Ground Wafer
Levels in State
Not Declining
Salem-iUPP-Contrary to pop
ular belief, ground water lev
els in Oregon are not general
ly declining, Slate Engineer
Chris Wheeler said Tuesday.
His statement came in a re
port on a series of wells which
his office is observing.
A law passed in 1961 set up
a network of observation
welis where the water level is
measured periodically to de
termine ground water sup
plies. Checks are now being mack
on 560 wells, many of them in
the Willamette Valley.
Wheeler said that while in
some parts of the vallley the
level has been lowered by
summertime pumping, that
winter and spring rains have
been more than ample to re
fill the ground reservoirs.
Some Declines '
- The water tables have de
clined in some places such as
The Dalles area and Cow Val
ley in Malheur county which
have been declared "critical
ground water areas" and have
been closed to further ground
water development except for
domestic and stock purposes.
Wated levels also have been
declining in deep wells in the
Salem Heights area south of
Salem and tests are being
made by the U. S. Geological
Survey to determine the feasi
bility of recharging the
ground water reservoir with
winter runoff from the San
tiam river.
In the Fort Rock Basin in
Lake county ground water
levels arc at a record high.
ON SHOPPING TOUR Mrs. Shcrri Finkbine, center, of
Phoenix, Ariz., is accompanied by two unidentified news
women as she walks the streets during a shopping spree in
Stockholm, Sweden. Mrs. Finkbine and her husband. Robert,
are seeking a legal abortion, as they, fear their child will be
born deformed as a result of her having used the drug,
Thalidomide. (UPI)
Vacancies Listed By Army Recruited Here
Master . Sgt. Warren M.
Long, local Army recruiter,
announces that enlistment va
cancies now exist in several
vocational fields, including
the military 'police corps, ar
mored and artillery corps, en
gineers, signal corps, airborne,
and foreign duty assignments.
Numerous vocational school
courses also are available for
qualified men and women
Those who want further in
formation may obtain it at
the Army recruiting station
in the Mcdford Post Office
building or by calling 772-5022.
Origin, Results of Marshall Plan
For Rescue of Western Europe Traced
Editor's note: France re
cently repaid the last of iti
Marshall Plan loans - 26
years ahead of the due date.
The following dispatch
dealt with the origins and
results of that historic ex
periment, without which
Western Europe might to
day be part of the Commu
nist empire.
. By HENRY KEYS
Washington -itlPil- Fourteen
years agti the United States
Congress approved a plan to
spend $12 billion to help a
poverty-stricken and starving
Europe pull itself out of the
ruins of World War II.
Surprising enough was that
Congress would authorize
such an outlay on the heels of
this country's staggering war
time spending.
Even more surprising was
the fact that the plan was
cleared by the Republican
controlled 80th Congress
which was at odds with Demo-
cratic President Harry S. Tru
man over nearly every detail
of domestic policy.
Led by the late Sen. Robert
A. Taft and then Speaker
Joseph W. Martin, the 80th
Congress passed the Taft-
Hartley labor-management
law over Truman's veto and
pushed through a major tax
reduction program against his
wishes. They feuded over
spending and a host of other
items.
But there was near unani
mity among Republican and
Democratic leaders over the
need for the Marshall Plan,
Musicians Entertain
At Tuesday Session
Five musicians, now fea
tured in the current Shake
spearean Festival plays at
Ashland, entertained members
of the Mcdford Rotary club
Tuesday at the Rogue Valley
Country club.
Musical selections popular
during the age of William
Shakespeare, were presented
as the aid program quickly
become known.
Only a Beginning
Actually, as time has
proved, it was only a begin
ning. U. S. aid spread to
country after country - some
militantly anti - Communist
and some determined only to
preserve their cold war neu
trality - until it now totals
some S93 billion.
Some was in the form of
loans, such as the Marshall
Plan credits to France. But
most of it was in direct grants.
The Marshall Plan has been
praised as an unparalleled ex
periment In international hu
manitarianism. It has been
damned as a thankless give
away of money better spent
al hnmo Rut fn, titn.,1,1
during the luncheon program. in(lu(mce on the course o
iiiiiuui-u iii me giuup wuic
Marilyn Baker of Rodondo
Beach, Calif.; Lucille Mclinat
of Chicago; Judy Bjorlie, Ash
land; Lynn Sohler, also Ash
land, and Shanne Crouch of
Boulder, Colo.
Also featured on the Rotary
club's noon program was
Miss Martha Louise Wyatt,
Jacksonville, a graduate of
Mcdford High school, selected
to represent Oregon at the
Atlantic City Miss America
contest. Her parents and her
chaperonc, Mrs. Marjorie
Green, were among the
guests at Tuesday's meeting.
world affairs,
The pattern for the vast aid
program was set by Gen.
George C. Marshall, who was
one of the principal architects
of Allied victory in World
War II as chairman of the
combined chiefs of staff and
who later served as secretary
of state under Truman.
The scholarly soldier
statesman spoke for the con
science of a nation, once
known for its isolationism, in
a speech at Harvard univer
sity on June 5, 1947. While
declaring that Euro p e a n s
must help themselves, he said:
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"At this critical point in
history, we of the United
States are deeply conscious of
our responsibilities toward the
world. We know that in this
trying period, between a war
that is over and a peace that
is not yet secure, the destitute
and oppressed of the earth
look chiefly to us for suste
nance and support until they
can again face life with self
confidence and self-reliance."
Some in the United Stales
and abroad saw the Marshall
Plan primarily as a weapon
against the postwar surge of
Communist influence in a
broken and embittered
Europe. Marshall disavowed
any such idea.
"Our policy is not directed
against any country or doc
trine, but against hunger,
poverty, d e s peratlon and
chaos."
Unquestionably because of
a combination of both motives
- humanitarianism and self
interest - Congress to months
later in April, 1948, author
ized the spending of $12 bil
lion in 18 European nations
during the ensuing 3 years.
The Europe of 1948 was
largely a Europe without
hope. The cream of Its young
manhood was dead. Its fac
tories were in ruins, agricul
ture was at a standstill. Mil
lions were unemployed. Hun-
ger was commonplace. Cloth-
ng, shelter and fuel were
scarce.
Europe dcsneralelv needed
help, not only to feed itself
As food and materials flow
ed Into Europe the drabness
of life began to disappear.
Men were at work again driv
ing tractors and harvesters
over tile farmlands, flinging
up dams in huge irrigation
and hydroelectric schemes, re
storing or making new roads.
producing suits and socks and
shoes and dresses.
Belts which had been tight
ened against empty bellies be
gan to loosen, and malnutri
tion began to disappear along
with the near starvation-diet
ration books.
The price tag of the Mar.
hall Plan was vast inriperi
$13.3 billion in all. Of this,
$12 billion was in the form
of grants. The other $1.3 bil
lion was in repayable loans.
The Marshall Plan, of
course, was only the begin
ning of this country's vast
venture In foreign aid. All
told, it has distributed more
than $93 billion overseas since
World War II $64 billion
in economic loans and grants
and $29 billion in military as
sistance. Was it all worth It? There
Is some disagreement on that.
But one writer has likened the
dollars distributed under the
Marshall Plan to seeds, the
harvest from which is being
reaped today.
And at least one result is
the fact that Western Europe
now is helping less fortunate
nations in other areas of the
world move toward the eco
nomic strength and self dig
nity it has attained with t he
help of U.S. aid dollars.
For George Catlctt Marsh
all, if he were still alive, it
would be a complete revolu
tion of the wheel.
ANDYS
AUGUST specials
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Professor Gives
Paper On Poison
Eugene - Dr. Virgil C.
Boekclheide, pro fessor of
chemistry at the University of
Oregon, will present a paper
on the structure of curare, the
South American arrow poison,
at an International meeting to
be held In Prague. Czechoslo
vakia, from Aug. 27 to Sept. 2.
The meeting is being held
under the auspices of the In
ternational Union of Pure and
Applied Chemistry, the spon
soring body for all interna
tional research in chemistry.
Co-authors of the paper are
Dr. David Nelson, instructor
In chemistry, and Dr. Marcel
Grdinic, who is at the uni
versity on leave from the In
stitute Rudjer Boskovlc in Za
greb, the Yugoslavian equiv
alent of the Atomic Energy
commission. Neither will at--tend
the Prague meeting. i
Title of the paper is "Struc-1
turnl Elucidation of the Cala
bash Curare Alkaloids U.-ing
Specific Deuterium Labeling
and Nuclear Magnetic Reso
nance Studies." For several
years, Dr. Boekclheide has
been studying the structure of
these alkaloids and attempt
ing to find out why minute
amounts of this substance in
terrupt the transmission of
nerve impulses to the mus
cles, causing paralysis.
Before going to Prague, Dr.
Boekclheide will visit the
Royal Institute of Technology
in Stockholm. Sweden, and
after the close of the meet
ing, he will spend several
days at the Institute Rudjer
Boskovic in Zagreb. He will
deliver lectures at both In
stitutes. In April, Dr. Boekclheide
became the first Oregonian in
history to be circled to mem
bership in the National Acad
emy of Sciences, considered
to be one of the highest hon
or) which can be offered an
American scientist.
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