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Cuba's Economy Declines Steadily Under Communism By DONALD MAY Unliod Prtu International Washington -(UPD- Cuba's economy has gone steadily downward under ridel uastro and only massive Soviet assist ance could reverse tne trend Indications are. In (act, that Russia would have to cut back Its economic commit ments elsewhere In order to provide the amount and qual ity of assistance Cuba neeas. Analysts here draw these conclusions from the latest ltv formation available on the Kremlin's efforts to help the Cuban premier, both In the economic and military fields. It appears likely that Rus sia will step up its economic assistance. But this might serve only to shield Castro from the worst repercussions of mismanagement. Sugar Can Drops Information indicates that consumption, production, in vestment and foreign trade all are substanlally below pre Youngest Elephant Gets Name: 'Me-Tu' Portland - (UPD - The young est member of the Portland elephant herd got a name Fri day. The month-old girl pachy derm was named Me-Tu in christening ceremonies at the city's zoo. The name was submitted by Helen Thorsen of Delake in an elephant-naming contest sponsored by the Portland Zo ological Society and a Port land newspaper, The Oregon Journal. A board of five Judges se lected the name from among 2,500 letters. Mft Tu was born to Rosy at the zoo Oct. 3. She was the second elephant born at the zoo in six months. The first, Packy, was born to Belle April 14. Cooks & Stewards Union Starts Vote San Francisco (UPD Some 2.000 members of the Marine Cooks and Stewards union have begun voting for some 15 union officials at four des ignated voting ports around the world. A spokesman for the west coast union said the members will have 60 days to cast bal lots at voting places In San Francisco, New York, Seattle and Portland. The spokesman explained that provisions had been made for union members to vote by absentee ballot if their assigned ship didn't touch any of these designated ports during the 60 day peri od. He said the ballots cannot be counted until the voting period had expired and that election results would be post ed Jan. 1, 1063. Castro levels and likely to continue downward. This year's sugar cane har vest, Cuba's economic back bone, is believed to have been the smallest in six years. Per capita food consumption in calories is estimated to have declined more than 15 per cent In the last two years. Housing construction has slumped. Inflation has brought what appears to be a program designed to bring about a re duction of wages of perhaps 30 per cent, over the long haul. Livestock has been Improvi dently slaughtered. The num ber of cattle is estimated to have decreased bv 14 per cent from January 1950. to Janu ary, 1961, the information showed. Acts of sabotage, absentee ism and work slowdowns have increased. The embargo on U.S. trade with Cuba, except in medi cines and foods, has caused trouble for Industry. Plants have been closed because of raw materials shortages. Parts are taken from one piece of equipment to make another piece work. Petroleum, Nickel High The petroleum and nickel industries, however, have been given high priority and arc maintained on a fairly high level. Foreign trade in 1961 was about 25 per cent lower than the average for 1957-58, the two years preceding Castro. Imports declined more than exports in 1061, the largest cuts being In consumer goods. Since early I960 tbe Com munist bloc has given Cuba credits totaling $460 million for economic development and apparently about $50 million for current supplies of food, raw materials and fuel. Rus sia gave two-thirds of the de velopment credits and appar ently all the commodity aid. But to date there have been relatively few deliveries un der the development agree ments. Only Czechoslovakia seems to have provided such aid on an urgent basis. Forest Fire Season Still Isn't Over Eugene - (UPD - Despite offi cial proclamations and wea ther forecasts, Oregon's forest fire season is not yet over. Crews In the Willamette National Forest Friday con trolled two large fires and several ' smaller ones. The largest burned about 100 acres in the Indian Ridge area near Blue River. Several smaller fires burned another 30 acres nearby. A fire on Sardine Mountain near Lowell burned 40 acres before it was ringed. Forest officials said strong east winds which swept across the Cascade passes Wednes day caused a number of smouldering slash fires to flare up. J School Board Can Bargain Legally With Labor Unions Salem OJPli Atly. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton said Fri day that local school boards can enter into collective bar gaining agreements with a labor union representing school district employees. This overruled a 1946 at torney general's opinion. Thornton said that subse quent decisions and legisla tion has clearly changed the law relating to collective bar gaining in the field of public employment. The opinion was requested by Dr. Leon P. Minear. state superintendent of public in struction. In other opinions Friday, Thornton said: Patients in the slate tu burculosis hospital under workmen's compensation can not be charged more than the statutory rate of $100 a month for care. Retroactive social secur ity payments received by state menial hospitals on behalf of patients can be applied to debt that patients may incur for their care. Funds deposited with a state institution by relatives or friends for an inmate need not be released without pro bate to a survivor if the in mate dies if there are other claims against the funds or the inmate's estate. brate-vviae Political Roundup New Auto Plates Planned in 1964 Salem -IUPII- Vern Hill, Ore gon Motor Vehicles director, said Saturday the state ex pects to issue new license plates in 1964. The last time new plates were issued was in 1956. Since then metal or paper sticker tabs have been issued each year, for use on old plates. Hill said the new itsue would Involve about 900,000 sets of plates, at a cost of more than $400,000. But he said the issue would be grad ual, and everyone wouldn't get new plates the first year. The schedule calls for the new issue to begin in Janu ary, 1964, with new plates only for new licensees, and for those who have lost or damaged plates. 3 of Each The new plates will have three letters and three num bers, like Washington and California, rather than the present one letter and five or less numbers. Hill said. The reason for the change is that Oregon has so many cars that the state is running out of combinations under the present system. Hill said his department currently favors using t h e same color combination, yel low figures on a blue back ground, but this hasn't been decided yet. 11 depends in part on what color combina tions other stales use. ELECT ROBERT J. CUNNINGHAM Councilman WARD ONE 16 Yaart a Ratldant 16 Yaart of Activa Participation in Community Affairs Pd. Pol. Adv., Tod Tib butt, 2215 E. Mem, Medford, Oregon. 26 From West Coast To Attend Meeting Portland H'Pli - Twenty-six representatives of the West Coast Lumbermen's associa tion will attend the three-day meeting of the National Lum ber Manufacturers association starting Monday at Miami Beach. Ci. Cleveland Kdgctt of the West Coast group says the agenda at the national meet ing includes lumber promo tion and a study of Canadian imports. STRIKE tNLij Coos Bay - II TP - Agreement was announced here late Fri day between the Plywood. Lumber anil Sawmill Work ers Union. Local tvU. and Menasha Corp., Plywood and Lumber Division, ending a strike that began Oct. LI. Morse Defends Kennedy's Timing on Cuba By United Press International Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) defended President Kennedy's timing on Cuba Friday as campaigninr went into its final week end. Morse said the United Stales would have been out lawed If it had followed the course of "demagogues" who advocated action In Cuba sooner. To act too soon would have made the United States an aggressor, Morse said. "It was not until Khrush chev and Castro crossed that vital line from defense to offense that the United States became entitled to act," Morse said. "Then it acted swiftly and properly, and will maintain its blockade and air surveil lance until the last Russian missile is removed from Cuba," he said. Morse's opponent, the Re publican nominee for the U.S. Scnale, Sig Unandcr, ..id the President should arrange briefings for newly elected members of Congress within 10 days after the Tuesday election. Unandcr made the proposal in a wire to President Kenne dy. Crisis Noted Unandcr said newly elected senators and congressmen should be called to Washing ton for military, intelligence, and State Department brief ings. He said he fell the brief ings were necessitated by "the crucial international situation today and the powder kegs that exist in Cuba and Ber lin." In the Oregon gubernato rial race, Gov. Mark Hatfield predicted Oregon's future growth and prosperity will be tied to space age industry. Hatfield said he thinks Ore gon is on the "brink of one of its greatest eras." He said a graduate research center will let space age scientists carry on their academic work while employed by industry. The governor said he en visioned Portland, Corvallis and Eugene as a scientific educational industrial trian gle. . Thornton Endorsed The Democratic nominee for governor, Atty. Gen. Rob- Page 2A Medford&JTribune MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 4, 1962 Fisher Benefitted From Lumber Group A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington -(Special)- Con servative lumbermen have formed the Lumber Political Education committee to put mnnxv into the congressional campaigns of candidates of their choice. rino heneficiarv is Carl Fisher. Eugene, candidate for fourth district congressman. This committee was organ ised as such on Oct. 4 when it took over the functions and bank balance of a more euphe mistically labeled group, the nnn.nariisan committee for national betterment, whose leaders were top officials in the National Lumber Manu facturers association. The treasurer of the now- defunct non-partisan commit tee was N. B. Gulstina, Eu gene lumberman. His Oct. 23 report filed with the clerk of the House shows that $250 was given to "Fisher for Con gress" May 3. Oilier reeinients listed were two conservative Washington slate Republican congressmen, Walt lloran of Spokane, and Jack Westland of Everett; two southern Democrats, Rep. lames A. Haley, Honda, and M. Grant. Alabama: Sen. Thurston Morton, (R-Ky.), and Rep. John II. Rousseiot, (R-Calif ), John Birchtte. Guistina's renort showed that the committee's bank bal- ncc of $3,080.05 was turned over to the new lumber action ommittee, whose secretary, George M. Fuller, said they re organized because they thought the word lumber ought to appear in the name because its backers are "lum bermen from all over the country who are trying to help deserving candidates." His report showed $5,262.64 on hand Oct. 23, but no dis bursements. Fuller declined to identify who was receiving money from this fund. He said it will show up in the com mittee's next report. crt Thornton, won the en dorsement of Oregon division 1055 of the Amalgamated As sociation of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coacli Employees of America (AFL CIO). Thornton released a letter from Fred C. Spivey, presi dent of the division. It said the union voted to endorse Thornton because of his stand against right-to-work laws, the sales tax, and "health in surance racketeering." Thornton also denied a sug gestion that if elected gover nor he might appoint judges on a partisan party basis. He said the suggestion was made by retired Oregon Su preme Court Justice James T. Brand in an article in a Portland newspaper. The Oregon altorney gen eral said "This I have not done in over nine years of appointing assistant attorneys general." Thornton further noted that his Republican opponent, Gov. Mark Hatfield, has appointed a number of Republican po litical figures to the Oregon judiciary. "I call attention to Gov. Hatfield's appointment of Pe ter Gunnar as a circuit tax judge," Thornton said, "and to the fact that Gunnar is the past chairman of the state Republican party. In the last campaign, Mr. Gunnar was covering the state with parti san speeches against all Dem ocratic candidates," he said. "Judge Brand did not men tion this or other appoint ments of Republican political figures to the judiciary by Mr. Hatfield," Thornton said. Oregon's two lady members of Congress ant mnccd their opposition to Oregon's ballot measure on legislative appor tionment. The measure. Number Nine, would t kc land area into ac count as well as population in apportioning seats in the Oregon House. Present appor tionment is based on popula tion. Sen. Maurine Neuberger ID Ore.) said the measure would amount to abandonment of Oregon's "historic and tradi tional principle of equality of representation." Principle Defended "Today Oregon is first among all the states in (he nation as the one with the fairest method of apportion ing seats in the legislature," she said. "It would be a great shame if Oregon should now renounce the cherished prin ciple of one man, one vote." Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore.) said the measure would be "a step backward for Ore gon." Mrs. Green came under fire from her Republican oppo nent in the third district con grcssional race, Portland druggist Stanley Hartman. Hartman said Mrs. Green had failed to end chronic un employment in Multnomah county. He said her idea seem ed to be to "let this area become destitute and then to propose massive federal relief." QUALIFIED Miami iwnaMM ' f Donald E. "DON" FABER (or Commissioner ' Honeit ' Experienced ' Gets things done Pd. Pel. Adv., Donald f. Faber, P.O. Box Central Point, Ore. SHIP IT L&SME to or from Oakland, San Fran cisco, Loi Angeles and other California points. Call Jack Fitzgerald 773-7761 DUNtEVY mm V Administrative Ability V Trained in Public Relations V Six Years City Council V20 Years Local Resident Let the record be your guide . . RE-ELECT GOVERNOR MARK O. I. ' 4 I rH,i. Truck-Train Crash Sends Beaverton Man To Hospital Beaverton - fliNi - A truck train collision injured Milo S. Maynard, 4ti. here early Saturday. Mavnurd was reported in fair condition at St. Vincent hospital with head lacerations, i I IMUC Stllll iMrtt ikiiii a mix- i up truck was "twisted into a 1 ball of junk" Maynard was: still inside the vehicle when j it came to rest some 190 feet from the point of impact. ; From the jrSa.. COLONIAL HOUSE... The children' Boston rocker, an authentic Nichols and Stone reproduction. A handsome chair, ruggedly built, comfortably designed for the smaller members of the family. In maple, 17.50, in maple with hand applied decoration, 19.00. Th Welcome-To Browse Sign l AKvjys Out at t .'&i 'iy? ' jvj ir1tVl, A'Vl; v ."'i i . JV,S, .T. H:ifii VOTE 105 MM HATFIELD Governor e trowbridge electric J A matter of record . . . IMPROVED LABOR-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS Jf A matter of record . . . ADVANCEMENT IN EDUCATION J A matter of record . . . ECONOMY AND EFFICIENCY IN GOVERNMENT J A matter of record . . . CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES J A matter of record ... IMPARTIAL APPOINTMENTS J A matter of record . . . PROGRESS IN AGRICULTURE J A matter of record . . . TOURIST TRAVEL J A matter of record . . . POWER DEVELOPMENT The Mark Hatfield Story Born: July 12, 1922. Dilljs, Oregon, son ot C. D. Hatfield, retired railroad construc tion blacksmith, and Dovie Odom Hat field, former school teachfir. Education: Willamette University. 1943; Master's de gree. Stanford University. 1948 Service: U. S Navy, including South Pacific ac tion (lo Jima and Okinawa) World War II amphibious attack craft Vocation: Through ranks of tnstructor-assistant-asso-ciate professor political science, AVillam ctte University, 1949-56; Dean of Stu dents. 1950-56 Church: Fir-.t Baptist, Sa'.'m, Moderator 3 terms, 1955, '56 and 57, Awards: Salrm Junior First Citircn. 1954, Hn crary des'ee'.- Willamette University, Sa lem 1 Q ? & . L a t a v e l,t e 'Pennsylvania! 1959; H:u;hlon iew Vorl.i, 1959 N. W. Naiarene Collcae (Idaho), 1959; Whraton Colleoc. Whcaton (Illinois1, I960' Distinguished Ser-ice Award, Na tional Republican Club, N Y., Nov, 1959. Family: Wife, Antoinette IKuimanich), daughter of Yugoslavian ( father I now naturalned U S Cilien, a longshoreman bv occu pation Portland Hattields married July 8, 19 58 Daughter, E;i?aroc'h bom July I 1 '59. Son, Mark O , J' , born June 19 I960 OMiCt: E'CCted Governor, N ,f"ii-;., 13, Inau O'J'ated Janua'v 12 2r'h' Chief E.eoit.ve of 0eo-n Ma-: n ot -c-rv 65 CC0 Registration 52 000 Demra-'C r u'!'tv Imrred'a-e pat membe' Evcu t've Comn-.rtee 9 r-i,,s, Njfc-al Govemrr s Con-fre-ce, I9&G Dunlevy for Mayor Comm. 231 E. Main, Medford, Ore. Pd. Pol. Adv. John Nuich, Chm., Pd Pol Ad , Clrifns for Hat'.r d Co"-m ttte P erce. Chairman, Eos 99, P erce Heights. Mcd'ord 965, i 1 (3! B3 1 3 ft I If. a main and fir sited 773-6241
