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10 Trie Nw-RyUw, Ro.eburi, Or Tut., Aug. 2, 1949 SS0O CHILD'- W (NF.A TJ-phMo) Sessions and Vtree Edwards, 3, share a 7.v. i i tu. CH.inna hMii in RMwmff. Ala. Vlree'a father. HCuin iu ' ' , , , layman KlTln Edwards, an unemployed miner, Is being held by police ; charted wHh selling the child to the Sessions for (500. Police said be used the money to buy a car. The Sessions have started adoption proceedings. Government Reorganization Won't Save 'Billions' For United States NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON. How much money Is going to be saved for the taxpayer by reorganization of the federal government? There hai been some loose mention of possible savings of from three to four billion dollars. These hopeful assurances have been made following publication of the (core of reports by ex-President Hoover's Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of Government, Anyone Interested in playing a Grasshoppers About Through For This Year But Eggs LaidCall For Baffle Next Spring RENO, Nev., Aug. 1-.P Ne vada's tremendous horde of grasshoppers is about through for this year, but from now on you can call them Oregon's grass hoppers. Federal entomologists return ed from another survey of the locust -stricken area with the re port that two thirds of '.he horde has migrated across the Nevada Oregon border this summer into Lake and Harney counties. But that is about as far as they're going this year. "Most of them are in Oregon now, but they are pretty well spent." reported W. B. Mabee, lis. Bureau of Entomology rep resentative for Nevada. 'They are losing their strength and can't fly Into the prevailing winds anymore," he said. "They are dying off pretty fast and by the middle of August there shouldn't be a hopper left in the area." That doesn't mean, however, that the grasshopper plague is at an end for good. The hoppers or more techni- little game of "Who Said That?1 finds trouble in pinning down the answer. In one broadcast, Mi'.. Hoover did say he thought mini mum laving of $3,000,000 might be made. But nowhere In the reports of his Commission and his task forces is it explained where these savings are coming from. Truth of the matter la that many of the Hoover Commission experti seemed to be afraid of (ticking their necks out. Careful examination of their reports re veals only half a dozen places in which definite amounts were mentioned as possible savings by reorganization. In the report on Department il Agriculture, savings of $80,000, 000 were Indicated. Function.il reorganization of the department shifting its Jobs around from one bureau to another so as to provide more efficient manage mentwas estimated to result in $44,000,000 savings. The other $36,000,000 could be achieved by cnanging the law governing op erations of the various farm credit agencies. 'Savings' To Be Absorbed It has been generally under stood that the biggest savings will be made through further re organization of the armed serv ices. Mr. Hoover himself has tes tified he thought savings of from $1,000,000,000 to $1,500,000,000 might be made here. Legislation to permit Defense Secretary Louis Johnson to ef fect this reorganization now seems certain of passage, after a long tie-up In the House of Rep resentatives. But the savings may be zero In the coming Z months. The reason is that Con gress last year authorized the armed services to make con tracts for expenditures of $1,500, 000.000 more than It appropriated money for. So Secretary Johnson finds himself In the embarras sing position of having to save l.5UO,uoo,000 Just to meet current expenses. The next biggest chunk of sav ings Is expected to come from better personnel management In government. Since the war, the turnover of federal employment has been as high as from three to five per cent a month. That means from 700,000 to 1.000,000 new employes a year. The total government pavroll is now about $6,000,000,000. This Includes the pay of the armed services. The Hoover Commis ion task force which studied gov ernment personnel problems es timated that It should be possible to make a 10 per cent reduction. Better handling of government records was estimated to make possible savings of $16,000,000 a year. The Hoover Commission made studies of typical govern ment 21e cabinets. Actual kvvlngs Negligible The Commission found that cost of the cabinets, plus over head for heat, light and service. cost $29 a year for each four drawer file cabinet. Every time the contents of one file cabinet were transferred to cardboard cartons In the steel racks of a central records office, the saving was $27 a year. For the Post Office Depart ment, the Hoover Commission recommended that the auxiliary services be made self-supporting. Included were the service costs on money orders, post cards, spe cial delivery, registered, Insured and COD mall. Raising the rates would make these services self austaining. The total of all these estimated savings la $2,559,000,000. The net ; saving If military and agricul tural savings can't be effected this year, is $979,000,000. Public Affairs Institute of Washington has Just made a survey indirat ing that the actual savings will be only about $300,000,000 a year. Prime Minister Attlee III After Election Talk LONDON, Aug. 2 (JPl Prime Minister Attlee has fallen ill. be coming the third of Britain's "big tour leaders to go on the sick list In time of a national crisis. The British Press association said Attlee, 6t, had been bedfast after delivering a Labor Party election campaign speech In Lon don Saturday. Only Herbert Morrison. dcDutv frlme minister and fourth rank ng member of the Labor govern ment caDiner, remains lit for duty. Protective Cover Aids Moisture To Soak Into Soil Whether raindrops "dig In" to help in producing higher yields or "dig out" the soil particles and carry them away depends a great deal on the protective cover for the land, says J. F. Bonebrake, chairman of the Douglas County Agricultural Conservation com mittee. When raindrops strike bare soil, the particles which give the soil Its structure are broken and the surface is sealed over. This compact layer often less than an eighth of an inch thick may become "slick" so that it sheds water like a tin roof. Instead of soaking in, the raindrops run off. As the little trickles run together, they pick up particles of soil and the bombardment of these soil particles Increases the erosion. Where there is a good cover ing of grass or other thick grow ing crops, the fall of the rain drops is broken and the moisture filters down Into the sou. Holds Soil Together Crop residues serve the same purpose. The stubble of a small grain crop incorporated Into the surface soil helps to break up the falling raindrops so that more of the moisture soaks in. The crop residues also help to hold the soil together keep It from being broken up for easy erosion. Mr. Bonebrake explains that the Agricultural Conservation Program encourages farmers lo carry out practical measures for checking erosion ana conserving moisture. The purpose is to pro vide an Incentive to get farmers started In conservation farming. Since the entire population de pends on the soil for food and fiber It Is to the national interest to see that the source of these necessities is protected. He urces all farmers of Doug las Couny to use the program to help them with ineir conservation problems. SCREENS Soreen Doers Soreen Wire Window Soreens PAGE LUMBER t FUEL 164 E. 2nd Ave. S. Phone 242 Yesterday's Temperature 95 S - n.ii'itiy---"w- f 1 Be Your Own Weatherman . f0c;r THERMOMETERS Wondering how hot it is? Know the temperature oil the time with a nationally-known, accurate Taylor ther mometer. Come in soon and see our complete selec tion of Taylor instruments. 65c, 1.75, 3.50 .1.50 to 10.00 Outdoor Thermometers Indoor Thermometers. Maximum-Minimum Thermometers . 10.00 Hygrometers 7.50 Measures Humidity UMPQUA VALLEY A Home-Owned and Operated Store 202 N. Jackson Phone 73 cally, locusts lay millions ofj eggs before they die. From the eggs will hatch enough grasshop pers unless next spring's control efforts are successful to cover even more than the 3.000 square miles they Infested this year. Next spring's big battle will tell the story as to whether the hoppers will continue on their Or egon Journey Federal, state and finvate resources will be mobil ised for a concentrated five-week fight against the hoppers as soon as they start hatching between April 15 and May 1. Roar Mightily on Wing Egg beds already have been plotted and will be mapped min utely this winter. The campaign ers will have only five weeks to get their killing work done be cause about five weeks after hatching the little hoppers sprout wings and from then on they are impossible to control. When they are on the move, they are so dense that a man has to cover his head as they roar across the land. Experts report ed that when this year's horde was at its migratory peak, the roar of wings sounded like a dis tant waterfall. Presently, about two-thirds of the horde is in Oregon. The ma jor concentration, Mabee said, Is in the Hart mountain antelope refuge, extending some 15 miles north of the refuge headquarters, overlooking Warner valley. Ma bee said he doesn't believe they will go down into the vaiiey this year. Overall, the hoppers are 65 miles into Oregon, covering an area of about 65 miles by 20 miles. Just how far they have gotten Into California is not known def initely here. 7-YEAR VARIETY Grasshoppers are memliers of the locust family and are prop erly called locusts. However, Ma bee explained that many people, especially in the mid-west think of locusts In terms of what are popularly known as the 17-year locusts. The 17-year locust Is not a lo cust at all; it is a cicada, an in sect with big wings that makes a whirring noise like a rattle snake. Just how much damage the grasshoppers have done in Ne vada, Oregon and California this year, no one here is willing to estimate. They have eaten the foliage from thousands of rangt bushes, leaving only the naked stalks. Whether this brush will revive NEED CASH? Swift Co. will buy Poultry and Eggs Every Friday at the ROSEBURG GRANGE SUPPLY 222 Spruce St. next year is not known. Areas Avoided by Cattle The most damaged ranges are in northern Washoe and Hum boldt counties of Nevada, and Lake and Harney counties In southern Oregon. That area is sometimes called wasteland but Mabee sputters at that term. "H depends upon your point of view," he said. "If you are sitting In the middle of an orchard, that country up there may look like wasteland, but to a cattle man that is pretty darned good range. 'The cattle and other animals we saw up there are just as fat and sleek as those on good grass land in Irrigated areas. "Cattle seem to avoid areas where the hoppers have been," he said, but so far there has been no need to reduce the number of cattle on the range because of lack of forage. 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