories, credits, savings, national income, debt strtic-1 great niaiadur. He ranked, in the tending.
wnn .Manoieie. f-rtft r .
"rui A 'UMWTt, AIMIIIt'l 11111-
agcr, as master of ceremonies in
troduced Ihe speakers: Bill Kit.
safety engineer; Ray Martin, plant
' manager, and Dale Williamson.
sawmill superintendent.
Williamson challenged all North-
insulting west sawmills to top his depart-
We mav, however, have a lot of officials after a controversial fight ment record and claimed the 19:
in Ihe plaa. award would again go to the saw-
i t - ... i .n.n.. null riVnarl menl
An' having said "I told you so" about the recession, i dora today. The IMaa Mexico , In 19.M5 the pond department won
I d like to stick my neck out again and sav that so far as largest hull ring in the world the plaque which was awarded at
we're concerned here in this area the worst of our troubles "rn closed for over a year a similar affair.
tire nver. ne were tne nrst to Dp nit hy the economic
slump. I think we'll be the first to recover.
Already there are favorable signs.
Our business firms are reporting a pickup in buving
a vciy marked improvement. Several of our small mills ... ...
have resumed operation, some still on slow bell. but. never- .i, Tlr.u",
thelrss. hack in a measure of production. There has been peace John Wells over a .32 cali-
some strengthening of the market, even though prices her reoler will apparently be
haven't shown much advance. However, wholesale buvers ,rird "i"1"
have been hopping around over the area like fleas on a cu T.lSu.M
dogs back, indicating that they are probably looking into Tuesday night alter n.ne hours of
npiiiii uiiiuies to ntiy cneap and sell high. deliberation
Once the lumber price starts up. it should move up
Thinking
It Over
By Robert L. Diaffanbachar, D.D.
(Written for NEA Service)
Children put most adults to
shame with their freedom from
complexity. They say what they
think without covering up their
; thoughts with unnecessary words.
They pray so openly and so sin-
j cerely w hen they have been taught
j about (lod and His power in the
' universe.
A child recently prayed "Thank
God for erasers which make mis
takes disappear." That thought is
so honest and so real that every
one should read it and pause. Many
adults ought to utter the same
prayer.
. Most of us do not want to admit
that we make mistakes. If we
make errors we want to hide them.
W'e even hesitate to confess our
! sins to Cod. Yet, a child expects
I to make mistakes. The child simply
wants io erase the errors and cor
1 rect them.
! God alone can erase the mistakes
and sins from our lives. "Thank
God for erasers to make our sins
disappear." "Please give us clean
pages on which to write!
PORTLAND un Fleas, ticks,
domestic cats and even d u t
wafted on the breezes of next
spring may pose a tularemia
threat to Oregon residents, health
experta warned Wednesday.
The heavy mouse infestation in
Central and Southern Oregon giVes
rise to the threat, they taid.
On the other hand Oregon might
escape the threat, said Frank
Prince, chief of the San Francisco
field station of the U.S. Public
Health Service.
"1 can't understand why we
haven't had human cases of tula
remia. It may not be a problem
at all. We just don't know."
Prince said after a conference
with two other Public Health
Service experts and Dr. Harold M. i
Erickson, state health officer.
Definite Hazard
"Although we cannot predict the
future of this problem, there ap
pears to be a definite hazard to
humans, and it seems vital to
maintain our surveillance." Erick
son said, adding that the state wili
seek to have a federal control
specialist assigned to maintain a
fulltime watch on the mouse infes
tation. He said future studies will be
limited to Klamath County, where
the infestation is the heaviest.
Erickson said the federal expert
reported these findings:
Severe outbreaks of tularemia
some times known'as rabbit fever,
and other diseases among the
mice, plus low winter birth rales
and a shortage of food, may re
duce last fall-record-breaking in
festation as much as 75 per cent
by next spring.
Mke May Increase
The mouse population may in
crease rapidly again during the
spring and summer months, when
the mice resume breeding and the
food supply improves.
Ground water, including swiftly
flowing streams, shows evidence
of contamination with tularemia in
some areas, posing a potential
threat to human and animal
health.
Two mice have been found
infected with bubonic plague, al
though this is not currently con
sidered a likely health hazard.
An unknown virus of rickettsial
disease has been found in some
mice, and is now under study at
the U.S. Rocky Mountain labora
tory in Montana.
Domestic cats are probably in
fected with tularemia from eating
mice, and could transit the dis
ease to humans or other animals
through bites of scratches.
Likely methods of disease trans
mission to humans include direct
contact with carcasses expected to
be littering fields next spring, in
' halation of dust containing germs,
and the bites of ticks and other
; parasites expected to be infecting
the mice and other animals.
1 Regardless of what control
measures may be taken by man,
the mouse infestation will continue
I until nature remedies the situation.
East German Air Fore
Has 400 MIC Fighter
BONN', Germany The Russian-trained
air force of commu
nist East Germany has 400 Soviet
MIG jet fighters, a political party
press service said here.
Western air force officials de
clined to comment in detail on the
report from Chancellor Konrad
i Adenauer a Christian Democratic
Parly. But informed officers said
the figures "appeared to be too
' high."
'he press service said the Red
'air force has 11.000 men and a
total of 800 planes. Observers said
any MIGs involved probably would
ibe MIG15s. an obsolete version of
the Korean War fighter which
i Russia has disposed of in Egypt,
Syria and other countries,
i The East German peoples' army
iof 90.000 men contains two army
corps, each of two motorized and
I one armored division, plus one
I reserve armored division, she re
! port said.
ttire. taxes, and mvriad ntbpr furlm-a tn nrriva nt a fimlino" minds of many, with Manolete
that gross production is down and that consenuently a lot j KM,!!!" t"w"rid
or people aren t working. No one with a degree to his , popularity. But Mexico was now
name would ever admit that the whole blasted recession ; baseball mad and American
could be eased by such a thing as getting home construe- 'ye fotrall was introduced,
tion back on the track. Hut I'll bet my las. nicM that once( ZZt ired a'Domingum wYs"
iminuiiK m -i imiiv iimii inun jrear vp won i nsve nnyinanned from .Mexico for
irounie with prosperity,
trouble with inflation.
Jurors Deadlock
In Damage Case
Veterans' Benefits
Exempt From Taxation
SALEM Veterans were
reminded this week that most of
their benefits are exempt from
state and federal taxation.
The state Veterans Department
said taxes don't have to be paid
on these benefits:
Slate bonuses, all Veterans
Administration benefits including
educational subsistence, compen
sation and pensions Gl insurance
dividends, insurance proceeds paid
on death, mustcring-out pay. job
less benefits, social security bene
fits, workmen's compensation and
sickness benefits.
Taxes must be paid on interest
earnings from GI insurance divi
dends left on deposit, and retire
ment pay for length of service.
Portland Council
Considers Taking
Over Bus Lines
PORTLAND . The City Coun
cil meets here Thursday and may
consider a ballot measure that
could put Portland in the mass
transportation business.
Support for a municipally oper
ated transit system apparently
has swelled since the councd re
cently granted a five-cent fare
boost to the Rose City Transit Co.
j The increase was granted after
the company said it would pull its
! buses off the streets unless per
. milted to boost fares 5 cents to 25
cents for a single ride,
i The fare increase went into ef
, feet Sunday.
The council, by a simple major
ity vote, could put on the May
election ballot a measure calling
; for creation of a City Transit Com
mission. In addition, such a measure un
der plans discussed recently also
i would carry a seven million dol
lar bond issue to purchase equip
ment and a 10-year, levy to help
finance the municipal system.
it has been proposed that if a
municipal transit system is cre
ated, a 20-cent aduit fare be put
into effect for at least two years
Peter Edson !
i
Joe Garske. former Cottane
- .I.. .. . , ... . ' resmem. aucKfO during me iwo-
ward rapidly, according to most observers. Indications are dav trial Ibat Wells unlawfully
that, with better interest rates on housing, we'll see a lot took hu revolver in November,
more construction this vear. That will bring nitiek recov- l9,:' Allowing Garske's conviction
ery to our area. Hut the rest of the production field, which rondu'""'..." n ll"m1,'rly
had a ball while we were tightenine our belts, mav have to '""'iarske' sought J.mmkh) punitive
eat the crumbs from our table until the people finish build- damages, claiming Wells had a
ing their homes and start buving the thinirs thev need to "malicious intent ' in taking the
furnish those homes.
The gravy train will soon start rolling again. I be.
lieve. How quickly it will gain speed is something we
won't know until it gets underway. Personally, I think it
will be in hirh gear before we realize it.
Airways Modernisation Board To Confer On Site
WASHINGTON - The Air-
waya .none rnirauon Hoard will said the Orenn rf.i..n...
confer here, probably next week, include Pr John Richards, chan
wilh Oregon science and education cellor of the state Board of Higher
leaders, on the proposal to make Education, and Oregon Stale Col-
traff.c control test center ' 'g' Phus and engineering facul
In making the announcement
weapon.
Earlier Tuesdav. Judge Carl
Wimberly of Roseinirg ruled that
Ihe question of punitive damages
could not go to the niry because
Garske had failed to establish the
contention of malice.
'Ihe jury was hung on the issue
of whether Wells had unlawfully
laken Garske' gun. Ihe most
ih. d . . . . Garske could have collected in a
this week. Ren. Norh ad i R.iiri ..i- ..... .- . .
I s in Hint- vi-iimi wiMiiu navr nrrii
S.4!he market value of
weapon plus court costs.
A hung jury means the matter
of punitive damages can be pur
sued by Garske in a second trial.
Ernest I.undee, Garvke's attor
ney, contended the weapon had not
been concealed bv his client and
WASHINGTON (NEA) Eco
nomic policy discussion is today
considered more confused than it
has been since the depression 29
years ago
Ihe White House and Congress
seem to he working at cross pur
poses on the subject. Private busi
ness does not endor-.e what either
is trying to do. .Management and
labor spokesmen are at odds as
usual, only more so.
On the one hand you have Presi
dt'iit Eisenhower's messages to
Congress recommending cuts in
public works and certain social wel
fare programs. The purpose is said
to be providing moie monev for
missiles and higher education,
while slill keeping the budget with
in a half billion dollars or so of a
balance
The fact that the administration
has asked for a five billion dollar
increase in the national debt, to
?su billion, raises real doubts about
whether the budget can be bal
anced at all.
ly members. A definite date
be announced later
rill
CONGRESS GOES along on in.
creasing deiense expenditures It
may appropriate even more lhan
the the administration asks But pres-
sine is nuiuung up to oppose tne
administration proposed cuts in
reclamation projects, public assist
ance grants to Ihe stales and all
such measures intended to save
JTovernmenl monev.
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra
DAFFODILS SOON CUT
Ait early harvest of datfodils
and other bulb flowers, a big spe
cialty in the area, is reported from
the daffodil farms in Ihe Scott.
burg and Green Acres commune
Norblad said ihe hoard ,u K. that federal and tate conntutions Taft Qensun's proposals to cut farm
a .. t . . V . . '' him lh rlht 10 hr 'm' Price support level o a to reduce
the L'mpciua River, i made of
lold at the meeting of the facilities
available at fiie two schools if the
lest center is located near Cor-vallis.
St the center. Tests would be
, TRAIN KILLS MAN
ties alon
rruua are ueins nrnvi-iini now mr i lmnrnvina aiitmilM . i
the big marketa in PortlAM. j , ' ' "'
atlle and eastern cities, where an (lt conlro1 Progrnni to offset
early crop usually commands pre- traffic congestion.
miumiricea. The full Rooming of l ast week Norblad sns
the fields within 1 few weA is been told Corvalhs wa
exptjied to ittract thousands nf-iisoo possible sues beaa):
miilnra Bffatn this VMP r. " tv t h a hAr
'o
surpluses and save Ihe government
more bitltons get little sepport
In the 1 1 if tit nf these Hfi ,l,u,ninl
rollTI.AM) .f . t nion there are open charges that Ihe
Pacific passenger traia struck and Eisenhower budgets (or this vear
killed a man walking along the and nel are rmmiletelv unreal'isiir
visitors again this year.
vaifous suggestions (or, Hacks in Mocks Bottom, just south if not actually n. leading
ui mr iiiiuiei rniranre n eiinexiay. i ne re.im tie hind these cnarges
The man waaj not immediately is the lack of willingness to tighten
identified belts in Congress linger deficit
Company officials said he spending is in ht
climbed to the track near a In spue ef IhisnNatumal s,ict-
arajll bricUe ana walked into Ue ation of ?anufa.rers anC. l S
pam oi iv seaiue nound train. thamser of Commer,
which was flelsved 15 nxcutes Orf-nd ma far tax cuts
he had
one of
studied
rneim-
O O
WHITE HOUSE IS optimistic
about a business upturn this year.
A panel of executive experts be
fore the Joint Congressional Eco
nomic Committee could find little
evidence to support this hope.
The only prop seen for the econo
my was in increased spending for
national defense.
Meanwhile. Ihe proposals from
economic soothsayers of organized
labor unions make the bad busi
ness situation seem worse. And it is
not just Walter Reuther's new de
mands for profit sharing that
throw government and manage
ment economists into a ti7y.
Stanley J. Kuttenberg. director
of Ihe AEI. CK) department of re
search, is advocating a plan to "cut
federal taxes without cutting feder
al revenue." This tops the N A M -t'
S.C.C. scheme.
Ruttenberg'i idea is to increase
individual lax exemptions from
Moo to $700 a year. He would make
up nine billion dollars of the re
suiting revenue loss by closing all
special privilege tax loopholes
granted to business over many
years.
WHAT MOST BUSINESS leaders
have not yet admitted r that large
scale unemployment and lavoffs
last year have put the heat on un
ion officials for remedies that will
stabilize income
The theory of many labor union
economists seems to be that wage
increases now being demanded
in pile of decreased business
would increase purchasing power
and so restore prosperity Reuth
er s idea is to increase it by re
distributing profits.
Roth nf these theories htse just
neen aiiacsen nere or Benjamin F.
EairJess. president of Iron and
Steel Institute
How much of e labor evmand
is sou i-ae and how much of it is a
(jmoke screen to isvprnve bargain
ing position in forthcoming wage
necntttlions n of court debat
able, o
u
Below Normal Citrus
Crop Expected In Florida
TALLAHASSEE. Fla. A
below normal citrus crop can be
expected for Florida for the next
three seasons because of severe
cold, damage to trees, the gover
nors treeze damage task fotce
committee reports.
The mid - December wave of
freezing temperatures seriously
j damaged wood and foliage on
about one-eighth of Florida's bear
ing orange trees. Only .10 per cent
of the trees escaped with no ap
parent damage, the committee
said Thursday.
The December freeze trimmed
the 19:. .i9 citrus crop estimate to
155 million boxes. 27'a mil!ion
boxes less lhan the pre-cold wave
estimate and more than 20 million
boxes less than the I9."i6-S7 crop
"As a result of the January
freeze this forecast may he furth
er reduced," the committee said.
Return Visit Promised
By Tree Light Snatcher
LOITSVILI.E. Ky. Carl L.
Whitman is looking for a thought
ful thief with a light touch.
last December somebody stole
a $7 j0 string of Christmas tree
lights from his front yard.
Whitman found the lights on his
front norrh here this week along
with this penciled note:
"Dear friends:
"We are so indeed grateful of
the fact that you were kind
enough to let us borrow your tree
lights this Christmas, bur tree
sure sparkled. Sorry we are so
late in returning your lights: but
just be thankful that you got them
bark:
signed Grateful"
Whitman welcomed return of ihe
ligh'i Rut not this postcript:
"P S See you again next year."
Wholesale Food Prices
Move Higher This Week
NEW YORK .f Wholesale
food price, as measured by the
Dun 4 Rradstreet Food Index,
moved higher again this week.
At S6 52 the index compared
with Sfi 47 a week ago and was
back at the mi-SS high first es
tablished si the week ri Jan.
21. The future is the highest since
April liij This week s index is
. per cent ahose the U 1.1 for
tx similar week a year ago
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