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Britain By HARRY HOBBS United Press International London -IUPP With unem ployment its highest in 15 years and the door to the European common market closed, Britain is beset these days with more troubles than its government - or its busi ness community - care to con template. And what may be the most serious of all, no one here has any ready answer about how to find the cures. Prime Minister Harold Mac millan, immediately following the French veto last month of VOLUNTEER SERVICE Typcial of the volunteer service provide for veterans at the Veterans Administration Domiciliary, Volunteers White City More than 25,. 000 hours of volunteer serv ices were recognized and re warded at the annual Turn About party for Rogue valley members of the Veterans Ad ministration Volunteer Serv ices Friday nighi in the domi ciliary theater here, according to Frank J. Glonning, deputy chairman of the group. Topping the long list of pin find certificate and ribbon swards were those who have contributed 2,500 hours in cluding Mrs. Leila Lamb, Mrs. Helen Lusk, Mrs. Mary Schulz, Mrs. Mary Parker and Mrs. Rita Holmes. Domi ciliary Director C. T. Jack son made the presentations. One-thousand hour certifi cates were presented to Mrs. Time Changed for Pauling Assembly Ashland-The lime has been changed from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for the Linus Pauling assembly to be held on the Southern Oregon college campus March 15. A winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry and a pro fessor of chemistry at Cali fornia Institute of Technol ogy, he will speak under the mispices of the American Friends Service committee. A noon luncheon sponsored by the Soroplimist club will be held in honor of his wife, Ava Helen Pauling, who is rational vice president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and n member of the American Civil Liberties Union. Mrs. Pauling will speak at the luncheon on "Prospects for World Cooperation and Peace." Reservations for the lunch eon may be made by calling the 482-3266 or Mrs. Mabel VI. Winston, SOC registrar at 482-3311. Dr. and Mrs. Pauling also will be honored at an infor mal coffee hour in Britt Stu dent center at 9 p.m. the eve ning before. The public is in vited to attend the event as well as the luncheon and the assembly. Pllllllt Funds running low? Get cash loan from us. It's fast. Even faster If you call us first. CITY FINANCE COMPANY 185 E. Main St. Phone: 482-2431, Ashland Life insurance available on all loans at low group rates . 2522 TO 150022 Is Beset With More Britain's application to enter the common market, told the nation in a radio and televi sion address: "Is there an alternative? There is not, in the sense of a sort of ready-made plan bet ter than the one we have been pursuing." Later he told Parliament the same thing and the coun try's most authoritative busi ness newspaper, the Financial Times, said: "M a c m i 1 1 a n didn't tell us where to go from here because he does not know." Motions of no-confidence in White City, is this picture of volunteers at the Domiciliary's pitch and putt course. Honored at VA Party Faye Allison, Mrs. Mary De Berry, Mrs. Dorothy Leuty, Mrs. Lorena Leach and Mrs. Amie Randall. Organization Members The Volunteer Services are made up of members of 23 or ganizations in southern Ore gon and northern California. Their work in behalf of the disabled veterans is enhanced by other organizations throughout the state. Dr. E. G. Everett, chief medical officer and chairman of the Volunteer Services ad visory committee, was mas ter of ceremonies for the in troductions, presentations and musical program for the eve ning. Ms. Joyce Gooch, chief dietitian, was chairman of the committee for refreshments which were served guests and friends following the pro gram. An overture by the domicili ary orchestra, composed of many former musicians with top nationally known bands, "Strike Up The Band," led the evening's entertainment as produced by the recreation section here. Arthur Kenton was director of music with with Kenneth Haecker as stage manager. Featured In Orchestra The orchestra features Haecker, director, pianist and organist; Kenton, arranger, clarinet and saxaphone: Louis i Nichols, accordion; Thomas i Ray, guitar; William Hunt, i bassist; Bert Vlastelica, drums j and organ; Joseph Garner, j trumpet and vocals, and Al-1 len Elliott, vocals. In addition, Robert Tobias and Eddie Grossenbacher i gave harmonica solos and ' duets, Irving Gray sang, Ar- Pfiofographic Group j To Aleef on Monday ' The Southern Oregon Pho- j tographic association will1 meet Monday, March 4. at 8 p.m. in the Red Cross build ing, according to Mrs. J. R. Wilson. ; Members will submit color slides and black and white ; salon prints for exhibit In the ' "Winter Theme" exhibition which will be judged by mem- bers of the association. the government, proposed by the Labor party, have been rattling steadily off Macmil lan's shield and because of the huge government majority in the House of Commons they have been easily defeated. But party loyalty has not conceal ed a rising swell of dissatisfac tion within the Con ervative party's own ranks. Some of Macmillan's more outspoken editorial critics have been calling on him to resign. The Labor opposition has been de manding an early election thur H. Thompson presented piano solos, and Pat Kobos played his own designed multi-string rhythm makers. "We feel the VAVS pro gram exemplifies to the high est degree and in the finest sense, the volunteer spirit of this entire valley," the do miciliary director said. "Through your sincere and unselfish efforts, you make the stay of our veterans at the domiciliary more whole some and worthwhile1 ... In honoring you ... for your de votion to volunteer duty on behalf of our members, we recognize the great contribu tion each of you has given in the welfare of our disabled veterans." Jackson presented ribbons for 50 hours, certificates for 100, 300, 500 and 1,000 hours and pins for 2,500 hours. live modern! TRY OUR SELF-SERVICE DRY CLEANING Here's the answer to high cleaning bills for only $2 (8 quarters) you can save as much as $5 per load. It's easy to operate try it today. Why buy? Use our big double load washers and dryers. 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The official unemployment figure at the last count in mid-February was 878,356 and the Ministry of Labor said it expected the total to go high er. Not since 1947, when Brit ain suffered an exceptionally hard winter, have so many been out of work. In 1947 the high mark was 1,847,000. In a country long accustom ed to virtually full employ ment the present jobless to tals are political dynamite, but business tends to give non political reasons for them. These reasons are: Structural Unemployment - "Structural u n e m ploy ment" due to the decline of once great British industries such as shipbuilding, coal mining and the railways. - "Technological unemploy ment" due to increasing auto mation, (the replacement of men by machines), greater business and industrial effi ciency, and a decline in capi tal investment by industry. -"Seasonal unemployment" which normally hits peak in midwinter and this year was intensified by the country's worst winter of the century. But labor's ranks are less interested in the economic causes than in measures of cure and one of the potential cures - the common market -now has been withdrawn. La bor unions and Labor party spokesmen are crying for firm government action. One step the government has taken - without satis fying most of its critics very much - has been to appoint former Conservative party chairman Lord Hailsham as minister with special re sponsibility in the hard-hit northeast. And the govcrn- Your Coin Operated Dry Cleaning Center LAUNDROMAT -STIWAM II TH XL-fcfc? STREET. . iTza MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. Problems Than Government ment has earmarked about S84 million worth of ship building and other work for the area in one pump-priming effort. Some highly dramatized labor disputes reflect the existing unrest. With the country in the midst of its hardest winter in living memory a small group of electrical power workers instituted an unof ficial "go slow" strike in a demand for higher pay. Re sulting blackouts and pow er cuts affected millions. London's' blazing Picca dilly Circus was dimmed and even Buckingham Pal ace, home of Queen Eliza beth, was blacked out by a power cut (the Queen, how ever, was not in residence). Hospitals and homes across the country suffered. Coal became short as the demand An Exciting NEW SEASON has Come to the Rogue River Valley! FMESTTA ICE Yes, the wonderful new time for digging and planting is here . . . and that means FUN for all the family! Be SURE to stock up with plenty of those colorful cartons of Jorgensen s FIESTA want to make frequent FIESTA-PAUSES. Your favorite flavor of Fiesta is doubly good with NUTRIMIX added . . . that exclusive Jorgensen's nutrient that makes this really FINE ice cream better than ever better for YOUI For Fine Dairy Products Ash for 'Jory emeus' OREGON soared in this land of little central heating. Another dramatic exam ple of labor discord has been the giant Ford Motor company plant at Dagen ham outside London, one of Britain's biggest auto facto ries. The plant has suffered some 300 labor "incidents" in the past four years and stoppages are estimated to have cost the company about S84,000.000 in lost sales. The company has blamed agitators and Com munists. The unions - the one plant deals with with 22 different trade unions allege inadequate pay and bad working conditions. The unofficial or "wildcat" strike has been one of the worst problems. Such strikes have been averaging about 2,000 a year and have dis TIME IS FUN TIME! jf That Calls for C1IEAM ICE CREAM because the tressed responsible labor men ar much as industry and the government. All told, strikes in Britain last year involved some 4,500, 000 workers. Many observers believe strikes will hit harder this year unless the economy receives a major shot-in-the-arm. It is that economic "shot-in-the-arm" the nation seeks without, at the moment, seem ing to know just where to look. Win Labor Approval Any action by the govern ment to limit profits and div idends would win hearty la bor approval but a conserva tive government could scarce ly do it except in delicate measure. For this reason or ganized labor has refused to cooperate with government plans to set up a national in comes policy. The way the family wi ii f . rrrr .r SUNDAY. MARCH unions see it workers' earn ings would be controlled one way or another while business profits went free. On the other hand the trades union council (TUC) which is the main British labor union body, is working with the gov ernment in the National Eco nomic Development council, popularly called "Neddy." This is a joint effort by gov ernment, management and labor to try to plan the eco nomic path ahead. "Neddy" has set as its target a growth rate for Britain of four per cent per year until 1965. A major problem for the government is to get this rate of business growth going with out inflation. Seeking Clearcut Road While seeking a clearcut road to Britain's economic fu ture Macmillan has called in general terms for a "climate 11 fitYi!i. 3. 1963 B 5 Admits of competition." The labor op position agrees but demands specifics. It says the govern ment needs to produce both tax and wage incentives and to give "state aid in building, equipping and running fac tories to fill the hard center gaps in our economy." The issues are being fought out in the House of Cnmmnrm amid continuing editorial com- piaini inai no one appears to be providing any real answer either to what ails Britain now or what economic dan gers it faces. One contributor to the famed "letters" column of the London Times, put it this way: "Have they so soon forgot ten," he wrote, "the greatest and most successful offer of all-nothing but blood and toil, sweat and tears?" Britain waits for the verdict.
