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MAIL TRIBUNE, MeaW, Oregon, Sanity, February 15, 15 S Voews Toward Leds Tpk tf om) fi)d iMlil LLf ui y uutSHll iliim sign In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Racket stuff: Before the senate rackets committee in Washington the attorney for a juke box asso ciation testifies that any Bowery bum with a picket ign can force any juke box operator to sign a contract, He adds: "Any hoodlum can get a union charter and all he has to do is hire some bum to picket a place and the op erator will have to come running to sign up." , An operator of a juke box establishment testifies that he vpyuscu a Luuua-i Willi a union on the ground that the union involved was controlled by gangsters, and a few nights later he was called to the door thugs who split his skull with iron rods. It took 30 stitches to close his wounds, he said. A UNION secretary testified that when a member of the juke box association want ed to protect a location from competition "we would send a picket out" to take' care of the situation. This prompted Senator Church of Idaho to comment that it "appears that some op erators had a cozy deal that enabled them to call out union pickets whenever RI VAL operators installed com peting machines in their neighborhoods." WHAT'S wrong? The answer is simple: TOO MUCH POWER IN TOO FEW HANDS. When too much power is held in too few hands TOO LONG, trouble follows. SPACE travel news: Dr. Krafft Ehricke, for mer German V-2 rocket en gineer and now a top man in our space organization, tells newsmen that not TOO long hence the U.S. will put a manned bombardment glider into outer space. Its name will be Dynasoar. "I can tell you this," he told the reporters. "Dynasoar will have several stages of rockets which will put a man ned hypersonic glider into the outer rim of the atmosphere at 250,000 to 300,000 feet (50 or 60 miles) from the earth. It is a BOMBARDMENT system, and you can draw your own : conclusion from that. "It will be able to make at least one and perhaps two orbits of the earth. Its return to the United States would be controlled." THAT is to say: From out there in outer space it could direct nuclear bombs at any country, or any CITY, on this globe, and could then return to its own base here in the U.S.A. IN CONCLUSION: A year and a half ago. Former President Hoover was the featured speaker at the 1957 convention of the Ameri can Society of Newspaper Editors, which was held in San Francisco. He told his hearers: "Something fundamentally dangerous is going on among free men. "Man's curiosity to explore the unknown and his im pulses under freedom to do it have led him further and further into the discovery of the fundamental laws of na ture. Today the scientists, with the aid of the engineers, have introduced new and GIGAN TIC forces into our civiliza tion." But- As yet, he added: "THE ETHICAL STAND ARDS OF MANKIND AND ITS GOVERNMENTAL AC TION HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO CONTROL THESE FORCES." HE ADDED this simple plea: "THINK IT OVER." Then he sat down. He got a tremendous ova tion, but it was a sober ova tion. The editors to whom he spoke nearly two years ago are still thinking it over. I think we'd ALL better be doing some sober thinking about how to keep our ethical standards abreast with our amazing scientific achieve ments. If we don't, there can be trouble. , Barnharl Bids Low On Klamath Gym Eureka, C a 1 i I. Barnhart Construction company, Med ford, submitted the apparent low bid for construction of the Hoopa school gymnasium at Klamath, Calif., Gerald D. Matson, Eureka architect, has reported. Barnhart's bid was $392, 700. The work is for the Trin ity United school district. The gymnasium will have tilt-up concrete exterior walls, frame roof and parti tions and a concrete slab floor. There will be a maple spring floor in the gym. Court Records MUNICIPAL COURT Edna Mae Morean. vtalarinri ,. tic rule. $10. Eileen Margaret Van Dyke, dis obeyed traffic sign, $5. Giles Alexander Gitzen. .dis obeyed traffic signal. $5. Ivan Clifford Rock, disobeyed traffic signal. S5. Bill Franklin jinrir violation basic rule. $10. Amos Carrol Bishop, no opera tor's license in possession. S10. Sharon Lee Forde. failed to yield right of way, $10. Paui Edward Jividen. no opera tor's license in possession. $10. . Neil Russell Dusenberry, viola tion basic rule, $10. Marion Elizabeth Owens, viola tion basic rule. $10. Harold Roger Daky. disobeyed traffic sign, $5. Buster Francis Gilbert, violation basic rule, S10. Eugene Myron EarL violation ba sic rule. $10. Kenneth M. Nelson, violation ba sic rule, $10. waiter Addison Wood, failed to yield right of way. $10. Vincent Ronald Horton. violation basic rule. $10. Stanley Elliott Philips, failure to yield right of way to vehicle. S10. Jerry Lee Fields, violation ba sic rule. $10. Minnie Ellen Bolen. failure to yield right of way to vehicle. $10. Andrew Jack Whisnan. improper turn. S5. Floyd Herman Brownlee, dis obeyed traffic signal. $5. Donald Austin Hubbard, reckless driving. $25. KoDert uunoar meaiey, violation basic rule. S10. Freeda Ruth Wright, failed to yield right of way. $25. Donald Ray Nelson, reckless driving. $50. Marshall O. Bessonette. violation basic rule. $10. Willard Lloys Casey. 311 Mane st . driving while under the in fluence of intoxicating liquor, $100. Alfred Joseoh Hardy. Sams Val ley, driving while under the in fluence ol intoxicating liquor, $100. New Low Mark in Injury-Accidenfs Set in Pine Area Lakeview Lumber opera tions of southern Oregon's pine region set a new low mark in 1958 in injury-accidents, O. M. Anderson, Med ford, chairman of the safety committee for Western Pine association district 5, reported here recently. Anderson said that in 5, 277,402 man hours of em ployment in logging, sawmil- ling, planing and factory oper ations, the district had an average injury rate of 35.43 per million man hours of work. This was 22 per cent below the 1957 rate of 45.46 per million hours, and 40 per cent below the 1956 rate. "Our Sistrict now ranks second among the 12 operat ing districts of the 12-state Western Pine region," Ander son said. Last year it was fifth, he noted. Outstanding Safety ; Records Jim Grady,. Portland, safe ty director of the Western Pine association, said much of the credit for the district's performance is due to out standing safety records achieved by' "a comparative ly few of the operations." "Of the 38 operational units now reporting statistics in district 5, six units had perfect . safety records," he said. Anderson, of the Timber Products company, reported logging operations made the best mark for 1958, with a 37 per cent reduction in injury rate despite a 4 per cent in crease in man hours of work. Factory operations reduced their rate 32 per cent, saw mills 24 per cent and planing mills 4 per cent. Serving with Anderson on the district safety committee are Virgil Mastelotto, Ameri can Forest Products corpora tion, Lakeview; Frank R. Gil christ, Gilchrist Timber com pany, Gilchrist; and B. I. Par ent, Gulf Red Cedar company, Central Point. Progress Discusses Seven-Year Plan; Rise of Communist China (Editors note: This is the third in the series of discus sions in the Great Decisions program this year. Today's discussion question is "Are we realistic about the com munist powers?") Klamath Falls Man Arrested by Police Truman (Jack) Thurman, 38, of Klamath Falls, was scheduled for arraignment in Jackson county district couxi Friday after his arrest on a charge of obtaining money un der false pretenses, Medford police "reported. Thurman and Cecil Jeffer son Worthington, 37, of 25 Stewart ave., were arrested here Thursday in connection with passing a bad check Feb. 5, police reported. Worthington pleaded guilty in district court Friday morn ing to. a charge 'of "making a false statement to procure benefit," according to court records. He was given a year's probation, with the imposition of a sentence suspended for this period. Klamath Falls police hold a third suspect in the case, Vernon J. Silva, 41, according to local authorities. When Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev officially unveil ed Russia's new 7-year econ omic plan at the 21st Soviet Communist party congress on Jan. 27 he laid down a new challenge to the United States and the West by claiming Rus sia would come abreast of this country's present econ omic productivity by 1965. By 1970, he boasted, the Soviet Union will have the highest living standards in the world and will be turning out over half the world's indust rial goods. Heretofore, the West has been concerned mainly about Russia's military might. Most military analyists o n either side, mortally wound each other. In his report to the par ty congress, Khrushchev ad ded another grim note to the current arms race, saying that Russia's ICBM's were now in "serial" (assembly line) pro duction. Discover Realities To discover the realities be hind Khrushchev's economic boasts and the implications for the free world's security, Western leaders and students of Soviet affairs are using a fine-tooth comb in analyzing the 7-year plan. Such boasts have been standard with Communist leaders since the early Stalin regime. Few Americans took them seriously until 10 years ago when Russian technology produced atomic weapons for the Kremlin. More recently, in 1957-1958, Soviet scientists startled the West by putting sputniks and a lunik into or bits around the earth and sun.. Western students of Rus sian affairs are not convinced that either the boast about Russia's missile production or the plans for economic growth for 1959-1965 can be taken at face value.. They point to the many obstacles within the economy of the Soviet Union which must be overcome if the 11965 goals are to be reach ed. 'Nor is it clear whether Soviet missile advances leave the United States in a critical military lag considering the over-all defense posture of the United States. Growing Faster What experts do agree on and this represents the most important element in any re alistic appraisal of Russia's economic capacity is that the Soviet economy is grow ing much faster than that of the United States Khrushchev's statement that his country's growth rate stands near 8 per cent a year is not contested. His figure for a comparable U. S. growth rate of 2 per cent is consid ered somewhat higher than the facts warrant, although U. S. growth rates have wav ered since World War II, sometimes reaching 5 per cent per year and at other times falling below 2 per cent. Economists, suggest, how ever, that the different pur poses served by each economy in part balance out the dif ferences between the growth rates of the two nations. The United States economy, older in industrial development, is now primarily geared to sat isfying consumer needs. The younger economy of the So viet Union is .currently plough ing back a larger relative in vestment into heavy industry and defense. . To the military and eco nomic power which the Soviet Union now possesses must be added the potential weight which the new Communist state of RedChina, as well as that of the East European satellites, will contribute to the Communist world. These countries, too, are embarked on ambitious economic plans. Whether Russia alone, as Khrushchev hopes, can equal present U,S. production by 1965 remains to be seen. Since the American production will also increase as will the U.S. population, most observers doubt that the Soviet Union will outstrip American stand ards of living by 1970. But that the Communist world presents even now a serious competitive challenge to the West, few deny. Rise of Communist China In any realistic appraisal of Communist power, experts agree that more attention must -be paid to the rise of Red China. Less than a decade since their take-over of the Chinese mainland (with a population now of 500,000,000) Chinese Communist leaders boast they will match British industrial production in 15 years. Short ly thereafter the Chinese pop ulation is expected to reach one billion. These startling predictions raise problems not only for the West. Many students of Russia and recent visitors to the Soviet Union are con vinced that ' Soviet leaders, too, are deeply concerned about the future course the Peiping Communist leader ship may take in foreign af fairs. Fraternal Friendship At the recent 21st party congress in Moscow, both Soviet and Chinese leaders protested the undying unity and "fraternal friendship" of the two giant Communist re gimes. Internal Chinese Commu nist policies, however, have not always had the blessing of Russian Communist leaders. The party's leader in China, Mao Tse-tung, who recently resigned as chief of the gov ernment's apparatus, has long been considered a leading theorist of Communist devel opment. He led his party and armies to victory in China, at times against the advice of Stalin. He also fostered the 1958 move to "communes," which herded millions of Chinese into collective groups for pur poses of stepping up both ag ricultural and industrial pro duction. This move has also been criticized or played' down by Russian leaders. A similar plan was once undertaken in Russia, but abandoned as im practical. It is, however, a move closely in line with some of the original Communist ideas of social and economic organization, students of Marxism pomt out. Promise of Assistance More important than such ideological differences be tween the two parties in Mos cow and Peiping, many ex perts believe, was the promise of assistance to China made by Premier Khrushchev at the last party congress. He indi cated that, because of Russia s economic strides, the Soviet Union would now be able to increase its economic aid to its Communist allies. After World War II, Rus sia drained the economies of its former enemies, soon to become satellites. It also con tributed military and econ omic aid to Peiping, notably during the Korean war, but only after first having dis mantled for Soviet use the Japanese-built industries of Manchuria in northeastern China. At the ideological level, the new proposal to increase aid to other Communist states, is also of interest to students of world communism. For, Pre mier Khrushchev said at the party congress that he expects all the various Communist countries to achieve full-scale communism about the same time. This is conceded to be a new departure in Commu nist doctrine. Khrushchev is convinced that aboutl97 0, having Achieved a high standard of living for Russia, the Soviet Union, will then embark upon what he calls "the world-his- XT : Ko tic til : TILLER-CULTIVATOR Works doss to fcnoss, bet null shrubs ... no zhaostiBg "poll- . . - a back"! A powerful sod- J- y-J busUr for toughest f i&vv soils crumbles soQ with fad. spading. & lifting motion for per- K feet rotary tilling. , Complete job visibility. ' -v how easy it is to 1 1 R0TICUU ' V : 1 , i own . s I $1980 Per I V month 1 6 Down Siskiyou Hardware Ph. SP 2-2939 225 W. Main MEDFORD, OREGON . We Give S&H Green Stamps toric victory of socialism in its peaceful competition with capitalism," in other words, the "panacea of communsm." In view of these develop ments, students of commu nism, are asking the question: Does Khrushchev, by a new aid program to China, hope to be able to control the fu ture direction of Chinese com munism? Others are asking: Does Khrushchev's new doc trine place him on a footing equal or superior to Mao Tse tung as a Communist theoreti cian? New Pose of Communism A continuing reassessment of changes in Communist tac tics, students contend must also be part of any realistic appraisal of communism. Today the Communist pow ers are not only making fast economic strides at home; they have also embarked on a trade and aid offensive in selected countries of the un derdeveloped one-third of the globe. On his recent visit to the United States, the First Dep uty Premier of the Soviet Un ion, Anastas I. Mikoyan, made the dramatic . statement that he wondered if the West would really object to Com munist peoples having more bread and higher living stand ards generally. Economic Advances Economic advances to date suggest the Communists will come close to realizing these goals. Western planning must obviously deal with this prob ability; experts agree. The Sino-Soviet foreign economic program already competes with the West's trade and assistance to such areas as the Middle East and South Asia. It is conceived, however, not only for tradi tional economic reasons. Like the Wesf, the Soviet Union also hopes to influence these areas politically as well. Experts point out that the East-West cold war has shifted in recent years to the under developed world. These are the economically backward lands where communism hopes above all , to demon strate that the Communist economic system is the best and fastest route to economic growth. If the Communists can dem onstrate their ability quickly most observers agree that the to lift underdeveloped coun- cold war might soon be lost to tries to high living standards, the West. HELP US! We Need Clothing, Shoei, Dishes, Furniture. We Pick Up. HELP OTHERS! 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