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'Guess what! You're almost holding your own!' p mi if iff Report ' Sen. Neuberger cites milk pollution in Oregon in support of test ban treaty Terrorism reduced By A. Robert Smith Bullttln Correspondent WASHINGTON - The level of Strontium 90 in Oregon milk last spring exceeded the permissible level set by an international ra diology agency, Sen. Maurine Neuberger told the Senate this week in urging ratification of the nuclear test ban treaty. Mrs. Neuberger said there was no way to estimate the health ef fects of this amount of radioac tive poison and acknowledged that authorities disagree. But the senator made it plain she sides with those who regard this as a dangerous risk. Stressing the desirability of pro- tecting the current population and future generations against the dangers of radioactive fallout : from atmospheric explosions, the ;' Oregon senator said: 'Somewhere between 50.000 and 200,000 children will be born in the world with gross birth de 1 fects, directly attributable to fall- Av&fii out from atomic testing." :i,'-h She called these "conservative ffl estimates" given to the Senate .xd Foreign Relations Committee in fcjfi hearings on the treaty by Mnthew &A$k Meselson, a Harvard biology pro fessor representing the Council t for a Liveable World. r She quoted wither witness. Dr. Daniel Deykiu of Boston, repre senting Physf :lans for Social Re sponsibility, as testifying that "the total estimated serious gene tic defects will be 17 million with about 150,000 expected to occur In the first generation." An estimated 400 American children alone will die of leuke mia this year due to atomic test ing, Mrs. Neuberger said. Such estimates, she continued, don't take account of "local hot spots such as in Utah and Ne vada, where radioactive iodine 131 from the Nevada test site ap peared in far greater quantities than had been previously suspect ed. In my own city of Portland, Oregon, Strontium 90 levels in milk in May and June exceeded the 'permissible' level set by the International Commission on Ra diological Protection. At this moment the results of these phe nomena are beyond estimation." Questioned about this reference to Oregon milk, Mrs. Neuberger's office reported that government sampling of radioactivity in food stuffs revealed 48 picocuries of Strontium 90 in Oregon milk in May and 36 picocuries in June. No figures for July and August are available yet. w The International Commission maintains that 33 picocuries of Strontium 90 should be consider ed the cutoff level for safe human intake, and that greater quanti ties than that are cause for con cern. The Commission, establish ed in 1928, is recognized as auth oritative by the World Health Or ganization. The U.S. government's Federal Radiation Council, however, dis putes this. Composed of repre sentatives of various federal agen cies, it maintains that 200 pico curies is the maximum safety level and that such "daily intakes averaged over a year are consid ered an acceptable health risk for large general population groups for a lifetime, compatible with the orderly development of the nu clear industry of the United States." Sen. Neuberger said the treaty Is "no blueprint for disarma ment" and doesn't eliminate the necessity of America remaining militarily strong. "Yet if the only tangible bene fit to be derived from the test ban would be the capping of fu ure atmospheric pollution it will still be a major achievement in the history of human affairs," she concluded. Detroit leaders forecast another record year as unveiling of '64 models nears Detroit's incorrigible optimists predict their third good year In a row for 1964, and who will come for ward to dispute them? Non-believers got their comeuppance this year when auto makers and dealers proved they could put two years of 7 million new car sales back to back. Now they are talking about A third straight 7 million year in 1964. Henry Ford II, one of the in dustry's more conservative hyper bolists, even suggests that the av erage new car sales, both domestic and imported, "ought to be 7 million through the rest of the '60s." Chrys ler President Lynn A. Townsend goes so far as to declare that the 1963 "boom" year wasn't really a boom year at all just normal. If auto economists are not mis taken, 1964 will rank as the fourth best sales year on record, as shown in the following table: Sales of Sales of Selected U.S.- Imported Total Years Built Cars Cars Sales (Hundreds Omitted) 1950 6,305 21 6,326 1955 7,409 58 7,467 I960 6,142 498 6,640 1962 6,750 340 7,090 1963 7,020 380 7,400 1964 6,625 375 7,000 Townsend finds comfort in this statistical picture: In 1955, the record sales year, the U.S. popula tion was 166 million, representing 48 million family units; in 1963 the population is 189 million in 55 mil lion family units. About 5 million families owned two or more cars in 1955, while this year about 8 million families are in this category. In 1955 there were 52 million cars in use by 75 million licensed drivers; in 1963 there are 67 million cars on the road and 92 million licensed drivers. And 5 million or more cars will be scrap ped in 1963, compared with only 3.8 million In 1955. The big foreign car scare of the late 1950s appears to have passed and U.S. car makers, who reacted to It by introducing the compact, are going back to their old ways. One wag suggests that the 1964 "compacts" will come in three sizes: large, larger and largest. Pontiac's "Tempest," introduced in 1961 with an economical four-cylinder engine and only 189 inches long, now fea tures an eight cylinder engine and approaches the 285 horsepower mark. The Detroit corollary for size is horsepower, ergo, speed. Company participation in stockcar racing events was prohibited by an in dustrywide ruling adopted in 1957, but the prohibition has become a sham. Automotive executives say there Is no doubt that the prestige of winning auto races helps sales. Chrysler Corporation, reflecting the Industry's Interest in youthful speed demons, this year is stressing the availability of the firm's new 426 cubic Inch engine "the kind that has taken dragstrlps by storm from coast to coast." Drivers of these rocketing ma chines doubtless will need the reas surance of seat belts, which all the major auto manufacturers are thoughtfully including as standard equipment for 1964. Dr. Max has served board well The Oregon State Board of Med ical Examiners plays an important role In the state it serves yet its duties and its personnel are virtual ly unknown. Authorized by legislative act, the board examines, licenses and registers physicians and surgeons and osteopathic physicians and sur geons. It prescribes rules pertaining to the practice of medicine and osteopathy. It Investigates violation of laws, rules and regulations. It en forces compliance through adminis trative procedures and court action. These duties take time and ef fort. A number of the board mem bers travel long distances to attend meetings. Yet the six doctors and one osteopath comprising the seven member board willingly accept five year terms, to serve their profes sions. A Bend man, Dr. Max V. Hem ingway, whose resignation has been announced, served for 13 years. He served well. Oregon is deep ly Indebted for his long and faithful service. Motorists must change with seasons Again the season is changing, and deaths are illustrating the story. Recently, an Air Force sergeant, his small son and the wife of another airman were killed on U.S. Highway 97 about six miles south of Chemult Several others were seriously in jured. The fatalities and Injuries oc curred when a car skidded broadside on a raln-sllckened stretch of road. The skidding car crashed Into an oncoming vehicle. The weather was to blame, news reports Indicate. Of course there may have been an element of human error, or poor driving judgment Each year, about this time, simi lar accidents occur throughout the state. Roacls that were dry and safe for fast driving through the summer months suddenly become slick. This slickness Is not just the result of moisture. Through the dry months, roads are veneered with dust and oil. In some areas, leaves add to the mixture. Then comes the moisture, to form a dangerous paste. Quickly, the scene Is set for such accidents as that which claimed three lives on generally safe, straight U.S. High way 97. Eventually It will become evi dent to motorists that they must change driving habits with the seasons. ' Washington lerfy-goround Drew to grandson: Commie attitude changed since '50 By Drew Pearson Washington Sept. 17, 1963 Dear Georgie, I want to write you about two things a circus that is showing in Philadelphia and a trip which I have just taken through Eur ope. In a strange sort of way the two are connected. The circus is one you would love. If you were not way out in California I would take you to it. It has an act in which two bears put on gloves and stage a boxing match. It has some wonderful clowns and some daredevil Cos sacks on their horses. As you know your grandfather is an old circus hand, and I have seen circuses all the way from Singapore to Chanute, Kans. But the reason I am so interested in this circus is becausa it's the Moscow Circus and about fifteen years ago I first suggested that it come to the United States in order to show the American peo ple how the Russian people can laugh just as hard as we can, and in order to promote Peopel-to-People Friendship. Well, it took a long time, but tho Moscow Circus has finally come and it docs make people laugh and it docs show that the Russian people are just as human as wo are. The reason I say that tho Moscow Circus is connected, in a way, with my trip to Eur ope, is that I went through some of the Communist countries and fourd the people very friendly, very human, and very anxious to know Americans better. The Wonderful Age of 12 This may not seem strange to you because you arc only twelve years old and not old enough to hate. But the reason it's strange that I was well received in the Com munist countries is this: Only a few years ago I would not have been well-received. Only a few years ago they were calling me all sorts of names. For instance, Pravda, tlie of ficial paper of Uic Soviet govern ment, wrote about your grand father on Aug. 31, 1946: "Pearson steps out as a warmonger. . .will resort to any means to sabotage the cause of peace." A week or so later, on Sept. 11, Izvestia, another official paper, had this to say about your grand father: "If the magnates of mo nopolistic capital profiteer on wars, so also do their newspaper salesmen. Such a one is that vet eran of slander, Drew Pearson . . .Any occurrence In interna tional life is transferred by the pen of Drew Pearson Into a step toward conflict between East and West." Four years later, on Jan. 22, 1951. the Soviet Magazine Ogcnck called your grandfather an "un wavering adherent of the mania cal plans for the cstablisluiient of world domination bv American Union facing officials acton PORTLAND (ITP -Six mem bers of Portland Local 1885 of tl International Association of Ma chinists Wednesday sued eight union officials for $360,000. The suit charges the union al legedly wrongfully called them "scabs" in a written sheet dis tributed to other members. The men claim the union made the charges when they worked over time for United Air Lines here after other union members asked them not to do so. monopolies," while in June of that year, Univcrsul, the official Com munist newspaper of Bucharest, Rumania, called your grandfath er "The zealous agent of Wall Street monopolies. "The International Organization of Journalists has expelled all journalists who have compromis ed themselves by carrying on ra cial and war propaganda. Drew Pearson is included in the roll of infamy." Well, last month I went to Buch arest, the same city where they had called me names, and the International Journalists Union gave a dinner in my honor. I also went to Russia, where I have been called a lot of names, but where this time I was invited to broadcast over the radio to the people of Southern Russia. Communism Has Changed The point is that I had not changed, but the outlook and pol icy of the Communist govern ments have changed. During 1946 to 1950, at the lime those Russian newspapers were calling me so many names, I was urging People-to-People Friend ship and the lowering of the Iron Curtain so people could get ac quainted. I said that if people got to know each other they wouldn't want war. And in 1950, when some of those critical editorials were written, I was starting a cam paign to float messages by balloon over the Iron Curtain to tell the Communist people that Americans wanted to bo their friends and wanted people-to-people contacts. I was urging peace at the time the Moscow press was calling me a sabot ager of peace. At one time in 1948 when Gen. Eisenhower was president of Co lumbia, I had lunch with him and urged him to get behind the Pco-plc-to-People campaign. He was skeptical. But I kept hammering away and it was in the summer of 1951 that I finally went to Germany with your Uncle Tyler and began launching those balloons from a rain-soaked wheat field near the Czechoslovak border. Well a lot has happend since then. Four years later, in 1953, Stalin died and things began to change in Russia. In 1955, I went to the Summit Conference in Ge neva, where both Eisenhower and Khrushchev officially adopted the People-to-People program. At first it worked very slowly, but now it's working pretty well, and the Moscow Circus which fif teen years ago I suggested should come to the United Slates is now here; while your grandfather, who was called a "sabotager of peace" and a "zealous agent of Wall Street," was welcomed cor dially in Communist countries. You arc twelve years old. That is a wonderful age and a lucky year. And when you grow up you may be able to look back and say that this year 19S3 was a lucky year also for the rest of the world. For. with the test ban treaty as a step, it may begin a new period when boys of 18 and 19 and 10 will no longer have to go out as did your father and your grandfather to fight wars. Lots of love from Your Grandfather U. S. agencies reported af odds in S. Viet Nam By Lylt C. Wilson UPI Staff Writer The word from Saigon is that President Kennedy has lost con trol of both U.S. policy and per sonnel in South Viet Nam and that he has ordered Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge to help him regain control. This is discouraging word. It came over the weekend in dis patches from Saigon. These dis patches evidently were based on a closed-door briefing of U.S. correspondents in Saigon, includ ing UPI's Neil Sheehan and the New York Times' David Halber stam. Both Sheehan and Halbcrstam attributed their statements about the South Vict Nam situation to informed sources. The evidence indicates that the informed source probably was Ambassador Lodge or someone speaking for him. Both correspondents reported a. state of policy chaos among Americans in Saigon. The United States has become a five-headed monstrosity in Viet Nam. Nobody knows who's keeping store. Five Agencies Feud The five policy agencies, ap parently now engaged mostly in fighting each other or among themselves, are the: U.S. embassy. Military Assistance Command. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Agency for International De velopment (AID), United States Information Agency. These agencies are disputing whether the United States should continue to support the incredible Ngo Dinh Diem family adminis tration of Viet Nam. Underlying this row is serious disagreement between military and civilian of ficials over whether the war is going well in Viet Nam or so badly that the Communists are likely to win in the end. The mili tary claims the war has been going well. The optimistic reports of the military from Saigon large ly have determined Kennedy ad ministration policy. Now the civilians are faulting the military reports as phoney optimism. This has enraged some of the generals. Sheehan reported that one of the military brass was so angry with one of the civilian officials that the general was overheard to say: "I'll get that S.O.B. if its the last thing I do." The weekend dispatches said Lodge had been ordered to report to President Kennedy the true situation in Viet Nam. That report is coming up or may already have been received. Meantime, the five-headed monstrosity rep resenting U S. policy in Viet Nam remains on the job, a symbol of a spectacular frustration In Presi dent Kennedy's administration of foreign policy. U.S. foreign policy has been blotted with such spectacular ad ministrative debacles many times before this. Some of them led to loss of China to the Reds: mis plays at Y'alta: division of Ger many to leave Berlin surrounded by Communists: U.S. aid to Cas tro In taking over Cuba. The Bulletin Thursday, September 19, 1 963 An Independent Newspaper Robert w. Chandler, Editor Glenn Cushman, Ctn. Manager Jack McDermott, Adv. Manager Phil F. Brooan, Associate Editor Del Utsilman, Circ. Manager Loren E. Dyer, Mech. Supt. William A. Yatei, Managing Ed. Kntetvd a So.-d Clam Mailer January I lalt. at the Pom Office at Herd. Own uror Ac. ot Msrch 1 ;S7I, Pualuhtd dally except Sunday and certata nulldAja by TIM Bend Buileuo. Uo Portuguese officials say many who fled going back to Angola By Phil Newsom UPI Staff Writer LISBON. Portugal - In the panic which followed the butch ery of European families in north ern Angola during the "Night of the Long Knives" March 15-16, 1961, many white settlers decided to return home. Twenty-five hundred of them did so. But now, Portuguese officials say, the tide has been reversed and last year 4,000 resumed im migration to Angola, Portugal's ' largest and richest overseas prov- , ince in Africa. Furthermore, these officials say, terrorism which once exten ded to 10 per cent of the territory has now been reduced to two per cent. Nation Is Bitter Portuguese bitterness over what it regards as United Nations in terference in its internal affairs centers on three main points. Demands for Angolan indepen dence do not come from within the province, but rather are press ed from the outside. At most, the Portuguese say, the movement receives support only from a small segment of tribesmen in the north who are related to others across the river in the Con go. The revolt could be suppressed instantly, they say, if it were not for the "privileged sanctuary" provided by the Congo republic to terrorists who cross back and forth. The United Nations stand fa voring self-determination for An gola violates the U. N. Charter which specifically forbids U. N. interference in a nation's inter nal affairs. Carried to a logical extreme, according to the Por tugese, the U.N. eventually could interfere in the smallest af fairs of any nation. U. S. support for Afro-Asian demands for self-determination in Angola, which the Portuguese re gard not only as desertion of an ally but as inconsistent with pre vious U. S. policy holding that Portuguese retention of its over seas territories was essential to African security and stability. Source of Weapons The Portuguese contend that somo weapons captured in the fighting came from Czechoslova kia and Italy and others from Irish forces formerly stationed with the U. N. in the Congo. It is a further source of irrita tion to the Portuguese to suggest that theirs is a colonial economy dependent on overseas posses sions. To this they reply that they are spending more in Africa than they are taking out, and that the last six-year-plan for Angola ending in 1964 called for expenditure of $165 million, half of it coming from Angola itself and the other half from metropolitan Portugal and international institutions. . The Portuguese say further that Portuguese law prohibits the tak ing of land from Africans but rather requires new settlers to Barbs Even wealthy men will do any thing to save money. A Texas oil man married his nurse. Most wives are always on time to buy things that way at a sale. Resort photographers unpacked their wooden fish early in the summer so you and I could see what we didn't catch. Many a man took fourteen days off for vacation and returned horn to a lot of off days. take land not yet occupied. Their work code, they say, ll the best in Africa, pointing out especially that such new nation! as Ghana, Guinea and Nigeria all have compulsory work laws while Angola docs not. Development in Angola, whili slow, is progressing. It has an oil refinery and plans are in the works for a steel mill. Small in dustries also are developing. Geo logists who have been permitted to explore are awed by Its po tential mineral wealth. Council advised to take more credit for itself SALEM (UPI) The Stat Council on Aging was advised Wednesday to relate its success to the legislature in human terms. The admonition by Sen. Alfred Corbett, D-Portland, came shortly before the council elected Don Chapman, Portland, executive vice president of Oregon Physicians' Service, as chairman for the 1963 65 biennium. Mrs. Ann Chambers, Oregon City labor official, was re elected secretary. Corbett told the group's quarter ly meeting some legislators ques tion the need to continue the coun cil. "You have operated very quiet ly, and have not taken credit for much you have done. Maybe you did your job too well," he said. Outgoing Chairman J. Wesley Nicholson, Eugene, said "it would not be proper for the state council to blow its horn and shift the spotlight from the work done by local agencies." Nicholson said the council's 1963 65 budget was $44,534. He said under executive order plans have) been prepared to trim his 14 per cent to $38,299 or by 21 per cent to $34,875 if the Oct. 15 election results in defeat of the tax in crease measure. Hawaii Trip Recalled When questioned by a member regarding the elimination of all out-of-state travel in the stripped budgets, Nicholson replied "it is hard to sell the legislature on the value of travel unless it is a trip to Hawaii." Corbett outlined action by the, 196.1 legislature which affected the elderly. He said the council should study and suggest needed amendments to the homestead tax exemption act and the bill to bar discrimination based on age. "The homestead tax exemption act as passed is an important step toward easing the financial bur dens of elderly persons on limited incomes, but needs some improve ments. The act is difficult to ad minister and need clarification," he said. He said the $2,500 gross income limit was too low for an elderly couple attempting to live with to day's rising costs. He said the legislature improved the law barring discrimination based on age. The act applies to firms which employ six or more persons. "Since five out of seven employ ers hire less than six persons, I suegest you look into the wisdom of modifying this limit," Corbett said. l ex-ommies visit Portland PORTLAND (UPI) Two former members of the Communist Party visited Portland Wednesday under the auspices of Walter Huss' Free dom Center. They wore Kenneth Goff, na tional director of Soldiers of the Cross, identified as a "religious, patriotic organization," and "Sari Prussion, who was a counterspy for the FBI. They spoke at a meeting here. 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