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2 The Nwt-Rview, Roseburg, Ore. Thuri., June 8, 1950 Dipping Into Treasury Pork Barrel Election Year Custom Of Congress By PETER EDSON NEA Waihlnfton Corrupondtnt WASHINGTON (NEA) The biennial pork barrel bill i always a fascinating piece ol legislation for detailed study. President Truman recently sent Congres a special message on it, citiciiing it, though he s.?ned it. The correct name for this bill is the rivers and harbors and flood control act of 1950. The total au thorized for this year's bill was $1,800,000,000. But $96,000,000 worth ol this year's authorizations were so bad that even the President had to protest. It's the strangest thing, but these flood control and rivers and har bors bills have a way of getting passed only in election years. There was such a bill in 1940. It called for 151 projects. President Roosevelt vetoed it because he said only 22 of the projects would con tribute to the national defense. He said he would sign a bill if Con gress would trim off all the non defense measures the pork. Con gress promptly complied and the bill went through. There were no major flood con trol nor rivers and harbors bills during the war. Somehow the coun try survived on the lean ration with less pork. In 1944, however, there was a dandy big flood control bill passed to make up for lost time, as it were. And there were others in 1946 and 1948. All were election year measures, and this brings the story up to the flood control end rivers and harbors bills of 1950. The rivers and harbors part of the bill takes care of 94 projects. As passed by the House, there were only 65 projects authorized but the Senate saw to it that 29 more were included. The House took care of 26 states and the Sen ate added five more. As the bill left the House, it authorized expenditures of $119, 000,000. The Senate added another $84,000,000 in the interests of economy, of course. Total, $203,0ou 000. Total $203,000,000, This is just the original cost. Further upkeep is estimated at around $700,000 a year. Big Rivers Git Big Money The flood control part of the bill which is where the big money always goes took in a lot of land and water. The House first author ized 40 projects to cost an esli. mated $998,000,000. The Senate then added 24 other projects to cost $251,000,000 more. These projects were authorized in 33 states, including 12 states that got nothing from rivers and harbors money. In fact, the only five states which secin to get notning out of this year s pork bar rpll hill Sra Naiii NamnikiM !a mont, Rhode Island, Utah and Ten nessee. The last-named state of course gets its out of Tennessee Valley authority apropriations. But me otner tour snoulcl feel insulted or proud, depending on how they look at It. The big rivers got the big money: $250,000,000 for the Mt- souri, $200,000,000 for lower Mis- rssippi, $100,000,000 for the Ohio, WSiOOO.OOO for the Columbia. $40.. 000,000 apiece for Los Angeles and Willamette basins, and in nn President Truman objected to iivb or uia proposed projects to cost an estimated total of $84.- 000,000. Hii reasons were that thev weren't well enough planned $16,000,000 project at Eagle Grove, Wash., was opposed because local interests whose property would be enhanced weren't willing to con tribute more than $2,000,000 them selves. The gimick in all this is that none of this is spending money. It is authorizations for future spending. Not one cent has been appropriated lor any or tne iwi projects. The net effect is that it makes a lot of congressmen look good at home because they got through a bill authorizing a dredg ing or dam building operation on the local Sugar Crick. There ate already some 12 years ef backlog work in such nroiects authorized but not appropriated (or in past election years. Amendments To One-Package Bill Opposed By Morse WASHINGTON. June 8 JPl Senator Morse (R-Orc) said today he hopes the Senate will modify House amendments to t ne one- package appropriation bill be cause they "use the across-the- board, meat-axe approach to eco nomy and "do not represent a realistic approach to the problem." Morse made puDiic a letter to W. A. Sausen, Corvallis, Ore., who had complained that the amend menu would interfere witn opera tion of the postal service. I am very mucn in lavor ot cutting out unnecessary federal ex penditurcs and so conducting the government s Business as to enm- mala umtla ant inatf'mlannv " Morse wrote. "However, the across-the-board percentage cut contained in the Thomas-Taber amendment takes no account of the facts regarding any particular activity, "It is a plain case of poor man agement and no different from nronosal that when a family's in come is reduced 10 percent all items in its budget be cut 10 per cent treating milk for children the same as luxuries for grown ups." This amendment, by Reps. Ta ber (R-NY) and Thomas (D-Tex) is designed to make a blanket cut of approximately $600,000,000 in the $29,000,000,000 bill. FARMERS STOCKMEN LIME We are equipped to deliver and spread agricultural lime to any part of the county, IMMEDIATE DELIVERY. ROSEBURG LIME PRODUCiS Phone 969-R or Call AAA Office, Pacific Bldg. . McKenna. honeymooning at Hotel El SUCCESSFUL FISHING TRIP Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F, Mirado In Acapulco, Mexico, following their marriage in Washington, D. C, pose with thair catch of two sailfish and a tuna. Mr. McKenna caught the 9-foot, 7-ineh sailfish, weighing 96 Bounds, and the 18-pound tuna off the coast of Alcapulco, May 29. Mrs. McKenna, the former Jane Ellsworth, daughter of Congressman and Mrs. Harris Ellsworth of Roseburg, caught the 80 pound sailfish, 8-feet, 8-inches in length. Jail-Bound Hollywood Writer Given Send-Off LOS ANGELES, June -(Fi Five hundred sign-waving sympa thizers sang songs and listened to speeches on an airport taxiway last night in- a 30-minute farewell dem onstration for jail-bound Dalton Trumbo. The screen writer took off for New York to join John Howard Lawson. The two members of the "Hollywood ten" will fly to Wash ington tomorrow to begin jail terms Friday. They were convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to state whether or not they were communists. Eight other film figures, simi larly cited, are due for court ap pearances later this month. Most of them were present at the airport. CHIEF CHANGES MIND SALEM, June 8 (;P Fire Chief William P. Roble, who re signed Monday after saying a few of his firemen were disloynl, de cided yesterday to stay on the job. He announced his change of mind after conferring with Mayor Rob ert L. Elfstrom. ft' r - and Defense Chief Sees Possible Turning Of Reds CHESTER, Penn. OP) Secre tary of Defense Johnson says be is convinced that "the sinister forces of Communist imperialism'' can be stopped short of war. Declaring that no one can fore tell "with certainty whether we ultimately shall have to meet the challenge ... in grim battle," Johnson added: "I certainy hope and pray we will not: and I am firmly con vinced we will not if we exploit the mi itarv. economic, political and psychological advantages that are ours." In a speech prepared for com mencement exercises of fennsyl vania Military college at Chester, Penn., the defense chief said com' munism has nothing to match Am erica in anv of those fields. "Though it may seem to extend ils influence here and there from time to time," Johnson added, "its victories ultimately will prove hoi In Ik. Innrt f-nmrnlinienl Ill UID 1UIIS 1UII, VUllllllUlllBlll will fail as have all of its fore runners that paraded under other names but had no spiritual quality to support them. "Man was born to be free, and no slave state can shackle him for long," Johnson said. Declaring that police states are afraid of themselves, their own people and their neighbors, John son said tne U.S. nas ine great psychological advantage of not be ing afraid of anyone. But he added, this country re alizes that a frightened nation with mass destruction weapons in its possession may become dangerous. "The way to meet its threat is to retain our poise and keep up our guard and not allow ourseves to develop any fright of our own," he said. "Let us continue to do 11 in our power to prove to the world that there is nothing to fear about America." Johnson urged Americans to con tinue by their actions to convince all peoples everywhere "that we are sincerely eager to extend the blessings of prosperity far and wide." "Let us at the same time make it just as clear that we shall re sist aggression vigorously and de cisively In whatever form it may come," he said. From a military standpoint, Johnson declared the U.S. can suc cessfully meet, every basic require ment. But, he added: "We are not so strong, however, that we can afford to become com placent, indifferent, or over-confident about our national defense." Johnson said America's political advantages over communism are just as formidable as "our latent military prowess." "Our traditional emphasis on the freedom, security and happiness ol the individual is appreciated," he added, "wherever men live, breathe and hope." Tenmile By Mrs. Julia Bretenbucher Mrs. Loue M. Wood has return ed from San Diego, where she spent the winter, to spend a few months at her home on the Degner ranch. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Molle and child. ren, Byron and Laura Jean, from Walla Walla. Wash, were visi tors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clair Busby two days last week. Mrs. bar! Ollivant, Douglas county extension chairman, and Mrs. corinne Mctaggart, Home ex tension agent, attended the state council meeting at Corvallis last week, leaving on Wednesday and returning on Friday. Harold Siegel and Lawrence Bcrkey went to Bandon Sun day to fish. They caught several nice perch. There is to be a politick dinner held on Sunday, June 11, at one o'clock at the Tenmile community building. The men of the commu nity who are 70 years or oider will be honored at a special table. Everyone is invited to attend. Bring potluck food and table ser vice. Mrs. Minnie Lockwood, Mrs. Maureen Muetzel, Mrs. Vera Erbe, Mrs. Julia Breitenbucher and Bert Melius sanded the floor of the club room in the Tenmile Community building Tuesday. They also put on crack filler. Dangerous Boom Prevails, Utility Executive Warns your old cleaner CUaning tools at slight extra cojt down -sy montM) tuymmtj See this great new Hoover yourself! Just phone-we'll bring it right out to your home for a private showing. Absolutely no obligation. You'lbe happier with a Hoover UMPQUA VALLEY APPLIANCE Reuburi 120 W. Oak, Ph. 1211 Sutherlia Central t State, Ph. 2911 m IllHClt... 9t If ofanf Civilians Replace Army Rulers In East Germany BERLIN. June 8 OP Russia to day named civilians to replace four military rulers in east Germany in a move apparently designed to bolster the prestige of the Lommu nist east German state. The changes accelerated the switch from military to civilian control in the Russian zone and were accompanied by indications that new responsiblites were being delegated to the area's Communist-controlled German govern ment. Allied observers believed, how ever, the changes did not mean that Moscow was loosening its grip on east Germany but rather was pulling tne Kremlin-created state closer toward early partnership as a full-fledged satellite in the Soviet bloc. TWO 'DRUNKS' JAILED Judge Ira B. Riddle reported today pleas of guilty lo drunk charges were entered by Robert Franklin Christenscn. M. of Los Angeles, and John Frank Tallus, 39. Roseburg. Both were committed to the city jail for ten days in lieu of pay mcnt of $20 fines. RUNAWAY BOY HELD Police Chief Calvin H." Baird re ported today his office appre hended a 14 year-old runaway boy trom San rrancisco. The youth turned himself in at the local police station Wednesday afternoon. He is now being held by county authorities pending word Horn his parents. PRISONER HANGS SELF PORTLAND, June 8 A city ja il prisoner, reprimanded for getting drunk while a trusty, hanged himself in a cell last night Police identified the prisoner as James J, Held, 35, a transient He tore a strip of fabric from his mattress to make a noose. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.-WP!-The president of the Southern Cal ifornia Edison company says the country is in "the most dangerous and unsound boom in its history W. C. Mullendore called it "phony prosperity" that becomes more dangerous as it continues It is linanced," ne said, oy unsound expansion of government debt, government guarantee ot un sound private loans, by legal counterfeiting and by confiscation of the savings of thrifty people through inflation." He launched a sharp attacK upon public power and the government at the session ot the tdison tiec trie institute s annual meeting. It was the most outspoken crit icism of the program as he told the 3,000 delegates from every sec tion of the country: "We who pay our way are daily made the targets for insult and abuse because our companies are 'private companies,' as though do ing business without a nanduut from the public treasury is some how wrong, dishonest or immora. moral." William E. Knox, president of the Westingliouse Llcctric Inter national company, urged manage ment to soldify the confidence of its employes by telling them hon estly the real facts about this economic system as compared with others. He suggested one way of dem onstrating the free enterprise sys tem might be to make it possible for American workers from textile mills, coal mines and automobile assembly plants to see how their counterparts work and live in oth er countries. He recommended that manage ment undertake sending some of their twenty - year e m pi o y s abroad. Canyonville Lions Host High School Softball Champs The Canyonville Lions club had as special dinner guests at their meeting Monday night the mem bers of the Canyonville high school Softball team, Douglas county champions for 1950. A trophy was presented to the team for having won the title. Henry Ford was elected presi dent for the next year and will take office July 1. Other officers elected were: Ed Oaks, first vice president; John Hamlin, second vice-president; R. E. Olsen, third vice-president; John Bingham Jr., secretary-treasurer; George Bin der, D. W. Gill and Gordon Harry, board of directors; Ray Hays, lion tamer; and George Brinkworth, tail twister. Installation of officers will take place June 21 at Ford's cafe in the form of a ladies night dinner meeting. An auction sale was announced for Friday night, June 9, to be held at the Ritter theater between shows. Shows playing that night are "Tarzan and the Leopard Wom an" and "Wolf Call." Donations may be left with Richard Mesick, John Bingham or Henry Ford. Guests attending the meeting were Ina May Spencer, Jane Wolf er, Dana Baird, Ardith Myers, Thelma Anderson, Thetcz Ford, Dora Jean Springstead and Joanne Young, all members of the soft ball team, Coach Ronald Krasky, Principal O. J. Monger. Three members ot the brants Pass Lions club were in attend ance, Rex Wilson, president; B. K, Heindon, secretary; and Louis B Hardin, candidate for district gov ernor. Armand Locken of Crookston Minn., who is a guest at the D. W. Gill home, was also a guest at the dinner. The Weather cloudy today. Meitly with - scattered showers Partly cloudy Friday. Highest temp, for any June... 106 Lowest temp, for any June ... 34 Highest temp, yesterday S' Lowest temp. It 14 hrs 42 Precioitation last 24 hrs T Precipitation from June 1 43 Precipitation from Sept. 1 32 44 Excess from June 1 Elkton By MRS. PHYLLIS A. SMITH Bill Edwards was injured Sun day when the horse that he was riding fell on him. He is at Oak land where he is receiving treat ment for a broken rib and bruises. Mrs. Bennie Knypstra and daugh ters, Shirley and Dolores, left early Tuesday morning to go to Venice, v.am., wneie nicy win av tend the 40th wedding anniver sary of Mrs. Knypstra's parents. nir. and Mrs. Jonn Tinker, on in- day. They were accompanied as far south as Westwood by Miss Eleanor Binder, who will visit with relatives there at at El Monte, Calif, for several weeks. Ross McDonald is away on business trip to Riverbank. Calif. Mrs. Lenore C. Huckins and Tom C. Huckins were remarried in ceremony at the Methodist church on the afternoon of May 27. Elkton loggers saw quick results ot tneir advertisement on tne Dulle tin board at Randalls for "a man to raise the humidity." Showers of soaking rain fell throughout the day and night Tuesday, bringing welcome relief to parched fields and woodlands. 'Twas Tough Fight But Angler Landed His Bass ASBURY PARK, J. J.. June 8 UP) Richard Hueth is a real fisherman. He hooked a striped bass yes terday while fishing from an 18- toot sea wall near here. The line broke and rather than lose the fish Hueth jumped off the wall onto a hard sand strip. He broke one ankle and injured the heel of his other foot. Unable to walk, Heuth crawled into the surg, retrieved the end of the broken line and hung on. Finally someone noticed his plight and helped him out of the water. He was taken to a hospital in Long Branch where doctors said he'd be laid up for from three to six months. The bass weighed 19-U pounds. .10 Marshall Urges Further Arms Aid To West Europe WASHINGTON. June 9 (m Gen. George C. Marshall Wednes day said "the most dangerous thing" the United States can do is to sit impotent in the face of Com munist aggression. The wartime army chief of staff conceded that the mutual defense id program mieht encourage rather than deter Russia to act be fore western Europe is able to defend itself. "There is a hazard," he said, but I am convinced that to sit impotent is the most daneerous thing we can do." The eeneral. who as secretary of state authored the Marshall plan for European recovery, appeared before the house foreign affairs committee. He urged Congress to continue the program of arms aid to west ern Europe, calling it vital t o morale as well as military defense. Specifically. Marshall backed President Truman's request for $1,222,500,000 in new arms aid for the 1951 fiscal vear beginning Julv 1. The general said t h e United States would just be "playing into oovnet nanus by arming to the teeth at home while remaining on the sidelines in western Europe To leave Europe militarily impotent. ne said, "is wrong psychologic ally and militarily wrong, and just generally wrong." He estimated it would cost the U. S. more than $30,000,000,000 a year to arm to the teeth. speaking without notes, the gen eral observed that the soviet union unlike the democracies, can make "cold blooded decisions" and set the date and hour for action. "It seems to me to sit idle and impotent is a fatal procedure," he reiterated. "I do not think in Ihp lnnr run the program adds to the perils of the situation. I think it materially leuuees inem. elaborating on h I s statement that inaction would be "fatal," Marshall said to do nothing would adversely affect the morale o f western turope and would "nlay mm soviet nanas lor luture press ure politics." Canyonville High Graduates Ten Tuesday Night Ten seniors received their dip lomas at the Canyonville high school commencement exercises Tuesday evening, June 6. The program was as follows: Processional, graduates; saluta tory. Ardith Myers; "Give a Man a Horse He Can Ride," chorus; presentation of awards, Principal O. J. Monger; valedictory, Dora Jean Springstead; "Singing Along." chorus; address, Dr. Gordon A. Sa bine, dean of the school of journal- iam, University ot uregon; pres entation of grade school diplomas, John Bingham Jr.; presentation of diplomas to seniors, James L. Zumwalt; flower girl march; and recessional, graduates. Invocation and benediction were given by the Rev. A. M. Shaffer. Members of the class of 1950 included Kenneth McGinnis, Mai vin Burwell, Ardith Myers, Dora Jean Springstead, Thetez Ford, Jo anne Young, Velma Hyatt, Ina May Spencer, Hugh Morton and Roy Shuey. Ronald Krasky was the class advisor. The following students were pro moted from the eighth grade and received diplomas: Carl Parks, Ho mer Unger, Blake Hardy, Roy Par son Jr., James Andrews, Joyce Mault, Sue Furgeson, Rose Hyatt, Charles Pickett, Rodney Robinson, Eugene Barnes, George Allen, Lo retta Phillips, Harvey Moore, Jim my Burwell, Juanita Russell, Vir ginia Beach, Janet Lewis, Delvert McGinnis. Nancy Claxton, Bobby Drew. Jack Emerick, Donna Stra- han, Mary Bishop and Janey Owen. The senior class motto was "The Game Isn't Over Until the Last Out"; class colors were orange and black, and the flower was the carnation. Members of the school board are James L. Zumwalt, chairman, Paul Strahan and John Bingham Jr. BEALS FUNERAL SET Funeral services will be held for Percy Beals at the Methodist church in Canyonville Friday at 1:30 o'clock with Rev. H. Erne Taylor in charge. Mr. Beals passed away at Salem after a short illness. Baby chicks eat no food or drink no water the first 24 hours or so of their life. Wall Street Land Sells At Auction For 7 Figures NEW YORK, June 8 A 10,- 000 square-foot plot of land in the Wall street district was auctioned yesterday for $1,292,500. A part of the world's third tallest office building, the 66-story "Sixty Wall Tower," stands on the T-shaped tract and pays $58,000 a year rent to whomever owns the land. When a 31-story addition to the tower was built, it became nec essary to lease the plot which adjoins the original tower property- The sale was made by the New York Trust company in behalf of the Cortlandt F. Bishop estate. High bidder was the law firm of Demov, Callahan and Morris, who acted for an unidentified client. Dewey, O'Dwyer To Take Civilian Jobs, Report NEW YORK, June 8 (JP) The New York Post reported today that both Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York probably will quit pub lic life for $100,000-a-year jobs. In a story from Washington by Charles Van Devander the Post said that Gov. Dewey probably will accept an offer to join the law firm of Hughes and Ewing at 1 Wall street, New York. And Post columnist Earl Wilson said O'Dwyer has told friends he is considering resigning the mayor alty in September to accent a $100,000-a-year job as head of the Oeneroso Pope foundation. The Generoso Pope foundation was created by the mayor's old friend, the publisher ot the Italian daily II Progresso, who died April 28. Pope left $4,000,000 to create the foundation for charitable purposes. WANT TO BUY COFFIN? TOKYO, June 8 (.T) The police lost article department to day urged 30 persons to reclaim items they had misplaced. They are 30 coffins. Police announced they had to sell 75 other lost articles turned in. They were 75 snakes. 'Bicycle Thief Movie Given Court's Approval PORTLAND, June $ (.V) A citcuit court ruled against the city's film censors and council yes terday, allowing the Guild theater to show the Italian motion pic ture "The Bicycle Thief." Judge James R. Bain declared the council had acted in "an arbi trary and capricious manner" in banning the film. The board of censors had or dered a two-minute brothel scene deleted if the picture was shown here. The council saw the picture after citizens' groups and the thea ter management protested. The council voted to uphold the cen sors because they objected to the producers' "all or nothing" order. NOTICE TO ALL MS NO MEETING TONIGHT (June 8) State Elks' Convention in Corvallis U. S. Advises Russia As To M'Arthur's Power WASHINGTON. Jnn It im The United States told Russia to day that Gen. Douglas Mai-AHhur nas mil authority to parole Japa nese convicted of war crimes by American military or international iriDunais. Moscow also was told that the supreme allied commander has no intention of actually reducing or altering the sentences of wartime Japanese leaders who were sen tenced to prison by the former in ternational miltary tribunal. Eighteen Japanese sentenced by the international court are serving prison terms. MacArthur on May 7 issued an order providing for pos sible paroles for those convicted by the international tribunal and by lesser American military courts. ujv u i.ni-iriririi',-.-i-, ' ' HARRY C. STEARNS Funeral Director Our service l for oil and meets every need. 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