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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Lilienihal Says Alomic Power
Nol ' Just Around the Corner'
BERKELEY. Calif. (UPA David
E Lilienthal chairman of the U. S
Atomic Energy Commission, said
Thursday this country must ex
tend Its leadership In that field
but will have to wait awhile for
atomic power plants.
-The fart is." Mlienlhal told a
Tress conference "that this com
mission considers it to be Its duty
and Is determined to accomplish
the goal that this country should
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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.
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COUNTY FAIRS
August County, August 21
23, Deer Island, Columbia
Count.', Oregon; Payette
County, August 2 1-23, New
Plymouth, Idaho; Crook
County (including Crooked
River Roundup), August
22-24, Prineville, Oregon;
Clackamas County, August
27-30, Canby, Oregon; Ska
git County (4-H Club,
August 27-30, Mt. Vernon,
Washington.
4H CLUB & Ft A FAIR
August 21-23
McMinnville, Oregon
The Fair is followed by the
Yamhill County Sheriffs
Posse on August 24 in Mc
Minnville. ELGIN STAMPEDE
August 22-24
Moore Field,
Elgin, Oregon
SALMON DEPRY
August 23-24
Port Townsend,
Washington
WESTERN IDAHO
STATE FAIR
August 26-30
Boise, Idaho
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Hot weather means dust
Dust means corrosion. Cor
rosion, like rough roads, is
one of the most damaging
enemies ol your battery.
Normally-used batteries
should 6ive you top per
formance for nearly three
years. But they seldom do
because they're not cared
for properly. Your nearest
Richfield dealer is an ex
pert battery doctor. See
him tomorrow before your
starter tells you-your bat
tery's died a too-early
death.
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