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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 26, 1953)
Lv DECEMBER 28, 1953 L...vEn RREEDE JR. r" A ,n ct Niolc in. ion the business scene this i ..,. Vimifii fii cneeriui f,r housewives, , merchants E producers, lood news ior me PVT. ,,., .linn that 1 v. (s us measured by the -;ov- nrtca In.laV trg coin""1 tortnri nnlnir down. e for November showed a 1,3 per cent, su"" -onth rise. i's Rift to me ineiLiiwiim .'hour shopping binge thnt Christmas retail sales to a L at the tall end of a TOUGH LUCK , Lg im David Kaufmann of bed at z:ju a.m. yc&Mii. survey the damage done rayward car to one of his Iad just returned to bed E heard a crash. He went looitea. more trees were knocked kthi.fV c in w w Tlrnwn nam ina . to police yesterday inut ctnip the uaai lac nuo E ill-tag the night from his rd. PAGE F1FTEBN ing Cost Heading Down Steel Production Goes ; Stores Kept Stepping season which had been painfully slow in getting started, the late buying splurge was more than wel come. This week the volume of money in circulation and in shop ners' nockptbnnke uia t it uinu to t"' in msiury. uun ee tirad- oncci, auiu inrisimas shoppers spent more money in December "than in any previous yuletide season." Santa was good to the small frv too; toy sales for the week were me mgnesi on record. The week's good news for steel producers was a request from General Motors' Fisher Bodv rftvi. slon for a speed-up In delivery of previously ordered auto body steel. risiier muxes oodles for all CM makes from Cadillac to nhcvmiM Steel sources said the request for earlier than - scheduled delivery could mean only one thins: OM was moving up the timetable for Its coming production raco with Ford a race that should see the world's two biggest auto makers rolling at top speed well into the second quarter. From the steel industry's point of view, it couldn't happen a moment too soon. Cutbacks have been in creasingly frequent of late and the hoped-for rash of orders for first quarter delivery slow in coming. The holiday letdown won't stop 1953 from being the biggest produc tion year the steel industry ever had. Output for the year is esti mated by the trade weekly "Iron ai jusi under 112 minion tons. The previous record, In 1851, was 106 million. The general state of the nation's business came in for renewed at tention this week. There were in creasing signs that the prosperity-versus-depresslon theme was being dusted off for use next year in the congressional elections. On the Democratic side. Sen. Sparkman of Alabama 6erved no tice that economic conditions will certainly be a campaign issue next year. sen. Douglas of Illinois said we re "in a real recession" right now. from the Republican corner. Sen. Duff nf Pennsylvania retorted-. I see no sign of a recession. The Democrats tried to win the elec tion last year on the old depres sion issue. They failed." The commerce department noted a decline in factory output and em ployment in the first two months of the current quarter but stressed that industrial production and consumer Income were still ahead of the same period of 1952. The extent to which defense buy ing has slackened off was indicat ed by a top-ranking pentagon of ficial this week. Army purchasing of manufactured goods, said under secretary Earl D. Johnson, has slowed to a walk and will ease off even more- next year. "Industry's backlog of army orders is shrink ing," he said. "During last July, August and September we bought about 80 per cent, less goods than during the same months last year." With military orders easing off, manufacturers were taking a clos er look at the nation s vast con sumer market. W. R. Dabney, president of the American Home Laundry Manufac turers Assn., said he expects 4 million household washers and Iron- ers to be sold In 1053 and next year the number should be close to 5 million. Big Four Jockey, For Spot As US, Britain; France Consider Russian Request By EDMOND LEBRETOJJ WASHINGTON I The United States, Britain and France are con sidering their reply to a soviet proposal for postponement of a Big Four foreign ministers con-' fcrence, amid signs they will agree to the delay and keep pressing for the meeting. The State Department indicated Worker Blown From Paint Plant GALLUP, N.M. in Charles H. Challacombe, SI, yesterday was flipped 35 yards through tne air by an explosion in an automobile paint shop. He escaped with third degree burns on the face and hands. Witnesses said the explosion tore the roof off the building as Chal lacombe opened the door to enter, "I saw the roof go up and down and then saw a man flying through ihe air about three feet off the ground," said Mrs. George Armstrong. this is the U. S. attitude, even thnuoh it lmolied the Russians mght be maneuvering to lessen the cnances oi r rBu jvuhub European Defense Community (EDC). A British Foreign Office spokes man expressed confidence tne three Western powers, which had --.J ian A rni - mitine in JIUpU3CU ! B o Berlin, would accept the Russian counter suggestion mat u uc wem Jan. 25 or later. French official sources said only that the note Russia sent the three Saturday would have to be studied mrpfullv. But In Bonn yesterday Chancel lor K.onraa Aaenauer oi vreai. uci many, whose future would be high among the subjects discussed at BETTER PHOENIX. Ariz. IB Frank A. Nixon, father of the vice Presi dent, no longer Is listed as critical lv ill at St. Joseph's Hospital here. He Is recovering from a gastric hemorrhage. any Big Four meeting, predicted the proposal wouio db wi And the Soviets, In a broadcast yesterday that could be a prop aganda prelude to the conference, blasted away again at the Western plan for free all-German elections. Mnsenv radio, heard in London, aired an article from the official publication Izvestla saying "false talk about 'free elections' is needed by the Adenauer clique ana its natrons to screen their endeavor to get full control of Germany for their aggressive aims. The Izvestia art ele repealed me Russian idea of East and West German Parliaments joining in a temporary all-German government to supervise elections a ptan which the West says offers no guarantee of freedom in the East zone and gives the Communists undue influence. France, deeply divided for and against ratlficaton of the EDC treaty which would create a united West European army, faces the touchy problem of organizing a new government after Jan, 17, when its new President takes of fice. Any hope that talks with Rus sia might reduce international ten sion presumably would encourage French hesitation on EDC, which the Soviets strongly oppose. Against this background, the State Department commented Sa urday that it seems "somewhat curious that the Soviets now say more time is needed "for appro priate preparation. It pointed out that the Western invitation to the Soviet Union to join in a meeting has been outstanding since July. fm, Bnulat. nntft referred to the , , r aaetirfntr "nrniwr lnllJUIlalll.II U, BOOM. i conditions for participation In this conference ior an me buyciu-ments. The State Department remarked, "the Soviet Union presumably has solicitude for other participating governments and assumes that it is better qualified than the gov ernments of France, the United rinmlnm antt th United States to decide what best suits their own interests.' r,i1nmata voaf In thin wordlntz MQCSaaa in PrMvhmpn! You knOW better than Russia what your own interests are. Another section of the Soviet Hcko was interpreted as a possible delaying gambit. The Western pow ers had proposed me mrmcr wucu AiVinrlti, hntlrifnflr in the V. 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