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Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore.,; .Page 2 Sun., Jan. 13, 1952 Unequal Power Supplies Seen l Government Asked To Alter Program WASHINGTON VP) Insuffi cient electric power in some areas and an oversupply in others is predicted unless the federal gov ernment revamps its electric pow der expansion program. ' An official committee of power 'experts said the Great Lakes and 'Gulf area especially face a ma )jor power shortage problem in the face of a heavy defense load. : The group said the Northwest and Far West, excluding the Pacific i Northwest, have prospects lor "in 'creased surplus." The committee recommended that the government restudy its expansion plans, correct "these 'geographic maldistributions" and . work out a "realistic" program for the next three years. : The Defense Production Admin istration (DPA) issued a summary of the committee's report Friday but said it had reached no deci sion on the recommendation. The committee was created by DPA ' last September during the power and aluminum crisis in the Pa ; cific Northwest. - The committee said the expan sion plans may not provide suf ' ficicnt power facilities. But it said a speed-up in production may be difficult because manufacturers of , generating equipment are booked to capacity through 1953. Training Plane Lost in Alaska : FAIRBANKS, Alaska OT An Air Force plane with five men ,. aboard was missing in the Alaska i interior Saturday after the pilot radioed he was "hopelessly lost. The plane, a C-47, was on a ' round trip training flight from Eielson Air Force Base near here to Umiat, 300 miles north of Fair- banks. The distress message came at 12:45 a.m. It said the pilot thought , he was near Northway, Alaska, o?: ; which is 250 miles south ; banks. By 9 a.m. the plane would have i been out of gasoline. ! Planes immediately started a wide search. Flue Fires Bring End ; To Four Days of Quiet Two Saturday afternoon flue ' fires broke a four-day spell with out an alarm for the Eugene Fire Department. The 96-hour fire-less period came to an end with a flue fire at 1:42 p.m. at 2226 Columbia St. The second flue fire of the atfer noon was a 5:03 p.m. at 482 W. 6th Ave. No damage was reported at either place. ricrrnKS 1-lCTI IlK FRAMING (iKEKTlNO CUIUS I!? E. llrniidtrar Ph. R-lUt IGNITION SICKVICE Starter and Generator CLARK BATTERY & ELECTRIC CO. 1641 W. 6th Ave.. Thone 4-3319 Window "Treatment" Unexcelled To PERFECTION v il. if :' Tiro Famous Window Shade Cloths Columbia mid DiiPont's Tontine Shades , , both U'nshabfc . , . cintom-lnnrlr- or new cloth lor your rollers. 'Dip "Ftnrst" shnite cloths. No pin-holms fiiu-ktnB or frnvtiiB. In pl.-iln. pastels ana prints. Same day service. "Euyene's H inrfoic v 1 i i y 2585 VnilnnipMc St. Dial 5-1571 Steel Output Gains t j. c i x Despite Shortages By RICHARD FISKE Associated Presi SUff Writer NEW YORK (AP) Industry turned out goods at a near record rate this week but the duction was tnreatenea oy scarcities ot scrap metal. The nation's steel mills turned out 2,041,000 tons of ingots ' and castings, a slight gain over the previous week despite the closing down of some fur- naces because of steel scrap L A T' shortages. .0 Uie 111 Li Economists were still forecast-' p 1 , A I ing for the year ahead and In rnostlNfflf g W lf CKS cases their predictions were for large production, substantial sales but less profits. President Truman's message to Congress gave business and industry plenty to think about. It saw a continuing need for high taxes, more money for more foreign aid and increased mili tary spending. Other government officials stressed the increase of defense production and its impact on civilian goods. During the week the government announced sharp cutbacks in the use ot metals tor civilian pur poses Defense Production Adminis trator Manly Fleischmann out lined the cuts planned for the quarter beginning April 1, Such items as television sets, radios and refrigerators will be trimmed to 45 per cent of the pro Korea level and 10 per cent from current production rates. Automobiles will be cut to at least seven per cent below the current rate. Allowances for home build ing and almost all types of civilian construction will be 45 per cent below the total of 1.100,000 dwellings actually be gun last year. Dun and Bradstreet, the busi ness reporting service, said the traditional January clearance sales gave retail trade a bit of a lift, although retail dollar volume fell below the year ago figures for the first time in three months. Two Problems Still Blocking Korean Truce TOKYO (U.R) The deadlocked Korean truce talks resumed Sun day with no agreement in sight on the two major issues stalling the negotiations. Allied representatives, deter mined to keep the talks going, said it appeared the Reds were pre pared to break off the negotiations rather than drop their insistence on the right to build airfields dur ing an armistice. On the other critical issue, that of prisoner exchange, Rear Adm. Ruthven E. Libby said Saturday he was convinced that the Reds are determined not to accept the Allied-proposed principle of vol untary repatriation of war pri soners. Subcommittees discussing the two issues met on schedule at 11 a.m. (6 p.m. Saturday PST) in separate tents at Panmunjojn, still deadlocked on both points. . The Reds convinced the U.N. command their opposition to vol untary repatriation for prisoners the freedom to choose sides after release is not a stalling ; maneuver but a determined effort 1 to kill the plan entirely. BLINDS and VENETIANS Fealuring the Famous Flexalum Heat Treated Slats and Vinyl Plasfic Tape . . . more beautiful, easier to clean, more durable . . . Venetian Blinds with an enameled surface that virtually sheds dust, won't chip, crack or rust. Plastic Tapes will not fade or discolor . . . washable and shrinkproof. Made to exact specifications. v.. -f i io (ft Drrorni inn Specialists" s SI important steel industry's pro SALEM (U.R) Oregon's worst accidents of 1951 totaled 27 and cost 64 lives, the State Traffic Safety Division said Saturday. The division said: "If Oregon drivers had avoided seven acci dents last year, 24 persons prob ably would still be alive today. And if 20 other smash-ups had been forestalled, 40 men, women and children now on the traffic fatality list would be alive." Seven of the 27 "worst accidents of 1951" reached what the division calls mass highway slaughter class each resulting in three or more deaths. Truman's Speech Warms Up British By J. M. ROBERTS JR. Associated Prist News Analyst It's an old truism that the way things look depends on where you are standing. In the United States, President Truman's State of the Union mes sage was received, judging from the weight of comment I have seen and heard, as something less than masterful. His assessment of 1951 as a year of great gains has been wide ly questioned, and the message in general seemed uninspiring. In Britain, however, the report seems to have been well received. The Manchester Guardian, tagged as liberal, even compared it with Prime Minister Churchill's Christ mas broadcast in grimness and uncompromising devotion to the tasks of world affairs. "Mr. Truman's steadfastness may help us to brace ourselves for the equally stern message which the Chancellor of the Exchequer is preparing for the reassembly of Parliament," the paper said. The News Chronicle of London, also tagged liberal, looked at the domestic rather than the interna tional angles of the address and decided that the President was steering "well left of center," but that, because of political reasons, his social program will never be fully carried out "though there is no real economic reason why it should not be. The American economy is so strong that it could carry the enormous burden of AT THE APPLIANCE CENTER BIGGEST HEATER VALUE Town ., J ' ONLY $g995 F0R TH,S FAM0US Simerp&me DELUXE SUPER-CIRCULATOR y America's Great Home Heater Value For Low-Cost Winter Comfort Exclusive Supcrflame "Triple-Comhustion" Burner burns CLEAN. Gives MORE HEAT with LESS FUELI yf Safety Constant Level Valve automatically meters cor rect amount of oil. 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Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, asked the conferees to say. nothing about the discussions. armament without reducing the standard of living of its people." A lot of the President's advis ers have also been saying the same thing about America's eco nomic strength but the Defense Production Administration al ready is ordering cuts in consumer production just the same. There are non-economic arguments against the President on this sub ject, too. The London Daily Herald, La bor, thinks the idea known over here as "Point Four" is the thing. "Much depends on how seriously Congress takes Mr. Truman's re quest for more economic aid to Asia's poorest peoples. Many mil lions will turn to Communism in their despair unless the West does more to help them." The Independent London Times said "it was an awesome picture that Mr. Truman sketched of in dustrial America armed and arm- ing, of a huge machine moving towards its greatest speed and momentum." $150 Reward For Informattion leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who broke into our office and killed our dog Duke. This happened about 6 p.m., Nov. 10th. JAY F. OLD HAM, 3330 99 So. Act Now! Supply Limited! Liberal Trade-In! EASY TERMS Booby Traps Felt Behind Red Plan By WELLINGTON LONG United Prctt Stiff Correipondent PARIS (UP) The Soviet Union made Saturday what appeared to be a major concession toward the Western point of view on atomic control, but American and British United Nations sources said the proposal was full of booby traps. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky, in what may turn out to be one of the major propaganda coups of this session, told the U. N. Politi-i cal Committee that Russia is tr ; t - - ready to remove the last two if obstacles that have previously if barred an atomic agreement. These were agreement on simul taneous prohibition of atomic bombs and atomic control, with continuing inspection, to see that everybody lives up to his promise not to make atomic bombs. 'Ban on Production' But Vishinsky's informal ex planation of his proposal to re porters raised many doubts as to his real intentions, and American delegation sources said his plan was "booby-trapped" to try to get for Russia what she has been after for six years: An assembly ban on atomic pro duction without any solid guaran tee of control. This, they explained, would force the U.S. to quit making A-bombs, while no one would be assured of being permitted to go into the Soviet Union to see if she, too, had stopped building them. 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