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4 Tk News-Review, koseburg. Ore. Fri., Aug. 5, 1949 Published Oally Ixeept Sunday ry the Newi-Revie Company, Inc. taunt h aaaa alaai aullar Mar '. ' Baaabirf. Oragaa. aaaar aal at March S. 1111 CHARLES V. STANTON IDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Manager Member of the Aseoeiated Press. Ortgon Newspaper Publishers Association, the Audit Bureau of Ciroulationa littunul r WElT-HOLLIDat CO., INC.. aCllcM la Naw tars. Calaafa. aaa traaeiaaa. Laa Anfalaa, Saaltla, Parllaaa. at. Laala. SDBSCeiPTION SATH la Orataa Mall rar Taar IIM. m ajaalai M.M. laraa aiaala. It. ft. Br Cllj larrlir Par rar !. Ila aataaeal. JM laaa aaa raar, par aaaala II.M Oattlaa Oragaa Br Malt Par raar It aa. til aaatka H.la. IHraa aaaalaa 11.11 UMPQUA WATER WANTED The Banyan Tree By CHARLES V. STANTON The Department of the Interior, it is revealed, ha its eye, on waters of the Umpqua and Rogue rivers for diver lion into thirstv California. The Eat Oregonian, Pendleton, reports that Senator Lowell Stockman recently demanded clarification of state ments by William E. Warne, assistant secretary of the in terior, regarding the rivers he proposed as "suppliers" in diverting water from the Pacific Northwest to California. In tha ataaaneo of Aaalatant Secretary Warna, I am reply Ing to your lattar of Juna 13, following up pravloua eorre pondanea an tha aubjtet of potential dlvaralon projeeta to tha Cantral Valley. I would ba glad to diaeuaa In aomo dttail othar atraam baalna In addition to tha Klamath rlvtr whloh might aupply aomo of tha watar naadad In California. Unfortunately, however, tha Bureau of Reclamation haa barely etarted Ita united Waatarn raeonnaiaeanoa atudlee, and very little data aro praaently available en thia eubjaet. The Idea waa con ceived primarily to utilize axceaa flowa of tha Pacific coaatal streams, aueh aa tha Rogue and Umpqua riven, and If neoes aary tha Columbia rlvar, diverting tham aouthward to araaa In need of additional Irrigation and municipal water tup pi laa. Whatever eourea auch a dlvaralon may take, other watarahada will nead to ba eroaaed anreuta and potaibllitlee axlat for picking up additional axcata flowa In theea Inter mediate watarahada. Studiaa ara being made to determine tha practicability of ualng tha watara of the Intermediate etreama In order to Inaura that no potential aourea of watar haa bean neglected In evolving the ultimata plan. Reaulta of the preaant raeonnalaaance atudiaa will give acme Indica tion of tha potential aupply from varloue aourea a, the po tential watar demanda and value of watar of tha aervlee areaa under eonaideratlon, and tha economic and engineer ing feaalbllity of varloue routee and plana. Two pointa In connection with thaaa atudiaa cannot bo too atrongly emphaelied; flrat, that we are intereated only In utllliing water which would not bo needed In the baain or baaina of origin, and eeoond, that our atudiaa to data are In, the earlleet atagae and ara daaignad only to deter mine whether aueh dlvaralon plan might have engineering and economic feaalbllity and to deolde whether mere detailed atudlea are warranted at thla time. Tha connected, coordi nated operation of the Paclflo coattal atreame of California and Oregon would make poitlble maximum utilization of tha watar reaouroaa of all thote atreame by ataurlng water ueera In all affected watartheda of aacurity agalnat extreme watar shortages I believe that eventually tha tramendoua . dioeharge of the Paclflo Coaat atreame oan ba utilized for the benefit of all watar uteri from Seattle to San Dlago, and Indirectly, fer auch remote pointe aa Reno, Salt Lake City, and Denver, So, there you have it! California, having destroyed its own water resource, and now being limited in industrial and population expansion, and having seized as much water from nearby sources as it could grab, is looking toward the water supply of the Pacific Northwest. The Department of the Interior appears very interested in this grandiose scheme of water diversion. The Depart ment of the Interior also is doing everything within it power to create a Columbia Valley administration to be directed and controlled entirely from Washington. The Umpqua and Rogue river valleys, which have no geograph ical reason for being included in CVA are embraced in the valley authority plan. Is it possible that the interior department's plan to steal Pacific Northwest waters to supply California is one of the CVA urgencies? We're quite surprised that some bright lad from the interior department hasn't come forward with an idea to pump all the water from the Pacific Northwest into Crater lake and then parcel it out to the western states according to the dictates of a bureaucrat handling push-button controls on a desk in Washington. Maybe we shouldn't have mentioned it I in By Viahnett S. Martin y ' Mra. Algernon Bltwunt needed a new hat: one (he could wear traveling, with anything, and anywhere. Small and not fussy. One bright day she started out not In Douglas county hope fully but after three or four shops she wilted to a state of complete despair. One tall, languid Individual had placed Just one hat on top of Mrs. B's braids, assuming the stance of a quoit thrower looking at a ringer. She gave up at once when Mrs. B didn't agree . . . Mra. B went out wondering If her head waa abnormal or something?" You'll never find anything to fit your head with those braids!" There was the cordial, warmly smiling little person who skimmed hats on and off with the agility of a juggler, the smile getting less warm until It had disappeared; the cordiality a bit frost-bitten. Mrs. B extricated herself with difficulty from a de termination to sell her a hat , . . One saleswoman Jumped at once to the solution. She pressed a crown-lens hat down over Mrs. B's head: "There, your braids will show! They look pretty that way!" Mrs. B couldn't bring her self to agree. Another hat was a went out to tne street wonder ing If scissors was her only an swer? She had to have a hat today, too! With a sigh ahe entered a shop where the windows suggested she might pay plenty if she bought a hat here. Her need waa for a friend as well as a hat! She found understanding and efficiency here. Her wails were cut short with gracious firmness: "It's right for you to wear braids, and they're lovely. . It's right you should wear a hat because you are not complete without a hat. Now we'll see ..." Mrs. B was studied a moment with careful appraisal. Then a hat was placed on her head. "Oh!" said Mrs. B, "I like It! It does something for me!" It did, indeed. It lifted her heart and her spirit soared! The price? Very little more than she had considered paying, but never did she get more for her money! Not only had she bought a hat she would enjoy gearing, but also she had re ceived a course In sales psychology. Fourteen New Iron Lungs Added To Oregon Polio-Fighting Equipment Fourteen new Iron lungs, pur chased with $28,000 of March of Dimes funds and consigned to the Portland emergency equip ment pool of. the National Koun atlon lor Infantile Paralysis, have been added to the Pacific coast's polio-fighting arsenal. It was an nounced in Portland today. Ten of the respirators were shipped to Los Angeles and two were sent to Boise, according to Felix Monies, the foundation's Oregon representative. The two remaining machines have been placed in the Portland pool ware house but Mantes expressed the belief that they might be called into Idaho's epidemic area In the near future. The Portland pool, as permanent repository for poliu equipment earmarked for com mon use in ar Western states. will house all 14 respirators at times when they are not needed. In addition, Montea aald. the foundation's Portland storehouse has custody of a portable iron lung, several notpacK macnines, wool for hotpacks, an autoclave, sterilizer and hospital beds. Some of this equipment haa just been received from Malheur county, where It was employed In the 1947 infantile paralysis outbreaks. Including the two new machin es in the pool and four new ones recently purchased by the found ation's Multnomah county chap ter, there are now 14 respirators in the state one each -in La Grande, Kugene, Astoria, and Oregon City and the balance In Portland, Monies revealed. 'The 10 shipped to Los Angeles were not needed to cope with an immediate emergency". Monies said. "Cases are building u p steadily In Southern California but. as yet, It is not an emer gency area. Idaho, of course, is in more serious straits". As for Oregon, hoard of health figures showed four new cases for the week ended July 23, for a total for the vear of 59. as compared with 32 at the same lime In 194R Two of the new cases were counted in Multno mah county and one each In Lane and Marion counties. Critics Of Brannan Program Failed To Observe Target In Request For Quota Authority HOUSf. STAYS FIXED IJNCOLNVILLE. Me.4.PU-A liny house has stood In two slates and three counties hut It has never ncen moved. The 230-year old dwelling one of Maine's old est was built about 1718. when Maine waa part of Massachu setts. When Maine became a state It was In Lincoln County. In a laler countv division It was In Hancock Countv. In 1827. a third division trade the area Wal do County. The two-room hous u-a ac quired In 1!W hy Rachel E. Oner shawa and Hester H. Hoffman of Newport. Most of the old oaken beams remain as do the original mantle and ovena in the kitchen. The Chinese used natural gas aa fu elto evaporate brine for salt mora than 2.000 years ago. By OVID A. MARTIN (Associated Press Farm Reporter) WASHINGTON, Aug. 5. . Congressional critics who contend the Brannan farm plan would regiment farmers concentrated their fire on the production sub sidy plan for price supports. Actually, there is room for much greater government con trols In Brannan s request for au thority to Impose rigid market ing quotas on a big list of products not now subject to quotas. In cluded would be hogs, cattle, sheep, lambs, milk, eggs, poultry', soybeans, flaxseed, oats, and vege- i tables. Even so, this Congress is I not likely to broaden marketing ; quota powers beyond presently (covered crops of wheat, corn, cot ton, tohacco, rice and peanuts. A Big Surprise Appointment of Knox T. Hutchinson, Murfreeshoro, Tenn., farmer, tn be assistant secretary of agriculture came like a bolt out of the blue. Few in Washington farm cir cles had ever heard of him. His selection has started speculation that the Truman administration seeks to wean support away from Tennessee democratic Congress man Gore. Gore spearheaded the House drive that defeated the Brannan plan and is reported to have sena torial ambitions. Butter Staging Comeback Government reports show that hotter production and consump tion wnicn rlroppen to very low levels during the war are run ning 1. to 20 per cent above a year ago. Butter's big competitor margarine is losing a little ground from last year. Output was d-.vn (ve per cent during first lour months this year. Price Forecasts The Agriculture department predicts prices of dairy products are likely to Increase during the coming months. Thir Is the time of year when production eases off The department still (ticks to Its earlier forecasts of greatly reduced hog prices in the fall and early winter. Price supports for hogs, yet to be announced, will show December price props 20 per cent below those of late this summer. A government survey showing farmers have rained 17 Der cent none chickens this year than last ihas price-support officials wor- ried. It could mean a flood of eggs I next year far beyond consumer ! demands. I Unless Congress changes the I law, the government would have to buy up the surplus under a (produce price support program. iThe cost, officials said, could ex !ceed $100,000,000. Eastern farm ers increased chicken production the most. That could mean a smaller market next year for mid western eggs. For Better World Planning Most of the governments of the world have agreed to take part next year In the first world census of agriculture. Information will be useful, officials say, in helning the I'nited Nation's food and agriculture organization as well as Individual countries do a better Job planning production and searching for new markets Many items In the census will include: farm lands and their use, forms of land tenure, numbers of livestock and poultry, use of farm Implements and machinery, farm expenditures for seed, fer tilizer, pesticides, wages and other operating costs; farm population by age and sex. and farm housing. GREENLAND OOGS FEARED COPENHAGEN .f The Greenland commission of the Da nish parliament, which will visit Greenland this summer, has been warned not to go there unarmed. An official announcement call ed on the members to take big wooden clubs with them. The authorities are not afraid of hos tile GreenVanders. but of wild dogs in the n&hernmosl settlements. In the Day's News (Continued From Page One) cusatlon that Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia is using Greek COM MUNIST refugees as slave labor In the Yugoslav iron and copper mines. The metal mined by these slaves, Moscow thunders, is "sold to Americans and made Into guns for the Greek royal-fascists" to kill good communists with. ' a a IT should be explained here that from Moscow's standpoint that Is BAD. It isn't necessarily bad be cause of the slave labor. The bad ness results from the use of slave labor to make guns to kill com munists with. If the slave-made guns, were used by communists to kill fas cists with, it would be quite an other story from the standpoint of Moscow propaganda. aaa TITO, cussed out by Moscow, cusses right back. Borrowing the techniques of Walter Winchell and Drew Pear son, he PREDICTS that Bulgaria and Albania will QUIT THE MOSCOW-LED COMINFORM, and offers them a helping hand in their battle to shake off Russian domination. For his own people, he says: "The Yugoslav peaple can not be shaken or Intimidated from firmly persisting In their strug gle for the freedom, integrity and independence of their SOCIALIST homeland." e AGAIN a word of explanation Is called for. Russia has ONE kind of social Ism and her own breed of socialist bosses. Yugoslavia has ANOTHER kind of socialism and another breed of socialist bosses. Russia says to Yugoslavia: "YOU CANT DO THAT. You've got to use OUR kind of socialism, and you've got to be bossed by OUR socialist bosses." Tito snaps back: "The heck with you. You can't bluff us. We're going to be free and Independent in our own social ist way." aaa THE ruckus pleases us greatly. We have a proverb to the ef fect that "when thieves fall out honest men come Into their own." a a IN Geneva (where the United Nations economic and social council li meeting) Britain ac cuses Russia of "maintaining ten million slave laborers in a new 'slavery organized on a mass pro- duct Ion basis." I Russia retorts hotly that the I British are merely throwing up a smoKescreen to cover up their own labor troubles. What Russia is doing, the Soviet delegate says, is "placing persons sentenced to penal servitude In conditions which make It Impossible for them to do anything hostile to Soviet society. The system Is a humane one, with re-education of the people as Its aim." aaa A RENT w ords wonderful things? Smart politicians can do Just about ANYTHING with them. Chinese Planes Elast Shanghai Ship Building HONG KONG, Aug. S-GJA-A central news dispatcn from For mosa said five nationalist heavy bombers Wednesday severely damaged the Xiangnan. ship building yards at Shanghai. The news agency quoted a na tionalist air force communique as saying the planes dropped heavy bombs all over the sprawl- i Ing plant. The communique said I Kiangnan's electrical shop, wood works and dockyards were turn ed into a "sea of fire and smoke." The ship building yards are the best in China. , The control Yuan in Canton re-i cently censured the Ministry of Communications for not destroy-1 ing the Klangnan plant when the nationalists fled Shanghai. Meanwhile an independent Chi nese report received here frosn Shanghai, said the nationalists were planning to develoo Pingtan island in the f'ormosan strait into an Important naval air base. The island is off the mouth of Fukien province's Min river. i In Canton, nationalist China's emergency council adopted Pre mier Yen Hsi-shan's plan for ag gressive war against the commu nists. Informed sources said the plan calls for the creation of tak forces for mobile warfare in an effort to turn from the defensive to the offensive. CALL KEN TODAY! Just phone 1261-R today for someone to do repairs on your typewriter or adding machines. . KEN'S OFFICE EQUIPMENT 631 S. Stephens Phone 1261-R Editorial Comment From The Oregon Press The delta of the Rhone River was the granary of Rome's le gions In Gaul, but later was given over to stock raising. BENEFITS TO BUNKO JOBLESS (Astorian Budget) With unemployment on the lse and more and more discussion being focused on unemployment benefit programs it is time for Oiegon to take another good look at its Unemployment compensa tion act. What might otherwise be an adequate reserve for the unemployment problems of the future is now being sieved away through the loose mesh of the act at the expense of present em ployers and future jobless. The depression-born Oregon law like all unemployment com pensation acts was created oy the legislature in 1935 as a par tial relief measure for hardpress ed Jobless who were willing to do a day's work but unable to secure employment. The unem ployment trust fund is financed by a tax Imposed against more than 14,000 Oregon employers. Under the Jaw employes are not taxed. The intert of the legislature In creating this act was to provide a measure of relief for "worthy" unemployed. But, like most tax supported social programs, the Oregon law was quickly recogniz ed and surveyed by the plunder ers and parasites as fair game. The net result has been the tapping of this fund by more and more unworthy "unemployed" to the Jeopardy of legitimate Job less those who actually prefer honest employment to public dole but who nave neither situation nor opportunity. And like most tax sponsored so cial benefits the Oregon law pro vides for a special support for mula befitting the situation in point. Its originators rationalized that the program should Justly be financed completely by the employers of labor. And in im posing the tax upon this group ihe legislature vindictively estab lished a penalty rate for employ era whose workers became un employed regardless of the cir cumstances in such unemploy ment. As a result of this provi sion frequent penalties are as sessed against honest employeis to reward unemployment abuse. Cases in point are far too com monplace to cite as isolated in stances. Not too recently, for ex ample, a high school girl filed for and received unemployment ben efits to assist her in financing a college education. She had been employed during the interim be tween graduation and college opening. Had she preferred she could have remained on in the employment she had chosen. The job was of permanent nature. But as school opening approached she notified her employer that she would resign and prepared to en ter college. But a friend, wisened to the method of realizing remuneration for becoming voluntarily unem cloyed, persuaded our subject to "get what's coming to you . . . Everyone else gets it, why shouldn't you'?" Hence another application was on file, another unemployment chisler was born to reap the maximum benefit in another doubtful case of "unem ployment." But for the fact that other rases fall Into the same pattern we would have little grievance with- the law or its administra tion. But there are far too many cases in which the voluntarily unemployed chlslers are deplet ing the fund which is established to assist legitimate Jobless; too many cases in which employers are forced to pay premium rates on their remaining workers. There are many workers per haps who subscribe completely to tne theory oi tax-tne-empiovers- heavily in this case. Thev reason that employers can control unem ployment Increase if they are properly penalized. But, should unemployments swell and rates become multi plied due to the lack of adequate reserve funds, the problems of assisting the Jobless of a future economic slump will be vastlv more difficult. It will he difficult I partially due to the abuses now perpetrated by unemployment In surance chisler. Now is the time to take a good look at the Oregon unempiov ment law. the claims, the rack ets. 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