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THURSDAY. JULY 28, 1962
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
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SPEAR FOR BIBLE - Chief Jaun Ucayali of the Peruvian
Nevati Campas, shows off the Bible for which he exchanged
his spear, and by which he rules his tribesmen. The chief is
a delegate to the 4flth quadrennial session of the World Or
ganization of Seventh-day Adventisls meeting in San Fran
cisco. (UPI)
Capitol Memo '
First Draft of
Communism Course
To Be Ready Soon
By DOUGLAS GRIPP i go before the State Board of
Salem -iliPD- The first draft
of a new course about Com
munism for high school sen
iors will be
tf'ZuZWf rcady next
MU'fV week, and the
f ' '-'fA Oregon Edu
I . -w. ,z.f cation Depart-
Ilieill SdlU IU-
day it is shoot
ing for Octo
ber or Novem
ber to intro
duce it in the
Douilai Grlpp scnoots.
The drive for such a course
in public schools is growing
nationally. Several states have
adopted them.
The position of many noted
educators, including Dr. Leon
P. Minear, Oregon Superin
tendent of Public Instruction,
is that only by learning about
communism can students be
made aware of its dangers.
Oregon's course is planned
as a three to four week unit
in the "modern problems"
course required of all seniors.
It has not been determined
whether the unit should be
mandatory
Education In September, and
the board will decide this.
The initial draft is being
put into shape by Arnold
Granville, Salem, curriculum
supervisor with the depart
ment. The ideas were approv
ed in June by a four member
committee of experts.
Others on Commille
In addition to Granville, the
committee included three so
cial studies teachers - Lor
raine Muesey, North Salem
High school; Joan Krahmer,
Hillsboro High; and Easton
Way, Lebanon High.
Consultants included Ed
ward Hollister, Corvallis
High; Maurice Knispel, Sunset
High at Beaverton; and three
members of the Oregon Col
lege of Education faculty,
Samuel K. Anderson, Erhard
K. Dortmund, and Lcland E.
Hess.
As a starting point, the
group used a pilot course
called "Democracy vs. Com
munism" developed and
taught at Parkrose High
school last year. But the com
mittee came up with a com-
Ceremonies To Open
Bridge Construction
Salem - (IJPIl - The Oregon
Highway Department will
hold a ground breaking cere
mony at Astoria Aug. 11 to
signal officially the start of
construction on the $24 mil
lion Astoria-Megler bridge
over the Columbia river.
The proposal is expected to pletely new product, incorpor
ating recommendations made
by such organizations as the
Oregon Bar, American Legion,
AFL-CIO, church groups, and
others.
Minear asked a cross-section
of the Oregon public to com
ment, and make suggestions,
which they did.
Generally Favored
The course was generally
favored, and there was agree
ment that it should not be
made a topic of heated debate
among students, but rather a
forthright presentation of
facts.
Some expressed concern
over whether teachers have
the necessary background to
teach it. A special guide for
teachers is planned.
The committee is recom
mending that the course be
titled "Communism in Today's
World." It traces the history
of communism to the present,
and focuses on communism in
theory versus actual prac
tice, plus tactics.
Optional reference books
being recommended include
the Communist Manifesto by
Marx, and several volumes by
Nikita Khrushchev.
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THREATS ALL BLUFFS - The president of the West Berlin
Parliament, Otto Bach, who is in Chicago as a German repre
sentative to the International Trade Fair, told a news con
ference that "we don't believe events will lead to real ten
sion, or the necessity of United Nations intervention. Up to
now, Communist threats have been all bluffs." (UPI)
Twenty-Six Persons
Complete Driver
Improvement Class
Twenty -six persons who that he "would recommend
completed the Jackson county the class to any driver . . but
driver i m provement school 1 the chairs sure are hard!"
Tuesdav will receive certifi-1 The school is held each
cates, school staff members
have announced.
With this session, the sev
enth four-class school this
year, 202 Jackson county resi
dents have successfully com
pleted the school. i
The majority of those at-'
tending the last session had i
been ordered to attend by
either Medford municipal or
Jackson county district court
in lieu of traffic fines. Fol
lowing the final examination,
students are encouraged to
comment on the school. These
suggestions are not signed.
Among Suggestions
Among the suggestions re
ceived Tuesday night one stu
dent - evidently a high school
student - commented, "Please
ask my father to take the
course!"
All comments received
were favorable and the gen-
Tuesday from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
in the courthouse auditorium
for four weeks and Is open
to all interested persons. The
classes are taught by officers
of the Medford police depart
ment and Jackson county
sheriff's deputies.
Prices of Food
Drop in Portland
San Francisco - (DPD - Food
prices in Portland averaged
slightly lower in June than in
May, according to the Depart
ment of Labor's Bureau of
Labor statistics.
The Bureau's food index for
June stood at 104.2, down 0.1
per cent from May, but up
1.4 per cent from a year ago.
The major factor in the de
cline was a drop of 1.1 per
eral opinion was summed up i cent in the meats, fish and
poultry group. Miscellaneous
foods, eggs and dairy products
were lower.
Prices of fruits and vege
tables rose 1.3 per cent. Prices
of cereals and bakery prod
ucts also increased.
in one comment, "1 am happy
it was necessary to attend."
Many students thought the
course was educational and
informative and felt that they
understood the Oregon traffic
laws much better. One stated
Your Money's
Worth
By SYLVIA PORTER
Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc.
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SOCIALIST SWEDEN 'BUSINESSMAN'S PARADISE'
Sweden, birthplace of the cooperative movement and of
much of the most advan-ed social welfare legislation, mother
land of the Social Democrats and of direct economic controls,
has long been known as the land of the "middle way" be
tween the communism of the Soviet Union and the free en
terprise of the United Slates. This was its boast in the 1930s,
in fact, and I recall vividly how we studied her laws then
to see how much Franklin D. Roosevelt was modeling U. S.
welfare programs after those of this small northern European
nation.
. It was the "middle way" then. It isn't now. Sweden has
moved so far away from socialism and toward private enter
prise that Business Week recently quoted a British banker
as saying, "Sweden is a businessman's paradise," and experts
who are analyzing the growth in the European economies in
recent years to see what Europe is doing that we might copy
here are Increasingly urging attention to many of Sweden's
policies.
Item: Sweden has the most liberal rules in the world
governing the tax deductions businessmen can take when
they invest in machinery and equipment. In comparsion, our
newly liberalized depreciation schedules still appear ex
ceedingly tough and restrictive.
For instance a Swedish corporation can fully write off
whal It spends for machinery and equipment within five
years, thereby lower its earnings subject to tnxei and
slash its tax liability. It can. if it wishes, write off 51 per
cent of the equipment's cost within two years. Within
these liberal limits, it also can arrange its depreciation ;
any way it prefers.
Admittedly, a reason Sweden can afford this is thai she
relies much less th;in we do on corporation income taxes
to balance her budget. Bui the key point is that, primarily
as a result of this enormous incentive, private industry's
gross investment in Sweden amounts to one-third of her
total output, and her growth rate last year was an enviable
4'a per cent a goal for which we are striving, but failing
miserably to reach:
Item: Sweden is still strongly pushing social welfare
programs and her welfare spending this year will be 9 per
cent above last yenr's. But- and this is the crucial but - to
finance these programs. Sweden is levying sales taxes on
consumers, not hitting the businessman. This alone shows
how far she has traveled from the system which, as Business
Week put it, "once appealed to have-nots the world over
Today, Sweden is more like a giant corporation whose em
ployes pay for most of their natonal 'fringe benefits' out of
wages freeing management to provide for a growing eco
nomic pie."
Item: Since the 1950s, Sewerien has been shifting the
burden of paying for welfare programs to those who benefit
most from them. She cut the corporation tax rate from 50
to 40 per cent In the late 1950s, the top individual tax rate
from 80 to K5 per cent. (Our rates are 52 per cent on corpora
tions, 01 per cent top rate on Indviduals ) Her general sales
tux is. now up to 0 4 per cent.
New direct taxes on Sweden's businessmen amount to
2.4 per cent of her total output against 4.5 per cont here
while her direct taxes on Individuals amount to 14.5 per
cent of output versus 9.5 per cent here.
Item: Sweden has swung away from low interest rates
to the orthodox policy of high interest rates to control in
flation. Her interest rate levels are far above ours, but al
the same time, she pays any interest on housing loans above
4 per cent, and thus subsidizes home building.
Item: Most significant of all, though, is the extent to
which the Swedish government and businessmen are coop
erating to speed and maintain the economy's growth. This is
what the First National City Hank. In another reference
to Europe's growth, calls the "something intangible in the
atmosphere, a spirit of positive encouragement to enter
prise." This also is the point which German Economics Minister
Ludwig Erhard makes in his book "Prosperity Through Com
petition," when he says "It is considerably easier to allow
everyone a large slice of a bigger pie than to gain anything
by discussing the division of a smaller cake."
What glorious irony it would be if Just as we followed
this Arctic Circle land to the "left" in the lOlllls. we follow
her to the "right" in the I Otitis! We very well may too
Quemoy Buildup Said for Defense
Geneva - tl'fli - Communist
China has told Britain that
Peiping's military buildup op
posite Quemoy and Matsu is
for defensive, nol offensive
purposes, informed s o u rces
said Wednesday.
The sources said Red Chi
nese Foreign Minister Chen
Yi gave tilts explanation to
British Foreign Secretary
Lord Home here. Chen Yl
none to Geneva for the sign
ing of 1 lie Laos agreement.
7'hp two leaders met for
wide ranging discussion on
1 international p r o b I e m s at
Chen Yi s resilience Monday
Chen Yl was said to have
stated that the milil,ii build
up had been necessitated by
the thre.ileaing attitude of
Marshal ('hint: Kai-shek's re
gime in ViMe)
The C.w, le.Mr dis
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the forces opposite taMicmoy
and Mateo for an alt.u-k on
' the embattled offshore islands.
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