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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE.
THURSDAY, JANUARY IS. 1961
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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-
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