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Word Confidence Being Used, Abused, Executive Explains (Editor not - "Confi dene in th Economy" and how to keep America proa poring hav been in sub ject of growing debate be tween businessmen, union men, consumers and goT ernment officials. One of America's leading business executires has just made a dramatic proposal for trans forming this national con cern into real national growth. The idea is set out in the following extract from a speech mad July 25 by the president of t h Travelers Insurance Com pany of Hartford. Conn.) By J. DOYLE DeWITT Distributed By United Press International Today the word confidence Is being used and abused as never before. We might al most say that we are in the midst of a national "Confi dence game" in which the at titudes and emotions of our people are the stakes. Busi ness, labor and government Israel Undismayed But Apprehensive Of Egypt's Threat Editor's note: The Israeli- Arab conflict, now going into its 15th year, has been given added urgency in the past month by th United . Arab Republic's successful testing of combat rockets. The Israelis see this as a greater-than-ever threat to their security. UPI man ager for Israel, Eliav Si mon, analyses the situation, By ELIAV SIMON Tel Aviv, Israel -UIP1I- Tiny and determined Israel is undismayed, but slightly ap prehensive, about Egypt's ' new combat rockets. Defense experts here feel ' President Gamal Abdel Nas- " ser's new weapon presents no formidable threat in itself but, coupled with Nasser's "purchases of Soviet jet bomb- 'ers and fighters, Egyptian ar maments are something to ' worry about. The late model aircraft are better than any thing the people of Israel can muster to combat a foe that ' has sought for nearly 15 years to drive them into the sea. Uneasy feelings about the "al kaher" (conqueror) rock- ets were summed up recently by Deputy Defense Minister Shimon Peres. "Like a little boy playing with a loaded pistol," he said : of the Egyptian rocket tests. Big Problem Israel's big problem is that this "little boy" has late model Soviet jets, a compara tively strong Navy and a : gradually developing Army to go with the rockets. The Israelis fought off Egypt and her Arab partners after gaining independence ' from Britain in 1948. Eight years later Israel made the Egyptians look hopeless in a lightning campaign that took Israeli troops to within sight of Suez. The fighting since has been relatively minor, but the tension is marked by continuing clashes near the Sea of Galilee area and shoot ing in Jerusalem. Israeli's plan to divert the flow of the river Jordan by 1964 and send 40 per cent of . its life-giving waters south to the parched Negev is the ma jor current sore spot. The Arabs, and particular ly Jordan, fear the diversion will send the salt content of the river up sharply and make its waters useless where they flow through Jordan. Fight Diversion The Arabs have vowed to fight to prevent the Jordan's diversion and the Arab league has set a meeting In Cairo for Sept. 1 to coordinate a plan of action. If Nasser lets the Israelis go through with ' the Jordan plan, his prestige will suffer a severe blow. The Israelis know the situa tion. They know what Nasser has and that he might risk the effort to finish them off. TO BETTER SERVE... Located at th entrance to Moun tain View Cemetery. Quiet and peaceful surroundings, overlook ing nature's lovely hills. No long funeral processions through congested streets. LITWILLER FUNERAL HOME Highway 66 at Normal Ave. Ashland Dial 482-2816 Ashland's Leading Funral Director Since 1935 are each accusing the other of losing it. Statements and ut terances are made in the hope of restoring it. Meetings are called. Speeches, press confer ences and television shows are being used as sounding boards. But we know that you can't create confidence by words alone. It seems to me that the time has come for us all to stop talking about confidence and act as if we have some in our selves and in our future. Will Prosper We know that with all the dynamic expansion and in centives to progress built into our society, we cannot help but grow and prosper. Cer tainly setbacks and surprises do occur. We don't always soar as high as we think we can nor do we sink as deep as we fear we will. But nothing in the past has happened that should shake our confidence in the future if we continue to take the long view and re fuse to be stampeded by the events of weeks or months. Deputy Defense Minister Peres has come up with a cryptic remark about what Israel will do for help it feels will be needed eventually. "Israel has the moral right to request arms from both the east and the west," he said. Right now, Peres and his aides feel the Egyptian mis sile is no threat because Nas ser does not have enough of them, they carry a small ex plosive payload and they are not guided. Petty Armament Maj. Gen. Zvi Tzur, chief of staff of the 250,000-man Israeli Army, has put the rockets' payload at up to 880 pounds e a c h petty arma ment compared with the 10 tons of explosives that can be delivered by the Soviet TU16 jet bomber recently put into operation by the Egyptians. The Egyptian navy of six destroyers, 10 submarines and a large number of torpedo boats is vastly superior, to anything Israel can muster on the water. And the Egyp tion army is gradually being transformed into a modern operational unit. ' To combat the. size, fire power and material presented by her Arab rivals, Israel pits its own tactical skill and abi lity to keep equipment iri a high state of readiness and repair. The Israelis know they can not defend their 2Vi million people by a defense in depth system. They must attack, striking swiftly across the desert directly at the enemy homeland. Such tactics have worked in the past and they believe they will work again. In the air Israel has French made super Mysteres and Vautours, which, it js hoped, will match the Egyptian planes through the skill of pilots and ground crews. Trained, Mobile The Israeli army is highly trained and mobile. The navy is small but one of its three destroyers, the Israelis like to recall, was captured from the Egyptians during the Sinai campaign. They also have two submarines and some fast tor pedo boats. Peres has said he will try to get rockets to match Nas ser's missiles. Israel already has permission to buy Ameri can Nike rockets for scientific use. It has put up its own Shavit II meteorological rock et and has the scientific know-how to do even more. This is the situation as the long-awaited start of the Jor dan river diversion plan ap proaches. Israel, which hopes to boost its population to about 3 million by 1970, needs to turn the Negev into the garden it was during the time of the prophet Abraham. Water can do it. And the only source is the Jordan. Mrs. Litwiller C. M. Litwiller mm I am sure that at a hun dred different conventions this summer speakers are making some humorous refer ence to those notorious in itials with which the Presi dent supposedly characterized certain American business men. I suggest that we have a moratorium on name calling and wisecracks. Something too important-too fundamen tal to our progress-is at stake. In the world-wide competi tion for markets and for eco nomic expansion, the great burden of responsibility is go ing to fall on business. If the mechanism of business growth is not understood by those who make the laws or admin ister the regulations under which business operates, our competition is going to out produce, out-market and eventually, outgrow us. Basic Lack The heart of the confidence problem is a basic lack of un derstanding of Uie function of profit. Somehow the clock seems to have been turned back to the days when profit was a dirty word. Now in the enlightened '60's we ought to know better. Unfortunately, there is throughout our continent, among educators, professional men, labor leaders and poli ticians, too little understand ing of how our economic sys tem operates and especially of the role of profits in financing capital expansion. Much has been said about the profit squeeze in which all business- Astoria Murder Hearing Starts Astoria -WPP- A preliminary hearing of the first degree murder case against Babe Nothwang, Astoria beauty shop owner, started in district court here this afternoon. Dist. Atty. T. E. Edison said he also expected to submit evidence in the case to the grand jury today. Mrs. Nothwang is being held in the city jail. She is charged with shooting Nor man Niukkanen last Wednes day at her trailer home in Astoria. Niukkanen and Mr. and Mrs. Gene Hartman of Bliss- field, Mich., were houseguests of Mrs. Nothwang at the time of the shooting. The Hartmans told police that Niukkanen was asleep in a bed in the living room of Mrs. Nothwang's trailer when they returned to It late Tues day evening. Mrs. Nothwang told police she was awakened by the sound of shots early Wednes day morning and found Niuk kanen lying in the bed, bleed ing from head wounds. Police said Niukkanen was shot twice with a .32 auto matic pistol owned by Mrs. Nothwang. Mrs. Nothwang was arrest ed on the murder charge Saturday. Lithia Park Visitors Attracted To Museum Ashland - Visitors to Lithia park in Ashland have dis covered the latest attraction, the Natural Resources mu seum, and children and adults linger in the rustic building under the trees to ask ques tions of the director, David Hagerbaumer. Although the museum has been open only two months and its exhibits are still in complete, it has drawn an attendance of more than 2,000. Displays of native animals, birds, fish and minerals are arranged in '-heir natural set ting of the Siskiyou and Ash land areas. A new diorama will be started next month by Hager baumer and his partner, L. I. Haptonstall, who will con 000 1 . , Vow aid wjihtr UA-44-40 Exclusive Surgilator agitator creates this unique washing action . . . cleans clothes like no other can! Normal for regulars has brisk action, longer cycie. rENTLL has gentle action, shorter cycle for delicates. Thrifty Suds-Miser-optional. Johnston Stores 112 SOUTH RIVERSIDE Moving Seen to the Medford Shopping Center MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON men have found themselves But very little is understood about it. As a recent article in the Harvard Business Review points out, the present profit squeeze has far more implica tions than the traditional wage-price-inflation spiral. We are now in a marketing situ ation in which competition is forcing down prices, consum ers are demanding new prod ucts, and there are great costs and risks of failure inherent in providing them. Slaked Lives All of us, I know, were thrilled by the calm assurance in the voices pf astronauts Glenn and Carpenter as they circled the earth in their tiny space craft. What was an awe some mystery to most of us had become routine and com monplace to them through training and practice. Theirs was the ultimate confidence because they were staking their lives on the people and equipment with which they had been provided. We have had our geophysi cal year. I propose that we in business call for a "National Economic Understanding Year." I propose that we dedi cate ourselves to programs, debate and discussion concern ing the workings of our eco nomic system and that we try to learn as much about it as our scientists are learning about the complexities of space Move Together As a prominent business leader recently said, "Never before has it been more ur gent to build bridges between business, government and the academic world. Devisiveness is more destructive now than it was in Lincoln's day. In the face of strong competition from our friends in Western Europe and the implacable hostility from our antagonists in the Soviet bloc, we must move ahead together mobiliz- Year's Cruise Ends Aground in River Portland -OJPII- Two Oregon families ended a year's cruise of the Pacific Ocean Tuesday by running their schooner aground in the Columbia river near here. A reception arranged at the Portland Yacht Club was moved to a restaurant after the "Nordlys" was temporar ily caught in shallow water at the east end of the Oregon Sloueh. Skipper Ed DeKoning of Aurora, who made the 18,000 mile cruise with his family and the Del Radabaugh fam ily of Lake Oswego, was able to swing the craft free. The two families left New port, Calif., just a year ago to begin the cruise to the Mar quesas Islands, Tahiti, Bora Bora, Pago Pago, Fiji and Auckland, New Zealand. The families include eight chil dren. The wives and children left the boat at Honolulu to fly home. struct a beaver colony. The scene, measuring 12 by 14 feet, will show the beaver colony at work on a lodge. One of the museum's chief attractions is the BeeTree, which is safely behind glass with an outside opening that allows the bees outside ac cess. The wild bees have built numerous sections of comb and are filling them with honey. Watching the technicians as they mould forms for fish and reptiles and asking questions of the men in the laboratory is an interesting feature of the Natural Resources mu seum. Hours for visiting the Lithia park museum are from 1 to 7 p.m. daily. 2-SPEED, 2 CYCLE AUTOMATIC WASHER J1230 I MONTH ing the full strength of a unit ed nation." If we are to build the con fiedence we need to keep our economy rising to meet rising needs and expectations, we must take it out of the arena of politics. We must all stop using myths and cliches. We must come to grips intelligent ly with the concepts of profit, Toll Bridge Tax Decision Argued Olympia-lUPU-The State Toll Bridge Authority will discuss Thursday in Gov. Albert D. Rosellini's office the effect of a decision by a federal court that the state must collect transportation tax on ferry boat tickets. Atty. Gen. John J. O'Con nell has decided to appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Some $1.2 million is at stake in the litigation. The state has collected that much tax under protest and will be forced to turn the money over to the federal govern ment unless the decision of the U.S. Circuit Court of Ap peals is reversed. O'Connell said former chief Asst. Atty. Gen. John Riley will review the case with the TBA which supervises the ferry system. TBA Executive Secretary D. B. Hedges said he would also ask the body to authorize the redemption of $740,000 worth of Tacoma Narrows Toll Bridge bonds on Sept. 1. How Super Shell's 9 ingredients can give cars top performance - t POWER INGREDIENT in Super Shell works for world champion driver Phil Mill (above, in Ferrari racer). Hill, first American to win the World Championship for Drivers, relies on Super Shell. One important reason: power. Today's Super Shell contains "cat-cracked" gasoline a power ingre dient made by cracking heavier petroleum molecules into lighter, livelier ones. 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In this test, Super Shell with Platformate took car 6454 feet (right), gave a mileage bonus'of 4.3 pcccnt. tTrtdenutk of pricing, of investment, of depreciation, and we must see that they are comprehended by all segments of our society. 88 Survive Jet Airliner Crash Rio de Janeiro-rtlPD-Eighty-eight of the 104 persons aboard the Brazilian jetliner that crashed here Monday night survived the accident, most of them with only minor injuries, it was reported to day. Fifteen of the 93 passengers and 11 crewmen were killed. A 16th person was officially listed as missing. The dead included eight Brazilians, two Russians, two Paraguayans, a Portuguese, an Englishwoman and one person, presumably an Argen tine, who boarded the ill fated jet in Buenos Aires. The battered fuselage of the DC8 floated for about 20 minutes after plunging into the 15-foot waters of Guana bara Bay, enabling 78 passen gers and 10 crewmen to escape. Pilot Renato LaCerda said unspecified trouble with the plane's controls developed while it was roaring down the runway at nearly takeoff speed. At LaCerda's order, copilot Amerloc Vlerira de Brito slammed on the brakes and reversed the engines, but by that time the plane was travel ing at a speed of nearly 200 mph and it was too late to stop. Record Cranberry Crop Predicted Washington -(UP0- The Agri culture Department has fore cast a record 1962 cranberry crop of 1,394,500 barrels, 13 per cent above last year and 30 per cent above average. The increase from last year is accounted for by Massachu setts, which is the only state expecting more cranberries than in 1961. The Massachu setts crop is expected to be 740,000 barrels. The 1961 crop in Massachusetts was 472,000 barrels. Crops in other states will be above average. BABY RUMORS FLYING London-IUPD-The Daily Mir ror reported today Princess Margaret is expecting her sec ond child and "an official an nouncement confirming this will probably be made soon." The newspaper quoted her press officer, Maj. John Grif fin, as saying: "I can neither confirm nor deny any rum ors. I Just don t know. The princess Tuesday celebrated her 32nd birthday with her husband, Lord Snowden, in Ireland. OPEN 24 HOURS A DAY! 24-Hour Wrecker Service AAA Rep. Shell Products Courteous Service BLOCK OR CRUSHED ICE MECHANIC ON DUTY Weter Cr Olsen Shell Service Silver Dollar Stamps 1258 S. Riverside 772-9081 ilia JSjljtf . . TCP AND FOUR OTHER INGREDIENTS complete Super Shell's 9-ingrcdicnt blend. TCP additive can help re store power lost due to combustion deposits can also extend spark plug life. Butane is for quick starts. Pcnlane mix helps engines run smoothly during "warm-up." The gum preven tive ingredient is to help keep carburetors clean inside. 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