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Trade Bill Gives Kennedy Authority To Impose Quotas, Higher Tarrfs On Canadian Lumber I Ik " ULJ SmlU al interest.' Bf A. ROBERT SMITH Mill Trunin ' Washington Correspondent . - Washington -Special)- The foreign trade bill passed by the Senate last week contains wm authnritv hv t.i dent Kennedy 1 V could Impose quotas or higher -tariffs on imports of I Canadian lum ber it he be- 1 i e v e s such action to be "in the nation- The liberalized trade legislation requested by the administration, as well as the trade bill passed by the House, contains no such pro vision. It was added to the bill by the Senate Finance Committee. Pacific Northwest senators observed during the Senate debate on the trade bill that this new language would strengthen the hand of the United States in trade talks with Canada which are de signed to induce Canada to apply voluntary restraints on the increasing amount of soft wood lumber and plywood she is shipping into the American domestic market once domi nated by Pacific Northwest mills. The first round of talks with Canada in late August at Ottawa resulted in a decision to meet again in October. Industry Urges Quota I The lumber industry naa tirged Congress to slap a quo ta on Canadian lumber im ports to hold them down to 10 per cent of the market. The Kennedy Administration op posed this idea and held out hope for some voluntary limi tations stemming from direct talks- with Canada. The ad ministration also favored hearings by the Tariff Com mission, which are due to start Oct. 2 on the economic Impact of lumber imports. Sens. Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.) and Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) both said that they thought it would be "political ly popular" in the Northwest to oppose the trade bill on grounds that lumber was being hurt by America's lib eral trade policy. All Northwest senators sup ported the bill which passed 78 to 8. Morse said he was refrain ing from offering the lumber industry amendment for a mandatory quota "because in my judgment it cannot now be adopted" and "it is not necessary to offer it because I have complete confidence in my president and my adminis tration that they will pursue this problem and give to the lumber industry the coopera tion and assistance it needs to protect the lumber economy of the Pacific Northwest." Morse said that during the trade debate he went to the White House and discussed the lumber situation with Ken nedy's advisors and was told that "the President is deter mined to carry through on the representations he made at that meeting (July 28 with MEDFORDsJTRIBlJNE SECTION B MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1962 PAGES 1 to 16 Northwest lawmakers) to see to it that economic justice is done to the lumber industry of our country." Trada Bill Language The Senate's trade bill car ries the following language which Sen. Harry Byrd (D Va.), chairman of the Finance Committee, said would per mit quotas: "Notwithstanding any other law. the President may, when he finds it in the national in terest, proclaim with respect to any article imported into the United States- 1. the increase of any eX' isting duty on such article to such rate as he finds neces sary. 2. the imposition of a duty on such article (if it is not otherwise subject to duty) at such rate as he finds neces sary, and 3. the imposition of such other import restrictions as he find necessary. Byrd said, when questioned by Morse, that the third point includes quotas. Morse said Canada should take note of this language in the trade bill because it af-1 fords the vehicle for protec tion in case Canada does not agree to limit its lumber shipments to the United States. Sen. Paul Douglas ID Ill.) explained it this way: "We would send the Presi dent into all negotiations armed not merely with an olive branch but with strong weapons which he can use if the European and Canadians take us too much for granted and decide we are easy marks. It is regrettable that we have to do this. But it is necessary." NATURAL GAS EQUIPMENT COMPANY On Displ,v the Ifoest selection of gu heating equip ment in So. Ore. COLEMAN Spice Floor Unit Forced Air Uptlow Down Flow Horiion'al Well Furnaces Hot Water Heaters. 1 1 1 West Main Phone 772-2322 MacNaughton Civil Liberties Award Announced Portland - Establishment of the E, B. MacNaughton Civil Liberties Award has been an nounced by the American Civil Liberties Union of Ore gon. The award will be pre sented annually to an Oregon individual or institution mak ing a unique and outstanding contribution to the cause of civil liberties. . . '. Charles Davis, chairman of the ACLU of Oregon, in an nouncing creation of the new award, said it has been estab lished as a memorial to the late E. B. MacNaughton of Portland who served as chair man of the national committee of the American Civil Liber ties Union from January, 1955, until his death in Au gust, 1960. "Mr. MacNaughton was a distinguished civil libertarian who cherished the Bill of Rights and fought to preserve and protect those rights from erosion," Davis explained. "As publisher of the Oregonian, president of Reed College, chairman of the board of the First National Bank of Ore gon, and active participant in church and community affairs, Mr. MacNaughton's contribu tions to his community were enormous. Few realized, how ever, the extent of his com mitment to the cause of civil liberties as chairman of the national committee of ACLU and as a citizen of Oregon. It is in appreciation for his long and unflagging devotion to civil liberties that this award is established," Davis said. Institutions Eligible The MacNaughton Award will be awarded to persons and institutions who. by par ticular deed or long record of service, have made outstand ing contributions in the con tinuing effort to preserve civil liberties. Institutions eligible to receive the award will in clude colleges and universi ties, libraries, school boards, church groups, private corp orations, and community or ganizations. The award will not be made In any year in which a qualified recipient is not found. 1 The ACLU of Oregon is an affiliate of the national Amer ican Civil Liberties Union. It is a permanent non-partisan organization devoted exclu sively to the defense of every body's civil liberties-freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of rv'ligion. due process of law, and equal pro tection of the laws. The na tional ACLU was founded in 1920. 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