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Page ZA EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Friday, June 1, 1962 Butter $1.83 Russians Up Food Prices By PRESTON GROVER Of the Associated Press MOSCOW Wl The Soviet Union Friday hiked consumer prices of meat and butter to finance the country's lagging agri cultural program in the face of food shortages. Butter up 25 per cent will cost $1.83 a pound; pork and beef up 30 per cent will retail for 88 cents a pound. The effect of the increases are measured against salaries much lower than those in most foreign countries. A semi-skilled Soviet worker gets the equivalent of $88 a month, professional people about $222 a month. The government announcement said that the increased charges were necessary because there was no other means of raising money to pay the increased expenses on farms. Arms Talks To Recess For Summer GENEVA Ml The Western , powers and the Soviet Union re luctantly agreed Friday to a neutralist proposal for a sum mer recess of the disarmament talks. The 17-nation conference will go into recess in mid-June and rconvene Monday, July 16. The Interruption of the talks, which opened March 14, was proposed by the eight non-aligned partici pants Brazil, Burma, Ethi opia, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Sweden and the United Arab Republic. Acting U.S. Delegate Charles C. Stelle, Gen. E. L. M. Burns of Canada, British Minister of State Joseph B. Godbcr and So viet Deputy Foreign Minister Valcrin A. Zorin delivered vir tually identical statements say ing they would have preferred to continue negotiations, but were willing to take into ac count the views of other dele gations. Zorin did not mention his original suggestion last month that the conference recess for two months and resume in New York rather than in Geneva. Zorin continued Friday to de nounce the United States for its refusal to bow to Soviet insist ence that all military delivery vehicles for nuclear weapons be destroyed and all foreign mili tary bases be eliminated in the first stage of disarmament. Stelle replied that the U.S. disarmament plan docs indeed provido for gradual elimination of military bases and nuclear armaments and criticized Zo rin's statement for what ho called its lack of logic. State Totals 500 Spanish War Veterans An estimated 500 veterans of the Spanish-American War now live in Oregon. R. J. Novotn, manager of the Veterans Administration region al offico in Portland, released tho estimate this week. Average ago of Oregon's Spanlsh-Amcrican war veterans, he said, was 84 years. Some 302,000 men served in the war, and tho roll of living veterans according to nation al VA figures has dropped to 28,000 men. Some 26,000 of these are on the VA compensation or pension rolls. Tho surviving veterans arc heavily conccntraled in Califor nia, where there arc some 4.000 men. Florida, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania each havo some 2,000 veterans of the war. VA officials also report that family survivors of 70,000 de ceased veterans of tho Spanish American War are receiving death compensation or pension payments through tho VA. Mali Leader Leaves MOSCOW UV-Mobido Keita, president of Mali, left Moscow for Communist Czechoslovakia Thursday with Soviet promises i of further aid for his country. A I Joint communique at the end of Kcita's week-long visit said the; Soviet Union had agreed to rcn-1 der technical assistance and ma terial aid to the former French colony. HME oams No appraisal fee. Fast, low cost loans to build, buy, refinance or remodel. Ire Fquitable. Ask about A.P.O. home loan protection. 14 0ff!ti la 0r.n t4 Wiihinif. Hms Oldest PmIIsri, Oriisa 41 Tamil Ave. Wait, luaan eitmaasl MSI I Blame was placed in part up on the United States. The state ment said it was not possible to "switch funds to increasing the output of livestock products at the expense of the country's de fensive capacity. Danger of War "We do not live in a vacuum. While imperialism exists, the danger of new wars will remain. It is no secret that international reaction, with the United States at the head, now Is engaged in sabre rattling, conducts a fever ish arms race and harbors plans for a surprise rocket nuclear at tack on the U.S.S.R. and the other socialist countries. Its politicians and generals speak openly of this." The order for the increase in prices was issued by the Com munist party central committee and the government. Its effect was law since all stores are government stores and the prices are fixed by decree. Cost Increase The statement said the cost of, producing food, meat and but ter had increased sharply be cause of the expenditures on mechanization on the farms. The announcement made it plain that people in the cities are going to bear the lion's share of the burden of the in creased prices. That will tend to level out the living standards of the city and country groups. Normally city people have lived better in the Soviet Union be cause of a sharp salary and in come advantage accorded them from the time of the revolution. Rail Crash Investigated VOGHERA, Italy un A freight train engineer and his assistant say they saw no warn ing lights but jumped to safety before their locomotive hit the rear of a passenger train Thurs day, killing 62 and injuring 70. One of the injured died Fri day, increasing the death toll to 63. The engineer, Lafranco Pigi ani, 2-7, and Soriano Fabbri, 22, told police their first warning of Italy's fourth major rail dis aster in five months came only seconds before impact. They said they set the emergency brako before jumping. The Italian Transport Minis try said visibility was good and signal lights were working, warning that the Riviera-bound passenger train was stopped in the station, blocking the tracks. Survivors and station employes said they heard no sound of braking before the freight slammed into the express. Artillery Opens Up TAIPEI, Formosa Wi The Chineso Communists fired 47 shells at the Qucmoy Islands Thursday. rf&omab d Ed luoru IMPERIAL ROOM AIR CONDITIONER El liui ciracmr unNoi jNEAl 11.100 M 11.000 M.U. atlba MNlSBBw cty csrtmrf by Nl CALL ONE OF THESE DEALERS McPhectcrs Electric rhone TA a.7111 Stormcr Refrigeration rhonr Rl 1-9'" 9 King Refrigeration mon m miu NEW 19A2. I'trrleu partite I Ml -1 . V .".1... (AP Wlrephoto) Charles S. Oram, 64, of Cambridge, Mass., has his grandson Mark rpi H. Fineman, 8, make a slight adjustment on his graduation cap 1 Here, n preparation for Boston University commencement exercises " this Sunday. Oram, looking forward to a new career, will receive j1voty"t"c a bachelor's degree. He hopes to get a job teaching Spanish. He Jci"r'" has been a farm hand, railroad worker, steamfitter and truck driver. On Forming Neutral Government Laotian By SPENCER DAVIS Of the Associated I'ress WASHINGTON The United States expects to know within a week if a neutral government can be formed in Laos, remov ing the Southeast Asian king dom from the cold war arena. If the coalition efforts do not succeed, Secretary of State Dean Rusk told a news confer ence Thursday, "then of course, some very serious problems will be in front of us." He did not spell out the na ture of the problems, but obvi ously was referring to a con tinuation of a drive by pro-Communist Pathct Lao guerrillas to complete their conquest of the country. Rusk emphasized that the present need is to keep what he called a tenuous cease-fire in being and to permit the three political princes of Laos to ex plore whether or not a coalition government is possible. Prince Souvanna Phouma, a neutralist who would head the coalition government, is sched uled to meet with King Savang Vathana on Monday in the royal capital of Luang Prabang. After We Want Air Comlitioiihig, hut our home is different Almost any recenily-huUt home can be efficiently Air Conditioned V"' IF Princes Plan Talks that meeting Souvanna Phouma is expected to call in Prince Boun Oum, leader of the royal government, and Prince Soupha nouvong, Pathct Lao chief. Rusk said the main objective of negotiations for a coalition government is to get non-Laotians out of Laos. 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Rusk confirmed to a news con ference Thursday that arrange ments for a trip are being work ed out. From other sources it was learned that he wants to talk to Adenauer about U.S. Soviet discussions on a Berlin settlement and about future moves for greater Western Eu ropean political unity, which the United States strongly sup ports. Whether Rusk sees De Gaulle probably will be determined by progress in his conferences here with French Ambassador Herve Alphand. Rusk and Alphand met for two hours Monday and for 90 minutes Thursday on Paris Washington policy differences. They apparently have no hope at present of ending major dif ferences over De Gaulle's deter mination to give France an in dependent nuclear weapons force and his desire to promote a European grouping of national states with looser U.S. ties. Rusk reasserted at his news conference that the United LYONS SPECIAL PURCHASE SALE! 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