T hursday ,
july 27. 1950
RROOKTNGS-HARBOR PILOT. BROOKINGS. OREGON
supply of natural rubber
Springfield Plani ’ normal
the needed alcohol from w’ood
—sawdust from our west
Vital In War Efford waste
ern mills. But with the same
w
By Harris Ellsworth, M C.
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WASHINGTON — Owe again
we face the possibility that our
will be shut off. This blow will
not fall immediately, if at all,
but we cannot ignore the fact
that when and if the vommun-
ists control Southeastern Asia —
including Malaya — we will be
back to the synthetic rubbei days.
We learned before that the
loss of our rubber supply was not
intensely serious.
We quickly
learned to produce enough very
good synthetic rubber.
There
was only one big defect: in our
synthetic rubber program during
World War 2—alcohol, the es-
^ntial ingredient of sjnthetic,
whs made from food products in
cluding grain, sugar cane and po
tatoes. Food products also tend
to become scarce when we are
at war.
The real answ’er, and the one
finally arrived at by the War
Production Board, is to pioduce
care-free abandon that charac
terized many of their other ef
forts during that period, the boy
ish optimists heading our feder
al government dumped the big
Springfield plant into ‘ surplus”
as soon as the war wa^ over.
Some of us here in Washington
did some hard battling to pre
vent the outright junking of the
§3,000,000 plant. Fortunately, it
was not junked, but was leased
to peopl? who are opei- ling at
least a part of it.
The blow’ to our rubber supply
will not fall for a while. It may
not fall at all. We have time to
get ready for it. The government
should proceed at once to get the
wood-sugar alcohol process per
fected and operating in the one
plant. Then plans for quick con
struction of other pants, based
upon the experience at Spring-
field, should be made ready for
quick action.
I have already started to hit
the offices of the defense pro
curement people and the resourc
es board urging such a program.
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and thoughtful people of this
area, who last Friday, helped us
at the time of the fire which
threatened our home. Such loyal
people, we believe, can be found
in no other place.
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est motel or mill site. Ii you are
headquarters, Selective Service
interested in any type of coast
system, issued a warning to men
business be sure you see this.
delinquent in registering or in
returning their questionnaires,
We have 12 acres w’th new I
“It may be necessary,’ stated
home overlooking Harris State
Col.
Francis W. Mason, deputy
Park. This could be made into a
beautiful estate. All W’e are ask- stai0 director,
to instruct all
ing of you is to make an offer. । local boards t« immediately class,
You may get this for a song and ify late registrants in 1-A and
sing it yourself. You can’s go order them for induction at the
next call.” It is evident that a
wrong by looking.
considerable number of young
6.89 acres'with practically new men in the state have failed to
homo, double garage,
chicken register. Ample time has been
house. deep well, all overlook- given them to correct this over
sight and unless there is definite
ing Harris State Park, and the
evidence that this type of de-
beach. One of the finest of views
—excellent gravel road. Finest
gas range. Servel refrigerator, a
floor furnace, davenport and a
desk. All this included in the
< low price of §6750 with some
Hours 10 ¿i. m. to 5 p. ni
terms.
Open Evenings 7:00 to 9:00
Dr. Silvia Challonei
2-bedroom house with 2 acres
on lovely Ocean View Drive. To
tal price only §4750 §750 down,
balance only §60 per month, in
cluding interest. Why pay rent?
At State Line
Smith River ( a!if( rn a
nokine harx e \
accredited teacher
In a speech on the floor of the
house during debate on the om
nibus appropriations bill, I made
the following comment:
"The Communists know they
have two possible ways of de
stroying our freedom. One is the
long method of infiltration and
dost ruction from within.
This
method involves at least two
steps; the first is government con
trol under a system called social
ism. This step would be follow
ed fairly soon by communism and
Russian domination. The other
route they might choose for ob
taining their objective would have
the advantage of speed, destruc
tion, chaos, and would make in
termediate
steps unnecessary.
This plan involves a shooting
war. But to the Communist de
struction and military success is
not enough. Our people must be
forced to place themselves under
dictatorship for a war emergency.
“It is obvious. I think, that the
enemy could prolong such an
emergency to any length that
suited its purpose.”
Apparently the Russians may
be combining all methods to de
stroy our free system of gov
ernment.
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Congress has heard the sug
gestion of the president for leg
Representative
islation necessary to deal with Minnesota is not
the Korean trouble. His recom formed regarding
mendations also looked to pre- than any other
government, he is objective and
fair-minded. Recently he made
what I think was the outstand
ing. statesmanlike speech of this
81st congress. He talked for al
most an hour reviewing United
States-Asiatic developments from
1930 to date. Although between
two and three hundred members
were on the floor at the time,
you could hear a pin drop the
attention was so keen. When he
concluded his remarks every
member jumped to his feet and
applauded.
1 understand some re-prints of
his speech are being made. I’ve
asked him to send me a few and
shall be glad to send one to any
one who wants to read it- and
it is mighty well worth careful
reading. Just write me a let ter
or post card.
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Less than two weeks before
the attack on Southern Korea
began, Deputy ECA Administra-
tor William C. Foster told the
senate foreign relations commit-
t ee :
“In my judgment, the trend of
event sin South Korea is more
fax orable than it has been at
any time since the liberation of
that country in 1945. The reasons
for my optimism are military, po
litical and economic. It is my
considered opinion that in the
face of great difficulty the gov
ernment of the Republic of So.
Korea is now steadily gaining
strength in each of these three
sectors.
“A rigorous training program
has built up a well-disciplined
army of 100,000 soldiers; one that
i is prepared to meet any chall
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enge by No. Korean forces.”
Walter Judd of
‘Apparently, in addition to our
only better in numerous other troubles we do
China and Asia not actually know what is going
person now in on in the world.
Stock Op Before It’s Too Late !
Things Are Tough—and are getting tougher!!
Paper, the Pilot was informed last week, will go
higher in price, with some grades, possibly, not
cbtainab e. While these prices changes have not
come through, they will soon show up
ANYONE NEEDING any type of printing now,
or who anticipate need, order now before prices
do go up. At present most may be supplied with
cut trouble—later, the story may be different
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paredness against future devel
opments. whatever and wherever
they might happen to be.
It seems to me we now have
no other choice than to do most
of the things the president sug-
gests. It is a grim outlook. We
have been pushed to the edge
of the precipice. The alternatives
are possible destruction by resist-
ing or certain destruction by go
ing over.
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3-bedroom town home in good
location. Only thing wrong with
this is the price. It’s too low’ at
§4700. .with §750 down and bal
ance like rent. You know what
the papers say “low down pay-
ments are going up.”
Many other better buys - whe
ther it’s standard time, day-L*e
savings time, our time is your
. time, so call on us any time.
linquency is at a minimum it
will be necessary to treat them
as delinquents as is provided in
the selective service act.
Attention is also called to the
fact that those registrants who
fail to return their questionnaires
and are therefore classified 1-A
as delinquents are subject to re
ceive orders to report for induc
tion even though they may have
passed their 26th birthday “The
Registration Card”, continued
Col. Mason, “is not evidence of
a man’s age. The questionnaire
is only basis for classification
which simply m^ans that no lo
cal board may place a registrant
in Class 5-A, oxer 26 years old,
unless it has a signed question
naire in its possession.”
The attorney general of the
United States has ruled that lo
cal police, any law’ enforcement
officer or even a private citizen
can make an arrest if there is
probable cause for believing a
felony has been committed. “This
simply means,” concluded Col.
Mason, “that any local board
member may himself make an
arrest or request and expect the
assistance of any law enforce
ment officer wherever it is felt
there is a delinquency under the
selective service act.” Col. Ma
son further explained that when
ever an arrest was accomplished
under these circumstances the
United States Marshal should be
immediately contacted.
Land Of Opportunities
Tractor Worf:
Owen Crocker
P. O. Box 392 or call -i
Cabin No. 7, at
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