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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?
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.