Housing Projects' Retention
In Douglas County Depends
On Showing As To Necessity
PUBLIC HOUSING AT SUTHERLIN Her Is a view of the Suth
erlin Homes, one of the public housing projects operated by the
Housing Authority of Douglas county. Annual report of the
authority was released today. (Picture by Photo Lab.)
Activities of the Housing Auth
ority of Douglas county during
the past five years are told m
the annual report released today
by H. L. Scofield, executive di
rector, lhe report also includes
a financial statement covering
operations of the housing projects
at Sutherlln, Roseburg, Myrtle
Creek, and Scottsburg during the
past fiscal year.
Total income from rentals dur
ing the past year was $80,673.23,
Scofield reported. Payments in
lieu of taxes were $6,363.62, while
other administrative expenses
were $54,433.20. Net return to
the U. S. Public Housing Admin
istration, from whom rental units
are leased, was $19,876.41.
"Some folks are puzzled with
what a local housing authority
is, how it is set up, and to whom
it is responsible," said Scofield.
"The state laws permit a local
governing body, such as the
county commissioners, to set up
a local housing authority. They
have the authority to borrow
money to build houses for rent to
families of low income who can
not afford decent housing in the
private market.
"Under this law, in the spring
of 1944, -the commissioners of
Douglas founty saw fit to set up
a local housing authority. It is
composed of five directors ap
pointed by the county court. Each
year one appointment for five
years? is made to the housing
authority by the county commis
sioners. These directors serve the
public without pay.
"The present board consists of
V. M. . Orr, chairman; J. D.
Myers, vice chairman; D. L. Tay
lor, Hans T. Hansen, and George
N. Koontz. The directors in turn
appoint an executive director to
serve under their supervision in
managing the projects which are
under their control."
Chance For Committees
As an emergency war measure,
four Droiects were built bv the
federal government in this coun
ty. These projects were leased
to the local housing authority
for management and have been
operated by it for a period now
of five years.
This housing was set up as a
temporary emergency measure
and the government, at the time
of its construction, promised its
removal when the emergency was
over. Alter this year, these hous
ing projects, to contln"e in opera
tion, will have to show their
necessity and receive special per
mission from Congress.
The federal government does
not build low rental housing, said
Scofield. But under a law just
passed, it will loan money to local
housing authorities to build such
housing. The Housing Authority
of Douglas county stands ready to
cooperate with any community
which desires construction of
permanent public housing in its
locality, Scofield added.
Willamette Tops
In Annual Sales
From Forests
EUGENE, July 19 UP With
sales of over 210 million board
feet of timber stumpage, the
Willamette national forest tim
ber sales set a new national rec
ord during the fiscal year ended
June 30 topping the records of
all other national forests in the
United States. The sales brought
in total receipts of $2442,134.
This timber sale record puts
the Willamette forest at the top
of all the 152 national forests
even though the volume of tim
ber logged is sttl! far short of its
allowable yearly cut under sus
tained yield management. The
allowable cut is' 345 million board
feet per year, also more than
that, of any other national for
est. ...
Receipts ' this year exceed the
year before by over one million
dollars, an Increase of about 85
per cent, in spite of the fact that
forest income from all national
forest timber sales during the
last quarter was down $500,000
trom tne same quarter a year
ago. .
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W. S. C. President Raps
Textbook Committee
PULLMAN, Wash., July 19.
Iff) Washington State college
President Wilson Compton has
complied with the request of a
house Investigating committee on
textbooks. But he protested the
committee s actions.
In a letter to Rep. John Wood
D.-uaj, compton said ne was
sending lists of textbooks and
supplementary readings now be
ing used in literature and social
science studies at W. S. C, as re
quested. But he told Wood, "your re
quest is unwarranted and un
wise." "Unless the committee wishes
to engage in some sort of censor
ship of ideas it should not under
take a promiscuous investigation
of this kind. One of the soundest
teachers I ever had, a man total
ly devoted to the American sys
tem of constitutional govern
ment, used as one of his required
texts 'Das Kapital' by Karl
Marx," wrote Compton.
Presbyterian Church Has
Its Highest Membership
PHILADELPHIA, July 19-,
The total membership in the
Presbyterian Church in the U. S.
A. today was reported at 2,330.136
largest in the history Oi organized
Presbyterianism in America.
Membership figures disclosed
in a statistical report by the gen
eral offices showed that a net
gain of 55.587 in membership was
made between January 1 and
December 31, 1948. The number
of new communicants added in
1948 was reported as 117,476.
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Congressman
Accused Of Union
Funds' Diversion
KANSAS CITY, July 19 (M '
Leonard Irving, democratic rep
resentative in congress trom
President Truman's home dist
rict, and two other men have
been charged in an accounting
petition with diverting funds
from a labor union.
The petition was filed in cir
cuit court by 85 members of the
hod carriers, building and com
mon laborers union of America,
Local 264, of which Rep. Irv
ing is president and business ag
ent. Irving was elected to congress
from Missouri's fourth district
last November.
Named as co-defendants were
Roy E. Livingston, financial sec
retary and treasurer, and Alvin
Butcher, recording and corre
sponding secretary.
Irving came up with the sur
prise victory In the five-way race
for the democratic nomination
for the fourth district post last
August.
His career is a varied one,
ranging from a semi-pro base
ball player to an extra in the
movies.
He came here from California
In 1934. He claimed he did plenty
of pick and shovel work in the
thirties. In 1940 he had become
head of the local union here.
Donations Aid
Destitute Kin
In Son's Burial
PORLAND, July 19. P) Mrs.
Joe Sumners left Monday to take
the body of her 7-year-old son to
Missouri for burial, but the
tragedy was tempered with hope.
The hope was for a happier life
ahead made possible by contri
butions of Portlanders.
Mr.' and Mrs. Sumners and
their six children were almost
broke when they stopped between
harvest-field jobs last week to
cool off by the Sandy river.
Then their 7-vear-old son. Ja
cob, attempted to go to the aid of
another small boy m the river,
and drowned. The Sumners did
not even have the money for
burial here.
An anonymous visitor from
California wrote a check to pay
ior tne trip and burial at tne
family home in Sedalia, Mo.
Other Portlanders. who read of
the plight of the family, also
maae donations.
Mrs. Sumners is taking her 5'
year-old son along with her, the
trip paid for by donations. The
other children are being cared for
oy new-iound friends. A trained
nurse win see that the youngest
child, five months, is cared for.
And the father is planning to
stay in Portland, wnere he has
about a dozen job offers.
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None Of $28 Million Loaned
To 26 States In 1837 Ever
Repaid To Federal Treasury
WASHINGTON Once upon a
time 113 years ago the federal
government had more money
than it needed. Money was "tight"
in the commercial world, so con
gress authorized the treasury de
partment to deposit surplus funds
With the states (reserving $5,
000,000) beginning Jan. 1, 1837.
A total of $28,101,644.91 was lent
to 26 states.
' None of the 26 states has re
turned any part of that money,
and the government so far has
made no attempt to collect any
of it.
The amount of money advanced
was based on the proportion of
representation in congress. For
more than a century there have
been debates in congress over the
obligation, moral and legal, of
the states to repay the money.
Through the years many persons,
including congressmen and state
officials, have written the treas
ury department asking whether
It was loaned or given.
The law passed bv congress on
June 23, 1836, "pledges the faith
of the states to pay the said
moneys and every part thereof
from time to time whenever the
same shall be required for the
purpose of defraying any wants
of the public treasury.
When a business panic hit the
country in 1837, congress enacted
a law postponing further deposits
of treasury funds with the states.
This law provided, however, that
the "three first installments of
money advanced to the states re
main on deposit with them unless
otherwise directed by congress."
Congress Sidetracks Issue
Congress has never directed re
turn of the deposits, and the
treasury cannot collect them until
so directed, officials 6av. How
ever, the law clearly "indicates
that congress has the power to
compel repayment. Back in the
1870s Democratic Senator Roscoe
Conkling of New York said the
deposits with the states could be
construed as call loans which
over the years had become in ef
fect gifts to the states because
they had not been called.
During the Spanish-American
war it was reported that the gov
ernment was considering de
mands for repayment by the
states to help finance the war. No
action was taken, however. In
1922 Rep. William Andrews (R..
Ncbr.) introduced a resolution in
the house calling for the states to
repay the money and for use of
it to finance a federal bonus for
World War I veterans. His meas
ure would have required the
states to pay 4 per cent interest.
He figured that New York,
which had received $4,014,520,
would pay back $17,825,000 and
Pennsylvania would contribute
$12,735,000 on $2,867,514. An
drews' measure and other propos
als for collection of the loans re
ceived scant support in congress.
Mark Graves, New York state
budget director, in 1932 wrote
Secretary of the Treasury Ogden
Mills suggesting congress take ac
tion to forgive the indebtedness
of the states. He said it would
help states which were hurt by
the depression.
Secretary Mills replied that he
didn't think it was a good time
for congress to cancel the repay
ment provision of the loans.
Graves then agreed that it might
be inopportune. So the deposits of
1837 are legally still loans today,
but as long as the congress
Soviet Aid To Chinese
Reds Will Be Exposed
WASHINGTON. July 19.-4T1
Diplomatic authorities forecast
today that the forthcoming Amer
ican "white paper" on China will
include evidence of Soviet back
ing of the Chinese Communists.
There have been repeated
charges that red army troops in
Manchuria- gave the Chinese
communists weapons seized from
the Japanese. Officials said the
record of American dealings with
China during and after World
War II "inevitably" will bear on
these and other aspects of Chinese-Russian
relations.
Under present, plans the white
paper Is scheduled to be published
early next week.
doesn't direct their repayments,
they are as good as gifts, the law
carries no provision for payment
of interest.
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Negro Slayer Of Priest
Dies In Prison Cell
NEW ORLEANS, July 19.-VF)
Frank Bates, 42-year-old Negro
charged with murder In the slay
ing of a Catholic priest, died in
Palish prison Sunday night.
The warden's office said pris
oners In the cell with Bates
heard him mumbling about 2 a.
m., but when they awakened at
5 a. m. they found him dead.
The coroner's office after an
Inquest attributed death to a
heart attack.
Bates was charged with murder
In the iron cargo hook slaying
of Rev. John F. Neifert In Holy
Redeemer church July 8. The
priest was struck down by an as
sailant In a hall of the church,
shortly after celebrating early
morning mass that day.
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