America-Canada Air Defense
Pact Asked by A-Energy Chief
NEW YORK Rep. W. Ster
ling Cole (R-NY), asserting the So
viets soon could launch a "satura
tion attack against our nation."
called Thursday night for an American-Canadian
air defense pact to
hasten the erection of outflung de
fenses. Cole, chairman of the Senate
House Atomic Energy Committee,
said American scientists "have de
vised radical new weapons and
electronics devices." including
alomic warheads, which promise
"hitherto unattainable degrees of
success" in intercepting e.nemy
planes.
Bu;. he adf'd in a speech at a
Colgate University banquet that
adequate defense depends upon
correlation of weapons and suffi
cient warning time
Defense Interdependent
Cole said Canada's defense is in
terdependent with that of the Unit
ed States and he proposed:
"That our government, as speed
ily as possible, enter into a mutual
continental defence pact with Can
ada, under the authority of the
United Nations, comparable in pur
pose, scope and organization with
the North Atlantic Treaty Organi
zation (NATO' "
He said this should create a
North American continental de
fense organization, under a su
preme commander, with American
and Canadian land, sea and air
forces assigned to it.
Threat Faced
Conceding that such a North
American defense organization
would be "radical and unprece
dented." Cole said it would be no
more so "than the threat we now
face from the Soviet Union."
"I submit that all other consid
erations notwithstanding, it would
he suicidal for Canada and the
United States not to recognize the
new . dimensions to sovereignty
brought by the threat of atomic
and hyrlrogen warfare." he said.
Cole said it might be debatable
whether the Soviets "could now
mount an attack of such intensity
and scope that oW ability to retal
iate would be eliminated," but he
added:
Saturation Attack
"Three or four years from now,
the Soviets will be able to launch
a saturation attack against our Na
tion an attack so massive that
our ability ultimately to prevail
may be open to grave question.
"Were an attack to occur this
week, or this year, we would have
no effective way of repelling it."
A 100 per cent defense against
assault is impossible. Cole said,
but:
"It is. within our capacity, to in
flict such losses on raiding forma
tions that an enemy will in all
probability be dissuaded from cast
ing the tide for intercontinental
atomic war and be kept from deal
ing us a mortal blow even if he
does."
Since 1950 American scientists,
including some who developed the
atomic bomb, have "made a ser
ies of discoveries which promise
to revolutionize the science of mili
tary' defense as much as nuclear
bombs have revolutionized offen
sive warfare," Cole said.
He mentioned guided missiles,
new high performance rocket - car
rying jei interceptors and ""small
scale atomic weapons specifically
designed for the interception of
enemy aircraft."
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and Erest G. Swigert. Portland
businessmen, spid Thursday they
and 75 others from over the na
tion will inspect Florida. Virginia ,
and Georgia military installations
' next month at the invitation of
i Defense Secretary Wilson.
Woodbury, who will fly with i
Swigert to Washington. DC, Sun
day, said purpose of the tour is
to acquaint civilians better with
how defense funds are spent.
Monday Woodbury and T. Mor
ris Dunne, chairman of the Ore
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Commission, will attend the Presi
dent s conference on occupational
safety.
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No one has as yet come for
ward with the claim that he has
actually seen a Douglas fir tree
grow. But, this is not outside the
realm of possibility.
Young, growing trees of this
species average 6 inches a month
in height growth from May
through August or 2 feet a grow
ing season, according to W. D.
Hagenstein, managing director of
the Industrial Forestry Associa
tion. Some trees in rain-favored
areas like the Oregon and Wash
ington coastal counties have made
a measured gain of as much as six
feet in a single growing season.
West of the Cascade mountain
range in the two states are more
than 12 million acres of new for
ests, Hagenstein observed, which
are pushing upward toward the
sun at an amazing rate. At the
same time, he said, these same
young trees are growing in diam
eter from a quarter inch to an
inch a year.
Grows Straight, Tall
"It is the rapid increase in
height," the forester stated,
"which gives this species one ot
its great values. The Douglas fir
tree, while stretching upward to
keep its needles exposed to sun
light, grows straight as well as
tall." i
"These tall, straight and slim
trees," he stated, "supply man j
with many of his needs. Douglas ;
fir piling, spars and poles, some
as tall as 150 feet, are in demand
around the world for docks,
wharfs, utility poles, whip spars
?nd masts, keel timbers, dredge
spuds and many other uses. This ;
wood js strong and tough and
when sawed into long timbers has
great structural strength. Shorter
lengths of fir are glued together
into arches and trusses which
n.ay span an area over 200 feet;
wide without supporting posts for
the strength of the wood is built
into the fibre by nature."
Present-day forest management,
as practiced on West Coast tree
farms, Hagenstein said, will in- j
sure a continuing supply of these ,
valuable long-length trees as long !
as there are people to use them t
Forests Protected
He cited several tree farm de
velopments which help guaran
tee continuing crops of trees.
Better forest fire protection has
greatly reduced the number of
m a n-c a u s e d forest fires and
sharply cut the area burned, has
been of untold importance in pro
tecting young timber. Intensive
. i . , - . i
tree planting ana uireci seeding j
by private lorest owners ana gov
ernment agencies in recent years
to put non-stocked areas into new
forests brings the region closer to
a full timber crop.
He said modern logging meth
ods, tied closely tn good forest
Oppenheimer
Work Praised
By President
WASHINGTON JPi President
Eisenhower expressed respect and
admiration Thursday for what he
called the very great professional
attainments of J. Robert Oppen
heimer. the scientist who has been
suspended as an adviser to the
Atomic Energy Commission pend
ing a security check.
The President was asked at his
news conference whether the Op
penheimer case was reopened as
a routine application of the govern
ment's new security order or be
cause there was some new infor
mation. Eisenhoweer replied that bfe
was a case which, because of its
character, seemed to him should
be handled only in accordance with
the processes that have been laid
down by scientists and others in
the most delicate and sensitive
subject of scientific research in
the government.
Oppenheimer helped direct the
building of the first American atom
bomb.
The President commented that
he had the greatest admiration for
all scientific men and is keenly
aware of the debt America owes
them.
He referred to evidence in the
Oppenheimer case and then cor
rected himself.
He said emphatically he wanted
to change the word evidence to al
legations that because of allega
tions it seemed that the only thing
to do was to assemble the kind of
investigating board that had been
agreed upon in the past, and that
he secured the services of one of
the firest Americans he knows to
head it.
This was a reference to Gordon
Gray, president of the University
of North Carolina and former Sec
retary of the Army, who was ap
pointed chairman of the three-man
inquiry board. The board has been
working in the utmost secrecy
since Oppenheimer's suspension
was announced April 13
Until the board has reached a
conclusion, Eisenhower said, he is
not going to comment further.
Then, expressing his admiration
for Oppenheimer's scientific attain
ments, he said that this is the kind
of thing that must be gone through
with, and he thought it best that it
no be talked about too much until
it is known that answers there
may be.
practices, insure rapid natural re-
growth from solid seed blocks
left next to harvested areas. An
other end product of modern ma
chinery which is good for forest
ry, he said, is the effect of pow
er logging.
Permit Allows
Construction
Of Warehouse
Construction permit for build
ing a $3,500 warehouse at 1180
Bellevue St., was issued Thurs
day by the city engineer's office
to the O. W. Klang Wrecking
Company.
The warehouse, to be used for
sale of used lumbe. and plumb
ing equipment, is expected to be
open for business in the next few
weeks.
Two $7,000 permits were is
sued Thursday to the General
Realty Co., for construction of
dwellings at 2335 Rural St.. and
2295 Rural St. Construction per
mits for new homes also were is
sued to Ed Fischer, $10,000 home
at 705 Wildwind Dr., and J. A.
Barham, an $8,000 dwelling at
1320 Olive St
Other permits went to W. E.
Pulse, reroof garage, 1240 N. 4th
St, $50: Harvey M. Hill, erect
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For Test Lack
ASTORIA (ifv Preliminary hear
ing has been set for Norman Ray
mond, Portland, on a charge of
bringing cattle untested for Bangs
disease into Clatsop County, a
compulsory test area.
The complaint is one of the first
of. its kind filed under a 1953 law,
Dlst. Atty. Thomas E. Brownhill
said.
Dr. H. M. Adams, deputy Gat
sop County veterinarian, charged
in the complaint that some 14
yearling Hereford heifers were
found without ear tags, indicating
they had not been tested within
30 days for brucellosis Bangs dis
ease.
The new law provides a maxi
mum fine of $500.
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PENDLETON Oregon.
Washington and Idaho Society of
Friends (Quaker) churchmen
wound up a three-day convention
here Thursday.
The Rev. Milo Ross, president j
of George Fox College at New- j
berg, addressed the final session.
About 100 ministers, their wives
and missionaries attended.
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