Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, September 13, 1960, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextC3U TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 13. Khrushchev Expected In the Day's News By FRANK I suppose that by this time more or less everybody in Southern Oregon and Far Northern California is aware that aiter long waiting na tural gas is finally on its way to our area. Construction is already un der way. What pipeline build ers call a pipe yard and as sembly point has been estab lished at Sprague River over across the mountains. Here pipe will be "double-ended,1 or welded into 80 foot sections and wrapped with a protective compound. A similar yard be ing established at Gilchrist Others will be added as the "end of track" moves north ward. These pipe sections will be laid in the ground as the ditch diggers reach the vicin ity of the pipe yards. First contract awards are . expected about October of this year. Completion is hoped for by the winter of 1961-62. Cost will be about $338 mil lion. THESE are mere figures. Figures in themselves are not imoressive. We need some thing to compare them with. . All by itself, for example, a picture of a ballistic missile doesn't mean much. But stand a man beside it and you get . an idea of how tall the missile . is. So let's see if we can find something to compare this with. Let's try the St. Lawrence Seaway. It was talked about for a half a century before work on it was begun. It rates as one of the big engineering feats of our time. The cost of the Seaway itself that is, the navigation facilities to en able ocean-going ships to get up the St. Lawrence river and into the Great Lakes was $475 million. THE cost of this California to Alberta (Canada) na tural gas pipeline alone is estimated at $338 million. In addition, $27 million will have been spent for developing wells in Alberta. An addition al $27 million will be spent for field gathering systems to collect the gas at one point, where it will be processed to remove the elements not de sired for pipeline gas. The processing plant will cost $90 million. That is to say: The total cost for the pipeline system, the field gathering system and the processing plant-will be $478 million ... or a shade MORE than the cost of the St. Lawr ence Seaway. THIS comparison gives us an idea of the magnitude of this new enterprise which will provide us with a new fuel source not only fuel for do mestic uses, but as an added attraction for new industries that need cheap and conveni ent fuel for their industrial processes. Pulp and paper plants for example. Plants for produc ing hardboard. Plants for pro ducing wallboard, insulating board, sound-deadening board and a wide range of other building material plants. Plants for producing any thing that can be made of wood fiber, of which we have an abundance in our great forests. Natural gas will be an ad ded attraction for any type of plant that uses heat extensive ly in its processes. IT HAS other advantages. It will STRETCH OUT our raw material supply by sub stituting natural gas for the so-called waste wood now burned to produce power in steam power plants and to produce heat in dry kilns and such. Counsel With ... Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred R. Brennan, C.I.A. PHONE SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE Agency 27 North Holly Street I960 JENKINS This waste wood contains fiber. Reduced to chips, which can be sold to fiber-using plants, mat will mean addi tional revenue for our lum- oer manutacturers. And so on. This cheaper fuel will be a useful asset in attracting al most any kind of manufactur ing industry we might go alter. TTERE in Southern Oregon "and Far Northern Cali fornia, we have ample water thanks to a century of bat tling for the water that is rightly ours. We have huge stands of fiber timber. We have plenty of power. We have good transportation and we are close to the huge Cali fornia and Southwest markets, In the past, we have lacked cheap fuel for plants using heat in their processes. This natural gas pipeline will fill that gap. Its coming should mean the coming of a new era of progress and development for our State of Jefferson. COLLISION INJURES 109 Tokyo-IUPD-At least 51 per sons were injured Monday night when a Tokyo -Yokohama commuter train rammed into the rear of another com muter train which was stopped. Four of the injured were in serious condition. Meg's Footman Says Pay Poor London - IUPD - Princess Margaret's ex-footman said today he quit his job because she paid him so little he was forced to borrow from the butler. The footman, David Payne, 28, said his salary was $15.40 a week - before deductions. The average British wage is about twice as much. "It was a prestige job, you know," he said after his fi nancial plight came out in court Monday. "But you have to pay for that these days." Payne, who faced a jail term for failure to make pay ments for separate mainten ance to his wife, managed to stay free only because he pro duced in court a $228 loan from the butler - Thomas Cronin, who quit Margaret's household last month after a row with her husband, An thony Armstrong-Jones. The former footman said his salary from Margaret left him with only $5.18 a week spending money after taxes and maintenance payments 10 his wife. Newspaper Charges Rejected Portland - OJPn - Charges of unfair labor practices made against the Oregon Journal and the Oregonian by the Portland Newspaper Guild have been rejected by the National Labor Relations board's office of appeals. The charges were filed by the guild June 28 with Thom as P. Graham Jr., regional NLRB director, In Seattle. Graham held July 27 there was insufficient evidence of violations and refused to is sue a complaint. The union had appealed the ruing. WANTS RING BACK Rome-fllPll-Actor John Bar rymore Jr., has petitioned a Rome court to order Italian starlet Giorgia Moll to return his engagement ring. He said the ring was valuable and should be returned since Miss Moll broke the engagement. INSURANCE BEEN CHECKED LATELY? Call ut and w will survey your problems. No obligation. If we don't write It now, perheps we will efter the lurvey. We'll tike the chance. By K. C. THALER London - IUPD - Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev un doubtedly will launch another disarmament offensive laced with propaganda from the rostrum of the United Nations General Assembly in New York next week. He is sure to call for com plete nuclear disarmament. He made a similar plea before the United Nations last fell. Western diplomats said it was "interesting" if not new, and deserved study. But when the West sat down to talk it over at Gene va, it got nowhere. The Soviet delegation wanted the 10 nation arms-cut conference that met in the Swiss city to adopt Khrushchev's plan as it stood. Then, before the West could put a counter-plan' on the table, the Soviet delega tion walked out in a cloud of propaganda charges. That incident has been typi cal of the history of East-West disarmament efforts for more than 14 years, filled with frus trations or outright failures. There has been no apprecia Kennedy Pressure; By United Press International The jet - age presidential campaigners zipped through the West and Southwest to day appealing for votes with two quite different pitches. Democratic nominee John F. Kennedy, a Roman Catho lic, assured predominantly Protestant Texas that he never would submit to pressure from the Vatican. He was hopeful but not confident that he had stilled the religious issue. "Republican candidate Rich ard M. Nixon moved into the Pacific Northwest asking vot ers to endorse his "peace without surrender" theme and the "natural maturity" of the Eisenhower adminis tration. Kennedy toI& the Greater Houston, Tex., Ministerial As sociation Monday night that he would resign the presiden Members of Court To Attend Meeting Of Association Two members of the Jack son county court will partici pate in committee sessions of the Association of Oregon Counties the latter part of September. County Commissioner Ralph James plans to attend a meet ing of the association's home rule committee in Salem Sept. 20. County Commissioner Chester Wendt plans to attend a meeting of the association's executive committee there Sept. 26 and 27. County Judge Earl Miller is on vacation, and his plans are not known. Since eight counties now have charter committees, James said he hopes to learn new Ideas which can be used by the Jackson county home rule committee. Counties now with charter committees are Washington, Wheeler, Benton, Sherman, Lane, Marion and Hood River besides Jackson. Appointed by Order Seven of the eight commit tees were appointed by order of the county court, while the eighth, Washington, created its committee after a petition was submitted bearing the signature of 5 per cent of the voters, an AOC newsletter re ported. Most of the committees are getting organized. The Benton county committee has held regular meetings since Janu ary. The Benton county com mittee agreed that the county court should have ordinance powers, but was unable to reach agreement as to any changes in the organization structure, the AOC noted. Lane county's committee is the only one which has staff assistance. Robert E. Moulton, Eugene attorney, has been hired to conduct research and otherwise assist it. Moulton has had experience with the bureau of municipal research and service and the League of Oregon Cities, according to the AOC. Agenda Not Known Wendt's committee has not yet released an agenda, but much of the committee discus sion is expected to center on proposed state legislation in the coming session which will affect counties. School Pencils Imprinted Send Them Off With Th.lr Own P.rionallz.d Pencil Gift Box of One Doien .1.19 Plastic Case of One Dozen 1.49 Jumbo Pencil Case of One Dozen .1.49 To Launch New ble progress because of the difference in approach to the problem by the West and the Soviet Union. Want Disarmament First Moscow dislikes the idea of effective fool proof interna tional controls on Soviet ter ritory, although of late it has accepted the principle of such controls. But Russia s aim nuclear disarmament first, controls of a sort preferably later. The West wants compre hensive disarmament by suc cessive stages, each of which preserves a satisfactory mili tary balance between conven tional and nuclear weapons. All measures of disarmament under this plan must be ob served and verified by an ap propriate international organ ization. The differences go back to 1946 when U.S. elder states man Bernard Baruch first of fered a plan for International control of atomic energy. The Soviet Union rejected it. In subsequent years, Mos cow's opposition to effective international controls has re Says He Won't Bow To Vatican Nixon Asks Voter Endorsement cy before he would violate his conscience or the national interest on any issue, includ ing birth control, divorce, gambling and other matters on which the Catholic Church holds strong views. Under sometimes critical questioning, the Democratic nominee said he would tell his church it was acting im properly if it ever tried to exert pressure he considered wrong. The session was televised across Texas where the pulpit opposition of some Protestant ministers has made Kennedy fearful of losing the state's 24 electoral votes. But the can didate forecast, "I know Texas is going Democratic." In Washington, Democratic National Chairman Henry M. Jackson called on Nixon to repudiate "by name" Dr. Nor- Included in proposed legis- altlon is Measure No. 11 which would amend the constitution al county home rule provision to correct a defect in the origi nal language which might im pair the bonding authority of a county which adopts a char ter. The present provision reads "Local improvements o r bonds authorized u n d e r a county charter shall be fi nanced only by taxes, assess ments or charges imposed on benefited property." The mea sure would change this to read, "Local Improvements shall be financed only by taxes, assessments or charges imposed on benefited proper ty, unless otherwise provided by law or charter," according to the AOC newsletter. Invalidate Bond Issues If Measure No. 11 is not adopted the courts might in validate general obligation bond issues of home rule coun ties on grounds that they were issued to finance "local im provements." There is no set tled definition of local im provements in the law, the newsletter pointed out. Also under the present lan guage of the county home rule provision counties could not issue Bancroft bonds or any similar local improvement bonds which carry a general obligation feature. These bonds are now Issued by cities to finance such locally assess ed improvements as streets and sewers so affected prop erty owners can pay on the installment plan,, the AOC newslotter explained. Measure 11 deals with the county power to bond and tax, but it will not increase taxes. By permitting charter coun ties to finance local improve ments by Bancroft bonds, money will be available for general road project which otherwise would be tied up for as long as 10 years," the AOC said. PROFESSOR DIES Philadelphia -UH- Dr. Tho mas Woody, 62, professor of education at the University of I Pennsylvania, died Sunday. Bosks - Gifts Records 217 I. Main M.dfsrcf MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. mained the chief stumbling block to any appreciable progress. As world crises have ebbed and flowed and varying per sonalities dominated t h e scene In either the Western or Communist camp, hopes for some real progress in dis armament have risen and fallen. Korean War Starts When the Korean War broke out in 1950, both sides hardened their positions -with the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin backing the North Koreans and the Com munist Chinese and the United States and the rest of the West pouring in help to the South Koreans and strengthening their overall defenses. But when Dwight Eisen hower succeeded Harry Tru man as President of the United States, he pledged American readiness to reduce armaments drastically when he made his first inaugural address on Jan. 20, 1953. Three months later, the President proposed that a man Vincent Peale and his Protestant associates who op pose Kennedy on religious grounds. Jackson said Nixon had "no honorable alterna tive." Peale was spokesman for about 150 Protestant clergy men and laymen who declared last week that a Roman Catholic president would be under heavy pressure to align U.S. policies with those of the Vatican. Knee Holds Up Nixon's doctor reported the vice president's 15 hours of cross-country campaigning Monday-first day of a 15 state tour caused no pain or damage to the candidate's re cently Infected left knee. The GOP nominee took off from Friendship Airport near Baltimore with the good wishes of President Eisenhow er. Nixon promised to conduct a high level campaign and to build on the record of the Elsenhower administr a t i o n. He made stops at Indianapolis I' '7 ft - ; i ' - I ' ..- ... ; v W 1 i , I .... '" ' ' f, MhTl I" I J.t " i2H!5!Ai i'' '", V ' W A - v ft r. w, f KV'. 4 f ' '1 - V' 'V,. ", ' ' A y f ', U' ft tv t ' J ' ' i i ' it" t " t ' ' t vv j i TWIHL ? PUSH ? MEDFORD, ORE. Disarmament disarmament program might contain a commitment by each nation to set agreed lim its on certain strategic ma terials to be devoted to mili tary purposes. This came shortly after the death of Stalin and the emerg ing struggle for power among his successors in the Krem lin. Georgi Malenkov came up temporarily as premier, and seemed amenable to disarm ament progress because he set out on a program to give the Soviet citizen more con sumer goods and a few of the better things of life. On April 19, 1954, the UN Disarmament commission set up a smaller subcommittee composed of the United States, Britain, Canada France and the Soviet Union The idea was to let the big powers with nuclear know- how or authority work out a disarmament agreement. But when this committee met in London that year, the Soviets, as usual, rejected the Western proposals for arms reduction by stages along with strict controls. and Houston before halting for the night in San Francisco. In San Francisco, Nixon dedicated the 15,000-ton, 230- bed goodwill ship S.S. Hope. He said he hoped there soon would be "an entire Ameri can white fleet of mercy ves sels." Campaigns in Portland The vice president's sched ule today called for campain ing in Portland, Ore., Vancou ver, Wash., and Boise, Idaho. Kennedy arranged to hit Austin, Fort Worth, Dallas, Arlington and Grand Prairie, Tex., accompanied by his run ning mate, Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson, a Texan. The GOP vice presidential candidate. Henry Cabot Lodge, told Ohio Republican Convention delegates in Co lumbus Monday night that Nixon was the best man for the White House because he had "experience . . . pene trating, resilient Intelligence . . . deep devotion to Ameri can ideals." A new puBh-button telephone is now going through its paoes to test its speed and convenience. With it, most people oan push-button a number in five seoonds nearly twice as fast as they dial now. If these tests continue to go well, your phone of the future may have buttons instead of a dial. You oan be aure of thin: Lots of nw telephone) ideas are beading your way. For telephone people are working to make your future .ervioe even better than you oan dream. Open Skies Plan At the summit in Geneva in July, 1955, Elsenhower offer ed an "open skies" plan for control of arms through mu tual aerial inspection. By this time, Nikolai Bulganln hud become the Soviet Union's premier and, with Soviet Communist party First Sec retary Nikita Khrushchev at his side, he opposed the idea. A fresh round of disarma ment talks of the UN subcom mittee in London again ended in failure in May 1956. again largely over Soviet resistance to the Western proposed con trol arrangements. in uctoDer or that year came the buez invasion and the Hungarian revolt. The British, French and Israelis Invaded the Sinai Desert and Suez Canal Zone of Egypt Russia rattled its rockets and threatened Intervention. The United States used its influ ence to get the Western pow ers to call off their invasion But the world teetered on the brink of war, and disarma ment took a back seal. Almost at the same time, the Hungarians rebelled against their Communist mas ters. But when Soviet tanks and men intervened. Hie re bellion was crushed by force. The world talked, but did nothing. ine u subcommittee on aisarmameni mane sun an other try in London in May, lao , but collapsed once more in September it that year when the Russians walk ed out. That ended the sub committee. Then, in September 1959, Khrushchev-who the year be fore had taken over formal control in the Soviet Union as premier-visited the United States and made his first ap pearance before the UN Gen ernl Assembly. Complete Disarmament He proposed complete dis armament In four years. This idea resulted in a 10-nation commission being set up-flvc from the West, five from the Communist bloc. The United States, Britain, France, Cana da and Italy sat for the West; the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Bulgaria sat for the Reds. They met in Geneva last March for a new round of ne gotiations. The Soviet bloc produced the Khrushchev Offensive in UN plan. The West offered grad ual disarmament, balanced among types of weapons and of geographical areas, start ing with "first step" measur es. The latter included pro hibition against orbiting nu clear weapons and prior no tification of proposed missile shots. Again the West stressed the need for controls. There were some compro mises by both sides, but no real change in positions. Then came an interruption for the no. u.. pat. oMict If j Distilled II (LONDOHDinrml 1 DISTILLED S BOTTLED IN THE U.S.A. BYfXW i THE DISTILLERS COMPANY, LIMITED! V p UNPIN, NEW i I S I V f v : There's no Gin like GORDONS ,..erW 9yeau Utributofti Porrott & Co., San Ftanclico, loi Angeles, Portland, Seotlte I" t ' ' ? X V j 1 ABC DEF I 2 3 smmmm mmm ... OHI JKL MN0 4 5 6 in i'laii i jama,;, !t TUV WXY 8 9 Pacific Telephone -Northwest fAKTOf THl NATION -WIDI MILL MYITHI Paris summit in May. When that failed, there were new tensions. In June, the Soviets walk ed out of the 10-natlon body, charging the West with stall ing. The West subsequently issued a new plan, proposing a three - stage disarmament plan aimed at ultimate total disarmament. That plan still stands, and it remains to be seen now what alternativ. Khrushchev will come up with at the UN.