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Authority bill sent to Congress
by the president accompanied bv
a message urging its passage.
When the subject was mention
ed earlier this year, I took out
my rather voluminous CVA file,
obtained some additional mater
ial, and made a careful review
on the whole subject. I was ac
ïoMïn;
tually surprised, after reading
most everything said and writeen
on CVA, to find so pitifully little
specific evidence showing the im
By Harris Ellsworth. M. C.
mediate need for such an all
powerful authority has been put
All is quiet on our side of the forth by those who desire the
Capitol as this is written. Many passage of this legislation. If a
members of the house have gone case could be made for such a
home for the week or are on
short vacation trips. 1 had in made’itUrht%^
tended getting in a round of golf a careful reading.of his very
or two and perhaps a very little
pn^nt development program of
gardening at home, but the recess present
shows signs of ending Indore I the Columbia River area rather
get completely caught up with tends to prove that it is proceed
ofiice work. The last two weeks ing at splendid rate. Instead of
before before the recess were proving that a CVA must be es
busy weeks. House sessions began tablished in order to develop the
at 11 o’clock and sometimes at Columbia properly, the text of
10, and adjourned late each day. the president’s message causes
Committees met also. It was next me to have even more serious
to impossible to get anything doubts as to the need for any
much done in the office.
such legislation.
The CVA bill itself (identified
Recently I was talking with a as II. R. 4286 or H. R. 4287 since
and
lady visitor from the west who Representatives Mitchell
had just spent several hours in •Jackson of Washington introduc-
the visitors galleries of House ed identical bills) would place al
and Senate. She was quite dis most unlimited power in the hands
turbed by the fact that so few of a board of three mon appoint
members werp on the floor and ed by the president. The passage|
that, as she said, those who were of tliis bill would empower tho^
there were not listening to the board to do almost anything in
member speaking. I have often the region from regulating hunt
thought that visitors watching ing and fishing to building in
the house in session must be quite dustrial “practical demonstration
disappointed if not disillusioned. plants,” powder dams, steam
Only a few times each week is plants, transmission lines and a
the house chamber actually filled few other facilities. Local people
with members. When minor rou would not have the slightest pow
tine business is being transacted er over, or effective voice in, the
or when a set period of general operations of this all-powerfull
debate is being conducted on a board of three.
'fhe Columbia region as defined
bill, there is no real necessity
lor a member to be on the floor. in the bill includes all of the 4th
congressional district. I shall be
of commit tee and oilice work is so glad to send a copy of the bill
heavy on all members that for to anyone requesting one. I hopei
them to bo on the floor at such careful study will be given the!
limes would he an unproductive bill by the people concerned be-'
use of time. On the other hand, cause we are all going to be ।
when an important bill is being seriously affected by it if it should
lead for amendment, most mem- become a law.
bers stay in the chamber unt il
ers at such times are not dis- upon question of increasing tax
appointod. There is usually plenty
levy over amount limited by Sec-
of action.
t ut ion.
Notice is hereby given that an
('lection will be held in School
new Columbia Valley Dist riet
17, Curry County,
spent
d\ mg
THURSDAY. MAY 5. 1949
BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT, BROOKINGS. OREGON
The World’s Best Climate
State of Oregon, at School house,
at 8:00 p. m. Monday, May 23.
in said district, for the purpose
of submitting to tlje legal voters
of said district the question of
increasing the tax levy for the
year 1949 over the amount lim
ited by Section 11, Article XI, of
the Constitution of Oregon.
District No. 17 budget.
The amount of tax, in excess
of the 69c limitation, proposed to J
be levied for said year is $15,-•
731.70.
Dated this 27th day of April,
1949.
DORA E. BEAULIEU,
Gladys I. Kindel
Dist. Clerk
Chairman of the board.
The reason for increasing such
levy are: For increased cost of
Mrs. Ernest Fritz and son,
operation, due to the recent Leonard, arg visiting friends and
failure of the Rural School Board relatives in Colorado. Mrs. Fritz
to equalize necessary items of plans to return the first of June.!
EYIS EXAMINED
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