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THURSDAY, APRIL 28. 1949 .
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ELLSWORTH ON THE TVA
Harris Ellsworth, representative in congress from the
fourth Oregon district, sends to the newspapers in his district
a weekly letter in which he discusses important congressional
activities, tells his constituents about matters of interest to
them and expresses his own opinion with admirable frank'
ness on issues of the day. In one of his recent letters he ex
pressed himself on the subject of the pending CVA bills and
we think that his statement would be of interest here. Accord'
ingly we reprint these paragraphs :
Lately I have spent several hours reading and carefully
' studying the new Columbia Valley Authority bill sent to '
Congress by the President accompanied by message urging
its passage. When the subject was mentioned earlier this
year, I took out my rather voluminous CVA file, obtained
some additional material, and made a careful review of the
whole subject. I was actually surprised, after reading most
everything said and written on CVA, to find that so pitifully
little specific evidence showing the need for such an all
powerful authority has been put forth by those who desire
. the passage of this legislation. If a case could be made for
such a bill, the President should have made it in his special
message. A careful reading of his very honest statement re
garding the present development program of the Columbia
Klver area rather tends to prove that It is proceeding at a
splendid rate. Instead of proving that a CVA must be estab
lished in order to develop the Columbia properly, the text
of the President's message causes me to have even more
&erlous doubts as to the need for any such legislation.
The CVA bill itself (Identified as H. R. 4286 or H. R. 4287
since Representatives Mitchell and Jackson of Washington
' introduced identical bills) would place almost unlimited
': power in the hands of a board of three men appointed by
. the President, The passage of this bill would empower the
board to do almost anything in the region from regulating
hunting and fishing to building industrial "practical demon
stration" plants, power dams, steam plants, transmission
lines and other facilities. Local people would not have the
slightest power over, or effective voice in, the operations of
. this all-powerful board of three.
Representative Ellsworth concludes by saying :
"I hope careful study will be given the bill by the people
concerned because we are all going to be seriously affected
by it if it should become law."
THE DIMINISHING DANDELION
About this time of the year we always used to write about
the dandelions and how lovejy they were at the start and how
hideous they became a little later and how a constant fight
must be waged on them if an attractive lawn were to be main
tained and how only a relative few were doing anything
about it. , '
There were plenty of luxuriant dandelion patches to write
about then. In the main their wide green leaves and lovely
yellow blossoms and ghastly white seed heads prevailed
against any defense or counter-offensive that had been de
vised. And then appeared a new variety of chemical weed
killer, its formula changed slightly for different sorts of
weeds. Sprayed on the plant it resulted in a violent growth
followed by an equally violent deterioration find death. All
this without harm to surroundingjvegotittion, for the chemical
is highly selective.
One form of this general type of weed-killer has been in
use here for three seasons. Where it has been properly applied
there is no longer a dandelion problem ; there are, in fact, no
dandelions, there are still plenty of places where the yellow
flowers and the plants that bear theni are still doing very well
but the means not only of control but of actual eradication is
at hand for any who wish to use it. '
With its aid Bend could easily become a weedless town.
Washington
Column
At the meeting of the Young Democratic clubs in Eugene
last week Monroe Swectland, national committeeman, said
that the young liberals of the party could no longer look to
Senator Wayne Morse for leadership. We wonder whom they
will turn to.
Others Say
WHAT'S BEHIND LATEST DAM
OBSTRUCTIONIST MOVE?
(Oregon City Enterprise)
Memliers of the senale should
look with scrutiny nt what is be
hind tlie eleventh hour move of
Senator Holmes of Clatsop coun
ty, chairman of dip fish commit
tee, to rush through legislation
holding up for two years any
power dam developments on riv
ers in Oroeon exclusive of the
Willamette until an interim com-j l"'cwnr Gentian stockpiles on the
mission can study and report. black market.
To pass this legislation would: Nino Ormans were arrested at
be to undo the work of the eels-1 ,-.... , . ,, . . , , .
lalure after weeks of study in! P"lmS,atl1 la'sl ,Mi,l!,y "
giving the green light to the hu-j '"8 sell the uranium, urmy uffi
reau of reclamation dam In the ! cials said.
Arrests Follow
Uranium Plot
Frankfurt, April 28 tr The
army reported today that Amer
ican agents had smashed a ring
which was trying to peddle
000,000 worth of uranium from
atom hoiiil) research.
Army agents said the Germans
were carrying 2,:i00 grams of the
metal wrapped in newspapers In
a battered suitcase when Ameri
can agents seized It.
"Wo have been Investigating
the ring for borne time," an agent
said.
Kogue river and in refusing to ob
struct the I'clton power develop
ment on the Deschutes. After
ample study the legislature look
action to clear the way in line
case anil not to set up a barrier
against state and federal permis
sion in the case of the Deschutes.
The gllnetter fishermen have
won a largo slice of state favorit
ism nt the expense of other In
terests In the present session.
Why the legislature should now
give them another slice Is not
clear except for fear of political
reprisals. The Deschutes project Sale Attempted
was shown by ample evidence not n,. ,,, ,,., m.sln
to involve any groat number of when its members tried to sell
salmon or to be mimical to other ,, uranium to American cihufn
fish life. I he same is true of the! ,,1 Investigators f,- l(U)00,tH()
the!! 'ue "'l l'"'Jrl 1111 i marks I.VJ.IKHI.IKIO).
TheTish lies at the leglsla-1 ....T.0 J'1'.'," 'A''""!1'' V1.'l,1('
tine heeinsi.i smell i 1'iooaniy me KUssians
The senale has a lot of
lo do between now and belated
adjournment if what it .lues In
keep the slate on an even keel li
nanclally Is dune in lime for the
heeiimini' of flu, liii.tmiitm Tl...
senate should put illi fist mmil . j" I'laiiMurl under hail of ;iii.iHMi
lee appaienlly subset ienl In the i 'is each, tine was released
giluetieis In its place, other peo "" '""lay, American authori
pie should have some l ights and i "rs ""''I-
overall slide development should They said the lnel.il soi.oil (nun
liol lie ohslructed by any one pi Iv
MaJ. if. S. Hart, public relations
officer for local army headquar
ters, said the uranium was believ
ed to have been hidden from
stoekpiles used by Germany for j trying to raise average farm In-
By Peter Edson
(NEA wunbuiHum Corraiiondent)
Washington (NEA) Secretary
oi agriculture Charles . Bran-
nan's bold new larm program is!
naving its duficultics. Congress-1
men, some larm leauers and the
general public have reacted in
stinctively with: "it's impossible.
us political, it promises every
thing to everybody higher prices
to toe farmer, lower prices to the
consumer, u tnafs what it is.
tne only solution will be lor the
taxpayer to foot the bill by pay
ing out nuge suDsiutes. '
secretary Brannan conte n d s
that tnls is a complete misunder
standing of what his plan will try
to uo anu now it will try to do it,
It was anticipated that only
about two per cent of America s
0,000,000 farmers would be op
posed to the plan. They would be
tne izu.uuo Dig farm operators.
The big cotton planters of Missis
sippi and Texas; the big wheat
larmers oi the plains; the big cat
tlemen oi tne west.
Tney are not farmers in the or.
dlnary sense of the word. Tney
do not run the family-sized farms
mat congressmen idealize and
make llowery speeches about.
Ihey are the "factory farmers"-
the bis businessmen of Herleultur.
af production with incomes- of
$25,000 a year and more. Incident
ally, they now produce about a I
lourtn oi the u. s. larm output.
measured in dollars.
1' or a full understanding of the
Brannan plan, it is necessary to go
into its political background. Sec-1 1
retary Brannan began work on ! I
iu new pmn inov. o me uay
after election. That was when
it became apparent that tne demo
crats would be around for quite
a wnue longer.
much ol tne spade-work on this
Planning was done two years aim.
That was when the department of
agriculture began its research for
presenting a postwar, long-range
farm program to congress. About
250 farm experts and economists
worked on that. It was not neces
sary to re-do all their research.
But all the ideas that they produc
ed were held individually against
tne wan ana snot at.
Brannan personally presided
over every meeting at which the
new plan was hammered out. He
started with a group of about 25
experts from various pureaus of
tne department of agriculture.
Then a smaller group of six went
to work on actual drafting and de
tailed presentation. Most of their
work has been done since last
December.
The department of agriculture
anu tne iruman administration
were under certain political obli
gations to present a new farm
plan to congress. The democrats
in the 1948 campaign had criti
cized the Aiken farm bill on the
grounds that it would force agri
cultural prices too low. Also, the
house had accepted Senator Ai
ken's bill and passed it with the
clear understanding by both re-!
publicans and democrats that j
when congress reconvened a sec
ond look would be taken at the
Aiken price support plan for 1950.
In finully presenting his pro
gram. Secretary Brannan says he
felt under no obligation to come;
up with anything new or revolu-1 1
tionary. Everything in his plan.
he says, has been tried before in
some form or other. His plan will 1
require no new bureaucracy to !
aanimsicr.
He starts with two main objec
tives. One is lo modernize (lie
parity-price formula, which is still
based on conditions and averages I
of 30 years ago and Is woefully
out ol dale. 1 lie other is to get a
lormula which will stabilize total I
farm income as distinguished ' I
lrom larm prices as the basis :
of farm prosperity. .
mis later point is the one big
new concept in the Brannan plan, i
in nils, the average per can la :
farm income was 5909. In non-;
farm areas the average annual in
come was 51509 per capita. In
other words, the average farm in- j
come is about 00 per eenl of the
average city Income. Secretary
lirnnnan has no delusions about
.on It probably till
...,,, I would offer a lot more than 10,-
""IK lUWIMOM .,,...-1,.. i. m .i
nniinn Mil II, (lie ill'lll
said, lie said U. S. Investigators
had no evidence that the uranium
was destined fur the Russian .one.
I he nine del mans wore iailed
come to city standards. But he
does believe average farm income
should be raised to about $1200.
How the Brannan plan seeks
to attain this result will be re
viewed In this space in a subse
quent issue.
MANY CLAIMS I'll, ICO
Montreal, April 28 U'i The fed
eral geological survey depart
ment ieHirtod today thai over
1.000 claims to uranium discover
ies have boon slaked on the shores
of Ijiko Superior about 70 miles
north of Saull Sir. Mario, Out.
. Jiegeu class, w ith lutlliuus ion:,el
Vatiuli pretense.
SNOWIAI.I, SKIS lir.( Oltl)
Anchorage, Alaska, April 28 illi
Know-fall hei-e during the winter
set a new record of 1IM.3 Inches,
the weather bureau i courted today.
In Iwo lalinia-
(o ho genuine
the I mi: was leslr
tnlies and lound
anil "active."
German police In Darjiisladl
told the United I'n-ss that 12 Ger
mans wore picked up when It. S.
criminal Investigation division
agents struck lasl week, llul CIH
officials in l'lunkliut said tliev
Iknew ol only nine aneHi.
lilOl Al.V WITH CAR
Salem, April 28 Ul'i- Secretary
of slate Kail T. Nowhry today
cautioned Oregon motorists that
license plates are to remain with
the auto under Hie new law.
Nowhry said many Oregon car
owners were removing license
plates before selling their void
cles. The soeivlary said doens
of license plate applications wore
being leccivod daily at his of lice
lor vehicles which should In-ar
cm rent plates Issued to u piexlnus
owner.
Alaskan white sheep and bar
ren ground caillmu, lound no
whore else under the United
Stales flag, are lucine, c.stliiclion
Ul tlut territory.
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