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FRIDAY. DECEMBER 24, 1948
Truman in Line
For Wage Boost
Of $75,000
Washington, Dec. 24 iU'i Presi
dent Truman, wlio has been Ig
nored through three rounds of
general wage Increases, finally
seemed In line today for a $75,000
boost in his yearly income.
A senate civil service subcom
mittee recommended that the
chief executive's salary be upped
from the present $75,000 to $100,-000a-year.
It also proposed that
an additional $50,000 be tacked on
to his tax freeexpense account.
Members-of the three-man sub
committee said they think It's a
good bet congress will approve
pay hikes for the president and
some 200 other top government
officials before Truman starts
his new term Jan. 20. The presi
dent's Income can't be increased
during the term to which he has
been elected.
Truman told a recent news con
ference he had not asked for a
pay boost for himself, but said
he would not veto one if it comes
along.
Salary Set in 1909
Since 1909, presidents have been
drawing salaries of $75,000 a year.
In addition, Truman now is allow
ed $40,000 for travel and enter
tainment expenses, but experts
claim it's not enough to pay the
bUls.
If the senate subcommittee's
recommendations are adopted
Truman will get another $50,000
for expenses, making a total ac
count of $90,000.
The subcommittee also propos
ed salary increases for the follow
ing officials:
Vice president and house speak
er $30,000 instead of $20,000 sal
aries, plus expense accounts of
$10,000 a year each. Only the
speaker gets an expense account
now and it amounts to $2,500.
Cabinet heads $25,000 instead
of the present $15,000.
Top assistants to cabinet mem
bers and heads of independent
agencies, .boards and commissions
$22,500. $20,000 and $17,500, de
pending on their responsibilities.
They now get $10,000, with certain
exceptions where the salary is
slightly larger.
White House officials Two
positions at salaries up to $22,500;
three at $20,000, and seven at
$17,500. Presently, one official
gets $15,000; one $12,000; nine
$10,330; and one, $10,000. .
A Lancaster. Pa., watchmaker
demonstrated the delicate Toumi
characteristic, of his trade by
' drilling a hole in a human hair.
THE BEND BULLETIN. BEND. OREGON
Importrait
Here's LIse Bourdin, the most
photographed girl in France, as
she arrived In New York. The
top French model will do mod
eling, starting at $25 an hour,
the highest price any American
model commands.
FIB PRODUCTION LESS
Portland, Dec! 24 IP Lumber
production of west coast fir saw
mills fell off during November in
the face of curtailed demand, H. V.
Simpson, executive vice president
of the West Coast Lumbermen's
association, said today.
Atom-Smasher
To Make Matter
Palo Alto, Calif, ui'i Con
struction .of a giHiit atom-smasher
that actually may create mat
ter from energy has begun at
Stanford university.
The 160-foot electron linear ac
celerator, a new weapon for
scientists probing the fundamen
tal secrets of nature, will hurl
particles with an energy of more
than 1,000,000,000 electron volts
Dr. William W. Hansen, direc
tor of Stanford's microwave lab
oratory, believes the high-energy
bombardment, will give scientists
the laboratory equivalent of cos
mic rays. It also may permit pro
duction of protons and neutrons
atomic particles In what would
be literally the creation of mat
ter from energy.
The scintific Importance of the
linear accelerator lies In the fact
thai it will bombard the heart of
the atom with a stream of bil
lion volt electrons,-the light, negatively-charged
part of the atom.
Other atom smashers, such as cy
clotrons, used the heavy, positive
ly charged particles.
Hansen says that hammering
at atoms with such high energy
electrons, long a physicist's
dream, will open a new field of
experimentation in elementary
physics.
STEAM UNWAXES SEWERS
Rugby, N. D. lU'i Two blocks
of sewers were clogged with near
ly a ton of wax when a creamery
vat bailed over., An old steam
threshing engine was pressed into
service and the sewers were un
plugged after four days and
nights of steaming.
PAGE THREE
Americans use 23 times more
oil, per capita, than the rest of
the world's population.
May the joy and prosperity
they bring remain with you and
yours throughout the cominjs
twelve months.
The Management and Employees
of the
Glen Vista Club
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VCH Christmas we re
alize more and more the obli
gation we have to the people
of this area. Whatever success
we may enjoy depends entirely
upon the friends .we serve.
Since we are truly grateful for
all you've done, we want you
to know our thoughts a re with
you during this, the happiest
season of the year.
The Entire Staff of
W. B. ANDERSON T2haAS&
Warm Springs
School Closes
, Warm Springs, Doc. 24 The
Warm hpiings Indian boarding
school closed for the Christmas
holidays with a Christmas pro
tram Wednesday afternoon.
School woik will be resumed Jan.
t. Tnp sc-lioo; s 170 pupils will
leave for their homes during the
vacation, some going as far away
as Burns. Most of the youngsters,
nowever, will go to homes" of resi
dents on the local reservation,
many of them to the Simasho dis
trict in the northern part of the
reservation.
A day school formerly main
tained here as a part of the Jef
ferson county school system, was
closed at the end of the term
last spring, the district having
merged with the Madras grade
school district. Children have
been transported this fall to the
Madras school by bus.
Chimney Ash Proves
Good Levee Builder
Venice, ill. Ul'i Engineers at
the Union Electric Co. plunt here
are putting fly ash to practical
use as a fill material for a 1,000
foot levee along the Mississippi.
Faced with the problem of dis
posing of about 300 tons of the
ash collected from plant smoke
stacks daily, the engineers expe
rimented. They discovered that fly ash
when mixed with the muddy river
water not only sets firm, but acts
as a precipitant for other mater
ials, causing them to settle quick
for a
MERRY
CHRISTMAS
Williamson the tailor
20 Minnesota I'honc 1212-.I
ilizer Plants
Receive Supplies
Washington, Dec. 24 IP) The
commerce department today al
lotted 188 tank carloads of army-
produced anhydrous ammonia li
three fertilizer plants which would
have been foi-ecd to restrict or
suspend production without the
material.
The three plants qualifying for
a part of the 4.888-ton allotment
are Farm Service Co., Oakland,
Calif.; A. F, Pringlo S: Co., Inc.,
Charleston, S. C, ar.-l Columbia
Metals Co., Seattle.
The allotments, made under
the foreign aid appropriation act,
represent the minimum amount
of anhydrous ammonia necessary
to keep the plants producing am
monium sulphate, the department
said.
The act requires that 10 cer
cent of the anhydrous ammonia i
produced Dy the army be distrib
uted to domestic fertilizer pro
ducers. It gives priority to plants
which would be faced with a shut
down without government help.
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For the Gifts You'll Give With Pride,'
Let Your Jeweler Be Your Guide
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the precious enchantment of
the Christmas season, with
its happy surprises, its pleasant
associations with friends
and loved ones, the unexcelled
joy and happiness and well-being,
may it oil be yours to enjoy
this glad Christmastime.
The Miller Lumber Co.
"Your Home First"
821 Wall Street
Phone 166
On
MEANS LOT OF THINGS
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Gladness tn the heart;
Merriment pnd true content,
Friendship'! golden memories
ond Peace and Good Will,
May the season bring all
these to you bounteously.
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. peace, goob totU
totoarbmett.
Luke 2; 14
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Morticians
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oil the gladness
of a Merry Christmas Day,
All the pleosure of a seoson
of happiness.
We wish you the best- of
GOOD things
because it's such a privil
to do business with you.
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182 Greenwood
Phone 387
Carroll Body & Fender
Service
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940 Harrlman
Phone 180
1173 Wall Street