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Amonir leaders of the public
for which Dr. Paul J. Raver, Bonneville power administrator,
has been the chief oracle in the past, dissension is developing
v which can and obviously will result in a critical shortage of
electric generating facilities unless there is a decided change
in the attitude of some of the political proponents of public
"power toward private utilities which are sorely neeuea to
help meet the demand. In the outcome of the feud between
public and private interests involved in the production and
distribution of power lines the answer to the northwest's in
dustrial future.
Yet in the face of Dr. Raver's recent warnings of an im
pending shortage of electric energy for industrial purposes
which, he says, threatens the entire economic structure of the
area, political exploiters of the public ownership group persist
in their efforts to discourage the investment of private capi
tal in the production and marketing of this vital asset.
f In an address to the Oregon Farmers' Union convention in
Albany this week Dr. Raver declared that early completion
'of all federal, private, municipal or PUD hydro-electric gen
erating projects in the Pacific northwest will be necessary to
'meet the accumulating demands for cheap power. Said the
Bonneville administrator :
"We can have no industrial progress without expanding our
energy base. A state energy base breeds a static economy and
without additonal power facilities the northwest can progress no
farther because we now are utilizing all energy from existing
production facilities."
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Complicating the situation, Dr. Raver asserted that one of
the chief obstacles to full regional power development is
the hostility of eastern utilities toward the expenditure of
further federal money to finance new and additional hydro
facilities out here. They are making this opposition through
the congressional representatives of the industrial east, an
opposition which is making the issue into a "political as well
as an economic crisis."
In the face of such an emergency the best that local lcad
'ers in the PUD movement have to offer is a program for
discouraging by political means the investment of private
capital to do the job that congress refuses to do. Witness
their activity before the Oregon legislature where, even to
day, they are fighting to kill Senate Bill No. 99 by seeking
to induce the house of representatives to sustain the gover
'nor's veto of the bill which clears the way for an eventual
$10 million investment by the Idaho Power company in a
iydro-electric project on the Snake river.
Yesterday they appeared before the house utilities com
mittee in opposition to one bill to provide a method for dis
solving the PUD which might fail to function satisfactorily,
and to protest a proposal to require all PUDs to obtain cer
tificates of public convenience and necessity before com
mencing operations.
. The only valid objection to the dissolution bill offered by
its critics, that such a measure would make it impossible for
.any PUD to sell its bonds, was smoothed out by the commit
tee through insertion of an amendment making the dissolu
tion contingent upon approval by the bond holders and other
creditors. The amendment, rather than killing the market
for a PUD's bonds, would make them even more attractive
to investors by giving them the right to veto any attempt to
cuttle the power district.
. Certainly the proposed requirement that the PUD must
. obtain a certificate of public convenience and necessity a
guarantee by the state of Oregon that the project is sound
and needed would hardly detract from the attractiveness
of the bonds as an investment.
; Of all the changes proposed in the PUD laws of the state
at this session of the legislature, the one which would most
seriously reflect upon PUD securities as an investment is the
proposal offered by the public ownership lobby itself ; a
measure which would provide for the sale of PUD bonds to
be secured only by the earnings of the district, whereas, they
.are now general obligations backed by all the physical assets
of the district.
Charles V. Galloway
His passing undoubtedly speeded by his conscientious con
cern for the faithful performance of his duties, the state
of Oregon has lost an esteemed citizen and a diligent and
capable official in the death of Charles V. Galloway, a mem
ber of the state tax commission throughout the fluctuating
form of its composition since it was organized in 1919. Poor
health of long standing, coupled with his refusal to be negli
gent in the performance of his services in the present tax
crisis through which the people and their legislators are
passing, undermined his health but failed to induce him to
retire into relaxation that would have prolonged his life and
usefulness by many years.
As a student of taxation and tax problems in all their vari
ations, Galloway was a recognized authority, although his
work with the tax commission dealt specifically with prop
erty taxes, and his counsel was widely sought and highly
regarded. Politics or selfish-interest never dissuaded him
from a stand once taken, and he was outspoken in his opin
ions even when they were at variance with those of his supe
riors. He would not be a "yes" man for anyone. As a con
sultant he was respectfully regarded and generally heeded
by the members of legislative tax committees for nearly 30
years.
Galloway, a native son of pioneer parents, was intensely
iiunmii, a ncignoony sort oi man witn a Hair for witty and
engaging conversation and intelligent discussion. The diffi
culty which the state board of
a qualified successor to fill the vacancy on the tax commis
sion will be simple as compared to the task his thousands of
inenns win nave in filling the
Nloveltie
Hinder, Not Help
Lansing, Mich., Feb. 21 VP)
An $11,000,000 expense bill hit
snag before it was passed by
the Michigan state senate last
night as Rpublican Senator Ed
gar F. Down refused to vote
money "for expenses of escaped
prisoners."
Another republican, Senator
Otto Bishop, hastened to explain
Oregon, Friday, Feb. 21, 1947
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OREGON
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or otherwise credited in this paper
power movement in Oregon,
control will have in soleorinc
void in their hearts.
the $778.25 item, smallest on
the bill.
"That's not to help escaped
prisoners," he assured Down.
"That's to recapture them."
Had Enough
Medina. N. Y.. Feb. 21 P A
J. Richards, 83-year-old com
mercial photographer who has
walked ud thrpn fliffhl nr tnir
to his studio for 60 years, finally
got tired and closed his busi
ness temporarily.
He hopes to rennpn in the
spring if he can find ground
floor quarters.
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Innocence Abroad !
B Beck
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By Don
The lady editor of the Emer
ald, University of Oregon news
paper, apparently gave such a
bad few minutes to Randolph
Churchill, son of England's late
prime minister when he visited
the University town, he retired
to Portland licking his wounds
and gave out an interview in re
gard there-to. What the univer
sity needs now are some basket
ball teams and football teams
that can match the lady editor's
prowess and send some of the
visiting firemen home in the
same mood. Ah, the female of
the species.
Writes J. Button, 135 Duncan
avenue, "I note they have a bill
in the legislature urging better
educated barbers so they may
know more about the subjects
they are talking about with
their customers. Why don't we
have a similar bill applying to
legislators?" Well, it probably
wouldn't be unconstitutional.
Our Complicated Statehouse
If we think imposing appear
ance is the big item, go over and
wander through the ornate but
awkward construction of the
new state house in Salem. It's
nice to look at, but how it must
hamper effort and energy and
slow down the transaction of or
dinary business. If confusion and
ambiguity characterize the le
gislation, consider the impracti
cal, unsystematic halls in which
legislators work.
Maybe that's what slowing up
the legislature instead of the
absence of a law such as Mr.
Button suggests.
Answering the City Slickers.
(OSC Barometer)
"But the clincher which im
presses the Barometer most Is
As I See It
by
ELMORE PHILPOTT
Portland, Oregon You see little of a country when you travel
by plane and not much when you travel by train. Not much of
the cities, that is and the cities are the dominant features of life
in these United States.
When you travel by car, you
plainly see how an entirely new
type of life is emerging. More
and more "cities" are stretching
out along the concrete highways.
The joke that one hears in Cali
fornia that the city limits of
Los Angeles are just below San
Francisco isn't just a weak wit
ticism.
The citified style of life does
stretch for hundreds of miles
between the great cities of the
United States. Something new
under the sun is being built.
You could draw a pattern of
the life of this queer creature
man (or homo the sap) around
whatever the communications
were in any stage of history.
There are many people still
alive who remember the days of
river travel when the canoe
and the steamboat dominated
the economic scene.
I write these lines near the
last fork in the course of one of
the world's great rivers the CO'
lumbia. Here is a city as mod
ernized (in the sense of gadget
supplied) as any on earth. Yet
high in the Rockies, where this
great river rises, we stayed last
summer with the daughter of
the skipper of the first steam
ship to navigate the upper riv
er. She had printed records of
hair-raising voyages that would
make super movie thrillers. And
just a mile or two from where
we talked was the stone mark
ing the pass where the first
white man crossed the moun
tains by portage, on foot, be
tween rivers navigable only by
car.oe.
My points is that just at the
style and tempo of life was dom
inated in the old days by canoe
travel later by river boats, and
finally by rails so, too, an en
tirely new pattern of life is
supper
Upjohn
that the Oregon students and
their emerald writers seek, in
vain, to discredit our collective
enrollment here. It appears
that the Oregon students feel
that by calling their Beaver
brothers plow-jockey, farmers,
'hay-seeds' and what not, they
can induce a sense of defeatism
or shame within the hearts of
the wearers of the Orange and
Black."
At any rate the farmer boys
seem to know how to give the
soft reply which turneth away
wrath.
Proposed school district con
solidations are coming along so
frequently it begins to look as
if in the course of time the well
known little red school house
will be a thing of the past and
there'll be nothing but big white
ones, or something, sooner or
later.
The day of getting elected to
office by being born in a log
cabin or educated in a little red
schoolhouse seems to be about
over.
ndian Service to
Open Bids in Salem
The U. S. Indian service will
open bids in Salem March 11
on approximately 29,000,000
board feet of timber owned by
Indians near Siletz and in the
Anlauf and Elkhead districts of
Douglas county.
The timber is appraised at
$102,000.
The longest non-stop passen
ger railroad run in the United
States is a 324.5 mile trip be
tween Salt Lake City and Los
Angeles.
emerging because of the con
crete highways.
This continent was built up
on the theory that, farms should
be square. The typical pioneer
built his square house in keep
ing with his square farm often
of square stones square in the
middle of the front of it.
The rural unit of government
was the "county" based on the
theory that the standard of liv
ing within each block would be
reasonably uniform.
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Then came Henry Ford with
the gas buggies and later still
these strips of pavement that
span a continent.
Along these strips are stretch
ed what are, in fact, elongated
cities. For the people who live
among main highways have a
bond far more cohesive than
what holds older-fashioned cit
ies together. These new facts
tend to upset the old. For the
desires and needs of the people
who live along the highways are
not the same as those who live
in the countryside behind.
The legislators hereabouts are
not spending much time contem
plating the changing picture. We
paused long enough in the state
capital of Washington to note
the demands of a strong war
veterans' delegation for a bonus.
As a passing visitor, I had no
way of knowing the truth or
falsity of the veterans' claims
that there is already considera
ble unemployment, in spots.
The history of this city should
be a tonic for anybody sure of
that atomic war with Russia. It
is not so many years ago since
Britain and the U.S. were talk
ing more blatantly of war with!
each other than anybody has yet
done re Russia. '
Yet now, looking back, the
talk seems silly,
By DeWit MacKenzle
(AP Foreign Affairs Analyst)
Mother England finally has
fixed a date (June, 1948) by
which she intends to have with
drawn from India after turn
ing over to a responsible native
government the affairs of state
and you and I are witnessing
another epochal event of world
history.
Prime Minister Attlee's new
socialist government has in a
manner of speaking removed the
greatest gem of the imperial
crown and handed it back to
India's four hundred millions
who have been under British
domination for two centuries.
Naturally the king-emperor's
ministers hope that the huge
dependency will choose to re
main within the British com
monwealth of nations. But that's
for India herself to say. She is
being offered complete lnde
pendence.
Having said this one hastens
to note that the transaction
hasn't yet been completed. It
remains for the warring Hindus
and Moslems of British India
to bury the hatchet 'and estab
lish that "responsible" govern
ment. It also remains for the
same 600 reigning princes and
lesser potentates to conclude
agreements to facilitate Eng
land's withdrawal.
Set-up Nearly Perfect
From the standpoint of Indian
opportunity the set-up would
seem to be as nearly perfect as
things come in this life. How
ever, as Prime Minister Attlee
pointed out yesterday in the
house of commons, the situation
is "fraught with danger" because
of the uncertainty between the
all-India congress party which
is mainly Hindu and the Mos
lem league. Thus far they have
been unable to submerge their
quarrel sufficiently to cooperate
in the provisional government
which the viceroy, Field Marshal
Lord Wavell, has for months
been trying to get into action.
Not only that, but the politico-
religious differences have be
come so bitter that there has
been widespread bloodshed, cost
ing thousands of lives and great
property damage. We shouldn't
overlook the possibility that In
dia hasn't yet seen the end of
this sanguinary strife.
The provisional government
in New Delhi is the one pro
jected for British India. England
doesn't propose to force the
princes to come under rule of
any government in British In
dia when Britain withdraws.
The native states will revert to
independence and can choose
their own course, although it is
hoped that' they will agree to
join in some sort of federation
with British India. As a matter
of fact the leading princes al
ready have promised coopera
tion. Problem Tremendous
However, the problem of
working out a federal govern
ment for all India is a mighty
one, since the princes are a proud
and independent lot. In this
connection your columnist is
particularly interested in the
appointment of Admiral Lord
Mountbatten as viceroy to suc
ceed Lord Wavell.
It strikes me Prime Minister
Attlee has made a shrewd choice
in picking Mountbatten for the
job of viceroy. Lord Louis, with
his royal blood and fine record
of service in the war, may be
able to swing the princes into
line where another might fail.
Anyway, this is Mountbatten's
big hour and obviously there
are hopes that he also is the
man of the hour.
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Compulsory Military Training
Opposed by State Farmers Union
Albany, Feb. 21 Adoption of resolutions and committee re
ports, among them one condemning compulsory military training
and several dealing with imports and reciprocal international
trade agreements, occupied the
attention of the Oregon Farmers
Union convention, which neared
the close of its 1947 convention
her Thursday.
Discussions pro and con pre
ceded each report and resolution
concerning the problem of im
ports and exports, with conten
tions that imports threaten to
disrupt the agricultural economy
of the nation opposing the stand
that they are necessary to en
able foreign nations to maintain
their own respective economies
through exchange of their own
surpluses for American prod
ucts.
Outcome was passage of one
resolution calling for elimina
tion of the "favored nations"
clause and urging endowment of
the secretary of agriculture
with authority to pass upon
each farm commodity listed for
international bargaining pur
poses.
Great protest at Thursday's
meeting a g a i n st importations
came from nut growers, particu
larly filbert producers, who
suggested that Mediterranean
countries, chief exporters of fil
berts, might better keep their
nuts at home to feed their own
people instead of exchanging
them for wheat.
Other resolutions endorsed the
Columbia Valley authority pro
posal, favored the framing of a
program outlined by the state
executive committee for submis
sion to the convention in lieu
of the present method of rely
ing upon spontaneous and mis
cellaneous resolutions and pro
posal from locals, backed the se
lection of David Lilienthal as
chairman of the atomic commis
sion, asked suspension of 25 per
cent of all allotments of sugar
to liquor and other beverage
manufacturers and a correspond
ing increase in household ra
tioning and approved a group or
cooperative health program.
Ronald Jones, Brooks, was re
elected president. Gus Schlick-
er, Marion county, was named
vice president; and Ammon
Grice, Polk county; William
Jensen, Linn county, and Eldon
Emmerson, Wasco county, di
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The Traeger-Becker Guy An
chor company of Mt. Angel is
ready for production and is now
taking orders for the Traeger
anchors which will be manufac
tured in their plant at Mt. An
gel reports A. J. Becker, 740
Kingwood drive, West Salem,
who is general manager of the
concern. He is associated with
the Traeger Brothers. A. G.
Traeger, shop superintendent,
and J. J. Traeger, shop manager,
who will have charge of the pro
duction. The anchors which are used
for anchoring poles in hop, ber
ry and bean yards, for strength
ening fences, power and tele
phone poles, for tent stakes,
construction work and numerous
other uses, says Mr. Becker, will
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man and he says has many ad
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can be greatly expedited by use
of this type of anchor and where
a crew can install only a few of
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West Salem, Feb. 21 West
Salem voters approved in yes
terday's special election a meas
ure authorizing the acquisition
of a $12,000 mortgage on the
city's water system to secure
funds for the extension of the
city's water system to include a
hook-up with the Salem system.
Two hundred and thirteen ap
proving votes were cast while 31
opposed the measure.
Mayor Musgrave and the city
officials have won the first step
in a solution of the city's sea
sonal water problem but still
have the most difficult task of
securing materials for the in
stallation of an eight-inch main
connecting the two city water
systems. Purchase of a booster
pump to be installed at the
east side of the inter-county
bridge will probably be the most
major problem.
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