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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Central Committee of Soviet Union To Discuss Chemical Industry By DANIEL F. GILMORE In the coming week, the So- the Central Committee of the viet chemical industry, the third United Press International viet premier and party leaders Communist party of the Soviet such meeting within five and MOSCOW (UPI) "Chemis- plan to build a new mint, and Union. one-half years. It will mark a try," said Nikita Khrushchev, it appears they need one. Officially, it was summoned dramatic attempt by Khrush- "is a mint which turns out The setting will be a plenary to discuss the problem of de- chev and the top men of the gold." meeting beginning Monday of veloping a more powerful So- ruling Central Committee to , , , ... Khrushchev To Enumerate Plans MOSCOW (UPI) - Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev will enumerate his plans for an economic revolution through chemistry from a plat form In the 19th century Grand Kremlin Palace, an assembly hall of monumental propor tions built in 1939. Seated at polished walnut desks will be an audience of some 1,000 persons. This in cludes 328 central committee members 174 voting dele gates and 154 non-voting can didate members and hun dreds of chemical and agricul tural experts who nominally are expected to judge the plan with a critical eye. The central committee's job is to direct the party's work between party congresses, which are supposed to be held every four years. Day to day administration is delegated to tbe Presidium and the Secre tariat, headed by Khrushchev. Last Plenum Meeting The last plenum sat in June for its first all ideological meeting since the revolution, forced by the worsening Sino Soviet dispute. It rejected as "groundless and slanderous" Communist Chinese attacks on the Soviet party and its deci sions .in thp last three con gresses regarding de-Staliniza-tion and peaceful co-existence. Before than, the plenum met Nov. 19-23, 1962, when a num ber of radical changes were ordered in party economic or ganizations. The organizational changes were put forward in a 30,000 word report by Khrushchev and his chemical message could run as long. Among new appointees at the November, 1962, plenum was Pyotr Demichev, 44-year-old member of the Secretariat, who was named to the new FROM THE. . . CPtPMiTiL house COLLECTION For unique gifts that show thought and consideration. GLASS FLOWERS In natural colon. Planted $1050 In Imirl Porcelain Cups At Trowbridge Electric West Main at Fir Use Our Customer Parking Area central committee bureau for the chemical and light indus tries. The spotlight will be on Demichev with the new em phasis on chemicals. When this plenum ends, it will be followed by the session of the Supreme Soviet Dec. 16. Described as a two-house par liament, the Supreme Soviet includes the Soviet of the Un ion and the Soviet of National ities. (The Soviet of the Union has 791 members, one for each 300,000 inhabitants of the coun try, elected for four - year terms. Elections are due next year. Also elected for four year terms are the 652 mem bers of the Soviet of Nation alities. Each of the USSR's 15 republics has 25 deputies, each autonomous republic has II, each autonomous region five and each national area one.) Used as Springboard Khrushchev used the last session as a springboard for a major foreign policy speech in which he replied at length to Chinese and Albanian alle gations that the Soviet Union was following a policy of "ap peasement" toward the United States during the Cuban crisis. 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Something Must Give Something in the massive Red economy will have to give, in the face of these awesome fig ures, either in heavy industry, space or defense, observers here claim. Decisions made this week will have far-reaching repercussions in the Soviet Union and abroad. The chemical targets are to be spelled out In a major re port presented by Khrushchev at 10 a.m. Monday to a plenum of the Central Committee. Expected to sit in secret ses sion for about five days, the plenum will approve decisions vitally affecting the 1964 budget of the U.S.S.R. and the future economy. The budget will go for approval to the two cham bers of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R., which is to meet in joint parliamentary session on Dec. 16. Enormous Sum "This is an enormous sum," Khrushchev himself said of the funds for the development of the chemical industry. But he claims the Soviet economy can shoulder H with minor adjust ments and no effect on space or defense. "Perhaps it will be necessary to slow down somewhat the de velopment of some branches in order to give priority to the de velopment of chemistry in the next 3 to 4 years," he told a group in late October. "By creating a more power ful chemical industry, we shall . guarantee accumulation of funds : which will ensure quicker prog- i ress in the development of all 1 branches of production. This is what chemistry means figura tively speaking, chemistry is a mint which turns out gold. . ." As if to anticipate thoughts that funds would have to be diverted from defense, he said: "The imperialists can say that the Soviet Government is going to spend large funds on the de velopment of chemistry and ir rigation, hence, it will not allo cate money for armaments . . . Defense Said Necessary "This will not come off . . . what is necessary for defense we have done and we are do ing .. . "To put it in a nutshell, ex penditures on the development of chemistry will not affect our defense. This year, certain dif ficulties have arisen here, but we will overcome them." The weather has not been kind to the Soviet Union this year. A ; very cold winter with harsh frosts destroyed winter crops. Spring crops gave lesser yields. The slimmer was dry and hot and large areas of "virgin land" in Siberia and Kazakhstan and i a considerable part of European Hussia and the Ukrane suffered severe drought. Russia has come a long way since the days when millions were allowed to perish in fam ines. Khrushchev is not the least embarrassed to buy in the west. With characteristic bluntness he said in late October: Don't Have Enough "If we purchase wheat from capitalist countries, this means that we don't have enough wheat of our own this year. If we had enough wheat of our own, we would not buy it . . . our wheat shortage this year is explained by the extremely un- lavorably climatic condition . . . the parly and government are now taking measures which in the future will guarantee the necessary quantities of grain." "One of (he secrets of Amer ican farming is that in (he Unit ed States large quantities of mineral fertilisers are fed to grain crops." Khrushchev said. "And in our country, that was not done hitherto. That is why harvests largely depend on rain fall. We want to got rid of the fatal influence of the whims of nature, to make sure of raising stable harvests. For those pur poses we must take advantage of science, chemistry and irri gation." Khrushchev is proposing a crash program, the vastness of which he has described on a number of occasions to visitors, newsmen and in speeches to farmers. He told a top level group of American business ex ecutives Nov. 6: "We shall raise our level of productivity in ag riculture to the level obtained in the United States." How? "It all boils down to the need for more mineral fertilizers and this entails the need for capital. We have capital," Khrushchev said. "Gentlemen capitalists," he interrupted himself, "you shake your heads skeptically. But 1 nod my head and I say it will be done." One source of investment funds Khrushchev has men tioned is a bonus of 40 billion rubles ($44 billion) he sayspias resulted from over-fulfillment of the current seven year plan for the development of industry. Ag riculture has not been as for tunate. "For 1964 and 1965 we are ad justing our original plan for fer tilizers and agricultural machin ery. For the next five year plan which is now under develop ment, we envision a greater share for chemicals, plastics, artificial fibers, mineral fer tilizers . . . The plastics will be used in industry but items such as synthetic fibers, artificial leathers and so on will mainly go to satisfy needs in the field of consumer goods." Indicating even greater ur gency to get on with his pro gram, Khrushchev told tbe American businessmen he would like to buy mineral fertilizers, synthetic resins, fibers and the like from the United States. Such vast future program ming would seem to demand a fairly stable period of interna tional relations, in view of ex perts here. So a sheaf or wheat or the lack of it could keep pressure off Berlin. It could also explain the Kremlin's almost stoic pa tience in the face of vitriolic and vicious attacks from the men of Peking. Khrushchev, with pressing do mestic projects, would not seem anxious to push a two front cold war with China and the United States. But he claims there will be no slackening of the Soviet space program or relaxation of the U.S.S.R. military posture. 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