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By SYLVIA PORTER
Copyright, Hill Syndicate, Inc.
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SECTION B MEDFORD. OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1962 PAGES 1 to 8
Durno Only Oregon
Solon To Oppose
UN Bond Purchase
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune
Washington Correspondent
Washington -(Special)- All
members of the Oregon con
gressional delegation who
are seeking reelection this
;'i lion aumonz-
ing President
Kennedy
to lend $100
million to the
United Na
tions. The on
ly Oregon so
lon to oppose
Smim was Rep. Ed
win R. Durno, Medtord
Republican, who is retir
ing at the end of this
term. Sen. Maurine Neuber-
mmli
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ger, who is not running this
year, didn't vote when the
bill passed the Senate last
April but she was announced
in favor of it.
Those voting for it were
Sen. Wayne Morse and Demo
cratic Reps. Edith Green and
Al Ullman and Republican
Rep. Walter Norblad.
In contrast to the strong
support for it from the Ore
gon delegation, more Wash
ington state lawmakers were
against it than for it. Sen.
Henry M. Jackson supported
it but Sen. Warren G. Mag
nuson, who is up for reelec
tion, opposed it. In the seven
member House delegation,
four Republicans opposed it;
and one Republican and two
Democrats supported it.
Congressman Norblad said
that "at first I was against
it" when President Kennedy
first asked Congress for au
thority to rescue the UN from
its financial distress by pur
chasing $100 million in UN
bonds. But the congressman
said several provisions added
by Congress swung him
around.
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"One is that the loans shall
be used to apply on future
dues of the United States,"
he explained. "Also, this will
cut our annual share of UN
costs from 47 tier cent to
about 32 per cent of the UN
budget."
The UN is in financial dif
ficulty because there is a def
icit of over $25 million in un
paid assessments to cover costs
of the UN Middle East oper
ations along the Israeli-Egyptian
border, and over $51 mil
lion unpaid for the UN Congo
operations - the two chief
world trouble spots in which
the UN has taken an active
role in recent years to avert
war. AH UN members have
been assessed shares in the
costs of these two special op
erations, but some UN mem
bers, chiefly the Communist
bloc nations, have refused to
pay up.
Some congressional critic
ism was voiced in the House
debate lasFweek over the ex
tra assistance the -United
States has pumped into the
UN via the foreign aid route
to make up for some unpaid
Farm Bill Called
'Serious Mistake'
Portland lUPtl Former
Agriculture Secretary Ezra
Taft ' Benson says the House
passed farm bill is a "seri
ous mistake."
Benson was here during the
week end to attend an area
conference o the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints.
Benson said the government
should stop trying to control
farm production.
The Eisenhower cabinet of
ficer said under his own pro
grams the government would
have withdrawn from farm
production controls within a
year or two after he left office.
assessments. This had the ef
fect of raising the American
share of the UN budget from
its customary figure of 32 per
cent, to 47 per cent. The reg
ular budget, aside from these
two special operations, is $74
million for 1962, of which
about $70 million has been
paid up by members.
Others Pledge To Buy
The UN General Assembly
last fall authorized issuance
of $200 million in 2 per cent
bonds to keep it from founder
ing for lack of money. As of
Aug. 1, some $27 million in
UN bonds had been purchased
by 17 nations, and 29 others
had pledged to buy another
$45 million's worth, for a to
tal of $72.7 million from 46
countries, including two non
members, Germany and
Switzerland.
Under the bill approved by
Congress, the United States
could not invest any more
than all the other nations com
bined, or a maximum of $100
million.
The only Oregon House
member to participate in the
floor debate was Mrs. Green,
who pointed out that Ameri
ca's share in NATO military
costs is 30 per cent and that
our UN costs ($27 million an
nually for regular budget plus
about $150 million thus far for
the Congo and Middle East op
erations) are "just a pittance"
compared to the costs of mil
itary activity in Berlin and
Korea.
She said she voted for the
bill "because the United Na
tions is working for peace by
diplomacy, mediation by truce
observation and by policing
some of the most dangerous
trouble spots in the world."
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'Truth in Packaging' Bill
Today, Michigan's Democratic Senator Philip A. Hart
is introducing in the Senate the first major legislation ever
proposed in the U.S. to control the packaging and labeling
I practices which confuse, mislead or deceive us, as consum
! ers in the market place, and which give manufacturers who
eo in for Questionable nackaging and labeling Eimmicks an
unfair edge over their more strait-laced competitors.
The "Truth In Packaging" bill will be sent to an ap
propriate subcommittee at once, will die, of course, when
this Congress adjourns. There is no thought of its passage
this year. Rather the strategy of its supporters is to give all
who would be affected by this revolutionary legislation am
ple time to study, debate and probably improve the propo
sals - so that when the bill is re-introduced at the next ses
sion its chances of passage and of a sympathetic response
from industry will be enhanced.
It's a short, simple bill, covering only consumer or non
durable products we buy at retail for our personal or house
hold use - what might be called most of the familiar "kitch
en and bathroom" items.
It's the result of axhaustiva hearings hold by Senator
Hart and his subcommittee which gathered mora than a
half million words of testimony - all of which led to the
conclusion that existing Fadaral laws and regulations are
simply not adequate to control many of the practices for
packaging and labeling marketbasket Hems which are now
prevalent. .
The legislation falls into two major parts.
First, the bill would direct the Food and Drug Admin
istration and the Federal Trade Commission to draft across-the-board
regulations to establish minimum standards for
stating the net weight and net content of a package contain
ing the consumer product covered and for requiring dis
closure of this information on the front panel of the pack
age in unqualified terms. You could see the weight or con
tent of a package by looking at the prominently displayed
label and understand what you're seeing.
It would direct the two agencies to draft regulations pro
hibiting manufacturers from stating or implying that they're
offering a product at a lower than customary retail price
since manufacturers haven't control over what retailers
charge. Banned under this would be the "cents off" pro
motions which aren't real price reductions but just come-ons.
It would direct the two agencies to draft regulations to
prevent the use of illustrations and pictures on packages
which deceive buyers. Banned under this would be pictures
of luscious cherry pies on packages which contain only in
gredients for making a pie.
Second, it would give the Federal Trade Commission
discretion to establish standards for specific lines of products
or categories if the FTC finds these standards necessary to
preserve competition between competing products or to help
the consumer make rational price comparisons.
The FTC might set up standards preventing a befuddling
variety of sizes of packages for certain products; for instance,
this might prohibit dozens of different size packages for the
same amount of potato chips. It might set up standards reg
ulating the distribution of products in package shapes, sizes
or dimensions which mislead or deceive the consumer; for
instance, if a package was only partially filled, there'd have
to be a sound reason for this. It might set up standards mak
ing size designations meaningful; for instance, if a two-pound
package is a medium size package for a product, it couldn't be
hailed as the super-super two pound package. It might set
up standards for designating servings; for instance, if a one
pound frozen dinner is a serving for two, it couldn't be called
by a maker a serving for four.
It might also set up standards for measuring lhe con
tent of a package where net weight is meaningless! lor In
stance, if weight doesn't have meaning for a detergent,
the manufacturer would have to measure the contents In
a way that does. It might sot up standards for disclosing
what's in a package, without asking disclosure of any
trade formula, of course.
Controversial? Obviously - particularly if lhe FTC were
to set up standards banning "cents off," curtaling package
sizes and shapes, demanding disclosure of ingredients. But
the Hart bill also would require the FTC to consult in ad
vance all who would be affected by the rules, to ask industry
to inform it "what you can live with."
The bill is in. Now it's up to businessmen who would
be affected to offer whatever constructive suggestions they
have. For we're going to get this sort of legislation, and if
there is to be a law that will benefit industry as well as
consumers the time for industry to cooperate on its scope
and form is now.
Duncan Visions
Courts for Peace
Portland - ItlPI) - Peace will
come only when all of the
world's peoples accept the
rule of law in courts of inter
national justice, Oregon
House Speaker Robert Dun
can (D-Medford) said here
Saturday.
The Democratic nominee
for Congress from the Fourth
district spoke at a banquet
honoring Donald E. Clark,
Democratic c a n d i date for
Multnomah county sheriff.
Duncan said economic con
ditions are the primary causes
of war and he praised pass
age of President Kennedy's
trade bill as a step toward a
worldwide economic union.
He said even when the eco
nomic causes of war are re
moved, police forces will be
necessary to carry out the
mandates of world courts.
Until that day comes, he
said, the U.S. must keep its
defenses strong because it is
only the fear of mutual de
struction that keeps the So
viet Union in check. '
Vofe Scheduled for
New High School
The Dalles- IUPD -A special
election on a $947,000 bond
issue for construction of a
new high school has been
scheduled Oct. 22 for voters
in a recently consolidated
school district near here.
The district was consolidat
ed from the Chenowith, Ro
wena and Mojier districts.
The high school would serve
the new district.
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I Bernard Zukus went skin
diving this week end in Cum
berland Dam lake. They
found a safe stolen from the
: Bedford Steam Laundry in
j August, 1961, and an auto
, reported missing by a Colum
bus. Ohi motorist in May,
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