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o o o o O O MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. THURSDAY, JANUARY IS. 1961 o B 7 John Kennedy Urged to Tell 'Truth About National Emergency National Planning Group Says Red Threat Dangerous Washington (UPD President elect John F. Kennedy has been urged to tell the Ameri can people "the unvarnished truth about the national emergency" which this coun try faces from world commu nism. The International Policy committee of the National Planning association said this was the only way he could win full support for essential national security programs. In a statement entitled, "The National Peril," the pri vate research group said the "bitter truth" about the dang er to America "should be far more widely understood than it Is." It said also that a "rein vigoration and reorientation" of national policy was needed "to create conditions more fa vorable than those prevailing at present for the inaugura tion of fruitful negotiations with the Soviet Union." Non-Partisan Group The National Planning as sociation is a non-profit, non partisan organization which was established in 1934 to pro mote planning in agriculture, business, labor and other fields. The chairman of ils in ternational policy committee is Frank Altschul, board chairman of General Ameri can Investors company. The group said the United Slates must advance military, political and economic pro grams to make the Soviet bloc realize that "there is no hope of achieving world domination either gradually, peacefully or on the installment plan" and that totai war would lead to their annihilation. Foremost among the pro grams suggested was the at tainment of "at the very least," parity with Russia in the military field. Improvement of Forces The committee said this would include the improve ment of nuclear striking forc es plus steps to increase con ventional forces and airlift capacity for limited warfare. To strengthen and protect U.S. nuclear striking forces, the group urged: - The immediate hardening and dispersal of strategic bas es. - Changes in political and military command to insure the survival of controls in the event of deliberate surprise attack and to reduce the chanc eof accidental war. The speeding up of both the Minuteman missile pro gram and the development of anti-missile missiles. - Rapid acceleration of the program for construction of Polaris nuclear missile sub marines. - Greater emphasis on long range basic research in the physical sciences. Asks Airborne Alert Until these program are suf ficiently advanced, the com mittee recommended placing "a considerable part of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) on an airborne alert." In the deplomatic field, the group strongly urged the "re vitalizing" of alliances, espe cially NATO, and steps to counteract the "tendencies of certain members to go it alone strategically and politically." In addition, the committee said, the United States and its allies should welcome every opportunity for "intimate dip lomatic interchanges" with the Communists, although any such negotiations "would seem to present almost insuperable County Court Objects to Mail Tribune Editorial Oil Men Taking Conservative Outlook for 1961 New York - (UPD - Most oil men are taking a conservative view of 1961 and predicting only a 2 per cent gain over 1960. A spokesman for one of the large oil companies said that because of the many red faces resulting over the 1960 dis appointment, most oil men are a little reluctant to make a forecast. The Independent Petroleum Association of America is op timistic about the early months of 1961 but sees little progress for the year as a whole. The IPAA sees one encour aging aspect in that crude oil output will probably continue to be curtailed. This will throttle the growth of producing companies' earn ings, but will add strength to product prices and boost earn ings of integrated companies. The IPAA also said that in allocating world oil produc tion to meet 1964 demand, it is assumed that high cost U.S. production will continue to lose position but that Middle East and Venezuelan positions will be maintained. "It also seems reasonable to assume that Canada, North African and Communist coun tries will expand their con tributions to free-world oil markets," the association said. Moderately Better Chase Manhattan Bank, commenting on the foreign and domestic oil industry said. "The 1961 pctrouem industry is expected to be moderately better than I960. Demand for oil may be up about 2 per cent; for natural gas, an in crease of 5 to 6 per cent is possible. Price levels on the average are likely to be some what higher. The IPAA Supply and De mand Committee forecasts that the 2 per cent demand increase in '61 would equal 215,000 barrels daily, raising the daily figure to 10,098,000 barrels. Glenn M. Forean, vice pres ident of First National Bank of Chicago, said. "Because of the small increase in demand foreseeable in 1961. producers will probably not receive much relief through any in crease in allowables." "On the other hand," he added, "proration exercised by the various slates and im port controls have resulted in reasonable inventories of crude with firm prices." "Reduced drilling for the year has not been encourag ing for the supply companies or for drilling contractors. Forecasts for any improve-1 ments in this situation next year are not encouraging." Minister Fails to Show for Wedding Memphis, Tenn. UPD - Mrs. Nelle Poston waited with other guests for a minister who failed to show for a wed ding. When the couple to be mar ried and the guests arrived, the church dnilf. One hour-later one of the S; jests 'ieJrp'it ifi wtljce MiY (! fir jnd Jhg upi3 ' war) Members of the county court Wednesday objected vigorously to an editorial in Tuesday's Mail Tribune slat ing that the court is "at long last, doing something" about the recreational development at Howard Prairie lake. County Judge Earl Miller said the editorial was an un fair criticism of both the Jack son county parks and recrea tion commission and the coun ty court. An irate parks and recreation commission mem ber telephoned him complain ing about the editorial, Miller said. Meeting with the county court Wednesday, City-County Recreation Director Robert Haworth said concerning the large crowd at the lake last week end, "We can't predict these tilings. We had no idea that the ice on Howard Prairie would draw such a crowd. We didn't prepare for the ice skating ahead of time because there is no sense in dropping your eggs all in one basket." "Even if everything had been ready I don't think the crowd would have had a bet ter lime," County Commis sioner Chester Wendt said. No Complaints Haworth added that he had not received one complaining phone call, but many people asked if skating would be good this week end. He ad mitted traffic control and di rected parking would have helped, but people drove down to the lake shore knowing they might become stuck, he remarked. "These natural things are being developed slowly and soundly by following a careful fiscal policy, the county, judge explained. "I have not received one criticism over the development of Howard Prairie except what has ap peared in the Mail Tribune. We must consider all recrea tion areas in the county, not just Howard Prairie, and must follow a multi-use develop ment plan as we are now." Both Haworth and the coun ty court praised the coopera tion of the bureau of reclama tion and the Talent Irrigation district. Haworth noted that TID personnel used a bull dozer blade on the . Howard Prairie entrance road to clear it for traffic. Miller further objected to the editorial expression that the county court "had to be dragged, screaming and kick ing, every inch of the way." "That's an asinine remark, an insult to the dignity of the court, the people of the coun ty and members of the county parks and recreation commis sion!", he stated. difficulties" under present circumstances. It said the West should probe to find out whether or not the Soviets mean what they say about "peaceful co existence." In fact, the group said, the United States should "seize the intiative by placing be fore the Soviet Union and be fore the bar of world public opinion well-considered and (airly-conceived proposals . . . in such fields as arms con trol." Ideologically, the commit tee said, "we must strive to present to the outside world a better image of America than we have succeeded in doing in the past." While this image is tarnish ed by episodes such as those in the south defying school desegregation laws, the group said, it is still possible to bet ter "demonstrate the virtues of our system and to give reality to the American pur pose" through achieving even greater social and economic progress at homo. Business Lush Time Over; More Work Needed To Se! Washington - (DID - Are the Soaring Sixties proving to be the Sober Sixties'.' Yes, say economists who be lieve business had a lush time in the first 15 post-war years for special reasons and now must work harder for sales dollars and profits. Whatever the merits of this Ihcory-and it is meeting little opposition-attention has been drawn to it by the disappoint ing performance of the econ omy in 1960-lhe first year of the much heralded decade. Business opened the year on a high note. The costly labor management dispute in steel which caused the 116-day 1959 strike was settled on the fourth day of 1960. Business, labor and the public breathed a sigh of relief and faced the year with buoyant optimism. Steel mills and factories roar ed with activity and indus trial production set a record which still stands. Inventory restocking hit a sizzling $11.4 billion annual rate in the first quarter, cool ed down to S5.3 billion in the second three months, all but died out at $600 million in the September quarter. Inven tories probably were reduced in the last three months of the year. Right there is much of the explanation of why total out put of goods and services leap ed by $15 billion in the first quarter, struggled up by near ly $4 billion in the second quarter, and slipped by SI. 5 billion in the third quarter. (Stripping away the effects of inflation, the decline was $4.7 billion.) ! Spending Declines But inventories arc not the whole story. Consumer spend ing declined in the September quarter. Bv late summer the rise in plant and equipment investment was topping out, possibly slipping downward. The net of all this prob ably will prove to be a rise of less than 1 per cent for the last nine months of the year-and when final figures are in, possibly no rise at all. The outlook for 1961 is a mild decline in the first half of the year, then an upturn, with the year as a whole less than 3 per cent above 1960. According to the economists who believe business has en tered a new phase in which sales and profits will come harder, the economy now lacks several important char acteristics of the post-war years: The volume of business finally has caught up with the flood of money created in fi nancing World War II. No longer is there "excess liquid- Statistician Pleads Innocent to Charge Alexandria, Va. -(UPD- Fired Pentagon statistician Arthur R. Roddey has pleaded inno cent to charges of stealing about 200 secret Defense De partment documents concern ing missile warfare. A federal grand jury here handed down a 12-counl es pionage indictment this week charging Roddey. 38, with il legal possession of documents which "could be used to the advantage of a foreign na tion." Roddey pleaded innocent to all counts when he was ar raigned later at the U.S. Dis trict Court here across the Potomac river from Washing ton. Trial tentatively was set for March 13. Roddey was not charged with spying or turning over the documents to a foreign power. He was discharged from his job at the Defense Depart ment last August. FBI agents discovered the missing papers, which bore security classifi cations ranging from top se cret to confidential, in his Falls Church, Va., home last September. ity" to fuel inflation-based booms. Consequently, "inflation ary psychology" has evaporat ed. Businessmen, no longer fearful that tomorrow's goods will be dearer than today's, are carrying lower inven tories. Consumers, too, may no longer be rushing to beat price mark-ups. Shortages of consumer goods have been largely made up. People have millions of cars, TV sets, washing ma chines, vacuum cleaners-and their own homes. In the 1930's goods were available but peo ple lacked money, or the con fidence to part with it. Dur ing the war people had the money but couldn't find the goods. The result was 15 years of pent-up demand, now pretty much satisfied. Business, which drove to expand capacity after the war and keep up with demand, now finds itself with much excess capacity. Leadership Declines No longer is America the undisputed world leader in manufactured goods. Western Europe and Japan have grown mightily since the end of the war, now compete vigorously Willi the United Slates for markets here and abroad. Ralph J. Cordincr, board chairman of General Electric Co., recently summed up the situation this way. "Prices are soft. People arc not buying the way they used to. Every businessman came out of World War II scram bling lo expand. Now we have the capacity but not the sales." More and more, business men are being exhorted to cut costs and prices, design their products better, offer the consumer a better deal. In the words of the F. W, Dodge Corp.: "We have seen the return, total and complete of a buy ers' market. The burden of selling has reverted to the seller." South America Not Out of Hatfield's ind; Plans Noted . large their acquaintance with their neighboring continent. Salem- Ilil'II -South America has by no means dropped out of mind for Oregon Gov. Mark O. Hatfield in the time that has elapsed since he end ed a lour of Argentina and Brazil two months ago. To the contrary, spurred by the experience of the tour taken in tlie company of more than half the governors of the United States Hatfield has stepped up efforts to broaden exchanges on several levels between Oregon and Hie southern continent. Most of all, Hatfield said he would like to see programs established lo provide belter intercontinental understand ing for "influence-miikcrs." The Republican governor believes stronger economic lies would be rewarding to this country and South Amer ica. To this end, the Oregon Department of Planning and Development, at his request, recently undertook a survey of ways to strengthen trade relations between Oregon and South America. The governor said his trip has made him teel more strongly than ever that more intimate understanding be tween people of the two con tinents is the key to sound relations. Since his return, Hatfield has discussed extensively with Oregon educators ways of ex panding the state's budding Latin American Studies Insti tute at Portland Slate col lege. The former professor would like to sec exchanges from between the two continents in the fields of art, culture and education, lie would like to see economic missions from one continent tour the other, and he believes a rapid step up in intercontinental studies and languages is essential to understanding. "We need to ferret out the influence - makers in all fields." Hatfield said. -including teachers, leaders, news-men-and take steps lo en- "Hi! I'm Ann Smith, and I'm inviting you to attend our Open House Party, Fri day, January 20th, cele brating the merger of The Rogue Valley State Bank Medford and The Oregon Bank Portland Watch for your Treasure Chest key in the mail." Rogue Valley Branch 1 109 Court Street Easr Medford Branch 701 East Jackson STEREO FIDELITY I pa Entire Catalog Included: POPULAR and CLASSICAL Featuring: '101 STRINGS' New "Show" Releases I It fl Purchase fl j Regular Price gs em m wm SECOND MlLh forU . - I IVWfV 2'7 EAST MAIN OPEN 8 A.M. TILL 9 P.M. 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