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4 The News-Review, Hoseburt), Of Man., Au. I, 194 Publlihed D illy Excipt Sunday t-y the News-Revie' Company, Inc. liUHt u taraaa u ului Mar 1. leje. al Ike fail etllee el Saaebert. Orasaa. eaai Ml el March S. Ilt CHARLES V. STANTON -pu. EOWIN L. KNAPP Editor Manager Mam bar of tha Aaaociated Praia, Oregon Nawapapar Publishers Aeeoclation, th Audit Suraau of Clreulitiont teareeealae tttaT-HULLIDav CO. INC fflr.i la Naw tare. Caleeae, aaa Ireaclaee. Lea Aeielea. ttallla. Partlae. 01. Leale. lUUKirriON SATFS la Oraiea Bt Hall rar Taar II aa. ale Beeiai M.ee. Iree ll.aa rlr Cllj Carrier rar raaf lie.ee Ha leee aaa rear, ear aiaalk ll.aa Oamaa Oretee Mall rar taar II aa ala atealae 11.11. IHree Beatae It. II MORE POWER COMING By CHARLES V. STANTON If Copco's critics would take a look at what in occurring at the Toketee falls power project on the North Umpqua river they would find that little, justification. Because The California Oregon Power company has been working with a heavily overloaded system, trying to take care of its industrial and domestic load in southern Oregon, much complaint has been heard concerning outages, inter ruptions of service, damage to equipment, and increased operational expenses. In some instances, Copco has been unable to furnish the desired plants seeking to enter the companies desiring expansion. Such conditions, naturally, offer good fodder for public power propagandists, who, however, avoid mention of the fact )hat. power shortages have not been limited to private producers but have been general over the entire area, in eluding public power generation as well as that by private companies. Within a few more months, however, Copco's service should be superior to that of sofar as ability to supply the leave the public power drum ing position. While it seems impossible, be done, that the Toketee project can come into production by October, as predicted, contractors report they are ahead of schedule in nearly all departments and they still stick to the scheduled opening date. The observer begins to feel that the contractors may know what they are talking about, when he sees how rapidly work is advancing, for it is now reaching the stage where progress may be measured by the eye. The 5,300-foot rock tunnel has been completed except for a few minor finishing touches. The huge 12-foot pen stocks are being installed. Foundations have been placed for turbines. Powerhouse equipment is being set Work will start within a few days to place 1200 feet of 12-foot wooden stave pipe, for which the trench is nearly finished. The 67-foot dam is under construction and will rise rapidly. The high tension transmission line from Toketee to Dixonville a gigantic task in itself will soon be finished, traversing a. wide, cleared gash through the forest, uphill and down. We visited the project Thursday, as a guest of "Doc" Wells, local Copco manager, in company with Harold Schmeer, Dr. B. R. Shoemaker and H. 0. Pargeter. We were astonished at the progress since our ir.st visit about nine months ago. Last fall we went 3,700 feet Into the rock tunnel, which now has been bored through the mountain, lined with con crete, where necessary, fitted with giant seals, and is now ; being mucked out in preparation for use. When we last saw the project, nothing had been done on the powerhouse site, but now the foundations have been ' poured, the penstock and by-pass outlets built r.nd anchored, bases poured for turbines and valves and some of the equip ment installed. At the dam site, where only preparatory work had been done last fall, foundations have been completed, piling set, core structures started, diversion conduit and spillway con structed. Materials for the earth fill are being stockpiled, th areas to be flooded when the dam is completed are being cleared, and within a few more weeks the dam will be ready for impoundment of water. The whole project is a beehive of activity. Work con tinues day and night. Culinary crews serve seven meals each 24 hours and we can attest that they are good meals. The Toketee project is sponsored and financed as a private enterprise. It isn't as fancy nor as impressive as a federally sponsored project of like character, but the electricity to be produced will be just as serviceable as if the project had paved roads, beautiful lawns, and uniformed guides. Furthermore, southern Oregon soon will have a surplus of power, whereas areas served by public power projects still will be on a shortage basis, although Copco probably will divert some of its surplus into the power pool to help offset part of that shortage. But the critics, who have been intolerantly sniping at Copco, despite the fact that conditions here have been no worse than in many other areas, will have some explaining to do when the new units get into operation. Industrial operations, which have been limited because of the power shortage, undoubtedly will find their electrical problems ended, while this particular area will have a great advantage over all other sections of the Faeific coast until contemplated increases in public power production are made at a much later date. Airplant Plant Shift From War Hazard Is Sought SEATTLE, Aug. 6-4.V-ItiKh Air Fore oftlciala will fly heie this month, the Time tald today, to discuaa whether Boeing Air plane company should shift more of its bomberplane production to its Wichita, Kaa., plant. The paper tali W. Stuart Sy mington, Air Sr-cretary, would head the group. It quoted an Air Force ipokesman in Washington, O, C. whose nam was not given. Earlier thlt week Dave Beck, West Coast Teamiters' union their words of criticism have amount of energy for industrial territory, while handicapping the public power system, in area is concerned, which will beaters in a rather embarrass, as one views the work still to leader, Mid government officials i wore awkins; to have Boeing move major oMratlona Inland to! get It out of the wartime West1 Coast danger zone. i The Air Force spokesman was ! quoted by the Times, however, as saying that service hat no! policy calling for moving of pro- ductlon lines at coastal points to inland centers. I Senator Magnuson (D-Wash.). who will accompany the group here, was quoted as saving: j "We're going to aiiemoi m: work out a plan to Insure a con stant work load for Boeing's Se attle plant." Magnuson said the Air Force hat not decided where to build Boeing's next heavy-bomber ae- p TZr' S fjiWianaaiini mam lay Hi ' n mini . j naai laiajaaaian) n. i m in n anrrnrr " AND THE WIND BLEW B. C. Brown of I29S Umpqu Avo. wot littl worried Saturday ft ornoon at wind bant theio tall flrt to tha braalung point, juit a faw faat from hit houta. Brown, in lowar left corner, watchet with a wary aye ai a 22-mile-per-hour wind tends tha trees to swaying shortly after one had broken off and landed but a few feet from where he was working. The trees were left standing when the site for tha new Douglas Community hoipital was cleared. (Picture by Paul Jenkins. I So many times when one has gone from the mldt of a group of people, one hears the cry: "Oh, if I had only told him" or "If I had only said "And a gl't of flowers goes with the donor's message to the ones who ate loft. But flowers to the living are so much more satisfying! Why do we put off that letter we mean to write That little friendly thought we mean to put into tangible form? Perhaps at a time when it would mean so much to the one of whom we are thinking. We all do It, don't we? I know I do! Flowers to the living need not cost a penny the best of thorn don't! Each one of us can recall countless times when we have been heartened and our courage bolstered in time of discourage ment or grief by a simple word rles. the XB-.S2. provided the plane wins a production order for Boeing. The Optimist ?! Viahnett S. Martin of friendship. Perhaps not even a spoken word Just a friendly handclasp. A hand on one's shoulder. In A Friendly Sort O' Way By James Whitcnmb Riley When a man ain't got a cent, and he's feeling kind o' blue. An' the clouds hang dark and heavy, an' won't let the sun shine through, It's a great thing. O my brethren. i for a feller Just to lay His hand upon your shoulder in a friendly sort o" way! It makes a man feel curious; It I makes the tear drops start. I An" you sort o' feel a flutter In j the region of the heart: ; You look up and meet his eyes: I you don't know what to say ; When his hand is on your shoul i dor In a friendly sort o'way! Oh. the world's a curious com I pound with its honey and its I gall. , , With ita care and bitter crosses, I but a good world after all; Child Born While Mother Sees Life Leaving Another OMAK, Wash.. Aug. 8. () A son was born early Saturday to an Omak mother who watched, in her labor, the ebbing of HTo from another of her children. The mother Is Mrs. Eldon Cal entlne, 29-year-old wife of a dairy employee. A sympathetic, emotionally moved community shared in her concern for her 2't - year old daughter Lavonne. The child Is dying of cancer of the brain. Doctors were fearful that death might take the child before the new one was born. Lavonne was found to be suf fering from cancer of the ey last November. The eye was cur ed. The cancer was discovered three weeks ago. it had started paralyzing part of her body. Mrs. Calentlne stayed bv the child's bedside Frldav night e long as it was physically possi ble. She and her 6-pound. J!unc son were reriorted doing well to dsv. The Calentlncs have two other children, aged 8 and 14. An' a good God must have made it- leastways, that Is w hat I say. When a hand it on my shoulder in a friendly tort o' way! In the Day's News (Continued From Page One) a pang, and a sharp one, if the beautiful old house at the other end of Pennsylvania avenue from the Capitol were to be scrapped. a THE old White House is lovely with the loveliness that is born of simple, perfect lines. It reminds us of a time when our national life was simpler and lovelier. When the White House was built, we were a young nation that had just cut itself loose from the regimentations and the petty despotisms and the tragic frus-ratl-jns of the Old World. What we wanted was a way of life that was better than any way of life had ever been before. If we could achieve that, we believed, we could ask for noth ing more. No personal sacrifice, we felt, wai too great if it con tributed to the achievement upon which we had set our minds and our hearts. In that spirit, we set about the building of a new nation In a wil derness. a a WHEN the White House was built, the site that now Is the roaring, whizzing, wheel-within-a-wheel, plot-within-a-plot, wholly artificial thing that we call the city of Washington was not much more than a wide pasture, dotted with trees. Thomas Jefferson, the first real occui-ant of the White House, fit ted well in physical appearance with the site where the new cap ital of a new nation was being built He was tall, raw-boned, freckled and sandy of complexion. In his campaigns, he was called Long Tom. He played the violin, aaa HE was the outstanding radical of his time. His election fright- ei.ed the sophisticated people of the sophisticated cities of New York and Philadelphia and Bos ton nearly out of their shoes. What we think of Henry Wallace is mild in comparison with what the city slickers of that time thought of Jefferson. Yet, I think, in those days, he would be called a reactionary and a standpatter. He wa hostile, for example, to the supreme court for the reason that, to his mind, the court under Chief Justice Mar shall WAS DISPOSED TO BUILD UP THE FEDERAL POWER AT THE EXPENSE OF THE STATE. Fancy that, in these days when business people generally are ter rified jy the tendency to concen trate EVERYTHING in Washing, ton, leaving to our states and our minor civil divisions only a hol low shell of the authority that once was theirs! The radical of these days wants to center EVERYTHING in Wash ingtonwhere he and his kind can be boss. aaa HERE'S an odd one: When Associate Justice Wil liam Cushing died in 1810, Jeffer son wrote to Albert Gallatin: "I observe old Cushing is dead. At length, then, we have a chance of getting a REPUBLICAN ma jority in the supreme court." Imagine that coming from the founder of the Democratic party: aaa THE catch, of course, is that Jef. ferson was referring to the REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOV ERNMENT, In which the power of the people is exercised through the elected representatives of the people, rather than directly, as in a pure democracy. The Republican party hadn't been dreamed of then. In these days, the radicals lean toward the Idea of pure de mocracy (initiative, referendum, recall) and away from govern ment by elected representatives (congress, the legislatures, etc.) Only the conservatives now be lieve in republics. aaa LET'S at least breathe a sigh of relief that the old White House Is to be retained for us, with Its traditions of tht? great days when there was SINCERITY in government and men fought for principles and not Just for POWER. Pfione 100 If you do not receive your Nawa Review by :1S P.M. call Harold Mjoley before 7 P.M. Phone 100 V Phone 730-J-5 Start Liquor Systems Rtap Heavy Revenues WASHINGTON, Aug. S.Oey. Pennsylvania, with sales of The 16 ttatet which operate t $189,368,000, made the largest liquor monopoly system, made , P''1:; .V'ffiS'AinSS profit of 1167.343,000 from them In the 12 months ended June 30, 1948. These net earnings were de- rived on sales of $8.j2.581,000, the! census bureau reported today. : y jpr- W. ' atT i . :. if. r f -rm .... .Vmt r& ij n Ifs a Cincli i -to make OIVIl'S fU0l eoioiN WMITI SICI 0 teat u. ' 'and ne, prom j $29,153,000. Orecon was in 7th place, with $9,273,000 profit from net sales of $41,185,000 and Washington 9th, with $7,798,000 vofit from 1 sales worth $33,021.0U. t a mvell Cinch Cake Mix is fully prepared and. contains all the necessary ingredients. You just add water, mix and bake. And out comes the lightest, most-mouthwatering cake you ever ate. Serve Cinch Cake today. ADD ONLY WATER I