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Fears Rampant on Both Sides as JFK's Trade Bill Hears Congress
By VINCENT J. BURKE
Washington - (UPB - Pocket
book fears have gripped both
sides in the impending con
gressional struggle over Presi
dent Kennedy's trade bill.
Seldom has there been such
widespread concern among
American business, labor and
farm groups. Many of them
fear that prospective changes
In the pattern of world trade
threaten them with serious
economic injury.
The bill is now pending in
the House Ways and Means
committee. Democratic strate
gists are trying to draft a re
vised version capable of at
trading the votes needed for
House passage without any
amendments.
The legislation would em
power the President to elimi
nate all U.S. tariff duties on
some items and to lower tar
iffs on the rest by as much as
50 per cent.
The tariff-abolishing author
Ity would be restricted almost
entirely to items for which
the United States and the Eu
ropean Common Market to
gether account for 80 per cent
of the free world's imports.
The authority would be
used by the President to nego
tiate similar concessions from
European and other countries.
The tariff -cutting power
greater than that granted any
previous president would be
available for five years.
Twelve times in the last 28
years Congress has delegated
tariff-cutting powers to the
President.
Request Unprecedented
The big differences this
time are that (1) Kennedy is
asking for unprecedented au
thority; and (2) Many of the
groups supporting the admin
istration bill are fearful they
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USES NEW METHOD Medford Fire Chief
Gordon Barker tries his hand at a fire
fighting method recommended for fires in
industrial laboratories. He is applying sand
through glove port of a type of protective
glove box used in laboratories at the Atomic
Energy Commission's Hanford Works. Ap
proximately 210 firemen from various Pa
cific Northwest cities and from as far away
as Maryland, Hawaii and Arizona toured
the Hanford plutonium plant recently.
will suffer pocketbook losses
unless it is passed.
As usual, employers and
workers in import -sensitive
industries are concerned they
will be hurt if the President
is empowered to remove or
lower tariff barriers to in
crease the flow of foreign
goods into this country. They
oppose the bill.
The new element is that
many business and farm
groups engaged in production
for export are convinced they
may be facing the loss of ma
jor foreign markets. They
want the President to be giv
en tariff-cutting powers to ne
gotiate a better access for
their products in Europe's
new Common Market.
The administration says
frankly that the fears of both
sides are justified.
It has rejected the myth to
which previous administra
tions paid lip service that
trade restrictions can be effec
tively reduced in internation
al negotiations without caus
ing serious injury to some do
mestic producers.
Conceding there will be in
jury, the administration has
proposed a program of "trade
adjustment" to help displaced
workers train for new jobs
and help the import-damaged
firms get into new businesses.
Notes Serious Threat
The administration has
warned that the Common
Market poses a serious threat
to continued shipment of U.S.
grains and many manufactur
ed products to Western Eu
rope, unless the market's com
mon external tariffs are low
ered. This is so because the "in
ternal" tariffs existing be
tween Germany, France, Italy
and other Common Market
countries are scheduled ulti
mately to drop to zero.
Protectionists have chal
lenged the administration's
contention that a lowering of
the transatlantic trade restric
tions will create far more new
jobs for Americans through
exports than will be lost
through imports.
The administration con
tends that tearing down of the
transatlantic tariff walls
would promote U.S. prosper
ity by giving U.S. producers
access to a vast new mass
market in Europe.
But opponents reply that it
is wishful thinking to believe
the United States car compete
effectively in foreign mar
kets against foreigners who
now have access to modern
machinery and mass produc
tion techniques nd the bene
fits of lower wages.
Urge Further Protection
What is needed to meet
these new post World War II
conditions, they contend, is
greater protection of the do
mestic market for American
producers.
Foes of the President's pro
gram have expressed sharp
resentment over the broad
support given the President
on this issue by the American j
pr
Rep. Tom V. Moorhead (R-Of.-u;
.-s cumpi.-iueu mui po
litical cartoonists depict pro
tectionists "as greedy fat" cats
luxuriating atop towering tar
iff walls that bar the entry of
Winema Area Roads
In Mountains Open
Klamath Falls The Che
mult Ranger district of the
Winema National forest re
ported some of the main roads
in the north end of the forest
are dry and open to traffic.
The Three Creeks rd. and
Williamson River rd. are
open to the Jackson Creek
guard station. Bear Flat rd.
is open to the Silver Lake rd.
which is open from Highway
97 to Silver lake. The Rock
Creek rd. is open to Davis
flat.
The higher roads in the
panhandle area next to Crater
Lake National park and in
the Miller lake area are still
covered with snow or are too
wet to travel, rangers said.
foreign products and victimize
the consumer.
"... I have never seen a
'fat cat' in my district," he
added. "I have known many
lean ones who are out of busi
ness today because foreign
products have come over the
low tariff walls that still ex
ist." Democratic strategists work
ing on the bill now in the
Ways and Means committee
are trying to find ways to pla
cate various interests.
The "trade adjustment" pro
vision has presented them
with a dilemma. Some House
conservatives who otherwise
would support the legislation
vow they will oppose any new
federal aid program for work
ers. Leaders of the AFL-CIO
on the other hand, have in
sisted that inclusion of the
provision as the price for its
support of the administration
program.
Fisher Plans Tour of
Foyrth District Area
Eugene -A campaign tour
covering Jackson, Linn, Jose
phine and southern Lane coun
ties has been scheduled this
week by State Rep. Carl Fish
er, Eugene .GOP candidate for
the fourth district seat in Con
gress. He will spend Monday in
Linn county and Tuesday will
participate in a tour of the
Sand Dunes area sponsored by
the Florence Chamber of Com
merce. He will be in Jackson coun
ty all day Wednesday and
Thursday morning. Thursday
afternoon he will be in Grants
Pass. On Friday Fisher will
campaign in the Lane county
area.
Charter Group May
Not Be Reappointed
Salem - IUPII - There were
some indications Saturday
that Marion county's home
rule charter committee won't
be reappointed when the
members' terms run out in
October.
Last week the charter study
drew the fire of two of Marion
county's three county court
members - commissioners Pat
McCarthy and Henry Ahrens.
The study was defended, how
ever, by the third court mem
ber, Judge Rex Hartley.
McCarthy said he isn't sure
he will vote for reappoint
ment of the nine member
charter group. He said that
2V4 years "is long enough"
and the committee should
have presented a proposed
charter by now,
Ahrens said he is undecided
about whether to vote for reappointment.
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Children Improve At Lake Oswego
Portland -ll!PI- The most
severely injured of four Lake
Oswego children who were
beaten by a :ender youth was
on the road to recovery to
day. Police continued to search
for the children's attacker.
Marsha Foley, 12. was re
moved from the critical list at
a Portland hospital during the
week end. The conditions of
her small brother and sister
were listed as good. Anothe
victim did not require hospi
talization.
The attack occurred last
Wednesday at Lake Oswego
near the children's homes. Po
lice said it was an unprovok
ed assault.
A possible suspect in th(
beating who was picked up
rnday night by police at Ore-
gon City was cleared Satur
day.
X HARRY E.
HAWK
Republican Candidate for
COUNTY JUDGE
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