MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE.
MONDAY, JANUARY i, 1961
B 3
Westerners Believe Red China Creating Artificial Crop Shortage
Other Communist
Nations Thought
Having Troubles
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign New Analyst
Red China and Soviet Rus
sia have both admitted disas
trous crop failures.
0 Communist China an
nounced that agricultural set
backs involving half of the
300 million acres under culti
vation also had hit hard the
country's production of con
iumcr goods.
A Moscow announcement
said that Soviet Minister SJ
Agriculture Vladimir Matske
vich had been fired and re
placed by Mikhail Olshansky,
a relative unknown.
Output Disappointing
A report to the Supreme
Soviet last week acknowl
edged that the output of
grainP had been disappoint
ing, and had in turn affect
ed Oneat production.
N o n - Communist official
weather observers in Asia
doubted Peiping's report that
wealhisr was responsible for
0 the crop failures and the
shortages which foretold more
suffering for the Chinese peo
ple. The weatherman said Red
China's rainfall had been
about normal and that Cen
tral China, where the Reds
said no rain fell for nine
months, had better than nor
mal moisture.
Artificial Shortage Charged
They suggested the Commu
nists werecreating an arti
ficial internal shr-tage in or
der to have more grain for
export and more foreign ex
change with which to pur
chase machines for its lagging
intjwstrial program.
The Soviets did not dis
close this year's grain produc
tion figures, but there were
1 indications tfney might egen
fall below 1959's disappoint-
ing total of 47 million tons
which were 9 million tons
below the banner year of
1958. e
There are indications that
Red China anc the Soviet
Union afta not alcSie flmong
the Communist nations expe
riencing fterious sgriculturl
. setbacks.
Trouble in 3olad
Polish leaders have admit
ted that thigr greatest failur
has been their attempt to en
list support of Polish peasants
who have successfully resist
ed collectivization and whose
ouMjut has fallen off drastic
ally.
Resistance o f Hungarian
peasants forced the govern
ment last spring to resort to
s capitalistic practices Jp in
crease farm production. Pri
vate plots were assigned .to
farmers who were permuted
a profit motive.
Communist East Germany
boasted that its farmlands
were 100 per cent collectiv
ized bi admitted shortages
hrnueht about primarily by
sabotage and the flight of
East zoifce'armers to the West.
Economic, Fiscal Problems Will
Dominate Session of Congress
For Aw&ile
Orange, N.J - (UNI - Police
Capt. Joseph McCartney was
amused.
L,OOK at uiuae
riding their dikcs on uiai
driveway," he said to Tsgt.
Herman Paccarelli.
Paccarelli was more than
amused. He dropped the re
port he was reading - it con
cerned a bicycle theft - ran
out into the cold and collared
the "crazy kids."
The two boys, both 13, said
they mereljshad borrowed the
bikes. iQcy were released in
their parents' custody.
m
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When vour doc
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you, 't'S-jn any
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ferent people. 'First there has to
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Vif man-hours spent in finding the
health-olvino drug. Then it has to
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Wfer you the results of this great
'partnershipof-four' for your con
'tinued better health.
" Every family needs many small,
personal items, such as tooth
brushes, to keep the daily routine
rof life rolling smoothly along. We
carrv many such small items heie
at McLain s Drug Centre and will
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Central, N'.4dford. adv.
Washington (CQ) -A long,
tough, and expensive agenda
awaits the 87th Congress, as
it convenes this week.
Details of the legislative
program to be proposed by
President-elect John F. Ken
nedy won't be known until
after his inauguration Jan.
20. But th-sre is ample evi-.
dence that it will keep his fel
low Democrats on Capitol Hill
busy for the next six months
or more. o
With controlling ngjrgins ffi
65-35 in the Senate and 262
175 in the House, Democrats
are expected to respond quick
ly to the next President's an
ticipated request for a batch
of anti-recession measures.
Economic ana nscai pruu-
lems We certain to dominate
the session. The deDarting Ei
senhower fidminisation will
leave a tagging ecuuuiuy,
gold crisis, and (in all P
ability) an $82-billion bullget,
all of which will shape much
of the legislative output in
the first months of the Kens
nedy Administration. Dofieit
spending is clearly Just
abound tlO corner.
riere, in capsuie lunu, ia
the outlook for major items
on the upcoming legislative
agenda: e
Pump-priming. To count
er the recession, tne new
President is expected to rec
ommend a variety of $ndingj
and credit-easing steps, in
citing the enactment of five
measures stymied in 1960:
grants for school construc
tion ana teacners tjaiarie
medical care benefits for the
aged under social security,
grants and loans for economic
ally depressed e,ras, incread
mortgage purchase authority
and a lower FHA interest rate,
and a minimum hourly wage
of $1.25 plus Extended cov
erage.
National Security. Hav
ing campaigned on a nledge
tn strengthen the armed for
ces, the Presiden-elect is like
lv to proposa tf'net increase
in defense spending, already
slated to approch mi on-
lion i 'fiscal 1982. Congress
till b mors receptivs to the
hirWr outltys thsn to a ma
jor reorganization of the De
fense Departme-nt, which has
been urged on th9 new Presi
dent by Sen. Stutrt Syming
ton (D-Mo.) but is not likely
to be undertaken in 1M1. Ex
penditurcs for spec programs
are certain to rise.
Soreign Aid. The Ken
nedy sdministration may well
actr- fnr lone-term ana increas
ed finincinf fo? th Develop
ment L,cn jcuna, 10 siep uu
U.S. assistance to underde
veloped areas. But it is prob
ably too late to undertake
any bajsic revision of the catch
all Mutua? Security Program
in 1961, and a critical Con
gress is no less likelyoto cut
the requests of a Democrat
ic President than those his
Republican predecessor.
Trade Policy. With the
Sugar Act due to expire on
March 31, along with the
President's authority to cuW
Cuba out of the U.S. sugar
market, quick action is an
ticipated to extend the law,
at lea through 1961. The
Senate will be asked to rat
ify U.S. membership in the
new Organization for Econom
ic Cooperation ajnyj Develop
ment, but the tickfeih prob
lem of extending the Presi
dent's authority to Ctrl tariffs
under reciprocal trade agree
ments won't arise until 1962.
Taxes. Whether taxes
will be cut, increased, revised
or simply extended in 1901 is
an open question. Tax reduc
tion, although favored as an
anti-recession mcUsure, ap
pears least likely in the light
of prospective revenue need
But the recession itself all
but rules t any acroS-tte-bofy-d
increase; Best bet: s$ne
revisions, possibly including
higher depreciation allowanc
es to spur new investment,
offset by the clo&ig of such
Democratic - labeled "loopg
holes" as $ie 4 per cent tax
croiit on aividend income.
Highways. Congress will
almost certainly be asked 9
rescue ,-the federal nignw?g
forlsCvi(3 be made to improve
the farmer's lot through ad
ministrative action and less
contrGfrersial measures, such
as the expansion of farm cred
it and increased disposal of
surplus commodities home and
abroad.
City Problems. A .cab
inet-level Department of Ur
ban Affairs Is a mfflor goal
of big-city Democrats, who
want a bigger voice in Wash
ington and are in a good po
sition to get it from the President-elect.
Three programs
of special concern to cities -federal
grants for urban re-
O
newal, aii(5ort construction,
and water pollution corf?rol -come
up for certain extension
and probable expansion in
1961. Another good bet: fed
eral loans to cities to develop
commuter services and mass
transportation systems.
Jobless Benefits. As a
long-time advocate or mini
mum federal standards for
unemployment compensation
benefits, the President-elect
is likely to ask for suii a bill
in 1961, either in place of or
as a sujjjileroent to any anti
recession proposal fj a tem
porary extension of current
state benefits. ActiSii might
be deferred uil 1962, how
ever, In the interests of speed
ing approval of more pressing
measures,
Debt Ceiling. Nothing is
more certain in the coining
session than another increase
in the ceilingon the public
debt, whicUreverls from $293
billion to $585 billion on June
30. The only question con
cerns the size of Viie increase.
With deficit spending in
store for fiscal 1961 and poss
ibly 1962, the Treasury might
call for at least a temporary
increase to $300 billion.
(Copyright 13.60. Congressionl
Quarterly Inc.)
Bids on Freeway Work
Scheduled for Opening
Salem - Bids for work on
the Evans Creek-Rock Point
section of the Highway 99
freeway between Rogue River
and Gold Hill will be opened
by the slate highway commis
sion Jan. 24.
The JacksonQ-ounty project
includes 5.88 miles of paving.
some structure widening nd
signs. r3"his Cs one of 1 1 such
projects worth an estimated
$5.5 million for
will be opened.
which bids
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program from collapse in 1961
if only because Qone-cem in
crease in the gas tax imposed
in 1959 is due to expire on
June 30. Since the multi-billion-dollar
expenditures for
roads are a vital economic
stimulant, it's notkely that
the program will be cut back.
That means Congress will
have to find the money to
cover the deficit in the High
way Trust Fund, either by
raising user taxes (like the
gas tax) or absorbing the add
ed costs in a deficit-bound
budget.
Farm Policy. Despite the
campaign pledges to restore
farm income and cut the
wheal surplus by instituting a
new farm-program, there is a
good charR'e that neither the
Kcnncdv Administration nor
Congress will attempt to write
'major law in 1961. But ef-
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