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'Blimey!1 fitlZlri : ' a JSo- jfc--ii!5;i5,H. rfSS fat. I t --vf.'J ll - aTN $ J VW;ry'JisUV(sS..i f4 Continued inflation of house prices appears to be coming to abrupt end ". Caution is the word in the hous ing credit field. The end of the post World War II inflation is a principal factor in the growing number of home foreclosures. Another is the virtual disappearance of the postwar housing shortage. For tha nation as a whole, ac cording to a recent special report of the National Association of Home Builders, the foreclosures rate "has not reached the danger level." Nev ertheless, In some areas the rate is too high in relation to the national foreclosure rate. And the business letter Impact, commenting on the NAHB report, observes: "The warn ing signals are now hoisted." Until about six years ago, fewer than 2 mortgages were foreclosed out of every 1000 mortgaged homes. In 1958 the rate per thousand broke the 2.0 barrier for the first time in a decade. Of late it has been rising with a rush. The overall rate per thousand in 1963 was about 4. If the trend keeps up, the rate for this year will be approximately 4.3 fore closures per thousand. ; Ongovernmen t-guaranteed mortgage loans the figures figures are more alarming. The Federal Housing Administration foreclosure rate last year reached 9 per thou sand; the Veterans Administration rate, 6 per thousand. Local conditions help to explain the concentration of foreclosures in a relatively few states. Some areas have been subject to sharp economic fluctuations (Detroit, Fort Worth, Philadelphia). Some have been af fected by reductions in defense and military employment or by deactiva tion of military bases (Del Rio, Kil leen, and Laredo in Texas and Wich ita, Kan.). Some expanding areas (Orlando, St. Petersburg, and Miami In Florida) have experienced slow downs in the rate of growth. Some areas suffer chronic unemployment (textile cities in New England and The Phoenix The Phoenix, In mythology, was a beautiful Arabian bird which lived In the desert for 500 years or so, then consumed itself in fire. It arose from the ashes to start another long life. The story of the Phoenix comes quickly to mind in a cursory review of the recent lives and deaths of Civil Defense in Oregon, and Des chutes county. ' In Deschutes county CD has died, officially, then been revived after what was generally supposed to have been an official death. No mouth-to-mouth resuscitation ever produced a miracle to compare with the one which was produced for CD here. In Oregon, CD was killed by the legislature. An attempt to per form a miracle of revival through offices of the State Emergency Board failed Saturday. The failure of the Emergency Board to help out may have been H new death sentence? for a full-time CD program In Deschutes county, and those few Oregon counties Which still have such programs. Funds were requested to add three more persons to the Oregon staff. coal regions In Pennsylvania and West Virginia). In the early days after World War II, home buyers who could qualify for conventional financing chose FHA and VA loans to enjoy lower interest rates. Thus the soundest borrowers were the first to take advantage of government financing, and foreclosures were low, as might have been expected. But of late more fringe buyers turn up in the government programs. FHA experience shows that most foreclosures occur between the second and third years of purchase. If the house is held for more than four years, chances of foreclosure are considerably reduced. Low down payments allow a purchaser to abandon a property In the early months without much loss. Rising real estate taxes and housing expenditures affect fore closures. The owner of a 520,000 house in Montgomery County, Md., had to pay a real estate tax of $530 In 1962. According to the NAHB, so does the growing mobility of the nation's population. And some persons with very little equity in a house will give up the equity rather than pay the 6 per cent sale commission. The boom in building of apart ment houses is the most striking feature of the housing industry to day. Multi-family units started in 1962 numbered 462,000 or 32 per cent of all non-farm private housing starts In the year a spectacular 92 per cent jump In only two years. Some 6 out of every 10 families now own their own homes. Some stagnation of the housing and mort gage markets would appear Inevi table. What seems certain is that the "fool-proof" post-World War II housing market, In which even shod dy housing was protected by price inflation, has been erased. These would have been necessary, or so the state director said, to ad minister the cooperative funds avail able to counties through federal grants. Without the three additional persons, the state will not be able to handle the paperwork Involved In the county programs. The Emergency Board's action, then, would seem once again to spell death to the Deschutes county program. The latter has, however, proved surprisingly vigorous. Don't be amazed If it doesn't remain a Phoenix, and arise again from the ashes of the latest funeral pyre. Quotable quotes They all look like Winston Churchill. The Rev. John Scahill, asked for a description of Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, newest addition to the first family. I hate squealers. Hit this guy. Mobster Albert Anastasia, quoted when he ordered the killing of Ar nold Schuster, the man who had turned in Willie Sutton. ,y .1)1)1 jn I I I tj I Russian-United States duel beneath sea no less significant than space probes By A. Robert Smith Bullttin Correspondent Editor's Note Tha United States and Russia are engaged in an intense rivalry to get to the bottom of the world's oceans and find a treasure chest of oceanographic knowledge which will have a host of prac tical applications. Overshadow ed by the more dramatized race to the moon, the duel beneath the seas is no less ignificant either in terms of cold war stra tegy or the resources it holds for man in a peaceful world. This Is the first in a series of articles by our Washington cor respondent on this subject.) WASHINGTON When the atomic submarine Thresher per ished this spring in the North At lantic, some Navy officials specu lated that it might have crashed into an unknown underwater sea mount, just as aircraft occasion ally collide with mountains. The theory was later dropped but it betrays the Navy's anxiety about one of the little known perils facing the latest, most advanced war vessels of the United States as they operate amid the ancient mysteries of the ocean depths. That peril is that submarine navigators don't have complete road maps of the ocean floors. The sea mount theory was considered only because the Navy just doesn't know where all the underwater mountains and valleys are located. This points up a critical mili tary problem, but it stems funda mentally from man's abysmal ignorance of the sea around him. As Interior Secretary Stewart Udall put it recently: 'The ocean is the newest and the last fron tier of the world. I would hazard a guess that we know more about the stars and the space above us than we do about the water and the land beneath it cover ing more than two-thirds of this planet." Tho problem caused by this ba sic ignorance has suddenly be come critical because the cold war has been extended to the ocean depths. The Soviet Union is concentrating virtually all of its sea power In a mighty submarine force of some 600 vessels; and the United States Is turning out nuclear submarines "like pan cakes," as one congressman put it. Consequently, both nations have become intensely concerned about solving the mysteries of the f j Washington M Tax outlay to pharmacies a conflict of interests? By Jack Anderson WASHINGTON The Public Health Service, with a furtive backward glance at the taxpayers, has just slipped $100,800 to the American Pharmaceutical Assoc iation to study how pharmacies can serve as community health centers. The association's executive di rector, William Apple, will also help tho University of Pittsburgh spend another $221,057 of the tax payers' money to study drug costs and uses. By a curious coincidence, the Public Health Service's pharmacy chief, Dr. George Archambault, happened to be doubling in brass as president of the American Pharmaceutical Association while both grants were being process ed. He acknowledged to this column that, as APhA president, he had set up the committee which re quested the $100,800 handout. Wearing his other hat, as PHS pharmacy chief, he had been con sulted informally about the grant. But he insisted that he had noth ing to do with the final decision to award the money. Dr. Archambault defended the decision, however, as "wonderful for the public." The money would be spent, he said, to mako public health information available; to people at their neighborhood pharmacies. Wasting no time, APhA has al ready put its communications di rector, George Griffenhagen, on the taxpayers' payroll at $12,000 a vear to get the program start ed. Critics have questioned whether APhA is interested in benefiting the public or the pharmacies. Turning pharmacies Into public health centers, they point out, will also lure customers into the drug stores. On an earlier occasion, APhA Suppressed news of counterfeit drugs in order to protect the pharnycics from losing business. S,JL. Hi iii).".AL3L,Cx-'fa..-JT.t'JAi-v,. ..... v..l:-t?:...'t..- Xv.a The Bulletin Thursday, August 8, 1963 An Independent Newspaper Robert W. Chandler, Editor Glenn Cushman, Gen. Manager Jack McOermott, Adv. Manager Fhil F. Brogan, Associate Editor Leu W. Meyers. Clrc Manager Loren E. Dyer, Mech. Sup't. William A. Yates, Menaging Ed. Knterert u Sow1 Cum Matter, Je-iier a. 191?. at tr r.t Office at rvi. iws-iv U'Mr Ai-l nl Mnh J. l;s. IMMlineJ oaJur egret SmUj and certain tvi:,1 hy Ttie Me:tl bulletin. Inc. tjapilal Report deep. In a word, the United States and Russia are locked in a race to get to the bottom of the ocean, in the broadest sense. For this reason the Kennedy ad ministration without fanfare has expanded significantly the govern ment's oceanography program and laid out a decade-long effort to conquer the unknown. A decade ago the federal bud get for oceanography was about 410 to $15 million a year. Last year it was $124 million; and this year President Kennedy has ask ed Congress for $156 million. Dur ing the coming decade from 1963 to 1972 the government plans to spend over $2 billion in oceano graphy, making it a major thrust of the U.S.A. About 95 per cent of the impetus for this expanded effort is mili tary, according to a key govern ment official. Nevertheless, some 20 different federal agencies are involved in oceanographic re search, civilian as well as mili tary. They are measuring ocean temperatures, salinity, currents and waves, surveying the undula tions of the bottom, exploring the mineral potential of the sea, look ing for ways of increasing and utilizing the vast fish population, observing movement of icebergs, determining the influence of the ocean on weather, and ascertain ing the affect of man's various activities such as disposal of atomic and industrial wastes on the oceans. Research in some of these areas would be underway by both fed eral and private research institu tions even if there were no threat from a foreign power, but the ex tent of the American effort today is attributable to the Russian sub marine threat. As a matter of fact, the U.S. has shown almost a knee - jerk reaction to foreign submarines. The history of oceunographic stud ies shows that the U.S. govern ment over the years has been vitally concerned only in direct proportion to the rise of foreign threats to the nation's security on the high seas or beneath them. It started in the first World War when the German U-boat proved a new menace. The Navy reacted by developing the crude hydro phones with which to detect the slow, noisy undersea craft. After the war, further attempts to ven ture into the unknown of the sea lagged. erry-gq-rounrl j Director Apple brought pressure upon the Armstrong Cork Com pany to cancel a TV show, expos ing how counterfeit pills and pow dors were being peddled to the public. Note The Public Health Serv ice has kept strangely silent about APhA grant. A PHS spokesman claimed that the APhA applica tion was a "privileged communi cation" though it dealt with public money. This column learned, how ever, that the grant was applied for in March, two months before Dr. Archambault retired as APhA president. Pressure on Italians The Justice Department has brought pressure upon a grudging Italian embassy to help prepare a deportation case against New Or leans racketeer Carlos Marcello. Tho Italians aren't a all enthus ed about accepting tho terror of the New Orleans underworld. He wasn't even born In Italy, but in Tunisia. It was his Italian parent age, the Justice Department avers, that makes him deportable now. Earlier, the Immigration Serv ice tried to get rid of him by hustling him off unceremoniously to Guatemala. But Marcello grew tired of the drowsy, dolec vita in Hie banana republic and smug gled himself back into the United States. He has used every strata gem in the law books to stay here. Now the Justice Department is going to try again to declare him an undesirable alien. In this ef fort. Attorney General Robert Kennedy has obtained the reluct ant cooperation of the Italian em bassy, which sent to Italy for pa pers proving Marcello's parent age. The Italian authorities are pri vately irked over the American hi.bit of casting the derelicts from the American underworld upon their shores. They learned their nefarious skills, the Italians ar gue, in the United States. With the advent of World War II. German submarines threaten ed once more. This time they were improved boats which could go down to 400 feet. The Navy reacted to the crisis by recruit ing scientists for a new thrust into the neglected field of oceanogra phy. This time they developed sonar, an electronic device for de tecting undersea objects by send ing out sound impulses and re ceiving the echo when it bounces off the object. Both the hydrophone and sonar were based on certain principles learned by oceanographic re search, chiefly the peculiar char acteristics of sound waves as they travel through water. There are many variables which make the art of detection and communica tion underwater extremely diffi cult and uncertain and this still baffles scientists to a degree. Today's standard sonar can de tect another vessel at a distance of 4000 to 5000 yards, or say three miles at most. American engi neers are working on advanced design sonar which they expect will extend the reliable detection range out to 30 miles. US. scientists are also working on ways of bouncing sound waves off the bottom of the ocean for longer range communication and detection. While generally sound travels faster through water than through air, the scientists must contend with such curious phenom ena as the bending of sound waves as they pass through the sea, and the influence of water temperatures and depth on the velocity of sound waves. Theso unique and troublesome characteristics of the ocean, plus the unknown contours of the ocean floor, suggest the military neces sity for the expanded oceanogra phic program. The problem of the unmapped ocean floor is more re cent than the one of sound wave movement. For it wasn't until aft er World War II that oceanogra phers discovered they were mis taken in assuming that the deep sea was not simply a vast and comparatively level plain. They had known for a century of such major topographic fea tures as the Atlantic Ridge, a 10,-000-mile long range of peaks whose highest summit, emerging as the Azores, is 27,000-feet above the ocean bed. And they had known about deep depressions such as the Mindanso Rrench, an awesome pit over six miles deep east of the Philippines. But until the 1940s they didn't know that there are about 160 flat tipped sea mounts between Ha waii and the Marianas. How many others may rise from the floor of the world's vast ocean stretches remains to be discovered. The reason it is imperative to find out such facts Is that ad vancing surmarine engineering is producing vessels which are cap able of traveling at greater speeds and withstanding the pressures , of increasingly greater depths. As one Navy spokesman put it: "Tho task of navigating a sub marine at high speed and deep submergence without bottom in formation that is accurate and adequate can be compared with driving a 10-ton truck on a free way blindfolded." Inasmuch as America's most prized submarines are equipped with nuclear Polaris missiles, a deterrent power in which the Uni ted States has a clear advantage over the Soviets, the nation's mil itary strategists are anxious to remove the blindfold from cur submarine skippers. That is a prime task of ocean ography in America today. (Next What the Soviets are up to.) Shipping law change sought WASHINGTON (UPI) - Rep. Jack Westland, R-Wash., joined today in an effort to win permis sion for West Coast lumber ship pers to use foreign flag vessel between U.S. ports. Westland said said he had in troduced legislation to allow such use of foreign vessels now pro hibited by U.S. shipping laws. Similar bills already have been introduced by other Pacific Northwest members of congress. Barbs A lot of family vacations are over and Mom is over-tired. An Ohio woman found a fifty dollar bill she had hidden eight years ago. Unfortunately dresser drawers don't pay interest. Yawning should be great train ing for eating corn-on-the-cob. Some folks are already saving for next summer's vacation and seme for the bills of the one they utt returned from. 'My-Nickers Worlh . The Belletln welcomes ennlrlhulions 4e this column from Its reader. Let. Sera mini contain tho cerm-i name and addm ot tho tender, whlrh may be withheld at the newspaper dis cretion, letter mar bo edited to con form la the directives of taste and alale. Plea for expansion of hospital voiced To the Editor: A decision as to whether to vote "yes" or "no Agusut 15th on the Expansion Program for the Cen tral Oregon District Hospital must be made by responsible citizens of the area. May I suggest the following points are pertinent in your con sideration as to how to vote if you feel that we in Central Ore gon should expect reasonably priced, efficient, and medically approved hospital care. The proposed expansion pro gram is designed to eliminate present inconveniences, inade quacies, and medically unsound practices. Originally the bed space ap peared adequate (in fact, some people believed it would be half empty); however, many times during the past five years pa tients have been placed in halls due to overcrowding of sections. The one room delegated to pediatrics Is ludicrously inade quate in view of the number of children who must be admitted, as former patients can attest who have had to spend nights listen ing to crying children. A mentally disturbed patient cannot be restrained nor placed in a room that is easily supervis ed; the new plans provide such a room with a window adjacent to the nurses station. Temporarily admitting a disturbed patient now means that the other bed in his room must be vacated and the space wasted. Obstetrical patients, in labor and delivered, should be in a wing with the nursery in order that they may be secluded from other sections and the staff serving them kept out of contact with oth ers. At the present time labor rooms and delivery are divided by a public hall from the con valescents and nursery, which poses a problem of sterile prac tice as well as privacy. Patients recovering from surg ery must now be placed with med ical patients requiring a nurse i.i attendance for the one patient. A recovery room would allow one nurse to watch over several post operative cases. This would also eliminate the need for medical pa tients to be disturbed by patients recovering from anesthetics. Phsical therapy patients must travel to other cities for treat ment, at a high cost in expense and time, whereas the expansion will provide a therapy room with a physical therapist in attendance so many days a week. Minor surgery is now done in the emergency surgery room; a minor surgery room would elimi nate this doubling up and make available added facilities in the case of accidents, which are fre quent in this area. In the present 58 bed hospital, there are no separate bathing fa cilities for men and women. There is one bathtub and it is not a stepdown type for weak or in firm patients. Two of the four showers are in isolation, a third is at the end of the men's ward, and the fourth is in maternity. The proposed plan would provide for a bathing section, divided for men and women, with dressing space, showers, and a recessed tub (in order that weak patients can easily enter and leave the tub.) A conference room Is provided in the plans so that instructions and teaching of the staff will be possible in a group. The proposed expansion pro gram Is designed to take care of all these problems with the addi tion of 13,500 square feet and with some remodelling. Some critics have advised improvement by stages; a patch-quilt job, adding on here and there from time to time would give more space but would not efficiently solve the ma jor problems. 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Generally speaking, the rates at the Central Oregon District Hos pital are well within the lower bracket of state-wide fees. The availability of specialists attach ed to the staff has greatly low ered the medical expense of our families who heretofore have had to go out of the area to receive socialized services. The original hospital was not built to care for the expanded population nor the expanded medical services now available. No small increase in tax millage could ever equal the amounts formerly spent in out-of-the-area care. But to take advant age of this broader scope of medi cal care, the hospital should ex pand its plant As a former member of the Hospital Board of Directors, as a member of this year's Budget Board, and as a member of the planning committee for expan sion, I urge you to provide our community with first class hos pital care in a broader range of medical service than is now pos sible. The staff is excellent; ws should provide the physical plant for their efficient operation. Yours truly, Charles A. Dudley Redmond, Oregon, 1 August 6, 1963 'Caveat Emptor' not answer to insurance To the Editor: I have on my desk, a trade pub lication story concerning the re ceivership hearings of an Arizona life insurance company, which disclosed that they have 33 mil lion dollars of annuities on the books, and only $10,000 in cash assets. A purchaser of life insur ance might properly ask how such a situation as this could be permitted to develop. The regulation of life insurance companies has long been held to be the province of the states. However, both the laws of the various states, as well as their administration differ quite wide ly; and so, while this company was denied a license by one state, it was permitted to operate in others with the resultant losses to their policyholders. Therefore the concerns of the Central Oregon Life Underwrit ers Association indicated in your editorial, are very real and are motivated by more than selfish, economic considerations. The re cent school health insurance fraud demonstrated again, the folly of dealing with an unknown firm out side the local community where service is neither available nor responsible. During a recent trip to the east coast, I discussed with responsi ble leaders of the life insurance industry, the possibility of Feder al Regulation entering the pic lure. 1 found them to be virtually resigned to its inevitability. An Attorney General with presiden tial aspirations, is not very apt to sit idly by when weak state legis lation has proven inadequate. Responsible leaders of the Ore gon State Life Underwriters As soc. proposed a number of legis lative measures which wouls have greatly strengthened the laws of the State of Oregon. How ever, both a lack of awareness of the problem on the part of the public, and of the legislators themselves, resulted In most of this sound legislation being lost in committee. Obviously, the doc trine of "Caveat Emptor" is not the answer in an industry as com plicated as the life insurance busi ness is. A strengthening of Ore gon's laws regarding the regula tion of the operation of compan ies domiciled outside this state will help considerably. But there is no substitute for dealing with responsible, local life insurance agents who will be here next month and next year to answer the questions and provide the service that an adequate liTe in surance program requires. Sincerely yours, Glenn Ratcliff. C.L.U. Bend, Oregon, Aug. 7, 1963 Answer to Previous Puzxle lATl 3fl RndMnt 47 Galway Bay 41 Rapid i music) 42 Small talk 43 Dodecanese island 44 Touch on 46 Tibetan priest Miana 48 Strobile 60 Sick 51 Bishoprie 55 Out of (pretbjH sip1 -BsE Sl ? I eiv Ag rSrviMpLf I'lji'g
