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.
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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.
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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
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France Faih
To Get U.S.
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WASHINGTON U.R France
has failed to get America's prom
ise of more and faster military
aid or commitments to send U.S.
ground troops to Indo-China if
the Chinese Communists invade
the troubled Southeast Asian na
tion, it was reported Saturday,
U. S. officials refused to give
any hint of results of Friday's six
and a half hour meeting in the
Pentagon with British and French
military leaders.
It was indicated, however, that
the United States turned down
France's requests because this
country does not feel a new Com
munist thrust is imminent in Indo
China. No date was set for further
meetings. Field Marshal Sir Wil
liam Slim, chief of the British
Imperial General Staff, said Gen.
Omar N. 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."
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Behind Red Plan
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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.
As Vishinsky explained his
plan:
Vishinsky's Plan
"Until a (control) convention is
worked out, honest people will
consider it obligatory and binding,
while dishonest people will only
consider it as a moral phrase.
If the U.S. wishes to continue
production of atomic weapons
after the ban has been declared
by the General Assembly, it may
do so. But It will not be able to
do so after the control has become
elfective. thus making the Dan
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