The Bend bulletin. Monday, July 26. 19S4 3
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Guatemalans Need Planned
Program fo Resist Reds
By PETER EDSON
. NF.A Waahlnirtnn rii.n.,.j.
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.. WASHINGTON Throwing the
ummunis - aominated govern
ment out of Guatemala does not
mark the end of much needed re
form In that Central American re
public. It is lust fl new hpcrinnintr
The reform is needed not only
wuiun me uuatemalan govern
ment, but also to a considerable
extent in U. S. relations toward
Guatemala. For a strong case can
be made that the rise of Commu-
' fllsm in Gimtpmnln uune as mnnh
the result of a bad-neighbor policy
. on uie pari 01 tne u. s. as it was
, the capture of the country by c
Commie fifth column.
What the nnlitipnl CftMal anA
economic policies of the new three
, man junta under Col. Carlos Cas
tillo Armas may be have not yet
,ueen iuny disclosed.
They are said to be anti-Com-munist
and pro-U. S. which is a
fine start.
"-.,
,i They Have Said that they will
Keep me land reform law of the
iOld Arbenz regime, which split up
.the big estates and gave land to
tne peons as tenants of the gov
ernment. Colonel Armas intends
, tt make them the owners, though
how the original owners are to be
paid has not been explained.
. What is needed is a broad pro
gram to raise the standard of liv-
. ing for the two million of Guate
mala's three million people who
are illiterate Indians.
The U. S. government has taken
the first step towards a possible
reform of its own attitude towards
Guatemala and all of Latin Amer
ica by the Department of Justice
antitrust suit filed against United
Fruit. The complaint charges mo
nopolistic control over the banana
trade and related industries.
.'
While This Company is recog
nized as well-managed, paying
high wages, taking care of its em
ployes and contributing a great
deal to the economies of a dozen
Central American countries over
the past 50 years, some of its
practices have been open to crit
icism. One of the most impartial au
thorative studies to date of the
Guatemalan economy and United
twit's position in it was made in
1951 by an International Bank of
Reconstruction survey mission.
It was headed by Dr. George
E. Britnell of. University of Sas
katchewan and included as U. S.
members Dr. Ralph H. Allee, dl-
; rector of the Inter-American In
stitute of Agricultural Science and
Maj.-Gen. Edmund H. Leavey of
the Army Corps of Engineers.
This is one excerpt from the
Bank's report on United Fruit and
its subsidiary International Rail
way control of the Guatemalan
; port- facilities at Puerto Barrios
on the Gulf:
" "In brief, Guatemala agreed
that until the year ,2004, the rail
way might operate free of taxa
tion on its properties, free of pay
ment of duties on its imports, free
' of control on its rates except as
to very liberal maxima, and free
of competition from other rail
ways. Ownership or control of
property in Puerto Barrios gives
the railway company a virtual
monopoly on the construction and
operation of piers and on the use
of the inshore harbor area."
The Bank's Mission recommend
ed a complete overhaul of the
Guatemalan tax system to raise
the equivalent of an additional $H
million and balance its budget, as
of 1949, at around 50 million.
The country then had no in
come taxes, no liquor taxes, and
such taxes as were authorized
were largely evaded. Foreign en
terprises were largely exempt, ex-
Merger Plan
Given Approval
WASHINGTON (UP)-Chief Ex
aminer Francis W. Brown of the
Civil Aeronautics Board said today
a combination of Pacific North
ern Airlines of Alaska Airlines
would "result in a much stronger
company-to provide through serv
ice" from Alaska to the United
States.
He recommended the merger as
being "in the public interest."
But Brown's report on air serv
ice between the United States an-1
Al 1 a s k a left in the air how to
achieve the orooosed combination
He. said this question should br
decided in. the pending CAB in
vestigation of air service within
Alaska.
Brown recommended that Pa
cific Northern's authority to oner
ate between Seattle and Anchor
age be renewed for seven years
He recommended against renewal
of Alaska Airlines' authority to od
erate between Fairbanks and Seattle-Portland.
War on Check
Passers Planned
PORTLAND (UP) Merchant.
here are preparing to wage war
against the Dasscrs of bud checks
Jack Willis, Meier & Frank Co
executive, sain at a meeting of e
' Portland retail trade bureau com
mittee that merchants are nuttinr
into operation a systPm of warn
int each other about bogus checl
passers.
Willis said the merchants are
also working out a system of prose
cution that will be "almost auto
matic." He said bad check
will he arrested and ounished with
no chance at settlement where the
checks were written with intent to
defraud.
cept for small exports on agri
cultural products.
"A proviison of U. S." law al
lows these corporations to be cred
ited, for income tax purposes,
with the amount of taxes on their
net income paid to other coun
tries," the bank report pointed
out.
"Thus additional revenues of at
least $1 million mighl readily be
obtained without adding to the
international tax burden of for
eign investors. This question can
not be solved, however, until the
more general one of .readjust
ment of existing contracts is settled."
As a long-range program, the
bank mission recommended rural,
education, industrial and trans
port development. Only this kind
of program with plenty of Amen
can technical assitance to give
the Guatemalan people them
selves a better break, can really
resist communism.
Shivers Facing
Runoff Contest
DALLAS, Tex., IIP! Ttfxas
voters returned the nation's two
Democratic party leaders to Con
gress, but Gov. Allan Shivers was
virtually assured today of being
forced into a runoff in his bid for a
third term.
With some 96 per cent of the
votes in Saturday's Democratic
primary tabulated, Shivers held a
slender 17,000 vote lead over law
yer Ralph Yarborough, the nearest
of four opponents. The count:
Shivers 627,736, Yarborough 610.
578, contractor J. J. Holmes 19,115,
and fender mender Arlon (Cyclone)
Davis 15,671.
Rayburn Relected
Senate Democratic Leader Lyn
don B. Johnson and House Demo
cratic Leader Sam Rayburn were
renominated by overwhelming ma
jorities, Johnson for his second
term and Rayburn for his Una.
Johnson won renomination by a
majority of more than 70 per cent
over Dudley Dougherty, a wealthy
rancher and state representative.
Rayburn easily out distanced A. G.
McRae of Bonham, a fellow towns
man, by a vote of some three to
one.
The Democratic nominations
were tantamount to election.
But Texas voters apparently re
jected two other congressmen who
were up for reelection, Kep win-
gate Lucas and Rep. Kenneth M.
Regan.
Runo'f in August
Lucas, who has been in Congress
since 1946, was defeated by Mayor
Jim Wright of Weutherford, Tex.
Regan, 61 and' a veteran of two
world wars, was trailing J. 1.
Rutherford, a state senator from
Odessa.
APPEAL PLANNED
William John Letho was found
guilty and fined $54.50 for hit and
run driving in Justice court one
Saturday. He said he would ap
peal the decision.
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210 Congress
Textbook Display
Planned in Bend
Social science text books that
might be used by the public
schools will be displayed in the
office of the county superintend
ent of schools on the second flooi
of the county - building through
December. -
The announcement that the lo
cal county superintendent's office
had been selected as one of five
text book depositories in the state
was made today by Superintend
ent Mrs. velma Buckingham.
Mrs. Buckingham said all texts
to be offered by publishers for
use in social science classrooms
will be displaced so citizens and
public groups interested in the
education system may inspect
them.
Final selection of books to be
used by the schools will be made,
she said, by the State Textbook
Commission sometime in Decem
ber. -.
Mrs. Buckingham said that cit
izens are invited to submit rec
ommendations to the commission.
Social sciences, .she said, in
clude history, geography and his
tory. In the past, she said, there have
been complaints about the sub
ject matter taught in some social
science courses. Only recently,
she reported, the American Le
gion in Oregon recommended
that the teaching of American
history be stepped up.,
Blaze Sweeps
Five Dwellings
BAKER (UP) Fire yesterday
gut,ted five houses and caused con
siderable damage to two others in
the Blue Mountain community of
Sumpter, 30 miles south of here.
Favorable winds confined the
blaze to the northeast section and
was the major factor in saving the
town of 200 population, according
to firemen.
Extremely low water pressure of
only 10 pounds in the town reser
voir hampered fire fighters. Baker
and forest service equipment were
used at the fire, agumented by
some 100 volunteers.
The fire broke out at 8:50 a.m.
in the home of Warren McDonald,
who was out at the time.
Preliminary estimates placed
damage at about $30,000. There
were no injuries to' the houses'
occupants.
APPROVAL GIVEN
WASHINGTON (UP) The House
today approved a $8,555,000 bill au
thorizing dredge work on the 48-foot
channel at the mouth of the Co
lumbia river.
A smaller project bill involving
$227,000 for work near LlunooK waf
also passed, he said. -
Both bills now go to the Senate
for approvah
nd nivoRCK. NOW
HOLLYWOOD (UP)Screen Star
Avn Gardner completed her six-
week residency requirement in Ne
vada today nut nas no immeuiau
plans" to divorce Frank Sinatra,
her business manager said today
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Wednesday, July 28
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25 lbs. . . . 1.89
Armour's Shoulder
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WELCOME A German shepherd, with her own litter at her
side, welcomes a two-day-old lion cub to her family. The cub,
held by Dr. Ado Biogini, of Rome, Italy's zoo, was refused a home
by her mother, so the zoo started a search for a female dog who
would adopt the lion cub. The first meeting was successful.
Big Game Hunters Aren't
Such Hot Shots, He Decides
By HARMAN W. NICHOLSlthey got to the big guy, the ele-
United Press Staff Correspondent
QUANTICO, Va. (UP) Big
game hunters will please hit for
cover. They aren't so hot. And I
have a sore firin' arm to prove it.
I came out to this Marine base
to watch Mark Evans, the radio
and TV man hereabouts, and seven
of his cronies warm up" on the
high-powered rifles they plan to
use on a wild game hiuit in North
Africa. After they watched me
handle a gun, thev wanted me to
go along, but I declined because
what I like better than drawing a
bead on a sitting duck is some
kind of competition.
Mark, who toils for WTOP-L'US.
is no stranger to the business of
stalking big game. He tells me that
stalkig big game. He tells me that
he once scared a lion so bad with
near miss that the king of beasts
skittered into the brush and
hasn't growled at his mate since.
I ll have to admit that Mr. k..
and his playmates were pretty hot
stuff with the small . bore rifles,
the no-kick kind, in the warm up.
But so was my 15 year old fe
male relative, Beverly. Moony pis
tols were her dish up to the point
where she toed the mark and fired
a Springfield 30 (half a charge)
100 yards for a score. Fact that
my Bev is left-handed didn't im
press the experts.
The shooting of TV pictures and
the roar of guns went on until
You'll find
EDDIE'S
I Phant 8lm; whk-'h woaIS a kit'k
that a Missouri mule would be
proud of.
The hunters fired: Mark Evans,
Dick Pierrot, Bill Morse. John
Kligo, Bill Hnwley, Larry Jorman,
Malcolm Scales, and Raymond
Briggs. They did fairly well. Some
close misses and some that almost
did away with half of Washington.
miles away. The gun is thai
powerful!
Then Mark, who was direct imr
the show made his big mistake. He
called on brother Nicols.
I sighed, closed my eyes and
squeezed.
When I woke up a few minutes
later, I lerned thnl the white mark
er was up. A bull's eye!
Mark Evans and Ins pals are
going off without me. They don't
like competition, either.
PICKETS l'OSTKI)
DORRIS. ' Calif. UP) A F L
Lumber and Sawmill pickets were
posted at the Associated Lumber
and Box Co; today and none of the
firm s 1G0 employes went to work
The employes, members of local
2774, voted last Wednesday to go on
strike aguinst this Siskiyou county
plant neur the Oregon bonier.
The shutdown left only three
union mills operating in the county.
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Venezuelan Dam
Expected to Up
Beef Production
EL RASTRO, Venezuela IIB
The largest dam in South America
is being built near here as a purl
of an over-ull program to increase
Venezuela's lieef production.
Some 500 workers have moved
into this land of the longliorn and
sombrero to build a dum across
the Guai ico river that will create
a lake nine miles long and furnish
150 billion gallons of water for
irrigation. Deforestation and earth
clearing are far advanced.
. While the huge state of Guar
ico, through which the river flows,
is already Venezuela's No. 1 cat
tle region, desert-like aridity in
ihe summer months thus far has
curtailed its' production potentitl
Cattlemen ussert that irrigated
pasture lands can boost beef pro
duction ns much as 2,0011 per cent.
This means tlmt the 450 square
miles to be irrigated will be able
fo feed and fatten as many as
270,000 steers, or more than hall
of nil that Venezuela currently
produces.
Under present conditions, 450
square miles of wild land cannot
feed more than aiiout l.i.soo cat
tle.
Three hundred miles of canals
will lead water from the 90-siunre-jnile
lake to where it is
leeded.
Part of a $1,300 million public
works program announced lust
December by President Marcos
Perez Jimenez, Ihe dam and irri
gation system is expected to be
finished by late 1955. It is being
financed by oil revenues.
Per-capit.i beef consumption
vn inly 17 pounds in Venezuela
in 1950 as against 63 pounds in the
U.S.
Not Enoucjh
City Planners
CHICAGO IIP) Demand far out
weighs Ihe supply of qualified city
planners, according to (he Ameri
can Society of Planning Officials.
The society said it has more
than 85 jobs on file with its per
sonnel exchange service, which is
consulted on hiring for about
three-fourths of all professional
planning vacancies.
The society estimated that there
are about 50 per cent more jobs
ereuted each year than mere are
recruits grnduatmg from qualified
jehools.
The Bend Bulletin Classified's
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U. S. Mineral
Resources Not
Nearly Exhausted
WASHINGTON (UP) Sen.
George W. M a 1 o n e (R-Nev)
charged yesterday proponents of
free world trade have "fantastic
contentions" that U.S. mineral re
sources are nearly exhausted.
He said a Senate Interior Sub
committee he headed found that
the "United States and the
Western Hemisphere can be made
self sufficient in vital raw mater
ials." The subcommittee held 10
months of hearings on domestic s
plies of strategic materials.
Outlook Good
For Pecan Crop
COLLEGE STATION, Tex. W
Despite a prolonged drought, it ap
oeai s Texas' 1954 pecan crop will
exceed the 10-yeur average of 30,
000,000 pounds.
John E. Hutchinson, extension
horticulturist of Texas A. & M
college, said the current outlook
s for n crop of 47,000,000 pounds.
The drought killed many trees,
no said, but those that survived
apparently will bear heavily.
The iaguar forgefs its usual
feline dislike of water In times
of drought and will plunge into
a waterhole to play.
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The piece is 10 feet in diameter.
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NEWPORT BEACH. Calif. (UP)
James Edwin McConnell, known
3 thousands of youngsters as
Smllin' Ed," was found dead to
day aboard his' docked cabin
cruiser. He was 62.
McConnell starred in a children's
radio and TV program known as
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believed due to a heart ailment.
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