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-
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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."
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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. ;
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ECONOMY AND EFFICIENCY IN GOVERNMENT
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CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF
NATURAL RESOURCES
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IMPARTIAL APPOINTMENTS
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PROGRESS IN AGRICULTURE
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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
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O'J'ated Janua'v 12 2r'h' Chief
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