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Expenses Noted
In Campaigns on
Tax Proposal
SALEM (UPI) -The Citizens
Committee for a Yes Vote on
Ballot Measure 1 the income
tax increase spent $28,781 in its
unsuccessful attempt to encour
age the people to uphold the
tax increase.
The measure was defeated
to 1 at the Oct. IS special elec
tion. Deadline for filing statements
on funds spent in the election
campaigns was Friday. Appar
ently not everyone has yet filed
a statement.
The state elections office said
there was no report from Uni
versity of Oregon students who
pledged breakage fees for use in
the campaign.
Opposition Files
Two organizations which op
posed the measure have filed
their expense statements.
The committee for economy
and equitable taxation, headed
by Albany weekly newspaper
editor J. Francyl Howard, spent
$3,834, but received only $830.60.
Biggest contributor to How
ard's campaign was the Oregon
Voter, a weekly newsmagazine
published in Portland, which
gave $150.
The Multnomah County Citi
zens Committee for Economy
and Equitable taxation received
$59.35 and spent $56 in opposing
the measure.
Biggest contributor in the bat
tle to salvage the bill was the
Oregon Education Association.
It provided C19.833 in cash and
services and supplies valued at
$4,698.61 a total of $24,532.52.
Other Contributors
The Oregon State Employes
Association and Georgia Pacific
Co. each contributed $500.
Contributing $250 were West
ern School Supply, J. K. Gill
and Don A. Ellis, Portland.
Listed as contributing $100
were the Oregon Association for
Retarded Children, Oregon
School Employes Association,
Lane County Oregon Education
Association, Graham's NW Text
book Depository, John and Ra
chel Wallen of Portland, Edwin
and Esther Ashenbrenner of
Portland, William Webber of
Beaverton, and Robert Fitzger
ald of Portland.
Fish Protein Concentrate for IVJass Consumption Running Into Difficulty
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FATHER, SON COLLIDE
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (UPD-Two
motorists collided today. When
they got out to face each other,
they found they were father and
son.
Donald Akers, 23, driver of a
car belonging to his employer's
company, had a jammed accel
erator a n d a flat tire which
caused him to lose control and
collide with his father's auto.
Neither man was injured seriously.
A. ROBERT
SMITH
Mill Tribune
Washington
Correspondent
(Second of two articles)
WASHINGTON - The Ken
nedy Administration is looking
for a way to resolve a bureau
cratic conflict between New
Frontiersmen who want to pro
duce cheap fish protein concen
trate for mass consumption him
the old line Food and Drug
Administration which UiinKS
there is something very lisny
about the whole project.
A mwliminarv attempt to talk
out their differences resulted n
theatrics by the chiet rivals in
the dispute, Interior Secretary
Stpwart Udall. who has convin
ced Congress to put up nearly $1
million for tne project, enu r un.
Commissioner George P. Lar
rick, who is adamantly opposed.
Udall played host at a lunch
eon attenaera Dy Liarm-it aim
other high ranking government
officials as well as rresiuem
Kennedy's sister, Mrs. Eunice
Shriver, wife of the director of
the Peace Corps.
Dr. E. R. Pariser, a Cam
bridge - educated bio-chemist
who heads the fish protein re
search team, was explaining to
the luncheon guests the searcn
for a low cost source of pro
tein for consumption at home
and abroad. As Pariser's vision
of a great humanitarian ach
ievpment was developed, Com
missioner Larrick whipped out
a full color picture of the guts
of a fish and cried: "Is this
what you are asking the Amer
ican people to eat?"
Udall quickly countered by
holding aloft a small sack of
odorless powder and asking his
guests, "Or is wis.'
Illustrates Conflict
This exchange illustrates the
conflict. When Larrick thinks
of a product made from whole
I 1,- it ac "filthv"
UMI, I1C ICgmua it w v.v
because the fish has not been
cleaned in the customary way
by removing head, tail and en
trails. But Dr. Pariser sees a
product which is pure because
the fish has been cleaned chem
ically without removing any of
its parts.
The question comes down to
this: when is a cleaned fish
clean?
Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner, Ken
nedy's science advisor, pointed
it up during that luncheon con
ference by asking Larrick
whether he would have any ob
jections to a concentrate made
from fish cleaned by machinery.
Larrick said such a product
would be approved by FDA
Wiesner wanted to know why
then, FDA would object to a
concentrate made from fish that
are cleaned chemically.. Larrick
maintains that the U. S. food
and drug act requires FDA to
disapprove such a product for
American consumption.
This issue was raised in a
case before his agency in 1961
62 when an Illinois firm pro
posed manufacturing "whole
fish flour," made from whole
fish. When FDA invited public
comment before ruling on the
product, it received over 2000
communiques sharply divided
pro and con.
Object To Name
Flour milling interests object
ed to the term fish flour, hence
its change to fish protein. The
National Milk Producers Fed
eration said "adequate amounts
of nonfat dry milk are available
and there is no current or fore
seeable need to resort to fish
offal as a source of protein."
The thought that fish flour
might become an ingredient in
bread drew fire from the wheat
industry. The Oregon Wheat
Commission said it would be
"a disheartening setback to an
outstanding sanitation and pur
ity program." Western Wheat
Associates, Inc., Portland, Ore.,
said: "The wheat producer,
warehouseman, flour miller and
baker have been concerned dur
ing recent years with elimina
tion of insect and rodent infes
tation in grain and flour to be
processed into bread. Approv
ing .. . whole fish flour would
make a mockery of this whole
program."
In counting 736 adverse com
ments and 1036 favorable to the
product, Larrick noted that 21
state officials said whole fish
concentrate would conflict with
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Visit With Kennedy
LONDON (UPD-Prime Min
ister Sir Alec Douglas-Home
will fly to Washington within
six weeks for talks with Presi
dent Kennedy, the London Daily
Sketch said today.
The Sketch said Douglas
Home's trip to Washington his
first as prime minister will
come in December at Kennedy's
invitation.
He will not go until he wins a
seat .in the House of Commons
and leads the government in de
bates on Lord Denning's report
on the Profumo affair, the
newspaper said.
The talks with Kennedy, it
said, "are likely to lead to an
intense initiative following up
the improved relations with
Russia (and) will be the first
swift move by Sir Alec to stamp
the policy and character of the
new government on world af
fairs.
state laws regarding inclusion
of filth.' Larrick concluded that
"consumers in the U. S. gener
ally would regard the product
described in the proposal as
filthy" and that it violates the
food and drug act which bars
sale of adulterated food products
containing "any filthy, putrid
or decomposed substance.
FDA ruled that fish flour
would be approved only if made
from an "edible species of fish"
which has been "properly pre
pared to remove and discard the
heads, fins, tails, viscera, and
intestinal contents."
Donald L. McKernan, direc
tor of Interior's Bureau of Com
mercial Fisheries which is con
ducting the government's fish
protein concentrate research,
said such a standard is self-de
feating for the project because
"fish flour processed only from
fish fillets is prohibitively cost
ly." The object of the project
is to produce a concentrate
which would supply an individu
al's protein requirements for as
little as half cent per day, to
put in within reach of impov
erished peoples who need it
most.
Interior officials and scien
tists think FDA's attitude is
based on aesthetics and the
non-scientific objections of some
consumers. The National Fish
eries Institute, speaking for the
fishing industry which strong
ly favors whole fish, noted wry
ly that "millions of pounds of
sardines are consumed annual
ly in this country with their
viscera and tail intact."
Conceding this point, FDA As
sistant Commissioner J. Ken
neth Kirk adds that Americans
also eat "chocolate covered ants
and French fried caterpillars
but they know what they are
eating." FDA argues that con
sumers using fish concentrate
might not realize it contained
the whole fish, especially if
mixed in bread or other prod
ucts.
"It boils down to this," said
Kirk. "What do people in this
country decide is filthy?"
Tomato Case filed
Having fought hard for san
itary food standards against
processors who cut corners to
increase profits, FDA officials
evaluate fish protein concen
trate in this context rather than
in the context of the culd war
Kirk likens the issue to the case
of the ketchup maker who used
rotten tomatoes but added
enough spice and vinegar to
make it palatable, until FDA re
quired the use of fresh toma
toes. FDA recognizes that there
would be economic gains for the
commercial fishing industry in
this proposed product. FDA sus-
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF-
pects manufacturers of fish, tious product can be made from
meal for livestock are promoting j whole fish" and that "all por
the fish protein concentrate : lions of the fish can contribute
campaign because if reined for ! to the nutritional value." It
human consumption it would : recommended further research
bring higher profits. on what species of fish would be
Whole fish concentrate "is the I acceptable, and is suggested
key to Pandora's bix," declared : that FDA might develop stand
Kirk, aids to insure these desirable
Kirk feels that FDA must results rather than to oppose
hold the line against whole fish the entire product.
(lour or FDA will have difticul-1 1 ne paradox of the Kennedy
ty resisting other possible' administration's dilemma ,:a that
schemes, such as processing fish protein concentrate can al-
in the United States, but FDA
objects; but the price is still
too high for marketing it wide
ly in countries where it is most
needed, but where FDA's atti
tude involves political risks
even if the scientists can lick
the cost problem. Hence a le
gal - political breakthrough for
U.S. consumption and an eco
nomic breakthrough for mass
foreign consumption are need
ed before fish protein concen
trate can fulfill the high des-
garbage or manure into nutn-: ready be produced at a price tiny hopcully marked for it by
nous looa supplements. : im uuia mane it marketable ' its staunch advocates
Because FDA s jurisdiction is
MESSRS. LAPIDUS and Moskowitz,. two wealthy and
highly respected merchants from New York, were
making their first visit to Israel, and in the course of same,
dropped into a Tel-Aviv
night club where a new
comedian had scored a
sensational success. His
entire monologue was de
livered in Hebrew. Lapi
dus listened to it in si
lence without clacking
one smile, but Moskowitz
roared with laughter at
each sally.
When the comedian had
quit the stage, Lapidus
said, "You certainly en
joyed that fellow's rou
tine. I never knew you
understood Hebrew." "I
don't understand one word of it," answered Moskowitz. "If
that's true," countered Lapidus, frowning, "how come you
laughed so much at what he was saying?"
"Aha!" beamed Moskowitz. "I TRUSTED HIM!"
Ql'OTABLK:
"Had it not been for Thomas A. Edison, people today would
be watching: television by candlelight." Dave Gardner.
"The real wit tells jokes to make others feel superior. The
half-wit tells them to make others feel small." Elmer Wheeler.
"The secret of making; one's self tiresome is not to know when
to stop." William J. Bryan.
"All modem men arc descended from wormlike creatures but
it shows more on some people." Will Cuppy.
1963, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Futures Syndicate
limited to food consumed do
mestically it has no legal ob
jection to manufacturing a con
centrate for export. But other
officials raise a political objec
tion which takes the issue be
yond the parochial hygiene de
bate to the level of international
rivalry for spheres of influence
in Asia, Africa and Latin Amer
ica. In Rome last summer officials
of the UN's Food and Agricul
ture Organization reported hear
ing propaganda that the U.S.
was promoting a fish product
that American were prohibited
from eating, obviously poison
ous. Administration officials vis
ualize more anti-American prop
aganda charging the Yankees
with selling "filth" for profit,
unless FDA reverses its atti
tude or is overruled by higher
authority, say the federal courts
or Cangress.
W holesome Product Possible
To get an authoritative, in
dependent opinion, Udall asked
the National Academy of Sci
ences whether a wholesome,
safe, nutritious product can be
made from the entire fish. The
Academy selected a commit
tee composed of distinguished
medical doctors, nutritionists
and marine biologists.
This committee concluded that
"a wholesome, safe and nutri-
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trist, three clergymen, a newspaper
editor, a women's editor, and two
writers. Eacn article Is a summary
of an actual case history. The
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Carla E Somebody must re
mind her of her duty.
Joanne S. She s just trying
to stir up trouble.
. .
Carla E. My poor brother is
a s c h m o e, the way he lets
Joanne ride roughshod over
him. He won t speak up, but
I will because it's embarrassing
to the family to have to keep
defending her behavior to oth
ers.. If she won t stop, at least
I'd like an explanation. She
runs off on weekend vacations
alone, goes to restaurants and
shows without Myron, has
closets full of clothes while he
has two shabby suits.
Joanne S. I knew Carla
would want a showdown sooner
or later. She's mystified over
how Myron and I can possibly
be happy, when he's alone so
much. It's none of her business
really. Myron tells me not to
listen to his sisters. But there's
nothing to hide. He's a stay-at-home
by choice. He's fair
enough not to insist that I be
the same. When I return, he
enjoys my reports. I'd rather
go with him but he won't budge.
The Council: It's this type of
case that makes us glad our
column listens to both sides.
Listening to Carla alone, we'd
envision a combo of Maggie
Jiggs, Medusa and Tugboat
Annip ns her sister-in-law. push-
ine her browbeaten brother
around like a puppet. And we'd
delve into ways of rescuing
Myron. But with the circle
rounded by Joanne's contribu
tion, the problem changes. What
' can be done to rescue Myron
and Joanne from busybodies,
"cats," t r o u b 1 e-makers like
Carla? In the guise of solicitude
for her brother (who, we gather,
hasn't sought it), she vents her
annoyance and, yes, envy of a
sister-in-law who seems to be
"getting away with" things
Carla can't get away with. . . .
Deep in the sacred con.'ines of
their home, Joanne and Myron
have probably come to their
- nf (ha FAfraatinn
"problem." If Myron's unhappy
! about it, he knows where to
turn. Certainty not to Carla
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