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in g TUESDAY, MAY 21. 1963 Kennedy, Pearson Agree To Discuss Lumber Industry MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribuna Washington Correspondent Washington-President Ken nedy and Prime Minister Pearson of Canada reported !y have agreed to set up fu ture government - inausiry talks in hopes of alleviating distress in the Inmhpr inrius- t r y by ox- paiiuuiB his markets for American and Canadian lum ber rather than erecting tariff or oth er trade ob- ... 1. f h u Kennedy administration, ac cording to informed sources, has shelved tentative plans developed several months ago for imposing a modest quota on Canadian lumber imports, The mood at Ihe While House is to avoid actions or new policies of this sort that would place a strain on the renewed American Canadian comrad ship which became evident in the recent Hyannis Port talks, Segments of the American Industry, led by the Nation' al Lumber Manufacturers as sociation, have been urging a six per cent quota limiting Canada to that portion of the United Slates market. This would more than halve Can ada's present share of the market. NLMA officials have also been pressing the administra tion to adopt a policy requir ing lumber imports to be stamped with their country of origin, so that American builders and other lumber puchascrs can distinguish be tween foreign and domestic lumber. If this were done, lumber Industry pressure on local home building Inspec tion agencies might cause them to pass the word that American lumber is prefer red, with the result that less Canadian lumber would be used. Idea Opposed The Kennedy ' administra tion has decided to oppose this idea, and it has so ad vised Congress. Two changes have appar ently figured large in the ad ministration's current atti tude; Ihe change at Ottawa from Conservative John Dief cnbnker, who capitalized on hostility to American Influ ence In Canadian affairs, to Liberal Lester Pearson, who is amenable to closer cooper ation between the two gov ernments: and secondly, the obvious decline of vocal In sistence from Pacific North west members of Congress that the government take ac tion to protect domestic lum ber from foreign competition. This latter change was highlighted by n speech de livered by Sen. Wayne Morse In the Senate the day before Kennedy flew to Hyannis Port In which he said: "There la now evidence which suggests that instead of constantly flailing away at the Canadian lumber Indus try, the domestic industry of the United States should join hands with its Canadian coun terpart to determine a course of action which will protect and develop markets for lum ber." Shifts Within Industry The burden of Morse's speech was to point up the shifts within the industry from production of lumber to plywood and the threat to the lumber industry from competing building materials, such as steel, which is now being developed for use as a foundation system for a house to replace entirely the foun dation Joists, stringers and sills normally made of lum ber. "This development," said Morse, "carries far greater Impact on our domestic lum ber industry than any lumber imports from Canada, and in addition, it can have a far greater impact on the Canadi. an industry," With lumber on his agen. da to discuss with Pearson, Kennedy took Morse's speech along to Hyannis Port. In ef fect, it superseded all the "get tough with Canada speeches of the past year or more that have been heard in both House and Senate. A presidential aide later told this correspondent: "The pres ident found Senator s Morse's speech very helpful to him." Advocate of Talks Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.), who with Morse last year led the congression al effort to "do something for lumber," has introduced the industry's bills for a quota. marking imported lumber, and to require only American lumber in FHA-insurcd hous ing. But he isn't pressing for them in Ihe face of admin istration resistance. Magnu son, too, Is an advocate of fur ther trade talks with Canada. Both senators point out that the lumber, market is a bit stronger this spring than it was last year. The latest government figures on resi dential housing construction are also encouraging. Hous ing starts in April were the greatest for that month since 1830, and the highest for anv month of the year since June, 1055. For the first four months of 11)03, housing starts were live per cent above the level for the same period last year. The Medical Roundup rr. V- Ememui ComulUnt In Medicine Mayo Clmtc Emerltm profeimr of Mtdlcln Mayo Clinic (RifUter and Tribune Syndicate, 1913) Al Subscribers To report improper rrr non delivery of the Mh Tribune In Meitlord, phone 779MM41; Ah lund cell at 41(1 Bridge at., or phone 4fl'J-:inoa: Yreka. phone Victory before H:45,p.m. dully end 10:30 n.m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify nfflcn. thus eliminating pedal metiensor service. X-Rayt Not Dangerous Every so often I get a let ter which shows me that many people are being too badly frightened by alarming arti cles on x-rays and other forms of radiation- articles which, for the past 10 years or more, have jj been appcar- varez ing in lay magazines. I have read many of them, and have been dis tressed to see them because I could not believe they were justified. Many years ago I knew as good friends most of the early leaders in x-ray work men who, like me, had used the rays In the first few years of this century, Although many or us in those early years were much more careless of exposure to the rays than men are today, very few of us ever got into any trouble that could definitely be ascribed to the rays. A few of the old-timers had much trouble with cancerous changes in the burned skin of their hands; but I cannot re member many of those old friends who died premature ly, or who died of a disease such as chronic leukemia, which could conceivably have been ascribed to the radia tion. I knew the children of a number of these men and, so tar as I remember, they were normal. Hence it is that to me it seems foolish to worry about having one's teeth or one 8 chest, or even one's stomach x-rayed once a year. One point which may per haps cheer those who are much afraid of x-rays is that recently, wllh the coming of a much faster film, x-ray ex posures are being cut down in a remarkable way. Today the exposure required for making a film of a tooth has been cut from several seconds to a fraction of a second. Injury Doubted A number of men have tried to frighten us by saying that the x-rays to which we are exposed will injure our grandchildren, but I doubt this. I was glad recently to read the report of a Commit tee of the National Academy of Sciences in which they said that the genetic effects frcm small doses of atomic radia tion are probably not as dan gerous as some have thought. . Professors Nccl and Schuil, expert genctists, who went to Japan to search for children who had been injured by the tremendous dose of radiation suffered by their mothers at Hiroshima, could not find ef fects that they could be sure were due to that radiation. 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I am not talking about the big doses that have to be given to cure a cancer. It has been shown that the later incidence of a disease like leukemia Is a little higher in persons so treated than it is in the general popu lalion. But this fact would not bother me if I had a can cer that could be cured by some form nf radiation. I would say, "Go ahead and save my life now; never mind what may happen 20 years from now." A while ago I sat at lunch eon with one of America's greatest atomic physicists, who is certainly compclent to discuss this problem, and he said that he had no patience with the recent excitement stirred up about a few dozen x-ray exposures in a lifetime. Soviets Fire Rockets Into Central Pacif ic Moscow - IUPH - The Soviet Union, in tests designed to boost its manned space pro gram, has fired rockets nearly 7,500 miles into the central Pacific Ocean, Tass said today. The Soviet news agency said the final stages of the rockets hit their target areas "with a high degree of ac curacy." The tests were carried out Ma. 18 and 25, Tass said. It did not say how many rockets were fired. ,5'.. ' ' j&L : , fc milium"- , ,.AiA lHlU - Cable Maps for Russians Attacked Washington -4UPD A Demo cratic congressman said in testimony made public today it was "utterly fantastic" that the United States gave Rus sia maps locating the under sea cables that link Distant Early Warning line stations. The Pentagon replied that it would not do Russia any good to cut the cables before an attack, because radio com muncations are cirtually jam proof. The DEW line is a network of radar stations in the Far North which are supposed to sound an early alarm in the event of a bomber attack on Canada and the United States. The subject came up in I House defense appropriations ! subcommittee hearings May i 2, when Rep. Daniel j. Flood ! (D-Pa.) and others brought up breaks in the undersea cables. Brig. Gen. J. F. Raulor Jr., di rector of command control and communications for the Air Force Office of Programs and Requirements, said he be lieved breaks caused by. So viet fishing boats were accidental. He said the American Tele phone and Telegraph Co. had given the Russians maps showing the location of shal low water cables. Flood said this was "utterly fantastic, ridiculous, and in certain areas it would be criminal." He said the maps should be canceled and the lines relaid. FARES SKYROCKET Jakarta, Indonesia - (UPO -Indonesian railway fares will be raised 300 per cent to 500 per cent beginning next Sat urday, the State Railway serv ice here announced today. LOG ENDS Quick Delivery MEDFORD FUEL CO. Si H Green Stamps PHONE 772-2111 IS PROOF ECHO SPRING DtST. CO.. LOUISVILLE, KT. 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