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By A. ROBERT SMITH
neelstcrGuard Correspondent
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Kansas
seven school teachers
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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.
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wgh audience rating,
contract with NBC this
got a new sponsor as
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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."
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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.
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