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jCood News from France
In Francs the rationing of bread will stop on
February lit. The large wheat crop of 1948
makes this possible. And the current favorable
prospect for the 1949 crop gives some assurance
that rationing will not have to be restored. The
production last year was somewhere around 300
ration bushels, substantially in excess of the
pre-war acerage of 289 million bushels.
This is good news. Abundance of bread means
that the people get food to eat, and bread is the
mainstay of all continental diets. It means less
resort to Black markets with their gouging
prices. It means more energy so workers can
perform more physical work. In fact plenty of
bread may well start an upward spiral in French
economy. Once started, like other spirals, it be
comes self-generating. -
'With the economic machine again running and
production increasing the temper of the people
will be better. The forces of inflation will be
spent, prices will start to come down. As the
economy of the country grows healthier, so will
Its politics. There will be less flirting or conniv
ing with communism, less inclination to join
DeGaulle's right Rally. The intermediate forces
will prevail and French political conditions grow
more stable.
The widening effect of this will be to streng
then the west not only materially but psycholo
gically It should also permit some firm settle
ments of problems of western Europe and of
Germany.
Perhaps we build too high a structure on the
brief news item that bread will come off the
French ration list by February. But great doors
wing on small hinges and this may be the
hinge which will open doors to real recovery in
France, and through France to all of Europe.
The Alumina Plant
There have been encouraging signs recently
that the huge one-time alumina-from-clay plant
la North Salem may get a firm hold instead of
temporary leases en life, and the project is one
which could well interest Oregon's congressional
delegation in Washington.
The plant, costing more than $5,000,000, has
been used primarily in the production of ferti
lizer since Columbia Metals ceased the alumina
experiments, but since its latest owners cancel
led their $700,000 purchase bid its future has
been somewhat precarious. -
It would serve no purpose for the plant to
become idle, and rot away. If the war assets ad
ministration cannot find a bidder who believes
the "plant can be amortized, it might at least
permit a sale for little or nothing contingent
upon payment from future profits if any accrue.
It is known that at least two eastern indus
trialists have been eyeing the property within
the last few weeks and that the Salem chamber
has not been idle. The plant is well situated for
many purposes and lends itself to considerable
EDeGaulDe Suspicious off
By Jeaeph Alsea
PARIS, Jan. 21 In the eyes
of a visitor from the moon,
Charles de Gaulle would appear
as omy one
more symptom
of the polariza-
uon of politics
around the ex
trmwnmm nt vforht IT
.. w . .
and left that is f .
a major, phe-
dark times. In Lm
the eyes of a f r
rreat man v
Frenchmen, ! de i
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hope for the strong and .stable
government which France now
lacks. But In the eyes of an
American observer, de Gaulle is
chiefly interesting in relation to
the somewhat jerrybuilt struc
ture of resistance to Soviet im
perialism which has been so
laboriously put together in the
last three years under the lead
ership of Washington.
OAs an Individual, de Gaulle
is Inevitably difficult for Amer
J leans to understand. He comes,
) after all, straight out of the sev
enteenth century. With his tall,
hieratic figure, he looks as dif
ferent as possible from a mod
ern politician. His language, as
the -brilliant Janet Ilanner has
remarked is the French of Boa
suet. And his conception of the
role of France in Europe even
in the Europe over which the
Kremlin hangs like a long, black
shadow, is not very different
from the conception prevailing a
in the epoch of Louis XIV.
The American difficulty with
de Gsulle, so notably illustrated
in his relations with Franklin
Roosevelt, is increased by his
almost mystical faith in his own
destiny, his compensating lack of
respect for the human race in
general, and his passionate, ob
stinate insistence upon being
French. No one could be less
a citizen . of the world or more
a citizen of his own country.
All his qualities were somehow
summed up, in the early months:
after the French surrender, when
he remarked to one of his start
led and somewhat offended col
- la bora (on, "You know, I am
tpking Free France from the
vurut ends of matches.?
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Oregon, as second elass matter under act
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Six month .
One year
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revamping if necessary. It has an able manager
in .the person of Arch Metzger, and now is in
operation again. But every help should be given
to get it on a sound, permanent basis for the
production of whatever is deemed feasible.
Now He Belongs to Legend
Louis Simpson died at North Bend the other
day, but for decades he will remain a legend in
the Coos Bay country. His father CapL Asa M.
Simpson was a colorful figure in the early period
of western development. He found gold in the
Mother Lode country of California and used it
to found an industrial kingdom in lumber and
shipping. His interests ranged along the coast,
centering largely in Coos Bay.
Old CapL Simpson was the original Cappy
Ricks of the Peter B. Kyne stories. The son
Louie was something of a character himself.
Where the father accumulated the son scattered,
his' escapades with family funds in Paris being
part of the legend. He built famed Shoreaeres
on a point overlooking the ocean, which his
father first discovered through a. glass as he was
northbound on a lumber schooner.
Louie was a builder too, founding North Bend
and being identified with numerous business
and financial interests, and proving a generous
friend to North Bend. His Shoreaeres has be
come a state park, though its mansion has been
pulled down. That will seve to keep alive the
legend of its builder.
No-motion on ICC
Steamship lines in coastwise service had a
freight tariff bureau for 14 years, but the with
drawal of ell companies but one forces the liq
uidation of the Conference. The reason given for
liquidating the organization is that the Confer
ence petition in the matter of rates had? been
before the interstate commerce commission for
three years without being acted on. The steam-
ship operators concluded that in the face of this
non-action they might as well fold up their
Conference.
Three years seems an unforgivably long time)
for a government body to sit on a petition in a
rate case. How is regulation going to work if
the regulators let essential work back up like
that? Some decision surely could have been ar
rived at in three years.
A tax expert figures that you work for Uncle
Sam from one-third to one-fourth of your time.
If that's so we've a notion to work for ourselves
the first eight months- end loaf on Uncle Sam's
third of the year.
If you eam$8,000 a year or more President
Truman is looking at you. He wants you to
pungle up more money by way of the income
tax in order to finance, among other things,
well, his salary increase of $25,000 plus $50,000
a year tax-exempt expense account.
Finally, although he thinks of
history in endless vistas, the very
intensity of his French feeling
makes him a little provincial.
With this provincialism must al
ways have gone a tendency to
be suspicious. And the idiotic
treatment of de Gaulle in war
time, primarily by the American
policy makers, has increased this
tendency to be suspicious to an
extraordinary . degree.
When Winston Churchill in
vited him to Britain just before
D-Day, he at first refused the
invitation on the ground; that he
had no guaranty that he would
not be placed in confinement by
the British and Americans. In
the same way, he has lately
been accusing the unfortunate
British, who after all take their
German policy chiefly from us,
of "following their traditional
European policy of a balance of
power, and seeking to divide
France from Germany.';
No one can now predict which
side will be victorious in the
strange struggle that is now go
ing on between the French cen
ter parties and he del Gaulle
movement. But from the stand
point of American policy, the
Important fact about de Gaulle
is not that he may win, or that
his strongly marked character
may make him .llfficult to deal
with, or that the world and
France owe him much for what
he did during the war, or even
that his victory now would prob
ably create almost as many
French internal problems as it
would solve. -
1
The important point about de
Gaulle is, .very simply, that when
be speaks about foreign affairs,
be is essentially expressing the
instinctive view of the French
man in the street. This- is one
of his greatest strengths. .Thus
whether or no he is to come to
power the' betting at this
moment is slightly against him
what de Gaulle says is! of the
utmost importance to us.
What he says is chiefly about
Germany, his main preoccupa
tion. Stripped of all the verbiage,
his solution of the German prob
lem can be simply described.
First, he would internationalize
the Ruhr, thus sterilizing the
basic asset of the German peo
ple. Second, : he would create
at
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West Allies
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what he calls a "Federative Ger
many," which means a Germany
composed of petty states with
out any strong central power.
Third, he would then set Ger
many free from control, except
in the Ruhr, and he would in
corporate the ""Federative Ger
many" into a new European
Union.
His speeches make It clear
both that he is reluctant to in
clude Britain in this European
Union, and that in any case be
considers France should be the
new union's dominant power.
The role of the United States in
this concept is apparently to
provide the necessary financing.
There are other features of spe
cial interest, buttwe main facts
stick out most importantly.
First, de Gaulle trusts no oth
er nation to safeguard the in
terests of France. And second,
although theoretically persuas
ive, he is inherently impractical.
For the German people will nev
er permanently submit to such
a program as de Gaulle's, unless
foreign bayonets are permanent
ly present to make them submit.
Yet de Gaulle is far from advo
cating the barbarism of a perm
anent colonial area in the middle
of Europe. Indeed he even proposes--
the re-establishment of
German armed forces as an ele
ment in the defense of this pro
jected European Union. :
If de Gaulle is impractical,
yet represents the t passionate
convictions of the majority of
Frenchmen, what then is the
answer? The answer seems to
lie in 'a fundamental fact. De
Gaulle's impulse to reject moat
of what the western powers have
done to date arises not from
mere" French chauvinism. It
arises, rather from the previous
ly noted absence of any real
sense of security in i France.
Omnipresent fear not only ob
structs economic , lecovery. It
also prevents unemotional con
sideration of practical political
settlements. There is only one
cure - for the United States to
restore Europe's sense of secur
ity by rebuilding the strength of
the west at whatever cost. And
this emphatically does not mean
rearming Germany. It means first
and foremost rearming the Unit
ed States.
fCepyrlfM. IS. Mew York Herald
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Literary Guidepost
THEORY Or LITERATURE, by
Rene Wellek and Austin Warren
(Harcourt, Brace: $4.50;
Of all the peoples of the world,
we Americans, with the possible
exception of the Russians, are
most tempted to make relative
rather than absolute judgments.
We discern genius in a Raph
ael "Madonna" because we are
devout Catholics or Episcopalians.
We attribute an authentic inspir
ation to a symphony because its
first four notes (in Beethoven's
Fifth) are adaptable to wartime
use. We indorse a voice because
the singer (Aksel Schiotz) has a
noble reputation as a patriot or
condemn one because the singer
(Kirsten Flagstad) has a dubious
political reputation. We think
highly of Thoreau's "Walden" be
cause we like to go camping. We
regard Victor Hugo as a great
writer because we disapprove of
Napoleon III. We see real artis
try in the works of Sinclair Lew
is, Nevil Shute and Laura Hob
son and of James Fane 11 and
Arthur Koestler because we hate
racial discrimination or because
we believe that in our rich 'coun
try there is no excuse for pover
ty and no place for Communism.
Such reasons, so called, are
DTP
SCODDQB
(Continued from page 1)
actually were Immigrants from
the Arctic One authority esti
mates it took two million years
for the walnuts and hickories
to migrate from Alaska to the
John Day region, but Chancy
thinks a much longer period of
time was required for the spread
of these forests. Other trees that
flourished in central Oregon' at
this time were oaks, maple,
birch, chestnut, dm. Only the
birch survives there. .
Now what does this suggest
with reference to the climate of
that epoch? It was relatively
warm, "yet with winters cold
enough that trees shed their
leaves. The difference between
the dawn redwoods and their
California cousins is that the
former shed their leaves (and
.twigs) as do the hardwoods.
The reason these trees no long
er live in central Oregon is that
in the later periods of vulcanism
the Cascade mountains were ele
vated. These cut off the warm,
moist winds from the Pacific
The result was that rainfall on
the western slopes became heav
ier in wmtertime, encouraging
the growth of forests of fir and
hemlock and spruce (evergreen),
and very dry east of the moun
tains, especially in summer. The
flora had to adapt itself to the
altered climate.
,Now the hardwoods are found
much farther east where there is
the combination of adequate rain
fall and winters cold enough to
encourage the shedding of leaves.
Chancy offers these reflee
tione in his conclusion:
' "In the light of our present
knowledge it is not possible to
determine how fully such changes
in climate are related to topo
graphic changes, or to what ex
tent they are due to factors out
side our planet. There is evidence
for believing that the amount
of heat coming to us from the
sun differs from age to age, and
that major trends in climate may
be caused by this variation in
the solar constant. Imposed upon
such trends are terrestrial
changes the uplift of the Cas
cade range, the warping of North
America above or below aea
fSl '
not the proper basis, Wellek and
Warren claim, for the criticism
of creative work, in their case of
literature. The formalist criti
cism which they propose "must
suppose that agreement between
our own and that of an author
or poem need not exist, is in
deed irrevalent.w
Poems and novels, they say,
are separate and distinct enti
ties; they are their own world
and must be judged as such. They
preface their argument about
Hhe intrinsic study of litera
ture" with observations on lit
erature's nature and function,
the insufficiency of the biograph
ical and familiar approaches,
and so on, and conclude with
recommendations about academ
ic practice which academicians
will not relish.
Much of this book will not be
relished by many critics, either.
It is true, it seems to me, that
most of us like books because
we like what they say. But the
contention of Wellek and War
ren that that does not make
them good books is errufutable
. . . indeed, that merely makes
their authors food fallows. Until
. - .
whimsical and impertinent.
level so that our Pacific shore
has shifted back and forth from
its present position. The altered
topography which results from
these earth movements has pro
foundly modified the circulation
of air and ocean currents wtuen
control our climate. The changes
in climate have been as slow as
these earth movements. Tens of
millions of years have been re
quired to change the setting of
the John Day basin from a sub
tropical rain forest to a semi
arid steppe.
"Unless we believe that our
continents and mountain ranges
are now fixed, never to be alter
ed, and unless we envision a
climate subject to no future
trends, we may be assured that
the vegetation of Oregon will
change in the future as it has
in the past. . '
The changes are so slow how
ever as not to be possible of
measurement within the span of
a human life.
Life Insurance
For State Police
Provided in Bill
A measure to provide members
of the state police with S5.000
life insurance policies was intro
duced in the senate Friday by
Sens. Richard Neuberger, Jack
Bain and Thomas Mahoney of
Portland and Ben Musa of The
Dalles, all democrats.
The proposal provides a $10,000
appropriation from the general
fund to finance the policies. At
present the state police have ' no
insurance protection. Appropria
tions to widows of police killed
in line of duty are authorized by
special legislative acts.
Measures Ask
Increased State ,
Aid for Girls
Bills to increase state aid to
girls' institutions and to appro
priate $873,000 for the boost were
introduced in the senate Friday.
The measures would increase the
present $32 per month aid for girls
from 12 to 18 to $1.50 a day or
about $45 a month. The existing
expenditure of; $42 a month for
older girls would be hiked to $1.75
a day or $52 month.
The bills were introduced by
Sens. WDiam McAllister, Med
ford, and Ben Musa, The Dalles,
and Reps. David Baum, LaGrande,
and John Sell, The Dalles.
cnucism rises w we impersonal fgresa to consider and enact leglsla
plane advocated here, it is only I aon to definitely establish state own-
In the Senate
nmoDCCKD
SB ke Musa at others) Te pro
vide members of state police with
$3,000 Insurance policies and appro
prlaUng 10,000 for purpose.
SB 57HMcAlnster Sx others) To
raise from $33 a month to $lMpr
day state aid to wayward and delin
quent girls from U to II In iostitu
ttoas; those from IS to XI from S43
monthly to $1.T9 a day.
SB IS (McAllister St, others) To
appropriate $873,000 from f eneral fund
for state aid to neglected children,
foundlings. Indigent orphans and sup
port of wayward girls la ease of
pregnancy or 'venereal diseases (fi
nance bill for SB 87 and SB M).
SB 5S McAllister Si others) To
raise state aid from $3S to 1J per
day stat aid to girls over five la
Institutions; those tinder five from
$37 to f 1.7S a day.
SB S (Wilcox St Coulter) Would
Chang county road district meetings
for tax purposes from November to
May. To permit residents to vote tax
boosts up to 10 mills per dollar and
provide that approved Increeiss be
filed with county clerks before June
Instead of December.
SB SI (County Affairs) To permit
county courts permission to obtain
federal plats or survey notes from any
federal agency. Directs county courts
to obtain all surveys and plat data
made by federal government within
counties.
SCR S (Neuberger & others)
Would create a joint house senate com
mittee to investigate the Portland
housing authority.
a at J (Judiciary) would ask con-
ership tidelsnds.
KK-KXFXJtREO
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umiED
SB 12, U, 54, U.
Senate resumes 11 a-aa, Meeutay.
Revenue Drop
From Liquor
Sale Forecast
State liquor control commission
officials reiterated here Friday that
commission profits for the next bi-
ennfum. applicable for public wel
fare purposes, would not exceed
$18450,000 as against $17,150,000
estimated by the state budget de
partment in the 'state budget-
It was pointed out by these of
ficials that liquor gales have droo
ped considerably during the past
18 months with indications there
may be further decreases during
ine remainder or the current bien
nium. They announced that the
full $22,000,000 of liquor profits
appropriated for public relief for
the current biennium would be
ravanahle.
Subcommittee hearing on the
public welfare budget probably
wiu oe neia next week, Joint ways
and means committee members an
nounced Friday.
Potato Promotion
Sought in New
House Measure
The house agriculture committee
introduced a . bill Friday to estab
lish a' nine-man Oregon potato
commission which would set up
grades and standards and adver
tise the state's potatoes.
It would be financed by taxing
growers 1H cents for each 100
pounds. The commission, appoint
ed by the governor, would hire an
administrator for $8,000 a year.
Abolition of $4,000
Position Asked
A bill was received by the joint
ways and means committee Friday
abolishing the office of code com
missioner now attached to the
state' supreme court,' The office
carries a salary of $4,000 a year.
Under the proposed new legisla
tion, compensation for compiling
the code will be on a volume ba
sis with the cost estimated at
$1,500 a year. The ways and means
committee was expected to take
favorable action.
r 'TOtKTOteon at
'Not Less Than5
Leaves the Shy as the Ceiling
By Ralph Watson
A few sessions ago when about all the legislators had to worry
about was how to steer around deficits in the treasury Instead of hav
ing to wrack their brains about how to get over having surpluses, they
had the habit of using much the same phraseology in writing their
salary bills as they did in fixing up a Jail sentence.
Back in those halcyon years it was the prevailing custom in fixing
ine penally ior stealing a sneep
or breaking a bank or any other
breach of the peace and safety to
write it in the books that the cul
prit should, if
found guilty, be
sentenced to the
hoosgow for not
less than 10 days
nor more than
six months, or
.pay a una oz not
less than $100
nor more than
$500, as the case
might be. And,
u s u a 1 1 y, t hey
threw in the af
terthought that
shoot him with both barrels If he
wasn't feeling in a good humor or
k,.4i tn circumstances war-
Then when the great democra
tic upsurge hit the country In the
early 1930's and the legislature be
came Imbursed with the Democra
tic Way of Life, lmouea wiin
biniv inv for all mankind and a
desire to make periods of servitude
still more pleasant at that period
they shifted gears. From that time
on when they wrote the laws the
offending guy got himself soaked
for "not more than" and the old
ttnA harharous nrovision of "Not
imu than went out the modern
codes and session laws to hide their
barbarity on the top shelves oi ine
library, safe from the offended
eye.
Affects Electrical Week
An of which leads up to Senator
Lamport's senate bill 52 which is
a newly offered addition to the
legal machinery to guard the ha
bits of those engaged in the in
stallation of electrical equipment
in both private and public build
ings throughout Oregon. It Just
illustrates how, once the practice
gets to running in a certain di
rection it just keeps on running
along.
Senate bill 5Z would nuua a new
wing onto the present structure of
the state department of labor, and
it has a laudable purpose. It makes
provision for an overall, uniform,
fire and fool-proof installation of
electrical wiring and equipment in
buildings to be constructed every
where in the state. And it reacnes
out wide enough to dig into tne
building codes of the dues and
towns of the state to see to it that
they follow the "state stanaard
everywhere. Floor Set en Salary
Nestled among the new matter
of the bill provision is made for
the appointment of a "chief elec-1
trical inspector who shall receive
for his service -not less man
000 in annual salary.
That, it would seem, is to syn
chronize the provisions of the new
code with the theory of the demo
cratic war of life. It places no
hampering strings upon the boss of
the department but puts a xioor
under him. It fixes him so he can
start his insoector out at Five
Grand a year, and if the value of
the dollar keeps on supping n
would be a simple matter to up
the ante, since the ceiling is the
blue, blue sky.
Of course, senator Lamport has
a good hunch in trying to fix it
so that all electric wires will have
to be inclosed in conduits and
boxes and the old custom of string
ing wires along the studding be
outlawed and forgotten, it mas.es
both the fellow who owns the
house and his insurance agent
feel better. But the thought that
impresses you in how habit grows
on one. Once you quit saying "not
more-than" out of one side of your
mouth you start saying "not less
than" out of the other side.
In the House
PASSCO
B 4S (Wells) Lets Multnomah
county acquire Columbia Pioneer cem
etery. '
IB SI fLleuanen and ethers) Per
mit part-nratuel betting on quarter-
horse races. .
HB SS (Com. on High.) Allows
state to tax gasoline ae-d to tXJS; ex-
for use la stupe tna sutrtn.
SS (Landoa) Requires highway
unlsalon to pay cities their share of
highway revenue semi -annually in
stead of annually.
BUS SS (Judiciary com.) Permits
summonses to be served by any com
petent person over 21.
PAVOKABU BKPOBTS ADOPTKO
(Vote See eat Meaday)
BTB 21, tt, SS, M, SS, St, SI, 33, ST, SS,
SS, ea, tt, as.
cm s.
onrems trp rox action Monday
B 11 M, S3. S4.
PAVOBABLJB BAPOBTS AOOPTKV
Amended, vote aae Tee-day)
B IS. SS, tT, SS, 24, SS.
UrEISCD TO COMMTTTKKS
B 15-111 lac.
BE-BEFEIJtXD
KB 42,
tXTBODUCKD
HB 111 (Agri. com.) Creates a potato
commission for marketing controls.
HB 114 (Geddes. CUe. Sen. Parkin
son) Ups salaries of Douglas county
officers around 10 44400; judge, com
missioners, clerk, sheriff, siisssor,
school supt. $4000; treasurer $2400.
HB ill (uedoes. uiie, sen. rarsin-
Increases from S3000 to S400Q and
tlSOO to SS400 the salaries of
Douglas county district attorney and
his deputy, respectively.
BEB lis (Jonnsoni Tovvaes for cne
examination of minors before commit
tal te couture Institutions.
HB 111 (Drever. Morgan. Brady. Ben.
Neuberger) Sets up state rent con
trol, to be operative when federal con
trol ceases, which would allow a at
owner at least 4 ea original Invest
ment. IIS (Morse) Increases salaries
of Crook county officers treasurer
gisoo to SZ90V. abertrr
$2T0e to SieoO, clerk STKM
si lis tusaaesi wtw
of chiropractor examiner
tag granted other state ornctaU,
Instead of 2 cents.
B US (Geddes) Increases from SS
to SO cents the charge for the Oregon
Blue Book.
B 121 ss lee -hammer) Beau-res fu.
cJorks. aemes
l IIISlll 1S-SB I
steteboerd
the same
U-ealx-i-Ire,,'44,
limit on Salary
Sparks Fly in
Summons Bill
The legislature got down to eases
In the feather-ruffling department
Friday. :
The personalities in the; house
were between Rep. Phil Brady of
Portland and Rep. Warren Gin of
Lebanon.
During debate on GUTs measure
to let any competent person over
21 serve a summons, rather than
limit such duties to the sheriff and
deputies, Brady said "It smells of
a stool-pigeon bin,"
Gill, speaking slowly and direct
ly at Brady, said: "Down In Linn
county we don't take that X don't
know what you mean by a stool
pigeon bill but X wish you'd ex
plain it? to me in the halls later.
The bill subsequently passed
with only three negative votes
those of Brady, Rep. Grace O. Peck
of Portland and Rep. Vilas Shep
ard of Clatskanie who commented
that "down in our county we're
been trying for some time to get
our sheriff a Job to do, to get him
out of that chair."
Sponsors of the bill said it was
designed to facilitate service of
summons when no sheriff or dep
uty was immediately available.
Two Portland
Solons Qasli
Over Housing
The senate witnessed Its first
near-battle Friday when Sena.
Richard Neuberger and Frank Hil
ton exchanged words in a 'de
bate over Portland's housing au
thority. The Portland senators Neuber
ger, democrat, and Hilton, repub
lican tangled over a house reso
lution to set up an interim com
mittee to study Oregon's houslnf
shortage.
The debate ensued after Neuber
ger asked that the resolution be
sent back to committee for amend
ments. He requested the interim
committee be directed to' investi
gate spciflcally the Portland hous
ing authority and its director, Her
bert Dahlke. The bill waa re-
referred to committee without
specific instructions, however.
After, the senate refused to per
mit his amendment, .Neuberger
and the five other democratic sen
ators introduced a resolution in
the afternoon session asking for a
separate committee to investivate
the Portland housing authority.
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administration and the authority's
asserted neglect to use federal
funds to conduct a housing survey.
He also rapped the final action of
former, Portland Mayor Earl
Riley in re-appointing Dahlke to
the authority, before he left office
January 1.
Diary of
A Siicwallx
Snpsiiiie--i6iii
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January 22
Held conference to
day. Now have several
regular assistants at
the New Stevens and
Son Jewelry Store.
One fellow worries
! me Says he's handled
jobs like tfiis before.
Claims he could fix up
a place like this in a
week. "Hang cur
tains' he says. "Don't
bother with the frills
. . i, . just cover up the
rough spots !" Guess
he doesn't realise
what a thorough type
fellow I am. Wonder
if Sid Stevens does?!
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