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iate Committee lives Hardboard iff Increase By A. ROBERT SMITH neelstcrGuard Correspondent GTON The Senate V.mmiftce deemed at mnr. to Sit llgnr. Oil niuuiv." ... Sosed increase in wim Sted hardboard, wnicn lis dead for this session ass at leasi. louse two y Spill to increase the duly ,rd WillCn tunica in B . . .1 1 yt iden, Finland aim -aii- 7!'2 per cent to 1073 i'ld valorem. h PETITION Z, Cordon (R-Ore), co if' the bill in the Senate, Ih nn votes in the Sen- Ice Committee to put the ie the Senate belore ad- It. When the committee gie measure last Monday d door session, iuiuw ident of votes to spare ipproval but the vote chers Visit on Tour Kansas seven school teachers as (ane one each from Colorado and JNew visited Eugene and Id Tuesday. Participat- 1954 Traveling Class- Fort Hayes Kansas dllcBe (Hays, Kansas) jsrs receive a full cred te hours in the college's Field Geography." of the course is It, it, assistant professor of Jr; at the college, rne l travels in a chartered ad bus, getting a 25-day t200. ling his unique course, bid, "The northwestern b the United Slates of- ("xcellent opportunity to interrelation of man I, environment. The pur this course is to give from all grade levels Ity to study first hand nces of and reason for rn of interrelationship." it of the group s visit a tour of the Weyer- ulp and paper mill in lid, Pulp chemist Don id personnel manager F. spoke briefly to the before guiding them le plant. places visited include irado Rockies, where and river studies were nsive study of copper Ing with the staff of Copper Co. at Bing- on, Utah and flora 111 the staff of Crater fonal Park. lere the group will visit Dam, Portland, Seat- Louise, Canada; Coulee Mount Rainier. T median Signs let With NBC YORK ffi-Comedian Red p lost both his spon Jliis television show on e end of the past season wgh audience rating, contract with NBC this got a new sponsor as A. McAvity, NBC vice Said the nint-si7fH P be seen in the Red t how three out of every y nignts on NBC start-1- He will have an antn- Jonsor, the Pontiae Mo on of General Motors never came and the bill was shelved. Chairman 'Eugene Millikin (R- Col), normally considered a pro tectionist in tariff matters, pricked tip his ears during the session when he heard a hard- board industry representative tell of how they had sought with out success some relief through administration channels. They had filed a petition under the anti-dumping act 17 months ago, but officials thus far failed to act upon it. In this petition, hardboard in dustry people contend that for eign competitors are violating the anti-dumping act of 1920 by selling hardboard in East Coast markets at prices that are lower than they charge in West Euro pean markets. Under the act, if this is found to be the case, dumping duty is added to the price of the product equal to the difference in price of the im ported product here and its aver age world price. The State De partment has contended the act has not been violated. ALTERNATE SOLUTION Millikan said he thought the so lution, then, lay in getting action on the 17-month-old anti-dump ing petition, rather than in push mg up a new tariff which the Eisenhower administration has opposed. Lowell Stockman, former con gressman from eastern Oregon and now associated with Oregon Fibre Products, Inc., Pilot Rock, Ore., said: "Millikan single handedly put the hardboard in dustry in a jam." Stockman has been lobbying hard for the increased duty, but disclaimed any desire to have the duty raised so high as to price foreign competitors out of the domestic market We're not asking any tariff barriers," Stockman said. "We just want an even break. Let them bring in all they want, as long as the prices are about even with ours." Stockman said domestic hard- board retails for about $50 per thousand board feet, whereas 1m ported hardboard sells for at; from $30 to $34. While imports last year accounted for only about four per cent of total consump tion, Stockman said the quantity from abroad has been doubling and tripling in recent years. The ex-lawmaker was burnt up about a State Department press release which he said told Swed ish importers how to take ad vantage of present tariffs to in crease their trade here in hard-board. "The State Department is in bed with the Swedes," declared Stockman. The hardboard tariff was op posed down the line by all agen cies of the government under the Eisenhower administration. PIECEMEAL APPROACH' The Budget Bureau called it a 'piecemeal approach" which was contrary to the recommendations of the President in his state of the union message when he called for a comprehensive review of tariff modifications. The Bureau said it was "not in accord with the program of the President." The Tariff Commission, point ing out that existing tariff rates on hardboard had been set in the General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade (GATT) between many foreign governments, said the hardboard duty increase would be "inconsistent" with America's international commitments. Stockman said he is informed the Treasury Department has no intention of acting on the anti dumping petition, despite Sen. Millikan's expression of belief that therein lay the solution to the problem. (Kcgistor-Guard photo, Wiltshire eng.) CREWS WERE BUSY Thursday putting the finishing touches on the new section of Highway 99 north of Eugene. The Wildish Construction Co. has been working since last winter on the widening project from Prairie Rd. to the west city liimls of Eugene. A, crew is shown here putting the first layer of the asphalt paving on the new portion of the main highway. The section will be completed next month, and will be four lanes through the congested business section north of town. Churches Uniting in Bid For Powerful Christianity Third in a Series By GEORGE W. CORNELL of The Associated Press EVANSTON, HI. W) The churches are making an historic bid for Christian power in the world. Against a tide of hostile, man made doctrines, they're summon ing their far-flung flocks to united defense. They're seeking to com bine their strength to make their faith a firmer help to troubled men and nations. 'The Christian faith today," said the Rev. Canon Theodore O. Wedel of Washington, president of the Episcopal House of Depu ties "is involved in a war against gigantic rivals." TWO-WEEK ASSEMBLY To meet that challenge and try to seal the broken ranks of Chris tianity, churchmen from many lands are gathering here, for a two-week assembly of the World Council of Churches. It opens Sunday. "The meeting comes at a most difficult and tragic moment in the world's life, and particularly critical moment in the life of the churches," said Dr. W. A. Vis ser't Hooft, the council's general secretary. One of the big issues at stake is what means the varied church es can find for mutual action on the world scene. Said the coun cil's American administrator, Dr. Samuel McCrea Cavert: "In order for the churches to be heard effectively against the rival faiths that today are bid ding for the loyalty of people, they must have a united voice beyond anything that has ever existed before." LITTLE CONTACT There will be 161 denomina tions Orthodox, Protestant, Old Catholic and Anglican repre sented at the meeting. Many have had little contact until re cent years, often viewing one another as competitors. But the emergence of hard-hitting secular faiths scientific humanism, communism, fascism and other "isms" that promised material bliss without spiritually grounded justice served to rally churches to joint resistance. "It is the rise of the totalitarian state that is the real crisis of Christian churches and civiliza tion of our times," said Dr. G. K. A. Bell, Britain's bishop of Chichester and chairman of the council's central committee, add ing: The issue is whether the churches will wake up and stand together for spiritual authority against the purely secular, totali tarian and materialist state. To a large extent, the power that the churches can deliver in world affairs depends on the amount of unity among the churches themselves. HEAVY HANDICAP "They have been under the heavy handicap of being in a fragmentary condition in an in creasingly unified world," said Lutheran leader Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, vice chairman of the council s central committee. "They have lived in compara tive isolation since the refor mation, and in the case of the Orthodox churches, since the 11th century. But the) critical condition of the times has thrown them together with a sense of urgency. The church's role in dealing with social evils that blight many peoples and threaten others stands as a major motivating force in the churches' new drive for greater leadership. The aim, however, is not to build a "political power center, said Dr. Visser't Hooft, but a "spiritual power center." "The church is expected to m So smooth it leaves you breathless H mirnojj maziest 7 VODKA in 80 proof. Mle from 1 00 gnin neutrtl ipirio Ste. Pierre Smirnoff FIs. Inc.Hirtford.Conn. V .1... a, I tiie iJiuuieiu. I t Continues If V. SMALL DEPOSIT HOLDS ANY ITEM wftl0 v 0PEN T0NITE "nL 9 65 W. 8th IT stand for man, for his dignity, for human solidarity, for a de cent human life on this planet," he said. In this task, Bishop Bell said the church's effectiveness has been "seriously impeded by di visions within it." PAYS ATTENTION "The world doesn't pay much attention to one church when it makes a noise," he said. "But it pays a good deal of attention when many of them make noise." The outcome of the assembly is clothed in uncertainties and potential troublespots and con troversies, but it also holds the framework for major potentiali ties in the power of the chur ches. Says the weekly Christian Cenutry: 'We are intrigued with the idea that something tremendous may happen at Evanston some-1 thing that would set the world on fire with a blaze which will still be hot 10 years from now. It could happen." Forest Yield Near Record Timber Harvest Is Second Highest PORTLAND HP1 The second highest timber harvest on rec ord was tak.cn from 18 national forests in Oregon and Washing ton during the fiscal year ended June 30, according to U. S. Re gional Forester J. Herbert Stone. The cut, amounting to 2,400,- 000,000 board feet, was exceeded only by the previous year's rec ord harvest. Value of the timber cut during the latest fiscal year was $33,966,677, a decrease of more than three million dollars. Total net receipts were also lower. Stone said the 10 per cent de crease in the value of timber cut reflects generally lower stumpage prices brought about by a change in market conditions as well as by lower prices re ceived from scattered tracts and windthrown and beetle-infected timber. The 18 national forests in the two-state region took in $310,872 from the grazing of livestock, land and power uses. Total net receipts of the forests from all sales and uses exceeded expen ditures for operation, mainten ance, and development by nearly $20,750,000. Leading the region in value of timber cut for the fiscal year just ended was the Willamette national forest in Oregon witn $5,909,400. The Olympic forest in Washington was second. Other forests exceeding the two-mu- lion-dollar mark wore the Mt. Hood and Umpqua forests in Oregon and the Gifford Pinchot and Mt. Baker forests in Washington. (ADVERTISEMENT) SKEIE'S Repair, Design and Manufacture Jewelry. EURO go r ri Book new for Fall "Thrift Smim" In ffoct Marling Avt t. Eugene TRAVEL SERVICE Eugene Hotel Lobby I 5 8431 I'M STARVED AND THIRSTY! SEE HOW MY ROOTS CANT BREAK THROUGH THE PLOW CAT TOOL BAR FARMING BROKE THE PAN . . . rVE PLENTY TO EAT AND DRINK! CLL MAKE A BUMPER CROP. 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