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CENTRAL OREGON'S , DAILY NEWSPAPER
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33 rd Year
BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1949
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Defense Head
Backs Britain
On Jet Charge
Senate Making Effort
To Speed Marshall
Plan Renewal Measure
Washington, April 2 HP) Sec
retary of defense Louis Johnson
informed the1 senate today that
Britain has shipped no' jet-aircraft
engines to Russia or its
satellites since December, 1947.
Jet engines, he said, were sold
and delivered behind the iron
curtain after the end of World
War II. But since . the end of
1 1947, Johnson said, Britain has
I rejected requests for such fur
ther shipments.
letter Read
His views were contained in a
letter to chairman Pat McCarran,
D., Nev., of the joint congression
al "watchdog" committee on for
eign aid. The letter was read to
the senate as It met in an un
usual Saturday session in an ef
fort to speed action on the $5,
580,000,000 Marshall plan renew
al bill. . , .
McCarran told the senate that
Johnson's statement comprised a
"complete jrefutatian" of press
dispatches and remarks on the
senate floor alleging recent Brit
ish shipments of the jet engine.
He said congress rightfully had
a "vital interest" in the matter
In Connection with the-ECA pro
gram. To Work Latr
Democratic leader Scott W.
Lucas, 111.,, said he would keep
members at work until late aft
ernoon in an effort to dispose
of "two or three amendments."
He sought early action after a
powerful bi - partisan coalition
last night:
1. Rejected 68 to 14 a move by
republican leader Kenneth S.
IVherry, Neb., to trim 15 per
cent off administration requests
for authorized ECA spending
over the next 15 months.
2. Voted down 54 to 23, an
amendment by Sens. Robert A.
Taft, R., O., and Richard B. Rus
i sell, D., Ga., to reduce recovery
spending by $543,000,006, or. about.
aiu per cent.
litect Signed
To Plan Hospital
Acting as attorneys in fact for
he Sisters of St. Joseph, Carl A.
Johnson and Lowell A. Jensen
shortly after the noon hour to
day signed a contract with John
W. Maluney of Seattle, Wash., to
serve as architect for the new
St. Charles hospital.
The contract with the architect
was signed in the Sun room of
the Pilot Butte inn. Johnson and
Jensen signed the contract first,
then Maloney attached his sig
nature. Later in the day, Sister
Blanche, superintendent of the
St. Charles hospital, was to sign.
Group Present
Included in the small group
witnessing the signing of the
contract were Howard E. Mincy,
Maloney's assistant; Robert W.
Sawyer, president of the Central
Oregon Hospital foundation; and
Alva C. Goodrich, local attorney,
and representatives of The Bulle
tin and The Bend Pilot.
This afternoon, ' Maloney and
Mincy were to return to their
Seattle headquarters, by plane.
Most of the plans for the new
hospital will be drawn in the Se
attle office, but both architects
1,'jfill make frequent trips to Bend.
I Yesterday, the architects con
ferred with members of the hos
uital board,
iKecreanon neaa
Arrives in Bend
Bend's new recreation director.
Davlcl E. Howard, arrived hpre
last night from Portland, and this
morning conferred with members
of the city staff on recreation
plans for the present season. With
W. P. Drost, former city mana
ger who has resumed his duties as
superintendent of streets and the
water department, Howard today
also made a tour of the Bend
parks.
Howard has been a recreation di
rector In Portland for the past 18
months. He is a graduate from the
University of Utah, where he ma
jored in physical education.
Water Forecast
tMeet Scheduled
! The 12th annual meeting of the
Central Oregon water forecast
committee will be held in the
Redmond council room Monday,
starting at 9 o.m.. with W. T.
Frost, hydraulic engineer for the
oil conservation service, division
tf irrigation, in charge. Frost is
now holding a series of water
forecast meetings In Oregon, with
f.one being held today in Burns.
Deschutes County Campaign
For Cancer Fund Postponed
Drive to Raise $1,999.61 to Begin April 18;
Every .Oregon County Achieved QuQta in- '48
The Deschutes countv annual fiinrl-rnisintr rnmnniom for
the Oregon division of the American Cancer society has been
postponed until April 18, it was announced today by Mrs.
J. M. Perrine, county chairman. The drive to raise $1,999.61,
the county's -quota this year, has been postponed until that
time, according to Mrs. Perrine, in-order that it will not con
flict with the Easter seal sale which is now on.
Every county in the state
To. Had Eaqles
S. R. Harmon last night was
elected president of the Frater
nal Order of Eagles and will
head the Bend aerie in the com
ing year.
Harmon Elected
To Head Eagles
S. R. Harmon was elected pres
ident of the Fraternal Order of
Eagles, Bend aerie No. 2089 at
last night's meeting and will
serve for the next fiscal year.
W.. M. Loy will serve as secre
tary for another three-year term,
under appointment from tne neaa
office, In Kansas City, Mo.
Other officers elected, and who
will take office on June 3, are
Earl Weat, vice president; Louis.
Wavelet, chaplain; L. E. Snelson,
treasurer; John Kramer, trustee
for three years; Wayne Saun
ders, inner guard; Wiley Ellis,
outside guard.
Loyal B. Rhodes, now presi
dent, will serve as junior past
president and will be a member
of the board of trustees with
Park Fleming. A. B. Estebenet
and W. M. Loy.
It was announced at the meet-
Ine that the Eagles' drum and
bugle corps will go to Medford
on April 9, leaving by chartered
bus at 6 a. m., to participate in
a zone meeting. The ladies aux
iliary officers and drill team, and
the aerie ritualistic team will al
so make the trip, to enter ritu
alistic competition. Several can
didates will accompany the Bend
groups, to be initiated at Med
ford. A total of five aeries will be
represented.
Prowlers Enter
Kenwood School
Not until teachers return to
their rooms Monday will it be
known whether prowlers who
broke into the Kenwood school
building Thursday night obtained
anything of value.-officers report
ed today. Entrance to the build
ing was gained by breaKing out a
Dane of glass in the door to the
lunch room, at the south side of
the building. The quonset huts
In the Kenwood court were ran
sacked,
ns were teachers' desks,
The prowlers, it is believed, were
hunting money in the aesKs.
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New, Spectacular Volcanic Features Found
In Deschutes Area From
By Phil F. Brogan
Three-dimension eyes of cam
eras set in planes flown in paral
lel paths 20,000 feet above the
'arth have directed the attention
of geologists to spectacular, pre
viously unknown features in the
volcanic upper Deschutes country
of Oregon.
Greatly enriching visual infor
mation obtained from the surface,
stereoscopic aerial photographs
have brought into striking rc'.ief
new fissures, one of them some
30 miles long, and revealed the
source of lava flows that ages ago
spilled down the steep slopes of
Newberry crater, swamping for
ests in their rush Into the low
lands. Also revealed by the aerial
photographs are unnamed craters,
spatter-cone ridges and pressure
mounds.
Visable in the stereoscopic pic
tures are abandoned channels, la
va choked stream-beds and fault
lines that leach across the Des-
chutes to branch into older land
masses of the eastern Cascades.
The geologic discoveries were
made when the Deschutes nation-
achieved its quota a year ago
'ana we are hopeful the same
splendid showing will be made
again this year," Walter W.
May of Oregon City, state
campaign chairman, stated.
"The success of the statewide
campaign is dependent of course
on the results obtained by indi
vidual counties."
Participants Listed
Participating in the campaign
this year are the Bend Junior
Civic league, the Women of the
Moose, Beta Sigma Phi, and the
Campfire girls. The Campfire
girls will hold their "Tag" sale
on Saturday, April 23. Mrs. A. H.
Gulstrom will captain the Civic
league campaign team and Mrs.
Philip W. Dilley will head the
Women of the Moose team.
Area caDtains include Mrs. Ken
neth Munkres, Redmond"; Mrs.
Kenneth Short, Sisters, and Mrs.
E. G. McCabe, Lapine.
Sixty per cent of the money
raised In Deschutes county and
throughout the rest of the state
will be spent in Oregon, according
to Mrs. Perrine, and the other 40
per cent will be spent as follows:
25 per cent to the national re
search program now being carried
on in research centers of the coun
try; and 15 per cent to the nation
wide education program.
Among the society's projects in
Oregon are research at the Uni
versity of Oregon medical school;
support of the chair of oncology
(cancer) at the Oregon medical
school; training of technicians in
the "smear" method of diagnosis;
establishment of tumor clinics in
hospitals; purchase of vital facili
ties for diagnosis and treatment,
Soviet Friendship
New York, April 2 iB-Winston
Churchill said today that it was
his "dear wish" that the western
nations could become friends of
the Russian people "If we could
only get to them
"It is a great grief to the Brit
ish and American people that the
valiant soviet soldiers who
fought so bravely have been mis
led into the position their gov
ernment has put them in at the
present time," Churchill said. "It
is my dear wish that we could be
friends of the Russian people. If
we could only get to them we
would be glad to stretch out the
hand of friendship."
The 74-year-old war time prime
minister held a press conference
aboard the Queen Mary before
sailing for England. Puffing con-
tendedly at one of his long cigars,
he chatted informally with the
press. Churchill, who arrived
after an overnight train ride
from Boston, wore one of his fa
mous "siren suits."
Speaking of Russia, he said;
"It would make a great differ
ence if they opened their borders
and let people come in ana go out
freely, like other countries.
"It's extraordinary to have this
communist paradise. They are
afraid to open the doors for fear
all the cherubs will fly out or at
least as many as have got wings."
MeKAY BACKS SOCIETY
Salem. April 2 iU Gov. Doug-
las McKay has urged Oregonians
to support the American Cancer
I society s campaign iuriunus.
al forest staff obtained a set of
aerial photographs taken In thH
Bend country by the 6th corps of
engineers in world war II days.
Overlapping sky pictures become
stereoscopic when viewed through
lenses and provide a startling
third dimension effect. As the re
sult of vertical exaggeration,
earth features unnoticed at the
surface become prominent land
marks In the pictures taken four
miles aloft.
The pictures were taken from
planes that operated high above
the Deschutes country when
Camp Abbot was occupied and the
Northwest army maneuver was
held In this area.
Through the use of a stereo
scope, Deschutes national forest
staff members have been able to
trace the great Lava butte fissure,
probably the longest In the state,
westward across the Deschutes
river to a point near the Century
drive. Formerly, the fissure was
lost In the brush of Green butte.
northwest of Lava butte. South
ward, this fissure reaches to the
northern rim of Newberry crater.
Oregon Senate
Passes Budget
Balancing Plan
House Expected to Back
Program; Big Obstacle'
In Path of Adjournment
' By Eldon Barrett
United Profw Staff Correipomlent)
Salem. April 2 lU-iA' compli
cated plan for balancing the larg
est budget In Oregon's history
without new taxes went through
the senate without opposition to
day. '
The program, which has been
the major obstacle in the path of
adjournment, is expected to get
nearly the same treatment In- the
house.
There was no debate In the sen
ate.
Sen. Dean Walker, R., Indepen
dence, chairman of the senate tax
committee, explained the program
with the aid of a blackboard.
Changes Explained
He pointed out that the plan
makes four main ohanges.
1. It raises the property tax re
duction reserve from $5,000,000 to
$15,000,000.
2. Ties down definitely any re
mainder in the property tax re
duction account (personal income
taxes) for offsetting levies on real
property.
3. Repeals the so-called "Waler
plan" for discounting personal in
come taxes when a surplus exists.
4. uses corporation excise taxes
to balance the general fund bud
get. Walker said the "people are not
ready for new taxes, so we had to
devise a way to use, present reve
nues." Plan Constitutional
Attorney general George Neu
ner said the plan is constitutional.
Walker, the father of many tax
plans, denied that this was his
program. "It's a community effort
among the committee and outside
experts," he said.
Walker nearly fell out of his
seat when Sen. Richard L. Neu
berger, D Portland, arch-needier
of the GOP, complimented him
and the committee. .
.. .But- Neuberger-'added:"i hope
that someday we may have a tax
that just appropriates as much
money as we deed, and not have
a tax .to offset other taxes."
Another democrat, Sen. Ben
Musa, The Dalles, said the com
mittee "has done an exceedingly
good job," but he said there would
be more tax relief for the people
of Oregon, and counties, cities
and school districts should share
In Income taxes.
Court Session.
To Open Monday
Judge R. S. Hamilton will open
the spring session of circuit court
at the Deschutes county court
house Monday and will probably
select the new grand jury, it was
announced today.
The seven-man grand Jury will
be selected from the 31 persons
making up the regular jury
panel. All members of the Jury
panel are required to be present
when court convenes at 10 a.m.
Monday.
District attorney A. J. Moore
said that two or three cases are
scheduled to be investigated by
the grand jury.
CELEBRATES CHRISTMAS
Diamond Lake, April 2 iU'
Percy Van Duesen, caretaker at
Diamond Lake, celebrated Christ
mas today. He had been snow
bound three months.
'A soil conservation service
snow-tractor delivered his presents.
Sky-picture Study
The areia) photographs bring
Into relief the great lava fields on
the flanks of Newberry, a giant
mountain of old that now cradles
Paulina and East lakes. Of special
Interest to geologists are fissures
through which the lava escaped,
to flow through forests and leave
"casts" of pines scattered over the
rocky terrain. Visible In the three
dimension pictures are the "frost
en cataracts" of lava near the end
of the. vast Hoffman Island flow,
location of the Lava Cast forest.
Southeast of Bend, the stereo
scope reveals a fault line that
reaches into the eastern Arnold
community, with the "overflow"
of the fault looming like a minia
ture Abert rim.
Immediately north of Bend, on
the west side of the river opposite
the North Unit canal Intake, is
evidence of an abandoned river
channel.
Discoveries made through a
study of the aerial photographs
strengthen the claim that hi the
upper Deschutes country of Ore
gon are more spectacular volcan
ic features than found in any
other part of the continent.
In Charge of Research Center
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James E. Sowder, right, heads the newly-established Deschutes re
search center office in Bend and is In charge of work in two states.
At right is Edwin L. Mowat, resident forester in charge of the
Pringle Falls forest experiment station.
James E. Sowder to Head
Deschutes Research Center
Will Be in Charge of Experimental Timber
Growing in Areas East of Cascade Range
Operating out of Bend, James E. Sowder, who recently
joined the newly-created Deschutes research center of the Pa
cific northwest forest and range experiment station, will be
in charge of timber growing
east of the Cascades in both
learned here today. Sowder's
Benson building here.
In the Bend office, Sowder
Mowat, resident forester in
charge of the Pringle falls
experiment station. Mowat
has been connected with re
search work at the Pringle
falls station for the past three
years. .
Another member of the local
staff, Walter G. Dahms, is now in
training in Washington, D.C., and
will be assigned to the Blue moun
tain area, with headquarters in
LaGrande. Later, a forester will
be assigned to the Wenatchee area
of Washington, under supervision
of the Bend center.
Announcement Made
' Announcement of the assign
ment of Sowder to the Deschutes
liUtfen -center was maaa By--
Hall, director of the Pacific north
west forest and range experiment
station, with headquarters in
Portland.
The Deschutes research center
now has timber management ex
periments and demonstrations
well under way at the Pringle
falls experiment forest seven mil
es northwest of Lapine; at the
Blue mountain experiment forest
25'miles east of Prairie City, and
at numerous other points on the
national forests of eastern Ore
gon. .
At Pringle falls, the experiment
work is being carried on in close
cooperation with the Deschutes
national forest staff.
Transfers From Modoc
Sowder transferred from the
Modoc national forest In Califor
nia, where he was district ranger
for the past three years. He was
graduated from the University of
Idaho school of forestry in 1931,
and worked three years at the Cal
ifornia forest range and experi
ment station. Later, Sowder spent
three years with the Indian ser
vice on the Klamath reservation,
supervising timber sales.
Returning to the forest service,
Sowder was timber management
assistant on the Tahoe and Modoc
national forests for five years,
and district ranger and adminis
trative assistant on the Modoc for
a year. After two years in the
navy, he returned to the forest
service.
Service Expected
The new Deschutes research
center is expected to be of service
primarily to Central Oregon and
Washington, but, Sowder points
out, It is also hoped that its find
ings will be useful throughout
the western United States.
"Foresters are certain that our
timberlands can be made to pro
duce a great deal more timber,
water, food for domestic stock
and wildlife than they do now,"
Sowder mentioned.
For the present, most of the
work of the Deschutes research
center will be in timber growing
research. However, as soon as
funds are available, moans of Im
proving water production from
mountain watersheds will bo an
important field of study.
Mr. and Mrs. Sowder and their
family are now living in Bend.
They have purchased a home
here.
Postal Receipts
Show New Gain
Bend's postal receipts for the
first quarter of 1949 were-well
above those for the same period
last year, Postmaster Farley El
liott announced today.
The January, February ajid
March receipts for 19-19 were $24.
578.87, Elliott reported. In th
first quarter of 19-18. the receipts
amounted to $22,926.67.
"Tills is a very healthy gain,"
Postmaster Elliott said.
research on experimental areas
Oregon and Washington, it was
headquarters office is in the
is associated with Edwin L.
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Syrian Army
Sets Up New
Country Rule
Damascus, Syria, April 2 u?
The army, abandoning efforts to
form a new parliamentary gov
ernment, dissolved the chamber
of deputies and set up a supreme
military council to rule the coun
try today.
The military council Is headed
by Col.iHusni Al-Zaim, army chief
of staffi and leader, of the bloodless
coup wfii oil deposed Premier Kha-
led El-Azams government on
Thursday.
The military council will be as
sisted by a council of undersecre
taries, an official announcement
said. It said a constitutional com
mission also will be set Up to in
vestigate the establishment of a
new constitution and electoral
system.
Government sources said the
United States and British minis
ters informed Al-Zaim on Thurs
day that they viewed Syrian po
litical developments as an intern
al affair and looked forward to
the establishment of a stable gov
ernment soon.
Al-Zaim's supporters Interpret
ed this as "favorable, reaction" to
ine coup, they also were encour
aged by the stream of diplomats
from Arab capitals to Damascus
lor brief talks with Al-Zaim.
Senate to View
Gruening Issue
Washington, April 2 HP' Chair
man Joseph C. O'Mahoney said
today that members of his senate
interior committee probably will
discuss the nomination of Ernest
Gruening for a third term as
Alaska governor at a meeting
Monday.
Oregon Senate Bogs Down
With Debate Over Gambling
By Eldon Barrett
(United PrnM Stuff CorroMmndvnt )
Salem, April 2 itt'i The senate
bogged down in a mlio of debate
yesterday over gambling, salaries
and highway legislation, but the
arguments everyone has been
waiting to hear was scheduled for
today.
The senate had as Its special
order of business its tax commit
tee's complicated program to bal
ance the budget without impos
ing hew levies.
The senate spent most of Fri
day increasing supreme court
Justices' salaries, defeating an at
tempt to make lawmakers define
lotteries, and thwarting a bill to
bar use of highway funds in cit
ies until primary routes are
brought up to federal road bu
reau standards.
By the time the senators ad
journed at 5:35 p. m. they had
passed only six of the 18 meas
ures on their calendar.
The house, meanwhile defeated,
29 to 25, a hill that would have
set up a watchdog Interim com
mittee to keep a year-around
watch on the management of
state Institutions. The senate had
passed the measure, 19 to 9.
The senate highways commit
tee recommended passage of
house-approved bills to Increase
state gasoline taxes from five to
six cents and double the license
plate fees, making them $10 a
Bend's Annual
Clean-Up Set
ForNextVeek
The week of April 10 to 16 has
been designated as the . time for
Bend's annual clean-up, In prepar
ation for the 1949 vacation sea
son and an expected heavy Influx
of tourists, it was announced to
day. Heading the clean-up cam
paign will be Everett Hughes,
chairman of the Bend chamber
of commerce "keep Oregon green
and keep Bend clean" committee.
Serving with Hughes on the
committee are Vern Larson, El
mer Lehnherr, LeRoy Fox.'Franlf
Prince, Jr., Gordon Moore, J. L.
Ross, Ford Hunnell and Dr. M. B.
McKenney. Residents of Bend will
be asked to join in a move to
"clean up, paint up and fix up
for spring."
Residents will be urged to dis
pose of trash which might consti
tute a fire hazard, clean premises,
eliminate debris that accumulated
through the long winter and gen
erally improve property.
The week has been designated
not only as a means of removing
fire hazards, but as a move to
beautify the city. Bend, it is point
ed out, is generally recognized as
one of Oregon's, cleanest towns.
"The clean-up project is one in
which the entire community will
be asKea to om, Hugnes said.
March Weather
Recorded Chilly
March weather was chilly, with
skies cloudy or partly cloudy on
all but two days and with stqrms
yielding a trace or more of pre
cipitation on Is different days,
data released today from the lo
cal weather station reveal. The
main temperature for the month
was 36.5 degrees, far below the
45 year normal, 93.4 degrees. Pre
cipitation, 1.11 inches, was near
normal for the month.
March temperature ranged
from a maximum of 57 degrees,
recorded on the first day of the
month, to a low of, 5 above, on
the 28th. The 5 degree tempera
ture was the lowest ever recofdV
ed here in late March. ,
Skies were overcast on 14 dif
ferent days and partly cloudy
on 15 days.
Maximum and minimum temp
eratures for the month follow:
Max.
Mlnm
28
30
29
29
32
26
21
25
28
28
27
26
29
29
30
28
31
35
37
32
29
30
29
19
23
26
22
5
19
24
25
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
' 8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18...
19
20
21
22
23
24
25 ;
26
27
28
29
30
31...A
57
47
51
46
46
46
48
51
43
36
32
39
50
46
38
37
54
51
52
54
47
45
40
45
50
42
50
43
52
43
50
year Instead of S5.
The upper house killed the lot
teries bill, 22 to 6. It would have
asked the people to empower the
legislature to define the term
"lottery" which is now outlawed
by the state constitution.
The main argument against the
bill was that the stale supreme
court has on several occasions al
ready defined the term.
Sen. Austin Dunn. D., Baker,
who Introduced the bill, said it
was his Intention to "turn what
we can Into good'' anil not leave
lotteries to racketeers nut per-1
mu tne state to tax them.
He said the law as i
stands is 'confusion and
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now
hvnn
crisv." I
Sen. Frank Hilton, R.. Port
land, said that ."every racketeer
In Oregon would be lobbying us
If we were forced to define the
term. If you are ready to put the
legislature In the gambling busi
ness, vote for this measure."
The highways hill was sent
back to the committee by a 24-to.
6 vote and opponents said the
subject was dead.
The bill carried the signatures
of 16 senators, enough to pass
hud they all veiled for It.
The measure was aimed at Sa
lem's 1 0 y e a r. $7,600,000 city
street-bridge program and Port
land's projected Sullivan's gulch
throughway project, both partly
financed by the state.
Twelve Nations
Reject Soviet
Pact Charges
. Reds Declare Atlantic
Treaty Is Aggressive,
Violates UN Charter
. Washington, April 2 'IB The
foreign ministers of 12 Atlantic
nations today jointly and formal
ly rejected the Soviet union's
charge that the North Atlantic
pact is aggressive in nature and n
violation of the United Nations
charter. ;
The ministers at a two-hour
meeting approved without a ,
change the text of the pact which
will be signed Monday.
Then they issued a statement
which in effect described the sov
iet charges as complete misrepre
sentations. .
Text Best Answer ,
Their joint statement said "the
text of the treaty itself is the best
answer to such misrepresenta-
tions and allegations." '
"The text," they said, "makes
clear the completely defensive na
ture of this pact, its conformity
wltn both the spirit and letter oi
the charter of the Umted Nations,!
and also the fact that the pact is
not directed against any nation or
group of nations but only against
armed aggression."
The 12 foreign ministers also
announced that at today's meet;
lng they gave "preliminary consid-. -
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tual defense machinery under the
pact. " -
Ministers Agree
They agreed that the consulta
tive council called for by the pact
should be composed of "foreign
ministers or other representatives
of government" and that it should
meet immediately after the treaty
goes into effect. They agreed that
its first task should be establish
ment of a mutual defense com
mittee, i
The treaty will become opera
tive when it has been ratified by
the governments of the seven ori
ginal negotiators - the U.S., Bri
tain, France, Belgtnmi' the -Netherlands,
Luxembourg and Canada.
It becomes effective so far as the,
five other original signatories are
concerned as their governments
ratify it after final approval by
the original negotiators.
Oleo Taxes May
Receive Repeal
Washington, April 2 till -Chairman
Walter F. George, D., Ga., of
the senate finance committee said
today there is a good chance fed
eral oleomargarine taxes would
be repealed this year.
He said his committee probab
ly will begin hearings within the
next week or -two on a house-approved
bill which would repeal
the oleo tax and permit the free
movement of pre-colored yellow
oleo in interstate commerce.
The house approved the meas
ure late yesterday by a vote of
287 to 89 after it side-tracked an
alternate bill by Rep. Walter K.
Granger, 1).. Utah, which would
have repealed the oleo tax but
barred the interstate shipment of
yellow margarine.
The Granger bill . had the ap
proval of the house agriculture
committee and dairy slate con
gressmen. Its supporters said re
strictions on oleo sales were ne
cessary to protect dairy farmers
from unfair competition from
margarine manufacturers.
But the Granger measure was
rejected, 242 to 137, in favor of
the pro-oleo substitute sponsored
by Rep. W. R. Poage, D Tex.
Glassow Leaves
For Conference
A. J. Glassow, general manager
of Brooks-Scanlon, Inc., In Bend
and president of the National
Lumber Manufacturers' associa
tion, left this afternoon by piano
for Washington, D.C.. where he
will join other American indus
trial leaders In an orientation con
ference with the secretary of do-
tense. The conference will start
i , ,, , , , . .., .
'on "P111 4 an" luil until pi-u
rectly to Bend. Primary purpose
of the conference will be to ac
quaint industrial leaders with de
fense needs.
The group will be in Washing
ton, D.C., for three days, then
will go to the big navy base at
Norfolk, Va. The third stop will
be at Elgin field, at Valparlso,
Fla., and the final visit in the
series will be at Fort Benning,
parntroop base.
BI S ACCIHENTS VP '
Salem, April 2 uSchool bus-,
es were involved in 239 accidents
throughout the slate last year,
45 per cent more lhan In 1947,
the secretary of slate' office said
today. ?