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-
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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.
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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.
I should emphasize here
that I have been talking
about the small dosage of x
rays used In making diagnos-
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tic films. 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.
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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.
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Junction City is expected in
early August,
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