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10 A WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 9. 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Cuban Agriculture Under Castro Found To Be in Bad Shape Washineton-WPIl-The Agri culture Department's Eco nomic Research Service today reviewed Cuba's agriculture under lour years of the revo lutionary regime and found it bad with no prospects of get tine better in 1963. ERS said Cuba, often called "The Pearl of the Antilles, "has become "a land of grow- ing food shortages where tightening the belt is now the normal way of life. Four yeais ago this month the Fidel Castro government assumed power in Cuba. At that time farm production ac counted for more than one- third of the national income and furnished employment for about two-fifths of the labor force. Food supplies were ade quate for Cuba's 6.5 million persons, and agricultural ex ports brought in most of the country's foreign exchange earnings. Situation Different "Quite a different situation prevails today," ERS said. "The island is now in the midst of an agricultural crisis, with no break in sight. Food supplies arc insufficient, and as a result, per capita con sumption has dropped one fifth since 1958, with most of the decline coming in the last 18 months." ERS said these food short ages - and the rationing now in effect - are the product of agricultural output well be low the 1958 level. They also result from reduced food im ports, mismanagement in food marketing, and a shift in trade from the United States to the Sino-Sovict bloc. Last year the value of Cuba's farm exports was down some 30 to 35 per cent from 1958 levels, and farm Imports were equal ly low. ERS said that all was not well with Cuba's agriculture even before 1958. Yet despite the fact that the island had only one commodity to export - sugar - her agriculture was growing at a rapid pace. Farm output in the late 1950s was twice that of 1935-39. During these two decades, the growth rale averaged 3.5 per cent a year, and excluding sugar was nearer 4 p?r cent. This was significantly higher than the average population growth of about 2.3 per cent. Chief Trouble Spots ERS said the two chief ' trouble spots in Cuba's agri culture now are an apathetic and indifferent labor force and inexperienced manage ment. "Wages are not commen surate with the work, and consequently there is little en thusiasm to produce," . ERS said. "Furthermore, many of the administrators arc ap pointed for political reliabili ty rather than managerial ability." "One cannot be very opti mistic about the country's food situation for the next few months," ERS concluded. All-Seasons Smart J U ' SIZES T 9312 10-20 COAT OF THE FUTURE teams with a matching skirt - travels everywhere from our season to another. Choose slim lung or suit length. Primed Pattern 0312: Misses' Sizes 10, 12, 14. HI. 18, 20. Size IB requires 2' yards M-inrh fabric. 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Wants Guantanamo Out Premier Flrinl Pncfrn'B onv. ernmcnt disagreed with the compromise worked out by the two big powers without Cuban Dartieinatinn It insist ed on acceptance of Castro's live points," which include U.S. abandonment of the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba. The former settlement was submitted in a joint statement to Secretary General Thant. The statement culminated weeks of negotiations between U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson and Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily V. Kuznetsov and their aides. Since the Questions nf In. spections and a "no invasion pledge ' were the essence of the dispute, the joint state ment, in effect, was an nffrpp. mcnt to disagree. No Action Now The accord broueht Snviot agreement to the U.S. stand that no further Security Coun cil action is neccssury now. The United States was con cerned that a council meeting woum lead lo a new propa ganda debate. 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Cynical observation though this may appear, it goes to the heart of the debate over significant across-the-board, top-to-bottom tax reduction which will be dominating the 88th Congress as soon as il finishes the formalities of con vening and gets down to lawmaking. The U.S. economy, as 1963 opens, is in a ncithcr-nor stage. Us performance is not good enough to slash our un employment rate, push our industrial plants into running at full capacity, create the taxes to balance the biggest budget in our history, pence or war. Nor is its performance bad enough to send the jobless rale and business bankruptcies into a sharp upswing and thus spur Congress into taking major steps to bolster activity regardless of how the steps would swell Hie budget deficit, the national debt and the cost of carrying the national debt. In public, no one would dare wish for a business slump in order to case the way for prosperity-making tax cuts, of course. In private, though, leaders In government as well as in business do say rather wistfully that the outlook for funda mental revision of the tax structure would be a lot safer if we were in a clear business downtrend and the need for new stimulants was indisputable. On this day that the 88th Congress convenes, our economy is still moving ahead in a vacillating sort of way. Industrial production has been on a plateau since summer, but it's a very high level plateau. Auto sales arc a bright spot. Busi ness spending on expansion and modernization of plants is rising only slightly, but consumer spending both on things and non-things is continuing to climb and buoy the economy. Government spending at all levels federal, state, and local is in the usual uptrend. It is not a background for imminent recession. Yet, if litis is all our economy is going to do in 1963, we will not create enough jobs to employ the 20,000 young sters entering the work force each week and the older work ers whose jobs are shot out from under them by. automa tion. Nor will American industry be impelled to spend many more billions than it is now spending on making our factories modern enough to compete with brilliant success in the world's markets. Nor will profits and paychecks generate i enough taxes to permit us to carry comfortably the immense i financial burdens we have assumed as leader of the free world. Were the federal budget even close lo balance and the national debt holding steady, surely Congress wouldn't hesi tate to go along with the administration on tax reduction reform lo accelerate our growth. But let's face il the sta tistics the administration will submit to Congress this month will be grim. , The new budget will be nudging toward $100 billion, will be below that historic mark only because Kennedy is trying to make the budget as palatable as possible to budget- slashing Congressmen. The estimate of receipts will be bil lions below expenditures, assuring a multi-billion dollar deficit for the third year in a row. The national debt will be rising steadily, will be breaking through the present $308 billion legal debt ceiling this calendar year whether or not there arc tax cuts. The debt ceiling will have to be boosted again by Con gress right in the middle of the tax cut debate, for under the bill pa.ied in 1961 the legal debt limit it scheduled to drop from $308 billion to $305 billion on April 1, to $300 billion on June 24 and to the "permanent" limit of $285 billion on July I. The debt is pushing $305 billion this week. Whatever squawks there may be in the House or Senate. Congress will have to vote one debt ceiling hike before April 1, another boost before June 24 for the alternative will be unthinkable one of a U.S. Treasury defaulting on payments of its obligations. Finally, interest on the public debt will be rising too. taking more than $10 billion of our incomes this year more Hum 10 cents of every SI we pay in taxes. That's huge chunk for debt interest by any yardstick. Were business clearly in a recession and obviously need ing help at once, all of these obstacles would fabe In Im portance. But in a ncithcr-nor economy, a big fight over Ihe tax cut is a certainty. The igh brown bread with' ! natural whole grain goodness ROMAN MEAL MAKES SANDWICHES BETTER L 1 W'M$3&1s i V V.'. JU BIKEO BY FLUHRER'S 1962 Second Best Year for 5a les In Auto Industry Detroit ftPU The American auto industry sold more new can in 1962 than in any other year except 1955. The Industry sold 6,752,644 cars last year, making it sec ond best to the record 7,370, 000 cars delivered in 1955. -The 1962 total was a gain of 21 per cent over the 5,355, 820 cars sold in 1961. The statistical agency, Ward's Reports, said the in dustry ended its second best year with a sales tempo that was the strongest in history. Ward's said December car sales of 560,329 averaged 22, 413 per day, 11 per cent above a year ago, and topped the 22,100 daily record set in De cember, 1955. Best Fourth Quarter The surge climaxed the in dustry's best fourth quarter in history. Sales totaled 1,946, 009 - 19.8 per cent above the 1,624,000 record for the pe riod set in 1961. General Motors took 54.7 per cent of 1962 industry sales, Ford 27.4 per cent, Chrysler 10.3 per cent, Amer ican Motors 6.4 per cent and Studebaker 1.2 per cent. Ward's said compact car sales totaled 2,258,571 units, for a 33.4 per cent share of the market. Rambler led the field with 434,788 sales. The new car inventory at last year's end was the lowest for the period since 1958 and averaged to a 36.9 day's sup ply versus 41 days a year ago, Ward's added. The backlog to taled 827,300 cars. Pearson Asks Equal Time for Legislators Portland-flJPD State Sen. Walter Pearson (D-Portland), has asked KOIN - TV for equal time for legislative spokesman during the com ing legislature. The station has announced plans to pre sent Gov. Mark Hatfield twice weekly during the session. Sheriff's Patrol Car Involved in Accident Minor damage resulted Tuesday when a sheriffs pa trol car driven by Deputy Ray Twitchell, Talent, and a pickup truck driven by Dick Souba Sr., Jacksonville, collided in Jacksonville. Twitchell said he saw head lights of a car shine through the heavy fog, and applied his brakes at the same time Souza did. A headlight was broken on the sheriff's car. 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Wat $2199, now $1899.00 1962 CORVAIR 4 Door Sedan, 700 Seriea. Radio 1 Heater, Lew Mileage. Wai $2199.00. Only 9000 Milei. now $1899.00 1959 FORD 4 Door Ranch Wagon, 4 Cyl. with Standard Tranimiiiion and Overdrive. Radio t Heat er. Wai $1499.00, now $1299.00 1957 PLYMOUTH Savoy 4 Cylinder, Standard Tranimiiiion. Good Tirei. Wai $999.00. now $799.00 LOW DOWN PAYMENTS ON THESE LOW PRICED USED CARS '55 Ford $33.60 '55 Chev. wTn $27.50 '51 Chev. .,T.n $19.99 '54 Merc. .7 $7.99 '58Edsel $37.99 '58 Rambler $28.79 '56 Chevrolet $34.00 '54 Chevrolet ... $16.98 PAU L im MOTORS SOUTHERN OREGON'S FRIENDLY RAMBLER DEALER BARTLETT at FIFTH Phone 772-6185 12th & RIVERSIDE Phone 772-4068
