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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON TUESDAY. JUNE 26, 1362 A 3 Meaning of Canadian Election In Northwest Remains Mystery By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington (Special) - The meaning of the Canadian election results as far as the Pacific North west issues are concerned is a mystery here in the c a p i t a 1. In formed specu lation is about all that gov ernment offi cials have to rely upon Smith they attempt to anticipate de velopments on such vital mat ters as the pending Columbia river power treaty and the manipulation of Canadian currency which has sorely af fected the Northwest lumber industry. Speculation on the treaty raiifies from pessimism on Capitol Hill to restrained op timism at the State Depart ment. The treaty was held back from parliamentary debate and a vote of ratifica tion by the Diefenbaker gov ernment during the past year and a half since it was signed because of an internal Cana dian dispute over whether any of Canada's share in the power benefits should be sold to United States customers. The federal government op posed this idea, except on short term contracts, but the provincial British Columbia government of Premier W. A C. Bennett wanted to make 20-year pacts with Bonneville Power Administration to swap kilowatts for dollars needed to pay for further hydroelectric development on the Peace river, an all-Cana dian project. Diefenbaker's Conservative party won more seats than any other party in the elec tions but was 15 seats shy of an effective majority of the House of Commons. Pessi mism about the treaty stems from thoughts that the elec tion outcome was indecisive nd that a minority govern ment will be ineffective and possibly unwilling to deal with the treaty matter before another election is held. Optimism, on the other hand, stems from a belief that Prime Minister John Diefenbaker will have to placate the Social Credit par ty, which holds 30 seats, in order to gain the cooperation he needs to conduct a minor ity government. Social Credit party leader Robert N. Thompson has indicated his party will help prop up the Conservatives until they con sider the time ripe for a new election. B. C. Premier Bennett, an astute, bold politician, may have some new trump cards to play on the treaty as a result of this dependence which the government will have upon his party. Bennett is thought here to have in gratiated himself with Social Credit's national leadership by campaigning for party can didates in Quebec province, where Social Credit made its major gains in the recent election. Whether Bennett can call the shots completely on ratifi cation of the treaty when Parliament is called back into session later this summer re mains to be seen. American officials, meanwhile, are maintaining a watchful but discreet silence. No effort ap parently is under way at this time to nudge the Canadians to act soon. The problem of the value of the Canadian dollar ap pears to be the more pressing issue, on both sides of the border. The Diefenbaker gov ernment some time ago peg ged the price of the Canadian dollar at 92'2 cents in Ameri can money in an effort to stimulate exports and dimin ish imports. This decline in the value of the Canadian dol lar has contributed to the ability of British Columbia I lumber operators to sell their University Offers Production Class , Eugene The intricacies of television production, from the cameras to handling sound, are being learned this month by 21 "students" en rolled in the fourth summer Workshop of Educational TV at the University of Oregon. i The remainder of the year, most of the "students" are teachers, housewives, and school administrators. A few are graduate students. Their interest in the pro gram stems from a number of different factors. Some of the women are enrolled be cause they will be directing various public service televi sion programs for their serv ice clubs. Several other par ticipants represent school sys tems that are contemplating in-school television instruc tion in the near future. And still others, such as the Port land State teacher of a 'he oretical course in television, are interested in the academ ics of educational television. Active Workshop The ETV workshop is an active one. At its third ses sion, the class "produced" an interview show, with students filling the roles of cast, crew and guests. Divided into three groups . control room, studio and camera the students did all the work, with supervision from workshop director E. A. Kretsinger, associate professor of speech at the University of Oregon; Arthur J. Jacobs, Instructor in speech at t h e University; and Dale Wyle, graduate assistant. After a demonstration of equipment and explanation of production, students donned earphones, practiced the tech niques of "dollying" the cam era, using the zoom lens, switching from camera one to camera two. work i n g the sound and controlling produc tion from behind the glass wall of the control room. 'Show Boat' Exceprt Less than a week after this first "show." the class will be gin planning for two pro grams which will be produced on two television station.;, KOAC and KEZI. One pro gram will be an interview show, the other an exerpt from "Show Boat," a musical slated for production on cam pus by the Carnival Theatre. The brochure describing the workshop to prospective stu dents called it "concentrated," and participants are finding it just that. Classes begin at 9 a.m. and continue through until 4 p.m. with a lunch break in between. At 7:30 p.m., the class meets again for films on educational tele vision, or lectures by univer sity professors and others who have participated in ETV pro gramming. A field trip to a television statiun is another item on a busy class schedule. Will the participants be able to use all the technical knowledge they're learning? Director Kretsinger admits that they won't, but they're not expected to. "While we realize the par ticipants won't be putting ev- , erything they learn here into 1 practice, by understanding the problems of the station and I production crew, they can prepare for ETV and write for it in a more realistic man ner in a way so that it will be producible." he said. "Our basic philosophy is to give the participants a tech nical foundation, and in 30 far as possible, an artistic ap proach to educational televi sion," he concluded. plywood and lumber more cheaply than Northwest mills in the United States from New York to Los Angeles. In the election campaign the cheapened dollar was be rated as a "Diefenbuck" by opposition party candidates, who sought to capitalize on a certain emotional resent ment among some Canadians that their country's prestige and economic status was somehow reduced by this de liberate devaluation of their dollar. Opposition candidates carefully avoided saying where they would set the ex change rate, however; and some observers recalled that the liberal partyakersome-A the Liberal Party had previ ously favored dropping the dollar to 90 cents. Yet during the campaign the Liberals flooded the coun try with "Diefen dollars" re payable by the "Bank of Can ada"; and when Diefenbaker appeared in Vancouver, B.C., May 30, hundreds of those phony campaign dollars were hurled on the stage as organ ized hecklers howled him down when he tried to ad dress a crowd of 8000. Canadian officials are alarmed over an estimated $300,000,000 drain on Cana-, dian reserves in recent weeks, apparently due to speculation by importers and exporters who are gambling that the Canadian dollar's value will drop still lower. Finance Min ister Donald Fleming said during the campaign that the Conservatives would hold the dollar at its present level at all costs. No one here Is predicting what consequences devalua tion will have on the overall ! trade pattern between the two countries. Since the end of World War II, Canada has had an unfavorable balance of trade with the United States of over $1 billion a year on the average. This has been made up in the main by the flow of American cap ital into Canadian investment opportunities at the rate of about $1 billion annually. Last year the trade across the border in both directions amounted to just over $7 bil lion, with the United States still in the more favorable position by selling Canada $507 million more than she sold to the United States. The theory behind devalua tion was that it would make Canadian commodities cheap er than American commod ities, thus more appealing to consumers. But some officials here have doubts that deval uation in the long run will work much of an advantage. 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