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.
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Expanding Hong Kong Population
Relies On Red China Water Supply
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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.
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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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Vanduls who destroyed the insu
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power failure that inconvenienced
residents of the Rocky Point
area for about an hour last Fri
day, the Pacific Power and
Light Co. disclosed Monday.
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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BONANZA There will be no
meeting of the Bonanza Garden
Club on Wednesday, Aug. 14. The
next meeting w ill lie at the home
of Mrs. Mary Sparks on Aug. 28.
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