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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.
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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.
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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
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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)
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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.
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I on your table every day are imported coffee, tea, sugar.
i pepper, olive oil - and the prices of these would be up.
to
recognize its significance in a
better understanding of en
zymes, nature s catalysts, and ! most cases, the imports are vital to our way of life and
standard of living and we would not reduce our purchases
of them despite the higher prices.
The impact over a period, therefore, would be to raise
the prices ot producing and living - a pull toward in
flation. What would devaluation mean specifically to i a.i a
consumer, investor, importer, exporter, tourist, etc? Th'.s
tomorrow
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