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Friday when Norman Vanhn-ient oat a wedding cake which
someone ordered br phone aid then f&iled to call for it after it
was baked. It had been cat down to the- last layer and senred by
the time the photographer srnt ed at the hospital kitchen to find
Kathryn Young deft) and Lilian Perrinboom getting in a taste
for themselTea. :: ; !i-
lines are being drawn sharpl'
across the Tualatin Valley, that
lovely section west and south tjf
Portland,: Roughly, tha diTisioh
is between -the upstream resi
dents who want flood control and
Irrigation 'and the people living
, along the lower river and adjac
ent Oswego Lake, who are feai
. ful of change in water course or
level or of possible assessments. 1
the county boundaries. Washing
ton County residents appear to
favor a proposed project while
the Clackamas County folk op-
' pose it Thus ; far no border
guards have been posted alohg
any 38th parallel or the Willam
ette Meridian, but the battle will
; be joined next Wednesday whenj
a public hearing will be held
the high school auditorium
Hillsboro.
The army engineers have
pared a comprehensive ; plan 3
ueauiig wiui warn yi uuicuu w
the Tualatin Basin. The plan hfs
been explained : at numerous
meetings and published in local
newspapers.; It contemplates ex
penditures for flood Control es
timated at $18000,000, for irri
gation at $17,221,000, for dom
tie water supply about S2,i
000. The government would befr
80 per cent s of the flood co:
expenditure, the; rest being
sessed to landowners. The
ter would repay the government
for its investment in irrigation
works but would pay no interest
f during the payout period. Full
reimbursement would be re
quired for the domestic water
- supply outlay. A local water dis
trict or irrigation district would
have to be created to provide li
i cai cooperation.
Washington e o u n t y farmers f
OtP
SGECNDOe
'tFQDCTOS
a
have suffered from' lack if ; : Sunday final fair day will be
(Concluded on Editorial page 4) ?highlighted by a 2:30 pjn. wom
" . " . - -- t, S en's truck driving contest Ex-
SIGN PHONE PACT y jhibits will also be open.
SEATTLE m - The Pacific Tefe- ASSEN HEADS HOME
phone & Telegraph Company an- ? .paris urt Harold EJ SUsseh,
nounced Ihejigmng at 11 p. in. director of the U. S. Foreign Opera
Saturday night of an agreement AdmimstraUon. left by plane
covering 700 employes in Wash- Saturday night for New York. Stas
ington and North Idaho. 1 4 jnjde three-day fact-finding
; Western International
At Salem " S-S. Vancouver S-S .,
(2nd 11 inn.) ; - -At
Victoria S-ft, Lewirton 44
At Spokane a, ; Calgary '
At Yakima II, Edmonton t
At Wenatchee 5. Tri-City S
Coast League !
At Portland 3-4. Sn Diege 1-S
At Lo Angele t Hollywood S
At San. rranciaeo 0, Oakland
(Only .'games .scheduled)
- American League
At Cleveland S. New York 0
At Chicago S, Boston X - -At
Detroit 2. Washington T '
(Only games atrheduled)
National League
At Brooklyn IS, Cincinnati S
At New York 4. Milwaukee 1
At Philadelphia 0 Chicago S
AS mttsburgn 4, St. Louia S
SECTIOSS - i PACES
Last Layer
Salem Memorial Hospital thought
-
Boosts Crowd
At Polk Fair
ItiteimuNtwittnief
RICKREALL S u n ny skies
blessed the second day of the
34th annual Polk County Fair
Saturday as. an estimated IfiOQ
persons swelled attendance fig
ures and prompted County Fair
Board President L. H. MeBee to
call it the biggest crowd in at
least 15 years. -
In the Future Farmers of
America animal showmanship, the
following three youngsters took
top honors:
, Donnel Stapleton, Pallas, sheep
howmanshiDi Sam Stewart. Rick
reall, dairy showmanship; and
Horace Fortenberry, -Monmouth,
swine showmanship.
Takes Both Honors
-: ' Betty Ann Kline of Parker Dis
trict captured first place in 4-H
dairy showmanship by winning
both the grand and senior awards.
Winner of the junior award was
George Randall, Salem Route 1.
A Buena Vista 4-H .Club lad.
blue ribbon for his grand eham-
Kicnara Lay, walked oil witn a
pion Jersey cow.
a Names of eight 4-H girls were
announced Saturday night as first
place winners in their i" visions
of the style review modeling con
test entered by some 30 lassies.
Their clothes were all home
made. -
Hula Features Show
; ; Winners 'were Kennie Ruth
Carlson, Salem; Joetta Rogers,
Dallas; Myma Simmons, Rick
reall; Zora Ann Hiebenthal, Dal
las; Ann Lierman, Independence;
fcCarol Ferguson, Salem; Ruth
Carleson, Rkkreall: and Colleen
ELoucks, Salem. ; s
A highlight of the evening tal
ent show sponsored by Dallas
Jayeees was a Hula dance feat
uring five Dallas Jaycee members
dressed in mops and. towels and
strummina trooms for guitars.
lo Build Back
fc FLINT, Mich. A grizzled
old man his hands clasped, his
fhead bowed knelt by the side of a
fdirt road Saturday and prayed to
"God a'nv-My to bless this great
twerk. .
-f I Then he got up, and looked
around him. somes were going up.
The withering morning sun beat
down on the backs of volunteer
workers, hammering, tawing,
painting, building hemes that had
been ripped by a June 8 tornado.
Their tanned backs sweating free
ly j they worked for nothing ; id
stopped for nothing, but they looked
like they v were enjoying every mo
ment . .. . '" - .. -
1 -
Sunny Skies
Tlx Onon StatMzaan,
VJL01U.0L
Move Aimed
To Heal Sear
ection
" By JOHN M. HIGHTOWEB
WASHINGTON (A The United
States has decided to vote for In,
dia's Madame Pandit as president
of the next UN. General Assembly,
which convenes in New York next
month. ' ;
Officials hope this will help heal
the scars left by this country
fight in the United Nations to block
Indian membership in the project
ed political conference on Korea.
: State Department officials have
been concerned- that in winning a
victory on this issue the United
States might suffer losses in its
relations with the Indian govern
ment and the Indian people that
would play into the hands of Com
munist leaders seeking to -extend
their power in Asa.
India Not Upset !
1 At the mcaent, Washington fears
about this seem to bo greater than
New Delhi's interest in the whole
suDjeci. ;
News dispatches, 1 which are un
derstood to be in line with U.S.
diplomatic reports, indicate th the
Indian government and public opin
ion have not been very greatly up
set by the fight in the UN.
Diplomatic authority in Wash
ington, however, are keenly sensi
tive to the fact that India stands
as the great non-Communist power
in Asia, where the shadow of Red
China falls ominously over a large
area.
Friendship Valaed i
i Ties of friendship with India are
valued ereatlv bv these authorities
raesplte the fact that the Indian
government has many criticisms
of the West and sometimes under
takes a kind of neutralism in the
East-Wes3struggle which Western
ers find hard to understand.
iTho decision to vote for Madame
Vtjaya Lakshmi Pandit, sister of
Prune Minister Nehru, was made
according to authoritative inform
ants, before the crisis arose over
India's membership in the Korean
.conference, : .
Al State Actios .
But it fits in with a widely held
conviction now that the United
States must do everything reason
able to overcome whatever SH ef
fects may have resulted from the
UN. battle.
At least two other possible Tines
of action fit into this concept au-
thenties here sa v. These are:
1. Efforts by the United States
and other United Nation govern
ments to make India's chairman
ship of the Neutral Nations Re
patriation Commission in Korea
full-fledged success. . L...
2. Inclusion of India in any, po
litical conference that goes Into, far
larger Far Eastern issues outside
the scope of the immediate Korean
question.
Reindeer Head
South Early
This Season
Twenty-two Alaskan reindeer
flew into Seattle Saturday by
plane and not under their own
power with Salem owner John
A. Zumstein, 2650 Pioneer Dr.,
who will truck 11 of them to his
Redmond i ranch and train them
for Christmas advertising.
Known 1 as "Operation Santa
Claus," the, project began when
the reindeer were rounded up
near Golovnin, . 150 miles south
east ox Home, and. flown there
by bush pilots.
At Nome 'the herd was loaded
in an Alaskan Airlines C-46 with
a ton" of th&r native moss. The
11-hour flight to Seattle was de
scribed as uneventful.
: Zumstein was met in Seattle by
Oscar L Paulson Jr.V who is af
filiated' with the project. Mrs.
Paulson said her husband and
Zumstein did not plan to Nbrine
the reindeer through Salem en-
route to Redmond. ' 1 .-
The other 11 animals were
bought by Fred J. Fortune, Lake
Placid, N.Y, who said that a
large Newt York department store
had engaged his services.
OfRei
atorm - Leveled District of Mint
,oye thy neighbor as thy self,
muttered 17 - year - old evangelist
John G. Rutledge ' of Flint and
moved off philosophically down the
road. ... f ; y-, 'I j '
Rutledge V spirit was typical of
the heart-warming feelings behind
"Operation: Tornado" a two-day
project designed to . rebuild 193
homes flattened in Flint's Beegher
District V - - -
Launched with the Lord's Prayer,
the project was like a page out of
the Bible. But there were more than
one carpenter, and more than one
Good Samaritan. . . ;
ATI told. 4,000 volunteer workers
1.000 more than bad been expect
Saltsx, Oregon, Sunday. August CO, 1853
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Workmen hurry to finish the chapel in the new Sister's Convent of the St Vincent de Paul Catho
lic parish prior to dedication ceremonies today. Left to right: W. E. Schmnk, contractor; the Bev.
John Reedy, pastor; .Les Schroeder and Tom Korn church members donating, labor; Sister Su
perior Margaret Jane and Sister Alphonsus Mary. (Story also on page 5)
Kinsey Book
Ban Urged by
sman
By HARRY P. SNYDER
WASHINGTON LB Rep. Hel
ler (D-NY) called the new Kinsey
report "the insult of the century
Saturday and urged that it barred
from the mails until Congress can
investigate it
He discharged a blast of criticism
against Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey and
tha book, "Sexual Behavior in the
Human Female,; in' a letter to
Postmaster General Summerfield.
Heller also announced he win ask
the House next January to au
thorize an investigation to deter
mine if -the book is "of a salacious
and lewd nature.'
The latest Kinsey report sched
uled to -go on sale at $8 a copy on
Sept 14, was reviewed extensively
by newspaper and magazine critics
last week.
Heller told Summerfield that he
has not seen the book himself but
formed his opinions from reading
rextensive reports m the press."
'From these reports," he wrote.
I am convinced that we should
discourage the spread of informa
tion such as is contained in the
Kinsey book and I strongly ques
tion the advisability of allowing
this book to go through the.mails
before a congressional committee
has had a chance to examine it or
before the Post Office Department
has had the opportunity to deter
mine whether the material con
tained therein is of a salacious
and lewd nature."
Progressive'
POWs Beaten
By Fellows
SAN FRANCISCO m Six "pro
gressives" among 437 former Amer
ican war prisoners who lanaea nere
Saturday were "roughed up pretty
bad" on the return trip aboard the
transport Gen. W. F. Hase, one re
turning service man said.
"They would have killed them if
a captain hadn't stopped J&iem,"
said Pfc Richard E. Schorr of
Columbus. "They beat up the guys
pretty bad. -Schorr
, did not say how many
men were involved in beating up
the "six or 'seven progressives."
Schorr said he did not participate.
"Progressive" is the term applied
by the former prisoners or war to
fellow POWs they thought accepted
the Communist propaganda to
which auwere subjected.
ed swarmed into the area like ants
when the operation began early Sat4
urday morning. ;
From the outset a missionary
mood hung over the buzzing area.
The workers wore determined faces
as each singled out his assigned
project-As the day wore on, every
oneincluding the families of thef
wrecked homes was smiling.
: Part of the building materials
were made available through allo
cations totalling $210,374 by the Red
Cross.- - V':-
Operation Tornado, which .win
continue Sunday; is being backed
by unions. t churches, factories,
banks, newspapers and radio sta
tions.
4
Congres
PRICE ' 10c
Dedication Slated Today
Lookouts ItUed
By Siege of Rain
Statesman News Strvtco
DETROIT Wet weather Sat
urday had brought down lookouts
in the Detroit District temporar
ily, their duties to be resumed
when visibility improves. One
post has been closed for the sea
son. It is Kinney Ridge Lookout
which was occupied by a Univer
sity of Minnesota student Karl
Anuta.
All guard stations will remain
open until tourist travel in the
lake regions has thinned.
RabidMule
Blamed for p
Patal Attack
. RUSSELLVILLE, Ky. (J) A 53-year-old
woman died Saturday of
wounds. Inflicted by a rabid mule.
The victim. Miss Ora Duncan,
was bitten and mauled into un
consciousness six days ago by a
mule when she investigated a dis
turbance in her farmyard. Doctors
amputated a hand and a leg In an
effort to save her life.
County Officials, concerned oyer
increasing reports of persons bitten
by rabid animals, have asked the
state to supply a mobile vaccinating
unit f
O'BrieiKStM
Minus Home.
Europe Bound
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay JB
Michael Patrick O'Brien, the China
Sea ferrytoat marathoner, had to
sail back for Europe Saturday night
in a transatlantic liner unwanted
and rejected by the Americas.
Things had looked hopeful a few
weeks ago for the man without a
country. He was permitted to go
ashore after 11 months of sea ferry
shuttling between British Hong
Kong and Portuguese : Macau.
The United States rejected his
claims to U.S. citizenship, but a
sponsor in Brazil arranged to es
tablish him there. t '
He flew to Europe and boarded
the French liner Bretagne for Rio
de Janeiro. Brazil changed its mind,
meanwhile, and declared him un
desirable. When the Bretagne
touched Argentina and Uruguay it
was the same story: He lacked
proper documents.
His . future now Is up to the
French when the Bretagne reaches
Le Havre on the return trip.
Shoftcut Long Way
Home for Cycljpt
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Jack G. Sherman, 1210 Tile Rd,
took what he : thought was the
easy way around a red -light at
Silverton and Fairgrounds Road
Saturday night - - '
But, he got caught by , city
police .who arrested him on a
reckless driving charge and cited
hhh to court. : ; .
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TO RE CAST (fromi U. S. Weather
bureau. McNary field. Salem) : ..
rair ; today, tome til and Monday.
Hizh today near U u M, low to
nitt near 4S to SO. temperature at
12-41 ajn. H 94 degreea.
8AL.EM pnrciprr atioh '
Since Start of Weather Year Sea. 1
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Ho. 153,
E Post
Hopes Raised
For Release
OfMorePOWs
By- STAN CARTER
PANMUNJOM ufl Reports by
newly-repatriated Americans Sun
day spurred bopes'that the Commu
nists will return at least 400 or 500
more American and other' non-Ko
rean Allied prisoners ' than they
have promised. r .
The repatriates sail there art
about 1,200 non-Korean ' captives
awaiting exchange at the North Ko
rean collecting city, of, Ksesong,
near Panmunjom. . , ! ; ,
. Tne Communists at the close of
Sunday's - exchange still iidd, ac
cording to their officially reported
figures, 708 non-Korean captives in
cluding 636 Americans.
The reports brought back by re
patriates show that roughly 500
more non-Koreans are in Commu
nist hands.
Some of the prisoners who came
back Sunday whooped and yelled.
Others were quiet but smiling.
In all, the Reds returned 400 cap
tives Sunday, including' 110 Ameri
cans, 25 British, 4 Turks, 5 Fili
pinos. 3 French, 3 South Africans
and 250 South Koreans.
AirmanFalls
From Bomber
TOKYO UB The Far East Air
Force said Sunday Airman 1. C.
Kenneth D. Larkin of Aurora. 111..
fell from the bomb nay of a B29
and was lost in the East China
Sea.
The announcement said that Lark
in entered the Superfort's bomb
bay without a parachute, contrary
to regulations. The plane was on
a training mission.
He was standing on the catwalk
in the bay when -he slipped and
fell against the doors, the Air Force
said. The weight of his body broke
the locks, forcing the. doors slightly
open.. i
It was believed that air pressure
then pulled the airman through the
opening, the Air Force said.
Irriigation Water Made Available to Valley
bv
A-
By LILLIE L. MADSEN
. .
Farm Editor, The Statesman
The result of a year, of negoti
ating f between the Willamette
River Basin Commission and the
Bureau of Reclamation came Sat
urday when final approval of a
contract for use of water stored
in Willamette Kiver Hasan reser
voirs was' announced by Ronald
E. Jones, Brooks, chairman of the
Willamette River Basin , Com
mission. . .
Included are Detroit' Fern
Ridge, Cottage Grove, Dorena,
with Lookout Point still to be
added. -. j"'-. ti i
"While the contract j is com
pleted and the Bureau of Recla
mation has agreed to furnish the
water, this doesn't mean that the
water is immediately in the hands
of the farmers,". Jones explained.
It is available at. the source
when needed. The farmers them
selves- will have to provide the
means for bringing it fr6m the
source to their fields. The Bu
reau s responsibility ends7 with
getting the water from the reser-J
ROME W3) iTrtops of Italy were; reported maneuvering ajong
the Yugoslav borde? Saturday night in the midst of a newly heated
dispute between the Trieste free territory.
Earl,; Italy sounded an alarm to; her Atlantic Pact allies that
Yugoslavia" may hi planning to seize the Slavione of Trieste.
Other troops ta lorthwest Italy were held on the alert in bar
racks, unofficial reports said. ! ! . '
- U. S. diplomats in the Italian capital did; not appear' alarmed
by the mounting Trieste contro-1
versy. , ' y-- ;i
However, an American spokes
man said that UJS. VAmbassador
Clare Boothe Luce, who is vaca
tioning aboard a chartered yacht
on Italian waters! hid been in
formed of the situation and would
be able to return to Rome quick
ly, if necessary.
Reports Spread
The reports . spread; after Pre
mier Giuseppe Pella called in his
defense chiefs for urgent talks and
conferred with U.S.. British and
French envoys here.
Fella sent a note U the Yugo
slav government warning against
an ul-considered and irresponsi
ble act" and said f the reaction of
Italy would undoubtedly be that
dictated by the feeling of the Ital
ian people. .
Maneuver in Area
;3-
The 114th Infantry Regiment and
Armored Battalion ; reportedly
moved out of quarters in Gorizia
on the Italy-YugosUv border dur
ing the day and moved along the
frontier. ill
Military authorities said, howev
er, that they were! merely under
going routine exercises.
Earlier Saturday higftt Belgrade
radio declared Trieste "remains a
component and inalienable part of
Yugoslavia." i ' I ! . ,
The broadcast quoting the news
paper Poliuka, sail Italy is only
waiting ror a "favofabie opportun
ity to seize this part of Yugoslav
territory . ; . thenf continue pur
suit of its plans of conquest on the
shore of Yugoslavia!" ,
Focus on Speed 1 1 j
The Italian government focused
its fears on a speech! President Tito
of Yugoslavia is scheduled to make
Sept 6 at village near the Yu
goslav-Italian border. It will be on
the 10th anniversary of what Yu
goslavia calls the liberation of the
Istrian Peninsula fram Italy. i
' The Rome press,! blazoning the
story across front pages, said it
was leared Tito would announce
annexation of the Slav zone south
of the city of Trieste.
Zone "A V a ' narrow corridor
leading from Italian territory and
tne city of Trieste itself, was placed
under Allied supervision It is gar
risoned by about 8,000 British and
5,000 American troops.
Zone MB", south of the city, was
put under. Yugoslaf supervision
but not as a part of Yugoslav ter
ritory. Italy has charged that Yu
goslavia has gone long way to
ward incorporating he area as her
Estate
Aside Fund '
For the Birds
BALTIMORE Ut Mi- A thousand
dollars may not be 1 chicken feed
but it's going to provide something
for tne birds beret i j j
This particular thousand-dollar
bundle is part of the estate left
by Mrs. Emma S. ti. Dixon.
Court records showed Saturday
she willed the amount for a trust
fund whose income jwill be used
"for the attracting and feeding of
wild songbirds on U campus of
theMSheppard - Pratt) hosniUl
grounds, especially m the winter
time."
Today's Statesman
Section 1 . j:l !
General news ..ll,25,6, 18
Editorials, features 4
Society, women's i... 7-11
Sports U 12,13
Radio, television A 15
Markets -- 14
Crossword puzzle I -14
Classified ads 14- 15-17
SecUon'z' . ' : 1- , -
Back-to-School News
.-..1-18
. .16
11-18
Garden
jVaUey
Section 1
Full color comics. I
f
Reclamation-
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voirs into the streams from which
it is to be taken. From there on
out it is the farmet who will
have to ' provide thel means of
conveyance,
A group of Hopewell farmers,
who have been urging that this
contract be made ready ' for use,
are making plans t4 take- the
water from the Willamette, north
of j Salem . and bring! it up to
Hopewell where it will then be
released to the farms in that
group. The expense f bringing
the water from the river to Hope
well will be borne byi the farm
ers. The water itself Is avail
able, at the source at 50 cents an
sere . foot during the - first ' 10
years. '---v.
Limitation per land owner at
the present is water lot 160 acres
or for 320 acres if the property
is held jointly by a husband and
wife.- ; .- 1 ; ' . - : i :
The contract will hold -for 40
yetrs , and nt , mar be j extended
another 40 years if present plans
srercarried out
rviiuucu vuu- i
Numerous meetings ef farmers I
Keizer Scout
I Statesman News service . i,
KEIZER Marvin ' Smith, ! 10
yearbld Keizer Cub Scout kept
his wits Saturday morning, calm
ly rescued two younger brothers
fromf their firemoked house and
then! fought the fire to; a stan
still Ivith a garden hose; i
Bernard. Snook, assistant fire
chief of the Keizer Volunteer Fire
Department which answered the
7:031a.m. call, told the story this
way: . . (. , j i
Hoose Full of Smoke j I
Marvin, student at Keizer.
awoke early Saturday to find the
hous filled i with smoke and
flames flicking up the kitchen
wall. He got out of bed and
quickly carried his brother,' Del-
bert4, out onto the front lawn.
Ilef raced back into the! smoke
and parried another brother, four-
month-old Dwayne out of the
house. The boys' parents were not
at h$me. '.- , . .
Tbs n Marvin, calling to a neigh
bor to call the firemen, turned
on tie garden hose, entered the
house and "practically, had the
fire out" by the time the firemen
got there, said Snook. The assis
tant fire chief said it was the fin
est example of cool-headed think
ing b Youngster he had seen.
$1,209 Damage
The Smith home is
located at
5505 1 Ridge Rd- near
Chemawa. L
s father
Indian School." Marvin
had left for work early Saturday
There was only about a one-half
hour: time lapse between the fath
er's leaving and Mrs. Smith's re
turnrhome&om her night job.
Firemen estimated the fire and
smoke caused about SL20O worth
of damage to the Smith home,
mostly to the ' kitchen. The fire
apparently started in a trash
burrfer. There was
Braves Blaze y
Tp Save Boys
insurance, i
Snook said, v; ' 1
Break in Dike
odds South
ROBST0WN. , Tex. m
-U Rain
dike of
Outskirts
water burst the earthen:
a drainage ditch on the
of this south Texas town
Saturday
and Police Chief Lester j N
Newell
said tat least 2,000 persons fled
their glomes. Mis -1 ,
There were no reports of fatali- ;'
ties. 0 . i -'Vl '
Robstown newspaperman Carrol
Keacb told The Associated" Press
"This whole town is virtually und- ,
erwataer, except for two blocks in
the business district. -M! '
Heavy week-long rains lave sent
flood waters coursing into several 1
citiesi including Corpus Christ!, -FaUurrias,
and Kings viKei . . 1 -
The Rjo Grande, nothing but a j
trickle during most ef the summer,
is swelling to dangerous l Propor !
Uons from runoff -of deluges in the !
Northern Mexico mountains. 1 .
At jRobstown, a city . of - about J
15,000- people 16 miles;; west - of
Corpus Christi, refugees huddled in !
the- National .Guard 1 Armory, .
schools and churches as spreading
floodwaters rose first to porch lev-
el, then inside homes, ; covering J
some t floors by as much as four 1
inchei .. - j
The: west Texas; drought area has
had some rains ih recent days but
not enough to break the drought j
Gov. Allan Shivers said Saturday l
the prolonged drought may jf ores a j
special session of the Legislature
to help small cattle owners, i
Group Pact I
1
have ibeen held in various sec
tion of the-Willamette j Valley
during . the . past year where
means of bringing the water from
the rivers into which it J Is re
leased from the reservoirs to the '
farming area,, have been dis- 3
cussed..- . , .. 'fh '
In ;some areas ditches wfJl
probably be built to convey the 1
water.! Where possible, - some
smaller stream beds may be
widened and deepened to convey i
the wster from the river to areas i
wherefit will be used. Ill i !
While the expense for': doing i
this will be borne by the farmers 1
benefited, services of the) Army ,
Engineers will probably be avail
able to these groups of farmers,
who contract for the use of water '
available. . t - i i' ; -
Eventuilly this contract be
tween the Bureau snd the Eureau
of Reclamation will me rreal i
deal to the Willametf- VaUey."
Jones said. "Water r'.-'.itj in the
streams are now practically all
used. Stored water is the futurr
unu. -diuicu waicr la iuv
of irrigation in the valley.'
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