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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1957)
THE CAPITAL JOURNAE ' Salenf, Oregon", Thurs'day, May 2, 1957 ; DOUBLE 1956 TOTAL 300 Immigrants a Day Enter Israel By ROBERT TUCKMAN HAIFA, Israel UV-A new wave of Jewish immigration is bringing newcomers to Israel's shores at rate of 300 a day. i The 1957 total is expected to reach 100,000, nearly double the total last vear. Most come from Eastern Europe,' North Africa and Egypt. Their reasons are the old ones of oppression in their native land and hope of better future in their new one. . . Since Jan. 1, 8,000 Egyptian Jews have arrived. Immigration authorities expect the flow to con tlnue at the rate of 1,400 a month. Immigration ships dock here two to three times a week. A steady stream also come by plane. What happens to an immigrant on his arrival? The Jewish Agency is respon sible In concert with the govern ment for immigration, absorption and settlement. When the ship docks, Jewish Agency representatives interview immigrants and determine where to send them. The immigrant re ceives housing and his initial household requirements. And two. Israel pounds ($1.10). . The day after arrival, the im migrant is enrolled in at a labor exchange. He is assigned to a Job according to his skill, age and health. About 60 per cent of the arriv als are assigned to new commu nities in underdeveloped sections mostly in Galilee in the North and the Negeb in the South. The "development towns" serve as centers for the agricultural hinter land, providing such services as tractor stations and stores. Many have industries connected with farming. Twenty ner cent of the immi grants are sent to agricultural set tlements, The remaining 20 per cent arc either taken in by relatives or sent to the central coastal plain the developed or urban part of Israel where they are settled with Jewish Agency help. Those in the latter group are largely professional men. Portland May Get Another Video Station WASHINGTON on - The Fed eral Communications Commission Wednesday received a request by the Tribune Publishing Co. of Ta- comn. Wash., that television Chan nel 2 be assigned to Portland; Ore. The company, publisher of The Tacoma News Tribune and Ledg er and operator of TV Channel U in Tacoma said if VHF Chan nel 2 is assigned to Portland the Tribune Publishing ,Co. will im mediately apply for a license to operate the channel In Portland. The Tacoma firm said applica tions are now on file with the FCC for assignment of VHF Chan nel 2 to Longview, Vancouver and Aberdeen but contended the need for an additional VHF station at Portland outweighs the needs of the smaller cities. Hit by Elevator LOUISVILLE. Kv. l Archie Vick, 64. stuck his head into the elevator shaft at the Gold Proof Elevator Co. to see If the lift was coming down. It was. It hit him. Hospital officials said he was not seriously hurt.. I Gates Opposes Single Service NEW YORK W-Secretary ' of Navy Gates says he is opposed to a single combined military service for the nation. At a dinner of the Pennsylvania Club last night. Gates termed the single-service plan "probably the most utter nonsense that has ever been foisted upon the Amer ican puonc. With such an operation, he add ed, "perhaps the United States would be led into devising a sin gle strategy, and we need alter nate strategies." The club awarded Gates lis Benjamin Franklin Trophy for outstanding service." BUSINESS MIRROR 1st Quarter Profits Show Decline Trend By SAM PAWSON NEW YORK W American busi ness did better on profits in the first three months of the year than many had expected. But the num ber of companies showing declin ing net income after taxes was clearly on the increase. And the over-all gain above the year ago period was much smaller than in the two previous years. The first 491 corporations to re port first quarter profits split this way: 279 made more than a year ago and 212 made less. There were 14 companies operating at a loss, four of them railroads. This was the same total as had red ink reports a year ago. The 491 had comoinea net earn ings of (2,997,302,621. This was a earn of 7.6 per cent over the $2.- 783,043,406 the same 491 reported in the first three months of 1956. A year ago American business as a whole showed a 12 per cent gain over the 1955 first quarter, which had been up a spanking 27.2 per cent over the first three months of 1954. During the first three months of this year American corpo rations declared cash dividends of more than 2Vt billion dollars, up 214 per cent from the 1956 quar ter. In many cases where companies reported increased earnings this year, they added that their sales had climbed even faster. Despite rising prices in ' many instances, operation costs, transportation and taxes had gone up even more. Most of those reporting declines from 1956 also stress the profit pinch from higher costs. What has been happening to profits in relation to sales is Grants Pass Radio Permit Is Granted WASHINGTON tin A radio sta tion grant was issued Wednesday by the Communications Commis sion to Grants Pass Broadcasting Co., Grants Pass, Ore., to oper ate on 1270 kilocycles, 1 kilowatt, daytime. The commission also granted a TV translator station to the Red mond, . Ore., Junior Chamber of Commerce on channel 73 to re produce programs of KOIN-TV, Portland, Ore. shown by figures released by the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities & Exchange Com mission. Reporting only on man ufacturing companies, the agen cies show these had both record sales and record profits last year with inflation of prices count ing for about half of the gain. Profits as a, percentage of the sales dollar slipped to 5.3 cents in 1956 from 5.4 cents the year before. The rate of profit after' taxes in relation to stockholders' equity in the companies slid to 12 per cent in 1956 from 12.3 per cent the previous year. EXCITING POSSIBILITIES? Chemicals Produce Mutations in Ducks By GARVIN HUDGINS PARIS Vft-k team of French bioloeists has managed, through chemical injections .made after birth, to bring about radical mu tations in 12 ducks. The experiments reported yes terday aroused considerable inter est in scientific circles nere. iney mark one of the few successful attempts to bring about changed characteristics in anything other than micro-organisms. One of the scientists working on the project. Prof. Jacques Benoit of the College of France, said fu ture possibilities of the experi ments could be exciting but he cautiously refrained from predict-, ing how they might be applied to human beings. "One could hope to introduce beneficial characteristics in hu mans," he said, "but the changes produced could also be harmful." It still is not known whether the new characteristics produced in the 12 ducks can be handed down to succeeding generations. Eggs from the changed ducks now are being incubated. A prime objec tive of the experiments is to see whether sex cells can be changed enough to modify hereditary characteristics. The injections, Benoit said, pro duced changes in the size of the ducks, altered the shape of their heads and bodies and the way they walked and changed the color of their beaks and feathers. I The ducks involved were 8-day-old Pekins, three males and nine females. Desoxyribonucleic acid, a vital chemical of life that con trols heredity, was extracted from the blood of ducks of the Khaki Campbell species. The acid nick named DNA then was injected into the abdominal cavities of tha Pekin ducks. When the Injected ducks matured, they showed tha changed characteristics which dis tinguished them not only from others in the Pekin species but al so from ducks in the Khaki spe cies. Beaks turned from a normal yellow to a dark green color. Feathers changed from yellowish white to snow white. While ma ture Pekin ducks weigh up to about 6V4 pounds, the treated ducks, when mature, weighed about four pounds. Benoit and his associates re ported the results of their experi ments to the French Academy of Science and explained their work in an interview. Nurse Edith Cavell was shot by rnp i.prmnns in mussels ill imo. BUIIIOHS Get this quick relief. Lift shoe prMBure, wothes, cuah to dm, protect the eensitiv pot. Aak for the Bunion iltaj mm K mother; doy.fi 1,1 Smf7 H ' M S II It '111 IJT W -0 M1..TT m7. v iutt ni yxoi tk i i fi,rn or .-i AV -ct.P I W HP '' ''" Piston Sprayer f VctJrV 0,c W'VSS' l I pressures up to 1 CO'5 W"l moM W mm Fix-Up-Paint-Up Now with extra savings during Sears Days! HOUSE PAINT PRICES REDUCED! 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