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Amplification to 12-Point Program to
Settlement of Farmers in Northwest I
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SEATTLE, April XO-W-A report of the national resources
planning board received here amplifying a 12 -point program
proposal released Tuesday, said thatj "among all the regions of
the United States, none is more strongly knit together by physio
graphic, economic and cultural tics
than the Pacific northwest."
. "Of all the cohesive factors," it
continued, "none is more potent
than the Columbia river and its"
tributaries."
The board's statement was based
on preliminary reports from its re
gional planning offices, prepared
in cooperation with state and re
gional agencies.
It said resources of the north
west,' including the 19 western
countries of Montana along with
Washington, : Oregon and Idaho,
provided definite possibilities
for further development which
would provide livelihood in the
next. 0 years for a considerably
larger popalatlonj
The report cited 10 per cent of
the nation's land area in the north
west region, with less than 3 per
cental the" nation's' population.
The board said the federal government,-
through ownership of about
half the lands, is capable alone of
planning and financing many of
the "basic projects that may be
requested to unlock new resouces."
In the section recommending
land management improvement
and provision from settlement of
at least 20,000 or 25,000 farm fam
ilies through reclamation of at least
1,000,000 acres, the report recom
mended that areas in which soil
depletion can not be arrested be
retired. It proposed fostering of
a mineral fertilizer industry.
It said the larger units in the
new irrigation program should
be in the Columbia basin, the
Snake river basin area of Idaho,
the Willamette valley of Ore
ion, the cut-over area of west
ern Washington and intermount
lin valleys of central and west
ern Montana and northern
Idaho. i
In certain Willamette valley
areas, where soil and. climate are
favorable, some additional set
tlement opportunities through
more intensive use of lands was
recommended.
Of the sustained yield forest
recommendation, it said the only
satisfactory pattern and "one
which the region should set about
attaining" was one in which well
located centers of forest products
manufacturing become the hub of
forest land areas, "each of which
can be managed on a continuous
yield basis."
"If such a pattern can be es
tablished within a reasonable
time," the report continued, "the
forest industries of the Pacific
northwest might not only par
tially avert the decline that looms
ahead, but in time increase their
present vital contribution to the
region's means of livelihood.
It said government agencies
should determine the location
and capacities for water stor
age to bring about effective con
trol of the Columbia river and
Its tributaries; that the major
projects on the Columbia, Snake
and Willamette rivers should be
underway or fully planned with
in 10 years.
The broad crescent of fertile
lands extending from the Wyom
ing border through Idaho into
eastern Oregon was described as
one of the major assets of the
region, and provision of urgently
needed supplemental water was
recommended.
The board said water could be
supplied for an additional 350,
000 acres In the Willamette val
ley when the seven-dam pro
gram Is completed.
It said the intermountain re
gion of Montana and Idaho had
received a heavy quota of mi
grants and added that it seemed
likely the next decade would have
brought "utilization "of almost
every available acre of economic
ally j cultivable crop land jin that
area!.' ;
Some of the additional acreage,
it continued, would be (in the
Rathdrum Prairie tracts ; in the
Idaho panhandle and a I similar
area near Missoula, Mont.; It said
one! or more large storage reser
voirs, probably including the
Flathead river, should be' in the
picture to provide flood .control
and: power. It praised water con
servation and irrigation plans of
Montana.
Turning to the industrial pros
pects, the board said the "strategy
of inland locations for certain in
dustries in the national defense
should lead to industrial j growth
in the area to balance that in
agricultur"
It cited the potential advances
of the pulp, paper, rayon, shipbuilding-
and metallurgical In
dustries, speeded by national
defense, but warned that the
defense expansion carried a
threat of 'dislocation at its
termination.
The . report carried a prediction
that industrial development might
lead to an inland waterway con
nection between Puget Sound and
the Columbia river.
The report praised the recently
published six-year program of
Spokane for public works and
said it should "provide a valuable
guide to other cities."
Special Bonds
Ballot Titles
Are Prepared
Ballot titles for the two mea
sures on which Salem voters will
pass at a special election May 20
were prepared Thursday by City
Attorney Lawrence N. Brown.
Deputy Recorder Alfred ; Mundt,
preparing a voters pamphlet and
election notices, said that election
boards will probably be the same
as Icounty boards for precincts in
which polling places for each ward
are located.
The ballot titles are:
. "Shall the common council of the
City of Salem be authorized to issue
and sell serial bonds of the City of Sa
lem in the amount of $200,000, bearing
interest at an amount not to exceed
Pr cent, for the construction of a
sewage treatment plant, intercepting
sewers, construction and reversal of
several lateral sewers, and construc
tion of pumping plants, to be payable
from taxes and additionally, secured
by; revenues to be derived from serv
ice charges?"
"Shall the charter of the city of Sa
lem be amended by amending section
five so as to lengthen the terms of all
appointive officers in the city of Sa
lem to two years?"
Church Topic
Announced
MONMOUTH The Evangelical
church will present a special Sun
day school program at ten o'clock
Easter. Rev. E. C. Hicks has
chosen "He Is Risen" for his ser
mon topic. Special music ! will be
offered, directed by Helen Sand
berg, Portland, a student bf OCE.
! The evening service theme will
be "Reconciliation." Good Friday
service will be held at 8 p.m. The
minister's talk will be : on the
crucifixion.
-Regatta hWinner?
At the Christian church, Rev.
W. A. Elkins' sermon topic will
be "He Is Risen" at the morning
service. A woman's trio will sing.
At 7:30 p.m. a cantata: "Easter
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Aleta Van Sant of Elizabeth City,
N. C waves to the cameraman as
she wins her event In the annual
Miami Yacht Club regatta in Bis
cayne Bay, Miami, Fla. Piloting her
speedy Stormy in faultless fashion,
she led the men a merry chase to
cop the Florida State Moth class
championship.
Mishap Policy
Softens Fall
Of Transient
Roy S. Moore, 38, H o b a r t ,
Wash., was on his -way to a Job
in a Salinas, Calif., sewer pipe
plant, via the, reefer route, but
he's toinr to spend some time In
the Salem General hospital
mending a fractured hip before
he starts making sewer pipe.
He wasn't worrying about the
hospital bill, though. Unlike
most men who fall off freight
trains Moore has a paid up acci
dent insurance policy and told
first aid men he was anxious to
contact the local agent for the
company.
Moore was injured Thursday
night about 7:20 o'clock when he
fell off a Southern Pacific
freight train at the Smith street
crossing near the fairgrounds.
Salem first aid men gave emer
gency treatment and took him to
the hospital.
Moore told Captain Percy
Clark that his wife b waiting
for him in Seeley, Calif.
Salem to See
10,000 Army
Men in May
Ten thousand soldiers from Fort
Lewis, Wash., will pass through
Salem between May 19 and 24
enroute to maneuvers in southern
California, Capt. N. E. Poines of
the Ninth field artillery battalion,
IX army corps, advised Manager
Fred D. Thielsen of the cham
ber of commerce here Thursday
afternoon.
Poines was seeking to arrange
for five overnight bivouacs of
units averaging 350 vehicles and
2000 men each, -probably at the
state fairgrounds. In addition to
its huge requirements of beef
and farm produce, the traveling
army will use four tons of ice
daily.
Other large troop movements
will take place over the Dallas
California highway at the same
time.
Sunrise Song" will be presented.
Mrs. R. D. Elliott is director;
Mrs. E. J. R e e d e accompanist.
Fifteen choir members are par
ticipating. The solo parts are be
ing taken by Clara Poldine Agnes
Hoag, Eldon Riddell and Jay F.
Powell.
An offering will be taken for
retired ministers and missionary
homes.
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Competitive civil .service . ex
amination to replenish a depleted
fire department eligible list will
be held April 30, City Recorder
Hannah Martin announced Thurs
day, f . -: - "::."
V Applicants must be between the
ages, of 21 and 31, resident within
the Salem city limits and -must
meet moral and physical require
ment! of the civil service code, -'
. Applications for .the examina
tion will be accepted at . the city
recorder's office, i ..."".
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Drop Revealed
Oregon went through the first
quarter of 1941 without one bi
cycle traffic fatality. Earl Snell,
secretary of state, discloses. Last
year there were two bicycle fa
talities for the corresponding pe
riod. !
Bicycle fatalities in the year
1940 were reduced 48 percent from
1939, the first year deaths from
accidents of this type had shown
a decrease in Oregon since -1931.
Much of the credit for the re
duction in bicycle fatalities ' is
given the various bicycle regula
tory ordinances which have en
acted by many Oregon communi
ties "during the past two years.
More than 20 cities and towns in
this state have adopted such or
dinances and several other local
ities are considering similar leg
islation at present
The state traffic safety division
has cooperated with Oregon com
munities in showing motion pic
tures' on bicycle safety in schools
and other groups and by sending
speakers to assist in explaining
bicycle safety and encouraging
whole-hearted cooperation in ob
serving bicycle regulations.
Hundreds of bicycle' safety post
ers have been distributed by the
state: department and more are
available. Groups, city officials
or individuals interested in bi
cycle safety may obtain these
posters by writing to the secretary
of state at Salem. It is suggested
that these posters be placed in
places where young people con
gregate during the summer vaca
tion season as a reminder to ride
safely at all times-
Italo Survivors
Tell Horrors of
JNaval Battle
ATHENS, - April- 40-HSujv
yivors of -the; Italian; cruisers' Fl
ume and Zara, and-the; destroyer
Alfieri, declared -'upon 'their "ar
rival here that British warships
destroyed 'their craft in the recent
Mediterranean naval battle ten
minutes before we were able 'to
fire a 'single shot, and caused en
ormous casualties.'
- Rescued - by - a Greek . warship,
the fascist sailors : asserted that
hundreds of seamen and petty, of
ficers, trapped below decks; went
down with the Italian ships when
the British opened v fire Friday
night v '.. ! : ;;.
A 2 1-year-old gunner on : the
Flame, one : of the few on duty
when the smashing British attack
was launched said:
"We were cruising along
about 9 o'clock Friday night
when suddenly in the distance,
about three or four miles away,
biff searchlights flashed on us.
"For a few seconds we thought
they were the lights of another
Italian cruiser although we had
sighted one British warship just
before dark. - i
- "A salvo of shells almost im
mediately followed fhe searchlight-
and simultaneously we were
hit by. wl torpedo.
."Before we could bring a single
gun into action the ship was list
ing too badly to fire.
"The ship started settling. I
gut M. to i fei
life raft floating alongside is thai -r &ri
oees jjbaptiired -,
FiunveV deck went under. rm
sure hundreds -of -others r were
trapped below deck. . v
. Other survivors jtold a similar J
story but the action was so swift
many : did. not know exactly what
happened.. ; - -v..
One young sailor told, a farrow
ing . story of . hpx? two men went
mad oh. ah overburdened raff.
" Our, raft,'! he related, fal
ready was overcrowded. and, a
foot under water when the sua
began , fighting , among them
. selves. . . ' f ' ;
. "The 1 raft tipped and spilled
all of us into the kea. Just nine'
of us were able to get back onto
the raft The others drowned.
"We were adrift! 30 hours un
til picked up by trie Greek ship."
did not know
the 35,000-ton
Those "rescued
what happened to
Italian battleship Vittorio Veneto
because they said
miles away.'
it was several
Special Rites
Are Scheduled
Three Hours" will be ob
served from 12 noon until 3 pjn.
in St Paul's . Episcopal church
today. The service! consists of the
reading of several holy week gos
pels, the litany,, meditations,
hymns and addresses on "Seven
Words From the : Cross." People
may come in at j any time and
leave when they wish.
ROCHESTER? WprulftPrl
vavu- XQvanovicn, rruii ana veg
etable ; dealer, had been .worrying
about his son, Efftio, a sergeant in
the .Yugoslav army.- , il- w
ILNow; at leasV he . knows he is
alive. On page one of the Roches
ter. Democrat and Xhronicle. was
an ; Associated -Press wirephoto
picture, radioed from 'Berlin,
showing - two Yugoslav, soldiers
taken prisoner soon after the nazis
launched their invasion; ;
Onefof .the prisoners Yovano
vich identified as his son. The oth
er, hej said, was Krsta f Elich, a
cousinl ' - -! ". ' v.
, (Note:) The same picture ap
peared in Wednesday's Oregon
Statesman. i .
US Pension by' FDR 1 :-
ASrlfTOXApril i&Kfff V
A bM granting $30- monthly ccsfr
pensation for life to Mrs. Dollie C.
Pichette Grand IRondeT Ore hai
been signed by President Roote
velt" - , f . .
i Mrs. Pichette's husband, John B.' .
Pichette, ; was killed March 11,
1937,' while -working in a sand pit
in connection with an Indian con
servation project at Warn
Springs, Ore. . - - . . ' .
To 3Ieet in New Home !
The May 5 meeting of Capitol
Post No. 9, American Legion, will
be held in the post's new home on
the corner of Chemeketa and Cot
tage . streets, according to plans
made at a recent meeting. M
Four Divorces
Are Granted
ALBANY Tuesday was divorce
day in Judge L. G. Lewelling's de
partment of the circuit court with
the bonds of matrimony being dis
solved in four cases.
Ilda Cotter was granted a di
vorce from Charles C. Cotter; Guy
H. Larson from Faye Larson; Ge
neva M. Wowell from R. C. Dow
ell, and Loie E. Phillips from Mar
ble P. Phillips. In the latter case
the plaintiff was awarded the cus
tody of their two minor children.
FRED MEYER
1000 Island Dressing
or
Mayonnaise
Kitchen fresh and
tasty. Mild is flavored
with lemon and tart
with vinegar. Try
some tonight on your
salad and taste the
quality.
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Fred Ilever Salad Dressino "TLSEkS!? 27c
Fred Ileyer Tartar Sauce
Garnishing Cherries, bulk, pinl
Peannl Bniler Honey Crunch riched
Bulk,
Kitchen 1 fresh n
Bulk. Pint UC
33c
2 29c
Bulk lb. 15e
Peanut Bniler 2 T 23c; bnlk lb. 13c
Harraalade '""'Z 2 bnllt lbs. 25c
seasoned, 2
Mammoth Ripe Olives, for that festive Easter table,
15c pint
Fred Meyer rFesh Potato Salad, richly
pounds 29c
Manzanilla Stuffed Olives, green olives with pimiento,
35c pint
Braunschweiger Smoked Liver Sausage, eay to spread,
29c pound
Fred . Meyer Delicatessen Section
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Delicatessen Section
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Reg. 10e Pkg. Rit Egg Dye
1 Doz. Dated 'A" Ig. Eggs
35c Value
All for
29(5
Gt your gg fo b right now ... tn
kiddie wul want of them! With each
purchas get your . Jkage. of Rlt Egg Dyo
for only -4c! Colors eggs beautifully fot the
Eajter r&bbiL
Fred Meyer Grade "A" Oversize Eggs, 2Sc dozen
Dated Grade "A" Medium Eggs . 23c dozen
Grade "A" Large Eggs 24c dozen
Fred Meyer Swiss Cheese, end cuts, 33c lb.; center
: cuts, 37c lb.
Sliced Sandwich Cheese, American, Brick, Swiss,
29c lb.
My-Te-Fine Cheese, medium sharp - 25c lb.
Swift's Brookf ield Old York, Roquefort, 5-oz 2
jars 37c .
Chantelle Cheese, naturally aged, rich flavor, 43c lb.
Dutch Maid Limhurger. Cheese 29c lb. package
Delicatessen Section
Easter Angelfood Cake
59e
Serves
14 to 16
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The perfect dessert for
that satisfying Easter
Sunday dinner! Serve an
Easter Angelfood Cake
. . moist, tender, wonder
fully delicious cakes Iced
with marshmallow and
topped with cocoanut . .
Decorated with candy
Easter Basket filled with
Easter eggs. It makes a
perfect centerpiece for
your Easter table.
Hot Cross Buns, iced 25c dozen; un-iced 20c dozen
Delicately spiced hot cross buns. Contains finest peel .citron
and currants.
Easter Bunny Cookies for the kiddies 2 for 5c
Petti Fores, poured with fondant. Pastels 5c ea.
Frd Myr Bakery Section
FKth Avenue?
Easter Ice Cream Drich
25
Quart
A colorful and attractive iesscrt for the Easter season.
Has rabbit shaped center of piak strawberry ice cream
la Vanilla brick. Has that perfect, -fresh-fruit" flavor. A
hiicious dessert or wholesome food at any time.'
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Fifth Avenue
Ported Chocolates
2-1 b. Fancy
Easter Gift Box
Remember your folks this Easter with
x box of temptingly delicious Fifth Ave
nue Chocolates. Attractively packed in
Easter box, containing a choice assort
ment of chocolates everyone likes. Se
lect your Easter Candy today!
Deautifu! Foil
Novelty Easter Dashots
49e
Packed to the brim with ezcitinx
Easter novelties and candy Easter
egs. All nestled attractively In foil
nest of various colors. - - -
Others from 10c to $3.50
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Beautiful Hand-made Easter Baskets $3
Packed with our own handdlppcd assorted
chocolates. Easter novelties, nicely trimmed.
Wooden Pull Ccrfs
49c
Cdte wooden cut-outs for the kiddies,
mounted on wheels.' Has basket at
tached filled with Easter candles for
the kiddles.
Foil and Chocolate latter Novelties,
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Pastel Colored JeKy Easter Efgv 10c R.
Pastel MarshmalloV Caster Eggs.
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; both Easter Rakliirs, ' each 9Sc
All Chocolate latter Baskets or Ers $1 J9
50c French Nousat Crcsm Cg
. Delicious cream egg, made in our e-
own candy kitchen. Filled with bits 'Mg.
.of fruits and nut, hand dipped and -decorated.
Boxed. 4fortLt
Special Prices art rladly quoted to schoclx,
; churches, clubs and fraternal organizations on
quantity lots of Easter candies 4 nd novelties.
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