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Newspaper Page TextCITY EDITION CITY EDITION LAME COUNTY'S HOME NT. WS PA PC B. EUGENE, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1948 PHONE 6300 od Control ids Asked ruman ullion for L Projects . ,, escape the oon I can w-'v MiliU the H ' affpS from l.tor Guv -- m. , 'J... Viat the control . the Mowing funds f, nam $3,500,000 fca dot, ? . . Idian uV'T"rn U Dan-W"'"- I nidse Reservoir, ?ijj," IS Bank Protection, Creek, $67,000 ..i n r. waisn, w""" -u" v . - TTn. Cinjlo proponents of Uitrol was a teiegram i.r. life Monday from , ffarne t. Morse, who I least a en Senators Um about me onunsi lut week's flood when U) convened Monday. L. h no doubt that the dj which Guy (Senator on) and I have been glv i Willamette flood prob ilnet we have been In the . ii berinnlng to produce 00a ranks," Morse said. told the Benton County ttte Basin Project Com- that damage from last Hood wai estimated at ,M0. . Sind burled the two completed Fern Ridge and Cottage -prevented an estimated Is additional damages. Presidential requests are n Information from the Engineers and the It ol work the engineers be undertaken in one the expected eongres- ittitude toward appropri- pi funds. In rwiwti by the Wlllam- pr Basin Commission a Itnl agency were for trici the amount asked In !rt submitted Congress lands requested Monday ft complete any of the projects, although only ,16,147,000 is needed to knstructlon of Dorena Dam now River to completion. request for Pern Ridge s, while the money .asked em Creek Is a portion of tuning $79,000 of the or 1384,000 authorization. The River monev would ho dear the channel from north. t (10 million was appro- j ingress last year for iontrol in the Willamette o Student Lauds wt Decision risner, Oklahoma ujs thai ire c Iwi'tift 7 . supreme ftiunpnrt "ni-i... Wee fa America." :t Prepared tn i. i... ' Oklahoma, Mrs. " u nappy nw be- n.T". ecome an at. Z , on moans a a new , peopie oi my feToo Little and Too Late' &sldent "y Senator an get on wntrr, ! , narb '! t, u., """"ler ex too mil. too late,' ' in B....J,. ""ement. ,: can party IM -r.eJh bt interest 'a?et of tli . e presi" Wn48r?00'000 for tia'.inr5"1 pject and en-,tl.!;qV,c?' were !! ;-.b! SPPropri- "seal year MAHATMA GANDHI (center), beginning what may be his last fast, Is flanked by Abha Gandhi (left), wife of his grand nephew, and Dr. Sushila Nayyar, one of his medical attendants, as he walks through the garden of Birla House In New Delhi, India, left rear is H. S. Suhrawardy, former premier of Bengal. Gandhi devoted Tuesday to prayer and fasting for the cessation of the communal strife which has beset India since freedom from British rule. 'Gandhi or Lawlessness' Aged Patriot Starts Dangerous Fast NEW DELHI, India started a life-endangering fast for communal peace in Delhi in India Tuesday. The Indian patriot ant, prophet of non-violence, frail and 78, rejected last-minute appeals from Hindu, Sikh and Moslem delegations that he give the people 15 days to re store peace before beginning his fast. He received them in the garden of a millionaire friend's home here. "You must prefer Gandhi or lawlessness. You can't have both," delegation members said he told them in Hin dustani. They added he asserted life had no value nor at traction without peace and love. 'v School Board Hears Need There must be a 80 per' cent growth In local grade school fa cilities by 1953.: Such were the findings of a re port submitted to the Eugene Dis trict four school board Monday night, by Dean Lobaugh, ass't su perintendent of schools. Already With Us The report which Is based on a house to house census of the local area, included no estimate of a birth rate. The future pupils whom Lobaugh took Into consider ation are already here. If they are to start their educations on sched ule, here are the basic needs: Approximately 179 classrooms by 1953 (there are at present 105); approximately 179 teachers as compared to the present 112; the reopening of Gardenway school in the Washington district (ride , Oklahoma I and a new primary unit in the E-,i,, ,,.,. wiui niver noaa area oy i. IS. '.equivalent to Mor Broken down, the building time table reads: nine classrooms in 1948; 21 in 1949 (not counting the reopening of Gardenway); seven additional in 1950. nine In 1951, seven more in 1952, and at least ten In 1953. As a typical example, of why (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) vr and Harbor Tpds Inadequate construction of the Foster Creek Dam on the Columbia River in Washington. Morse, who has just returned from his home state where he saw the Willamette River in flood that caused millions of dollars worth of damage, said such floods are unnecessary. . "I say unnecessary," he con tinued, "because if Congress would stop its penny wise and pound foolish policy on flood control, the people of the Willamette Valley and elsewhere in the country would be saved tremendous losses each year from floods. "I wish every member of Con gress could have seen thousands of acres of fertile land which I saw last week under flood wat ers. I wish they could have seen the overflowing rivers rushing to the sea loaded with precious top soil that will be lost to our agri culture forever." l : j -.lu.ae saui ny i.su oeen iigiu- f funn. . 1 ir,g lor more flood control money i Aiorse said ha l.nd been fight pushiand intended to continue. (AP) Mohandas K. Gandhi Gandhi pointed to tne rem nants of his breakfast of goat's milk and vegetables, from which he had been eating sparingly, and said, "take it away. It it time. He timed the start of the fast exactly with his watch. He then rinsed his mouth with water and held a brief prayer service for his assembled friends and others. reading selections from the Mo hammedan Koran, the Christian Bible and the Hindu Vedas or re ligious tenets! Normal Routine He asked the people, including the Hindu, Sikh and Moslem del egations, to leave him then, and he went indoors to follow his nor mal routine of reading mail, dic tating messages to his followers and closely studying current events in the newspapers. . In undertaking his fast, Gandhi said it "will end when and if I am satisfied that there is a reunion of the hearts of ail communities, brought about without any outside pressure, but from an awakened sense of duty." Noting the mention of death in Gandhi's public announcement of his plan, some disciples said they feared that, should he die, India's non-Moslems would blame the Moslems and avenge him with a terrible slaughter. Gandhi Trembles Gandhi, lecturing the "Sikhs in the garden, became so agitated his granddaughter had to help guide the wooden spoon in his shaking hand to his lips as he took the last mouthfuls of his breakfast. "Death for me would be a glorious deliverance, rather than that I should be a helpless wit ness of the destruction of In dia, Hinduism, Slkhism and Is- . lam," declared Gandhi, whose following numbers many thous ands. "That destruction is certain if Pakistan ensures no equality of the status and security of life and property for all professing the various faiths of the world, and if India copies her. Pakistan, mostly Moslem in pop ulation, and India, mostly Hindu, were created British dominions in a partition of the subcontinent last Aug. 15. They now are at odds over war fare waged by Moslem tribesmen upon the northern state of Kash mir, which has Joined India. In dia has accused Pakistan before the United Nations of supporting the tribesmen. The case comes up before the Security Council Thursday. Hindus Evacuated KARACHI, Pakistan OP) Mo hammed Ayub Khurro, premier of Sind Province, said Tuesday 15,000 Hindus had been evacuated by sea and air from Karachi and interior district of Sind since the start of communal rioting last week. He said about 32.000 are awaiting evacuation, ami uwi auuuv wu,vu Hindus in all will remain In Ka- Irachi. I BPA'Requesfs S9 Million For 'Local' Area Budget Includes Southwest Oregon The Bonneville Power, Admini stration has requested more than nine million dollars in cash and contract authorizations for the construction of power facilities which would aid Lane County and southwestern Oregon. Of the total which President Truman has asked Congressto act upon $38,475,000 about one third is being asked for the con struction of new power lines and other facilities m this part of the state. The budget asks for $4, 654,000 in cash $4,418,000 in con tract authorizations for this area. Last Year's Cut Acting Bonneville Administra tor D. L. Marlett said the total re-, quested budget for the 1948-49 fiscal year is more than two and one-third times the amount of the curtailed 1948-47 budget of some 15 million dollars. This area got only $1,800,000 last year. Local Bonneville officials think the most important item in the budget, as far as this area is con cerned, is the request for construc tion funds for the Goldendale-De- troit 230,000 volt line. Bonneville has requested $300,000 cash for this work; $1,700,000 in contract authorizations. Coulee Power This line has not been author ized by Congress, but approval of the budget request would mean automaitc approval of construe tion. It would help to eventually bring power to the Eugene area from Grand Coulee Dam. The second half of this line is the Detroit-Eugene 230,000 volt line, for which Bonneville is ask ing $1,975,000 cash; $1,825,000 in contract authorizations. This line was approved by Congress last year, and an initial appropriation of $166,000 in cash was granted. The line has been surveyed from Detroit to Lebanon, and right-of-way negotiations are underway. More Lines Other "Local" projects for which funds are being requested are as folows: Salem, Albany, Lebanon line, $641,000 and $143,000. This pro ject would provide a second line from Salem to Albany, leaving more carrying facilities for bring ing power Into the Eugene area; Eugene, Reedsport, $1,112,000 and $350,000. This is the line for which a clearing contract will be awarded within a few weeks. It will serve the Mapleton area and facilitate the serving of the Flor ence area by the PUD; , Reedsport, Coos Bay, $400,000 cash, $400,000 contract; Cottage Grove, Drain, $66,000 cash; Detroit Dam substation, $53,000 to furnish temporary power to the army engineers. . Fir Brings Record Price The price of Douglas Fir in Ore eon apparently had hit a new all time high Tuesday, after the Wil lamette National Forest Ser vice sold at auction a stand of over seven million board feet at the rate of $25.05 per thousand, Forest Supervisor J. R. Bruckart said he believed it was the highest price ever obtained for Douglas Fir in Oregon. The stana oi i.vui, 000 board feet, located about 40 miles from Eugene on Fall Creek, was sold to the Fall Creek Lum ber Co. The total bid price of S179.855.75 included the Douglas Fir, plus 4000 board feet of cedar, and 499,000 board feet of hemlock. 'You fellas will have to use ar mored cars to get that timber outi of there," Administrative Assistant Clyde Quam told the successful bidders. The appraised value for the Douglas Fir was $10.70. The ap praised value on the cedar was $7.30, and the company bid $7.50. The bid on the hemlock was $4.10, the same as the appraised price. The other two bidders were the Associated Plywood Corp. of Eu gene, offering a bid of $21.50 on the Douglas Fir and a total bid of $154,661.40, and the Springfield Plywood Corp., offering $25 on the Douglas Fir and a total bid of $179,500.90. The bid differential between Fall Creek Lumber Co. and the Springfield Plywood Corp. was only a nickel per thousand on the Douglas Fir, and a total bid difference of only $354.85. The timber was made available through the recent completion of a short access road extending the Fall Creek access road. The new road is a mile and a half long. "The high bid will pay for the extension of the road, and we will have lots of small change left over," Bruckart remarked. DEAD FLYER FOUND FAIRBANKS, Alaska 0 The frozen body of the second of three paratroopers who vanished after jumping to the aid of six B-29 crash survivors north of Nome Dec. 27, was found Saturday by an Es kimo dog team driver, Ladd Field authorities said Tuesday. GOP Hones Fights Five Billion Cut In Budget Eyed By Lawmakers Foreign Aid Main Slashing Target WASHINGTON (ff) Re publicans set out Tuesday to chop some $5,000,000,000 (billions) out of President Truman's $39,669,- 000,000 budget for the year start ing July 1. The Foreign Aid Program ap peared likely to be the main target of the money saving drive. Tentative Slash A $5,000,000,000 slash was the tentative goal set by Chairman Taber (R-NY) pending a meet ing of the Senate-House Budget Committee to go over details of the unprecedented peacetime spending estimate Mr. Truman sent to Congress Monday. While Taber declined to specify just what items most likely would be singled out for cuts, he noted that the President's estimate of actual foreign aid outlays during the year and his requests for funds to finance other projects not yel; authorized by law run well over $5,000,000,000 (billion). For example, he said, the Pres ident wants half a billion dollars to finance universal military training legislation which Con gress has not enacted and which some of its top leaders expect it to put aside lor at least another yiar. Taber pointed out that while the Marshall Plan for European recovery contemplates a? $6,800,- 000,000 appropriation for- the first 15 months, the budget says only $4,000,000,000 of that sum will be spent during the 12 months starting July 1. The New Yorker termed even that "too much." Pirate Gold Is Object Of Search GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla. w) Eighty-year-old G. B. Mobley started digging in the middle of town Tuesday for $4,000,000 in gold he said pir ates buried many years ago. Using a dragline, he dug a 25 feet deep hole between the side walk and the street, about 50 feet from the nearest building. Mobley got grudging permis sion from city officials in Febru ary, 1945 to dig for the gold, location of which he said was given him 20 years ago by pio neer residents. He signed a contract then to pay the city ten per cent (up to a maximum of $500,000) of whatever he found. The con tract still holds. Mobley ran out of operating funds in 1945 after getting down nine feet. Reports were that two Jackson ville doctors are financing his new burrowing job. Mayor E. L. Bradley estimat ed the city debt at $350,000. He said he understood Mobley shortly would put donw steel pilings but that he didn't believe traffic would be disrupted. "If we have a heavy rain, - though," the mayor said rue fully,' "we'll probably have a lake.';; New Atomic Element Found By Frenchman PARIS M5) Frederic Joliot- Curie, French scientist who heads the National Committee of scien tific research, has announced dis covery of a new radioactive body in cosmic rays which permits a more complete disintegration of the atom. He communicated to the French Academy of Sciences Monday a note concerning the study of this new radioactive body by four French scientists. You Were Right, It Was Rather Chilly Temperatures in the Eugene area fell to 27 degrees Tuesday morning, the weather bureau re ported. This Is the lowest reading for the winter with the exception of one day last fall when the tem perature fell to 26 degrees. Chinese Leave Cities SHANGHAI (U.B The Chinese government was reliably reported Tuesday to have decided to aban don two of its most important cities in Manchuria Mchangchun and Kirin to the Communists, and to concentrate on defending Mukden. Abandonment of the two cities, each about 200 miles north of Bukden, would mean withdrawal from a narrow corridor which the nationalist have held fine V-J d7. Rationing Plaintiff Says Meat Made Her 'Allergic' A suit was filed in circuit court Tuesday by Charlotte Bruhn, asking $2950 damages against a national meat packer because of (complaint claims) "corrupted, poisoned and putrl fied meat." She alleges in the suit that she bought some bologna "seal ed at both ends, and stamped with the company's mark," which caused her painful and lasting injuries." Alleging the bologna contained "harmful bacteria," she said she suffered, "injury to the lining of the stomach, nervous system, destruction of her ability to sleep, weakened kidneys, shock, and destruction of her emotional stability, and had become aller gic." (Just allergic.) New Water Plan Under Study SPRINGFIELD Dr. W. N. Dow, head of the city's special water committee presented a re port to the city council here Monday night in which his com mittee recommended that the ser vices of a Portland engineering firm be acquired to make a sur vey of the city's water supply. The committee, in their report, declared that any system consid ered should be able to serve a population of 25,000 people and be prepared to handle an area ex tending one mile to the north, east and west of the city. Five Steps The committee recommended that the survey should Include 1 Source of supply; 2 Distribu tion system, including the ade quacy of the present system; 3 storage facilities, present and fu ture; 4 cost estimates of a pro posed plan; 5 methods of financ ing a proposed plan. The committee proposed that the money to finance such sur vey be considered In next year's city budget. The council, which took no def inite action on the report, asked Dr. Dow about the possibilities of dealing with the Eugene Water Board for treated .water. Rates Studied Dr. Dow said the committee felt it best to consider the possibility of developing a system without the aid of Eugene because the committee could get no definite rate established for treated water from the Eugene system, other than the stipulation that it would propably be about the same as (CONTINUED ON PAGE 5) Alert Driver Gives Alarm An unidentified motorist Tues day had prevented a possible two- day power failure for 600 farm ers served by the Blachly Lane Cooperative, after he reported a burning switch at the cooperative's substation near Eugene. The motorist, whose name was not obtained in the rush to exten guish the blaze, called William E. Trommershausen, Bonneville local manager, at 7:30 p.m. to inform him that sparks could be seen at the Bonneville substation on High way 99 North. An Investigation by Trommershausen proved that a pole-top switch was on fire at the Blachly Cooperative subsla tlon adjacent to the Bonneville unit. Trommershausen said the motorist's prompt reporting of the blaze prevented a power failure for the Lane County farmers served by the cooperative. "If I could find the motorist, I'd cer talnly write him a nice letter,1 said the BPA manager. Weather V. S. Weather Bureau Forecast: Eugene and vicinity, fair Tuesday and Wednesday with patches of morning fog; warmer daytime temperatures; cooler again Tues day night with low of 28 de grees. Oregon, same, with Increas ing high clouds Wednesday and light rain along north coast; mod erate southeasterly winds off coast. Local Statistics: Highest tem perature Monday, 39 degrees; low Tuesday, 26 degrees; no rain In 24 hours ending 10:30 a. m.; total for month, 8.13 inches; normal for month, 5.42 inches; river at 7:30 a. m., plus 2.10 feet; wind at 11:30 a. m., North 6; prevailing Monday, North 5. Sunrise and Sunset (PST): Wednesday, 7:44 a. m. and 4:58 p. m. Thursday, 7:44 . m. and 5 p. m. SlmUw TISel; WedocaSar HISh 3: a.m. T.l ft :0B p.m. Xjtw tastm lull tie p.m. tin Axe; Taft Skeptical Of Proposed Meat Control Predicts Black Market Revival WASHINGTON W) Sound ing a key note of Republican op position to meat rationing, Sena tor Taft (Ohio) predicted Tues day it would revive black mar kets and lead to even higher prices. The Ohioan told a reporter that while he is not completely barring rationing or price controls, he does n' ' believe that meat ration ing would work. Meat Susceptible "You have to set up just as big an organization to ration one item as to ration everything," Taft said. "Besides, meat'Is the one thing most susceptible to black market operations. I am afraid that we would have a repelition of the time when cattle were killed widely on the farms instead of at the slaughtering houses, with the hides and other by-products be ing lost. tiigher prices "Certainly the people who got beef through black markets would have to pay even higher prices for it than they are now and a great many people would get practical ly none at all." Although a handful of GOP lawmakers led by Senator Fland ers (Vt) have said they believe meat rationing may be neces sary by spring, Taft's views re flect the attitude of Republicans generally toward President Tru- mans appeal for stand-by power to restore rationing and wage price controls on a limited basis. Opposition ' The party skepticism and out right opposition came into sharp focus Monday when Secretary of Agriculture Anderson plugged for meat rationing and wholesale price ceiling on meat. He testified before the Senate Baking Com mittee, which Is considering va rious bills to re-establish these wartime controls, The committee assembled Tues day to hear representatives of veterans' organization and Secre tary of Labor Shwellenbach. Hotel Florence Gutted by Fire FLORENCE Fire of undeter mined origin swept through the Hotel Florence Tuesday afternoon leaving the third story a total loss and at least 11 persons temporarily homeless. Despite a brisk wind, the Flor ence fire department brought the blaze under control within a half hour after the 1:30 p.m. alarm. The entire building was damaged but 11 rooms were a total loss, in cluding the personal property of the tenants. The 30-room structure was par tially covered by insurance, ac cording to Mrs. George Chenault, owner. It was built In 1890 by Mrs. J. E. Morris. The ground-floor coffee shop, operated by Mr. and Mrs. Faye Pitts, formerly of Springfield, and the beauty parlor of Harold Ron ning were damaged. No one was injured. Ike for President . . . Pennsylvania Vote Might Disturb GOP WASHINGTON OP) The dar ing young men on the Eisenhower- for-president political trapeze Tuesday threatened to upset Re publican party calculations with a flyer into the April 27 Pennsyl vania primary. Unabashed by the general's newest but second-hand disavowal of political desires, the Pennsyl vania Draft-Eisenhower League announced at Harrisburg that a slate of delegates will be entered for the retiring Army chief of staff. Second Test Thus Pennsylvania, with 73 na tional convention votes, offers a possible second testing ground for those who think Dwight D. Eisen hower ought to be the Republi can nominee and insist they in tend to proceed along that line, come what may. The fact that Eisenhower passed up a chance Monday to kill off a similar move In New Hampshire immediately subjected the gen eral to suspicion in both major political camps that, if he isn't already candidate, be ie not City Bus Fare Increase Given Council Okay $840,000 Bond Issue Under Study WHAT THE COUNCIL DID: - 1. Amended the franchise or dinance under which the city bus service is operated to prr mit fare increases from 8 to 10 cents per single fare and from t and Mi cents to 8 1-3 cents for fare tokens. v.. I. Scheduled a meeting of th. council as a committee of th whole on Jan. 19 to consider proposed bond Issues totalling $840,000 and special millage levies. 3. Heard a preliminary report on plans and cost estimates for the city's proposed . sewage treatment plant. 4. Requested a report from the I'lannliiR Commission on the status of a rezoning petition filed by Henry Byers of Bled ford in July, 1946 regarding property owned by him on Franklin Blvd., east of Walnut Street. 5. Approved annual appoint ments to various city boards and commissions as announced by. Mayor McNutt. (See story, page. ). 6. Attended to other routine business, acted on committee reports, etc, (See story, page 9). Following a lengthy discus siun and a series of parliamen tary maneuvers, members ol the city council Monday nigM approv2d an increase in far charges of the Oregon Motoi Stages, operators of busel serving the city and suburban areas. The increase amounts to twq cents on a single cash fare of 56 of a cent on fare tokent. First action on the nrODosal wat to the effect that data supporting the rate Increase request would be referred to the council's Judioij ary committee with final couno action to be deferred until Jml 26. This move was rescinded ter the oouncllmen heard teatt mony from A. L. Schneider Ore gon Motor Stages general mana ager, that Eugene was the onlf Oregon city receiving bus lervlal for less than a 10-cent fare. Costa Cited Under interrogation of 4M council, Schneider explained ha contention that operating costs ei the bus company have ollmbM roughly 80 per cent since the company's last rate boost tr) April, 1946. He stated that due to extension of routes and pre vision of additional buses (bring ing the total in use here to SI (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) New Rates Set The new bus fare schedule ap proved by the city council Mon day night will be put into effect at midnight Tuesday, A. L. Schneider, general manager of the Oregon Motor Stages, has an nounced. The single cash fare will be in creased to 10 cents and the price of fare tokens to three for 39 cents. These rates will prevail for all routes except those formerly operated as double-fare lines where the fares will now be double the new rates (20 cents or two tokens). Double-fare routes are those serving Springfield, Danebo 11- mira, Santa Clara, Coburg and Park-Horn Lane. Patrons of those lines will now be able to transfer to other city routes without pay ment of addition fare, Schneider said. slamming the door on the possibil ity. The chief of staff himself de clined comment. But Maj. Gen. Floyd L. Parks, head of the Army Public Information Division, re sponded to reporters' prodding with this statement, issued through regular military channels! "General Eisenhower will make no statements with regard to the New Hampshire primary. He ha reiterated on many previous oc casions that he wants nothing to do with politics. He has not changed his mind." The Flirting? A Democratic National Com mittee official who didn't want to be identified by name said that as a result of the Parks statement he thinks Eisenhower ii "flirting with the idea of running, but may not have made up his mind. There appeared to be some pos sibility that the highly organized Republican leadership in Penn sylvania might disrupt the result, but apparently only a flat disa vowal by Eisenhower eould kill ott the stovement.