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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON ioviet Oil Offensive tates Concern m American Industry MtMY. AUGUST 25. 1963 By NEIL A. MARTIN United Preu International Washington-niPll - Congress men have referred to it as economic banditry and cold war politics, while petroleum industry leaders say it is un fair competition and a threat to the security of the free world markets. No matter how they des- cribe it, they are all talking about the Soviet oil offensive a rising gusher of cheap crude oil from behind the iron curtain which is oozing into the West's once exclu sive free world markets. In its bid to share and even tually dominate the world oil trade, Moscow is flooding the international market with crude and refined petroleum hnnine to out-produce, out bargain and undersell all com petitors. Production Has Increased Since 1950, Soviet crude production has increased four times until today tne u&sit is the world's second largest producer with output of about 3.3 million barrels per aay The United States retains su- ' premacy with 7.3 million bar rels per day while Venezuela is third with 3.2 million barrels. Last January, the Soviet news acency Tass announced cross production of Soviet crude oil for 1962 had exceed ed 1961 by 14 per cent - an in crease much higher than ex pected. And at the outset of the Soviet Union's present seven-year-plan (1959 - 65), Premier Nikita Khrushchev boasted that the USSR would produce oil at the rate of three billion barrels a year by 1972. Unlike most Russian boasts, this one could not be brushed aside. U.S. officials are voic ing growing concern, not only about the cold war implica tions of Soviet oil but the eco nomic security of the large American oil companies which conduct vast production and retail operations overseas. Worried Congress A worried Congress has made several studies of the Soviet oil offensive the lat est by a five-man commission of the House Foreign Affairs committee last February. In the meantime, the Department of Interior asked its national petroleum council, an indus try advisory group, to keep up a running survey on So viet exports and production. Behind the rapid Soviet expansion Western officials detect an attempt by Moscow to gain the economic depend ence of nations which former ly bought from the West and are now buying from Mos cow. In case of an International crisis, officials point out, e sudden cut in these nations' oil supply by Moscow could have far ranging repercus sions. Deny Implications Soviet officials deny any cold war implications are at tached to Moscow's oil policy, attributing it to "growing de mands of the national econ omy of the USSR and other countries in the socialist com munity." American oil officials, how ever, point out that Moscow exported 24 per cent (800,000 barrels per day) of all the oil it produced in 1961 and Soviet exports are still rapidly ris ing. The political implication of the issue was probably best reflected by a Soviet journal ist in a Moscow publication, "International Affairs." He wrote: "Oil concessions represent the entire edifice of Western political Influence in the world, of all military bases and aggressive blocs. If this fnnndation cracks, the entire edifice may begin to totter and then come tumbling down." Three-D Policy Sen. A- S. (Mike) Monroncy, (D-Okla.), has termed this a three-D Soviet policy "de velopment, disruption and de pendence" to make some Western nations and underde veloried countries entirely de pendent on Moscow for eco nomic survival. In Africa and Asia, the So . . . ; 'GERMANY 'OlANOj ' U.S.S.R. SHOWS PIPELINES Pipelines and stor age tanks erected at Schcdt, East Germany (top) for receipt of low-cost Soviet oil, is shown in picture taken in .Tunc, 1962. UPI newsmap at bottom shows the route of a 3,595-mile pipeline which will transport oil to other East European nations. (UPI) viet Union has followed a dual policy: first, to encourage and lend the necessary tech nicians and materials to de velop local oil industries, and, second to supply a low cost economic base for operation via Communist oil. In Ethiopia and Pakistan, Soviet geologists have been contracted to carry out a pro gram of prospecting. Moscow is aiding India In natural gas and oil prospecting and refinery construction. Oil processing industries are be ing developed in Egypt which are designed to meet tne re quirements of Soviet crude oil. And a series of contracts between Ceylon and the So viet bloc has made that tiny nation almost entirely depend- j ent on Communist oil. Opening Scheduled The scheduled opening in November of the Soviet bloc's so-called friendship pipeline, which stretches 3,595 miles from Kuibyshev in the So viet Union to Czechoslovakia and East Germany, has raised gushers of fear among West ern oilmen. The prospect of this Soviet oil at the threshold of West ern Europe stands as a form idable economic threat to the large international American companies which have market outlets in most of Free Europe. These companies have oro- tcstcd repeatedly that they are losing their markets bccau.se they can't compete with Mos cow's bargain-basement prices which are well under world prices. In 1962, the domestic indus try employed 1,030.293 work ers In producing, refining and selling. This does not include the millions involved in the related supply, manufacturing and chemical Industries. Total Value of Oil In terms of capital, the to tal value of domestic crude oil and natural gas in 1962 amounted to more than $10.6 billion. Oil and gas produc tion is a major industry In many states. Several proposals have been offered by congressmen to counter the Soviet competi tion. Sen. Jacob K. Javlts, (R N.Y.), has suggested that U.S. antitrust laws be amended to permit American oil compa nies to form alliances when they are in the interests of na tional security or conform with U.S. foreign policy. Other suggestions have in cluded firm maintenance of the controversial 27 V4 per cent oil depletion tax allow ance, a revision of the nation al security section of the for eign trade bill to curb im ports, federal assistance in ex ploring and developing new reserves, and greater free world cooperation to combat the Soviet price war. Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D Minn.), once said: "We must always, it seems to me, keep under close scru tiny the shifting trade tactics of the Soviet bloc, to see what kind of defensive measures need to be taken against them." Be Choosy . . . Get Jacuzzi PUMPS! Vt H.P. DEEP WELL PUMP With 42 Gal. Tank and Air Charger $15.95 down, $13.15 per me. Centrifugal Irrigation Pumps and ud Siskiyou Hardware 22S W. Main Ph. 772-2919 S1H GREEN STAMPS Four Persons Hurt In Area Accidents Four people were injured in two accidents on Jackson county highways Friday night, state police reported. A rear-end collision on In terstate 5 north of Central Point resulted in injuries to Kenneth William Noal, 31, of 1876 Roberts rd., and his two sons Ronald, 9, and Kerry, a. Ncal and his son, Kerry were treated as out-patients at Sacred Heart hospital. Ron ald was reported in fair con dition with a broken leg. The Ncal car was north bound in the outside lane when struck in the rear by a California car which caused the Neal car to spin around ! and upset in a ditch. The California driver was not nt the accident scene when state police arrived. Douglas Sacchi. 22, of 240 ', North Holly St., Medford, was treated for lacerations of the head and body and released from Rogue Valley hospital j Saturday morning after he i was thrown from his car on Jackson st. at McAndrews rd. State police said the car apparently was traveling at a high rate of speed, slid a distance and upset. Area Residents Climb Mountain in Record Time A Medford High school cross country track coach. accompanied by a 67-year-old Rogue valley rancher, last Sunday scaled Mt. McLough- lin in what they believe to be an unofficial world's rec ord time. Wearing only traditional track garb and carrying some water and a few sugar cubes, the pair left the base of the mountain, walking and run ning where the terrain would allow, and finished at the top nearly two hours later with in minutes of each other. The two mountain runners arc Bob Huff, who, at the age of 32, weighs 165 pounds and stands 5 feet 11 inches, and Ernie Lyman, 87, who is an inch shorter but weighs more. As Daily Exercise Huff made the trek as part of his dally exercise to keep in shape for his coach ing position at the high school, while Lyman made the trip in keeping with the kind of training he has been keeping at as long as he can remember. Mt. McLoughlin, which Is 9.495 feet high, was, as Huff said, as good an obstacle course as any. Starting from Four Mile Lake rd. at the base of the mountain, Huff's elapsed time for the climb took 1 hour, 44 minutes, 45 seconds, beating the old record of two hours, five minutes. Lyman's time was 1 hour, 51 minutes, 35 seconds. The Sunday be fore, Lyman and Huff scaled the mountain in 1 hour and 58 minutes. The mountain trail, Huff said, has been used for years for an obstacle course for lo cal runners who need a long workout. Since AAU offi cials have never been along to time any of the runs, no official records have been kept, but runners can turn in unoffical times by using a stopwatch. Phoenix Remodeling Will Be Completed By School Opening Phoenix-Remodeling of the high school to provide addi tional classrooms will be com pleted by the time school opens, according to Phoenix School District Superintend ent E. R. James. Remodeled areas will in clude a large group instruc tion room and three regular classrooms plus counseling of fices. A new industrial arts and vocational agriculture build ing is being constructed and should be ready for occupan cy late this fall, James said. Additional physical education and lunchroom facilities will be completed later in the school year. Eight additional language laboratory stations are being added to the 12 booths al ready used in the foreign lan guage laboratory. Purchase and installation was through the National Defense Educa tion act funds. Modern Physics Equipment Equipment for the modern physics approach now being introduced in the high school also was secured through the National Defense Education funds. Aspects of the modern ap proach to mathematics are 1o be introduced into the fifth and sixth grades and will be continued in the high and junior high schools. The Pnoenix High school English department again will use qualified reader aides for correcting English themes un der a program authorized two years ago by the Phoenix school board and operated through the joint efforts of the Phoenix school officials and Dr. Arthur Kreisman, of Southern Oregon college. A teacher clerical aide has been employed in the high school for the new year, James said. Teachers Attend Courses During the summer about 40 teachers from both - ele mentary and secondary levels throughout the district at tended institutes and workshops. Residents Ask Road Be in County System Two residents on Canal st. near Orchard Home dr. Friday asked the Jackson county court and county engineer to include connecting Archer dr. in the county road system. Mrs. Randolph Hugdahl, 2230 Canal St., and Mrs. Genie A. Putman, 2210 Canal st., particularly asked the coun ty court authorize patching of the section near Canal st. Overflowing of the irrigation canal due to fall rain storms has washed out much of the former granite base, they said. County officials said it would cost the area residents $800 to grade, install drive way culverts and add some granite or gravel, plus addi tional money to repair the particular section requested. The county would start work on the road early next May. Mrs. Hugdahl said the road is so bad that the postal serv ice may require the residents to move their mailboxes to a nearby road in better shape. These included mathematics and science institutes, a con temporary mathematics work shop for elementary teachers, team teaching workshops, the able and gifted program, counseling and coaching. Three more teachers obtained their masters' degrees and others completed summer col lege courses. New and replacement teach ers in the high school are Everett Cade, mathematics and science; Miss Sally Mauld ing, library and English; Mrs. Laura Felt, English and jour nalism; Glen Aiken, social studies and counseling; Mrs. Carol McDaniel, art and li brary, and Mrs. Janet Clark, English. Added to School Staff Larry Yarnell and Mrs. Olga Holland have been add ed to the junior high school staff for language arts. Mrs. Jane Germer and Miss Mar garet Ann Bolz will be new first grade teachers at the Phoenix grade school; Mrs. Iris Stewart, fifth grade and Gale Eastwood, sixth grade. Miss Jeanne Warnock will be teaching third grade at the Talent grade school. High school fees payable upon registration will total $16.50, James noted. This in cludes book fee, towel fee and student body card. The book usage fee of $9 is required since state law does not per mit purchase of high school texts by the school district. This covers work books and current events papers. The towel fee of $1 also is required. The student body activity card is $6.50. Stu dents wishing to purchase a school year book may reserve a copy by paying $4 additional. for your greater convenience . PPfi-L fill , , BE PAio As an additional service to customers, Pacific Power I Light Co. hai completed arrangements for a pay station at White City. When accompanied by service bills, payments may now be made at the CASCADE VARIETY In The CASCADE SHOPPING CENTER AT WHITE CITY Payments made by mail should be addressed to Pacific Power 4 Light Company; P.O. Box 1592; Medford, Oregon Pacific Power & Light Go. 216 W. 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