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o WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 28. 1963 in . . MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON HIP IN SIDE-The S. S. Sierra has a rip in its side and is listing Monday after a col lision with another freighter, the S. S. Massmar, in fog at the mouth of the Los Angeles harbor. No injuries were reported. The Sierra, from San Francisco, was arriv ing and the Massmar, from Baltimore, Md., was leaving for San Francisco. (UFI) SCHOOL SLATED Salem-fllPD-Members o the mapping, farm appraisal, and urban appraisal sections of the slate tax commission's valuation division will hold their annual summer train ing school here Wednesday through Friday, it was an nounced. - GETS BIRTHDAY CAKE Washington-IUPII-Vice Presi dent Lyndon B. Johnson got a surprise from President Kennedy on his 55th birthday anniversary Tuesday. Kenne dy gave Johnson a birthday cake alj the weekly White House breakfast meeting with legislative leaders. NOW YOU KNOW By United Press International The worst mine disaster in United Slates history oc curred on Dec. 6, 1907, at Monongah, W.Va., when 361 persons were killed, accord ing tn the World Almanac. Dellenback Reviews Legislative Session At Rotary Luncheon The people of Oregon should have an opportunity to decide the question of a sales tax and Republicans in the last legislative session at Salem tried to make that pos sible, State Representative John Dellenback said in an address here Tuesday. Speaking at a luncheon meeting of the Medford Ro tary club at the Rogue Valley Country club, the Medford lawyer and legislator remind ed Rotarians that the close balance of 31 Democrats and 29 Republicans indicated a greater bi-partisan use of members of both parties for more effective action. The close vote in the last election certainly pointed to full use of abilities and tal ents of members of each party, yet the plan urged by the Republicans along this line was refused by the party in power. Best Interest of State "It was a big mistake," Del lenback said. "Greater use of Republican members, who missed control of the legisla ture by a narrow 'margin, was in the best interest ol tne State of Oregon. The vote on the important tax measure, for example, was almost en tirely along party lines," he said. Discussing the legislative processes at Salem, the speak er told of the importance of committee appointments. Ap proximately 85 per cent of bills out of committee with a "do pass" tag were successful in the House; of those bills approximately 85 per cent were finally approved by the Senate. The importance of committee assignments is ob vious. Generally the Republi cans suffered severely in these initial appointments. In the 1961 session at Salem, the question of day light saving caught public at tention, the speaker recalled. In the last session, the two most publicized matters were constitutional revision and the vital problem of taxes. The former was, m Dellen- back's opinion, the most sig nificant issue and, although the House carried the meas ure by a vote of 41 to 19, it failed in the Senate by two votes. this Labor Day it's Pepsi for those who think young pi " Peosi lilHllmmnlliiillli I Cl PEPSI COLA :.3 Wherever you go this long weekend, be sure to take Pepsi along! Light, bracing Pepsi matches your modern activities the think-young life! Pepsi's sparkling-clean taste is never too sugary or sweet. Nothing drenches your thirst like a cold, inviting Pepsi- Cola. So think young - say ' Pepsi, please ! ' ' It is not a dead issue. It will be back again," he said. Diicuises Economic System In briefly discussing the over-all economic system in America, the Medford lawyer warned against the constant "moving in" on the profit motive tax trends that dis courage risk capital. "It's a case of grinding away at the top and at the bottom," he pointed out. When the average American is no longer in need, due to public handouts, the natural question is asked: "Why should I work?" Dellenback concluded his address with a plea for the citizens to take an active part in government by familiariz ing themselves with issues and legislation and by mak ing their opinions known to their representatives. Good government, he said, is no better and no worse than the judgment and participation of the people. Frank J. Van Dyke, partner in the law firm with Dellen back and a former Speaker of the House at Salem, intro duced Dellenback. Cone Crop Expected To Be Spotty, Poor Salem Widespread reports of a generally spotty to poor forest tree cone crop in all primary tree species through out Oregon dimmed hopes this week for many people intent on making a little ex tra from this forest product, according to the state fores try department. The cone picking season normally begins during the latter part of August at low elevations and extends to about the first of November at high elevations. Western Oregon's fir cone crop is spotty with the like lihood that the cones are in fested with seed-eating in sects. The ponderosa pine cone crop of eastern and southern Oregon is generally poor, which also applies to such species as noble, grand, con color, and other high eleva tion true firs. Other species Everts To Direct New Water Lab Corvallis - Curtiss Mitchell Everts Jr., director of the Ore gon state board of health's division of sanitation and en gineering since 1941, has been appointed director of the Pa cific Northwest Water Labora tory which will be built soon on the Oregon State univer sity campus. Announcement of the ap pointment was made by As sistant Surgeon General Gor don E. McCallum, chief of the U.S. public health service's division of water supply and pollution control. Everts will start his new duties in early September. As director of the labora tory. Everts will head a staff of approximately 150 scien tists and supporting personnel conducting research, field demonstrations, and training related to the prevention and control of water pollution. The $2,000,0000 laboratory is expected to be started in coming months and completed in 1965. It will work with all universities in the area, with other federal agencies, with state and local governments, and with industry. it will be one or nine re gional and special purpose laboratories to be built across the country under the Federal Water Pollution Control act. Everts has been with the Oregon state board of health since 1936 and has lived in Portland since 1947. In his present post. Everts planned, organized, and di rectcd programs and activities in the field of environmental health, including sanitary con. trol of municipal, institution. al and industrial water sup plies, collection and disposal of sewage and other wastes, control of atmospheric pollu tants, and inspection and grad ing of restaurants. 3 including sugar pine, white pine, cedars, spruces and hemlocks are similarly affected. Local Pockets of Cones However, local pockets of cones may occur in sufficient quantity and quality for col lecting. The cones should be tested for seed count and their acceptability should be discussed with a cone buyer before picking in any quan tity. Permission to pick cones must be obtained from the landowner and a harvesting permit secured from forestry officials. The cone picking season extends through a period when the fire hazard in the woods is usually high, the department noted. This is es pecially significant with the amount of blowdown timber resulting from the Columbus Day storm scattered through out Oregon's forests. Certain forest areas are closed to entry except by per mit from a state or federal forest officer. During short periods of extreme fire weather a shut-down of all activities in hazardous areas is ordered and no permits are given. The immediate situation at any particular time ot Har vest can be secured from a local forest official. Cone collectors are provid ed with the following check list: 1. check first with cone buyers to determine species, origin and seed count re quirements; 2. locate suitable picking areas and obtain the landowner's approval; 3. se cure a harvesting permit from any state or federal for- SAWMILL DEMONSTRATED-A portable sawmill was dem onstrated in Portland, Ore., early this month. Outfit can produce 5,000 board feet of lumber per day. Boards up to 3 by 12 inches by 26 feet can be cut depending on size of the operating engine. Mill can be set-up at any location, ac cording to Jim May, inventor. (UPI) Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc. Bottled by Pep$i-Colj Bottling Company, Medford, under Appointment from FVtiii-Colj Company, N.Y., N Y. WHAT IS DOLLAR DEVALUATION? III (3rd in a series of S columns) The United States will not devalue the dollar in the foreseeable future. We are making major moves and we will make more to reduce the outflow of dollars and gold from this country but we will not try to solve the problem of our dimin ishing gold reserves by raising the price at which we of ficially sell gold to qualified foreign owners ot dollars, thus reducing the gold equivalent of the U.S. dollar and "devaluing" it in terms of gold and other currencies. This "solution" is rejected as unthinkable at this stage by every responsible policymaker in the U.S. and the Western world Nevertheless, because worry about devaluation is mount ing throughout the U.S., this scries is designed to explain what the bafflegab means. As already reported, if we raised the price of gold from $35 to S70 an ounce, this would cut the gold equivalent of the dollar from 1, 35th to 1 70th of an ounce. This would slash the cost of our exports to foreigners, boost the cost of imports to U.S. consumers theoretically stimulate our exports, reduce our imports. It also would raise the value of the gold reserve we have left from $15.6 billion to S31.2 billion, give us that much more precious metal with which to meet our obligations. Q. Why do other countries devalue their currencies? A. They devalue because they are importing much more than they are exporting and therefore running deficits in their trade accounts. By devaluing in terms of other currencies, they make the goods they export less expensive in price and the goods they import more expensive in price and this helps them get their import- export accounts back into balance. The "funda mental disequilibrium" in trade was behind the West ern world's devaluations in 194S and the French de valuations of the 19S0's. But we in the United States are runninq a huge sur plus in our trade account. We exported a whopping $4.3 billion more in goods and services last year than we im ported. Our trouble stems from the fact that we are spend ing so much in other areas on military defense over seas, economic aid. private investment and tourism abroad that wc not only have been wiping out our trade sur. plus but also persistently going into the red year afte year. This year we have another big export surplus, but our over-all deficit is at an annual rale of more than S3 billion. 1 Here is no precedent lor a nations devaluing its cur rency when it is in the black in its trade account as we are. Q. How would devaluation change the dollar's ap pearance? A. Not one bit. In appearance, ii would be the same dollar after devaluation as before devaluation Q. How would devaluation affect prices here? A. The answer to this is the question "the price of what?" The only change, remember, would be terms ot gold and other currencies. (This assumes other coun tries would not immediately devalue to the same ex tent. Even though this is an utterly unrealistic assump tion, let's make it and go on.) Since this would be the only change, the prices of goods and services produced and sold within our borders would not be directly af fected at all. The price of a haircut would be the same. The price ot corn raised by a U.S. farmer would be the lame. Etc. But. of course, we do not buy only domestically-produced goods. We are a "have not'' as well as a "have" na tion, and in 1962 alone we imported over S16 billion of goods and services. Few U S -manufactured goods today do not include sonic imported materials and the price of Many common noods Oregon Algae Is Subject of Paper Eugene - IUPII - A patch of blue-green algae near a hot springs in so-i'heastern Ore gon has yielded at least four distinct strains, each with its own definite temperature re quirements, a University of Oregon researcher told a na tional meeting in Amherst, Mass., today. Jack A. Peary, National Science Foundation research fellow in biology, reported his findings during the annual meeting of the American In stitute of Biological Sciences, one of the nation's largest scientific gatherings. He spoke before the Phycological So ciety of America, one of 23 biological societies affiliated with A1BS. Co-author of the paper was Dr. Richard W. Castenholz, assistant professor of biology, who is currently spending a sabbatical year in Norway. The study of thermophilic blue-green algae - microscopic water plants which grow at unusually high temperatures has been largely ignored dur ing the past two decades, Peary commented, but is now being revived as scientists i ti,cse imported materials would be no est official; 4. check on firs regulations and closures, ana get permits if necessary; 5. test cones for seed count and ripeness before picking; 6. de liver cones to dealer daily or provide adequate storage to prevent spoilage. HEAR. HERE! 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