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SLOTH AND TRAGEDY
which preceded distribution of the
Model A cars, Ford Motor com
pany has kept a startlingly differ
ent '49 model of their product un
der the wraps, awaiting an offici
al onvoiling. But the Columbia
would ik A be denied!
In the warehouses at Troutdale
a large number of the completely
different Ford automobiles
had
been hid away, according to the
Gresham OUTLOOK, and North
west dealers were advised that the
nation-wide date of display would
¡find them all well supplied with
the great automotive surprise.
Now, maybe the Columbia and
Sandy rivers were more curious
than expected or else they looked
with disfavor upon such shenani
gans. Whatever the case, as flood
waters reached Closer to the cars
in warehouses, the Ford company
expressed concern and
hauled
their latest product into a Gres
ham berry field.
The word traveled fast. Soon the
fields along Hensley road between
Troutdale
and Gresham were
'gUmP*es at a Ford to succeed
all Fords.
Company
representatives who
were watching over the new mod
els made no effort to point out the
revolutionary features. Far from
such a feeling, they expressed
great unhappiness that their fan
cy unveiling, like the homes and
happiness of other flood victims
had fallen stark victims of a rag
ing menace.
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HORS IN DANGER
Many sorts of damage have been
done by the still-raging Northwest
rivers, amounting to an initial
estimate of over $100 million by
pure guese work.
The Clackamas river, conform
ing to the disaster pattern, has
wrought much havoc and one of
the results of its overflowing may
be a ruined hop crop, so reports
the BANNER-COURIER.
Extent of damage to hop crops
will not be determined until af
ter the withdrawal of floodwaters.
But one of the big
questions
among growers is whether the
flood will kill the completely cov
(2) The training of both veter
ered vines or damage them by
ans must meet all requirements
mildew attacks.
specified In Public Law 377 which
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established the institutional on-
INDUSTRY STOPPAGE
With every disaster comes the aftermath of hindsight, tending to
determine the blame and the responsibilities. Vaaport’s destruction,
o f course, is no exception.
There are blameful thoughts cast at the engineers who, blithely
and positively .repeated there could be no danger of a serious
flood and pointed out with authoritive certainty that, even if the
dike did loosen somewhat, the amount of water would in no way
jeopardize the dwelling unit» beyond a few feet of water.
Anger and indignation is also directed against housing authorities
who circulated a mimeographed fiction release declaring there would
be ample time to leave one's home when the warning siren sounded
Except for one plant, not an
and that the departure would only be of short duration.
Industrial wheel turned in St.
• The tension that was so thick in Vanport the day of catastrophe
Dear Mr. Editor;
Helens on the day of the disas
belled the official assurances. The people, instinctively, knew there
trous Vanport flood. For this Col
We
have
Just
had
an
uppuitss-
was a great danger hovering close by. Though some left early and
umbia river city, says the SEN
avoided much of the hysteria that accompanied flood waters, there ity of seeing first copy of you r TINEL-MIST, suffered flood con
community paper—Apr. 27tJU—ajjd
were some who allowed instinct to be lulled by the declarations of
note your editorial “ Democracy Is ditions in five of its major plants
authority.
a Gamble." I believe you really and suffered an estimated loss of
If there is any blumeworthiness of those who tried to quiet fears mean that 'It used to be a Gam better than $1 million.
A new fish dock has been com
of the project residents, it was only In the assumption of certainty ble’ but not any more—things have
pletely
covered by the flooding
and lack of investigation into the real degree of danger. But, this changed, and HOW! Several times,
Columbia
and has boom sticks
the
first
big
change
was
away
human failing does not loom large in the Vanport tragedy. The
strung along its outer edges, to
real culprit is the sloth and indifference which condemned almost back in ’14 when we emerged
on the short end, under the rep protect from driftwood.
20 thousand people to such a precarious neighborhood.
Recovery of some 400,000 feet
Not all of Vanport’s residents were veterans, of course. But it’s rehensible National Banking Act— A-l peeler logs, which bring a
a safe assertion that the majority of them, veterans or not, would and shortly renamed Federal Re price of from $75 to $90 per thous
serve.
have much rather lived elsewhere.
Since then this powerful private and feet, brightened one gloomy
At best, Vanport was an out-of-the-way address, most difficult corporation took over the func corner of the community. It took
to search through some 5,000 housing units to find a specific tion of Congress, and as you know two launches, employing a sort
dwelling. Houses were quite crowded and transportation to market they print, for 20c a thousand the of round-up technique to again
definitely a burden. Not unlike so many, residents In Vanport often folding money we use, and which corral the logs and move them
to quieter moorage.
expressed a vigorous wish for homes of their own when there were disregards the Constitution of the
United States, that "only Congress
no homes to be had.
Almost three years after the end of World War II hostilities, when has the power to COIN money
promises of housing relief for those who had successfully prose and put the value thereon."
So. perhaps you're right in a FROM TIIB DALLEN
cuted a war were generously publicized, veterans and others could
way “Democracy is a Gamble."
Guests at the home of Mr. and
find haven only in an out-of-the-way community like Vanport. Those
BUT the Republic, for which we
vigorous dreams of owning a house had run head-on into a situation stand, has been usurped by foreign Mrs. E. R. Bredemeyer last week
were Mr .and Mrs. Jacob Wilson
of $4000 homes bearing a price tag of from $»,000 to $13,000.
Internationalists whose sole object of The Dalles, Oregon.
The whims of Congress and the national administration have been —bourne out o f facts, as contain SON PATRICK LEE
accused, with Justification, of wilting before the pressure of a tireless ed in almost every issue of Con
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kuhn of Brad
real-estate lobby which did not want cheap, public housing. Witness gressional Record—is to Ditch, ley Corners are the parents of a
Drain and Damn, the USA.
to that charge, the Taft-Kilender-Wagner bill has been In committee
son, Patrick Lee, born Saturday,
To note that it has continued June 5, in St. Vincent’s hospital.
sc long it seems more of a memory than an actual promise of
since 1814 every president who
WEDDING ANNIV.
housing relief.
has held up his hand, and stated
Mr. and Mrs V. M. Pllip of
Perhaps it is wrong for the people to look toward the federal that he will carry out the provis
government for relief of such a major dislocation as lack of a home ions of the great Constitution Scholls road celebrated their 36th
wedding anniversary on Sunday.
Perhaps the governnment In Rowei^just didn’t consider the awful has repudiated his oath of office,
June 6. In honor of the occasion
scope of a largely ill-housed populace. Possibly a conservative trend *s he has done just what the 16 friends gathered at the Pllip
toward economy is government expenditures influenced a total lack Federal Reserve told him to. He home for a picnic dinner and so
is the Charlie McCarthy on the
of interest among national leaders.
>
cial evening. Among the guests
But with the federal government taking its wholesale bite out of knee—or Mr. Truman, does exact were Mr. and Mrs. Bruno Schmidt
ly whAt John Foster Dulles tells
of Los Angeles, who were in Port
every dollar of a paycheck -even before the paycheck is received
him to.
land to attend the Northwest con
It is unnatural for a taxpayer to look to his leaders for a way
Also Dewey admitted that the
by which this basic natural desire of proper housing might be ac same John Foster wrote all his vention of the Polish National A1
ltance last week.
complished?
speeches when he was a candidate Week At TII.I.AMOOK
No excuse will stand up to the claim that Congress and the na against Franklin, and Mlchaelson
Patricia Schlaht has returned
tional administration has been unaware of housing dislocations. Many wrote the speeches for Franklin
from Tillamook, where she visited
ry put on a nice show, and the for a week at the home of her
an appeal, organized and unorganised, has gone to Washington
depicting this pitiable condition. And even though
the American people ate It up’ not one In ten grandmother.
Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars have not prosecuted an thousand taking time to know HOME IN COLORADO
effective publicity campaign in regard to lack of housing, more what goes on behind the scenes.
Mr .and Mrs. Avis Matney left
This did not happen, this last last week for Colorado, where they
vigorous veterans organizations have.
trn years of desertion from the will make their home.
Economy, too, is a bum excuse. United States has millions for Constitution by our vaunted Ad
England. Greece. Italy. Turkey. China, and all the other wanting ministration. "It was planned that RAISES ’$200
The Progressive club of Pro
nations of the world. Enough money has been perhaps wasted way1 and among others Henry
gress conducted a highly success
in this futile enactment of dollar diplomacy to make great Inroads I Wallace saw the blue prints He
ful fund raising campaign for the
on a serious condition at home.
knew that between the Federal benefit of the McKay school cafe
It's too late to lament the slothfulness of the federal government Reserve and the munition makers teria, In which approximately $200
bring on
another was turned over to the cafeteria
in dealing with housing in the past. Some greater effort must be they would
world war, yet he never raised his
chairman this week. The club was
made to channel the indignation of the homeless to demand govern
voice In protest, as he claims he’s
organized this year for the pur
mental attention to this primary national problem.
doinf? now.
pose of promoting the Progress
Sloth and Indifference bear bitter fruit. The fruit 1s tragedy.
You’re right, the entire no- area. McKay district is fortunate
tlonal picture would change, if the in having the interest and gener
Public pres, would dare to print ous support of the club.
even a portion of the above.
In order to solve Just a few of HONORS IN FRENCH
Miss Beverly Rohrer. a fresh
our problems and straighten out
man
attending the
of
the
mess
we’re
me
|n would be to
me University
university oi
fleet a business man as nresidnn» Ore*on WRR recently elected to
....
,
' president. p t n .n » r>v,i „..*i---- -
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one who knows how to read the PI Delta Phi, national French
honorary. and at the initiation
Constitution: and to stop strikes " onornr>'' Rr
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repeal the 20 percent withholding banquet he,d Rt th* Fncl,1‘ y c,ub
tax, and Social Security law two WRJI pre,'<‘n,ed wtth Rn RWRrd for
FOUNDED IN 1912 b y HOWARD WEED
gigantic steals. B1“T again not hv ^*'n* ° ne ° f ,wo ot the mo,,t out’
the government, which Is ,,s
*t,,nd,n* *,uden‘ R ‘ n ‘ hf Sehool of
by the short-sighted »dm.nl.tra-
8 ACRES
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800 VARIETIES
«Ion. too long In hower and
M
Rohrer was also recently
Pool the people by propaganda
prMldent of Frinoh rtllb
Tvs Thelemltes” for the ensuing
Yours.
year.
SH O W GARDENS LOCATED ON COOPER M OU N TAIN
0 *0pL,rtuòdn 7’ nBOX 18
Beverly is the daughter of M „.
Portland 7. Oregon ThHmm A Rt>hr„
ft>rm„ ly of
Miles South of Aloha on Wheeler Avenue
Editors Note What kind o T bus Westdale addition, and is a grad
ine», man1* Seems like President unte of the 1947 class of Reaver-
Truman was once a business man. ton high school.
Reader Believes
All Gamble Gone
In Dem'cr'cy How
Although
farm
management
training under the G. I. bill ordi
narily Is limited to one veteran
on a single farm, the veterans
administration
has
announced
three conditions under which two
veterans may take training on the
same farm.
To qualify for the farm man
agement Instruction, a veteran
must own his own farm or have
economic control of a farm. Vet
erans who do not own their own
farm may take Institutional on-
farm-training as employee-train
ees of a successful farmer approv
ed by the farm training institu
tion.
lfy two veterans for farm man-
The conditions which will qual
agement training on the same
farm are;
(1) The approved training in
stitution and the VA must find
that conditions on the farm will
assure successful training and sub
sequent self-employment on the
farm for both veterans.
farm training program.
(S) The two veterans must tar-
nish documentary evidence that
they have formed a bona fide
partnership, with equal author
ity In the management and opera
tion of the farm.
Almost 87 per cent of the 208,-
000 World War H veterans en
rolled for Institutional on-farm
training under the G- I. bill are
training on farms under their
control. The remainder are train
ing as employee-trainees on farms
approved by the training insti
tution.
CORVALUS PICNIC
Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Eliander Jr.
and son Kevin, accompanied by
Mr. Eliander's parents, spent Sun
day in Corvallis where they en
joyed a picnic dinner.
I RI S
Mr. Casey;
I suffered months with arthritis
in my hip. and tried many treat
ments with no help. Casey s Com
pound was recommended to me.
after using several bottles was able
to go back to work. I am sure if it
had not been for this compound I
would have became a cripple. I
have recommended It to many
people
L. A KRUGER,
4344 S E. 29 th. Port ¡and Or. SU 5508
Pd. Adv,
M d v irtU 4 i* 4 * t
From where I sit... ¿y Joe Marsh
Who is this Mon?
Now and then, in the pages of
the Clarion, I run a biographical
cjuia, under the heading of “ Who
Is This Man?” For instance . . .
“He was one of the esrliest lov
ers In American history...
“ And yet he was too shy to court
a woman outright...
“ He caiae to the New World on
the Mayftewer...
“ A cooper to repair the beer bar
rels scrOTnpanying the Pilgrims...
stumped. But not Ma Hoskins, who
returned the clipping to me with
“ John Alden” on it. She recognized
all the clues—including that refer
ence to "beer” and “ cooper.”
For Ma—who's read her history,
knows that beer as the beverage
of moderation, is as old in this land
of ours as the never-ending Ameri
can search for tolerance which
brought the Pilgrims over to this
country in the first place.
“Who is this man?”
I thought that everybody was
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