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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MLORD. OREGON THURSDAY. MAY 24. 1962 S19 Million Annually Enters District Through Export Trade Washington-More than $19 million a year enters Ore gon's Fourth Congressional district from the United State's expanding export trade. The exports are al most equally divided between manufactured goods and agri cultural produce. The estimates of the impact of world trade on the Fourth District appear in a recent Export Origin Study, one of a series of state and district analyses prepared from vari ous Government sources by the U.S. Department of Com merce. The district survey follows distribution of the study on Oregon, and is now being sent out by the committee for a National Trade Policy, a voluntary bi-partisan or ganization supported by busi ness, labor, farm and con sumer groups. Manufactured Products Manufactured products to taling S9.7 million were ex ported by nine firms in the district in 1960. The com panies employed almost 5, 000 workers, about 11 per cent of all manufacturing em ployees in the district. Their exports were almost 10 per cent of their total shipment value. District exports were doubt less higher than indicated, since some companies did not respond in the survey. About 55 per cent of Oregon's manu factured exports were report ed. Lumber and wood products, primary metals, and paper and related goods ..re the dis trict's chief exports. Among the exporting manufacturers are the Weyerhaeuser Com pany's two Springfield plants, producing lumber and wood products; the Georgia-Pacific Corporation, also shipping lumber from its Springfield and Coos Bay establishments; Morris P. Kirk and Son, Inc., a Medford subsidiary of the National Lead company; the Crown Zellerbach Corpora tion, with a plant at Lebanon exporting a variety of paper products. Agricultural Exports The Fourth district's 1960 agricultural exports were val ued at $9.6 million, made up of field crops (S6.2 million); fruits and nuts ($1.7 million); livestock and livestock prod ucts ($1.2 million); and vege tables ($480,000); Pears, plums and prunes were the area's leading export fruits. According to the U.S. De partment of Agriculture, 5 per cent of Oregon's farm work ers owe their jobs to exports. Applying this proportion to the Fourth district indicates that nearly 900 of the area's 17,400 agricultural workers are needed to produce the foreign shipments . of farm commodities. Nationally, U.S. exports are running at a near-record rate of more than $20 billion a year. About 75 per cent of this total is in manufactured or semi-manufactured goods, and about $5 billion repre sents agricultural products. The United States exports about half the rice, wheat and cotton it raises; two-fifths of the soybeans; and one-third the tobacco. Imports Commodities Like every other part of the United States, the Fourth district imports commodities from other countries, but most of these are non-competitive products used by a wide range of U.S. industries. Agricultural produce import ed consists largely of coffee, tea, spices, flavorings and the like, not grown in the United States. Actually, the U. S. sells $5 billion a year more than it buys, with about two-thirds of the imports being non-competitive. The importance of foreign trade to the Nation - and its economic impact on individ ual states and local districts -y&i..'?. i . -v DEMOCRATS FIGHT IT OUT-This action one of the regular Democratic doorkeepers, took place outside the closed doors of Frank- was taken to a hospital after the fracas, lin County Democratic headquarters in which started over which faction would Columbis, Ohio. Felix DiPaolo, foreground, control the party in the Columbus area. (UPI) Religion in America Tifov's Search for God During OrbitThemeof Red Propaganda By LOUIS CASSELS UPI Correspondent The great English essayist. G. K. Chesterton, who became a Christian late in life, once remarked that he owed his conver- flwf-' isls' The more v j I ne siuaiea ine arguments by which atheists sought to dis prove the ex i s t e n c e of God. Chester ton said, me more he felt that they had a pretty flimsy case. As a result, he said, "there arose in my mind the first wild doubts of doubt." Russian cosmonaut Gher man Titov recently gave Americans an excellent dem onstration of what Chester ton was talking about. While visiting the Seattle World's Fair, Titov got' into a discussion of reliEion. "I don't believe in God," he said. That statement was not sur prising, since Titov is a dedi cated young Communist, and the non-existence of God is one of the prime articles of Communist faith. Then Titov added, as if that clinched the case, that he had looked all around for God while he was orbiting the earth in his space capsule, and "I didn't find anyone there." Wasn't Joking Anyone who thinks Titov was joking should note that Moscow Radio has been be laboring the same point, in great earnestness, for several months. The fact that Soviet cosmonauts didn't see God during their trips through space has become the chief theme rjf Communist anti relicious propaeanda. Intrilicent Christians may he inclined tn dismiss thi whole arctrncnl as too lucli-rrnig- for discussion. P it it nuclu to be taken seriouly, bfc.nie it sheds a good deal of 1M on the reason why -j disbelief iSfjo prevalent in the world today, not only among Communists, but also among sincere and upright citizens of America and other free nations. The reason is succinctly stated by J. B. Phillips in his superb book, "Your God Is Too Small," published by the Macmillan Co. and currently available in a Macmillan paperback (SI. 10). "The trouble with many people today is that they have not found a god big enough for modern needs," says Phillips. "While their ex perience of life has grown in a score of directions, and their mental horizons have been expanded to the point of be wilderment by world events and by scientific discoveries, their ideas of God have re mained largely static. It is obviously impossible for an adult to worship the concep tion of God that exists in the mind of a child of Sunday school age. unless he is pre pared to deny his own ex perience of life." Primitive Conception In his remarks at Seattle, Titov made clear that his con ception of God - and even an atheist must have some con ception of what he is reject ing - is extremely primitive. He has apparently never been exposed to any idea of God more adult than the picture of a grey-bearded patriarch sitting on a cloud in a geo graphical heaven somewhere in the sky. Phillips lists a number of somewhat more sophisticated - but In the long run, equally inadequate - conceptions of God which "still linger un- FORMER SENATOR ILL Washington - H'PIi - Former Sen. Henry F. Ashurst of Ari zona has suffered a stroke and is partiaily paralyzed in a Washington hospital. The 86-year-old Democrat, one of Arizona's first two senators, suffered the stroke May 15. his stepson. John Renoe, said on Wednesday night. o consciously in many minds,' including the minds of some professing Christians. They range from the terrifying no tion that God is a sort of hanging judge who spends his time recording human sins, to the bleak conviction that he is a remote "managing di rector" of the universe who could not possibly be con cerned with the trivial affairs of creatures on one insignifi cant planet. Cites Urgent Task One of the most urgent tasks of the church in our day, Phillips believes, is to hold up for skeptics and half-hearted believers an authentic Christian concept of God who is at once the Ground of all being, the Creator and Sus tainer of the whole vast uni verse which man is beginning feebly to explore, the Author of the incredibly complex laws which science is seeking dimly to understand, t h e Source of all truth, beauty and purpose - and who is yet, at the same time, so close to each of his human children, so full of loving kindness to ward them, even in their way wardness, that the One who knew Him best could think of no human term which de scribed H I m better than "father." The convinced atheist may find this concept of God in credible, too. But it is surely better for men to reject - or accept-a mature idea of God than to argue pointlessly over childish caricatures. HELP US Wt need clothing, shoei, dilhes furniture, end bedding. We Pick Up. HELP OTHERS! The Salvation Army 30 N Holly 773 7335 117 S. CENTRAL 773-7301 i; MONTGOMERY WARD t . - -is now being debated in Con gress, avhere public hearings started March 12 ofi the Ad ministration's new Trade Ex pansion Bill to replace the present Trade Agreements Act which expires June '30. President Kennedy has urged Congress to act without delay to meet changing con ditions, because the European Common Market is crystal izing its trade patterns now, and the U.S. may find itself frozen out of this vast market. Foreign Competition ; Since some domestic nrn. 1 duccrs may face damaging foreign competition, a "trade adjustment assistance" plan has been proposed by Presi dent Kennedy as part of the new trade legislation, recom mending assistance to enter prises (industrial and farm), and workers who suffer dam age from increased foreign import competition. The President told Con gress that "when considera tions of national policy make it desirable to avoid higher tariffs, those injured by that competition should not be re quired to bear the full brunt of the impact. Rather the bur den of economic adjustment should be borne in part by the Federal Government." The importance of imports to the U.S. economy has been s?. inctly stated by President Kennedy: "We need imports if other nations are to have the money to buy our exports and the incentive to lower their own tariff barriers . . . We need imports to give our consumers a wider choice at competitive prices. We need imports to give our industries and defense establishments the raw materials they re quire at prices they can af ford - and to keep a healthy nressure on our own pro ducers and workers to im prove efficiency, develop bet ter products, and avoid the inflation that could price us out of markets vital to our prosperity." 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