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.
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SUCCESSFUL FISHING TRIP Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F,
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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