PAGE SIX
Washington
Column
By Peter Edfion
(NF.A WaRhinuton Orm-.immlpnt)
Washington (NEA) Principal
changes in the U. i. code sought
Iby the Truman administration
from the 81st congress have inter
esting histories. Four of the most
important changes sought relate
...to the civil rights program, tignt-
ening the espionage laws, amend
" ment of the anti-trust laws, and
the so-called tidelands oil legisla
tion for a federal program to de
velop mineral rights on submerg-
....ed lands.
President Truman's civil rights
program is generally believed to
"represent new and ultra-liberal
thinking, but it isn't at all. During
the war between the states, a civil
"'.rights code was passed which by
comparison makes Truman s pro
posals look tame.
" This Civil war code stayed on
...the books until 1894. Then, in
Grover Cleveland's second term,
,7,'the Lincoln code was repealed.
-.This was during the 53rd con
gressthe first in more than 30
,,, years in which the democrats had
-congressional majorities, and the
; beginning of a democratic solid
, south rise to power.
in With the Truman program pass
ed in whole or in part, and with a
new civil rights division under an
assistant attorney general created
in ihe department of justice, con-
.;stltutional guarantees would be
.,much easier to enforce. Anti-poll
"tax bills have been passed by the
; "house several times in the past.
,The senate has killed them.
. .
- Amendment of the anti-trust
laws sought by the president
would tighten tip the Sherman act
of 1890. This basic anti-trust lo
J gislation was amended in 1914 to
give the federal government pow-
er to stop mergers through pur
J chase of stock control. In spite of
..this restriction on the formation
J 'of monopolies, corporations soon
. t 'found their way around it. In
1 T stead of purchasing stock of a
' , competitor, a company would buy
t up its assets its land, buildings,
J 'machinery and good will.
; From 1944 to 1948 there were
i 1800 mergers so effected. The re-
'suit Is that 12 major oil compan
, . les are now said to control 80 per
. cent of -the business and there are
similar concentrations of power
J in other big industries. It is to
, plug this loophole which permits
merger by acquisition of assets
that amendment of the anti-trust
. laws is sought as an aid to small
- business.
J , Tightening of the espionage
, laws was sought by Atty. Gen.
Francis Blddle in 1942. Had the
J powers he then requested been
, granted by congress, convictions
might have been obtained in many
"communist activities' cases now
J unprosecuted.
Changes now sought by Atty.
" Gen. Tom Clark include removal
J" of the ban against wire-tapping,
making it a crime for unauthoriz-
ed persons to possess or pass sec
2 ret documents, extension of the
statute of limitations in espionage
cases, and tighter registration of
" agents of a foreign government.
Tidelands oil legislation pre-
sents congress with one of its
" strangest political dilemmas. Tide-
lands oil is now being produced
only in California, though produc-
Won has been planned oft Louisl
ana and Texas. In 1947 the su
preme court ruled that California
" tidelands belonged to the federal
Z government. Department of Jus-
tice has now asked the supreme
court for permission to sue L.ouisl
ana and Texas for title.
In 1940 congress passed a bill
giving the states title to tidelands,
Z but President Truman vetoed it.
B A similar bill got through the
house last year, but it tiled in the
" senate. Now President Truman
Z wants a law establishing a foder-
al program for conservation and
" development of tidelands oil re
Z sources.
To overcome the states' objec-
Hons to federal control, depart
" ment ol interior has worked out a
plan whereby 94 per cent of the
royalties would be given to the
states for education and reclam
. nllon projects. But so far the
stales have shown no inclination
; to take this bait.
: PTA Group Holds
: Monthly Meeting
Z The Kenwood PTA met Tues-
day evening in the school lunch
room for the regular monthly
Z meeting with an excellent turn
a out, according to Mrs. Joe Elder,
president. Dates for the Kenwood
P FA carnival were chosen as
" March 25 and 20. Art Rixe was
appointed general chairman of
the affair.
Z At the Tuesday meeting the
a fifth grade entertained as hosts,
with the program consisting of
the showing of the cancer film,
"Your Doctor Speaks." Mrs. Jess
Perrine, Deschutes county com
mander of the Cancer society was
present. Winona Fishback gave
two readings, and the class ol
Mrs. Chollet won the room award
for the most parents present.
The next meeting will be Feb
ruary 22, at which time complete
assignments will be made for the
carnival. Every Kenwood parent
is urged to take part in the carni
val, and be present for the Feb.
22 meeting.
The name "Nebraska" is deriv
ed from an Otoe Indian word for
the Platte river, meaning "shal
low water," "flat water-' or
"broad water."
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Housing Bills Introduced
In Oregon Sfafe Legislature
By Eldon Barrett
(Untied l'refift Staff C'orrcHpunchnl)
Salem, Ore., Jan. 27 dl') -Logls-
lation to create rural housing
authorities and give existing
authorities more power was intro
duced in the house today.
Three bills embrace the propos
ed program.
1. One would establish authori
ties covering regions of two or
more counties to help provide liv
ing quarters for low income fami
lies.
2. Another would give housing
boards power to clear slum areas
for government or private build
ing projects.
3. And the third would finance
projects by permitting housing
agencies to sell their bonds, which
are backed by the federal govern
ment, to private banking agen
cies.
Under existing laws, housing
authorities can sell only 10 per
cent of their bonds to private in
stitutions. The program is in line with
legislation now before congress.
The bills were introduced by
Representatives Phil D rove r,
Howard Morgan, both democrats,
and John Logan, republican, and
Sen. Richard L. Neuberger, demo
crat, all of Portland.
Rep. Morgan said the purpose
of the legislation is to "modern
ize state housing authorities."
Yesterday the senate passed, 22
Redmond to Be
Host for Legion
District Meet
Members of Stevens Chute unit
No. 4, American Legion post and
auxiliary, will attend the district
12 conference to be held in Red
mond Sunday afternoon, Jan. 30,
at 1:30.
The afternoon meeting of the
auxiliary will bo presided over by
Mrs. Robert Tull, Redmond, dis
trict president. Speakers will in
clude the following department of
ficers: Mis. Mitchell Thorn, The
Dalles, president; Mrs. W. V. Gra
ham, Corvallis, vice president, and
Mao E. Whilcomb, Portland, sec
retary. The post meeting will be con
ducted by Robert Tull, Redmond,
district commander. Among high
officials on this program will be
"Kelley" Owens, Salem, depart
ment commander, and Tom Col
lins. Portland, adjutant.
Following the afternoon meet
ings, a joint dinner will be served,
with special entertainment plan
ned. Uend auxiliary members plan
ning to attend or wanting trans
portation, are asked to call Mrs.
Willard Higgins, president. 020 R,
before noon Saturday, so she may
report to Redmond the number
of Uend people to expect.
More people
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''When it rains
it pours
Plain or iodized
Him From His Fair
to 8, a house-approved resolution
to set up a five-man legislative
committee to study housing needs
in tne state.
Two new measures Involving
candidates for election were be
fore the legislature today. One, by
Rep. Morgan, would prohibit pub
lic office seekers from switching
parties within six months before
a primary. The other, by Sen.
Frank Hilton, R., Portland, is
aimed at stopping candidates
from issuing false Information
during campaigns.
Stale employes will get paid on
time this month and with their
usual 20 extra for cost-of-living
needs. The house and senate yes
terday suspended rules and pass
ed an appropriation measure to
supply the necessary funds.
Others Say
A NKIGHBOK'S SLOT
MACHINES (Oregonlan)
Some folks are annoyed but
not the same ones in each in
stance if slot machines be sup
pressed, be allowed In clubs and
lodges, or be permitted in re
stricted places under heavy taxes.
The slate of Washington has
the last-named plan, taxed ma
chines being confined by law
solely to nonprofit institutions.
Recently the outgoing liquor com
mission recommended what in ef
fect would be suppression of all
slot machines.
The criticisms of the plan in
that slate appear to arise from
the spread of machines to places
doubtfully bona fide nonprofit es
tablishments. The high profits
from the slot machines enabled
the proprietors of those loosely
organized places to undersell pub
lic restaurants on sumptuous
meals and the latter naturally
complain.
In March, the liquor commis
sion will begin Issuance of liquor-by-the-drink
licenses to 1154
places In the state. The 297 "non
profit" places will have first call
and will all no doubt apply. If
allowed to have slot machines as
well they will have a eomiM'titivc
edge on the restaurant and hotel
cocktail bars that will get the re
mainder of the permits but be de
nied slot machines by present
law.
The outgoing commission's
idea was to cut out slot machines
in all places that serve liquor by
the drink. The out going commis
sion could, of course, only recom
mend. If anything is done it will
be done by the new state admin
istration. The slot machine has
been producing substantial state
lax revenues, and Washington is
plagued by a revenue and taxa
tion problem.
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THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND. OREGON
- Weaiher Friends
Washington Scene
By Rarman W. Nichols
(United TreM Staff Correspondent)
Washington, Jan. 27 IIP) Amer
ican kids take their democracy in
stride. Just like they take prunes,
spinach, arithmetic and bathtubs.
That sets them apart from our
foreign guests. Like Ramon Val
encia, the 12-year-old son of Al
Valencia, press attache of the
Philippine embassy.
Ramon was just beginning to
pick up a little English when the
japs took over his native islands.
He and his family during the next
three years resorted to their na
tive dialect "Tagalog" in defi
ance of the enemy. They seldom
spoke English. The dialect, by the
way, is still used in their home
here in Washington when Amer
ican company isn't around.
The boy, a gangly kid, picked
up his adopted tongue easily. He
recently wrote an essay which he
started off by saying, "It is like a
dream being an American."
The dream, to him, was a
"great relief" from the horrible
nightmare of the war years. Here,
under the banner of Old Glory,
Ramon felt it was necessary to
explain why he did not feel a com
plete stranger in the United
States.
"1 don't really feel like a for
eigner among you," he wrote. "I
have seen American boys and
girls before the war and I was
perhaps too young to really know
them. But what I knew about
American boys and girls in those
days I liked.
"I began my schooling in the
Philippines public schools. They
ore patterned after American
schools ... I learned American
history at the same time that I
began to read about our own
Philippine history. Your Ameri
can George Washington, Abra
ham Lincoln, Patrick Henry and
others were our heroes, too. I
learned how to sing 'America' and
'The Star Spangled Banner.' I,
like you, thrilled at these songs.
"When I grew a little older, I
began to enjoy the movies your
movies. I read American comics.
I wore American shoes. 1 learned
a lot about those things before I
ever set foot on American soil."
The "foot-setting" didn't come
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Landlords Rebel at Control;
Thousands Facing Eviction
IHy United fresh)
More than 20,000 families faced
possible eviction from their
homes today as landlords In at
least eight large cities threatened
to rebel against tightening of fed
eral lent controls.
Property owners in Kansas
City, Milwaukee, Detroit, Denver,
Minneapolis, Grand Rapids, and
Oklahoma City followed the lead
of Tulsa landlords and threatened
to send eviction notices to occu
pants of all rental units now un
der government rent control.
Action also was expected to be
taken by landlords' groups In Chi
cago, St. Louis, Madison, Wis.,
Lincoln, Neb., Philadelphia, and
Carthage, Mo.
The action was started Tuesday
by the Tulsa Property Owners
association which sent eviction
notices to more than 1.000 fami
lies.
However, top officers of the
American Porperty Owners asso
ciation, the group reportedly be
hind the move, said they were not
sponsoring an organized eviction
drive.
William Schmidt, Chicago.
president of the APOA, said at
Omaha that his organization is
making no effort to remove ren
tal property from the market. He
said that movements throughout
tne nation to freeze out renters
in protest to pending rent control
legislation are "spontaneous."
Harry Hansen, member of the
APOA board of directors, said at
Omaha that he was urging asso
ciation members not to follow the
action taken in Tulsa.
I am recommending that the
property owners create more
housing to take care of the coun
try's needs," said Hansen, who
went to Omaha with Schmidt to
try to influence republican lead
ers meeting there to declare
themselves against rent controls.
In Washington, Federal rent di
rector Tighe Woods said that it
was "questionable" whether land
lords who order wholesale evic
tions are acting within the law
and "in good faith."
Woods said his office may seek
court injunctions to prevent such
evictions.
The present rent law, enacted
by the 80th congress, transferred
control of evictions from the fed
eral government to the states.
Landlords are allowed to evict
tenants if "in good faith" they
take housing off the rental mar-
until April of 1947, and Ramon
didn't start to an American school
until the following September.
Even then, he had a lot to learn
about English and could toss his
native Tagalog around with
much more ease.
Not long ago he saw in Wash
ington papers that a prize contest
was being held for essays on traf
fic safety in America.
Ramon didn't tell his father
about his plans. But each after
noon ho retired to his room in
their modest apartment and gave
a piece of paper the mischief with
a drawing pencil. He was not
aware that he was competing
with 1,000 Washington kids, aged
8 to 12, who had spoken English
all their lives.
At length, Ramon put a bold
period at the end of his "article"
and mailed it off.
A month later his dad, Al, came
home and saw a new bicycle in
front of his place.
"Lordy, lordy," he said to him
self. "I wonder how much that
cost me?" .
It didn't cost anything. Ramon
had won second prize-in the big
essay contest.
Committee Halted
On Chairmanship
Omaha. Neb., Jan. 27 mi The
republican national committee to
day was embarrassingly near an
adjournment hour deadlock on the
party chairmanship.
Committee members were un
der irresistible pressure, however,
to solve their problems before
evening trains and airplanes be
gin leaving this ice bound city.
The party big wigs have reserva
tions for home and they won't
want to miss them.
ket. But they must keen the units
closed.
'lvo bills . are pending in con
gress to restore, federal regulation
of evictions and to extend rent
controls for two more years.
Eviction notices mailed in Tulsa
urged tenants to help landlords
light passage of the rent control
bills. The Tulsa Property Owners
association charged that the
measures might lead to "govern
ment ownership of all property."
North Unit Homes
Hard Hit by Cold
Madras, Jan. 27 Residents of
Jefferson county are welcoming a
rising temperature accompanying
the recurrence of snow last night.
It Is estimated that up to 75 per
cent of homes of the county have
suffered inconveniences from
frozen water systems the past sev
eral weeks. In the Little Plains
and Agency Plains districts to the
west and northwest of the city
the domestic water system, be
cause of frozen mains, has been
out of commission for two weeks,
and the homes and barnyards to
which settlers of the F.orth unit
of the Deschutes project have
been forced to haul water from
ranches where wells exist have
reached nearly 100 per cent.
The towns of Culver and Meto
lius and the surrounding country
side served with domestic water
by the Deschutes Valley Water
district have suffered a shortage
of water because of ice conditions
on Crooked river. The Deschutes
district buys its water wholesale
from a company which pumps its
supply from Opal springs in the
crooked river gorge, at the south
edge of Jefferson county, to a
rimside reservoir. Ice in the river
has lowered the flow until there
is insufficient head to operate hy
draulic turbines, used in pumping
the water. A standby diesel mo
tor, it was reported, has been in
sufficient. As a result the pri
vate company has been unable to
supply enough water for the
towns and rural area served. The
Deschutes district has a contract
to supply the city of Madras with
1,000,000 gallons monthly for its
municipal system. This city, how
ever, while scores of its houses
have been without a water supplv
because of frozen pipes, has suf
fered little from the current short
age of domestic water because it
draws the surplus flow from a
well owned by the Union Pacific
railroad company.
The water shortage has been a
serious problem for many North
unit settlers who are engaged in
feeding cattle. Ponds have frozen
solidly, and these farmers have
been forced to haul water long dis
tances for their herds. The gen
eral situation is proving a stimu
lus toward creating sentiment for
a merger of all domestic water
agencies, rural districts, and mu
nicipal systems, in an effort to
gain a more adequate system.
The proposed merger, which will
be voted on next Monday by the
Deschutes Valley district resi
dents will provide a more efficient
and economical distribution of do
mestic water, it is thought.
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Prineville Editor
Invited to Appear
On KGO Program
Prineville, Jan. 27- it was re
vealed at the weekly luncheon of
the chamber of commerce here
this week that Remey Cox, editor
and publisher of the Central Ore
gonian, is one of 13 northern Cal
ifornia and southern Oregon
newspaper men selected by radio
station KG(j of Oakland, Calif.,
owned and operated by the Amer
ican Broadcasting Co., to appear
on a series of la-minute broad
casts, called "The Editor Speaks."
Cox, who will go to San Fran
cisco as the guest of the Ameri
can Broadcasting Co., will appear
in a program to be aired March
11 at 9:30 p.m.
Cox has askPd the chamber of
commerce to collaborate with him
in preparing data for use in the
broadcast in presenting the story
of the historic background of
Prineville, Central Oregon's old
est city and the traditional cow
boy capital of the state. He will
utilize recorded interviews with
local representative men, it is in
dicated, in presenting the story of
Crook county agricultural, indus
trial and recreation resources.
WOMAN IIIJRS IN I'IRE
Garibaldi, Ore., Jan. 27 UH
Mrs. Hattie Rockman was burned
to death and her daughter, Mrs.
Robert Meek, suffered second and
third degree burns yesterday
when gasoline exploded over a
wood fire in their home. The gaso
line was being used to start a
stove fire.
Aluminum production is depen
dent upon a reliable and steady
supply of electricity.
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HI NTING CHARGE FACED
Madras, Jan. 27 Al Bean
Madras Justice of the peace, said
yesterday that Ed. McCracken of
Prineville, held in jail following
his arrest last week on a charge
of killing a deer out of season
in the Grandview district of west
Jefferson county, has been releas
ed on $150 bail. McCracken, who
has entered a not guilty plea, will
be tried in justice court here at a
date not yet fixed.
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