Eugene register-guard., February 13, 1946, Image 4

Pege 4 Eugene Figister-Guard, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 1946
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MANAGING EDITOR ; William M. Tugman
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Jialpful in the development of constructive community policy.
$o Joe McArthur Will Retire
; For so many years has J. W. McArthur
t?en identified with the Eugene Water Board
rid the operation of our city owned power
jmd water utilities that it is going to be diffi
cult to think of him as "retired." And of
course, he will not be completely retired.
' Ray Boals will take over the arduous duties
superintendent, and general manager. Mr.
KeArthur will be available for counsel and
.consultation. But he is going to have some
'lime for those long trips to Huckleberry
mountain (out east of Medford) with his old
; Jriend Mahlon Sweet. And he is going to have
i Jinje for many pleasures, curtailed during the
3ong hard years of helping to build the best
Jjublic ownership operation in the United
states. His ease is well earned.
I Many people have had a part in making
.Eugene's municipal operation what it is, but
in the history of this achievement two names
-will always be remembered the late C. A.
" McClain and Joe McArthur. In the early days,
';,Carl McClain was the general manager and
iJVTr. McArthur the engineer. They took over
.Van experiment," a water system which was
i little better than a makeshift, a power plant
which was almost primitive by modern stand
ards. They set patterns of integrity and ef
ficiency which have become traditions.
,The distinguishing characteristics of Eu
gene's venture into public ownership has been
OUND MANAGEMENT. Today we enjoy
J Jower power rates than any city of compar
able size, but those were not achieved over
sight. They were EARNED. The Eugene rate
i structures have always included "cost of pro
duction" plus:
'1 ADEQUATE reserves for replacement of
1 " worn out or obsolete plant.
. ADEQUATE reserves for improvements and
, extensions.
There has been none of the "funny busi
ness," so often found in public ownership,
jjwhere rates are cut to make a great play for
syotes while burdens are accumulated which
'eventually come to rest on the taxpayers.
'jToe McArthur turns over plants which are
;mbdern and well maintained and with close
J Jo $2,000,000 in CASH for the big needs xi
J?he postwar.
t:J It has been almost notorious that Joe Mc
;rthur never gave anything away (not if it
belonged to the Water Board) . Our city power
j department now pays 3 per cent of its gross
innual revenues back to the city government
: 3n lieu, of taxes (and we still think they
hould pay full tax equivalent to city, county
nd schools). On that matter, we have tangled
,.;Jvith Joe many times, and he is a doughty
!(Jvarrior.
J 2 He has had to endure no end of "ribbing"
.; Jor his "Scotch provlivitics." One of fondest
jnemories will always be a three-sided "battle
jroyal" between Joe and our former mayor
' JSlisha Large and Junction City's Angus Gib
yon over some small item of public expendi
ture. And we recall the dismay of a large
industry about to locate in Eugene when
i confronted by Mr. McArthur's firm refusal
t o render special service except at the proper
price.
"What kinda guy Is that for a public
official?", mourned the promoter (but he paid
and liked it).
It may be of interest to know Joe Mc
Arthur served as a member of the Water
Board, way back in 1913, when he was a
young man just out of the University of Ore
gon. Later he went to Cornell, took a masters
degree in engineering. Not until 1923 did he.
become an employe of the Water Board. Ho
has given nearly all of the best years of his
life to proving that public ownership can be
what it ought to be and so often isn't . In the
days when "power trust" was still a menace,
Joe stood his ground without indulging hate.
In these later years of Bonneville and evan
gelical power politics, he has refused to be
swept off his feet. He has built from the
ground up. In his home town, he is re
spected and beloved.
; So Joe McArthur is going to retire. It's
almost as if somebody were to move Spencer
Butte.
If Misery Loves Company . . .
. If it is true that misery loves company,
then veterans and others attending the Uni
versity of Oregon, who think they have
housing troubles, should read the story on
''Housing The Intercollegiate Dilemma" in
the latest issue of The Harvard Bulletin. At
least Mighty Oregon has provided trailers
and pre-fabs for some 200 married students.
Great Harvard is still baffled, is considering
trying to buy up nearby apartment houses, if
any can be found for sale, may have to re
model some of its buildings into apartments.
Of course, Harvard's magnificent system
of dormitories does very well for the single
men. And Cambridge, being a city of more
than 100,000 population and "across the
bridges" from Boston, has no such shortage
of ordinary rooming houses as we know
here. But Harvard has waked up to the fact
that it is going to need accommodations for
1,000 to 2,000 married veterans, and that the
need may continue for a long time.
In the meantime, Harvard has 562 mar
ried non-veterans and 370 married veterans
who are crying aloud at "the gouge." Rents
for the married are running from $60 a month
for a single room up to $70, $80 and even
$100 for tiny "suites," many of them in shab
by old houses, without adequate heat, light
or sanitary facilities. Luckily Harvard now
owns some of the old "Gold Coast" dorms
such as Dudley, Apley, Claverly which can
be, converted. Harvard shudders at portables,
even if there were any space for them.
The Harvard report gives a partial review
of the situation at other big . schools. Wis
consin has two trailer villages with accom
modations for 190, hopes to convert an old
hospital and a "surplus" ordnance works in
to housing for some 500 more married stu
dents and 2,000 singles. MIT has set up 100
units of prefab, but needs many more. Dart
mouth is converting some of its old dormitor
ies, has arranged to take over 35 government
units at Stratford, Vt., 17 miles from the
campus. Chicago has purchased two apart
ment buildings and an old orphanage and has
set up 190 portables. Princeton has been able
to house only 83 married students and that
by converting three off-campus houses and
one student eating club.
When Dean Virgil Earl predicted last
spring that the University of Oregon would
need 500 units for married students within
the year and possibly 1,500 units at the peak,
many thought he was unduly alarmed. Fig
ures here and elsewhere indicate that about
30 per cent of the student veterans will be
married, and of the married 30 per cent will
have children.
Nor is the problem of housing married stu
dents likely to disappear when the last vet
eran has been graduated. Times and customs
have been changing. Many of us can remem
ber when it meant immediate dismissal if a
student married during his undergraduate
years, and even graduate and professional
students were urged strongly to "postpone it."
These old fashioned regulations have lost out
to the "biological urge."
Wise counsel will say that student mar
riages are not to be undertaken rashly but
they are no longer considered a hopeless folly
or a sin. Indeed, there is considerable evidence
to prove that for many it t is an excellent
thing. In recent years the proportion of mar
ried students has been rising and it is likely
to continue to rise for many years to come.
Many schools are planning permanent hous
ing for married students, recognizing the con
tinuing heed.
WASHINGTON LETTER
By PETER EDSON
Heglster-Guard Washington Correspondent
HOUSING CRISIS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (NEA) Big objective
of new Housing Expediter Wilson W. Wyatt, Jr., is
to "Build us many houses as possible, as fast as
possible, to rent for as low a price as possible."
"It isn't going to be done," he says, "by business
as usual, building as usual, or labor as usual.
"What is not generally appreciated." Wyatt de
clared on his first appearance before the House
Banking Committee, which is considering new
housing legislation, "is that this housing shortage
did not come up overnight."
Today's housing shortage began back in the 20's,
when more new families came into being than new
houses to shelter them, Wyatt points out. In 1925
and '26, building prices reached their peak. They
got so high people practically stopped building
houses.
"There can be a recurrence of that situation,"
Says Wyatt, "so people shouldn't be frightened out
of housing today."
All through the depression 1030's. with from
eight to ten million people unemployed, there was
little new housing built. Over a million families
lived doublod-up with relatives.
In 1940 there were a million marriages, but only
700,000 new housing units. The 300.000 unit short
age was typical of the past 20-ear period.
In tive yenrs of war, during which the popula
tion increased cicht million, little new permanent
housing was built. People had the money to pay for
It, but the materials weren't available. So they con
tinued to live doubled-up or in government-built
temporary housing.
Shortage of 2.500,000 Foreseen In '46
Today five million discharged veterans have
been piled in. and by the end of 1946 it will be ten
million. Housing authorities estimate a minimum
shortage of two and a half million houses by the end
of 1946, three million by the end of 1947, then 600,
000 more every year after that.
It is to clean up this mess that Expediter Wyatt
is bringing fortli his new program to get housing
construction started again. He will have four major
approaches.
first will be to get materials flowing so that a
house won't have to be stopped once it's started.
Increased production of substitutes and new mater
ials will be encouraged. Mass production techniques
learned during the war will have to be used.
Second will be the labor problem. There Is no
shortage of construction workers today. But as
materials begin to flow, there will be a labor short
age. Apprentice training will have to begin immedi
ately. Transportation Is Blc Problem
Third, every available bit of shelter will have to
be used. Temporary war housing will have to be
used. Where remote from urban centers, transporta
tion lines will have to be extended to them.
Fourth, every community will have to work' out
a local program of its own. Building codes, which
are wild but sacred cows, will have to be broken
where they Interfere. Home sharing will have to be
continued and encouraged. Veterans should be given
first call on any vacancies.
Mure rentai housing will have to be built. More
materials will have to be channeled into low-rent
housing projects.
Housing priority, subsidy and price control prob
lems are particularly ticklish. Authority for these
controls will expire June 30 and will have to be
continued If the housing job is to be done in an
orderly manner.
All these emergency measures tie-in. says Wyatt,
and they have to be balanced in relation to each
other. It is a two-year job at the least It will cost
money.
Rotary Hears About
Life In Alaska
Although Alaska has been de
scribed variously by Bob Hope
and Joe E. Brown as "miles and
miles of miles and miles" and "the
biggest saloon in the world if
there was just a roof over it," this
fascinating country offers a lot
to persons privileged to travel in
it, according to George Hall, re
cently a colonel in the army in
Alaska. .
Speaking before Rotary club
Tuesday noon at the Osburn hotel
on the "GI View of Alaska," Hall
pointed out that some of the sol
diers were stationed for two years
in the Aleutians, and "could not
be expected to have a friendly
outlook toward Alaska." He de
scribed the Aleutians as "rock
piles, with no vegetation to speak
of, uninhabited except for a little
wild life, and with winds that fre
quently attained a velocity of
more than 100 miles an hour."
"Sometimes men had to crawl
on their hands and knees, the
wind was so fierce," the speaker
continued, "and again, when they
were standing and leaning into the
wind, it would stop so fast they
would fall flat. At times like
this the men would say that the
Russians had turned off the wind."
On one island, Hall reported,
Teen-Age Theater
Pickets Win Fight
For Lower Prices
VERNONIA, Ore. W Ver
nonia's theater, closed by picket
ing trlgh school students who de
manded lower prices, is running
again with a special 40-cent rate
for youngsters.
Jack Riley, spokesmen for the
teen-agers who locked arms
around the box office of the Joy
theater Jan. 24 and closed the
show house, said the 40-cent price
10 cents below the adult rate
had been agreed to by Mrs. Zelma
Dow, theater manager.
The two week long shut-down
also drew a promise of "better
shows," Riley reported.
Sheriff Seeks Girl
For Friend In Crete
Sheriff Tom S warts' duties are
very varied.
One of his incidental details
right now is to try to locate Miss
Virginia Gamble, who lived at 522
Eleventh Avenue east, in Eugene.
That was before the war.
Sheriff Swarts has received a
letter requesting assistance in
locating Miss Gamble from Ino
Papamarkakis, a girl friend who
lives at Ionias Street No. 3, Canea,
Crete, now under the protection of
Greece.
"As soon as we were liberated,"
Miss Papamarkakis wrote, "after
four years of slavery under our
common enemies, the GERMANS,
I hastened to s,end her a letter, in
forming her that we are SAFE,
and that' our house has been en
tirely ruined by the enemy's
bombs."
Her first letter to Miss Gamble
was returned unclaimed and the
sheriff has asked that anyone
knowing the address of the girl
supply it for him.
Jhe engineers made a tree of wire
and burlap, put a small fence
around it and hung a sign on the
fence saying, "National Forest."
During his stay in Alaska Hall
was in charge of the educational
activities of the army and navy
forces. "Just to show what we
didn't know about Alaska, when
we first went up there we took
along golf, tennis and football
equipment for the troops. None of
it was every used," he laughed.
Sheep, Cattle Men '
To Meet Feb. 14
Sheep and cattle men of west
ern Oregon will meet at the 10th
annual meeting of the Western
Oregon Livestock association at
Coquille, Feb. 14 and 15. Those
from Portland who will speak at
the program include R. L. Clark,
secretary of Portland Livestock
Although life in the Aleutians
was dreary, there was a bright
side to the picture for those able
to view the territory by dog sled,
train and plane.
"Alaska is unique in that, people
up there don't use pennies," the
former army officer revealed. "In
the cities there are few locks on,
the doors, and credit is granted to
everyone. The merchants gave
exchange, who will
credit to the soldiers too, and in
ture Livestock Markets." and R.
A. Ward, general manager of Pa
cific Wool Growers, who will talk
on the "Wool Situation." The an
nual banquet will la held Wednes
day evening at which the princi
Dal speaker will be Dr. A. L.
Strand, president of Oregon State
college.
a short while we noticed that this
was the first way that Alaska
changed after the army moved in.
he merchants became a little
more careful in extending credit."
The speaker described two of
his favorite "characters," who live
in a ghost town south of Fair
banks so isolated that the single
road in is open only 60 days in
the entire year. One is Fannie
Qulgley, 74, and the other a man
of 50. They lived two miles apart,
and live almost entirely off the
land, shooting and curing their
own game, making their own
home brew, and shopping for
staples in Fairbanks once a year.
Fannie Quigley went to Alaska
in 1898, Hall said, working first
as a dance hall girl. Later she
opened a restaurant where she
sold hot cakes for a dollar a plate.
When competition forced her
farther away, she at one time took
a dog team across 500 miles of
dreary Alaska terrain, and was
the first woman to make this trip.
For that reason she became known
as "Fannie the Hike."
"Fannie struck it rich," Hall
continued, "and is a wealthy
woman now. She weighs only
90 pounds, but she still kills moose
and bear, dresses the pelts, and
does all her own work.
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Relics To Be Shown
An exhibit of ancient Japanese
Samurai fighting equipment, the
showing of which has been au-.
thorized by Gen. A. A. Vander
grift, commandant of the marine
corps, will be in Eugene Thurs
day, according to an announce
ment from marine corps public re
lations headquarters.
The collection has been mount
ed in a trailer, which will be
located beside the McDonald
theater on Tenth Avenue west
Thursday afternoon and evening.
Friday morning the display will
be shown at the Eugene high
school.
The equipment was recovered
by the fifth marine division dur
ing its occupancy of Kyushu,
Japan, and is being routed
through various parts of the coun
try. Access to the trailer is from
the rear, with a passageway ex
tending around the entire exhibit.
It was pointed out that the ex
hibit is in reality an historical
collection recovered as a result of
the defeat of Japanese imperialism.
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elected a director of local Youth
for Christ rallies at a recent meet
ing in the Miner building here,
it was announced Wednesday.
Dave Connelly, Bremerton,
Wash., was elected paid assistant
director and the committee for
selection of speakers is as fol
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Rev. E. J. Fulton, Duane Poplin,
Mrs. Lee Gay and Harold Olson.
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