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Bes1i.ter-G.iaro', Eugene. Ore., lTiiiri.. Aug. 81. 1947PagH, AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER (Published rvtry Svbdui ud Suodarl EDITOR AND PUBUSHXH a..,,."0!. MANAGING EDITOJa William M Tuffmaa NEWS BEHVIC1 AMOCl.trt Pr,M. OnlWO He. ' UXMBER Audit Bureau of Circulation EnMretf t lb Pott Otbca at liwa, Oregon, u ucono- matter. Thm Rcaiatar-Ouard'a poll la tba eompiata and Impartial DubUcatloa IB Ita mwi paga of all iww and tutasnanu ob ' nwm. On Shla pal the adltora atf Tha Resutar-Cuard ofan their opinion on eveou of the day and nature of Importance lo tn, oomuunlre. endeavoring to be candid but fair and -tatoful la the development of eoaatructlea immunity poller- Beware Another Tillamook " ; Wednesday's warning from the U. S. For est Service that man-caused blazes in the Willamette National Forest this season show -fin increase of 100 per cent over 1946 is another warning that during the fire period Lane County is continually sitting on a keg -of dynamite. Almost any one of this season's fires could have been another Tillamook Burn. . Educational work, such as that conducted by Keep Oregon Green, plus improved con trol methods, closer cooperation and continu ed vigilance have enabled us in recent years to escape such a disister as the Tillamook Burn. And maybe we have been lucky, too. But we cannot depend on luck ever. And it is just in such periods as the present, when we are "getting by" without serious fires, that human nature is prone to relax and take it for granted that the battle is won. From now until the fire season is over, we should all exercise extreme caution. Not long ago a writer in a lumber maga zine pointed out that the Tillamook Burn was responsible in some measure for the mi gration of the lumber industry south from Portland to the Eugene and Roseburg re gions. To the extent that. this is true, the boom in these areas i based upon a disaster in another region. And this is grim testimony . to the fact that a similar fire could leave Eu gene's economy badly crippled. That is why we are sitting on a keg of dynamite that could be set off by one oareless toss of a match or cigaret, by an uncontrolled camp fire, or even by a wayward spark. It could happen here. within the immediate area. This is seldom necessary, if certain basics can be brought together. Southern Oregon is on the right track in searching for small highly specialized in-, dustries instead of vast heavy industries which are rather improbable, and it is par Paper Supply Found Better Paper is becoming more plenti ful in practically all shapes and .. i , j , ... j, ,i. sizes except ior newsprint, local ticularly sound in emphasizing the develop- paper deaers are hapy Ifm ment of a healthy, attractive community port This means more paper- a good place to live, lhank uod we can l an board for boxing, cartons for ship- be Pittsburghs. ping, paper handkerchiefs and writing paper, envelopes and One can always learn something new. ... ' M. The Greeks are a warlike nation preying on I per, tissues, towels and standard the subjects of a poor little country called b are hard to obtain in . sufficient quantities to fill all de- Russia. mands. On the other hand, deal- ers say that they are able to se- Wayne Morse says he chose "attack" in- j cure whatever they need in the stpaH of "defense" in his homecomins SDeech!way 01 Paperboard products. to Rotary. Some of the boys call it "the offensive." This increase in supply, it was pointed out, is due in some mea sure to the boost that the indus try received from war-time re- TVie OrHpr nf th Biipov Ride is Dlanninp'quirements. Paper has found , t- f, j n 1.1- r many new applications and uses, a session to define "a good Republican. Mc-iSO tat u competes witn Ourk says if they am t careiul they 11 all be: other materials. good another 16 years." The guys who split the atom are wonder ful but the real genius these days is the housewife who can split the pork chop. WASHINGTON LETTER NEA By PETER EDSON Was'.iington Correspondent Survey Of Southern Oregon Down in Jackson and Josephine counties they have Just completed an analysis of their economic and Industrial resources. The Chambers of Commerce hired a gentleman named Robert Hammersley, of Boise, to do the job and apparently he did a very satis factory piece of work. Judging by Herb Gray's comment in The Medford Mail Tribune. His most interesting conclusions: Agriculture which brings In more than J31 000,000 year In Jackson nd Josephine is and will be the mainstay of their economy. Timber Industries are second In Import and an Intensive study of wood chemical and -other by-product processes Is to be encouraged along with sustained yield praotlce. Mining and minerals are not as active as formerly but have) possibilities with modern methods. Scenery and recreaMon are among the re gion's greatest assets. . Transportation and distance te markets re main a problem. In short, Mr. Hammersley points to LIGHT INDUSTRY and the key to balanc ing the economy of Southern Oregon. Dreams of a Southern Oregon Pittsburgh are futile. And one of Southern Oregon's best bets is to sell "the good life." From time to time nearly every com munity indulges In these surveys. Most of them do little more than confirm what the natives already know. An outsider checks the inventory. In this case, the outsider seems to have done an extremely conservative and intelligent Job. There is a new twist on this "industrial survey" business in what is called the Raw Materials Survey (or Service) sponsored by the Portland Chamber of Commerce with many smaller towns participating. General Robbins Is the chairman. This group does NOT make overall inventories or reports. It has a permanent engineering staff and it hunts the answer to specific industrial ques tions. For -instance if Southern Oregon had an inquiry: "Can use your high test silica sands In our process hut what Is your situation on soda ash and lime, labor, water and freight rates?" One of the most common errors in com munity "bootstrap-lifting" is the yearning to find everything in the way of resources Playing Politics With Sugar (This is the second of three dispatches on the Sugar Act of 1948) WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (NEA) Biggest political enigma of the last session of Congress was the Sugar Act of 1948. A Democratic White -House administration, supposed to be opposed to cartels, allowed the U. S. mainland and off-shore sugar producers to dictate a bill which sets up a virtual sugar trust. A Republican Congress supposed to be dedicated to free enterprise passed a bill which is run of controls. It was smart politics, all right, to get the bill passed this year. That avoids seven months of1 wrangling in 1948. When the industry-written bill hit the House! floor a little over a month ago, however, it im-! mediately drew fire. Hep. John W. Flannagan of Virginia, former chairman of the House Committee j on Agriculture, in which the New Deal's original ; ft sugar quota control legislation had been written, called the new act, "the most vicious piece of price- j fixing ever proposed in Congress. I am in the role of the lone wolf," said Flannagan. "I am the only one who will oppose this bill." Flannagan wanted to know what the State De partment's 202-e amendment to collect claims from sugar-producing countries in default to U. S. citi zens really meant. Who would produce sugar that would be cut from the quotas of these defaulting countries? Hastily the bill was amended to give such) quotas to U. S. producers. Fight On Old Provisions One of the changes which Secretary of Agri culture Clinton Anderson had proposed was to strike out several provisions carried over from the Din sugar Act oi 1HJ7. iney required U. S. sugar growers to pay their labor a fair wage and to ob serve child labor standards. On Flannagan's insistence, plus pressure from CIO sugar workers' unions and the Florida and Louisiana cane growers, these provisions went back in. That was the only fight, however, made against the bill In the House. In the Senate, the bill had a narrower squeak. With only five days of the session remaining. Sen. Dennis Chavez of New Mexico began to get ex cited about Section 202-e. He offered an amend ment to kill it. The sugar lobby boys began to sweat blackstrap molasses. If the Chavez amendment car ried, the bill would go back to the House. There wasn't time for the House to act, and. In that case, the bill would be dead. It came up for final consideration en the next to the last day of the session. The debate was hot and the vote was close. But in the end the State Department's Section 202-e was kept in, 42 to 40. After that, passage of the bill was a mere formality. Says Bill Insures Fair Prices The fight since then, however, has gone on un abated. The sugar Industry people and the Depart ment of Agriculture feel that the act has been given a black eye because of the State Department amendment, which hides the other provisions of the bill. The new bill, they claim, will stabilize the industry and Insure supply in line with demand at lair prices. In working out wartime contracts for the Cuban sugar crop, the U. S. government provided that the price of sugar would advance automatically as the cost of food index went UD. There are certain price guarantees for domestic sugar producers in the new bill, carried over from the act of 1937. There are benefit payments to cane and beet growers who stay within their allotted acreages. And if growers are also producers, they are guaranteed a fair price for their cane or beets. regardless of the price of refined sugar. Money to pay these benefits comes from a tax on the refining of raw sugar imported into the United States. Normally the refiners want a low price for raw sugar which they refine. In this bill they have gone along with the rest of the industry to support a higher stabilized price for everybody. But at the most. Industry spokesmen claim all these guarantees would raive the price of sugar to the consumer from i to , rents a pound. For example, shipping sacks widely displaced cotton and bur lap bags during the war, and even substituted for wood and metal boxes, one dealer explained. In the opinion of some of the deal ers, they now appear to be hold ing their own and even gaining in popularity. The supply of newsprint does not reflect the rise in domestic production of paper because most of the newsprint is imported from Canada and other countries, pa per dealers explained. They esti mated that only about 20 per cent of newsprint requirements are produced in this country. For Golden Guersney milk call Echo Hollow Dairy. Phone 2935J2. 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Head for llanfnrd The commission lale Wednes day left for Hanford. Wash., after a series of conferences here with directors and technicians of the nation's atomic projects. Science I.illenthal aald. Is still dlsslng Into the "bare farts of life" about atomic enerny. There has been some unavoidable de lay In recruiting "people and equipment" for projects but fundamental research has been "not disappointing." "The only disappointment." he added, "is due to a dashing of hones that should not have been put forward in the first place hopes of those who said atomic power is just around the corner. "But then things neer go as fast as we want and never quite keep up with what the needs of the world are." Tribute raid He paid tribute to I'mversity of California scientists who discov- Oregon Guard Wants 1590 Additional Men SAI.FM (! "Oregon's ob jective is 1.V0 officers and men" in the two-months recruiting cam paign for the National Guard vlurh opens Sept. 18, acting Ad jutant General Raymond F. Olson said this week. Proclaimed by President Tru man as National Guard Day. Sept. IB is the seventh anniversary of the entrance of the National Guard inio federal service in 1940. ered the element plulonium and developed the cyclotron here. "Bear in mind." Lilienthal said, "that great things are going on here now . . . which may well be more important than the discov ery of gold in California 100 years ago." Commission members on the western trip also Include Dr. Robert F. Bacher, Ithaca, N. Y.: Lewis L. Strauss, and Sumner T. Pike. New York: and William W. Savmack. editor of the Des Moines, la.. Register. WINDOW & lH)OR s ni;i:xs 30e per square foot and up. BARRETT SCREEN SHOP to7 Wishlnrlnn St. Sial ertakl Ballad, ee aatlr, ere aaa We tlaiaiae. ee eeftl kit trata m4 e nm. 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