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LA GRANDE OBSERVER """" Observer, Lt Grande, Or., Thurt., Oct. 22, 1959 Page 9 irrrn ORGANIZATION MEETING Members of the fact-finding board appointed by Pre sident Eisenhower in the steel strike, pose for pictures as they meet to organize in Washington D.C. Members are (left to right) John A. Perkins, Pres. Univ. of Dela ware; George W. Taylor, Wharton School, Univ. of Penna., chairman and Paul N. Lehoczky, Columbus, Ohio. ' Uncle Sam Is Biggest Operator Of Automobiles In The Nation By FRANK ELEAZER UPI Staff WritM- WASHINGTON (UPI) Rep. Walter Rogers D-Tex.), who is regularly upset by the growth of of our government, announced recently that Uncle Sam owned 224.956.000 automobiles, a car pool of a size which Rogers found "somewhat" disturbing. Well, it turned out that Rogers had made a slight and under standable error, likely to be made by anybody subjected daily to the official sedans, station wag ons, and limousines that swarm over Washington and especially around Capitol Hill. His mistake was one of three decimal points. Actually, the gov ernment owns and operates, at last count, something like 224,956 vehicles, which merely makes Un cle Sam the biggest fleet opera tor in history. Most of the cars are Fords, Chevrolets, and Plymouths. The government fleet, which includes trucks but no tactical military ve hicles, logs two billion miles year ly. Naturally the pressure always is on to cut costs of all this tour ing around. To Ordtr Economy Cars So government buyers next 'Space Man' Out Of Job? WASHINGTON (UPI It looks as though the space scientists, eminent doctors all, are trying to do the space working man out of a job. If they succeed, it will be a case of technological unemploy ment claiming a victim before the victim ever had a chance to get on the payroll. Dr. Fred L. Whipple, director of the Smithsonian Institution's Astrophysical Observatory at Cambridge, Mass., says "telepup pets" will build the first space platforms from which to launch expeditions to the moon and planets. As described by Whipple in a report to the Office of Naval Re search, telcpuppets are remotely controlled robots with television eyes. They would bear little resem blance to the popular image of a pressure-suited construction work er, with a couple of siphon bottles on his back, getting about the job of assembling platforms in space. Whipple rejects the idea of hu man workers in space on the ground that their suits would be awkward, inefficient, and "prob ably very dangerous." All it would take to end such a work er's careeer would be one little meteor traveling fast enough to puncture his pressure suit. The Russians also appear to prefer mechanical to flesh and blood men for space labor. A So viet scientific article recently cir culated here suggests that moon stations will be built by tank-like robots controlled from the earth by radio. month will go out to order some of the big. three's new economy cars. Surprisingly enough, one of the big questions is, can they buy and run 'em any cheaper than the standard models? Ford's Falcon, Chevrolet's Cor vair, and Plymouth's Valiant are supposed to sell in the showroom for a couple of hundred dollars less than their big brothers. But our government doesn't buy its cars out of the showroom. It buys them from the factory, in lots of hundreds and sometimes thou sands. On June 11, the General Serv ices Administration, which does all the car-buying for non mili tary agencies, picked up its most recent big batch of plain passen ger cars. As always, it asked for bids. As usual it got several. The result was it bought 800 four-door, six-cylinder Fords for $1,475 each, including federal ex cise tax. No trade-ins were in volved. Only freight charges were extra. Cart Partially Equipped These cars must have been stripped, you probably figure. Maybe the wheels weren't in cluded. Wrong. Except for radio, they came equipped like people buy 'em in showrooms, including fresh air heater - defroster, auto matic transmission, undercoat, windshield washer, outside mir ror, and even a cigaf lighter. Overall, the government buys 35,000 to 40,000 new cars and trucks yearly. When they're worn out, they are sold at auction. Ex cept for special purpose cars, like those used for police work, the law says we can't pay more than $1,500 each for sedans and $1,950 tor station wagons. If the seller can't meet this price, there's no sale. Maybe that's one reason we get such a bargain in government cars. There are other reasons, includ ing the fact we buy in big lots and.' usually, at times when as sembly lines aren't running full. That's why it is still not certain how widely the new compact cars will replace standard models in the government fleet. Nobody knows yet what kind of price manufacturers will offer on the small cars. Maybe they won't be able to shave bids on these cars as deep, proportionately, as on the regular models. Doesn't Know Maintenance Nor does the government know anything yet about operation and maintenance costs of the new lighter cars. With regular cars, it has set a high economy standard. Car costs in pools, including de preciation, have been cut to 7.3 cents per mile. However, specifications are now CHURCH MAKES PROFIT LONDON (UPI I The Church of England, a top investor in Brit ish industry, made a "paper" profit of about 42 million dollars In the stock market boom that ac companied the Conservative Par ty election victory, it was' report ed Sunday. CONGRATULATIONS AND VERY BEST WISHES To Ford Tire Service on their GRAND OPENING Leonard Foliz General Conlracior COVE, ORE. being drafted to coven the com pacts. Early next month, the gen eral services administration win advertise for bids on maybe 10, 000 cars, including a substantial but still undisclosed number of compacts, for delivery in Febru ary. March and April. Meantime, our top car buyers still tend to travel in taxis. Ve spile all they've done to keep down the cost of driving govern ment cars, they told a House committee they took cabs to Capitol Hill. It s cheaper that way, they explained. Sub Sabotage Probe By FBI PORTSMOUTH. N.H. (UPD The FBI and naval intelligence officers today investigated the possibility of sabotage aimed at this country's nuclear submarine fleet. Capt. Carl A. Johnson, acting commander of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, disclosed Tues day that the nation's first nuclear powered sub, the Nautilus, had sustained "apparently intentional" damage. Johnson said he did not know of any other ships or submarines being damaged at the yard, hut added that it was a -qualified;' answer. Shipyard officials refused to comment on reports of fires, broken pipes and other incidents at the yard. In Groton, Conn., extreme se curity precautions were in force at the Atlantic submarine base and the nearby Electric Boat yard where the world's biggest atomic-powered submarine, the twin-reactor Triton, is scheduled to be commissioned Nov. 10. Johnson said the damage to the Nautilus, the first submarine in the world to sail beneath the North Pole icecap, involved the cutting of a number of electrical cables but did not extend to the vessel's nuclear reactor. FBI agent Leo L. Laughlin, in charge of the Boston office, said his men were called into the in vestigation to determine if feder al laws were broken. Sabotage of government proper ty is a violation of federal law. An undisclosed number of the 9,000 workmen at the shipyard and crew members of the Nauti lus already has been questioned, it was learned. Venezuela's President In Midst Of Revolution Against Regime By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Staff Writtr Venezuelan President Itomulo Bela'in int. a veteran revolution ary, to-lay finds himself threat ened by a revolution against his own citflil -months-old regime. Official s'atenients blame the new w ave of violence sweeping the Venezuelan capital of Caracas upon ousted one time (Ik later President .Marcos Pcrei Jimenez and his supiiorters and UHn Do minican dictator Lconidas Rafael Trujillo Molinas. There is no doubt thai either Perez Jimenez or Trujillo would be most happy to see Betantourt's government fall, and it well mnv be that Betancourt's days in of fice are numbered. But so far the wave of unrest sweeping Caracas and the oil city of Maracaibo seems unorganized. It appears to be the result of Venezuela's own lopsided economy rather than the efforts of Betan court's political enemies. Controlled By Dictators Of the 10 republics on the South American continent. Venezuela is the richest, its oil revenues alone total more than half a billion dol lars annually. But for most of the last 50 years it has lived in a political vacuum, under dictatorships which recognized neither political parties nor civil liberties. A magnificent new highway winds its way up from the Carib bean port of La Guaira to Cara cas. In Caracas is the beautiful officers' club, the university and the university hospital. These are evidences of Venezuela's wealth. But they take no account of the fact that of Venezuela's total population of a little more than six million, some three and a half million barely eke out an existence. Also not taken into account is Hie 6.r per cent illiteracy rate among the people, the 170.000 un employed, the 600.000 children without classroom space Communists Find Entry Nur do the outward evidences ot Venezuela's wealth take into ac count the fact lh.it its economic unbalance has piowded a perfect entry for the Communists whose numbers juni'cl hum around . 000 a few years ,,u to more than ihi.ikmi today. It was into this situation that Hctancouit stcpnl some eight months aea. after one of Vene zuela's rare fn-e elections. Bi'tancourl, politirally left, an nounced immediately that Com munists would have no part in his government He made equally clear they were not welcome at the presidential palace. But his Democratic Action Par ty. with Uilmr as its backlMine. contains admitted Communist, many of them ri the oil fields. In l!H."i. it uas Heiaiicourt. at a previous lime in power, who reac hed the 50 50 split agreement with the oil companies which now is a standard the world over. This time, through a new tax plan, he made it BO 40 in favor of the gov eminent. At the same time, he anni l an aiiilntiuiis program designed! to spread Venezuela's wealth III the latter, he has not been out standingly successful, ami he iI'm-s not have the entire supoit of the army. Thai's why his days may lie nuiiilxTcd. A Wesson Caramels ( fyS teisoo OIL K,.it, fi-Nv-vOSrO Oil VLW'ftXPl I II Origin Of The Moon? Photographs May Tell MOSCOW (UPD The world's scientists may be able to figure out the origin of the moon through Soviet photographs of its hidden side, a Russian professor said to day. But its secret side is expected to look pretty much like its visi ble side, one spokesman said. Izvestia. the Soviet govern ment's official newspaper, hinted that the "unprecedented'' pictures taken by their Lunik on its lop sided swing around the moon would he turned over to-Uastron- omers of all nations." 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