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THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1962 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Refugees Say i Cuba Suffers From Food Shortage free Hearing Aid Anniversary Gift to You by special arrangement 1. ANDREW PABAVAH7B Authorized Factory Trained HEARING AID SERVICE MAN Will Be in Our Office Friday, August 31, and Saturday, Sept. 1 For Free Consultation end Hearing Evaluation FREE Home Care Kit to All HEARING AID USERS Thoroughly Clean Your Hearing Aid Check Input and Output Improve Tone Clarity Also. Without Obliaation He Will: Sour 57th year COLUMBIAN OPTICAL CO. hi.... x - .1 f - i c t : a - ill nvw (Tiuuiuru jiupjiiiy Kiaa Miami, Fla. -1IPH- Cuba is suffering from a severe food shortage, according to refu gees from that country. The food crisis is particular ly acute in Santiago de Cuba, a region that has been known for its rcbcllionsness ever since the struggle for inde pendence more than half a century ago. Travelers from Santiago say the people of that city have on several occasions resorted to rioting in the streets to de mand more food. They also fay that all protests have been violently repressed by the shock troops of the integrated revolutionary organizations, the only party remaining in a country ruled by Fidel Cas tro. Have to Wait The situation in Santiago is so bad now, according to reports, thai some families will have to wait until next January to buy chicken, re gardless of the rationing laws. In Victoria de las Tunas, another Oriente city located in the central region near Camaguey, the local authori ties have not allowed any beef cattle to be slaughtered for consumption within the last 50 days. However, say the recent ar rivals, the situation was quite different when Castro was get ting Santiago ready for the celebration of the 28 of July the anniversary of the be ginning of his movement. Butchers were recruited ev erywhere to prepare a mam moth feast for the. farmers over the country. coming to Santiago from all Although the butchers pro tested they had no intention of feeding strangers while their neighbors had nothing to cat, their was little they could do but comply. By that time, the people of Santiago had not had beef for 38 days. Of the refugees interviewed by United Press International, those from the interior of Cuba said that the govern ment excused itself from feed ing them on the pretext that it was sending so much food to Havana. The ones from Ha vana said, however, that the rationing is also very strict there and food is scarce. Asked why the agricultural production in Cuba appears to be so low, the refugees agreed that the reasons lie in the in difference of the farmers, who are being forced to serve a system of production and sale that has no premium for them. More Lenient In attempting to fight the farmers' passive resistance, the national institute for ag rarian reform has promised them that it will be more lenient in the future and per haps even allow them to sell their produce freely. But even the "most liberal" promise contains a clause that virtual ly cancels it: the farmers will not be allowed to transport more than 25 pounds of mer chandise at any one time. Thus, the farmer of Cuba is caught on both sides. On the one hand he is pushed to the point of disaster b; the insufficient profits he makes on permitted quantities of merchandise. On the other he knows if he transports what would be enough for him, he will lose his vehicle to the government. Boa! Speed Limit Suggestion Made Salem-IUPD-A fivc-mile-per-hour boat speed limit around all public launching ramps was suggested Wednesday at a State Marine Board hearing. Marion and Polk county sheriff's departments asked for a similar limit under the three bridges crossing the Wil lamette river at Salem. The spggetion for a general boat speed limit around launching ramps developed from the Salem speed discus sions. Marion County Deputy Sheriff John Wilkerson said at speeds above five miles many boats have a large wake that can cause accidents and property damage to other boat's. Board member Don Wells of Salem said the low speed limits would also eliminate problems with water skiers who ski too close to ramps. Wells said both recommen dations probably will be ac cepted by the board next month. The board also will desig nate a swimming area in the Willamette near Salem. 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Record Pre-Stressed Concrete Bridge Erected in Venezuela Maracaibo, Venezuela-lUPIl-Just a little over four and a half centuries ago, a Spanish explorer named Alonzo De Ojeda sailed Into this bubble necked lake and was impres sed with the houses he saw on stilts. He was so impressed, in fact, that he called the land "Little Venice," and that is how Venezuela Spanish for Little Venice got its name. The houses on stilts have all but disappeared, but in later years it acquired thous ands of "stilts" . of the oil derricks sucking black gold from what became one of the world's biggest single oil pools. Bigger Structure Now L3ke Maracaibo has still another and bigger struc ture on stilts the world's largest pre-stressed concrete bridge. On August 24, President Romulo Betancourt cut the ribbon opening the 310-mil-lion Bolivar ($20 million) bridge, ushering in a new era for Maracaibo and all of Western Venezuela. The bridge, the largest sin gle public works project done entirely during the Betan court administration, connects Carl Fisher Speaks At Medford Coffees Fourth District GOP Con gressional Candidate Carl Fisher said in Medford Wed nesday that "we shouldn't be come so impressed with Rus sian accomplishments in space that we overlook the necessity for keeping up our guard against those who spread the Communistic idealogy at a less spectacular level." "Let's not stare at the skies and remember too late that there are those whose primary job is to bore from within," Fisher said at a coffee at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gatter, 28 South Groveland ave Medford. "This quiet process of cre ating self doubt in this nation is not so easy to recognize as the ballyhoo about an or biting cosmonaut, but the dan ger it poses is very great," Fisher said. "The average citizen cannot contribute more than his share of tax dollars to sup port our efforts in space, but he can help to win the ideal- ogical battle," he said. "One of the best methods is to remember that patriot ism is not a suit of clothes which is worn only on special occasions," Fisher said. "We should familiarize our selves with the spectacular failures of Communism in such areas as agriculture and housing as well as their suc cesses in space," he said. Fisher also spoke at coffees at the homes of Mr. and Mrs. John Dumas, 1149 Leland St., Mr. and Mrs. Edmund C. Haas, 1615 Crown ave., and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Mansfield. 900 Siskiyou blvd. Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc. "FINAL STAGES OF THE RECOVERY' Editor's note: This Is the first ot two columni on our business outlook. William F. Butler is a vice president of the Chase Man hattan Bank of New York, president of the National As sociation of Business Economists and an economist who not only has a national reputation for accuracy but also has an endearing habit of saying what he thinks without frustrating us, ands and buts. At a private luncheon at the Chase bank this week, Butler did just that put himself on the line with answers to a series of searching questions. Since he has no axes to grind, is informed, objective and cares deeply about what happens to our country and us, in this and tomorrow s column 1 11 pass on to you what he said to me. Q. Where does the economy stand now? A. Overall, business activity it at record and "with the major exception of steel, business is very good when measured by past standards. However, il is not as good as it ought to be." Tha recovery since early 1961 has not been vigorous and the heavy goods industries those which produce capital goods ara not operating at a high enough rate lo support general prosperity." Q. What is the immediate business outlook? A. We are "in the final stages of a recovery period. Business activity has leveled out." Butler thinks the level will hold for another few months say three to six months "and then turn down." In short, we are heading into a busi ness recession, the tilth of post-World War II. Q. Why is a recession imminent? A. Because of the blows dealt lo confidence by events earlier this year the failure of profits to rise strongly, the steel price episode, the stock market decline, "Thus, we have not had much of an increase in business spending for new plant and equipment and next year's investment may be lower. Business has cut back sharply on steel inventories, there are signs of reductions in other inventories. Surveys show a reduction in consumer plans to buy autos and other durable goods." All this is the stuff of which recessions are made. Q. How severe is this fifth downturn likely to be? A. Once a downturn starts, no one can be sure how far it will go and Butler doesn't rule out the possibility that this recession will be more severe and protracted than previous postwar declines. But he believes "the odds are high it will again be moderate, comparable in intensity and duration to the four previous postwar declines." He out lined several "things that could go wrong" a collapse in credit, a crisis in our balance of payments, a slump in con struction but concluded, "I think we'll work through our problems and have no more than a relatively moderate re cession." Q. Wlien the next upturn conies, how strong w ill it be? A. Unless the government takes "some affirmative ac tion." the recession will run Irom about the end ol this year to "a low point in the fall of I9S3. The economy should be moving ahead again by the end of 1963. But unless action is taken to revise our tax system, this will be another weak and abortive recovery." Here lies our real problem. For six years, we have been in a phase of slow growth, not achieving lull prosperity, "And we will remain in this pattern of slow and sluggish growth and incomplete recoveries through 1964 and possibly longer unless we do something to stimulate growth." In this six-year period, our growth rate has been around 2' j per cent a year. Butler believes a rate of 4 per cent or more a year is "our real potential." Q Why has our growth slowed? A. An examination of the facts reveals consumer spend ing has been rising almost 5 per cent a year since 19S7 which is satisfactory. There has been no lag in government spending this has gone up 7 per cent a year since 1957. But business spending tor new plants and equipment this year will be no higher than in 1957. This is the area of our economy which has failed to move ahead. "It is the lag in business investment in plant and equipment which under lines the slow-down in economic growth and explains our lailure to achieve full prosperity." From here. Butler went into the reasons for the lag in biftincss investment and submitted his program for pulling us out of this pattern ot slow growth, persistent federal budget deficits and into a cycle of strong upturn. This part of the report tomorrow. ' r Venezuela's second city and the entire western region with the eastern bulk of the country. Until now, the only way acros the lake was by boat or plane. The bridge, 27,471-feet long, was built with the aid of U.S., European, Latin American and Venezuelan technicians. The five center spans are 164 feet above water, high enough to permit the passage of the biggest super - tankers to the big petroleum pumping and stor age stations around the lake. Mammoth Celebration . The government made the bridge dedication the focus of mammoth celebrations. Public works ministers of all Latin American countries were in vited, and a shuttle service of -planes carried thousands of ' other dignitaries to this city ; of half a million for the week- ; long celebrations. The bridge is an old dream of "Maracuchos" the in habitants of Maracaibo who' felt themselves isolated from the rest of the country. The oil boom starting 45 years ago . and the growth of the Zulia region as a cattle-growing' center made the dream a necessity. Now government planners" and private businessmen alike)--hope the opening of the-' bridge wil spur new economic activity to help Maracaibo out of the economic slump that started with a cutback in oil drilling three years ago. 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