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jtonsumere TTo f eel Brasik .fls SfteeD Cleveland, Ohio-(im-Most coiyumers face drastic pro duction cutbacks, layoffs, or shutdowns in a matter of days because steel supplies are so close to exhaustion, ac cording to Steel Magazine. The metalworking weekly added that not even an imme diate settlement could pre vent the situation from deter iorating before it improves. The magazine said that within two weeks, even the More Gamblers Registered in Oregon Than in All California Bf A. ROBERT SMITH Washington Correspondent Washington (Special) - The latest report of the Internal Revenue Service shows that mgmm tax a g e n x s T! have slapped the $50 feder al head tax on more gam blers in Ore gon than in all of Califor nia. It also shows that the tax a. Bobt. smith agents have imposed a $250 tax on more slot machines in Washington state than in all of Nevada, where gambling is the state's chief tourist come-on. It shows, what's more, that tftere are more acknowledged bookies In Utah than in Cali fornia, , Idaho and Oregon combined. That's what the statistics show - but Internal Revenue officials are the first to throw up their hands in despair at interoretine the meaning of. Steelvorker Return Won't Prevent Chaos New York -flJPO- An enforc ed return of striking steel- workers to the mills under the Taft-Hartley act will not prevent "complete chaos" in steel markets, Iron Age mag azine said Wednesday. The country already is Bearing the worst steel short age In its history, and any in junction now, at best can on ly prevent steel supplies from drying up completely, the trade publication said. : It would come too late to head off additional layoffs and no one in the industry is "under any illusion" that an enforced truce ' will produce peak effort by the steelwork rs. Iron Age said. 40 Days of Production An 80-day resumption of operations will result in only febeut 50 days of full steel 3 A F i production, the magazine said, explaining that there - will be a lag in retiring the furnaces and filling the nulls' own pipelines. iron Age " estimated " that steel inventories have dwind led to about 7 million tons and that steel shipments could not reach top volume unjjil from four to six weeks after t n e steeiworsers go tack to the mills. - fioms mills, it added, will te unable to mantain full op erations in January and Feb ruary because of lack of Great Lakes iron ore that has been strike-bound during the ice-free shipping season. Steel Shortages Seen Rome steel shortages will norslst throueh the first six months next year or longer, cutting into auto output, the magazine estimated. The auto . industry, which Tiormallv consumes from 15 to 20 per cent of all steel out put will Jje trying to grab off 2 to 30 per cent of available steel to achieve its ambitious fall and wiater production goals, it said. " This would further tighten the steel oincb for other, in dustries, the magazine point- 'ed out. TV Supplements .School Studies Boston (DPD More than 584,000 New England children representing ,125 school sys tems are now receiving in struction by television to sup plement their regular stud ies. - . i- i Known .as the "21-inch Classroom," the TV series em anates from Station WGBH TV here. Participating schools pay 25 cents for each pupil taking part. Beside the TV lessons, schools receive teachers' guides and advice on the best use of the programs. About 24 per cent of all re tail sales in the United States today are automotive. SuppDoes largest and : best protected users will feel the strike's im pact. Dip lo Continue . In the first two weeks af ter the mills reopen, inven tories will continue to dip as shipments fall short of con sumption. By the third week, mills may start shipping as much steel as customers are using, but hardships will con tinue. The magazine said inven these figures as far as reflect ing a true picture of gambling in the West. Federal tax collectors, since 1951, have been charg ed with the duty of taxing what is in most localities, an illegal occupation. The law requires that every profes sional gambler bookmaker, lottery or numbers operator and the like-vountarily walk into the U.S. tax collector's Office, fill out the prescribed forms (which require him to name his .associates in sin) and over $50 as the annual wagering occupational tax 102 Members in Oregon The latest report shows that in the fiscal year which end ed June 30, there were 102 members of the wagering profession in Oregon , who went through this prescribed routine at the Portland col lector's office. v. "The gambler is on the horns of a dilemma," explain ed a tax agent. jf'The federal law requires him td register with us and pay the tax. But local laws usually outlaw the gambling he is engaged in. If he registers with us, his name is a public matter, and local police can see it anytime they want to." .; The penalty for dodging the federal tax, if the gamb ler is caught, is up to five years in prison. . Last year, federal tax agents got indict ments against 441 gamblers who tried to dodge the feder al tax collector. They got convictions in about half the cases. Gambling Crackdown A sensational crackdown came m Terre mute, ina., some months ago, where eight syndicate gamblers were caught, convicted and given five years. They were special izing in large bets on major sporting events. They went to Canada right after the wager ing tax law was passed, but then returned to the States and were handling about $50,000 a day in wagers, an official recalled. . Why gamblers will volun tarily register in some states and obviously duck the tax in others is a mystery to head quarters. In California, for example, the report shows a total of three gamblers paid their tax, all in Los Angeles. The San Francisco office reported none for the year. Idaho re ported four, Hawaii five, and Arizona eight. Then came Oregon with 102, Nevada with 182, Montana with 355, Utah with 646. Overshadowing all these other western states was Washington. The Seattle of fice registered 2868 gamblers this past year, of which 178 were in Alaska and the other 2690 were in Washington state. No other state in the Union came so close to regis- CLUB NEWS Eagle Point Ranchers - A potluck supper was held at the Eagle Point grade school cafeteria, Oct. 12. This was a reorganizational meet ing for the Eagle Point Ranch ers Livestock 4-H club. After everyone was called to order by President Frances Huff man, there was no old busi ness,' so- under new business Mr. Dowell, our leader, gave the rotating trophy for the outstanding club member. This award went to Frances Huffman. After the business meeting we elected the new officers for the coming year. They were president, Mike Higday; vice president, Kenneth Dow ell; secretary, Susan Harper; communications secretary, Everett Adamson; treasurer, Carol Burrill; reporter, Fran ces Huffman; and game chair man, Danny Burrill. Frances Huffman will also serve junior leader. After the elections was over Mike Hig day introduced our guest speaker, Nat Etzel, the Eagle Point FFA instructor, who gave a short talk. . The next meeting will be Oct. 26 at 7:30 p.m. at the FFA building. Frances Huffman, .. .Reporter. . ,; Coirtonue tory buildup won't begin un-i til the fourth week. When the dispute started, f unshed steel inventories ranged between 24,500,000 and 27 million tons, while to day they're close to 11,500,- 000 tons. Many steel industry offi cials expressed fear of poor productivity when the work ers get back on the job. One official pointed out tering that many bookies and the like. 'Draw Own Conclusions' Does this mean that in Washington state, or in Ore gon, gamblers are less fearful of local crackdowns 'than California? , m Draw your own conclus ions," is' the unwavering re ply of the Internal Revenue Service. One thing the tax officials are willing to risk a comment on - that the number of gamblers who report in and pay the tax is a fraction of the number who are in busi ness. The total number throughout the country who reported this past year was 8,448. 'We feel confident there are that many bookies in New York City alone," the official declared. Washington State leads the West in the number of . ac knowledged slot machines. The report shows that it had 2,240 "gaming devices" on which a $250 annual tax stamp was issued. Nevada, with its wide-open gambling towns, listed 1,438 slots. Ore gon ranked third with 276 slots on the books. Utah re ported 124, Arizona 93, Cali fornia 55, Montana 54, Ha waii 30, Idaho 7. California takes the lead in purer forms of entertain ment. It held a commanding margin on the number of ac knowledged amusement de vices, on which are paid $10 annually. This covers penny arcade devices that don't pay off. California was reported as having 18,701, compared with Oregon's 2,948 and Washington state's 3,846. Like the man said, "Draw your own conclusions." 1 SAVE NOW! IMS & InJiAAJiSJLaJiSJ o o o 1EISMvl1A Unbelievably low prices - Fri. and Sal. only 2 IN 1 - m & APPLIANCE a CuiBacZcs To -Dip that when President Truman seized the mills back in 1952, production in some depart ments was off as much as 65 per cent. 4 Revealed in Figures He added t n a t no one could see the slowdowns as the men worked, but they ap peared when figures were checked. In addition to the slow downs, the struck companies feared the expensive possibilr lty of having to shut down again after 80 days. Steel said service centers have about 2 million tons of steel in stock, 60 per cent of normal. Since the walkout began, stocks have been drained at an average week ly rate of more than 130,000 tons, surprisingly slower than was anticipated. The magazines said that stocks could be adequate for another 13 weeks or more, except for the imbalances in the product mix and in geo graphical distribution of re serves. . " Sales, Wages, Taxes Lost Since the strike began, the industry lost $2,688,000,000 in sales; the steelworkers $926 million in wages, and the U. S. $585 million in taxes. Ingot Rate 13 Per Cent The national ingot rate last week continued at 13 per cent of capacity, with mills in operation producing about 368,000 ingot tons Cincinnati, which operated at 69 per cent, showed an increase of seven per cent, while St. Louis at 60.5 was down one point. The scrap price composite held at $43 a gross ton, with a ; sharp ; pickup anticipated when steelmaking resumes. Crime Solved Before Discovery Dracuf, Mass. - (DPD - A crime was solved here before it" was even discovered.' State troopers H. J. Fitz gerald and A. J. Blouin found two men asleep in a parked car. Under questioning the pair admitted breaking into a Newburyport school and stealing a safe containing $100. The empty safe was found in a cemetery. 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Oregonians were careless, he said, in their smoking hab its and use of matches and were willing to take chances on use of faulty electrical equipment. Ignition of hot grease, oil, tar petroleum and other flammable products, and overheated or defective heating units were often the cause of fires. Children left unattended by open fires ac counted for many of the vic tims of home fires. Ross predicted that one out of 50 Oregon homes will again become an accident "statistic" unless families become more safety conscious. He believes that fires could almost be wiped out' of the home acci dent picture if families would learn what causes fires and COFFEE AND COOKIES Free Balloons for the Kiddies FREE-100 BIG JUICY STEAKS Free Frozen Food Cook Book SPECIAL TRADE-IN ALLOWANCES! ONLY A VJPW, 296 EAST iMAIN 6 Costs Million how to avoid them. He says some families "ask for trou ble" by storing gasoline in glass jugs or by operating spark - producing machines near paint thinners. 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