' 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,
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: 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.
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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
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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
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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. Buckmaster an-!0' business in ..
nounced that the company had and 7n t on . . ' u-'iS'.
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