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
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, Eugene The intricacies
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the cameras to handling
sound, are being learned this
month by 21 "students" en
rolled in the fourth summer
Workshop of Educational TV
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i The remainder of the year,
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Their interest in the pro
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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.
They have observed that the
prices of numerous Canadian
commodities have been rising,
and they speculate that labor
unions - spurred by interna
tional officials - will push for
higher wage demands, further
nudging Canadian prices up
ward. But what the minority Die
fenbaker government will do
about these conditions in its
effort to restore confidence
in the Canadian economy is
what Washington officials are
waiting to see.
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