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4 Th New-Riew, Roseburg, Ore-Thur., Aug. 11, 1949 Published D lily Except Sunday fy the Newi-1vie Company. Inc. Mr wen ! mlirr tttjr 1. mi lh ! mtUem t Bbrg. Orcgaa. wm4t Ml ( Msrrb t, 111 CHARLES V. STANTON EOWIN L. KNAPP Editor Manager Member of the Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publisher Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations prtttntrd by ttKriT-HOI.i.inAV CO, iSV. fflrra in Na nrk. Cfctcf. Hn trtPiilMia Anlct. ftettlU. Prlln4 St. Levis. JUUMt HIP I ION RArr.n In Urcgtn Hv Mill rr T W.M. ill maathi Iliraa manlha .& H CU Crrlp Par IHMM Urn .4 vine i. Iru than a raar. par month II.W Oul.idi Orrgau- Rv Mail Par rr l"M lt manlha H ).V iira mantha li n CONVENIENT MATERIALS Another Slum Clearance Problem to Be Solved x X By Viahnett S. Martin' J By CHARLES V. STANTON The California Oregon Power company faced many tough problems in setting up its Toketee falls power project on the North Umpqua river. But it also ran into some exceptionally fortunate circumstances, particularly an unexpected find of suitable materials close at hand. Most interesting is a substance which will form the core of the dam, substituting for reinforced concrete originally scheduled for use. Seeking gravel to be used with cement for the great volume of concrete work connected with the project, work men uncovered an extensive deposit only a short distance up stream from the site of the dam. Considering that the forma tion in that area is largely pumice, the presence of a large gravel deposit handy to the job was con.wiered most fortunate. Nearby workmen found a swampy tract covering consider fble acreage. It is a peculiar type of soil and extremely spongy. Engineers began experimenting with it. They found that in its natural state, filled with root fibers, it had . peculiar water absorbing qualities. During their experiments they removed the roots by screening, dried the soil, ground it into powder and packed it into cores for testing. Much to their surprise and interest, they found that the soil became as solid as concrete. Freed from capillary action by removal of roots and other foreign matter, the soil became impervious to moisture, completely reversing its original state. Heavily packed in large mass it had strength equal to concrete, was more resistant to moisture, and hud an excep tionally high shear resistance. Because of its peculiar properties, this soil is to form the core of the dam. Workmen are stripping the soil from the swamp in six inch layers. Then it is thoroughly scarified to break it down to dust, and is screened to remove foreign substances. The dust is then laid in place and tamped witli shennfoot rollers. As it hardens it sets up very similar to concrete. Construction of the dam is interesting. Sheet steel piling is being driven on the axis of the d:im, through soil and gravel and into the bedrock foundation. The piling is a heavy sheet of steel about 13 inches wide and ranging up to 30 feet in length. The sheets have interlocking edges. They will project several feet above the surface of the river bed. Using the unique material found near the site as a core, workmen will build a solid center tapering from GO feet at the base to a width of 10 feet at the top. Starting 300 feet from the axis of the dam on the upstream side, workmen will then build an earth and gravel fill to the top of the core The downstream side of the fill will start about 200 feet from the axis of the dam. The intake and spillway structure will have rapacity to take the full volume of water flow at highest known flood stage. Thus no water will flow over the dam. From the dam water will be diverted into 1200 feet of 12 foot wood-stave pipe, 5300 feet of concrete and rock tunnel and GOO feet of metal penstock with approximately a 400 foot head at the powerhouse. Sufficient escapement of water into the natural river channel will be provided at the dam to maintain the scenic beauty of Toketee falls. In starting this project, Copeo had as one of its toughest engineering assignments the location of a roadway down the almost perpendicular walls of the 1200-foot deep river can yon. A wall so steep that engineers and surveyors went over the side on ropes. Told that it would be impossible to build a road down such a canyon wall, engineers proved the error of 'Ins assump-! tion by producing a switchback two-way road easily and afoly negotiable by the ordinary passenger vehicle. One of the first installations, alter it became possible to transport heavy machinery to the bottom of th canyon, was .:n ..-.I. i. i ... .... . .1 u Kiiiiui aunmiii, nun men mgs cleared irom me campsite inflationary were converted into timbers and boards from wnich build- !aml financial market. But if ,..rt i,;it ti,;. ...in i. i i j .confidence become undermined, nigs were built. This mill has since been enlarged. Now, asVou find deficits may work the workmen are removing all trees from what will ?oon become i u,h,r way. an artificial lake, this sawmill is producing form lumber for 'SSSSStl concrete work and lumber and shingles for the many perma- I lusting the monev supplv to make nent dwellings, office buildings, schoolhouse ami other ! tak.buylnB a",,u"ve ,0 our structures. Drilish bonds are down In price Thus by utilizing wood, gravel and a concrete substitute. SoiKK:!' nil ioutia near me scene oi construction, Copco lias saved "1;u oum noid tnem steadv much transportation expense. ' &4 This business of everlastingly getting cleaned up, thinks the adolescent when pressed too hard by unfeeling, Inconsiderate par ents, is a nuisance, to say the least. One young man, In the days when the worse the cords looked the happier the hie.h school wearer appeared to be, came up with, he was sure, a humdlnRcr that would stop his parents for a while. "Says riKht here in the Bible," said he, triumphantly, "It's all rltjht to eat with unwashen hands. So there!" Well, a Iriend who was raised In strict accordance with the old Hebrew customs helped the par ents out. Said she, "it wouldn't matter how well you scrubbed your hands, they wouldn't be 'clean' In the way the old patri archs meant." She said there were "paRes and pages in the Mishna about the ceremony of washing hands." Anyway every body had a better understanding of the Intent of the one who strove to emphasise the spirit rather than the letter of the law. Sometimes we smile at others' way of doing things and at the same time make a kind of ritu alistic convention of housework, for Instance. I have a friend who Beer Bottle Blow In Tavern Takes Man's Life LONGVIEW. Wash., Aug. 11. (flt Glen Hanson, 42, Kelso, died in a local hospital Wednesday of a skull fracture with local officers being informed that he had been struck with a beer bot tle In a Rainier, Ore., tavern Tuesday night. Coroner Gordon Congress Sidelights By Harris Ellsworth Congressman. 4th District of Oregon likes to do her housework In the evening! So that's when she does It. Her husband's civic and;M. Quarnstrom said an autopsy professional duties keep him out I will be conducted for the bene , . , ...k.-1 fit of Columbia countv. Ore., of- evenings a great deal. Id rather:.. . Ranlpr man do that," said my friend, "than held in Jail there for questioning sit around reading a book I know another woman with a large family who waits until the children are settled for the night and then does a lot In much less time. No Interruptions. She often sleeps a while In the day while they are at school. When I was a child Monday was wash day and the clothes were hung out eariy, wnnna done by the housewife or a laun dress. I have, a friend who washes at night, hangs her clothes out in her fenced yard, and who cares? Housework Is hard enough without making it harder by con forming to what may be a per fect routine for the neighbor next door, and by not having courage to do thlncs according to our own (peculiar?) notions. Why don't we Just figure out what is easiest, plcasantest for us, and then go ahead and do It that way? "The neighbors" who knows might even take a whirl themselves at an Idea which seems novel. in the case. After considerable deliberation the commission charged with the responsibility of renovating, re placing cr rebuilding the White House, has decided to restore it and leave the external appear ance as it is now. lit badly needs a coat of paint.) I learned from one of the members of the com mission recently that one of the troublesome problems faced by their group Is what to do with the old lumber, bricks and stone re moved from the building. There will be a vast amount of such stuff, he said. After all, the While House Is no ordinary building. Kvery ounce of wood and masonry in the structure is steeped in lis tory. Some of the replaced tim bers are blackened from the fire set by the British during the war of 1612. Some of the stones, I am told, bear chiseled inscrip tions, names and dates done at the time they were layed in place. None of the material will be destroyed at least not until everything that is wanted by mu seums and for souvenirs has been saved. Definite plans have not been made but It is guessed that the old wood may be made into gavels, canes or panels and that paper-weights may be made Irom the bricks and stones. The com mission is having a hard time de ciding Just what to do about it. The administration demand that we supply arms and ammu nition to the pact countries is meeting tough sledding in the House Foreign Affairs commit tee. This country is asked to dig up an additional billion and a half dollars for that purpose. The idea does not appeal to me and I do not think we should take inv such dangerous step in haste. Off hand. It seems to me that pilini; up that much high grade mili tary equipment in western Eu rope would be olfering a mighty tempting prize for a predatory power. Our country has been correctly referred to as the "Arsenal of Democracy." If the arsenal is kept here we know pretty well what is going to happen to it. Our experience in placing large stores of arms and ammunition on other shores is not encourag ing. The Russian army even now moves on trucks made in the United States. On the other hand the United States is spending an enormous sum for war materials. During this fiscal year our spending for the department of defense alone will amount to about $40,000,000 per day (counting Sundays and holidays). In dollars that will represent Just three times the amount to he spent on military defense In Europe including the billion and a half dollars from us If they get It! Under the terms or tne pact as signed and sealed, we are bound to go Immediately to the aid of any European country which may be attacked. If mili tary equipment is kept here it can be quickly sent where and when it is needed most. If it is sent abroad, we have no actual wav of knowing Just what will become of it or precisely where it will be if and when It is needed. The Rivers and Harbors bill re cently reported from the public works committee appears to oe bogged down in the rules com mittee. This bill carries import ant authorizations for the Wil lamette protect. It may get lost in the shuffle at the closing days of the session. If that happens it will, of course, be pending on the calendar for early action next year. National Gunboats Plug Ports Of Chines Reds HONG KONG. Aug. 11. (. Official reports from Formosa said Nationalist gunboats Tues day night intercepted and de tained or destroy. 13 vessels and lighters of foreign firms off Taku bar,' gateway to Tientsin. The official Chinese Central Preis agency reported from Kaosheum. Nationalist naval base on Formosa, that the action will close the communist ports of Tientsin and TangMu to shipping since deep draft ships can not sail up the narrow and shallow Hal rivet-. The reports said one lighter of nearly 1,000 tons was destroyed by Nationaltet shellfire when It tried to escape up river. Another was reported damaged. Phone 100 If you da not roetiv your News-Review by 6:1S P.M. call Harold Mjbley before 7 P.M. Phone 100 ill' Distributed In Roseburg By Bates Candy Co. Ml El Refrigerated from Top Jo-Bottom! U. S. Government Bonds Rise During Deficit Financing While British Bonds Slump By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK. Aug. 11. (.T) United States government bonds have been going up as the treasury heads Into deficit financing. British government bonds have been going down as the English exchequer's dollar deficit heads into another of the perpetual crises. Deficit financing means you; are sending more than you are taking in and finding the cash for this way of living bv various means. One of them is bv selling efftvt on busines Wrong Quotation Of Senator McCarran Corrected WASHINGTON, Aug. 11- Ul Senator McCarran (K. Nev. I was Incorrectly quoted by the Aso ciatcd I'ress Monday as having told the Senate that Norman Cor. win had been "cited as Commu nist and subversive by the attor ney general of the United StHtes." Actually, McCarran said for win, a member of the radio di vision of the United Nations in formation department, has been "characteristic of a numlier of people-" ho he said have pone "directly from fields of subver sive activity" In this count rv into positions of authority In the'U. N. Cm-win said In reply to Mc Carran: "I hae worked at the Job of helping to broaden an apprecia tion of American institutions, our democracy and our form of gov ernment. My sentiments have never been secret Irom anvone associated with organizations and are on record in print ' and tor everyone on transcriptions to see." which the attorney general ha cited variously as "Communist and subversive" or "Communist front." Corwin In New York reiterated previous denial that he is a Com munist and declared "I believe I am a vastly better patriot'' than McCarran. vear Is added to Its ane on the The Nevada senator pointed tojtirst day of the following Jan Corwin In his speech Monday as uary. Under the Japanese svstem of computing ages, a svstem which will tie discarded the end of 1 b-i;. a baby is considered to be one yrr old at birth and another Falling prices In the last thrc weeks have wiHHl out about SJ billion In their quoted values. Americans are still sold on the financial soundness of this coun try, no matter how much they J may difler among themselves j from lime to time on the wisdom I of various fiscal and governmen tal policies. Therefore, the U. S. : treasury is able to sell securities, j Unions, on the other hand, aiv showing signs of being worried about the financial status of their countrv. as crisis fol':vs crisis. So some of them have been selling their government securities, and keening the casii. Tne Federal Reserve hoard has kept a close watch on U. S. bond 'icr all along. Recently it has stopped putting its bond holdings on the market, to let the oanks hid up the price of available bonds. banks, however. alre.dv have large sums on hand their loans lo business dropjed steadily throughout the first halt of the year, and deosits and savings accounts piled up. The idle money from the three sources freed reserves, the money business doesn't want, and he eople"s savings can How into the U. S. securities mar ket. So bond prices rise in over the counter sales as the demand for them increases. In England, however, the tide has been running the other way. The London government has been issuing a siring of new se curities in recent years to pay for the industries it nationalized. Its costs of running them have been high. too. This swells the supply of government bonds. At (he same time, the govern ment's well advertised dollar shortage makes British investors nervous. And the rumor that nev er dies that England soon will devalue the pound makes Inves tors even more nervous, because it would also devalue their hold- ings. All this Is aggravated lust now I bv the approaching showdown In j Washington in September w hen British and American officials I will seek some way out of the current dollar crisis, brought on nccause riruain has been con tracting to buy more goods with dollars than she has been ur.able to sell for dollars. Idle Money Plentiful j The board also has lowered i hank reserve requirements. Th's World War 11 veterans be tween 1'5 and 3 years of age had a median inconie of $'.' 401 in 1W7. compared with $.'..VSS for means that money which banks non veterans in the same age formerly had to hold now ran I group, according to a Census be used for Investment. The 1 Bureau studv. MORE FOOD-SPACE INSIDE . . . 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