THE BEND
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' DYSPEPSIA AND INDIGESTION
Last fall there came over to the senate II. K. 5472, the omni
bus rivers and harbors and flood control bill. It was referred
to the committee on public works whose chairman is Chavez,
of New Mexico. Earlier there had been introduced by Senator
Magnuson S. 2180 authorizing two groups of projects in the
Columbia river basin for construction, one by the bureau of
reclamation and the other by the army engineers. The proj
ects had been reported on by the bureau or the engineers or
both and divided for construction between the two agencies
in an agreement entered into on April 11..
Nothing was done' with this Magnuson bill but many of the
projects assigned to the engineers were added to the lis sent
over by the house in H. R. 5472. This left the bureau projects
out in the cold. Just before congress adjourned in October an
attempt was made to get these bureau projects, 14 in number,
Into the omnibus bill but the point was made by Senator Wat
kins that first they should be considered by the committee on
interior and insular affairs. Time was lacking for considera
tion before adjournment and Senator O'Mahojney, committee
chairman, agreed that they would be studied immediately on
the opening of the new session in 1950.
The study was begun. Considering the magnitude of the
program, its bearing on various phases of northwest develop
ment and, indeed, matters of national interest it has had rath
er inadequate treatment in the news. We do know, however,
that Senator Cordon probed it from many sides, interesting
himself, particularly, in power rate and irrigation subsidy
questions. He studied, also the so-called basin pool account
plan. .
To understand the power rate and irrigation subsidy bus
iness one must have the background of developments over the
years since the Bonneville dam was built and its associated
power plant put in operation. Let us try to give an outline.
Bonneville was the first great federal water facility under
taking on the Columbia. Apart
navigation feature it was devoted wholly to power. With a
heavy charge-off on account of navigation it was possible to
set an unusually low rate for its power.
Next came the Grand Coulee -
by the bureau of reclamation to produce power and irrigate
land. Of the dam cost only $1,000,000 was charged off to navi
gation. The balance was to be returned from power sales and
power sales are to provide, also, for the cost of the irrigation
project beyond the ability of the water user to repay. This is
the irrigation subsidy.
The Grand Coulee was inter-connected with Bonneville and
the Bonneville administration given the job of marketing its
power. At the beginning of the Bonneville operation J. D.
Ross had set a price for its product at the rate of $17.50 per
kilowatt year and it was found that Coulee power could be
sold at that rate, meet the obligation for the repayment of the
power investment and supply the subsidy for irrigation.
At this stage there was no realization that in a few years
there would be a power shortage. At the same time, over in
Idaho, hopes were set on further reclamation that would be
subsidized by power and since the cost of power produced by
federal plants in that state was then estimated at about twice
the cost of Bonneville power it was urged that Bonneville
power be kept out of the slate. Idaho reclamation interests
had it figured that Idaho power, sold at a rate higher than
Bonneville's, would help reclamation development. Bonne
ville's low price power, on the other hand, if brought into the
state would prevent local power (and irrigation) from going
forward.
Next there was introduced the thought that there were irri
gation projects (like the Crooked river) where no power
could be produced with which to provide a subsidy and the
basin pool idea was advanced. This contemplated the provi
sion of the necessary funds for an irrigation subsidy by the
use of earnings from power facilities operating anywhere in
the basin. No longer was an irrigation project's feasibility to
depend on its own power income and water user payments.
There was to be an arrangement of one for all and all for one.
Currently with this thinking there was developing on the
part of Bonneville officials the recognition that extensive
new power production was necessary, that there were no
more low cost power opportunities, that in any case the cost
of generation and transmission was going up with everything
else and that ultimately, if all lines were tied into a Bonneville
grid and the postage stamp rate maintained, a rate increase
would be required. Northwest industrial interests saw that,
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uuu, aim wiui nonncvine iney saw mar, sun more ot aiv in
crease would be required if an irrigation subsidy were to be
provided.
In the meantime Idaho roclamalionists had become not. onlv
reconciled to the idea of Bonneville power but interested to
have the Bonneville lines tied iij with those in their state.
. Their minds had been changed, so we have guessed, by the
basin pool account plan and the realization that in a Bonne
ville grid costs would be averaged and a postage .stamp rale
maintained.
Such is the background against which the omnibus rivers
and harbors bill appears with its twin threats of overwhelm
ing taxation and suffocating regulation and limitation of
public enterprise. More of this will be discussed tomorrow.
Truman's "Life of Riley"
Cosily to Taxpayers, Charge
Washington. March 13 IU'i
President Truman, with his yacht
and gold-plated limousine, could
well be the best paid man in the
lihilml llinniiuitw. I, I
worm.
At least that's the way It looks
to a republican congressman who
has made a close study of how the
chief executive lives.
Rep. Roy O. Woodruff, R.,
flucn., says Mr. Human has a!
yearly salary of $100,000 alter j
taxes, a pretty substantial take
home pay by any standards in
these days of high taxes.
The president, he noted, also
sports a fleet of 33 automobiles,
two planes, a private Pullman
car, a yacht, a navy destroyer es
cort and a couple of vacation
hideaways.
They cost an estimated $30.
4:J3,0(K) originally and are manned
ay w3 people wiinso salary runs
to about $1,500,000 a year, Wood
run nam. .
A private citizen, he added,!
would need $3,500,000 a year to i
live on the same scale.
n ITie president yacht, The Wil-1
Mamsburgh, would cost a private
owner $2oQ,000 a year, 'ilie navy,
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or failure to receive the paper regularly.
from the non-reimbursable
Columbia basin project built
which sunnlinv ji n f mo
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The president's two planes,
complete with kitchen facilities
and elevators, are paid for by the
air force. The Independence, a
super deluxe DC-6, costs Sno.OOO
a year for the crew alone.
Woodruff said Mr. Truman's
private railroad car, with radio,
telephone, kitchen, dining room.
bediooms and shower, cost be-
iween $250,000 and $350,000 orig-l
lly. It requlu-s the services of c national Inspection ofthe;s jt to build dams ought to
Howard and two mess bovsj P. ? nV . n T Is f e?Shu eolI2' i wake UD an(1 reallze t a pro
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Washington.
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But what
caught Woodruff's ;
- ! ''ye was Mr. Truman's new Union-
suit'.
It has cold-plated dooi handles,
vanities and perfume eases. And
1 t3 rf jH specially designed so
Mr. Truman and his guests can
I get In ami out without taking off
1 their tup hats.
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By Peter Edson
Washington Corresiximlent)
(NEA
Washington Most of the peo
ple who are agitating the loudest
for a new approach to' the Rus
sians seem to be fresh-starters
on this most important problem
of international control of atomic
weapons. They may not have re
viewed the history of past nego
tiations. Or they may not have
sat dowi and thought through
what new plan they might pro
pose to the Russians, even if a
conference could be arranged.
In other words, the present de
mands for a new meeting between
President Truman and Premier
Stalin, or whoever might .nego
tiate, are largely an emotional
reaction. The president calls them
high drama and showmanship. A
more sincere appraisal might be
that they are prompted by fear
and desperation. Anyone who
starts to negotiate' in such frames
of mind is licked before he starts.
So until somebody comes up
with a new plan for International
control of atomic bombs better
than the Lilienthal and Baruch
plans now before the United Na
tions there may be no use con
sidering a new conference.
e
The background of Internation
al control of atomic energy has
been reviewed many times since
1946. But it is necessary to go
back over the ground again if
there is to he proper understand
ing of what this talk of a new
Russian conference is all about.
In fact, it would do .no harm for
President Truman or Secretary
oi suite Dean Acheson to re-review
what's involved. The presi
dent's Washington's birthday
sneech at Alexandria apparently
didn't put it over.
Any international atomic con
trol plan miist start wilh two
basic assumptions. One is that
atomic energy will have great
peacetime uses. The other is that
there can be effective Interna
tional inspection to prevent mis
use of atomic energy for military
purposes.
On the first assumption, it
must be remembered that the
United States Is at least 100 years
ahead of Russia on industrial de
velopment, if Russia is Jo jump
immediately mio Hie atomic age,
it would mean skipping the wa-
terpower, steam and electrical
energy development through
which the ' United States lias
passed.
On the matter of Inspection,
the Russian government would
have to give up its fundamental
policy of allowing no foreigners
freedom of movement within its
hol ders if the inspection Is to bt
this that the Russian plan for
control of atomic energy has been
i in L.inwL- ui
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designated places, of only the dec- step in England and there is no
laiiitions of each country. reason t0 PM)Cct s consequences
What this means is that only
at specified times every three
or six months there would be
mines gave un llie tea of (in
atomic eneigy inspection. The
I lilted Slates pnipnsed instrad
an inlet-national authority to eon
tiol all atomic energy '"develop
ment In all countries. It was
thought that this "international
i'.ation" would appeal to tle Rus
sians, lint they tinned it down,
loo.
The advantages claimed for,
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The Red Mill
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this international authority type
of control are that it would per
mit the American members of
the authority, for example, to de
tect when Russia or - any other
country might be diverting its
atomic energy materials for mili
tary purposes. The same thing
would be true for the Russians,
with respect to the U. S,
But the Russians have rejected
even this plan. "
Any compromise is of course
out of the question. It would
merely mean that the U. S. would
lay all its cards on the table,
while the Russians showed noth
ing. So where does this leave the
advocates of a new approach?
Others Say
CONTROL BY PLANNERS
l ' , . CVA IDEA
(Baker Democrat-Herald)
We note that the C.I.O. has is
sued a pamphlet in the east call
ing for the. proposed Columbia
Valley Authority, on two grounds
we think people living in Baker
county ought to know about' be
cause they probably represent the
thinking, usually concealed from
us, of those who are so Indus
triously pushing the scheme onto
us.
First, the C.I.O. objects to
"piecemeal" development of the
region. This means the kind of
development we have had, sever
al million persons each pushing
their own little programs, the
farmer improving his place and
joining with his neighbors to
torm a coop, the businessman
building a larger store, the indus
trialist a new plant whenever he
thinks one would pay, the rail
road, the power company, the
state, city, county, school and
highway district each carrying
out its own improvement plan,
the individual building his family
a new house, etc.
The C.I.O. also objects to the
profit motive which figures so
largely in this type of progress.
Its statement assails those inter
ested "only in their own profits,"
which includes the small as well
as the large operators, for admit
tedly virtually all economics ac
tivity is now aimed at profit.
The C.I.O. boys in New York
made all this sound pretty 'terri
ble. Probably they haven t seen
the Columbia valley and the mir
acle Its people have wrought un
der "piecemeal" development,
though they might not like it if
fVlttV HIM Dan It fnt- a nma, mant,
11copic have made money out of
i it
j The alternative is clear enough,
centralized planning, such as the
. U.V.A. Willi f1 mnnw whirh tn ho
j effective would require complete
control by the planners. This we
icct its consequences
would differ greatlv here.
Meanwhile people living in the
Columbia valley who have been
lulled into a notion that C.V.A
of government. Those w ho wrote
the C.I.O. pamphlet see this clear
ly enough.
(;kt IMK DIVIDEND
IndianapoMs 'HiIndiana grain
dealers holding a convention here
Rot an unexpected dividend at a
luncheon given at the Columbia
dub. The club's cooks got word
ot 30 cancelled reservations after
30 apple (lies were baked. It was
rteclrled to cut the pies into six
pieces each. Instead of the cus
tomary seven.
Out on the Farm
By Ha S. Grant
March 13 Raising potatoes
must be a most scientific under
taking: At the big potato cellar
down the road from Calico farm,
there's so much activity these
mornings that it looks like head
quarters for a motorized army,
as the sacks are loaded on half
a dozen large trucks and spirited
away to the warehouse.
It seems like only a few weeks
ago, that the potatoes were hauled
in from the fields and dumped in
me cellar, ui course, it must have
been nearly six months. Before
long, the cellar will be empty, and
it' Will be time to get the ground
ready, plant more potatoes, and
go through the whole routine of
watering, dusting, cultivating, dig
ging ana picKing again.
ine potatoes on Calico farm
have been tucked away in the
store-room all winter, and if we
haul them any place, it will be
out in the yard to the cooker, to
get them ready for the inevitable
utile pigs. Pigs like potatoes al
most as well as people do. That's
what makes tem so fat!
, DON'T WORRY DUCKS
Tallahassee, Fla. Ul F. W.
Dougherty, caught rounding up
duclts with a motorboat, proved
a rdugh case for officers who
couldn't decide what to charge
him with. Finally he was tagged
for "worrying ducks."
Dance All Night
V GEO. N. TAYLOR
"I could dance all night. That
was my life." So this middle-aged
woman tells it. And having been
of ,a religious familv. h"- neonle
saw to it that in
her girlhood she
committed many
Bible verses New
Testament verses
on salvation.
These the girl had
in her mind but
the dance was in
her heart.
On Sundays she
used to go wilh
the family to the
Utile church on
the wind -swept
prairie. And there one night came
the great - decision. They were
singing "Jesus paid it all, all to
Him I owe. Sin had left a crim
son stain. He washed it white as
snow." Right then and there she
received Christ into her heart as
her own Lord and Saviour. So
began her close walk with the
Lord who has been her strength
all these passing years. And the
boy, Timothy, had this same Bi
ble foundation "From a child
you have known the Scriptures
which are able to make you wise
to salvation, through "faith in
Christ Jesus." 2nd Timothy, 3:15.
And what for your kiddies ajid
young people? '
What for them? To go saved
or lost? Which?
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FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
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McCarthy Names
Another Official
As Red Supporter
Washington', .March 13 IH
Son. Joseph R. McCarthy said to
day that state department offi
cial, Haldore Hanson, is a man
"with a mission a mission to
communize the world."
The Wisconsin republican cited
Hanson as having "pro-communists
proclivities." He said Han
son joined the state department
in 1942, and read a department
announcement that Hanson would
head a technical staff to help de
velop President Truman's point
four program.
McCarthy's statement was
made to a senate foreign rela
tions sub-committee which is in
vestigating McCarthy's charges
that there are 57 communists in
the state department. McCarthy
had promised "phenomenal dis
closures." Writings Quoted
McCarthy said that Hanson
was associated with "pro-communist"
endeavours as a writer aid
reporter in China since Septem
ber, 1938. He read at length from
Hanson's writings, lauding Chi
nese cummunist leaders and the
Chinese red army. McCarthy said
Hanson showed "a disturbing
amount of hero worship" for com
munist leader Mao Tze-tung and
his aides.
"Gentlemen, here is a man with
a mission a mission to commu
nize the world a man 'whose en
ergy and intelligence coupled
with a burning all-consuming mis
sion has raised him by his own
bootstraps from a penniless oper
ator of a leftist magazine in Pel
ping in the middle thirties to one
of the architects of our foreign
policy in the state department
today," McCarthy said.
He said that If Secretary of
state Dean Acheson "gets away"
with appointing Hanson it would
"lend tremendous impetus to the
tempo at which communism is en
gulfing the world."
Hanson was the second person
whom McCarthy has named to
back up his charges. Previously,
he had said Dorothy Kenyon, a
V. S. member of a United Nations
commission, was affiliated with
28 communist - front organiza
tions. Miss Kenyon called Mc
Carthy an "unmitigated liar."
WATSON RESIGNS
Prineville, March 13 It has
been reported by the local car
penters' union, A, F. of L that
Robert Watson of Bend, has re
signed from the office of field
representative of the district,'
which extends from Hood River
southeast to John Day. Watson,
who was formerly in business in
John Day, has recently been ag
gressively interested in efforts
aimed at securing federal low
rental housing projects for cen
tral Oregon towns.
MAKES LONG LEAP
Government Camp, March 13
HP)Neill Mathison, 19, Univer
sity of Portland freshman, leaped
111 and 105 feet Sunday to win
the Pacific Northwest Ski associ
ation class "C" jumping champ
ionship on Mt. Hood's Multorpor
hill. Mathison took the Robert
Dooley perpetual trophy with
134.4 points.
New Textile
Painting Class
Forming
DetSy Keith, Instructor
Tuest'ay, March 14
7:15 p. r.i.
at
Nancy's Hats & Hobbies
12G Minn. at City Bus Stop
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PONDEROSA PINE
Lumber and Box Shooks
Aged Woman
Blocks Road '
Development
Blackhawk, Colo., March. 13 UK
"Clear Creek Annie" fingered her
double-barrelled shotgun today
and dared the Colorado highway
department to try to move her
out of her mountain shanty.
The 68-year-old lady miner,
known in these parts as Mrs.
"Clear Creek Annie" Davis, has
sauatter's rights on a 100-foot
strip of land directly In the path
of a $3,500,000 highway leading
west out of Denver.
Even more convincing to high
way department officials than
her loaded shotgun was the court
order Annie has, giving her the
right to remain in her shack, for
at least another 45 days.
The court order, admitted high
way engineer Mark U. Watrous,
"Is tying up work on the remain
der of the project."
Watrous said all of the high
way right-of-way had been pur
chased except the land Annie
claims. -
The embarrassing matter of
the highway department, vs. an
old woman didn't come tip until
this week end.
Must Lay Footings
Major headway on the road
was stopped cold at Annie's tract.
Watrous said it amounted to
more than a waiting game with
Annie's court order. If the ce
ment footings for a bridge across
Clear creek are not laid soon,
high waters In the spring will
make the job Impossible until
fall.
The only place where the bridge
can be put up is right on Annie's
land. And thus far she has been
entirely successful in keeping the
road crews at their distance with
her court order and shotgun. .
Highway department officials
have tried to negotiate with the
aged woman. But they never
were able to get closer than
shouting distance because of the
menacing shotgun. A
Watrous himself tried to bar
gain with Tier, but said he was
able to see her "only at a dis
tance." Reporters and photographers
tried to interview her, but they
got off on the wrong foot from
the start.
"If you're from Denver (where
the main office of the highway
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department is located),' she told
them, l qop i jme
Before they could question her,
she raised her shotgun and shout
ed through a chink in her cabin:
'There's treachery here and
everywhere, boys! The good Lord
gave me guns to protect myself."
Sale behind her court order and
shotgun Annie was maintaining
a day-and-night vigil to protect
her proerty.
But Watrous Indicated she was
not balked by the court order.
He said he would ask the attor
ney general to send a man up
to talk with the old woman. After
that, he will try to get her court
order changea so mat ne can or
der his bulldozers to go ahead,
,
MANY BAD BREAKS
Great Bend, Kan. iir Linda
Lou Lenoir has had a lot of bad
breaks the last two years. The
nine-year-old girl has suffered
three broken arms, two broken
legs and a skull fracture since
September. 1947.
THIS IS
Photography
If you've been wanting to
take good look at the biggest
little value camera on the mar
ket, then you'll find it at the
Camera Dept. at Symons Bros.
At $99.50 the Century Graphic
complete with lens and shutter
is without a doubt more cam
era for less money than any
we've seen. .
Here's a low priced Graflex
quality camera designed for
picture-making pleasure. The
easy-to-use new Century
Graphic has many of the fa
mous features that have long
made the Speed Graphic the
favorite of press and commer
cial photographers. A big plus
feature is the new Graflok
back which allows you to use
sheet film, film packs, and roll
film interchangeably for album-sized
2 Hx3!4 pictures and
negatives that can be blown
up to huge needle sharp en
largements. The Century
Graphic is fitted with an out
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the new Graflex 103mm f4.5
.Trioptar, coated for added ef- '
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mounted in the new Century
shutter with built-in flash syn
chronization at all speeds.
Come in and look it over.
Had a letter the other day
from a party who was having
trouble with his pictures and
thought we'd pass along the
problem. Something like this
has probably happened to you
at (ne time or another. Up at
one of the many lakes in the
surrounding country, you ob
serve a beautiful scene.- The
sky is blue, the clouds are big
and billowy; against this "back
drop" is the peaceful lake. In
the foreground, there are trees
and rocks. The whole thing
composes easily and '. In
short, it is a ready-made pic
ture, and you turn your cam
era loose on it with fine en
thusiasm. It's a natural.
But when the negative is de
veloped and a print made, you
discover that something has
gone haywire. There is no sign
of that beautiful sky, the clouds
have faded away and all of
the sparkling detail has disap
peared. The beautiful scene
you attempted to record on
film Is gone.
' The answer, of course, is the
use of-the proper filter. What
is a filter? Which one shall I
use? What is filter factor? All
good questions, but we haven't
the space to answer all of
them properly. We suggest
that you drop in to the Cam
era Dept. at Symons Bros, any
time and we'll be glad to try
to -answer them for you. We
also have a book priced at 25c
that will serve as very good
reference for any future ques
tions you might have in re
gard to filters, their use and
effect
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947 Walt Sit. Phone 175
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