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MAIL TRIBUNE, Mdford, Oregon, Sunday, December 28, 1958 o ATLAS TRAII This is the 4Vfc-ton Atlas satellite guided into space by the Air Force at Cape Canaveral, Fla., as it passed over Austin, Texas. The path of the 85-foot long intercontinental ballistic missile in this photo appears to be erratic, but is caused by camera movement during time exposure. Right Approach Needed To Solve U. S. Problems With Latin America ("Good neighbor" rela tions between the United States and Latin American countries are not always as good or as neighborly as they should be. In the fol lowing dispatch, a disting uished Latin American dip lomat discusses the major ' problems that beset those relations and ofers some so lutions. It was written by Dr. Jose A. Mora, for many years Uruguay's ambassa dor to the U.S. and since 1956 Secretary General of the Organization of Ameri can Stales.) By DR. JOSE A-MORA Secretary General, Organiza tion of American States (Written for United Press International) Washington -UIPD-The prob lems that beset United States relations with Latin Ameri ca are complex and urgent. But they can be solved if we know what they are and ap proach them in the right spir it. Many of them are rooted in the fact of one immensely powerful and productive na tion living next door to a group of smaller nations of greatly varying economies, populations and stages of progress. - The disparity in U.S. and Latin American living stand ards was not so important 50 years ago. Travel was slow and Latin Americans who traveled usually went to Eu rope. But the air age has changed that. Thousands of Latin Americans now visit the United States every year, to see at first hand the dazzling results of technological econ omy. They can never again be content with the old ways. 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Published ing World War II gave most Latin American people their first taste of the benefits of an industrial economy. It whetted their appetite for more. But at the end of the war, the United States found it self involved in worldwide re sponsibilities, which naturally detracted from the attention given Latin America. There were fluctuations in the prices of some of Latin America's basic products, such as cot ton, sugar, coffee, copper, tin, lead and wool. There were ac companiel by serious inflation in several countries. Latin Americans began to fear that their powerful neighbor had lost interest in their econom ic progress. Those who are familiar with the United States know that this is not true. The economic destinies of North and South America are too closely link ed for there to be any thought of the United States' "aban doning" Latin America. Wit ness only two figures: the United States sells 25 per cent of its total exports to Latin America. It buys nearly half of Latin America's ex ports. Latin America has made some progress in its drive to industrialize. During the past 17 years, industrial produc tion has increased 175 per cent. But the output of high ly industrialized nations has increased even faster, with the result that each year sees Latin America falling further behind such nations in rela tive living standards. Another factor is the rap id growth in Latin America's population, which offsets in creases in production, Latin America's population growth rate, about 2.7 per cent a year, is the fastest of any major area in the world. By the end of the century, at the present rate of growth, Latin Amer ica's population will be 493 , ESTABLISHED 1896 FUEL CO. Court and McAndrews i ( GREEN Utamps -FLY for FR FLO as a public service 000,000 compared to 380,000, 000 for the United States and Canada. This population explosion multiplies demands for facili ties that do not exist, and puts an intolerable overload on those that do exist. The sim plest necessities of life, such as electricity and water be come scarce. Shirtages also ex ist in housing, schools, hos pitals, railroads, telephones, automobiles and textile mills, to name only a few. If Latin America is to gain and keep a place in the indus trialized world of the 20th century, it must make in a single generation the mate rial progress that kept the United States busy for a 100 years. I believe it can be done. But to do it we must use all kinds of capital and technical assistance, where ever we can get it. We must also give urgent attention to health and educa tion. Sick people cannot be productive, and a man who cannot read can hardly be ex pected to operate modern ma chinery. The Pan American Sanitary Organization, work ing in cooperation with na tional governments, has al ready done much to curb the great killer, malaria. Exten sion of this program, estimat ed to cost $150,000,000, can completely eradicate malaria in the western ' hemisphere within five years. The hid eous tropical affliction of yaws also can be controlled with pepicillin. An estimated 40 per cent of Latin America's adult pop ulation is still illiterate. Al though efforts are being made to overcome this grave handi cap, progress is spotty. The efforts must be greatly in creased. Solutions to our problems, in the field of international commerce are perhaps even more complex. A number of nations have found an econ omic cushion in an expanded tourist business. But a coun try such as Chile, which de pends almost entirely upon copper, or Cuba, which de pends on sugar, is like a man walking on one leg. Anything that happens to his single sup port is likely to be disas trous. 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Sayen, president of the Air Lines Pilots associa tion, said that although he spoke by telephone with Le verett Edwards, chairman of the National Mediation Board, about a truce proposal, he had "no idea" where Edwards had got the impression a settle ment was in the offing. Edwards announced Friday that the results of a conversa tion between the three -man mediation board in Washing- Food Store Men ' Get Criticism Los Anseles -(UPD- The exe cutive secretary of Retail Clerks Union local 77u yester day accused the Food Employ es council of "stalling in or der to create a crisis" in nego tiations to avert a threatened strike at most supermarkets in the greater Los Angeles area New Year's day. JoseDh T. DeSilvia, spokes man for nine southern Cali fornia locals representing snmp 36.000 clerks, said em ployer representatives left the negotiating table for a caucus and then did not return. "This is a strange negotia tion, where the employers leave for a caucus and never come back," DeSilvia said. "The time is very short and we still have not received any counter proposal from the em ployers." confidence. In addition, there might be an Inter-American Payments Union which could extend to member countries credits to be repaid during periods of high export earn ings.: This wouldalso simpli fy the exchange of currencies and tend to stimulate trade through the entire hemi. sphere. : :f Perhaps the basis of all such foreign trade reforms should be 'a system of region al cpmmon markets or free trade zones similar to those now being planned among the Central American countries. This would be a first step to ward economic intergration of the hemisphere.1 It would rest on the Slow but steady reduction of tariffs and other trade barriers. ; These are our chief mutual problems in the ' Western Hemisphere. All are difficult, and all are inextricably interlocked.- Some are closer to so lution than others,' but I be lieve remedies exist for them all. Reaching the . solutions presuppose a high degree of international cooperation; it also presupposes the will to change established policies. In this period of rapid tran sition our problems can be solved only through a deep understanding of common in terests, on the basis of imag inative and far reaching pro posals. Tribune HTS! ton and the ALPA in Chicago made him "hopeful the strike may be resolved within the next few days." "Clarification" "The only thing discussed was the proposal forwarded earlier by Mr. Edwards," Sayen said. "There were some points on that proposal that needed clarification." Neither Edwards nor Sayen said which of the 12 points in the package proposal were discussed. American Airlines, which has been strikebound since Dec. 21, accepted Edwards' proposal shortly after it was proffered but the union has held out for further clarifica tion of the terms. The strike against Ameri can, coupled with twin strikes by flight engineers and ma chanics at Eastern Airlines, had idled one third of the nation's air carriers at the height of the Christmas holi day travel rush. Although . machinists have accepted a new contract, a spokesman said they will not cross picket lines still main tained by the striking engi neers, now in the 34th day. Should the engineers settle their differences with EAL, the airline has still another problem - the Flight Attend ants Union is threatening to strike if an agreement is nol reached in its negotiations with the company. FBI Investigates Jewelry Theft Palm Springs - (UPD - FBI agents and Riverside county sheriffs deputies yesterday investigated the theft of some $6,000 in jewelry from the wife of land developer Walter Boltz. " Mrs. Pauline Boltz, whose husband developed an area known as Palm Springs Coun try Club Estates, told sher iff's deputies that the theft apparently occurred sometime over the Christmas holiday but was not discovered until this morning. Mrs. Boltz said a platinum bracelet and a wristwatch, both diamond studded, were among the missing items. U.N. Official To Talk in L. A. Los Angeles-fUPD-Charles E. Ducommun, executive chair man of the 1959 Business Out look conference here Jan. 13, yesterday announced that Dr. Charles, Malik of Lebanon will be a principal speaker at the conference. Dr. Malik, president of the United Nations' General As sembly, will address the din ner session of the 11th annual conference, which will be held at the Ambassador hotel under the sponsorship of 'the Chamber of Commerce and 21 other community groups. 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