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"0. 30 and 10 YEARS AGO July 27. 1945 lit was Saturday) A picket line nf sinking work ers from Crater Lake lodge 1-lKfi International Association of Machinist?, called off yester-1 day when an agreement was ; rr.-iciiod. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudce Pot column: A number of citizens are wearing helmet type s'raw hats. If afraid of grttinr. hit by a fulling monkey wrench from a private plane. Th'-v ; setter C"' a s!eel one. 20 YEARS AGO JulY "a! w-s Monday, THE Gore bil1 h be designed to sidestep the i).-. v. d Bain, instructor in j public power vs. private power issue. It stipulated edm-atir.,, to replace Loren e. : that the power produced would be for AEC installa 27nrS0nocoen 1""" n0t in competition with private .industry. The Clinton A. Smith, county wa-j ter master, wins in national: economy contest recently con ducted by Pnntiac Motor com-! pan--. ! 30 YF.ARS AGO July 27. 1926 (It was Tuesday) i G. M Robertson, superintend ent of fish hatchery at Trail, returns from Yellowstone park.! Vf;ern he was ictint assistant at! the l'ni'.'-d States fish hatchery in taking '.rout et;gs. Fiw f'-rost fires beyond con trol on st.'.te timber land and rne in f' Cral'-r Lake National fore t. 40 YEARS AGO July 27. 1S16 tit was Thursilay) Rovi" Kiver Fruit and Pro duce association closes first Parti. -tt sal-- of tin- e.ir Wed rti-sday at a private sale in ClUC'iLtO. from Local and Personal col- j umic B. J. Palmer returned Wednesday nteh from a busi-1 res trin ' 'ca iad Eugene, j Can You Get 4 of the 7? 4t',T I"1''! FftiTi.rlnl Rpirarrh R-p.srl 1. 15 .i ProsH vetoes a hi!! while 0rsiv. 15 in scision. he docs ivr dovsn t have to tell it whs'.' ; 2. Wh.ch three of these cities has j:o t'atholie Cardinal: F.alti mor . r.oston. Chicago. Detroit,; Los Angeles. Ness- York. Phila-de'c.hi--, 3. Mi lar.cho!:., as a mental d;s, ati'ic's tcorc older men. older wmti'it, :!i:,1rf!c-asfd men. m:oVY-agc: wo:-c r. . or young go's' 4 Mere per.-"::.-, cf Jewish stock .;. Soviet Union. Fo!a-:.:. V.Y- and Kast Goi many . together. Jirael or the U.S ? a What 2 re called 'counties ' in 47 states are called "parishes" in which sts? fi Democratic ennventioni temporary chairman sj'iH he Sen. Kerr Ok'a.1. Sen. Clemrntv (KyA Guv. Clement (Tenn.V Adlai L'. Stevenson or national: chairman Pa::! I?;fler? 1 7. Durum :s a layer of the skin, knui t ssheat. breed of cattle. X. C,.:- !:na tooacco cen ter, or litflitwemiit m.clal' The answers: 1. Does. 2. None in Baltimore. Boston, or Phila delphia. 3. Middle-aged women. 4. In the U.S. 5. Louisiana. 6. Gov. Clement. 7. Kind of wheat. Hawaii lies about 2.000 miles from the U.S. mainland. Public Vs. Private Atoms Another .-kirmi.-h in the battle over public or pri vate development of power resources was the Gore HoiifieM bill. The Senate had approved a similar mea sure by a 49-40 vote on July 12. The Gore-Holif ield measure was really only a front in the public vs. private atomic power conflict. For in anticipation of a veto the bill was strongly opposed by the administration and the Atomic Energy Commis sion the House Appropriations committee on July liO had tacked $400 million for public atom plants on to the second supplemental appropriation bill provid ing other AEC funds. This money bill was one of several atomic energy measures scheduled for a vote in the final week of Congress. Supporters of the Gore bill had declared that they would oppose two of these should the Gore bill be defeated. One would provide government in- surance for private plants the other would amend the Public Utility Holding Company Act so as to exempt companies that combine iwi ai.wilill lt.-rrtll.il U! Uc . . stands private development of nuclear power today? The House Appropriations com - mittce's July 2u majority report blamed the AEC for "the- stagnation m which stated quote: The one commercial scale atomic power plant ac tually under way, is the Duquesne Light Co. plant at Hhippingport, I'a. and that one is "09.99 per cent" : financed by the federal government. It is scheduled to go into operation in 1957. The majority called operation of the plant propos ed fi'i- Commonwealth Edison Co. of Chicago by I960 "no more than a dream." It noted that the AECs Re actor Safeguard committee allegedly had turned down the proposed design for a fast breeder reactor at La goona Meach, near .Monroe. .Mich., though Detroit Edi son was supposed to break ground for the plant next month. Well, Commonwealth replied that the company was "confident that the Joint Congressional Commit tee (on Atomic Energy) is satisfied that the project will be completed on schedule." Detroit said its erroun had submitted amendments certajn Pafetv features on with the AEC. It said its plans had neither been accep ted nor rejected. AEC on July 24 confirmed Detroit's explanation. The Reactor Safeguard committee's recommendations were still being studied, an AEC spokesman said. Meantime, word comes from Michigan that the groundbreaking ceremonies slated for Aug. 8 had been postponed. jucuil& uuum ne soiKing demonstration power re actors. But public power utilities executives and Repub lican members of the House Appropriations commit tee saw it as an opening wedge for public power. The minority report on the appropriations bill said that the $400 million program was "intended deliberately to open the door for federal domination and control of atomic power," which would be "a long step toward the complete socialization of the electric utility indllStl'V." That sounds familiar, The Arab Jewish Problem Even if a measure of peace is restored in the Arab Israel struggle, many tangled economic problems will remain. For example, out of the secrecy surrounding the talks of Dag Hammarskjold, UN Secretary Gen eral, with both sides emerges a strong Israeli com plaint against Egypt's interception of Israeli-bound shipping. Even more remote from the fighting but probably equally bitterly resented by the Israelis are the indir ect economic sanctions the Arab states are applying. Sen. Herbert H. Lehman (D-X.Y.) and other senators are sponsoring a resolution opposing discrimination in foreign countries against U.S. citizens because of their religious faith or affiliatons. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on Feb. 24 was asked by Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.), of the Foreign Relations committee whether it was true that "certain American personnel are not permit ted to be stationed in Saudi Arabia, American person nel of the Jewish faith." Dulles replied: "It may be. I think that for years, not just in recent years . . . there has been a prohibition on Jews in Saudi Ar abia." Frances G. Knight, director of the U.S. passport office, has notified U.S. citizens planning to travel in the Middle East that "Jordan and Iraq now require Americans applying for visas to show evidence that they are Christians." Persons of Jewish faith or with Jewish names are reported to be denied landing priv ileges at Arab ports and airports. And Arab states are believed to be "blacklisting" Jewish firms and even firms doing business with Jews. WALTER HLN'ES PAGE. U. S. ambassador to Great Britain, was instructed in July 1916 to protest against a British "blacklist" of U. S. firms do ing business with Germany. The custom, according to the State Department instructions, seemed to the U. S. government "to embody a policy of arbitrary interfer ence with neutral trade against which it is its duty to protest in the most decided terms.'' Yet some form of blacklist seems inevitable in modern war. In 1917. after the United States had en tered World War I. the War Trade Board listed some 1600 firms and persons in Latin America with which Friday, July 27. 1956 ' against atomic accidents; tl'J Hlltm . I . this countrv finds irsr-lf " It to its proposal covering July 12 after discussions doesn't it? E.R.R. Polish Admitting Bad In Industry By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international bal ance sheet: The Good 1. The Polish Communist gov ernment confronted by growing unrest, admitted that conditions in industry and agricul ture were bad and promised reforms. Pre mier Josef Cy rankiewicz an nounced that "e m e r gency" measures would be taken to "remove Chaie Mrtann the most painful grievances of the working masses." The meas ures were forced by the recent riots in Poznan, which threat ened to spread through Poland j and other Russian satellite coun- j tries. I 2. The presidents of the Ameri-; can republics, meeting in Pan ama, sinned a declaration of prin ciples calling for intensification of economic and social coopera tion. The meeting was undra matic and largely formal. But it was calculated to strengthen the ties between the United States and its 20 sister republics of the Western Hemisphere. 3. Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, assured Far Eastern coun tries that the United States in tends to maintain adequate mili tary rtrength to take its full part in defense against possible Com munist aggression. Radford made his statement in the Philippines, where he attended the commis sioning of the new Cubi Point Naval Air Station, which is to be the Navy's largest overseas air installation. The Bad 1. Premier Gamal Abdel Nas ser of Egypt, attempting to play East against West in foreign policy, involved his country in a dangerous International dispute. The United States and Great Britain have offered Nasser fi nancial aid in building the great Aswan dam. So, thought Nasser, had Soviet Russia Tired of Nas Welfare Stores Refused Licenses Portland U.R) The city coun cil yesterday refused to grant operating licenses to two second hand stores operated by the Ore gon Institute of Social Welfare. The Institute was warned by Acting Mayor Stanley Earl that any business transacted at either estalishment would be a viola tion of law. Attorney LaVorn A. Taylor at tempted to obtain temporary permits to allow the stores to liquidate some S3000 worth of merchandise but that request, too, was denied. City Attorney Alevander G. Brown said the stores had failed to comply with health regulations requiring fumigation of used merchandise. White House Gets BUI Cutting Amusement Tax j Washington (U.RI Congress I Thursday passed and sent to the i White House a bill to cancel the 10 per cent federal tax on amuse ment admissions costing 90 cents or less. The Senate and House passed the bill by voice votes in rapid order. Admission costing 50 cents or less now are exempt. The higher exemption will cost the Treas ury about S60,000,000 a year. Americans were not to trade. The list was later ex tended to include Europe, and at one time carried 5000 names. "During the World War," according to Prof. Frederick L. Schuman, "the Allied Powers restricted exports by their nationals not only to hostile countries but to neutral territory, in order to prevent any indi rect delivery of commodities to the enemy." A similar procedure was followed in World War II, with the U. S. banning trade not only with Swiss firms trading with the Nazis but also with firms trading with those firms. And of course the present restrictions on East West trade represent a sweeping blacklist. TN AN ELECTION year, U. S. sympathies for Israel tend to become more noticeable than usual. Thus if ; the administration should i to Saudi Arabia and other ! tics may be a controlling influence. j The United States recognized Israel on May 14, 11948, just 11 minutes after the new state had been born. The proclamation by the same day the President was predicting his own re election. E'.R.R. Dr George S. Jennings 111 OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN and SURGEON Has opened His Practice at . . . HAWTHORNE OSTEOPATHIC CLINIC 41 Hawthorne St. Office-Phone 3-4595 Res.-Phone 3-5933 Listed in Good News ser's frank fence straddling, the United States and Britain with drew their offers. To Nasser's dismay. Russia followed by say ing that it was not at present considering aid in the dam pro ject. Nasser, enraged, ordered the nationalization of the Suez Canal, one of the world's most important waterways. Tlie canal is owned by foreign capital, largely British and French. Brit ain. France and the United States opened consultations on Nasser's action. They talked of an appeal to the U. N. Security Council. 2. A sudden flare-up of vio lence threatened serious trouble between Israel and its Arab neighbors. Firing was reported along the Jordanian, Syrian and Egyptian frontiers of Israel. Jor dan said that its anti-aircraft 'Unexpected Events' Discussed by Babson BY ROGER BABSON j and James R. Kncene. announced Babson Park, Mass., Last ' their failures. Depression, as night I finished Burton Crane's i usual, followed these unexpect Guide National Economics, entitled "Getting and spending." 1 1 contains valu able statistics and notes. His conclusion i s that if we will build up for- e i g n marKeis , "to keep the Roser IV Bnlnon svorld safe." prosperity should continue, svith an occasional dip nosv and then, for an indefinite period. He does not, hosvevcr. men tion "unexpected events." The very next day after I read this book, there occurred the great Wanamaker fire in New York City, which crippled its subsvay system. The following day Ring ling Brothers announced the suspension at Pittsburgh, in the middle of its season, of the "Greatest Show on Earth." Certainly these were unexpect ed events, although perhaps not great enough to disturb stock markets. However, these events made me interested in studying anesv the action of the stock market for the past one hundred years. This is what I learned. Prosperous in War Business was prosperous dur ing the Civil War and started to boom directly aftersvard. The sudden death of President Lin coln, hosvever, caused stocks to tumble and a year of depression followed. Again business began to boom until 1869 saw the famous "Black Friday" come very sud denly due to the corner on the gold market. Stocks quickly rebounded, and again investors were looking for ward to several years of pro sperity svhen, in late 1871, the to if aV Chicago Fire occured. This was j some years of prosperity, then a followed by the great Boston ! series of surprise business fail Fire in November, 1872. These : res, along with the sinking of caused another panic. j tile S.S. Lusitania and our The market had just about : entrance into World War I. recovered when the failure of j Al1 went svell untill 1920 when of the great banking house of Jay Cooke and Company svas suddenly announced. Then, for the first time, the leading Stock Exchanges closed for several sveeks. This unexpected failure brought on the great depression beginning in 1873 and extend ing for some years. Garfield Shot Suddenly, on July 2, 1881, President Garfield svas shot. This started a chain reaction of sell ing. During this second period, the great banking house of Grant and Ward, plus the two leading "bulls," namely Henry Villard reverse its policy in regard Arab states, domestic noli- Harry S. Iruman came on Conditions batteries hit an encroaching Is raeli plane and sent it down aflame over Israeli territory. Is rael admitted that one of its planes made a forced landing. It denied that the plane was dam aged. 3. Great Britain, fighting a tough battle against inflation, was threatened with its greatest automobile factory strike in many years. Workers at one big plant were called out in protest against layoffs due to moderni zation. Walkouts started at other factories. Labor unions joined in an attempt to make the strikers fully effective. Fear was ex pressed that the entire motor in dustry might be paralyzed. Brit ain is the world's biggest export er of motor cars. Paralysis of the industry would bring a grave threat to the country's economy. ed events. Business began to cor- rect itself in a few years, how ever. 1892 was recorded as a year of great prosperity, when suddenly the failure of the National Cord age Company was announced in May, 1 80:S . This was then one of the ten largest corporations ana its stocK wouia todav be ln- ciuaeci jn the "Blue Chip" group The following vear the nmm Pullman Strike occurred. This sei-, me in m .senuus siriKe ana li easi great iear ana gloom over the country. This was accompain ed by a scries of crop failures and mortgage foreclosures. Business Improves Again in 1897 business steadily improved and permanent pro sperity was prophesied, ac companied by stock splits, merg ers, and large security offerings. Suddenly, in 1903, there came another panic due to the still more unexpected cause of un digested securities." This panic resulted in the investigation of large life insurance and traction companies which were then very popular. The final crash came with the San Francisco earthquake which dragged prices way down. Up to this time the national government had been friendly to business, with no commissions or other retarding factors. The Supreme Court had been content to decide questions between the states. Suddenly in the early 1900's it issued a decision for bidding the consolidation of the Great Northern Railroad and the Northern Pacific Railroad. This came out of a clear sky and took the zip out of the stock market until the first World War broke. After the closing of the New York Stock Exchange for more than four months, there follosved illJCK marKet prices, due to very high interest rates, had another collapse. This was quickly cor rected and the stock market con tinued to advance until it reach ed an all-time high in 1929. Business Collapse The unexpected es'ents of this time were the business collapse in Europe with the continued withdrawal of gold, climaxed by the very sudden failure of the Austrian Credit - Anstalt with startling repercussions through out the world. Then followed several years of depression, with which readers are well acquaint ed. The stock market for four years had a partial rebound up to 1937. Beginning in 1938 there was a definite recovery in business throughout World War II, but this did not help the stock mar ket much until 1942. With the exception of the severe short readjustment in 1945 and the 1952 steel strike, our country has enjoyed prosperity for about nineteen years, with full employ ment. This has been due to the growth of the installment busi ness, price and wage increases and guarantees, generous pen sions, and the easy terms for building and purchasing homes. I agree with Burton Crane that there is nothing now in sight to cause' a collapse; but j prick the bubble as it has done ' so many times before. 231 EAST SIXTH 5T. . PORK MUTTON LUNCH SLICED LIVER ROAST MEAT BACON Matter of Fact 'DOES YOUR DETERRENT TRULY DETER?' Suppose the President cf the United States knesv that full use of American air-atomic power against Soviet and satellite targets would risk the death of eight out of ten people in Southern Eng 1 a n d, South e r n Ireland, and on much of the conti- JOMPII AlSop 11 C 11 I. liUUCI what circumstances, in response to what degree of provocation, would the President accept the risk? This question is not theoreti cal and abstract. It does not ap ply to some hypothetical future pwKT strategic situ- AjrX i atlon- Jt aP- plies to our strategic situ ation today. The ques tion, moreov er, lies at the heart of a bit ter debate on national strat egy now going on beneath the surface through out the higher levels of govern ment. There have been certain sur face symptoms of the debate. One was the report that the Ad ministration svas considering a gradual reduction of 800.000 men in the armed services, cou pled with increasing reliance on nuclear sveapons. Another was Lt. Gen. James Gavin's testi mony that an all-out hydrogen attack would cause "several hundred millions" of deaths, in allied countries as svell as in the Sos iet Union And another svas VA i Stewart Alsnn Atomic Energy Chairman Lesvis j leiha'- But the fall-out from a Strauss' recent hint that radio ! second bomb, or a third, or a active fall-out could be controll- fourth, would add up to lethal ed a hint which was. it can j ''' at great ranges. nosv be confidentlv stated, thor- oughly disingenious. It has been said that there was "nothing nesv" in Gavin's testimony, according to which the area of lethal radio active fall-out could "extend well back up into Western Europe." Actu ally the information in Gaven's testimony was new, in an impor tant sense. TN FEBRUARY, 1955, Strauss belatedly issued a statement on the fall-out effect of the 1954 hydrogen bomb test. The ' area affected. Strauss indicated, was about 7,000 square miles in ex tent, and the maximum lethal range from the point of explo sion was well under 200 miles. Since both London and Paris are over 500 miles from East Berlin or Prague, the nearest possible targets for the Strategic Air Command, Gaven's testimony does not fit the pattern describ- Phoenix Couole Named Campaign Chairmen Mr. and Mrs. Mark Nor'. on. Phoenix, have been appointed Jackson county chairmen for the Porter-for-Congress commit tee, according to Keith D. Skel ton, campaign manager. Charles O. Porter, Eugene at torney, is a Democratic candi date for Congress from the fourth congressional district. NESBITT'S At Your Favorite GROCER bv Jo. and Stewart AIsop ! ed by Strauss. But Gavin was not bv anv means talking through hij hat. On the contrary, studies by the weather bureau, the Federal Civil Defense agency, the army and the air force have all shosvn the range of lethal fall-out can be very much greater than indi cated by Strauss. The weather bureau FCDA studies, for ex ample, have shown that a single high yield hydrogen bomb ex ploded on Chicago could, under special weather conditions, cause dangerous fall-out over Buffalo. New York, a distance of 454 miles. Even greater fall-out ranges were indicated in the Army and Air Force studies. The Army study, with which the independ ent Air Force analysis differed only in degree, indicated that the area of heavy mortality from an all-out attack on the Soviet satellite area would reach to the north of London and even into Ireland. Heavy mortality is de fined as 80 per cent deaths among an unsvarned population. -THERE are a number of rea sons why the mortality range is so much greater than indi cated in the 1955 statement by Strauss. The most important is that multiple ground bursts svere assumed in the Army and Air Force analyses. The assumption is logical, since the Strategic Air Com mand's number one mission knocking out Soviet air-atomic posver requires ground bursts on very large numbers of Soviet and satellite airfields and other primary targets. Multiple ground bursts would result in an over-lapping pattern of fall out. At a given distance from uie puini oi explosion, the fall- 1 oul lrom one bomb might not be lne lall-oul effect could be minimized by exploding all bombs high in the air, which is really about all that the much publicized Strauss' hints that fall-out can be controlled really amounted to. But. for reasons explained in a previous report, using only high air bursts would mean abandoning or sharply downgrading SAC's primary mission. And if the Western world is to continue to exist physically, Soviet air-atomic power must at all costs be de stroyed in the first fesv days ol global war. rpHESE are unpleasant facts. Yet they are facts, neverthe less, which "touch the very basis of our morality" to repeat the words used by Dr. Robert Op penheimer when the debate about the hydrogen bomb first raged. These facts also touch the very basis of our national strat egy, which rests squarely and more and more exclusively on the assumption that our stock pile of hydrogen bombs will de ter war. But, as one party to the cur rent dispute has remarked, "If you are deterred by your own deterrent, does your deterrent truly deter?" It is an inconven ient question, but it is time to face up to it. (Copyright 1956 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)