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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1963)
Chicken War Threatens Transatlantic Future FRANKFURT. Germanv il'PI The transatlantic chicken war may be just the opening skirmish in a trade battle between the free world's economic giants. Tlie issue in the current strug le is whoe chickens West Ger mans will fry in the future. Not an earth-shattering prob lem? Perhaps, but feathers start ed flying when the European Common Market Commission in Brussels virtually banned the cheaper American frozen chickens by clamping a prohibitive tariff on them. Last year, West Germans bought S51.3 million worth of poultry from the United States. Since (lie tariff boost, American chicken imports have fallen to a trickle. "Fifty million dnllarc ic inO a drop in the bucket compared to i.i ouuon dollars worm ol agri cultural nrntnr-tc Wpct fjprmanv , buys from the United States." imuna n. uriggs. European di rector of the Institute of Ameri can Poultry Industries, said. "Rut what hanrwnpd In (lie chickens could happen to other commodities. Become Test Case The chickens have become a test case in what seems to shape up as a trade war between the economic giants of the Western Families Of Casters Hold Picnic TULELAKE - Mr. and Mrs, M. R. Laird and Mrs. Mar guerite Dayton were hosts July 28 at a family reunion in the Ma lm Park. Mrs. Dayton and Ray mond Laird of Tulclake are de scendants of a pioneer couple, Marion N. and Mnry Caster, who settled in the Rogue River Valley in 1882 with their family of nine children. One remaining son. LeRov Cas ter of YakimaC was unable to attend due to illness. Elva Catherine Caster, daugh ter of Marion and Marv Caster. was the mother of Raymond Laird and Mrs. Dayton. She married Charles .1. Laird, who founded Laird's Landing on the south end of Lower Klamath Lake In Northern California. The land ing was used when travel into the Klamath country was by boat. Following the picnic lunch the afternoon was spent looking at old family pictures and recalling family events by the elders while younger guests enjoyed the swim ming pool. From Medford were Mrs. Ef fie Caster, Mrs. Orville Caster and four sons, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Caster, one son and two grand sons, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lester, Mr. and Mrs. Don Minear and three daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Kelly Brooks, Mr. and Mrs. Nor man Vance and four children, and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Claflin. The 25th annual family picnic will be held at Tub Springs in 1964. HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Oregon Tuesday, August 13, 1963 PAGE 3 I world, the United States and the Common Market. The French, eager to dump their chicken surplus on the West German market at the expense of the Americans, apparently thought they already had won the war. But then the United Stales threatened to strike back at the spot where it hurts most the pocketbook. By pitting the Volks wagen and other vulnerable Com mon Market exports against the chickens, it hoped to reach a compromise. If tl-e American threats arc implemented, West Germany will be hit worse than other Common Market countries, the Federal Economics Ministry complained. And a spokesman for the coun try's export-aimed electrical in dustry lamented bitterly: "Those stupid birds did all the damage." Consumers Like Theni The West German consumers seem to like the "stupid birds" from America. American poultry first hit West German frying pans four years ago and aroused a ravenous ap petite for more. Per capita con sumption jumped from 7 to 14 pounds. West Germans once regarded fried chicken as upper-crust fare ranked not far below caviar. Then they discovered they could afford to buy American ibroilers. Corner grocers installed elec tric fryers for the take - home trade, and chicken restaurants shot up throughout the country. German cookbooks came out with "southern fried" recipes. Even the entertainment indus try got on the bandwagon with the hit tune "Brathendl Polka" (Fried Chicken Polkai, a ditty; popularized by. a Bavarian hill billy. Comes To End But the boom ended abruptly when the Common Market com mission raised the tariff on American broilers. Chicken con sumption in West Germany de dined 20 per cent. Consumers switched to other meat rather than pay a premium for Euro pean poultry. ' ! . 0 .. 'i v V Mil L v jl J mktumiut n 1 1 i i i " ti i ' Tunmi inrniir . Expanding Hong Kong Population Relies On Red China Water Supply SHOP!! SAVE!! at rh Solvation Army FAMILY SERVICE STORE I -JO nrifin Avrnur Oprn Dmlly 10 Till 1 F M Services Held For Mrs. Hornof MALIN Private services were held Aug. 3 at Lewis Chapel in Bremerton, Wash., for Mrs. Car rie Hornof, 77, a resident of Ma- lin until a few months ago when she moved to Bremerton to make her home with a daughter, Mrs. Arthur Linn. Mrs. Hornof was a native of Blatenka. Czechoslovakia. Feb. 24, 1886. She came to the United States in 1904, and lived in Chi cago whore she married the late Frank Hornof. They homestcaded in Montana and moved to Oregon 10 years ago. Survivors include two daugh ters, Mrs. Floyd Harmon, Malin, Mrs. Arthur Linn, Bremerton: a son. Frank of Los Angeles: a brother, two sisters; five grand children and two great-grandchildren. PROTESTS BAN PACT Dr. Edward Teller, right, chats with Sen. John Stennis ID Miss. ) prior to appearing before a Senate Armed Services Preparedness Investigat ing Subcommittee. Teller, an outspoken opponent of the nuclear test ban treaty, ap peared on the security implications of the tjst ban treaty. Stennis is chairman of tho group. UPI Telephoto HONG KONG (UPI) - The Chinese Reds could take over this tiny British outpost with ease, either by armed force or simply by cutting off the water supply. Hong Kong, which flaunts sky scraper hotels, swank country clubs and a vast indutrial com plex, gets about five billion gallons of water a year from China, and the Reds can turn off the faucet any time they choose. But no one here is worried. There is virtually no fear on the part of government officials or private citizens that China will make that strategic move, al though all agree the colony would be easy pickings if it did. Why is Hong Kong so safe. while other less desirable pieces of real estate are eyed covet ously by the Communist Chinese? The critical water shortage is Hong Kong's jugular vein and the mid-summer madness which saw thousands of barely clothed peo ple running into the streets with bars of soap in their hands at the slightest sign of a rain shower has passed. No Relief Seen But the critical shortage of fresh water which caused tlie cri sis is not over. And in the opin ion of most realistic government officials, it will not end in the foreseeable future. Hong Kong has a population whose natural expansion races ahead of engineers' frantic schemes for preserving precious rainfall. The engineers have been fight ing a losing battle since 1859, when the governor, Sir Hercules Robinson, offered a reward for the design of a workable water supply system. The winning plan provided for a small impounding reservoir in the Pokfulam Valley. Capacity of this first reservoir was 86 million gallons less than Hong Kong s 3.5 million res idents consume in an average summer day today. The trouble is that Hong Kong depends on rainfall for all its water. It is necessary to con serve the run-off from the wet season (April to September in sufficient man-made storage res ervoirs to last during the dry season (October to March i. Have Strict Rationing There is strict rationing of wa ter in Hong Kong. Residents cur rently only receive water pres sure in their taps for four hours every fourth day. There has been a mass campaign aimed at elimi nating water wastage, and the Hong Kong government this sum mer managed to reduce the total per capita consumption. The most famous pipeline in the colony at this date, is the one which brings water into the New Territories from across the Red Chinese border. Under an agreement with the Reds, Hong Kong purchases five billion gallons per year from the mainland Shumchun reservoir, paying 23.4 Hong Kong' cents (about four U.S. cents) per thou sand gallons. The water was ori ginally offered free of charge. But the British, spotting an invi tation to the exercise of political pressure at some future date, in sisted on contracting for the sale, rather than for the gift, of the water. Residents Confident Tlie crisis over water supplies has once again raised tlie old Domestic Peace Corps Plan Attracts Praise, Condemnation From Senators WASHINGTON UPI' - Sen.: Harrison A. Williams. D-N.J., said today President Kennedy's proposed domestic Peace Corps! would bring hope to "millions of Americans still living in poverty. deprivation and despair." Williams made tlie comments in remarks prepared for tlie opening round of Senate debate on the administration plan to cre ate a national service corps of volunteers patterned after the successful overseas Peace Corps. The measure faced the cold re ality of sharp opposition irom de termined foes. Senate GOP Leader Everett M. Dirksen, 111., served notice in ad vance that he would move to have tlie measure sent back to! a committee pigeon hole. Failing th.s. Dirksen said, he hoped to muster enough opposition votes to take the bloom oil the bill and lessen its chances for approval in a more hostile House. Sen. John G. Tower, R-Tcx.. said he would offer several civil rights amendments to require that the corps be racially inte- laueslion of Communist China's ileverage over this tiny foreign enclave which China probably could capture without firing a shot. But old Hong Konff hands know what value a free Hone Kone holds for Red China, in terms of hard dollars and cents in trade and in terms of access to the great outside world, especially in view of Peking's quarrel with its Kussian neighbors. For this reason, authorities here have no comDiinctinn ahnnt in creasingly drawing their water supplies Irom that vast hinterland which lies on the other side of the Bamboo Curtain. As lone as Communisl China remains out of the United Na tions and has sur-h limitprl rila. tions with the other nations of the world. Hone Konff has much more value as a doorwav to the West than it would ever have as just another city in China. LA To Host Billy Graham LOS ANGELES ( UPI ) Evange list Billy Graham returns to the scene of his first maior triumph this week when he opens a three- week crusade bringing his old time religion" to the masses. It was in 1949 tlie 44-year-old North Carolinan hit the big time following a crusade here. How ever, in 1949 his crusade was held in a tent pitched on a vacant lot and not the 106.000-scat Memorial Coliseum where he opens Thurs day. Since those tent meetings. Graham has carried his crusades across every continent and into many of the world's greatest cities. grated, and barring any projects in areas -which practice discrim ination. The bill authorizes an initial outlav of $3 million to start the proposed program and recruit up to 300 volunteers. Enrollments would expand In ,000 by June 30 of next year. and eventually reach 5.000 in per- naps three years. The cost would rise as tlie program expanded. torpsmen would receive a min imal living allowance and a monthly stipend of $75. Volun teers both youths and men and women of retired age would assist such local projects as the care of the elderly and disab'ed. menla'ly ill, help in rural and urban slums and on Indian reservations. Backers argued that corps per sonnel, working under the super vision of local olticials, would prov'dc a "new dimension of service at home." The goal of the corps will be, "by the efforts of a few, to ignite the energies of many," a com mittee report explained. "Hy pro viding an opportunity for Ameri cans to serve their nation in peace. . .tlie corps will reempha size tlie traditional American pre cepts of neighborly concern and the value of local solutions to local problems." In an opposition minority re-j port. Republican Sens. Tower andl Len B. Jordan, Idaho, said that! supporters made it sound as though a "vote against this bill is tantamount to a vote against Mother's Day." But Tower and Jordan said tlie program "would be a waste of taxpayers' money." "The whole thing is an act, a publicity stunt to draw attention. We can only conclude that the administration in proposing this bill seeks to reap a political bar vest of publicity. . ." 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The power shutdown resulted as a rainstorm blew into the area Friday, saturating the power lines and causing those lines with' the damaged insulators to short cir cuit 'and set fire to some of the poles. Damage was estimated at some $400, according to Sam Ritchey. district manager of the PP&L. More important than the dam age to the power company proper ty. Ritchey said the short cir cuit "could have caused a forest fire that may have ravaged the entire countryside." Tlie damage w as detected by a PP&L superintendent who was on patrol near the Geary Ranch Fri day. Riti-hey reminded parents that they are rcsxnsible for damage done by their youngsters to Pa cific Power and Light Company property and lor any destruction caused by forest fires resulting from that damage. 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