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( O C. ? 0 o O O 0 Q cn Ooc:o o co o o o co o o O O o 0 oooo O O 0 co-:::oo O " n. r Strategic Stockpile Declared Worth Nothing in Nuclear War BY ELMER C. WALZER .which demonstrated the strs UPI Financial Editor tcgic vulnerability of this New York -WD- An econo- country in the area of raw mist looks at accumulation Is.- i our $6 billion i assorted ma- and can't let go. He say it Elmer Walzer wouldn't be worth anything in a nuclear war. But, he adds, a mere mention of disposal sends shivers through the markets. Bruce Netschert holds it is too much to expect that any thing will be done "until the realities of the nuclear age are recognized without equi vocation in our strategic and political thinking. "In the meantime, the stra tegic stockpile remains a cost ly maintenance and adminis tration cost $19 million a year anachronism and a potentially dangerous investment of econ omic policy." Netschert, economist with resources for the Future, Inc.' writes his views in the cur rent issue of Challenge mag azine, published by the Insti tue of Economic Affairs of New York University. The Strategic and Critical Materials Stockpiling Act of 1946 was passed as a result of World War II experience material supply, Netschert points out. terials - our In the course of operating trategic the stockpile the goals were stockpile surpassed, and eventually the - and con- pile was forced to acceDt vast eludes in ef-. amounts of metals delivered feet that we under the Defense Production have bear Act. by the tail I Foreign purcha.'es of min erals often were paid for in barter with surplus farm pro ducts. But minerals producers opposea tnis metnoo. Also tne pile was used as a price sup port plan and this, says Nets chert, was a glaring mistake. As originally set up the stockpile was designed to hold a quantity sufficient to meet five-year deficit. Later this ...... -w i ' , .-V. &Ws. . sS. wiiilJir.yi. wtl ml to three but not 1pm than six months. Thii three-year eriterion is seen as belated recognition of the new age of nuclear possibilities. ? i riif'i-Hll tn nlH th conclusion," ays Netschert, that the stockpile s now con stituted is simply unnecessary in a nuclear war. "If anything is to be stock piled, it should be finished products that would be so desperately needed for reha bilitation and reconstruction. "What can be more irra tional, for example, then hoarding billions of dollars of materials in the strategic stockpile and only $200 mil lion worth of medical and other disaster suplies in the civil defense stockpile in the face of the continuing threat of nuclear war?" Market men agree with Net chert, but they warn that any attempt to liquidate the stockpile would hit markets for the materials with a jolt that might well have an un settling influence on the whole economy. Market men have ways of reducing or cleaning up large amounts of materials in slow, steady liquidation as the mar kets can take the supplies. But they dread any attempt on the part of government to accomplish this task in the current economy. CANDIDATE PLEASED - Sen. John F. Kennedy relaxes in his Washington, D.C.. home, holding a newspaper report ing his smashing victory over Sen. Hubert Humphrey in the West Virginia primary. Kennedy declared that his victory has "diminished substantially, if not eliminated" the religious issue as a factor in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. (UPI Telephoto) If '911 a 1 Prices Effective Thurt. Fri. Sat. Only! LOTS OF FREE PARKING! Check Our "Shopper Sheets" in Ech Basket PILLSBURY SLAB . Ginger Bread Mix BACON 21 e i for "1 00 Home Ql Each V I Cured VVIb. SWEET JUICE COOK OUT ORANGES Charcoal Briquets 4- 1 10 a; 69 OPEN 8 A.M. to 8 P.M. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY! FABER'S Super Market A Good Place To Trade Central Point Next Weekend i I Family ) i 1v1 "6 Steps to Safeguard Your Child" by Dr. Paul V. Joliet "I Learned to Hypnotize MyselF by Francesca Liberte "The Ghost of the Good Samaritan" by Wainwright Evans "Nancy Kwan: Hollywood's Honey from Hong Kong" by Peer J. Oppenheimer k "So You Want to go Camping" by Edward R. fcammis Junior Treasure Chest "Grilled Meat Favorites'' Cookbook Section "The Trouble with a Kid Brother" by John Hochmann "Miss America's Summer Look" by Allyn Rice Quips and Quotes "Coin-Machine Cheats Never Give Up!" by Richard Dunlop "Si-. ' W "! I mT - .... eMaWJC Mr.rtv m m.vmiLM ix:.s:FZgrr? rfk&SZftA jfew-rfe I WRFPK&flF OM ntSPT.JlY Thi nlaiiP n npu- r nti fnrpiir-p In Wachincrlnn PrAciHrtnf Dollar Value ol Bond Sales Rises The di)llur value of Series E and II savings bonds sold in Jiu-k.son county during April was S8D.3H3 compared to April, I!l5!)'s total of SII8.- 329, according to the county I savinns bond committee. Althnuuli April s volume ofj sales dropped below that of i the same month a year ago, the total value of sales so far j m lDtit) IS S4u-i.4J!9, sllglltl j higher than that at the same! , MAIL TRIBUNE, Mtdfsrif, Or. 7 jThurtdar, Mjy 12, If 60 C ' time a year ago when $397, 007 worth of bonds were sold. Total value of savings bonds sold in Oregon during April was $2,601,558, down about 8 per cent from the iuial duiiiig Apiil, 13u9, However, the committee pointed out, total sales for all of Oregon during the first four months of 1960 are still running about a quarter of a million dollars ahead of 1D59. with your Modford Mail Tribune WRECKAGE ON DISPLAY - This plane wreckage, which the Russians claim is of the American U2 reconnaissance plane flown bv Francis Powers and reported to have been shot down over Russia on May 1, is on display in Gorky park in Moscow. In a news conference in Washington, President Eisenhower rejected the Soviet charges and said that earlier Russian photographs of the plane aebris were not pictures of the U.S. craft. (UPI Radiotelephoto) Canal To Link North, Black Seas Being Considered Frankfurt, Germany - IUPD -European transportation is ex pected to be revolutionized within the next decade by con struction of a canal connect ing the North Sea with the Black Sea. The 2.125 -mile waterway would allow freighters and barges to travel from tb mouth of the Rhine across the heart of Europe to the mouth of the Danube. It would bring about direct communication between ports in tne Netherlands, Belgium, France, Switzerland, West Germany, Austria, Yugosla via, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Rumania and the Soviet Union. wnue western engineers work on plans to link the Rhine and Main rivers with the Danube, their colleagues on the other side of the Iron Curtain have a similar project of tneir own. The Soviet-sponsored Coun cil for Mutual Economic Help (UUMJiCON) in eastern Europe is working on a plan to connect the Oder and Dan ube rivers to form a water way between the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea. Both projects are ambitious undertakings, and final costs will run into the equivalent of hundreds of millions of dollars. In western Europe, a good portion of the proposed water way is already navigable. Ships up to 1,500 tons can ply the Rhine and Main as far as Schweinfurt, Germany, and can sail up the Danube to Regensburg, also in Germany. Undar Construction A 34 -mile stretch of the waterway beyond Schwein furt to Bamberg is now under construction, following the course of the Main river. The next link will be a 102-mile canal crossing the Fraenkis che Alb mountains from Bam berg to Kehlheim. The Bamberg - Kehlheim canal will carry the waterway to its highest elevation. From Bamberg ships will climb 580 feet through a series of eight locks and two ship-canal lifts. From this point they will descend 227 feet through three locks and one ship-canal lift to the level of the Danube. Eastern Europe has dream ed of a link between the Dan ube and Oder rivers since the 15th century. Serious plan ning started in 1951 as Russia and her eastern European satellites emerged as an eco nomic bloc. It is now neces sary for ships from Soviet ports on the Baltic to sail around Europe, through the straits of Gibraltar and across the Mediterranean to reach Balkan and Black Sea ports. COMECON has developed three possible routes for an Oder-Danube canal, and con struction is expected to begin on one of them some time around 1S70. Cost estimates range between $750 million and SI billion. Most of the construction would lie within Czechoslovakian territory. Dr. Bartleit Awarded Foundation Grant Ashland - Dr. J. Kenneth Bartlett. Southern Oregon college associate professor of science, has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to attend a special in stitute at Ft. Lewis A and M college, Durango, Colo., this summer. Conducted by Harvard's Dr. Paul R. Bartlett, one of the world's foremost organic chemists, the institute will be concerned with "Reaction Mechanisms in Organic Chem istry," Dr. Bartlett said. ADVERTISEMENT FOR FEDERAL BUILDING SITE thf lilM K l. SIHVII IS AIMHMSTH VIION solicits prn. potal, !i-r Uir s.ilr or diiiiatt.in tn tlir 1 nilt'ri Main f a iltt for l'tt nilu-f Kuildine at Mraiord. orrcon. It Is rrqiirstrd lhal propos.il, hp .iilinuilpd on l.s 1 orm i;;t. siti Proposal, in th Gi-llrral NiTlri-s rtininlsl ration HI 1hp artrirs, hrlow prior to rlose of bllslnrss 41 4:.lil ! M.. I'sT, May 11, I960. SITE LOCATION WHtim the area hoiiniit'il liv Oahdalr Slrot on thr west, W Fifth Strrci mi the Niirili. Fir Stroct on Uir Kast and W. Ninth Mr em iu the suuih, or f runtttis "n inr pt-i unrtcr thereof. SITE SPECIFICATIONS Site miiit h;i r an approximate land arc, of 86.000 q, ft. with mm iintiiu riiinriiMim-. of '.'.'0 ft. hv (Wl tt Mi hum Ml n irniiisaU nf ferine parrt-K '.mailer than pri fied for the Mte hut in u hirti art jnuiine parrel-, may be added tn prod lie i a Mir nf the ri'ipiirrd sic is rni'oprac;eri. Noiii e is cn en that, as the Interest, of the tim (Turnout may miiitrr. an or all proposals rerclved may he rejected, that sites other than those offered tn response tn this advertisement may he considered anil a site deemed inure advantageous to the (inyernment ariuired. Copies of S Pur m I 'UK. Site "-opnj.il, and instructions roiieernlnK the siiImiiissioii of proposals mav he untamed from the nl (in- of the Itiiildint; Superintendent, I'osl office Building. Mrdford. Oregon. Additional informal ion as w ell as proposal forms and instructions ma he obtained by rnntartttie the GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION I'uhlic Huihllius Sri' ire Acquisition t Disposal division rcdcral Office lluilriing Seattle 4. ash met on 1'HONK Ml 'lii.il -3J0, Kxt. JOS iSti iAA f ss. 'fV,t l ' ' ' v 1 ; ni, -"iii a,. . i ' . I h H i 'jrysjp ' ' . -'. ' 1 ?T Maye or Gets Humana Mixed With Canines Waldwick. N.J. - Mayor Charles Guernsey got his fig ures slightly mixed while ad dressing the council. "To date," said Guernsey, "only 400 licensee have been issued and there art 10,000 dog in Waldwick." With this. Councilman Man ning atraifManed in his chair, hesitated, and whispered: "No, mayor, ten hundred dogs." "C yts." chuckled Guern y, "I got th dogs crossed With ttw pofulMtoa." 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