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produce privately. Prices have
been slightly raised. The tuFhu-
lent party bosses have been told
to shut up. Although the col
lective farms are still doing badly,
the smallholders are recovering
confidence. Food stocks have. be-
gun to rise and the rations, are
becoming actually obtainable.
A visitor hears more grumbling
about the shortages Of, say, shoes,
pharmaceuticals or books than
about food. Rationing Is still
deeply suspect; this correspond
ent was in a provincial town in
Oriente when shoe rationing be-
gan and the streets we're made
impossible by the queues Of wom-
en- outside any shop with a boot
in its window. Women tourists in
Cuba should not be embarrassed
by the local scrutiny Of their legs;
it is their shoes that are being
stared at. -
Tourists may be asked to leave
their shoes behind in Cuba; they
will certainly be asked to leave
their books. The shortage of for
eign reading matter has conceded
with a surge Of intellectual ac-
tivity. Young Cubans who would
once have exiled themselves in
New York or Paris have returned
to write objectionable plays and
unpublishable poetry. A group Of
architects has gone brilliantly
haywire in designing the new
Center of Arts, Since foreign cur
rency is not to be spent on for
eign literature. novelists are given
every encouragement to scrtbbie
their nights away.
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BY PETER STURSBERG
Contributing Writer

.MONTREAL.-Canada's politi-
cal leaders can range the country
from Newfoundland to British
Columbia, as they are doing.
without altering the fact that the
main result of the election is 60
ing to be decided right here in
the Province Of Quebec.
The way the various political
parties support breaks down by
regions, 1t is clear that II a Lib
eral government is elected to Of
flee on April 8, 1t will be only
with the impetus Of a Liberal
sweep in Quebec.
But If the voters Of this
French Canadian province fail to
/. swing back heavily TO their tradi-
tional Liberal allegiance. politi-
cal forecasters say. three parties
may have approximately equal
strength in the new House OF
. Commons.
1T would be rash at this point
to try to predict what Quebec
voters will do one week hence.
But there are some signs that a
Ideal sweep of Quebec may be
in the making.
A" Quebec elects rs OF the 265
members Of the House OF Com
mons In last years election that
produced q parliamentary stale
mate. in which no party had a
majority. the Liberals won 35
Quebec seats. the Social Credit
Party 20. and the Conservatives
II.
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LiberoIs' Position

LIbeFolS foSItlon
Quebec's antagonism towards
nuclear arms includes some menu
bers Of the provincial Liberal
cabinet, and other Liberals whose
support Mr.. Pearson would like
to have. Quebec Premier Jean
Lesage was hesitant about COM
hitting himself and his provincial
Liberal organization to the active
support Of Mr.. Parsons federal
Liberals until the day a month
ago when the Gallup Poll showed
Mr.. Parsons Liberals were ia
vored by a fat SO per cent Of
Quebec voters polled. The poll
also reported that the Conserva-
tives' popularity In Quebec had
declined from 80 per cent to 26.
and that the Social Creditors had
dropped from 26 per cent to 20.
This indicates that for all Que
bees opposition TO nuclear arms,
this question is not the main
election issue for French-C anadi-
ans. Outweiehing II Is the ques-
ton OF whether Canada shall de-
velop into a truly bilingual and
bicultural nation as envisioned by
French Canadian leaders OF
century ago. All the evidence is
that the great majority OF the
people Of Quebec are dissatisfied
with the position OF their Ian
guage and culture In the union
with English Canada. and a small
but vocal minority is agitating for
Quebec's withdrawal from Can
ada.
The Social Creditors have at
tempted 10 cast themselves In the
role OF defenders. OF French-Ca-
madam rights To counter this
appeal. Mr.. Pearson Is promot-
ing his own brand OF bicultural-
ism that subtly flatters French
Canadians by calling upon them
10 Justify their aspirations
through accepting greater re-
sponsibility In the Canadian fed
Grafton.
Who win win Quebec2 Montreal
will 20 solidly Liberal. but In
many Of the rural districts It's a
tossup whether the people who
voted Scored last June In protest
against rule by the old parties
are ready 10 return 10 the Liberal
fold.
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ships, both parties expect to bene-
fit. over a billion dollars worth
of plant, equipment. and metal
goods were sold to the Communist
Bloc by the Free World In 1860.
Take Italy, for example, the So
viets bartered 100000 barrels of
crude oil day over a five-year
period-about 20 per cent Of, the
Italian oil requirements = in. re-
turn for specific quantities Of
much needed 40-inch pipe, pumps.
synthetic fibers and other es-
sentials. Italy picks up the oil at
Black Sea ports at q price
equivalent to 81 a barrel. At that
price, it's hardly worth taking oil
out of the ground in Texas,
1t could be said that all of
your work in finding reserves, to
meet future production require
ments will be waste Of time II
the Soviets are allowed to carry
out this threat and to under
mine the security Of the Free
World. However, while / am COM
pletely convinced Of the Soviet
threat, I am equally convinced
that the Free Worlds oil COM
panies can be counted on to re-
sist to their utmost in any struggle
for the worlds oil markets.
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The Cutters Don't Work There

Borrowing from American and
South African designs, the Gu
bans have built mechanical cane
cutters on Russian tractors. But
these mechanical cutters will
work only If the cane is planted
thickly on flat ground which it
is not. At a mid-harvest meet
ing of sugar cultivators and pro-
ducers. DR.. Castro's elder brother
Ramon. who controls sugar cul-
tivation in Oriente province and
knows what he is talking about,
rallied at the farmers dependence
on INFLAMMATION: IF there is no
jeep, take a mule" he stormed,
pumping his arms in uncon-
scious imitation of his younger
brother.
The urgency is to get the har-
vest in early so that the new
crop can be sown in time for
next year: The target for 1864
is SIS million tons, and for 1865
7 million. But the size Of the
meeting, and the multiplicity of
organizations represented. re-
called the bog Of bureaucracy
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Not Very Impressed

After we had seen Soviet oil
operations we put our heads to-
gether to compare notes. We were
not particularly impressed. But
realistically, we had to recognize
their tremendous potential. You
cannot deny their great oil and
gas fields, their vast reserves.
You can't deny their successful,
almost explosive development Of
oil and gas resources and oil ex-
port opportunities.
At this point it might be well
to see what kind of conclusions
can be drawn from this sketch
of what we saw of the Soviet oil
industry.
1 am convinced that the So
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From The Economist

A country that can cha-cha-
cha to the International" wears
its communism with a difference.
Neutral diplomats may call Cuba
a Communist paradise, but the
tactful faces of the Russian ex-
perts carry a hint of their baffle-
ment at the soaring hopes. the
sunstruck lethargy, the eager
conformism and the even more
eager heresies Of Caribbean So
cialism.
At the Havana carnival, which
astoundingly survives through all
four week ends of March, the
construction workers syndicate
was using its picks and shovels
Tor makeshift music, and the
builders overalls glistened with
the sweat of their dancing. At
an emulation contest for sugar
mill workers, the goal of greater
national production was forgot
ten as proud provincial leaders
argued stormingly about the
method of calculating the prize.
Socialist planning, institutions
and doctrine have been enthusi-
astically adopted, but the girls in
the night-club shows are not
overdressed. and abstract paint
ers, who would not be seen dead
in company with socialist realism,
get government subsidies.
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time ago, we made the same in
crease in our own production, but
it took us 81 years, from 1907
to 1899.
Even though the Soviet3 had all
the chronological advances since
1907 working in their favor, their
record is an obvious accomplish
ment. With 3.3 million barrels, in
world production they are second
only to our own Z million barrels
daily. For the end Of their present
seven year plan, in 1865, they
have targeted production at as
million barrels daily.
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Whot the Soviet Needs

W 49, ~ ~N''~N 'f~
The Soviet oil industry is In
dire need of exploration, produc-
ton and transportation equip
ment. To an important extent,
the success of the Soviet oil threat
depends on how successful they
are in obtaining line pipe, drilling
rigs, pumps, oil country tubular
goods, and so on. They also need
tankers and complete refinery
units, petrochemical plants, and
electronic gear in order to fulfill
their seven-year goal.
Let's not kid ourselves. They
are going to trade their oil for
this equipment and these facilities,
as we'll as for raw materials, food,
chemicals, and other commodities
from manufacturers and producers
in the Free World. One can't get
around the fact that this trade
with the Communists has been,
and will be, freely entered into by
many nations because, as in all
enduring commercial relation
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through which Cuba is still wad-
ing towards its goal of organiza-
ton.
Cuba is a fertile country and
the Cubans, in their present self
critical mood, agree that there
need never have been the food
shortage that. eight months ago.
brought stocks in the cities dan
gerously low. Two big mistakes
were made in the private sector.
Local party caucuses In some
of the provinces treated the farm
ers with cavalier high-handed-
ness, calling anybody a counter
revolutionary whose property they
had decided to appropriate. Sec
ondly, the farmers were forced to
sell their produce to INRA. the
national institute for agarian re-
form, at uneconomically low
prices. The result was that the
farmers turned sulky and stopped
bothering to produce more than
they needed to keep themselves
in food.
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complicated. Cane cutting is sea-
sonal work, roughly January to
June. and nobody used to bother
much about what happened to
the cane cutters in the dead sea-
son. With good intent, the revo-
lutionary government directed
them into construction work; this
was such a success that, when
the next crop came along, they
would not go back and cut it.
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Winning Book Confidence

Under the dictatorship of DR..
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez (the
Communist Party leader now the
acknowledged egghead Of the rev.
dictionary government). NRA is
trying to win back the farmers
confidence. Stockholders. who
draw on INRA for credit and
supplies, are not allowed to sell
through middlemen. But they are
permitted. If they can manage the
problems Of transport and mar
keting, to sell a quarter Of their
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saw models of wonderful drilling
rigs, bits, refineries and petro-
chemical plants. But the actual
equipment we saw in the field
was nothing to get excited about.
We trekked through four oil
fields, toured four Of their larg-
est refineries, visited the four
best research institutes. but we
saw little evidence Of this won
derful equipment. It Just wasn't
in operation where we were.
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line and 1890 miles of gas line
in 1861: about twice their trunk
pipeline mileage in 1858. This
doesn't sound like much COM
pared with what we're doing here
in the United States. On the
other hand. when you consider
that the average diameter Of
these pipes is 40 inches, their
carrying capacity is tremendous.
These pipelines carry oil to the
satellite countries, the Black Sea
and may eventually carry 1t to
the Sea of Japan-all places
where their export potential is
greatest.
The Soviet Union also is ex-
banding its merchant fleet. So
Wet officials stated that luckily
they don't have TO build tankers
because the Free World has been
so nice and built so many extra
ones which are available at low
charter rates. But we gathered
from several conversations and
recent reports that large tank
ers, rs 5000 to $4,000 tons, are be-
ing constructed on the Black Sea.
We also know they have con-
tracted for large ships in Japan
and Italy.
This tanker and pipeline ex-
panSion certainly adds to the
Free Worlds increasing problems
with Soviet oil exports, as you
have seen pointed up by the news
paper accounts Of a possible So
Wet deal with England for ships.
Refinery capacity has been q
bottleneck in their plans. Refin-
cry runs in 1858 totaled a shade
over 2.6 million barrels a day.
These increased to AIS million
barrels daily in 1862 and are
scheduled to reach 5 million in
1865. With this capacity. 1t Is pos
sible that after satisfying home
requirements, they will have
about 100000 barrels of refined
products daily for Free World
export.
The Models Are Impressive. but
We visited the Novo Ufa refin-
cry. 1t employs about 5000 peo-
pie, 900 of these are engineers
and technicians. It's basically a
large topping plant with limited
cracking and reforming facilities.
But don't forget, the Soviets pri-
marily require fuel oil and middle
distillates, not high octane gaso-
line. They see no point in put
ting in a lot of octane and gaso-
line building equipment.
Characteristically, Soviet indus
try in most areas lags substan-
TALLY behind the United States.
At the permanent exhibition of
Soviet achievement in Moscow,
where they have Hall of Geolo-
gy, a Hall of Oil and Gas, and a
Hall of Petroleum Science, we
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Diefenboker Loser

Now all signs say Prime Min
lister John Diefenbaker is dead In
Quebec: that he'll be lucky 10 get
five Conservatives elected In this
province.
The Liberals need 10 win so or
more seats In Quebec 10 have
their leader. Lester Pearson. In
stalled as Prime Minister Of
majority government. II they fail
10 achieve this goal. their pros
pective gains In other provinces
will at best result only In a mi
nority Liberal administration.
The main fight here is thus
between the Liberals and Social
Credit, the funny money party
that took root In the western
prairies during the Depression,
and burgeoned with astounding
success In Quebec last June 10
give Social Credit the balance Of
power In the short-lived 25th
Parliament.
Part Of Mr.. Parsons problem
Is that he has declared himself
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Conodion Election Hinges
On the Mood of Quebec

strongly in favor of Canadian
acceptance of nuclear weapons,
despite the fact that there is
greater opposition to such a pol
icy in Quebec than in any other
section of the country. The posi-
ton Of his Social Credit opponents
is a flat and uncompromising
mo" to nuclear weapons.
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Costro's Methods

Usually DR.. Castro charges at
his targets with the finesse of q
bulldozer. flattening the objec-
tons and leaving his dismayed
lieutenants 10 tidy UP in his
tracks. First, there was his blitz
on land reform. then on literacy.
then on economic planning. His
condemnation Of the party bosses
heralded the way for a phase OF
self-criticism and a pause for re-
assessment: 1868 became the Ano
de la Organization. But while
most Cubans will readily confess
10 a DISCRIMINATION that Is not
surprising. or even discreditable,
when an economy had been
turned so violently on lis tail,
only a handful see the necessity
Of organizing themselves today
rather than tomorrow.
The Cuban revolution was
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The Stages Of Socialism

The Stages of Socialism
Cuba has bounced into, and out
of, various phases Of socialist de-
velopment. A mild variety Of
Stalinism. during which the party
bosses threw their weight and
their words about. was cut
short a year ago when DR.. Fidel
Castro, catching up with Mr..
Khrushchev. made a speech de-
nouncing sectarisnism and the
tin gods Of ORR. the integrated
revolutionary organization that
links the Communist Party and
Castro's own 26th Of July move
ment. Now. a year later, the gov
eminent is feeling its way to-
wards the recreation Of the group
under a new name, the United
Party Of the Socialist Revolution
(PURS).
Party members are carefully
screened and the leaders have
their sights fixed on national
rather than local goals. Eventu-
ally. PURS. a party dedicated TO
Marxist-Leninist principles. will
no doubt be the organ that runs
Cuba. But the formation Of the
party is the one problem over
which DR.. Castro, the countrys
prime minister. commander-in
chief and inspiration. is taking
his time.
Kodiak mirror., 1963-12-20

gotiating for new treaty, comprise
 roughly the same people and Alas ka has strong representation. Our commissioner is Fred McGinnis. president of Alaska Methodist Uni versity and our industry advisors include Walt Kirkness our con- missioner of Fish & Game, Frank Peratovich as personal represents tive of the Governor, John Smith from Metlakatla, Gorden Jensen, from Petersburg, Pete Tanstad of Cordova, Bill Arnold from Anchor age, Truman Emberg from Dilling- ham, Senator Al Owen and yours truly. The other US. commission CTS are Clarence Pautzke of Wash ington, DC, Ed Allen of Seattle and Al Gatov of San Francisco. The commissioners are appointed by and responsible only to the Pres ident and we advisors serve at the pleasure of the US. commission
Kodiak mirror., 1963-12-20

CTS. Commissioners and advisors de- vote from one to two months year of hard work, and none receives any pay whatever for his services.
 'In negotiating the new treaty, we are fortunate in having as chief spokesman Ambassador Ben Smith, former Senator, Jack Kennedy's roommate at Harvard, man who grew up in the fish business in the port of Gloucester and in my opin- on one of the most powerful voices raised in its behalf in this genera ton.
 "I know of no member of the US. team completely satisfied with the present treaty. But internation- al contracts like agreements in any other phase of human activity must involve compromises sufficient to achieve at least minimum accepta- bility to both sides.
 (Continued on Page POD
Kodiak mirror., 1963-12-20
KODIAK MIRROR
Russ Crab Fishing
 (Continued from Page 12)

NNVusiuucu ITOm rage lZ)
 settled matter, however, by any means and the final agreement was to go very slow, increasing the fleet to some eight or 10 draggers in 1864, again with American and Ca. nadian observers invited to be aboard.
 "A great deal more was discussed in Vancouver, but little other sig nificant action taken. In sense, of course this last meeting was a holding action for all three parties, for this commission is living on bor- r0wed time. The Japanese notified us last spring, as was their right, that they wanted the treaty negoti- ated. These negotiations started in Washington in May continued in Tokyo in September, and will re- sume in Ottawa next spring.
 "The American section of the commission, and the US. team ne-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-10
Anything

This coming week is National Want Ad
week. I've had ii checked on my calendar
pad for long time, because some months
ago ] talked with a newspaPerman who told
me some amazing facts about want ads.
Did you know that want ads are nearly
a billiOn-dOllar business? That last year,
there was an average Of two want-ads for
every man, woman and child in America?
We're all big advertisers!
Of course the fOndest claim Of adver.
Using managers is that you can sell or buy
anything with want ad, and maybe they're
right. My newspaper friend had some
pretty cute examples:
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Funny want ads are all very well, you
might say to yourself, but maybe they
don't seem so funny to the poor adver-
tiser.
And there's where you'd be wrOngl
The ad people tell me that they almost
nev0 get a complaint on a funny ad,
because Il draws so much attention, and
the response is so good.
In fact, / think that il ! should want
to sell my home, I'D start the I'D this way:
Voa sAln nODSsT oID COLONIAL MoVss. -.
QG zee
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Personally, I've always loved to read
the want ads, and my favOrites are the
ones that go astray. A small mistake can
turn a run-of-the-mill sd into q classic
laugh. You know the kind mean:
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WANTHD 70 Rents oNH RseH-enADa
svII Voa BAYS woak N eMIMA SHOP
(AdUafiseT ipGs b0nd-lender Fred WWine.
He'd lost a football BET and had 70 Iced a bul
through china shop. He eOs one, led l.
through Fifth ASmus shop, and only had
10 pay SI.l7 Jw a broken cup and saucT.)
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Here are the Plums Of my collection,
some Of them dating back as far as the old
Literary Digest" which always loved to
print them in its joke column:
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VIA Par Is EAeH
FoR FlaEFlIEs AND sLowwoRMs

(7he advertiser needed nhem far experiments
in luminous paint. He gOi Plen.y.)
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wANTHD. Yong Iody, college degree.
10 teoeh children curses In French
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1851. While sp0nisl who answers 10 lody
with block spols On her hindqVorssrA
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MElP wApsTHD. Cigl 10 he'll with
woshlD0 and ironing.
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APAaTMENI TO sHAAE. Two girl
students Of Hunter College seek wsIl-bEsd hend.
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SALVAGE SAM" ON Interested In
old e0rs ond wrecks See my wife before noon
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DUpHMDAnGa EuaM seeks widow-woshers.
ExpsFisaee dssiruble. Union woess.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-10-04
Loans For Recreational Purposes

The Farmers Home Admins
tration. under the provisions Of
the Consolidated Farmers Home
Administration Act of 1861,
makes loans to farm families to
buy, enlarge, develop and oper-
ate farms. This act was amend
ca by the Food and Agriculture
Act Of 1862 to permit the use Of
loan funds to finance recrea-
tioral enterprises. These loans
are made to farmers and ranch
ers who personally manage and
operate not larger than family
farms, The authorization to use
loan funds for providing recrea-
tional facilities will enable these
family farmers to supplement
their farm income. 7 Technical
management assistance will be
provided with each loan.
Loans are made to farmers
and ranchers who are unable to
obtain the credit they need from
other sources on reasonable
terms. Loans for shifts in land
use and the development of rec
reatiOnal f a cilities are also
made by the FILA to associa-
tons of farmers and rural resi-
dents. Information on such as
ISOLATION loans may be obtained
from the county offices of the
Farmers Home Administration.
Funds for recreational enter
plises may be used to develop
land and water. construct build
ings, and to pure Sc land,
equipment. livestock and other
related recreational items in
Guiding the payment Of operat-
ing expenses. RecreatiOnal en-
terprises which may be financed
on family farms include camp
ing grounds, swimming facili-
ties. tennis courts, riding stables
vacation cottages and lodges,
lakes and ponds for boating and
fishing, docks, nature trails, pic
mic grounds and hunting pre-