SUNDAY EDITION
LANE COUNTVS HOME NEWSPAPEU
Forecast: Fair Sunday and Monday, slightly
warmer Monday. Expected high Sunday, 18 de
grees. Expected low Sunday night, 49 degrees.
Cloudy In early part of day.
Temperatures: Hirh Saturday, It degree. Low
Saturday, 48 decrees. No precipitation.
Tear,
No. 233
(FOUR SECTIONS 44 PAGES)
EUGENE, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 1949
Phone 5-1551
Slaps
Americans:
r
JopSneenng
Lfld Labor Join
Counter-Ariuwr.
,,n0If (UP) - The
smarting
under American
. -1. V
Ah, MacFodden, 'You Wonderful Man!'
Mr. Muscles Wafts to Earth
With the Greatest of Ease
.....I, hark Satur.
P: x ...iVi a warning
r.ine of twisting
u" . ricWv one."
nudShinwell
K"e official counterattack
,t Aspatria. Pro-gov-S'-jav
newspapers
P ... ,h such head-
KS. British are tired of
C Insults!" and "Stop the,
P tL. tn Americans."
Crnewspaper set the key
rbll.ne: ..X hv comment-1
Is toe " -
,u; rpnturv the
VnrrnVPd
1S7dovou
-iy nccu iu "
Z.a. Noted
Ldl's speech - Britain'!
Ucial notice of recent U.S.
f .... ,nsidered especially
Kit because of the crucial
thlCtl 0PC" xxx ..." -
mit roontn.
,mied "some of our allies
Umtefullv forgetting Bnt-
im
o..( KnnrriDULiuii . . "
'dense of Democracy," and
(ame of twisting the
,1 Ull U risky one and it
fitcoll on those who In
. u ihU nastime."
Eli the criticism directed
s; this country oom ai uumo
.toad, is disgraceful, ine
Binister said. "The vast con-
kionwe maae uuims uio
the defense ot uemocracy
ktn be forgotten,
l. of our overseas critics
F " . . . x;
(hat Britain was ana sun
fens tneir principal nmxivct,
nil added. "We purcnasea
acre from them than ever
from us. No doubt we did
irause it suited our economy.
it was a great advantage to
i 1
Ml Overlooked
when we have almost
ated ourselves in six years
ro and find ourselves in
h economic position, our mag-
efforts in the past are
inked."
lawelTs speech and the ac-
kited anti-American press
tan indicates that the Amer
British cpntroversy may be-
major issue in the coming
in campaign.
ear conservative spokesmen
Ming with the Americans
1st the Socialist labor regime,
tpjmtion member of Par-
L D. Gammans, Satur'
attacked the government as
Nection of sick, distracted
aid said that Britain wants
porge Washington who will
ne banner of economic m-
Ptace and have the guts to
raw to attain it."
J Sunday Pictorial and The
pro-government organs
i combined circulation of
lH0, took up the Issue in
act headlines, following
kc established by the of
' liborite Dallv nmtn
P" this week.
P Pictorial gave two full
1 an "open letter to the
people." Under the ban
sadline, the newsnaner r-
an American cartoon
a drunken .Tnhn rii
R outside "Socialism Sa-
P Dmned Annoyed
r wrwsDanpr f,t l.J 1
Si "inSUltinff " onJ nAAaA
"it il fair t XI.. X XI..
nvt, W C die
.oyed . . . our tra-
Ve not Itnr.r.p
flit Ues. " 1
'? ud to a generous
iZ J m tne continent,"
S "letter" aHHorf
DANSVILLE. N. Y (UB
Physical Culturist Bernarr Mac
Fadden parachuted 3000 -feet
from a small airplane Satur
day and landed safely in an
alfalfa field.
It was his way of celebrat
ing his 81st birthday anniver
sary, and his wife's 45th, both
of which came last week.
He landed near two doctors,
a nurse and an ambulance, but
he waved them away.
"I feel fine," said the great
exponent of feeling fine. "I just
floated straight down. It was a
wonderful feeling floating
down."
His bride of a year, Mrs.
Johnnie Lee MacFadden, rushed
to his side to bestow on him
a kiss. She had objected to the
jump but later was reconciled
to the idea.
"Oh, you made it," Mrs. Mac
Fadden exclaimed, "Oh, you
wonderful man."
MacFadden said it really was
nothing.
"It's just something I've always-
wanted to do," he said.
More Parachuting (In
Father of Quads
Sits in Jail And
Bemoans His Lot
PORTLAND iff) L. D.
Tigner, father of Portland's
quadruplets, sat in the county
jail Saturday and contended it
wasn't his fault.
Tigner was arrested upon
complaint of his wife, Lucile,
who swore out a warrant charg
ing him with non-support. The
Tigners have five children in
addition to the quads.
Disconsolately, Tigner told re
porters that it wasn't his fault
he wasn't supporting his fam
ily. "I bring home all the money
I make," he said. "I want to
work but I can't get a job.
I been all over. I been picking
beans. Anybody picks up beans
and totes those heavy sacks,
he wants to work.
"I'm famous for being the
father of quadruplets, but I
ain't famous for having a job."
The quads, who will be 3
years old Monday, are not go
ing hungry. They have a pri
vate income from advertising
contracts.
BERNARR MACFADDEN
k
a Perilous Place)
This Guy, Younger Than MacFadden.
Bails Out Over N. Y. Skyscrapers
NEW YORK P A free
lance photographer did a repeat
performance Saturday of his
1947 parachute jump into the
towers of mid-Manhattan.
Leonardo d'Atticolo, 28, for
mer combat paratrooper, landed
safely but precariously on a
nine-story apartment building
on 38th St. between Park and
Lexington Aves.
Actually, only the parachute
landed. It hooked over a chim
ney of the building and left
d'Attolico dangling in midair.
Police got him down while
a crowd of several hundred
looked on.
In May of 1947 he also land
ed without injury in a back
yard.
As in 1947, .d'Attolico told po
lice he pulled the stunt to take
movies over the city. He said
he shot about 45 feet of film
this trip.
And, as in 1947, he said the
pilot of the light plane on which
he hitched a ride didn't know
he was going to jump.
In 1947 d'Attolico was charged
with endangering other people's
lives. But, he said, the judge
let him off with a supended sen
tence and a warning.
A policeman asked him the
name of the judge.
"Magistrate Ramsgate," said
d'Attolico, "and I'll never for
get him."
The policeman said he thought
Magistrate Charles E. Rams
gate would be sitting Satur
day in night court, where d'At
tolico probably would make an
appearance.
"Oh, don't say that!" pro
tested the photographer.
Russians Trumpet
Call to Revolution
f teems,
we must be kicked
n-1 ""us. uoes
-"'" imagine that his do..
C u .u?ht ,he soul . .
J, . 1 alrt countries
u m particular?"
Yugoslavia Is Urged
To Admit Mistakes
LONDON (UP) Rus
sia Saturday issued a virtual
call for revolution in Yugo-I
slavia and warned Premier-
Marshal Tito, that "effective
measures" would be taken to
"brine order to the unre-i
strained Fascist offenders" of
his regime.
Radio Moscow broadcast the
text of a new 2000-word Russian
note to Yugoslavia, urging sup
porters of the Communist Infor
mation Bureau to "remove" Yugo
slav leaders unless they "'admit
their mistakes . . . and correct
them."
The information bureau does
not doubt that the Communist
party of Yugoslavia will be able
to carry out this honorable tasK,
the note said.
Russians Persecuted
The broadcast document de
clared that Russian refugees h
Yugoslavia were still being perse,
cuted despite earlier Soviet warn.
ings, and declared that "the gov.
ernment will have to resort to , .
more effective means to protect
the rights and interests of Soviet
citizens in Yugoslavia and bring
order to the unrestrained Fascist
offenders."
The note charged that "Ges
tapo methods of rule prevail
throughout Yugoslavia" and that
the "Communist Party of Yugo
slavia has become a branch of the
DOlitical police."
The Russian document, deliv
ered in Belgrade on Thursday, re
(Continued on Page Four)
K.ra:!b-"-:i Vint nf Mnrrincre She Thinks Not
Chile Mobilizes
Full Sea Fleet
SANTIAGO, Chile U.PJ War
ships were rushed to Chile's vital
coastal mining areas Saturday
and modified martial law was de
clared in the entire country to
counter what was described offi
cially as the second Communist
attempt in a week to overthrow
the government.
The entire naval fleet was mo-
bilized to "isolate and occupy the
coal mines in Concepcion and
O'Higgins Provinces south of here,
and the nitrate and copper mines
in northern Chile where there are
heavy United States investments.
President Gabriel Gonzales Vi-
dela said one-half of the fleet was
sent south at dawn and the other
half to the north.
Reds Plan Revolt
An official statement said the
outlawed Communist Party was
'continuing to develop with in
creasing intensity its revolution
ary plans."
It added that Communists were
counting on a general strike in
volving hundreds of thousands of
government, banking and indus
trial workers but that prompt ef
forts bv Democratic leaders had
frustrated the plans.
They did not succeed, however,
in preventing 2,500 miners in the
I,ota and Lirquen collieries from
going on strike.
President Gabriel Gonzales Vi
dela said this was another Com
munist attempt to unseat him.
Entire Foreign
Aid Plan Gels
Boost in Poll
Senate Committee
Majority Is For It
WASHINGTON (UP)
The $1,450,000,000 foreign
military aid program will be
approved by the joint foreign
relations and armed services
committee of the Senate, a
poll of the 25-member group
revealed Saturday night.-
But this is no assurance that
the plan to re-arm Atlantic pact
powers and five other nations will
breeze through the Senate with
out heavy trimming. There is
strong opposition from senators
who are not members of the
committee.
A United Press survey showed
that 13 members of the joint com
mittee will support substantially
the iull program asked by Presi
dent Truman and Secretary of
State Dean Acheson. Three sen
ators suggested major spending
reductions, six were undecided,
and three were nc' available for
comment.
Chairman Tom Connally (D
Tex.) warned that heavy re-,
duction would "emasculate" the
entire security program. On the
other hand, Senator Richard B.
Russell (D-Ga.) said that a 50
per cent House-approved arms
cut didn't go far enough.
The poll was taken after the
house sliced$580,405,000 off the
administration program.
Republicans Styles Bridges
(NH) Leverett Saltonstall (Mass.)
and Raymond E. Baldwin (Conn.)
were absent and were not polled.
Sample comment follows:
Alexander Wiley (R-Wis.)
The Vanderberg-Dulles approach
$1,000,000,000 for Atlantic pact na
tions split evenly between cash and
contract authority, appeals to me
very much.
Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.) "The
House action was a step in the
right direction."
Richard B. Russell (D-Ga.)
I'd go farther than the House (in
cutting)."
Esteg Kefauver (D-Tenn.) "I'm
for the full amount."
The joint Senate committee
ended open hearings Friday with
opposition from former Vice Pres
ident Henry A. Wallace. It begins
closed session work on the meas
ure Tuesday. Connally hoped to
send a bill to the Senate floor by
next weekend.
The House approved an $819,-
505,000 bill after cutting off $580,
495,000 for the pact nations. The
bill included $211,370,000 for the
Greece-Turkey military program
and $27,640,000 for Korea, Iran,
and the Philippines.
&&W-.iiaaM aW i
SAVINGS IN WATER HEATING BILLS are promoted by the little gadget being examined In
this photo by Eugene Water and Electric Board Engineer ,11m Judson (right), and Control Board
Operator Fred Gadsden. Operated by remote control, the mechanism Is an electronic switch to be
attached to meters through which off-peak electrical service is provided, at bargain rates, to
homes where water Is electrically heated. To learn the regulations under which this .type of
service can be obtained, read the accompanying article. (Staff photo, Wiltshire engraving.)
County to Pay
A Third Upon
Juvenile Home
Customers to Save in Off-Peak Periods
The Lane County Court com.
mitted itself Saturday to a one-
third share of the proposed $13,
000 Juvenile Detention Home.
W. H. Lynch, chairman of the
fund-raising committee, told the
court of the "urgent need" lor
the home. He said that the price
of the property on Marcola Road,
on which the committee ltas an
option, "is a sacrifice sale," and
that the property would be worm
more than the $l3,uuu.
Lynch proposed that the coun
ty court donate as much as pos
sible toward the home out of the
county emergency fund. County
Commissioners Lee Raish and
Walter Holland favpred the plan
and the court then offered to pay
one-third of the purchase price,
When asked what he thought
of the plan for a detention home
to free juveniles from commit
ment to the county jail, Judge
Hurd said he believed "the old
folks should be taken care of
first." However he indicated later
that he "would like to see it
tried out."
Another meeting with the coun
ty court has been set at 3 p.m.
Monday, Lynch said, to discuss
the raising of the remainder of
the needed funds. In the mean
time, the court will meet with
the district attorney to iron out
legal aspects of the county's con.
tribution.
Other members of the fund
raising committee at Saturday's
meeting were Mrs. A. F, Holmer
and Mrs. John C. McCloskey, both
representing the Circuit Court
Juvenile Advisory Council, and
Mrs. Hazel Humphreys, repre
senting Ensilon Sigma Alpha,
Lynch represents Eagles Lodge
No. 275, Eugene.
Water Heating
Reductions Due
For the first time since "1942, the Eugene Water and
Electric Board is ready to take new customers for off-peak
water heating.
To those who have been paying regular rates for elec
tricity used by their water heaters, this will make possible
substantial reductions in their .monthly water heating bills.
The board expects to benefit through reduction of peak
demands on' its electric system,
The off-peak water heating
Questionnaire :
Out This Week
Onl-Way Plan ;
Facts on Workability
Of System Sought r
A 17 - point questionnaire
will go out this week to all
business and professional
men in Eugene and to all
property owners within the
present one-way grid m an
effort to get reactions on the
operation of the system.
Questions were drawn up
by a joint committee of the
Eugene Chamber ot com
merce, the city council, and
the City Planning Commis
sion.
A covering letter asks whether
the grid system should be retained
in its present form, retained in
modified form, or abandoned en
tirely. The letter says the ques
tionnaire seeks to obtain:
A factual comparison and an-.
alysia ot the system upon traf
fic movement, before and aft
er Installation of the one way
pattern.
The relation of off-street
parking facilities, public and'
private, to businesses within the
grid area. V
An analysis of economic ef
fects resulting from establish-;
ment of the present grid sys,
tern, with special emphasis upon
plan was introduced by the
municipal power system in
1937. It sained in popularity
until 1942, when wartime in
terruptions in the manufac
ture of necessary control
mechanisms forced a discon
tinuance of the' plan.
Now, in reinstating the serv
ice, the Water, and Electric Hoard
has added an Improvement that
should make.it even more attrac
tive than before.
Basically the off-peak elec
tric sales plan provides for re
duced rates on energy used for
water heating under an agree
ment that the heaters may be
turned off several hours each
day during periods of "peak"
demands on the municipal elec
trical system
f UniOnS Fori or Commoner. She Dates the Field
fMTJPrincess Margaret Is 19 Today,
DOING FINE
SPOKANE, Wash. (U.R) A
tiny Spokane woman who was
taken from an iron lung to give
birth to an eight pound boy was
reported "doing fine" Saturday
night.
.""lent Uninn, ,J M
: T,'al mass meting
tikZ Carpenter's.
'vuuamette.
' of rZ. at,on w' be re-
... .-jns Who nttonrf
I ON'DON (UPJ Princess piaving me neiu. miuni "w.'" m., ,,......
Margaret the most eligible teen j peers, and wealthy commoners all and said. "We'll see about that
. . . . - r i a iaruarPi a mmi parn wtvi
Smnh . r-, auena- ager in Britain, is is toaay. iw "". ! .,
jjA-F-otU organ-1 ciety's favorite question is, she jots down a new name in ner
French press Insisted that
Debate on the Grid
Four speakers will present
aspects for and against the one
way grid controversy at 9:30
p.m. Tuesday when Radio Sta
tion KORE broadcasts a, half
hour discussion. The speakers
will be announced Monday or
Tuesday.
Before the war, time mechan.
isms were attached to meter
boxes to switch hot water heat
ers oft during the peak periods,
the first shortly before noon and
the second during the dinner
hour. i
Reduction is Considerable.
A number of these time switches
still are in use, and residents
of homes where they are in serv
ice enjoy the advantage of paying
but 6.5 mills per kilowatt hour of
interruntable energy, as com
pared with an average electric
rate of 1.14 cents. ' ,
Now the lower rate will be, of
fered to new off-peak water heat.
ing customers, but no more time
switches will be installed by the
city utility. 1 '
Instead, the Water and Elec
(Continued on Pooe Four)
Senate Probers
ToHearVaughan
SHELBY. N. C. U.R) Maj.
Gen. Harry Vaughan will be
called next week to testify be
fore the Senate "five percenter'
investigation, Sen. Clyde R. Hoey
(D-NC) said Saturday night.
Hoey, chairman of the invest!
gating committee, said he wants
to hear Vaughan's side of the
story.
'The general will be given a
chance to make any statement he
wants to, covering the charges
brought against him,", said Hoey.
"It's not so much that the com
mittee wants to question him as
to give him an opportunity to
present his answer."
Others to be called before the
committee next week, said Hoey,
include Vaughan's mysterious
friend John Maragon, Washing
ton "Influence Salesman ,. James
V. Hunt, and Maj. Gen. Herman
Feldman, suspended army quar
termaster general.
6-Man Nominating Committee
Picked for Eugene Chamber
The machinery for the annualito this committee, 'ine nominees
election of officers Sept. IB by thetwm ne announcea aepi. o
Eugene Chamber of Commerce
was set in motion last week with
the appointment of a six-man
nominating committee.
Chamber President Orlando
John Hollis appointed the follow
ing:
Mayor V. Edwin Johnson, for
mer director of the chamber; H.
.T Cox. wholesale lumberman,
former nresldcnt nf the chamber: moved to Portland
and former director; and RobertTh( 0utgc-Hif Offleerg
Cross, insurance man, lormui
t - . xl.. A-xt... x-I..K
pTe."xm,. "n-rr'tenii! expire this year are, be-
memoer o. in r. slde, Hollis, William Russell, vice
Hon Commission, and member of: ' . - ., mu
chamber committees.
Further nominations may be
made from the floor at the an
nual meeting.
Offices to be filled are: Presi
dent, vice-president, and treas
urer, each for a one year term
three dlrectorr for three-year
terms and one director for a one-
year term. The latter post was
vacated when Ralph Fullbright
Officers and directors whose
the factor of Ingress and egresi
to and from the central busi
ness section of Eugene.
Note will be taken of the ef
fect, if any, upon property val
uations within the one-way boun
daries, and the 'trend, If any, to
ward decentralization of business
es from the downtown grid area
to outlylnn areas.
The letter asks that forms be
returned by Sept. 1, 1949, so that
results may be tabulated.
The questions follow:
"1. What percentage change
in business volume have you
experienced during the first six
months of 1949 as compared to
the first six months of 1948?
"2. Is the percentage change
in your business volume dur
ing the first six months of 1949
as compared with the first six
months of 1948, different from
the national percentage of change
In your line of business?
"3. Do your customers like
the one-way traffic plan? Do
outsiders and tourists, whom
you know, like the one-way
plan?
"4. Can you estimate what
proportion of ' your business
originates within the city lim
its ot Eugene. , . . from within
the 12-mile lone . . . from
broader trading area?
"5. Do you believe the one
way grid system has been re
sponsible for any change in your
business volume? To what ex
tent? "6. Do you favor the present
one-way street grid plan? If
so, for what reasons?
"7. Are you opposed to the
present one-way grid system?
If so, for what reasons?
"8. Would you favor reten
tion of the one-way grid system
Three Others Picked
These three selected an addi
tional three. They are:
' Lynn S. McCrcady, president of
the First National Bank; Fred G.
Senator to Try to Get
MacArthur to Return
n..,!. re,quest of w'l- ably no one
anrJL "'President of She has the
-"wauonol Labor. King
""lianii i . . I
5cl v.'x 01 t Execu-
,. n meeting in some one in mind, sne is keeping
d a d i hat Sroup:the matter secret.
psuon to ai Like her elder sister, juizaoeiu,
knows at this time.
the word of her father.
George VI, that she can
t!.Mi 77 . imarrv at 20. if she wishes. But
ai i- .' L. Execu- if the fun-lovine princess has
ttii
TOKYO, Sunday U.R) Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's headquarters
The Earl of Dalkeith, wealthy officially announced Sunday that
land-owning son of the Duke of! Sen. William Knowland (R-Cal)
Buccleuch; the Earl of Westmore- leading proponent of bringing the
land, Lord Porchester and Mroccupation commander to ineunu.
nrcsident and Godfrey Blohm,
treasurer. Mr. Cox, now ex-offl
cio president, will be replaced by
Hollis.
Directors who will hold over
are John Titcomb, J. W. Kipper,
ciiixol. nf ihm Sirnriiv Savlnes, U. E. Mcixean, an tor iwo years
Jt, Iian Assn. and former Dresi-land J. Don smun ana noDeri
dent of the chamber; and Mel Booth for one year.
Gustafson of the Dutch Girl Ice
Cream Co.
Suggestions by the membership
for candidates may be directed
Ex-officlo members of the board
are the mayor and city manager
and the president of Eugene Jun.
ior Chamber of Commerce.
Individual National Incomes Reached
$1,410 in 1948 to Set a New High
WASHINGTON W) Indl-fincome, for the second consecu
vldual incomes shot to a new high tive year, accounted primarily for
last year In nearly every state, j differences among states In per
The average was $1410 for each centnge change in total Income.
uicruii rnillllBXCU iiihiviuubi
person,
The Commerce Department,
reporting this Saturday, said the
average rose 7 per cent over
1947. The figure that year was
$1319 per person.
The dollar total of individual'. the naUonll ,verB8e.
income payments for the nation,
Income lumped from $1284 In
1947 to $1302 In 1948. The lat
ter figure was 92 per cent of
the 1948 national average.
Washington's Income olimbed 1 lions of Labor,
, (Continued on Page Four)
Hearings Set ,
On CVA When
Congress Quits
CENTRALIA, Wash. (IP)
Congressional field hearings on
the Columbia Valley Administra
tion bill are scheduled to start
two weeks after Congress ad
journs, the League for CVA an
nounced Saturday.
The league executive board met
here Saturday to discuss strategy
for the forthcoming hearings.
Rep. Hugh B. Mitchell (D
Wash), president of the league,
has suggested Sept. 19 as a pos
sible date. The Seattle congress
man said Congress had granted
funds for the hearings.
Attending Saturday's confer
ence were the leaders of the
Washington and Oregon Federa-
E. M. Weston and
$208,000,000,000 In 1948, bettered!-. . ., D-.
1947 by 9 per (The indi-id- Vregun Ctiueni rvuic
won
;PO!d "" explained marriage
, "otori.. . organiza-
'Wco 5 "'"'' ,oadm"
l ' "-omrrvjn,,, .
h :ioni f v'jumnes,
u,. uora other totali-
me rrenrn ... i , . S . . tontifv on U.S. China ulatlon.)
that Maraull OI IJiailuiwrUi i " , iuiii iKt imii, hi iuci ucga i m - - " , , . ,(
x,..;!.! .h. nnk. n ih. fi.iH th,n. Policy, has been granted clearance The largest regional gain In to.
u t A t : XfA Uah T5Tr i for A tr.D to TOKYO.
"day'dane'e." I Ward! h a n d i m ., ghtb Official, at Gen. MacArthur's 12 per cent and was credited
Two months later "sonny
Highest in U.S.
PORTLAND P) The
tal income from 1947 to 1948 was
to
habitue and son of the Earl of headquarters said they did not ' '""r-"-
Dudley, has been escorting the know when Knowland planned to, diana, Iowa. Michigan, M nneso
Princess. arrive In Tokyo or what he would ta, Missouri, Ohio and Wiscon-
Margaret has SDent gar week- discuss with the general dui
Blandford was dating Sharman
'".'"""IniiM-rieret ha, said firmly she i.,-
Ko. r"y"a union- not interested in an rrangeu ,i,v. nn.ihlv' .nH .t .h. fm,iv hr,m nf lllw. .nr.llv assumed the No. 1
irked, whispered that Sharmanher young men. And a number MacArthur booster wouia iry per
v,P5 poaching on Margaret's pre-, of them were expected at her,sonally to persuade him to go
serve" I birthday dance Saturday at Bal-jhome and tell Congress his side
When the whispers reached ' moral, the royal family's Scottish of the controversy over aid to Na
Jlargaiets tars, the story goes, I residence. ItlotieJist China,
for reasons of state.
When I marry, It will M tor
love." she has declared to her
friends on more than one oc
casion. She keeps society guessing by
The smallest Increases, 6 per
cent, were In the six New Eng
land states and In the four far
western states, California, Nevada,
Oregon, and Washington.
i Widely varying changes In form
from $1419 to $1453 103 per cent; J. T. Marr; the masters of the
uregon ana wasnington uranges,
Morton Tompkins and Henry P.
Carstensen, and Roy W. Atkinsoji,
CIO regional director.
The group announced that Mt
would ask the Senate-House pub
lic works committee to schedule
hearings at "as many points as
practicable" in ' the Columbia
Basin.
A telegram sent to Sen. Dennis
Chavez (D-NM), chairman of the
Senate committee, said "we un
derstand the purpose of these
hearings is to determine the gross
roots sentiment for or against
CVA. Consequently we are anxious
to have the committee as widely
exposed to the people at li hu
manyly pcetiWe."
State Board of Health reported
Saturday that Oregon's death rate
from accidents was Increasing
steadily.
The state now stands sixth
highest In the nation behind
Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, New
Mexico and Colorado.
Last year 14,185 Oregonlans
died. Accidents claimed 1333 of
them, 1 In every 10.8 deaths. This
figured out to 90.8 deaths per
100.000 population.
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