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' Page Z, " Regl-iter-Cmirg, Fugene, Org., WtS., Aug. 13, 1947 Amazon Wafer District Planning ! Strengthened by New Decisions tisnB1 4nr ihm Amamn Water Control District, still In tne eariy stages of planning, took mother etep toward actuality Tuesday night with the appointment of a committee to meet with city end county official! to obtain esti mates of the coat and the distribu tion of the coit of the proposed development. Chairman John R. nellitrom presided over the organisational meeting and appointed Harry Bower, Kenneth Nellien, and Major Snyder, with Attorney Charles Edwards, to meet wiut me county court and the city council. The committee will eeek city- i British Crisis j Questions Seen e Br J. M. ROBERTS, Jr. AP Foreign Affaire Analyst I Bt admitting that a production emergency le no time to be ns- tlonallslng the steel Industry, the J British Labor Party has cut the ground from under Foreign Mln- j lster Bevin regaraing naiionama- 1 tlon of the Ruhr mines. iThls his been one of the major disagreement! In Anglo-American discussions of tht German coal e situation. Britain has Insisted on ! Immediate nationalization. Amer- lcens don't believe that is the wey ' to get con I. They also think the I J Germans should eventually decide a about Socialism for themselves. Make. Point I J Bevin made a point, of course, when he Inquired who would get the mines. "Are they going back J to the syndicates or the Krupps?" I I The answer li that there la no J reason for giving the mines to ' j anybody now. Britain, an expert e In handling the resources of col- onlee, ought to know how to hand- 2 le that Just what could be gained by Injecting political theories Into ,"this process Jj not dear. Attempt to export Ideologies lie at the root J of many current world trouble. , The Russians have been buay for I years trying to export their par J tteular brand of Communism. The J United States le trying to counter Moeoow by exporting Democracy. J Is Britain trying to make It a , eh?e-way contest?" In an anedent society iuoh ee 1 Brltafo'a, with a steadfast trad- Woo of Individual liberties, It mey be possible to experiment with limited state control without too tnwcb danger. But even it Britain 1 heeUetee to socialise her own steal ' kkdustrr, M look like her ergu J merit over the Ruhr falls to pieces, , e : Coast Retail Sales Level Off in June IAW FRANCISCO OP) Total retell trade Increased from Mey to June In only four out of So Pacific eoaei ettlea covered by a Department of Common report The revered el ties war Santa Barbara, with an Increasa of 6 per cent) Santa Monloa, t per oent, and Glendalo, Calif, and Yakima, .wasn- wttn 1 per oant each. Deollnee ranging from 1 per eeot to II per oent were reported other eltlee. Both rreeno, r-'H. and Spo kane, Wash, reported Jeolir.ee of 13 per oent All the otttee etiaept Bremerton, Wash, however, showed Ineroaeee for the flret half of 1847 eompeced vrlth the like period of 184fl. Re tail trade In Bremerton deollned per cent fur the period. In creases In the other eltlee ranged high ae 41 per cent In Alhembra ana Ulendale, Calif. ' county cooperation in the Amazon watershed eree from South of tu gene to the Junction with Long Tom Creek. Form District It was moved to form a water control district under Chapter 289 of the 1047 Session Laws, which provides that 20 per cent of the landowners in an area may peti tion the county court for the cre ation of such a district. The committee Is drafting the necessary petitions and hopes to have them reach the court in the near future so that dates may be set for publio hearings to deter mine the boundaries of the pro posed district Boundarlea Studied Tentative boundaries are now being submitted by the committee to be used ea a guide In deter mining the final boundaries of the district The money alloted by the last sasalon of Congreea la to be used In actual development of the flood control area. It la up to local land owners who will benefit by the project to negotiate for the ease ments and land rights necessary to begin construction. Iron Special Autaatrl U4TttWlhl Wore) Now 10.95 T.M IN T.M (.13 I.N WMeneyLetl Sanuoa KM KM ALL THTJ AND GREEN STAMPS TOO C EUCTRIC S 1070 Willamette Ph. 314 seiieaija. uareiiieaiie -vWi0rm,frr naj u It L-.J 1 L rT , V,' - Tig CYPSY HANDICRAF T-Jeieef Ignaa. fypey weed, earver wha llvee In a mad kit at Brcsl, near Badapeet, shows bew ke cute weedea kHehea bewl from piece of tree trunk. He considers equivalent of 11 fee bowl good oar. Forest Service Palestine Vendetta Claims Four Lives JERUSALEM (UP) Mount ing strife between the Jews and Arabs In Palestine claimed four. more Uvea Wednesday. Two Arabs and one Jew were killed in a vendetta waged amidst a tangle of barbed wire end other barrlcedee studding a no man's land between neighboring Tel Aviv and Jaffa. Another Jew was stabbed to death by Arabs In downtown Jaffe. He was a truck driver who had stopped to repair his engine In the Arab section of the town. British authorities clamped a sunset to eunrlse curfew on the Tel Aviv-Haifa battle rone In a bid to halt the "non-polltlcal In cidents," as the skirmishes were termed. British Start Work On Recovery Plan London w Government officials met with trade union leaden and industrialists Wednes day to make planf for combatting British economic ailments with the newly voted and extensive con trols over labor, Industry and wealth. The controls became law with King George's auent after receiv ing final parliamentary approval from the House of Lords. The "crisis" bill empower! the Labor government to muster all British reeource and guide labor into essential Industries In efforts to achieve economic recovery. The House of Commons mean while voted IDS .o 84 to adjourn until Oct 20, beating down Con servative and Liberal attempts to shorten the recesa to Sept. IS In view of the economic situation. Rleherd McArdle, assistant chief of the U. B. forest acrvlca in charge of the division of state and private forestry, is In Eugene tills week to Inspect the Willamette National Forest as part of an In tegrating Inspection of the entire Region 9, according to Supervisor J. C. Bruckart The inspection, part of a nation wide survey conducted once every five to ten yean, Include! study of timber sales, camp and recre ational problems, land exchanges, and the entire scope of general forest problem!. Others Along Accompanying McArdle on his swing through Region 8 are W. R. Chapline of the division of re search In Washington, D. C, and Warren Murphy of the operation! division. H. J. Andrew!, regional for ester from the Portland office of the U. S. Forest Service, wai In Eugene this week with the men from Washington, and will accom pany them on part of their trip around the region. When Andrews Is needed In Portland, other mem bers of hti staff will Join the party. Go to Plant The Investigators spent Wed nesday morning looking through the Willamette Valley Wood Chemical plant lif Springfield Clark Van Fleet plant manager, and H. J. Cox, secretary of the Wood Chemical Co., went with the investigators. Consultations In this area are expected to end about Friday, ac cording to Bruckart. 'Flivver' Plans Duo Land in Greenland NEW YORK W) Two former Army pilots who are circling the globe in two light planes, with time no object, landed Tuesday night In Greenland and planned to take off Wednesday for Iceland, Strohmeier, flight manager reported. Clifford V. Evans, 28, Washing ton, D.C. and George Truman, 39, Los Angeles, messaged Stroh meier they had landed safely at Bluie West One airport, about 40 miles from Juliannehaab, capital of Greenland. Evans landed at 8:28 p.m. (EDT) and Truman two min utes later. They had left Goose Bay, Labrador shortly after noon Tuesday. Observing a tradition dating from atagecoach days, many New Hampshire housewives celebrate Election Day by baking a rich fruit cake known as " 'lection cake." Shippers Differ In Freight View (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) Leave Pay Deadline Moved up One Year The date by which veterans may apply for terminal leave pay has been extended from Sept 1, 1947, to Sept I, 1848, the Lane County Chapter of the American Red Cross was Informed Tuesday. Leg islation which permitted cash pay ments also extended the deadline. Red Cross officials said veterans may obtain application forms, free notary service, and assistance In filling out the forms at the Red Cross office, 43 Eighth Ave., W., Eugene. Although the Red Cross office has been handling more than 100 such applications a week, officials said Wednesday they believed "the surface has Just been scratched In Lane County," and that many hundreds of veterans have not yet applied for the leave pay owing them. DOW JONES Dow Jones closing bond aver ages: 40 bonds. 103.31, off 0.03. 10 higher grade rails, 120.68, un changed. 10 lecond grade rails, 91.78, off 0.07. 10 public utilities, 107.83, off 0.01. 10 Industrials, 104.23 off 0.03. PAINTING and DECORATING Paoot Banting Spray Palrrtlnf Aoim-i & Richmond Phono IlOt Springfield Ralph Chipperfield Comtruction Company If? ussens atl 'Tj yor ki! m i 1 k-1 o n e t$SSMf&fS ma re 1 ae Be yem waotco. efasaVwWi dry en area W TWi' rtrrrUma HaWuslaki aWeoyed wauamjsm.Tbo eW(nsaMsp,at k swk7fcaB-'rWai rWeAtaVeiei ioitmrnmyam, Meade It wfA emia.-grotto wrlT. rwnCrM lujtr fletaerlsig ehednsl Q 3s2tS k W. si i iSji,ie-ir?m '"T WW: -voire Wm Im M TvUm-cc, Iifi -4-M tester, at 1.00. m in T .an Tountv and its general vicinity had been forced j to close. This figure now may be' somewhat higher. Ordway pointed out then that, in the days before the recent itrike of SP engineers, fewer empty carsi were moved into this area because of the impending tie-up. So far the smaller mill! have, felt the car shortage most acutely hHfiK thai storage apace is limited. However, Cox said Wed-i nesday that the Long-Bell Lum ber Co. plant at Vaughn had been I forced to shut down and the! Youngs Bay Lumber Co. plant at Roseburg also had closed. High Inventory ' The Industry has the highest log: inventory in recent history, said! Cox, but would make no predic tion as to what this might mean1 when cars become more available. Meanwhile prices were reported to have rebounded with the car shortage, at buyers bid against, each other to get what lumber does go east. j The West Coast Lumbermen's! Assn. and Willamette Valley! Lumbermen's Assn. are doing all that Is possible to see that Oregon mills get equal treatment on cars with other mills on SP lines, Cox said. Lack of Height Clears Midget CHICAGO, Aug. 12-OJ.fD-Judge Harry Beam dismissed a strong arm robbery charge against an 80pound midget Tuesday. The suspect Albert Testa, 74 standi four foot six In built-up shoot. j "Thlt little man would hava to carry around a six-foot ladder to ttrongarm anybody," the Judge said. Philip Alello, 33, who It five foot tlx and weight 170 pounds, charged that Testa wai one of three men who overpowered rum in a taxi and took f 29 and a ring. "That's ridiculous," Testa said, "I can scarcely reach bit hip pocket" The judge agreed. CTJBLET LOSES PLEA WASHINGTON U.R Fed eral Judge James F. Proctor Wed nesday refused to reduce the tlx to eighteen months mill fraud sentence Imposed on Mayor Jamet M. Curley of Boston. vagreed to . . , o. - (U.PJ Pretident company-wid, v ? , J master of the United contract. MrHlai 1 Goodrich :trie "Present 50 .."H4 kU STRIKE SOLTOOX SEE AKRON, L. S. Buckmaster Rubber Workert Wednesdty j recommended that a threatened, itrike by 21,000 members of the union teainst the B. F. Goodrich Co. be called off. 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