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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1957)
Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, February 20, 1957 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Section 2 Paee 3 SeatonTliinks Water Use to Double by '80 We're Already Lapping It Up at Six Times 1900 Rate WASHINGTON (fl The gov ernment needs to prepare (or doubled demands upon the na tion's water supply 23 years hence, Congress has been told. Secretary ot Interior Seaton said in a report made public Wed nesday, that present water use in the United States amounts to 250 billion gallons a day six times the J900 rate. "It has been estimated." he (aid. "that by 1980 use will be about double present day require ments," adding: "There is a tremendous demand for water in our cities, in our in dustries and in the arid and semi arid areas which are now under irrigation." "Our problem is to explore both surface and subsurface resources throughout the nation, to encour age the development of processes to make usable our vast sources of brackish and saline waters, and to store for proper utilization the surface waters in the areas of the West." Seaton's report was directed to a House Appropriations Subcom mittee in support of stepped up budget requests for the Geological Survey and the Office rf Saline Water. The Geological Survey is mak- Judge Voids Slirnv Plan to Use Fortune to Simplify Alphabet LONDON (fl A British judge Wednesday threw out George Ber nard Shaw's plan to bequeath his fortune to simplify the English alphabet. High Court Justice Sir Charles Harman ruled that the Irish play wright's project would involve change in the law of the land and was therefore impractical and in valid. "It seems that their author sus pected as much: Hence his jibe in his will about failure by judicial decision," the judge said. Shaw's pet brain child outlived him by only six years. All his lite he campaigned for a bigger alphabet on one-letter-one-sound lines that "would spell my name with two letters instead of four." When Shaw died in 1930 at the age ot 94, he directed tha the in come of his estate be used to fi nance inquiries into the possibili ties of saving labor and money by adopting a more comprehen sive alphabet. The estate is now worth 716.000 pounds ($2,004,800), and is grow ing all the time. The playwright said in his will that if a court turned down the alphabet plan the money should be divided between the British Museum, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the National Gallery of Ireland. Wednesday's ruling was in a ing studies of streamflow and the behavior of underground water stream svstems. The Office of Saline Water is contracting for research in meth ods for 'converting sea water into fresh water. . .... suit Tiled by the public trustee the office administering the es tateseeking guidance in handl ing the complex will. The museum and the academy had filed objections to the alpha bet plan. 0LCCCites2 Ashland Firms For Violations PORTLAND tUP) Two Ash land grocery stores have been cited by the Oregon Liquor Con trol Commission to appear at a hearing in Medford later this month in connection with charges that they violated Oregon law which prohibits a liquor dispens ing establishment from making political contributions. Some 22 establishments in Med ford and other cities of Jackson county were the subject of similar hearings held in Medford last month. Reports on the earlier Medford hearing are expected to be sub mitted to the Liquor Control Com mission at its next regular meet ing March 1. H. J. Delloff, commission hear ing officer, will conduct the hear ing for the two Ashland establish ments Feb. 25 at the Jackson county courthouse in Medford. Color photography was invented by Frederic Ives, an .American, in 1892. Power Firms , Buy Land for Atomic Plant Nearly 14 Square Miles Between Hanford and Yakima Acquired YAKIMA, Wash. Ifl An area of nearly 14 square miles between the Hanford atomic reservation and the Army's Yakima Firing Range has been acquired for a future atomic power plant, offi cials of three Northwest private power groups announced Tuesday. Paul B. McKee, president of the Pacific Power & Light Co., Port land, said his firm and the others of the group have been studying the atomic power situation for more than three years and have held discussions with the Atomic Energy Commission. The others are Washington Wa ter Power Co., Portland General Electric, and Montana Power Co. The site is 35 miles east of Yaki ma. Cost was not announced. "The time is coming when the region will have to turn to ther mal energy to keep up with its rapidly growing power require ments," McKee said. "At present atomic power is much more expensive than avail able hydro, but we look for great progress to be made in reducing atomic costs in the foreseeable fu ture, and we want to be ready to take action at the proper time." In Washington, AEC Chairman Lewis L. Strauss said Tuesday Pacific Power & Light heads one 3-Year Term For $608,500 Embezzlement ' COLUMBIA, S. C. I A for mer church elder who admitted embezzling $608,500 from the bank he served as vice president and cashier faces a SS4-year prison term. Clarencj D. Cooper Jr. pleaded guilty in U. S. District Court here Tuesday. Judge 'George Bell Tim merman pronounced sentence, and fined him $500. Cooper was charged with mak ing false entries over a two-year period to cover the shortage, which was disclosed by an audit last May. Cooper was a veteran employe o'f the National Bank of South Carolina, Sumter, S. C. He gave officers a statement implicating a teller, O. B. Nettles, in the embezzlement. Nettles was killed in a plane crash in 1954. A HAIR-RAISING JOB HOLLYWOOD (UP)-A youthful actor Jan. Merlin says his life lately has been a case of hair to day and gone tomorrow. Last week he was cast as a cadet in a CBS TV "West Point" story which re quired a nearly cue-ball-like hair cut. This week he needed to have hair patches glued all . over his nogging . to play the part of a young gunman in a sane urey Theater" teleplay. of three private Industry groups who responded to a renewed AEC invitation for proposals which would qualify (or government aid in constructing atomic plants. i Two Indicted For Bombing Negro's Home One Said to Be Member Of KKK; Death Pen ally Faced MONTGOMERY, ALA. W-Two white men, one of whom city de tectives say was photographed wearing Ku Klux Klan regalia, were free under bond today on charges of dynamiting the home of a Negro integration leader. James D. York and Henry Alex ander surrendered to Sheriff M. S. Butler yesterday after the grand jury had indicted them in the bombing. ' Detectives Jack Shows and T. J. Ward said York, a road scraper operator for the city, was in a pic ture of a group of unmasked men in Klan robes and hoods walking on 1 city streets shortly before a KKK rally in November. York and Alexander are charged with the Jan. 10 dynamit ing ot tne home ot the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy. The minister's wife and young child were asleep in the house when the blast oc curred. They were unhurt. Police Chief G. J. Ruppenthal said Feb. 10 that the dynamiting of Abernathy's home and at least three other blasts of the seven in Montgomery recently "were per petrated by members of the Mont gomery branch of the Ku Klux Klan." Under Alabama law dynamiting an inhabited dwelling is punish able by death. York and Alexander, tree on bonds of $12,500 and $12,800, were expected to come up for1 trial May 27 or later. 'Dixie' Leverette .Dies in Tree Fall BEAVERTON, Ore. Wl - Funer' al services were scheduled here Wednesday for Gorham "Dixie' Leverette, 63, former Coast and major league baseball pitcher. An operator of a tree-spraying service here, he was killed in a fall from a tree. In the 1920's Leverette pitched for the Chicago White Sox and the Boslon Braves. Ho pitched for Portland of the Coast League in 1926. He leaves a daughter in Louisi ana and a son, Dean, who attends the University of Washington. In Flin Flon, Manitoba, parking meters were removed because the meters couldn't stand the sub-zero cold. Portland Talks Retaliation for Bus Line Drop PORTLAND OB Portland's top officials set out Wednesday to try to find some way to keep mass transportation system going here after March 22. On that day, the Rose City Transit Co. said, It will halt its buses and go out of business. City officials indicated they would retaliate if the company carries out its threat, but in the meanwhile the officials had these choices in front of them: 1. To see if the Rose City Tran sit firm will change its mind and stay in business. 2. To sign up a new firm to go into business by March 22. 3. To take over and run a mu nicipally owned service. ' The retaliation against the tran sit company would be in two steps. First the city, If forced to operate a municipal system would not buy the transit company's equipment. This would force the company to unload its equipment at whatever price it could get elsewhere. Second, City Commissioner Stanley Earl said he would move to put Rose City's allied company, Portland Traction Co., out of buv iness by denying It use of Port land streets. Mayor Terry Schrunk said he would go along with this. The traction company, which operates a profitable freight busi ness on a line between Portland and Oregon City, is the parent firm of Rose City Transit, 67-Y ear-Old Stilt Walker Breaks a Leg CHARLESTON, W. : Va. Wl Mrs. Amma Haddox, Immobilized but cheerful, reflected Wednesday on the hazards of walking oa stills at the age of 67. 1 Mrs. Haddox, recovering from a broken-leg at a Charleston hos pital, could still proudly recall that as a girl of 17 she was the champion stilt-walker in her neighborhood of Roane County. When some kids were playing on stilts in her driveway last Sat urday, Mrs. Haddox said she couldn't resist the urge to try her skill. After the fall, she said:- "The embarrassment was worse than the pain." "I'm not going to be old until I get old," she added. She has four grandchildren. Expansion in 1956 creates nearly 600 new jobs HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR 1956 ANNUAL REPORT Sol $324,129,330 Wages ond Salaries . $ 79,406,o3o Tax $ 38,080,273 Additions to plants, equipment, roads, timber and timberland. ... $ 70,617,009 14,527 2,621 4,968 2.0d 1.00 Employees at Dec 31 Taxes paid per employee . $ Average annual wages, hourly employees . $ Met Income per share Dividends paid per share wiwmn IwmKHAtimiu 1 1 Last year, Weyerhaeuser invested more than 70 million doUars in new pLto, equipment, roads, timber and timberland It as estimated S this Vestment will create approximately 600 new jobs for Washington and Oregon people. 1 During the past 10 years, the Company has invested a total of tTW million in its post-war expansion program. This has been re fleTted ut a grater diversity of marketable products and increased , empbAt!Twhich has risen from 8,530 in 1946 to 14,527 at the close of 1956. These facts are presented to indicate the economic irnportence of the forest industry to all who live in the Pacific Northwest. Altogether, the forest products firms of Oregon and Was hrngton em ploy about 160,000 people... a payroll of approximately 70C mUlion dollars a year. This money. of course, finds its way into all branches "economy. In fact, it is estimated that about 50 of the entire economy of this area is based on the forest industry. Through good forestry, vast areas of productive forestland in the Pacific Northwest are able to grow timber in repeated crops and assure a continuous supply of raw materials. This assurance justifies long TeZenS'in permanent manufacturing facilities and develop ment of more and better products which, in turn, create more jobs. WEYERHAEUSER TIMBER COMPANY w.rkin, in lb. 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