Ctfene Debts Cut to Chip
off 19 So aiui"" ww
V . .u. .tnrvl to the "drou in the bucket"
excellent
'Ktod tht cw
..n. now
at BUB; i
is n
alL that
to the "drop in the bucket" level
$572,605.83, to be exact.
Total Shown
Less than the municipal gov
ernment's expected revenues from
sources other than taxation in the
1948-49 fiscal year, this debt total
was calculated as follows:
Interest
Rate
Henry Beistel
VJTZn reduced
in
o) 5
W& : 4
W& 8
Swimming pool 1
(1(46 $40,000)
&scsr?- 1
BSf$K?n'-
'WS,
(1928, $18,000)
(1925, $200.00) tg
$85,000) A
IBTl $35 000) 4 A
iPower and liSni i jiw
(1931, $400,000 4$
pS; $200,000) 44
Total Sl.097,174.44
.inWng funds or cash on hand
parent of bonds 524,478.61
.. . j.u - $572,695.83
Issues ma'de'for expansion ot the Eugene Water Board's power
uj water utilities.
This financial picture is in
.iked contrast to that of. the
Mene city government 15 years
,n At that time, Eugene had
Lit outstanding in the amount
1 53,915,073.06 plus a warrant
indebtedness of $264,452.83.
I fjraurkefl for application
intost staggering debt was
hit $839,902.10. The city's net
itbt was $3,339,623.79.
Remarking on the vast improve
ment In the municipal debt pic
ture, City Treasurer Beistel noted
nunday that the financial ability
A Eugene also has greatly in
ouitd since 1933.
The city's measure of taxing
Amount
Outstanding
$49,000.00
57,000.00
20,000.00
21,500.00
24,000.00
34,000.00
14,095.48
48,578.96
135,000.00
18,000.00
12,000.00
200,000.00
85,000.00
35,000.00
223,000.00
121,000.00
Hollywood
CLOTHES
McDonald Theater Bids.
C5ttS&t xyk -C4 safe.. 5.
Jl y - l
kuuenb-s svyiiuminq POOL nears completion at Sixteenth and Jefferson. The $100,000 pro
ject is now In its finishing stage and since the above photo was made a wide oonorete walk around
the pool has been poured. The pool is 60 by 120 teet with a 30 by 40 foot wading pool. Structures
house water treatment facilities, dressing rooms and bleachers. (Staff photo, Wiltshire engraving).
Pickets Yell
A! Lens Plant
power its assessed valuation 15
years ago was only $13,000,000,
Beistel said. "This year we expect
it to top $21,000,000."
Can Issue
As a result of the May elections
this year, the city government is
authorized to issue additional
bonds totaling up to $540,000, but
these issues haven to yet been
made.
If the full bonding powers are
exercised, $120,000 will be raised
for the fire department; $400,000
for improvement of the Amazon
Creek channel; and $20,000 -for
matching funds to help finance
restoration of the Millrace.
Andorra, one of the two small.
est republics in the world, con
sists of six parishes in the dio
cese of the Spanish bishop of Ur
gel, in the valley of the eastern
Pyrenees between France and
Spain.
DAYTON, O. P PiCKets
marched and shouted "scab"
Thursday but no heads were
cracked at the strike-bound Uni
vis Lens Co. plant.
With 164 policemen in tight
lines .on duty, the expected vio
lence did not materialize as the
eye glass company reopened its
plant for the fourth consecutive
day. j
A mass picket line representa
tive of all CIO locals in Montgom
ery County was at the plant.
Police Chief Rudolph Wurstner
reported there were 189 men and
women on the moving picket line
and about 3300 spectators at the
north side factory.
By 8:15 a.m. police said 431 of
the plant s 700 production workers
had entered unmolested but with
jeers of "scab" and "skunk" fol
lowing them to their benches,
Husky Lou Kaplan, internation
al organizer of the striking CIO
United Electrical Workers, local
768, directed three picket lines de
spite a court order barring mm
from the vicinity of the plant.
Kaplan said he had not been
served with the order. He wore a
patch on his head and a fractured
finger suffered in Wednesday's
melee was in splints.
Haranguing the crowd from aj
union sound truck, across the f
street from the factory Kaplan
shouted: 1
"You are witnessing the results!
of one of the most vicious laws,
the Taft-Hartley law.
"One officer gave an order yes
terday to kill me."
The pickets were colorfully clad.
There were girls in slacks and
denim shorts. The men wore work
clothes or sports attire.
Temperatures
Around the US
By UNITEDFRESS
Wednesday Hl-Lo
Atlanta . 85-72
Boston 88-70
Chicago 83-62
Cincinnati 87-67
Denver 94-68
Detroit : 86-62
Fort Worth 98-78
Kansas City 93-70
Los Angeles 79-60
Memphis 92-74
Minneapolis 91-59
New Orleans 85-75
New York 90-75
Pittsburgh 85-58
San Francisco 71-55
St. Louis 97-73
Seattle 71-55-
Miami 89-80
Washington 86-72
Eugene 71-61
'War by-Weather' May Beat
Atom, Bacteria, Writer Says
Tito Elected;
Reds Defied
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia OP)
Yugoslav Communists unani
mously elected Premier Marshal
Tito and his entire list of 63 can
didates to the party's central xom-
mittee Thursday.
This amounted to full repudia.
tion of recent attacks on Tito by
the Cominform the international
bureau which accused the Yugo
slav leader and his lieutenants of
deviating from the Marxist line.
The first task of the new 63-
man central committee will be to
elect officers and it is believed
Tito will be reelected the party's
general secretary. The Cominform
had asked Yugoslav Communists
to repudiate Tito.
Balloting on the committee list
went on all night, as the last item
of business on the week-long par
ty congress, at which speakers re
peatedly announced their support
for Tito in defiance of the Rus
sian-dominated Cominform.
By ELTON C. FAY
WASHINGTON (P) The1
United States is exploring the pos
sibility of using the weather as a
military weapon. .
Secrecy as deep as that sur
rounding the atom bomb and
germ warfare development cloaks
these studies of "meteorological
warfare."
Officials of the armed forces aiNl
national defense organization have
declined to discuss the project or
disclose what progress research
ers have made.
However, a reecnt paper pub
lished in London by "the Interna
tional Committee for Study of
European Questions mentioned
military developments of various
nations and had this to say of the
United States:
"She has got well ahead with
her studies of bacteriological war
fare and meteorological warfare,
The latter is likely to become the
most destructive of all."
What military scientists want is
a method of controlling the
weather and directing its effect
on an enemy nation. Such control
would offer various possibilities,
not the least of which would be
the ability to create droughts and
thus destroy the food supply of a
nation.
This if attainable would be a
form of strategic warfare ranking
alongside existing methods for
destroying a nation's munitions
factories by air bombing.
In World War II some infre
quent and small-scale attacks
were made on growing crops
Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore, Thurg., July 29, 1948, Page 13
Crossing Accident :
Kills 3 al Gervais
PORTLAND W An automobile-train
collision near Ger
vais killed three persons Wednes
day night.
The dead, occupants of the
automobile, were: Robert V. Pit
cher, 40, Woodburn, the driver;
and Joyce and Joan Rentz, 8-year-old
twin daughters of Mrs. Marie
Rentz, Gervais.
The train, the Southern Pacific's
northbound Klamath, was delayed
20 minutes while wreckage was
cleared away.
Pilcher's body was taken to
Woodburn; the Rentz girls to an
undertaker in Mt. Angel.
Germany through the use of In
cendiany bombs to light fields of
ripened grain. On a still smaller
scale, there were occasional oil
spraying attacks, mainly nuisance
raids, on gardens of Japanese oc
cupying forces. But these efforts
in no way were on anything re
semDiing a strategic scale.
If scientists can develop the
cloud seeding" experiments al
ready conducted they may be able
to turn loose drought or flood at
will.
lima, Peru was the home of
Saint Rose the first native inhabi
tant of the America's to be canon
ized.
Ike Goes to Colorado
For Month's Fishing
NEW YORK (U.R) Gen. of
Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, now
president of Columbia University,
will leave Thursday for a month's
vacation in Colorado, where he
plans to do some fishing, accord
ing to the university's public re
lations office. He will be ac
companied by Mrs. Eisenhower.
Fresh Fish and Seafoods
From the Ocean
To Your Table
1
FILLET SEA BASS Lb 45c
I TjLET RED SNAPPER Lb. 45c
SMELT, Cleaned, Ready to Fry Lb. 35c
SALMON, 5 to 7 Pound Fish Pf
By the Whole Fish Lb. OUC
PRAWNS, "Raw Shrimp" . Lb. 85c
FRESH CRABS. SCALLOPS, CRABMEAT, SHRIMPMEAT
FROG LEGS AND SWORDFISH STEAKS
ARE A REAL TREAT
. NEWMAN'S
FISH MARKETS
I - 39 East Broadway and Producer's Market
Mycin PDiLlC MEM1T
LANE COUNTY'S OWN SHOPPING CENTER-Cerner Broadway at Charaelton
OdDSO'
LAWN
Sale
dDuntt
ON
AT
REAL SAVINGS
AN EXCITING ADVENTURE IN
OUTDOOR LIVING
r
Can. youj viiualita
outdoor furniture with
cushions ' ai comfort
able at your favorite
livina '? room ehair -
usnioni rharwill rof fade In. At hot W be ruined by
a sudden rain, or become damp and toggif with evening1
dew.? J Beautiful loft, "eool, all' metal JTexreel cushions
"nountedf Inf imarlly.designed?meal! frameshi 'you
aruwer.f Texfeal oufdoor furniture comet in a yariely ofj
toteretHnocolon end" design,
GLIDERS Reg. 69.59 ; 49.50
CHAISE LOUNGE . . . Reg. 47.50 29.50
CHAIRS Reg. 24.50 14.50
"Eugene's Progressive Furniture Store"
,11.., -tniMv rwn rnniicvw
neil,9 Theatre BU
ah people
CHOICE MEATS
JACK'S MAUBJKIET
PHONE 4101
I
1
MM MSSSi SOCE
ZT CMPS BACON
End Cuts -mm- -mf -m gT.
EJb. 79' j Lb.58y toac
LINK WIENERS
SAUSAGE
2
GROCERY DEPARTMENT
Hytose A Af
WHITE SYRUP For Canning S A. Pail.. QtW
Hunt's g
TOMATO JUICE 46 at. Can.. A
Crushed 'y r
PINEAPPLE . No. 2 Can.. jjv
Scott's
TOILET TISSUE
CUB
CATSUP
2 or 25C
2 for 31C
WE HAVE SURE-JELL
STEEN'S MARKET No. 12
Main Entrance Public Market
Specials for Friday and Saturday
l i POLISH RINGS
VEAL ROAST
Grade "A" BOLOGNA RINGS
Lb. 5 lb. 45
VEAL STEAK 71'2V,
Grade "A" BACON
Lb. 65. Lb. 65c
Beef Rib Steaks . PURE LARD
Grade A Open Kettle Rendered
Lb. 75' 4 lbs. 38C
FRESH KILLED FRICASSEE and ROASTING HENS
CLIFFORD E. JOHNSON
The Blind Merchant In the Public Market
"Over 100 Article! lor Everyday Home Use."
if Comb. Griddle and ir Am. Beauty Elec.
Waffle Iron ' Irons
if FILTER QUEEN ' Streamlined
VACUUM Pressure Cookers
CLEANER "YOUNG" Washing
On Display. Free Machines, 2 Models
Demonstrations. if Ladies' Blue
ir BROOMS Made . penim Slacks
by the Blind. Lawn Mowers
Every Day Clothing Floor Waxes
r
Shop The
Public Market
CORNER BROADWAY
AND CHARNELTON
ti
Phone 401
-3.