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TUESDAY, MARCH 29. 1949
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"A CAPABLE
T.ilfn Tlio nnllpt.in the Abilene (Kansas) Reflector-Chron
icle is the only daily in its county, A friend has been kind
enough to send us a copy of a recent issue in which editorial
reference is made to the departure of W. 0. Cuthbertson who
takes up his duties as Bend's city manager this week. Think
' ing that it may serve in some degree to introduce Manager
Cuthbertson to the community ior wnicn ne ieu Aunene we
: reprint the editorial today. Under the head, "A Capable Man
ager , ine editorial saia :
The resignation of W. 6. Cuthbertson and his removal to
. Bend, Oregon, where he receives a larger salary, takes from
Abilene a most capable city manager. During his nearly four
years here in that position he has given the city a service
that deserves the highest praise. He has improved the streets
' and has initiated advances in other directions that have made
the town better all without raising the tax rate. As city
manager, he has had to decide innumerable matters of which
the public never was aware. But he has exercised a diplomacy t
and a good Judgment that have won the respect and co
operation of every element in the city. Being a well qualified
engineer, he has given especial assistance to all operations
demanding that ability.
Mr. Cuthbertson has demonstrated that the city manager
system is the best form of municipal government devised.
' It is becoming almost universal. But Its success depends on
the wisdom and ability of the city manager, his interest In
community welfare and his desire to accomplish everything
possible for the community at as low a cost as possible.
' This service he has given and the city profits by his good
offices. With a city manager of Mr. .Cuthbertson s calibre
any city can thrive and the town to which he is going will
, find that It has an official with marked capability.
, sttr rAKPl.Y WITH HER OWN WINGS .
In a day when Columbia valley authority discussion is fill
ing the air, the news ana tne
if a wide nortnwest auaience couia near me auuicsa picocnicu
hv w T.. Tpntsch at last Friday's chamber forum meeting.
The address, necessarily shortened because of time limitations
and not prepared for the purpose, was a compelling repiy iu
many of the pro-CVA arguments. ; .-
Those who heard Mr. Teutsch learned of the Oregon agri
cultural development in the past 25 years that has given the
state top or close to the top position in half a dozen or more
fields of agricultural activity. All this was interesting but
even more so was the speaker's repetition of the fact that
these Oregon achievements were the result of the workings of
the democratic process. They had come about because inter
ested persons had met and studied Oregon's farm problems,
had determined what should be done by way of finding an
swers and then had brought about, free from dictatorship or
such cash outlays as characterize TVA's operations, the
changes in the state's farm economy that spelled success.
Mr. Teutsch did not bring the fact into his discussion but
one reason for the Oregon success is found in the quality and
the high standards of its. people. Illiteracy is virtually un
known in Oregon.' There has been a high percentage in the
TVA region. In Oregon health conditions are among the best
in the nation. In the TVA state.tney nave oeen among me
poorest. And so it goes, though rfnVA's 15 years of opera
tions with the expenditure of millions of federal funds there
has been an improvement.
But let us return to the Teutsch thesis that it has been in a
democratic way that Oregon has gained its pre-eminence. The
state's farm supremacy has resulted from locally-led individ
ual and group action. It has not come about because some sort
of all-wise, all-knowing, all-powerful authority was directing
affairs' '''"
Since the state has in its own people the capacity for self
direction, management and improvement it needs no federally
imposed authority. : . "
The report of the death last week in Le'tterman general
hospital of Lt. Col. Albert William Stevens brings to mind the
memory of the remarkable photographs of the Cascade range
from the Three Sisters to the north taken by him some 25
years ago. New techniques in aerial photography were de
veloped by Col. Stevens and he left a remarkable record.
Science at Work
By I'mil T. Ellis
(United 1'rotn Sou-nce Writer)
San Antonio, Tex., March 29 Uli
Scrub cows now can be used as
"Incubators" to produce pure bred
callle, it has been announced here.
The new technique involves the
transplantation of ova from regis
tered, high quality animals, to a
poorer typo of cow. Artificial In
semination with the perm of male
animals has long been practiced,
but the transplantation of the fe
male ova along with the male
germ was described as a "revolu
tionary biological experiment."
Announcement of the ova trans
plantation experiments was made
by Dr. Harold Vagtboig, director
of the foundation of applied re
search and president of the affili
ated southwest research Institute.
The project here, conducted by
a young embiyologist, Raymond
Umbaugh, who specialized in Ihc
work at Purdue university, cov
ered seven years and involved the
use of more than 750 head of
cattle.
Dr. Vngtbork said that the proj
ect at its present stage has yield
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ber Rebuilding corporation on
this city's newest industry, which
will utilize lower grade lumber
and trimmings of pine from local
sources and from mills around
Fossil In Gilliam county in manu
facture of moulding and like ma
terials. Headed by Floyd D. Stapp,
Jr., of Eugene, the company is
erecting its plant on an acreage
secured from Mrs. aylvm hmilli
about a mile northwest of the
city near a potato packing plant
and warehouse owned by Mel uo
zarth. The City of Prinevllle railway,
It was announced yesterday hy
Superintendent C. C. Mctjlenn,
will build a spur track to the new
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WASHINGTON COLUMN
' . By Peter Edson
NEA Washington Correefomlent)
Washington (NEA) Trying to
weieh the effects oi senate ana
house rent increase bills is' now
a popular Washington indoor
snort. The two measures ditler
widely. What Is passed and sent
to President Truman ior signa'
ture will have to be a compro-
mlse.
But all slena point toward con
siderable decontrol, probably
through a return to state and lo
cal control boards, ine Die ques
tion Is whether President Tru
man will sign such legislation, or
veto it as not in Keeping wim nis
antl-lnflatlon program,
The situation is a good bit like
that on June. 1946. when the war
time price-control law was expir
ing. Congress passed what senate
democratic leader Alben W. Bark-
ley called "the best bill he could
get." It wasn't good enough for
President Truman, however, so ne
vetoed it. The result was that all
orice controls expired on June 30,
and stayed off till congress passed
new bill wnicn tne president
signed on July 23. ,
The original bill reported out
by the senate DanKing ana cur
rency committee provided lor
gradual decontrol through volun
tary agreements between land
lords and tenants, Increasing
rents by a maximum of five per
cent alter .-sept. 31, anotner live
per cent after March 31, 1950, and
tnree montns' moratorium to
bar . evictions after that. This
would not apply to tenants whose
rents had already been raised 15
per cent under the 1947 law.
mere are now an estimatea k,-
700,000 houses, apartments and
rooms for rent in the whole U.S.,
15.300.000 of these in city areas.
Now under control are 14,300,000
units, about 1,400,000 having been
decontrolled since 1946. These fig
ures-do not include new housing
units built for rent and specifical
ly exempted from rent control
after July, 1947.
II you suck to legal rent in
crease agreements filed with local
rent control boards, it is estimated
that about 15 per cent of the rent
al units under control have had
Increases. If you consider the il
legal or black market rent in
creases imposed by landlords, this
figure would proDawy nave to be
raised to 30 or 35 per cent.
The bureau of labor statistics
figures that rent represents about
12.5 i)cr cent of the so-called cost
of living for low and medium in
come families. I his percentage
varies inversely according to in
come. Families with income of
less than $2,000 a year spend an
average of 21 per cent of their in
come lor rent, families : with
$2100 to $4900 annual ineblhe
spend 13 per cent for rent. Fami
lies with- annual income over
$5,000 average nine per cent for
rent.
The effect of sucli rent Increas
es on the cost of living index is
interesting. Rent on the national
average being 12.5 per cent of the
cost of. living, a 10 per cent rise
in the rent index would raise the
cost of living index by 1.25 points.
One of the main arguments of
people who favor decontrolling
rents is that a 1.25 point rise on
the cost of living Index wouldn t
hurt. It is argued that landlords
have had no increases comparable
to other segments of the economy
and they need, this rise to meet
Increased cosls.
While this argument makes a
big Impression on congressmen, it
is argued by those who favor
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continuation of rent controls that,
psychologically, rent increases of
$5 to 10 a month would be bad.
It would give union labor a new
argument for demanding fourth
round wage increases. And it
might have serious political con
sequences, ,
In the case of the sliding scale
ueneral Motors wage increase-
cost of living formula, an increase
of 1.14 per cent In the cost of
living requires u.M. to raise wag
es by one cent an hour. Such in
crease would cost ueneral Motors
$6,800,000 a year,
Washington Scene
By Harman W. Nichols
(United Preaa Staff Correnpondent)
Washington, March 29 IP) I
Know a politician who would ra
ther be assistant ward-heeler
than president
My man is Frank Pidcock. III.
editor, publisher, reporter and
columnist for the Coolldge, Ga.,
Enterprise.
Frank, a handsome, blond 17-
year-old, was in Washington on a
two-fold mission. First, to have
a look at the political situation.
Second, to attend the -Interna
tional Key club convention, spon
sored by the Kiwanis for bright
young men about the country.
The boy didn't get to meet the
president, but like any good re
porter he read the newspapers.
I don t see how Mr. Truman
stands the strain," said Frank. "I
hope some day to be governor of
Georgia and after that maybe a
U. S. senator. But I'd rather be a
big duck in a little puddle than
the head man. Maybe a ward
committeeman, or even ' dog
catcher. You live longer." ;
Frank's home is in Moultrie.
Ga., which is 14 miles from Cool
ldge. He got to 'thinking the vil
lage of 700 people needed a news
paper and so he gave 'em one. He
puts out four printed pages twice
a month. Gives them away. .
"The ads pay the freight." he
said. "I'm learning the ropes. Aft
er all, I've been a newspaperman
for seven years. I used to put out
a mimeographed neighborhood
sheet."
You couldn't blame the kid for
puffing his chest a little.
Like most oi the other 2.200
boys here at the convention,
frank is deadly serious about
the present and future.
Right now, he s ud to his ears
in politics. He "trades" papers
with Gov. Herman Talmadge,
who publishes a political paper.
nut mostly," said Frank, "I
get my Ideas from reading the po
litical writers on the Atlanta
Journal and the Atlanta Consti
tution, 'in
.The head man . on the Enter
prise sticks to politics and leaves
the rest of the paper to Gene' Sir
mans, his feature editor, and Ed
die Oxford, the "expert"; on
sports.
Uf course, all staffers have a
column.
Frank takes great pride in the
fact that he can lick his sports
editor at golf (Frank shoots In
the 70's) and would like you to
know he once shot part of a
round with Bqbby Jones, the for
mer boy wonder of the links.
"We halved two holes' and Bob
by won one," he said.
And the future: .
Frank's a senior in high school
now and plans to attend Emory
university In Atlanta next year.
He's going to take a little Journal
ism to round himself out, as he
says and some law.
"A man's got to know some-
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Others Say
ENDS WITHOUT THE MEANS
(Oregon Statesman)
What lower units of., govern
ment dislike Is for the legislature
to pass a law which forces them
to increase their expenditures,
generally without making any
provision for meeting the in
crease. . The Astorlan-Budget em
phasizes this point in objecting to
the bill to reduce hours of fire
men to a maximum of 72 hours
per week. It would put an extra
burden of $15,000 a year on As
toria's taxpayers. How a city like
that which already carries a
heavy burden could get under
such a load Is hard to see.
The 72-hour limit is certainly
not. unreasonable; but the cities
have a point in resisting a state
ukase which gives no means of
financing the load. Counties like
wise feel abused when the state
tells them what to do for public
welfare, without regard to other
obligations. . '
As Ralpe Watson says, Old Man
Oregon has a hard job trying to
keep everybody in his numerous
family happy.
Kaiser-Frazer
Notes Price Cut
Detroit, March 29 (IB Kaiser-
Frazer corporation today an
nounced price cuts ranging from
$198 to $333 effective immediate
ly on all makes of its automo
biles. Tlie cuts were the largest
in the automobile field since be
fore the war. ,
At the same time the corpora
tion announced a maior shake-urj
of executives, boosting Edgar F.
Kaiser, son of the company's co-
founder Henry J. Kaiser, to the
llrm's presidency and placing the
company more thoroughly in con
trol of the Kaiser family.
ine cuts were made to stimu
late sales and were made possible
by the recent purchase of new
steel production facilities, the an
nouncement said.
The largest nrice reduction was
$333.57 on the Kaiser special.
lowes't priced model in the line.
This brought the price down 14 H
per cent to $1,995 delivered In
Detroit, including federal taxes
and factory-installed accessories.
in tne executive changes. Jo
seph W. Frazer, who founded the
company with Henry J. Kaiser in
1U43, leaves the position of presi
dent and receives the newly creat
ed position of vice chairman of
the board of directors.
thing about the law of libel, you
know."
When all that's over, he would
like to try his hand in the big
newspaper league in Atlanta for
a few years and soak up some of
the atmosphere of the city room.
From there on, it'll be politics
with maybe owning a little news
paper on the side to keep his
hand in. '
Frank doesn't think the -jump
from ward heeler to governor
will be too great and besides gov
ernors don't have as many head
aches as presidents.
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Mill Explosion
Wrecks Plant
Idanha, March 29 lPi Idanha
Lumber company officials were
conducting an investigation today
in an effort to determine what
caused an explosion yesterday
that wrecked their mill.
Thirty-five workmen escaped
injury when the blast leveled the
mill a few hours after it had been
put back Into operation after a
four-month shutdown.
The blast sent eight Inch tim
bers 100 feet into the air and was
heard for miles around.
Manager Huber Ray estimated
the damage at not less than $20,
000. He said lt would take a
month to put the mill back Into
operation.
Mill officials said the blast
probably was caused by the effect
of recent freezing weather on
machinery.
Ray said the governor on a
motor which runs the boiler plant
stopped operating and a large fly
wheel picked up- so much speed
it flew apart. A part of the fly
wheel penetrated a steam pipe,
Ray said.
Ed Hansen, a fireman on duty
in the boilerroom, escaped despite
a fire in an acetylene gas-tank,
but the blaze was put 'out by the
Canyon fire patrol which ran to
the scene. " . '
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Three members of the Bend
school system, Robert Johnson,
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Lllja, attended the northwest re
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Education association in Boise,
Ida., over the week end. They
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work of class room teachers. Miss
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i The Bend group returned here
Sunday.
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