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- VAT.TEY AUTHORITIES
'.. With the Missouri Valley authority bill hit by an adverse
Commerce Committee report it is time to give earnest con
sideration to another "authority" attempt of the same breed,
that pertaining to the Columbia valley ana commonly re
ferred to as the CVA. The principle is the same as the MVA
proposal which was temporarily halted by senaie commiuee,
but there is just enough change to indicate that Harold
Ickes, secretary of the interior, who opposed the MVA as
outlined in S. 555 may favor the Columbia authority plan.
An PvpAllent analysis of CVA and of the manner in which
it would set at naught the American conception of the func
tions oi government is preseiueu in mi euuui mi uioluooiuu
appearing in the Kegister-uuara, oi Eugene, wnicn says ;
"There Is before you a major step In the basic re
organization of the government of the United States,
as we have known It for 150 years" Harold Ickes
at MVA hearing, April 18, 1945.
Very soon the people of the northwest Oregon, Wash
ington, Idaho and western Montana and Wyoming will be
confronted by the proposals to put them under a regional
government known as the Columbia Valley Authority. It
would govern not only the entire Columbia river water
shed, every trickle of water that finds Its way Into the
Columbia anywhere but the i'upet Sound area, all the coastal
streams which flow to the Pacific between Canada and the
California boundary.
The Columbia Valley Authority would be one of some 15
"valley authorities" envisioned by Secretary Ickes and his
associates, covering every inch of United States and ad
jacent parts of Canada. All in the pattern of TVA the Ten
nessee Valley Authority. "
Hearings on the Murray bill (S555) to create a Missouri
Valley Authority have just been completed and, for the
time being, the MVA is dead. The senate's commerce com
mittee has reported adversely and Its agriculture and irriga
tion committees are expected to do likewise.
Strange to relate, Secretary Ickes helped to kill S555 .
although he testified as the top advocate of "valley authori
se." He said frankly he did not like the Missouri bill because
it was not strong enough it called for a board to administer
that vast region; Mr. Ickes prefers one man responsible to
For the Columbia valley there are two bills S460 by Sena
tor Mitchell, of Washington; and HR2923 by Rep. Hovan
either one of which will probably be much more to the liking
of Secretary Ickes and Abe Foi tas, his chief adviser on
power policy. ...
These two CVA bills may come to hearing this summer or
In the early full and it is important that the people of the
northwest should know what Mr.'Ickes and his associates
want to do for them and to them not only the facts but
the philosophy of these bills. People of the region should
know: ,
1. Every drop of water, anywhere on the Colum
bia, its tributaries or the coastal streams would be
under the complete and final control of CVA.
2. No city or district could create or extend to
municipal water or power supply except by permis
sion of CVA, on the contrary the CVA could take
over such munlplcal operations as' those bf the Eu-
, gene water board, if in the opinion of the CVA it
was desirable.
3. Every other resource of the region forests,
mines, fish and game, land use, recreation would
ba subject to regulations of CVA and CVA could ab
sorb all agencies now dealing with theso matters in
this region.
4. Except for an "advisory council" having no
' real voice in policy, the people of the region would
not have any representation In CVA.
5. All power would rest In three directors of tho
CVA "corporation" reporting only to the chairman '
of a national river basin development board (the
secretary of Interior).
The question is not Just "public ownership" In electric
power. It Is as Secretary Ickes has admitted a "basic reor
ganization of government as we have known It for 150
years." It is not a question of "states rights" in the narrow
sense. It is a question of a new and foreign kind ot govern
ment in which the people would no longer be considered
worthy of direct representation.
The philosophy of Mr. Ickes and his associates is exposed
In some of his further remarks at the MVA hearing:
"We have listened to much eloquent and loose
talk about 'Independence' and 'local autonomy'
.... there is no legislative assembly In the TVA
valley to pass upon policies or dictate administrative
procedures . . . there are no referenda that would
give citizens of the valley the right to support or to
strike down any legislative policy ... as a matter
of fact there Is no local control of any sort except
that set up voluntarily by TVA. ..."
Mr. Ickes says:
"The department of Interior frankly proposes that
congress vest authority directly In a single valley
administrator, appointed by the president, with the
advice and counsel of the senate; that is the way to
get the Job done."
Is democracy so weary and futile? Are Americans after
150 years so feeble and incompetent that we must borrow
from the organization experiments of Hitler, Mussolini
and Stalin? Is there any man or hoard of men so wise, so
holiest, so far seeing that the destiny of. such a region as
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this should be trusted to him or them, forever?
Slow and painful and blundering as democratic methods
may be and we all endure It in the most Insignificant neigh
borhood committee is not "the meeting of minds" usually
an Improvement over one-man Judgment, no matter how
magnanimous that man may be?
This is the Issue government as SERVANT or 'govern
ment as BOSS!
Here in the northwest, it
mnv not have taken too keen an
threat or in the elimination of
felt that it was something which did not especially ailect
them. There can be no such reason for lack of interest in the
Columbia Valley authority. The menace now is direct and
very real.
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XXIII
Mrs. Guptill was beginning to
understand, too. "Let s look over
the lay of the Uuid," she suggest
ed to my mother.
iney crossed ine yaru -ahmuiu
stopping to speak to anyone anil '"" "' "" ""'ts
stood looking up at the chimney. . , ,ni!lmm, ' - '. .-.
" .. ... i A l.i.l-.ls f,.ll iilmnct iri'nvtnn inn
Ihe two upper floors were nan i
hidden by heavy smoke. Ada
rushed up to Join them. She had!
lost them on the way. Her face :
was sweaty, and her hair hung'
limply down her hack. ;
It s as plain as day, Mrs. t,up-1
till said, pointing.
A hig (lame bloke nut and light-
d Mr. fuller's window. He was
standin" there, looking out. his
i;e ouiie enlm. As thev watched.
horrified, he opened his moulh in
a vawn. I lie Maine died down
and he disapKared completely.
Ada gave a lung shriek and
dashed (or Ihe kitchen door. My
father caught her on the thresh
lid. "You can't go in there," he
told her. "It's a mass of (lames."
She pushed and screamed hard
er. My mother ran across to l".en
lamfii, who was taking down the
ladder. "Wait," she cried. "Wail!"
Hi" turned and wiped the soot
from lus faee lo Hie back o( his
hand. "It's no use," he said. !
"We've got the stable to think '
if." I
"Hut Mr. Cutler," she cried.
"He's in his room."
IVniaiuin stopped short. "What's I
Mial?"
"We saw him through the win- j
dow. Ada's trying to get back in." I
Through the din we heard her j
shouting. "Let me bv! Let me i
by!" i
"I'll go up, Kcnjamin said.
"You tell her."
"only if you're sure. . . ."
He moved the ladder right over i
where tho tlames were hottest, j
Then he grabbed an a ram a
man w ho was passing. The chim-;
ney was already tottering.,
"Where's lie goin".'" someone;
shouted. !
"What's he afti-r?" j
"He hadn't oughler try!" !
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interest in the MVA in its
that threat. They may have
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Four rungt,. Five. ... j
"Hey, keep an eye on that ;
chimney!' j
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Smoke hid him from the waist j
up. The two top uoors were an (
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! "Com? back. Do you hear?
1 11 Benjamin heard, he gave no
; slKn '
One leg disappeared. Then,
slowly, the other. He was Inside.
Everyone was very quiet. They
knew now where he was going
and what he was alter. My moth
er and Mrs. Criiplill had brought
Ada to the foot of the ladder. She
was moaning softly. That was all
you could hear except for the
crackling of I lie (lames and the
whinnying of a horse that had
strayed near by. It seemed
hours. .'.
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A leg came out, groping for a
footing. He was safe so far.
Then a limp,heavy roll.
"He's got him in a blanket!",
More hands reached out to hold
! the ladder firm.
I Another rung, unsteadily, be-
cause of the weight he carried.
! Another. One more. . . .
"The chimley! The chimley s
falling!"
, Bricks fell, scattering in all di
rections. One of them hit the
rung that Benjamin was grasp
ing. He swayed and caught the
side of the ladder.
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My father started up;
'. "Keep off," Benjamin shouted.
"Twon't hold."
He kept coming slowly, slowly,
testing each step.
Flames burst out of the broken
window. Heavy clouds of smoke.
Just six more rungs. Five. , . .
Four. ...
"We've got him," my father
shouted.
The crowd closed in, cheering.
Benjamin pushed his way through
it, looking neither left nor right,
he was heading for the stable.
Jay and my father carried Mr.
Cutter to the steps of the Town
Hall. Ada, my mother, and Mrs.
.Guptill followed them.
They had barely left when the
roof fell in a shower of sparks,
that stung our faces and clung to
our clothing until we slapped
them out
"Get back! Get back!"
Big flames shot up. Hot noisy
ones. Timbers crumbled. One af
ter another the walls fell in. We
could hear the windows crashing.
The other chimney swayed and
collapsed. People ran back, stum
bling over buckets.
"Look out!"
"Look out!"
A horse whinnied again, wildly.
Above it all, if you had been
listening, you could have heard
the Town Clock striking 9.
e
In the middle of the night I
woke up suddenly. I was in my
own ed at home. But there was
something, it seemed, hanging
over me. Something I had forgot
ten. Something immense. Some
thing frightening. ...
Then it came to me.
The comet!
I got out of bed and crept bare
footed to the window, half afraid
to raise my eyes.
There it was, right above the
Academy, streaming across the
sky, trailing its long, misty, nebu
lous tail '
I watched it gravely.
After the. events of the night,
it seemed only a rocket, set off on
a Fourth of July, that had never
burned out. And Its tall, the ter
rible, dreaded tail, seemed only a
wisp of fog.
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Sisters
Sisters, May 17 (Special) Carl
Hyson, brother of Mrs. Harvey
Cole who was confined in the
Vancouver, Wash., hospital, has
been released and is now on a
30-day furlough at his home in
HOtchinson, Kansas.
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Denison are
In Sisters for a few days, prepar-
you'll want
to come forth
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Flower, splashed ray
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to 14.75. Others from
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with matching bra in
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Slack Suits
Whipcord and
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ing to move to Nampa, Idaho,
where they will reside. Mrs. Den
tson's health is not so good as
she contracted undulant lever
over two years ago.
The Sisters Townsend club met
Friday evening and sponsored a
"fish pond" which was a success
The club had its former secretary,
Mrs. Widmark, send a check to
Townsend headquarters for $74
which a few of the club members
earned by cutting wood, in order
to be able to send in a four-year
subscription for the Townsend
Daily. The newly appointed sec
roiarv Mrs Hover, resigned, leav
ing the club without an official
...... n ihia timo
Harry Bedwell who is stationed
at Pearl Harbor, wrote his par
ents that he met an old school
mate of his, Evan Reynolds, with
whom he played basketball at
Sisters
The Christian church Sunday
school was very well attended.
Prizes were given to the mother
and daughter who looked the most
alike. The prizes were won by
Mrs. Richard Day and daughter,
Sharon. Other prize winners
were: Oldest mother in atten
dance, Mrs. Nettie Templeton;
youngest mother in attendance,
Mrs. Jerry Benson.
Verne Knight, son of Mrs.
Claire Morris is at Sisters visiting
his mother and friends. He was
discharged from the field artil
lery last December after receiv
ing a leg wound. He has been at
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Mrs. Louis Luckinblll and Mrs.
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Oregon State college, given to all
4-H project leaders. .
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G. Hitchcock andthe hostess and
ncr laniuy.
' Phil Hitchcock arrived in Sis
ters on business Monday from
Klamath Falls.
Mrs. H. it. Keea oi Mitcneii, is
visiting in Sisters en route to
Foruanu.
The newly acquired Parker Riv
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Massachusetts contains slightly
over 14,000 acres, only 205 acres
of which are agricultural lands;
it is a part of the Atlantic f lyway
system for migratory birds.
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