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-I EIGHT ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 194' Another Unit of Tuie Lake Lands Opened to Vets WASHINGTON. Oct. 21-t.P) The Bureau of Ri-clamnlion yes terday opened 3.Sf2 acres of ir rigated farm lands in the fertile Tule Lake division of the Kla math irrigation project on the ' California-Oregon border to set tlement by 44 families. The land, lirsl on the proposed Modoc unit, is an area which has been without a crop failure for 25 years. It is the eighth major land opi ning, and the second on the Klamath project since the end of the war, in the Reclamation Bureau's program to provide farm settlement opportunities for war veterans. The 44 farms, ranging from 70 to 110 acres, lie within the for mer boundaries of Tule lake. Irom which Jl.otjf) acres have been reclaimed by drainage. The farms currently are being leased to farmers in the aiea. The first chance for the home steads will go to World War II veterans who apply bclorc Janu ary 20. Winners will be deter mined at a public di awing. Non-veterans will be placed in a secondary category. Karh suc cessful applicant will be given two barrack-type buildings or their equivalent from surplus structures at former war reloca tion camps. In the hills, but a drought this year has parched the highlands and driven the hungry animals foraging down into the low parts where men live and have farms. Ixjnald L. Mclj-ati, biologist for the Slate Division of Ktsh and (iame, recommends controlled hunting (luting the ojien season, but olficial action has not yet been taken. He estimates that to fence the deer out of the farmlands would cost SIj.OOO. ernment alleged that the extent of the shipments of explosives and the safety measures put into cited by the armed services en titled the government to lower charges. Attorney General Clark said in announcing the ac-iion that "in vestigation indicates that ex plosives and ammunition traffic was the most profitable ever en I Jolyed by the railroads. counsel tor tne railroads said the government's claims on war time freight charges have been variously estimati-d up to 000,000,0"". The famous cedars of Lebanon have all but disappeared. Deer Problem For Catalina Island CATAMNA ISLAND, Calif. Back in 1JC8 somrloiy put a pair of mult-tail divr on this Is land, where early explmers shot goats for rtvaf. In 1930, eight more deer were brought In. Now there are estimated to be 2.50 of them and ihcy invade gardens and vtfrtanl patches and even climb front porches to get at potted plnnts. What is known locally as the "deer situation" is partly due to the fact that the dc-r have faced Ifw of the customary enemies such as coyoti-i and mountain Jions. Only an occasional bald eagle nabs a fawn. It still is illegal to hunt them. Oidiuarily thesi deer stay back U.S. Seeks Refund From Railways on Wartime Charges WASHINGTON. Oct. 2-lM The Justice I apartment announc ed yesterday it has a-ked the In terstate Commerce Com mission to order a n fund from 719 rail roads contending they should have charged lower rates for war ! time .shipments of inert expio sives. The government recently filed a similar complaint concerning rates lor "hot" explosives, one of a seues of claims based on war time freight movements. The railroads yesterday handed the ICC a brief in which they de nied they had overcharged the government for wartime freight and that shipments "moved to a substantial extent upon rates far lower" than timse charged trie public. 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