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.S. Negotiators in Ottawa for Lumber Discussions Economy, Politics In Both Nations To Be at Stake Ottawa fUPIt U.S. negotia tors Hew here today to begin talks that will pit the econom ic demands of the U.S. Paci fic Northwest against the aus terity program goals of Can ada The issue is Canadian soft wood lumber. This is a $2511 million a year necessity to Canada in its balance of pay ments crisis, but it is a job stealing threat to the Pacific Northwest, where lumber mills have been shutting down while imports of Canadian lumber rise. The stakes also Include poli tics. In the United States, many senators and representa tives must go back to face lumber-conscious voters in a little more than two months. In Canada, the government of Prime Minister John Diefen baker needs all the support it can get for the austerity pro gram it instituted a week af ter losing its majority in Par liament in late June's elec tion. Trade Impact Finally, the negotiations will be watched for any light they may cast on President Kennedy's drive for tariff slashing authority to expand international trade. A protec tionist attitude could make other countries wonder whether the United States means what it says. Failure to look out for hometown lum ber interests could add to Kennedy's troubles in getting the trade bill he wants from the Senate . The U.S. - Canadian negoti ations are one element of a six-point program proposed by Kennedy last month, after months of pressure from lum ber slate congressmen. Other points cover measures to help U.S. lumbermen compete and to aid in modernizing the in dustry. The other points are rela tively uncontroversinl. The idea of import quotas is bristlingly sensitive. Canada's share of the U.S. softwood market has been rising for the past 10 years. In 1951, Canadian lumber ac counted for 7.4 per cent of the softwood market. In 1B81, the Canadian share was 13.1 per cent. Softwood lumber brings about $250 million a year inlo Canada, which perennially sells less to the United States than it buys. Reports from Ottawa have said Canada will reject any suggestion that it voluntarily cut Its lumber sales to the United States. But substantial segments of the U.S. lumber Industry de mand just this. They have ap plied to the Tariff commis sion, and Kennedy promisrd to ask the commission to speed its study of the Issues. The subject is sure to come tip as the negotiations prog ress. "We haven't ruled oul the idea," an authoritative Stale Department source said last week, "nor would we consider this the onlv aspect of the problem we would like to dis cuss with Ihe Canadians." Tile other aspects - where chances of agreement appear more likely - would include steps lo equalize competition and efforts to develop new markets for the lumber of both countries. The U.S. team In the talks will be G. Griffith Johnson, assistant secretary of state (or rconomic affair?. Jack N. Jlchrman, assistant secretary of commerce for internation al affairs, and John A. Car ver Jr., assistant secretary of the interior tor public land management. They will be accompanied by technical ad visers. No early solution is expect ed. Tile first phase of the talks, expected lo lasl only a few days, will be devoted In a thorough review nf the situation and a cautious ex ploration of possible action. The demand lor quotas is not unanimous. Two private groups-the Canadian-American Committee of the Nation al Planning Association and ihe liberal trade -minded Committee for a National Trade Policy -- have luted against import limits. And Sen. Maurine B. Ncuherger (D-Ore. whose constituents are vitally involved, has said, "I'm not really in sympathy Willi quote.." But a large and vocal vg mcnt of the industry and the Facific Northwest congres sional delegation favor the view of Seattle lumberman William Reed, president of the Simpson Timber Co.: "I hope our negotiators have in mind Ihe welfare of our economy al least as much as the Canadians keep the welfare of Ihctr economy in mind," Reed said when the talks were announced "They haven't always." ForBIgll BRITISH ENVOY GOING TO WEST GERMANY London-ITO-Sir Frank Robtrlt, British ambassador to the Soviet Union, will leave Moscow Not. IS and will lake up his new poll as envoy to Weil Germany nexi Ferbuary, it was learned Monday. Diplomatic sources said Sir Humphrey Trevelyan, deputy undersecretary at Ihe Foreign Office, will 90 lo Moscow Nov. 26 to replace Roberts. SWISS ARMY ENGAGES IN WAR GAMES I Mirinaen. Switzerland-U'PluThe Swiss army began five 1 days of war games Monday stretching from Lake Geneva ing the Alps. Military sources said about vehicles and 1,600 hones were EUPHRATES DAM FINANCING TO BE DISCUSSED Bonn-HiPli-Rudolf Fechler. Ihe West German ambassador to Damascus, returned lo Bonn Monday to prepare for ne gotiations on financing of the Euphrates dam. The negotiations are expected lo begin here on Sept. 25. Indications are that West Germany will finance up lo S12S million of Ihe dam's cost. FRANKFURT TO ASSIST JEWISH SCHOOL. NEEDY Frankfurt, Germany-illl'li-This city will give $5,000 toward a Jewish school lo be built in Haifa, Israel, and $2,500 lo the German Red Cross for the relief of needy Algerian children. The city council approved both measures in a meeting Monday. FUND RAISED FOR EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS Rome-UI'li-A fund for the relief of victims of the recent earthquakes in Southern Italy reached the $800,000 mark Monday night. A campaign (or the fund is being directed by the stale owned radio and television network. Most of the money will be used to rebuild homes in areas where thousands of persons were left homeless by the series of tremors. Regional Edition K T7TT?"vrT MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 2B, 1!)B2 Stocks Turn Soft As Several Issues Dip Point or More New York - IIIPII - Stocks turned soft today. Steel and motor .shares were unchanged lo small fractions lower and so were most of the international oils and leading chemicals. Utilities held fair ly steady but rails reacted moderately after eight consec utive sessions of advance. Aerospace issues also sold off a bit, apparently influ enced bv profit taking. IBM lost nearly 4 and Texas Instru ments, Litton, Motorola, Ze nith and others at least 1 point. Polaroid and Xerox lost nearly 2 apiece. Air products, General Out door Advertising, Beneficiul Finance, Corning Glass, Chi cago Yellow Cah, Hercules Powder, Pitney-Bowes and Procter & Gamble were all losers of a point or more. New York iHPIt Dow Jones linal slock averages: 30 industrials 612.57, oil 1.17: 20 railroads 125.16. up 0,82: 15 utilities 121.22. olf 0.05. and 65 slocks 212.98. up 0.03. Sales Mon day were about 3.14 million shares compared with 2.B9 million shares Friday. Monria'i price nn leleiMed atiK'k . Allied rhrmk'Hl . " Alum C' Am "'' Ani-rtt-an Air Line j American Can Amrrli-an Mnlnrt 1" A T A T AiiHM'tt'Hn TllhHITO . l ' AnarniHia Citppt'l" A' M AniK-o Homily Cnrp Nclhlehcm Sire I 3'i HorkuK AH' ?l Hiiinwl'k 1 ' I'att'i pillar Corp . W ' Chi vslrr Cm p stt ' j Coca Coin . R,i (-IIS I"'' Columbia fla 'M ' Ctmnnrnul Can ' I'mu n '.rllcrliaih 1 Cnirinlr Strrl IS CurllM Wtmhl - "1 Dow Chrmlcal 4'. lilt Pont K.jnliiiKn Koitak IPI1, Klii-Mon Large Purse Seen Al Pendleton Event Pendleton The annual Pciulleuin Roundup will be gin this year Sept. 12. willi pri.e money and enlry Ices totaling $42.0011. the Inrgcl purse recorded in recent years. Stock purchased for the ro deo this year includes that of the Tucker siring, from seph. Ore., ohlained by the Chrislensen brothers of Eu gene: Canadian slock from Harry V ild: calves Irom tiie Ivm Mann Flying M ranch, llermiston. and sierra from Mciev I Call ropers will he led by j Ihe current champion and I leader Dean Oliver. Caldwell. I Idaho EXPECTED TO REUNITE WflyhiiiKtmi 'IT.t Kennedy tuny In with his wtfe and this week end at Prrsiden! reunited diuiKhter Newport . R.I, Mrs, Kennedy und duutfl) ter Caroline hit M'hrduled to relurn Friday (mm a vaca tion in 1 1 h I y and the Presi dent is rxpeeted lo fly to Newport f"r reunion with them. BnsfS that will cover operations to the Austrian border, includ 29.000 soldiers, 4,000 motor involved. Page 2-A Ford General Electric General Food General Mnlon . Georgia Pacific Ixd) Greyhound Gulf Oil Hnmcatake Idaho Power . . . Inl Paper .lohna Manville Kennecotl Copper Lockheed Alrcrall . Martin Merck , . Montana Power ' , . Montgomery Ward . Nat'l Biscuit New York Central Northern Pacific Pac Gat Klec Pennev, J, C Penn nn IVi-nia Cement Plillllpa Procter A C.amhle . , Radio Corporation . Richlleld Oil . . Sulewav Santa Ke . Scant Shell Oil Soconv Mohll Oil Southern Co .. Sperry Rand Standard California . Standard Indiana Standard N. J Stokclv Van Camp . Son Mlnca Tcxaa Co . . . U l, . n.'i 1 211' 43 . II 14', .11 4(1' Texas C'.lllr Sulfur Texan Pac Land T Thlokol . . Train America Tran World Air . Trl Continental . Union Carhide . Union Pacini' United Aircraft . United Airlines . I1. S Plvwood II. S, Huhlter . 11 S Sleel West Hank Corp WcatlnchoiKe VoniiKxtown tial Porllander Held On Murder Charge Pol l land ll'rn Bernard j Heidelberg, HH, Portland, was hold here loday on a charge I of firsl degree murder. ! He wtis accused of the lata! shunting of Waller Jackson, 4 I. Portland. Police said .l.tck t sou was shot with a rifle al ! his apartment Sunday. He died al a Portland hos i pitnl. Special Purchase SALE! BAR 12!2 Gauge 2 Point 80 Rod Rolls Moore Steel Service Co. Phone 772-7197 Extension of Jobless Payments Killed by Vote Action Follows Kennedy's Praise -1 Off Congressmen Washington -lUPli- President Kennedy's request for another extension of jobless payments was killed today by a House committee, blighting a new bloom of optimism over the administration's legislative program. The setback came a few hours after the chief execu tive had praised Congress for recent progress toward writ ing some of his major propos als into law. Kennedy offered the praise at a White House breakfast with Democratic congressional leaders. They told him in re turn that he could anticipate more favorable action on his lisl of priority bills. But the Ways and Means committee promptly dashed this optimism by voting 13-12 to shelve the jobless bill. Bill Said 'Phony' 1 n another development, Republicans said the next White House "must" item up for House action-a big public works bill-was a "complete phony." They said it should be defeated. Kennedy had listed the job less bill, which would extend benefits to workers who had exhausted them, as one of sev eral that should be enacted to help the government fight re cession without an immediate tax cut. Labor Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg, present for the vote, called the action unfor tunate and voiced hope it could be reversed. But House leaders saw no immediate way of achieving this. 1 The vote appeared to come as a shock to House leaders. The legislation has had bipar tisan support in the past. On the showdown, nine Republi cans and four Democrats voted againsl it. President Pleased Kennedy told his Democrat ic legislative lieutenants at a While House breakfast he was nleascd with action so far to ward passage of his latest list of priority bills. He was es pecially happy by House ac tion Monday giving final con gressional approval lo a con stitutional amend m e n I to abolish the poll tax in federal elections. Speaker John W. McCor mack said Ihe public works bill was a $1!I0 million anti recession measure designed lo pump extra construction money Inlo areas hard hit by unemployment. The House scheduled two days of debate on the measure beginning today. Boord of Healfh Gets $ 1 9,500 Grant Porl land -WW - The Oregon Board of Health said today it has received a $19,500 federal grant for metropolitan hos pital planning. It said the grant will be used for coop erative planning for uon-prolit lu.siiitals in Portland and in Multnomah. Washington, Clackamas and Columbia counties. MESSY HIGHWAY I Lafayette, Ind. HTIt - A truck collision spewed 130 I cases of ketchup c.do U. S. I Houlr 52 Monday and high 1 way department workers were I called in to mop up Ihe mess. IRE $10 Shrinks Again Living Costs Reach Record Figure as Washington - UPD - Higher prices for major food items and services pushed the cost of living to a new all-time peak in July, the Labor de partment reported today. The increase chipped anoth er two cents off the buying power of the consumer's $10 bill. It also triggered penny-an-hour pay raises for 050,000 workers in auto, farm equip ment and aerospace industries. The department said its Sherri Finkbine Returns To States Lawrcnceburg, Ind. IUPII -Mrs. Sherri Finkbine, 30, has returned to the United States, tired but full of confidence "my friends will understand" who she underwent an abor tion in Sweden. The Phoenix, Ariz., televi sion personality and her school teacher husband, Rob ert, landed in Chicago after a flight from London Sun day. Following a brief meet ing with newsmen the couple flew to Cincinnati, Ohio, Sun day night. The Finkbines flew lo Swe den and obtained permission from the Swedish State Medi cal board for a lawful abor tion on the ground that her pregnancy might cause a men tal breakdown. Following the operation in Sweden, Mrs. Finkbine's hus band announced that medical evidence showed her child would have been deformed. Al Cincinnati, the Fink bines were met by the teach er's father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Amos Finkbine, and the younger Finkbines' daugh ter, Terry, 7. ymmsw If " Now you can find America's favorite sports car at Medford's favorite dealer J. R. WHIT NEY OLDS. What a combina tion of elegance and fun you'll discover when you drive the Tri umph. Take a ride today. J If m in House Committee Food, Services Up consumer price index rose by two-tenths of one per cent last month to 105.5 per cent of average 1957-59 prices. A spokesman said the ad vance was in line with season al expectations, however, since the index has climbed in July every year since 1950. Higher prices for pork, milk and eggs were the major causes of a rise of three-tenths of one per cent in food prices. The price of services - medical care, haircuts and public transportation and similar items - also helped push up the index. The July increase put the index at 1.1 per cent above its year-ago level. Most of Ihe increases occurred during Ihe first six months of this year. In the housewife's terms, the index means it costs now $10.55 to buy the same goods and services that could have been obtained for $10 five years ago. The indext, a barometer of inflation and the buying pow er of the dollar, measures prices changes in 300 items bought by the average city wage-earner. Changes in the index fre quently trigger wage in creases for workers whose pay is tied to living costs through escalator clauses in labor con tracts. Labor department price ex perts have conceded that (he index has shown that infla- j tion is being held in check de- j spite the gradual upward i creep of living costs. They have noted that prices are rising more rapidly in sev eral European countries that . are going through postwar i production booms. Average annual increase in : prices has ranged from 1.5 lo '-nw,'i.')ri.-ta.'i;rjj i I j 2 per cent in recent years and forecasts call for a similar ad vance in 1962. San Francisco - ll'PIl - Retail average prices of goods and services in the Portland area rose 0.9 per cent between April and July to a new all time high, the U.S. Depart ment of Labor's Bureau of La bor Statistics said today. The over - the - quarter rise brought the Bureau's all items index for Portland to 104.8. a rise of 0.4 per cent above the 1961 figure. Food prices increased 0.6 per cent with the advance tak ing place the first two months of the quarter. A decline in prices of house furnishings was overshadow ed by increased rents, up 0.3 per cent. Reading and recrea tion rose 4.6 per cent. Trans portation costs went up 2 4 per cent. Increased doctors' and den tists' fees offset lower drug prices. The result was a 0.5 per cent rise in the medical care group. But average prices of items in this group were still 0.4 per cent below the year ago level. Apparel costs declined 0.3 per cent. Ship It LASME to or from Oakland, San .Francisco, Los Angeles and Orher California Points Call Jack Fitzgerald 773-7761 1 For Fait, f . . i Efficient Servic K-" Qo 1 WHITNEY OLDS 415 So. Riverside Request SAN FRANCISCO September X-: ISCi Two weeks of things to do and things to see when you visit San Francisco, the eventful city. SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS "Barbary Coast Fandango," a two-day, two-night festival, turns back the clock to the turn of the century -with contests, shows, dancing and costumes. Sept. 1-2 on Pacific Street be tween Montgomery and Sansome. "The Ice Follies," Sept. 1-2 at Winterland, Post and Steiner Streets. "Ringlins Bros. Bar num & Bailey Circus," Sept. 1-2, at the Cow Palace. Morriaon Planetarium, Golden Gate Park, presents "Man and the Stars, the Story of Tycho Brahe," Sept. 5-30. THEATRE The original D'Oyly Carte Opera Company presents a pro gram of Gilbert & Sullivan at the Geary Theatre, Sept. 1-8. "Kiamefwith Alfred Drake and Anne Jeffreys at the Curran Theatre through Sept. Maurice Chevalier presents his "One Man Show" at the Masonic Memorial Auditorium Sept. 11-15. "The Boy Friend" can be seen every night at the Shera ton Palace Hotel's Garden Court Dinner Theatre."The Wonder ful World of the Brothers Grimm" is the Cinerama presenta tion at the Orpheum Theatre. Little theatres are numerous with performances usually on Friday and Saturday. SPORTS Baseball San Francisco Giants vs. Cincinnati, Sept. 1, 2; Chicago, Sept. 7, 8, 9; Pittsburgh, Sept. 10, 11, at Candlestick Park. Horse Racing -at Golden Gate Fields, Albanv, Sept 10 -Oct. 30. MUSIC San Francisco Opera Season opens with "La Boheme," Sept. 14; "Wozzeck," Sept. lo, at the War Memorial Opera House. ART Exhibit of Tutankhamen's Treasures (King Tut) opens Sept. to al the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. Selection" of American Decorative Art, Sept. 10-Sept. 30 at the M. H. tie Young Memorial Museum. Two exhibitions, the"NewArt of Brazil" and "Art for the Collector" are on display in Sep tember through the 23rd at the San Francisco Museum of Art. Right noif in the bent time of the SAN FRANCISCO VISITORS BUREAU YES Both the "Sporty Ones" live at Whitney Olds now. What a team - OLDSMOBILE and TRIUMPH! Get that "OLDS feeling" or that "TRIUMPH thrill" by test driving either of these two great cars. Any salesman will be delighted to take you for a spin (they enjoy driving these on company time.) Do it to day while clearance prices are in effect. SLUG BILL APPROVED Washington - lUPf) - The Sen ale Judiciary committee Mon day approved a bill that would make it a federal crime to manufacture or sell slugs that could be slipped into vending machines. .is jm I f 3T7, year in San Fi'ancisco. 1
