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t Water Over Venice A porter carries a pedestrian across St.
Mark's Square, Venice, after a high tide overran the banks
of the Grand Canal and flowed into the Square.
Hoover Offers Program for
; Saying $2 Billion a Year
Washington, Dec. 14 VP) A campaign for government reform
today boiled down to an eight point program drawn up by Herbert
Hoover. He forecast that it would save the taxpayers $2,000,000,
""00 a year.
The former president, addressing the national reorganization
conference Monday nignt, pre
dieted that this fiscal year's
$5,500,000,000 excursion into
red ink may be exceeded in the
following year.
"We may be turning two Fran
kensteins loose in the land,"
Hoover said. "Their terrifying
names are 'Higher Taxes' and
'Inflation.' "
The estimate of a $5,500,000,
000 deficit for this fiscal year,
ending next June 30, is Presi
dent Truman's.
Hoover, who headed the offi
cial, 12-man reorganization com
mission which handed congress
318 reorganization proposals last
spring, advised the committee to
focus its efforts on winning pass
age of only the "most urgent"
items at the coming session of
congress.
Whereas economists agree
that "taxation beyond 25 per
cent of our national income will
bring disaster," Hoover said, ac
tual and prospective expendi
tures of federal and local govern
ments promise to eat up "much
,t more'than 30 percent."
V He offered this list of object
" ' Ives in approximate order of ur
gency: 1. Reorganizing the civil
service where, he said, "at pres
ent Red Tape himself dwells."
2. Reorganizing the budget
and accounting machinery in
which "the ghost of Alexander
Hamilton still wanders."
3. Setting up the post office
as a modern business and remov
ing it from politics by modern
izing 160 years' accumulation of
"conflicting laws."
4. Unifying the federal hos
pital service which, when in
vestigated, had patients for only
155,000 of its 225,000 beds but
was about to provide 50,000
more beds at a cost of $1,300,
000,000. 5. Merging the water con
servation services "They over
lap; they have duplicate offices
... A porkbarrel floats in
those rivers."
6. Consolidating the adminis
tration of grazing and forest
lands in the agriculture depart
ment, instead of letting agricul
ture and interior maintain com
peting services and staffs.
7. Providing one central
transportation agency to elimin
ate "overlap and waste" and to
steer national policy in this field
vital to national defense.
8. Relieving the president of
the burden of direct responsi
bility over 65 different agencies,
,And ironing out conflicting auth
orities between bureaus.
Plan to Use Power
From Detroit Dam
That the Benton-Lincoln Elec
tric cooperative plans to serv
ice the area above the Detroit
dam with power from that dam
is revealed in a letter to the
county court from the coopera
tive asking for an easement for
poles over certain county land
The cooperative says this will
be part of a poll line carrying
the power from the new dam to
the corps of army engineers' per-
Daughter of Magnate
Wounded by Police
Darien, Conn., Dec. 14 U.R)
Dionysia Skouras, 23, daughter
of a multi-millionaire motion
picture executive, was wounded
by police Tuesday during an
80-mile-an-hour chase through
three communities along the
Boston Post road.
Miss Skouras, daughter of
Spyros P. Skouras, president of
the 20th Century-Fox Film
Corp., was hit by one of three
bullets fired by police who
wanted her for speeding. The
bullet hit her in the left hand.
manent housing area, also to
Camp Mongold, to the new for
estry headquarters to be built
on the new highway, as well as
to the towns of Detroit, Idanha
and any new customers that
might exist along the new high
way. The cooperative has its
headquarters at Corvallis.
U. S., Britain, and Canada
Outline Atom Partnership
Washington, Dec. 14 (IP", The United States, Britain and Canada
have virtually completed the broad outlines for a new partnership
in the development of atomic energy and atomic bombs.
The next move will be for the state department to take up the
proposals with congressional leaders.
The proposed plan which : -
will apparently come to nothing
unless congress is prepared in
some way to authorize it re
portedly would provide for con
tinued concentration of atomic
weapon manufacture in this
country.
It is said to contemplate that
British and Canadian scientists
would participate in the work.
Discussion of the three powers'
roles moved to the foreground,
at least temporarily, with the
lull in the congressional atomic
investigation. That inquiry deals
with how the Russians were able
to get atomic material from the
U.S. during the war. Congress
ional probers said over the week
end they have asked for wartime
records of the chemical welfare
service as a possible clue.
Under the projected Ameri
can - British - Canadian partner
ship in the future, Britain would
abandon its plan for making A
bombs, as in fact it appears to
have done already.
Thus it would end the threat
of a future British claim to
larger share of the Belgian Con
go uranium the greater part of
which now comes to the United
States.
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Okinawa Slated to Be
U. S. Base in Far East
By EARNEST HOBERECHT
Okinawa (U.R) The U. S. Air Force apparently has won out
over the U. S. Navy in the behind-the-scenes argument over what
will be America's big base in the Far East.
Everything indicates that Okinawa, the choice of the airmen,
has been picked.
The Navy wanted Guam. For
their own purposes, the Air
Force generals liked Okinawa.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, su
preme commander for the Allied
powers in Japan, leaned to the
side of the Air Force. In addi
tion to running Japan for the
Allies, Gen. MacArthur also is
U. S. Far East comander.
There still are no indications
that the Navy will move its op
erations from Guam to Okinawa,
but the Air Force seems to be
concentrating now on this island
south of Japan, which is about
67 miles long and averages three
to 10 miles in width.
The U. S. 20th Air Force has
been moved from Guam to Oki
nawa and the comanding gen
eral of this hard-hitting outfit
says the biulding program here
on Okinawa is more extensive
than that on Guam.
This is a very recent develop
ment. Only in recent weeks has
the decision been made in Wash
ington to build permanent
structures in place of the tem
porary, sub-standard things that
have been used since the end of
the war.
There are two Air Force bases
on Okinawa. One is Kadena and
the other is Naha. Both-are being
modernized and improved.
Ma. Gen. Alvin C. Kmcaid,
20th Air Force comanding gen
eral, said $24,000,000 has been
authorized in the past few weeks
for permanent buildings at Ka
dena.
It is expected that more money
for Naha will be coming soon.
The $24,000,000 is not all that
the general wants and is not all
that he says he needs. "But," he
declared, "it will make us opera
tional."
Top American experts are ar
riving from Washington and
Tokyo to push the project.
When the Americans planned
on using Okinawa as the base for
their final assault on Japan, the
blueprints called for 26-air fields
on Okinawa.
Some of America's newest and
fastest jet planes are stationed
here, as well as many B-29 s.
From Okinawa they can fan
out over a considerable area, if
they are ordered to do so. Planes
from here can cast thir shadows
on the Philippines, Japan, For
mosa and China.
.
Gen. MacArthur has hinted a
time or two that this may be the
place where the Americans will
go when they move out of Japan
after a peace treaty is signed.
America's air arm could reach
out over Japan with ease from
bases here.
But perhaps of more impor
tance than that is the role that
the Air Force people see Oki
nawa playing in U. S. Far East
defense set-up. They see Oki
nawa as a vital link in the de
fense chain which stretches from
Alaska down through Japan and
Okinawa to the Philippines.
Beyond a doubt, greater im
portance is being attached to de
velopments on the mainland of
Asia. U. S. airmen frankly don't
like the idea of nearby Formosa
being in unfriendly hands. At the
same time, they seem to feel that
it is sure to fall to the Chinese
communists.
Aside from what the U. S. Air
Force is doing on Okinawa, the
Army is busy, too. The Army
already has $58,000,000 allocat
ed for its projects and it hopes
to get more soon.
For awhile after the war, it
looked as though Okinawa was
going to be just another forgot
ten World War II battlefield. To
day the scene is changing rapid
ly. A glance at the jet planes
overhead give one an idea of
how fast it really is changing,
Crops Damaged
In California
Los Angeles, Dec. 14 W)
Extensive loss to truck crops
was reported today but a warm
ing sun promised a break in a
two-day cold snap. '
In the Imperial valley, farm
ers feared the midwinter pea
crop was an almost total loss
from temperatures as low as 24
degrees, with heavy damage to
tomatoes,' squash and possibly to
some citrus.
Last year's midwinter crop
from the valley totaled 4,183
carloads, valued at $7,514,648
Agricultural Commissioner B.
A. Harrigan said several days of
surveying will be required to
definitely set the loss.
Otherwise, temperatures over
southern California today ran
two and more degrees above
yesterday, but it was still cold
enough to freeze a few car ra
diators, coat puddles with ice
and bring out mittens and mufflers.
Citrus growers said fruit
which escaped loss from tem
peratures as low as 21 degrees
in some orange belt areas early
yesterday would miss further
loss today. Los Angeles' mini
mum was 37 degrees for the sec
ond successive day.
The weather bureau said to
night will be much warmer.
Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Wednesday, Dec. 14, 1949 si
Benefit Arranged
For Missouri School
Marquam To insure the Bea
ver Lake school in the Missouri
Ridge district adequate heating
equipment for the comfort of
the teacher and pupils, the Mar-
q u a m community cooperated
with the Beaver Lake commun
ity club and the Farmer's Un
ion at the Marquam community
hall, in a program and auction
sale.
Official hosts for the evening's
entertainment and supper were
Paul Strait, president of the
Beaver Lake community club,
Harold Burrough, president of
the Farmer's Union and the en
tire Marquam community.
Bob Main of Scotts Mills, as
sisted by Frank Powell of Sil-
verton, auctioned articles do
nated by business folk of Sil
verton and Mt. Angel, realiz
ing more than $300 for the heat
ing project of the school.
Rogue River Forest Chief
Portland, Dec. 14 VP) Region
al Forester H. J. Andrews to
day announced appointment of
a new head for the Rogue River
national forest. He said Laur
ence G. Jolley, assistant super
visor of the Mt. Hood national
forest, would become supervisor
of the Rogue River forest Dec.
31 with headquarters at Med
ford. He will succeed Karl L.
Janouch, who will retire.
Frost Spoils Spuds
Portland, Dec. 14 (IP) Frost
cost central Oregon growers an
estimated 250 cars of potatoes.
Ben Davis, state potato com
mission administrator, said this
number would be dumped. The
potatoes passed inspection at
country shipping points, but
failed to hold up in warmer cli
mates, he explained.
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