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The Bend Bulletin. Friday, January 28. 1955
South' s Industry, Labor
Force Show Large Growth
By I.YNN OVERMAN
I lilted Press Stuff tkirn-Hpondent
RICHMOND, Vtt. (UP)
There's a big race on in the Soulh
and the stake is "labor."
' The Fifth Federal Reserve Bank
here has furnished some figures
that support the trend of a south
ward movement of industry, thir
sty for Dixie's rapidly growing
labor force is expected to expand
economic conditions.
In the Fifth Federal Reserve
District, which comprises North
Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia,
Maryland and West Virginia, the
labor force s expected to expand
by an average of 88,000 persons
annually through 1975. During the
1940 s Its growth accounted for 11
per cent of the national Increase
of 7.3 million persons.
Reports from these states In
dicate a vast movement of Indus
try with million dollar Investments
and million dollar payrolls.
One Doubt
In Virginia for the 18-month pe
riod ended June 30, 1954, Indus
trial expansion and modernization
entailed investments of $317,000
000 and added an estimntcd 15,000
new jobs and $50,000,000 to pay
rolls. In North Carolina, there were
184 new and expanded Industries
with total investments of $89,223,
000 for the first nine months of
1954. The industries provide a po
tential of 13,200 new jobs with an
expected annual payroll of $31,
731,240. Other southern states reported
a somewhat similar Influx of bad
ly needed industry.
But in the back of the minds of
state officials who are quite fam
iliar with the problems of unem
ployment Is this doubt: Can the
Increase of industry In the South
keep pace with the increase in
the labor force?
The Fifth Federal Reserve Dis
trict's labor force grew faster than
that of the nation from 1940 to
1950.
Kate lloldx L'p
Population last year continued
to increase at approximately the
same rate that it grew in each
state from 1940 to 1953. The aver
age of 10 months' total non-agri
cultural employment in the states
declined from the average in 1953.
Manufacturing declined 7.2 per
cent in the United States, but only
5 per cent in the five states, at
testing to fewer hard goods In
dustries more vulnerable to busi
ness fluctuations. On the other
hand, financial employment In
creased less, and the other indus
try groups, such as mining, trans
portation, construction and trade,
declined more.
The increase In population
points up the need for growing
employment opportunities, parti
cularly in basic Industries that
create new jobs in service Indus.
tries and multiply income within
communties.
FILLER FACTS
Canada's herds of caribou are
being cut down by wolves, hunt
ers, disease and scarcity of for
age faster than nature can re
place the losses, says the Nation
al Geographic Society to in
crease the stock, the Canadian
Government has imported rein
deer from Siberia by way of Alas
ka and brought herdsmen from
Lapland to teach nomadic Eski
mos the art of the deer's domes
tic care.
AJITICI.ES FILED
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poration were filed here today for
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signed by A. Z. Hartl, II. C. Jen
sen and Milo Elkin.
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WAXWORKS DIPLOMATIC WONDER French Premier Mender-France holds the floor as, from
left, President Eisenhower, Sir Winston Churchill, President Rene Coty of France, and Premier
Georgi Malenkov of Russia wax friendly in a tableau at the Grevin Wax Museum, Paris, France.
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New 'Air Force
Of Costa Ricans
Hits Rebel Post
By ROBERT PRESOOTT
United Press Staff Correspondent
SAN JOSE (UP) Costa Rica's
new "air force ' has bombed and
strafed La Cruz, in the northwest
ern border area where refugee
rebels are reported massing strong
reinforcements fo a "last-ditch
stand," It was announced today.
Two of the four F-51 fighters
the United States sold to Costa
Rica for II each machinegunned
the border village Wednesday, and
a converted DC-3 airliner dropped
'23 bombs on the nearby cow-pas-
lure nirtirld used by the tliree-
plane rebel "air force" before It
vanished early this week.
President .lose Figueres says the
raid "probably destroyed " the air
field.
JCald Duly III Action
The attack on La Cruz was the
only notable adlion reported
Wednesday from the battle zone,
where rebel forces are withdrawing
slowly toward the Nicaraguaii
border. Some minor patrol clashes
occurred, but there was no report
of casualties on cither side.
Nicaraguan authorities, charging
the F-51s crossed the frontier dur
ing the raid, reinforced border gar
risons today and alerted their air
force lo prevent further "territor
ial violations."
Cant. E. S. Wilson of Denver,
who helped teach Costa Ricans to
fly the outdated F-Sls. said the
returning pilots reported shooting
up a tractor and a house in the
attack on La Cruz.
Maj. Manuel Guerra and Capt.
Juan Victory, who piloted the at
tacking pianos, said they also de
stroyed a rebel plane on Uie
ground, but U.S. air observers said
they apparently were talking about
a light plane that clucked up on
La Cruz's "El Amo" airfield some
days ago.
Doubt Border Vlolntien
American instructors did not go
along on the raid, but they said it
would have been "virtually Impos
sible" for Guerra and Victory to
cross the frontier it they adhered
to the flight plans worked out here
Figueres said in an interview
Wednesday the rebels are moving
"strong reinforcements across the
border every night" in preparation
for a "last-ditch stand" against
loyal forces. He estimated the re
volt may last another three or four
davs, but added defeat of the rebels
Is "inevitable."
The rebel radio reported Tues
day the Insurgents had sent 300
reinforcements in to the northwest
ern battle zone, but U'S. air ob
servers saw no sign of any sizeable
body ol fresh troops.
Rare Metals
May Play
New Roles
NEW YORK-(UP)-The prac
tical theorists who are working to
ward space ships, super-super jets
and the peaceful potentials of nu
clear energy are pushing scien
tists to new frontiers in metallur
gical research to meet the unpre
cedented demands of the atomic
era.
Steelways, official publication of
the American Iron and Steel In
stitute, said that basic new needs
have developed in such fields as
chemisti-y, electronics, aviation
and atomic energy due to extra
ordinary conditions of heat and
corrosion now being encountered
and to the effects of radiation.
The magazine added that fam
iliar metals are being investigated
from fresh directions, and that
scarce metals heretofore used
merely as alloying elements in
steel now are being probed as
base metals themselves. Rare
metals are being pried loose from
their ores in quantities, and some
metals that were mere labora
tory curiosities are being con
sidered commercially.
Of all the new metals, titanium
has shown the most rapid develop
ment, largely due to demand from
the Air Force, the magazine re
ported. Once plane designers knew
there was a metal only a little
heavier than aluminum but near
ly as strong as steel and highly
resistant to corrosion, they want
ed plenty of it in a hurry -even
though it could not compete with
stainless steel at higli temperatures.
Greedy Hafnium
Nearly all the production of ti-
tantium metal has gone into the
making of parts for jet engines
mil airframes.
Zirconium, beryllium, and ti
tanium are not the only exciting
new metals. For example, moly
bdenum, long familiar as an al
loying metal for steel, is now the
subject of experiments as a base
metal, and shows great promise
)f becoming a real Cinderella of
high temperature materials for jet
engines.
Other alloying elements, such as
tungsten and vanadium, also are
under study as possible base met
als, but results either are in
conclusive or hidden behind se
curity regulations.
Hafnium Is the subject of con
siderable interest because of its
ability to grab neutrons with
greedy abandon. It makes excel
lent control nxis for atomic les,
cutting off the chain reaction or
regulating its intensity.
Germanium, metallic silicon, 11
thium, gallium every known
metal and combination of metals,
plasties and ceramics are be
ing explored. Metals today are the
field of science and engineering
New Regard
For Burros
MEXICO CITY (UP) Mex
ican fanners are taking a second
look at those cute, fuzzy little bur
ros these ilays.
Growing popularity of these
.imall beasts of burden as pets In
the United States and elsewhere
is responsible for the change, the
newspaper El Universal reported,
adding:
'There has been a complete
change In the cure given and des
tinv of these animals. Up to now
they were not wanted by cattle
men because they pulled plants
out by the roots and destroyed
pastures.
"In some states of the republic
they were used to make cheap
sausage and dried meat.
The situation Is changing as far
mers find there is a market
abroad for baby burros."
, LOOKING FOR JOB?
RATON ROUGH, La. (UP)
When guards caught Robert Cham
berlan of Chicago trying to scale
a 10-toot fence at an industrial site
during the night he explained "I
was just looking for a job."
He was charged with tresspassing.
Locust Invasion
Creates Disaster
In Morocco Area
CASABLANCA, Morocco (UP)
A plague of locusts which decend-
ed on Morocco last November has
assumed the proportions of a disaster.
In 11 weeks the hordes of evil-
smell ing, four inch insects have
eaten their way through 300 miles
of fertile country. They have
brought ruin to thousands of Arab
farmers.
Modern science has failed even
to diminish their countless num
bers. French authorities say the
only hope of ending the plague
lies in a sudden, sharp cold wave
or a wind which will blow the
locusts out to sea.
Some of the swarms, drifting
with the wind, are 20 miles long
and 10 miles wide. They may ex
tend in depth from grasstop level
to an altitude of 800 feet.
The Arabs call them "the red
typhoon."
The locusts can eat a cabbage
in 30 seconds. They will strip an
orange tree bare in 10 minutes,
and destroy a 30 acre tomato
patch in less than that.
Even Bite Children
They are so voracious that they
bite children on the lips and ears,
and attack poultry and small live
stock.
Eighty airplanes and 40 helicop
ters, many of them American from
the United States Air Force base
t Ben Guerir near here, hundreds
of trucks and thousands of men
have been mobilized to spray the
plague areas with insecticides, but
to no avail.
Flame throwers and bulldozers,
driven over the ground covered by
locusts, have failed likewise to end
the pest.
The farmers, their faith in mod
ern methods gone, beat on drums
and iron kettles in hope of fright
ening the locusts, and light cvu
smelling fires to drive them away
Thev also eat the locusts, cook
ing them in butter or oil after
stripping off their wings.
Worst Plague Since 1867
It is the worst locust plague
since 1SG7. The locusts are of the
seven-year cycle they appear each
vear for seven years, then disap
pear for seven years. This is the
second year of a cycle of visitation.
The locusts come from the In
terior of Africa. Normally, they are
stopped by the Sahara Desert and
the towering Atlas Mountains. But
this year, on the wind, they came
across the desert and the moun
tains. In one area they ate an estimat
ed II million pounds of oranges in
less than five days. Two hundred
out of each 1000 acres of crops
were destroyed. The rest suffered
SO to 75 per cent dnmage.
Authorities say it will be five
years before the Sous Valley farm
ers recover, and that it will be two
years or more before the orange
trees again fear fruit in market
able quantities.
ion Renews
Debate on Power
Of President
By RAYMOND IJIHR
United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON (UP)-President
Eisenhower's handling of the For
mosan situation revived an old
argument today about ho far the
chief executive must or should go
in sharing responsibility over the
conduct of foreign and military af
fairs. .
Most Republicans in Congress
applauded Mr. Eisenhower for
seeking formal concessional sup
port for whatever action he deems
necessary for the defense of For
mosa. But many Democrats insist
ed that Mr. Eisenhower already
had whatever power he needs if
the defense of Formosa is vital to
the defense of the United States.
Responsible for U.S. Conduct
The Constitution makes the Pres
ident Commander-in-Chief of the
armed forces and makes him re
sponsible for the conduct of foreign
affaire, although Senate approval
is needed to ratify treaties. Con
gress has power to raise and sup
ply the armed forces, to legislate
the regulations governing them,
and to declare war.
President Truman came under
much Republican fire for taking
the United States into the Korean
War, through the United Nations,
without seeking formal backing by
Congress.
The view that the President
should consult Congress was dis
played in the statement of Sen.
Arthur V. Watkins (R-Utah) on
Mr. Eisenhower's message. He
said it "insures a full and open
debate and collective decision of
this vital problem."
Greatest Danger
"Our greatest danger," Watkins
said, "is not that we become in
volved in the chronic conflict be
tween the Republic of China and
Communist China. Our greatest
danger is that we ignore consti
tutional safeguards and permit our
executives to make it a habit to
directly involve us in war."
The other side was shown in a
1000 word statement issued by Sen.
Thomas C. Hennings (MTo), who
said in part:
"I believe that the President un
der the Constitution already has
this authority, although others may
contend that he does not. In any
case, I am certain that If he does
not have such authority, the con
gross cannot constitutionally give
it to him except in a declaration
of war, which In this case the
President has clearly not requested."
By MERRIMAN SMITH
United Press White House Writer
WASHINGTON (UP)-Backstairs
at the White House:
President Eisenhower has made
It a habit to carry a wallet stocked
with cash. Particularly since the
Sunday he found himself at church
with no money for the offering
plate, and Press Secretary Jim
Hagerty bailed him out with a
loan.
Presidents Roosevelt and Tru
man rarely carried much money
on them in the White House unless
they were warned in advance that
some charitable organization was
coming to sell something. Mr. Tru
man sometimes carried a few auto
graphed dollar bills which he dis
pensed as souvenirs.
But normally, a President re
quires very little petty cash. Car
fare is never a problem. His meals
are paid for by the month. And
he doesn't get his papers from
the corner newsie.
'Sun Civilization' Could
Bring Golden Age of Plenty
By JOSEPH I.. MYLER
United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON (UP) A "sun
civilization" of unlimited abun
dance may be on man's horizon.
This possibility was proclaimed
without fanfare at Berkeley, Calif,
in the waning days of' 1954.
At a time in human history
when many a reflective person
was wondering whether his spe
cies could survive hydrogen-atom
ic violence, a group of University
of California scientists issued a
statement.
The scientists, headed by Dr.
Daniel I. Arnon, said they had
harnessed sunlight to create sug
ar and starch out of water and
carbon dioxide in the absence of
green plants. It had never been
done before.
No bells rang, no sirens
shrieked, and neither Congress
nor the United Nations was called
into extraordinary session.
But if the promise implied in
the Berkeley announcement can
be fulfilled, human society is
headed for a golden age of plenty
cause there will be no reason for
in which there will be no war be-
war.
Next Great Invention
Dr. C. F. Kettering, famous
General Motors scientist-engineer,
said recently that "we've never
had any great inventions since
the discovery of the wheel." The
next great invention, he said, will
be artificial food production.
'The human race must some
day become independent of plant
life," he said, adding the predic
tion that it will do so "in the next
50 years."
'fhe meaning of the Berkeley,
announcement was that man al
ready has found a, way to accom
plish elementary I photosynthesis
without benefit of living green
cells. The vision thus evoked is
one of inexhaustible food supplies
and inexhaustible power.
Scientists have a long way to
go before they can manufacture
fats and proteins as well as car
bohydrates artificially in a sun
factory.
But enough has been learned to
justify belief that man if he
ran stay alive for yet a few dec
ades will liberate himself from
the tyranny of green growing
things.
Should that come to pass, Dr.
Auton said in Berkeley, "It would
usher in a new era of unlimited
abundance in which man would
be able to tap tl)e energy of sun
light directly and free himself of
his dependence on green plants
for food and energy sources."
The sun is the giver of all life
THESE ARK THE JOKES
BANGOR, Me. (UP) An
11-year-old girl walked into the
public library here and asked for
Victor Hugo's "The Hunchback of
Notre Dame." The librarian asked
for whom the book was intended.
The girl replied: "My younger
brother. He just loves football
stories."
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