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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;
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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.
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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.
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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.)