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Southern Oregon New» Review, Addanti, Oregon, Thuruhy, Augujt 18, i 949 OREGON NEWS REVIEW Ashland, Oregon epecifcatlona which requin I the Hot« 38 East Main Street Entered us second clans mail m utter in the post office a t A sh land. Oregon. F ebruary 1.'», 1935, under the uct of Congress of March 3, 1879 Mr. and Mrs. J. Logan White. Publishers Olf hm » <:<-.rly spelt-. <.ui .hi at- use of all steel, thereby preclud- ter of exem ptions. I nnoi give ing the lum ber and plywood details of the bill here but will m akers from even a competitive be glad to answ er any inquiries chance at the business. , or send a copy of th e bill to any- A fter strong protests from Con- one who wants one. A letter ressmen and the industry, the or postcard addressed to me at order was amended to include the House Office Building, W ash wooden bins but suppliers were ington, D. C. will receive a given only ten days in which to prom pt reply. prepare bids and get them to the N ation’s Capital. Incidentally, the CCC prepared its call for steel bins at a time when an industry-w ide strike in the steel m ills was expected; if th at had happened, could the steel bins have been erected by CLEAN BURNING harvest time? METERED TECHNICIAN ON CALL Wage" Bill Helps Clarify Considerable publicity has been given the passage by the House of a bill to increase the mnimum wage law from 40c an hour to 75c an hour. A ctually this bill, if it is passed by the Senate and 890 Oak St. Tel. 3331 becomes law, will not be of much im portance In Oregon so far as the rate per hour is concerned. People who are employed in our state are either working at much higher hourly rates or are doing work th at is not involved in in te r state commerce and hence not subject to regulation by Congres sional action. W hat we are m ostly concerned w ith is the fact th at the pending legislation serv es to clarify and make specific the old “Wages and Hours” law. There has been some doubts as to CAT OW NERS: To rid your n t o f Seat and which businesses are covered I k c , be sure to use Pulvca R O T E N O N E under the law and which are flea Powder Specially formulated for cats exem pt. The bill passed by the Standard Heating Oils ER IR T I OR One of the most heartening signs of sanity in this country has been the rapidly growing opposition to the proposed Columbia Valley Administration. It has come from newspapers, magazines, Governor, members of Congress, agricultural and industrial groups, civiu organizations, and hundreds of other sources. It has Nobel prize winner, Dr. John R. Mott, searehes the globe to enumer not been confined to the region which would be directly ate the countries represented by contributors to the first international affected by CVA. It has, instead, come from all over issue of The Upper Room, the world’s most widely used devotional the nation-because there is at last a widespread guide. Honorary president of the World Council of Churches, this famed realization that CVA, like TVA, is only one step in a Christian layman was chosen to be the only American among the 60 overseas contributors to the .September-October number. Two million planned program for establishing a series of super copies are being printed, including editions in Portuguese, Spanish, governments which would be beyond local control, Chinese, Armenian and Braille. Dr. Mott is familiar with every land where Christianity is preached, and which could not be effectively controlled even by having made 110 Atlantic "Mid 18 Pacific crossings. Congress. He holds that Christianity will never be fully understood until be of all races and cultures have made their contribution to its Those who are fighting the CVA Idea are not prim- lievers interpretation. an y concerned with the fate of the power industry in this country. That is important, if a free enterprise Letter From system to endure, but it is but one phase of a many- Grass Seed Yield faceted matter. The real issue is whether represent ative* government is to survive the onslaughts against Below Normal But Washington it. Of late, a number of inclusive histories and surveys By Hon. H arris Ellsworth. of what TVA has done have been written. Praise has Far From Failure Congressman. 4th District been given to TVA’s material achievements. However, yield prospects from four practically all of the writers have said that th<^ people im Seed portant Oregon grasses, while in the rVA region have nothing to say about the auth not to be classified as “bum per" The House of R epresentatives st about ready to adjourn ority’s policies and practices, that they have no way crop, are anything but a failure, is for ju this session. Rem aining legis of correcting injustices if they occur, and that local summ arizes a veteran crops ob lation on which it has not acted server, E. R. Jackm an, O S C consists mostly of very large and government is similarly powerless. extension farm crops specialist. bills such as the CVA is cut from the same cloth, despite minor dif A crop by crop sum m ary by controversial socialized m edicine bill and the ferences in detail. In some directions it would go Jack m an is as follows: B rannan farm plan. Such pro farther still—it would be even freer than TVA from Chewngs fescue: The W illam posals will require weeks of h e a r tte valley crop is not as bad ings and long and complete de Congressional control over its finances. It is a prime e off as earlier believed. A pprox bate on the floor of both Houses example of the totalitarian philosophy. imately 6,000 acres will yield of Congress. There will be plenty close to the norm al 250 pounds of tim e for full and complete con of seed per aere. Yield in east sideration of them next year. The National Board of Fire Underwriters has made ern Oregon, v here 800 acres are There w ill alw ays be pending before any session of Congress recommendations designed to prevent disasters such located, will yield about one-half scores of non-controversial and norm al or 250 pounds. Jackm an m inor bills. This session is no as the fire in the Holland Tunnel between New York estim ates. different from any other in that City and Jersey City which occurred last May. This Creeping red fescue: A pprox respect, but the House m ajority fire broke out when a truck-borne cargo of 48,530 im ately 4,500 of the state’s 5,000 leadership properly takes the pos pounds of highly inflammable and volatile substance acres are located in Union county ition th a t such legislation should ignited. Miraculously, no one was killed, but under w here seed yields are norm ally be handled next year. more than 400 pounds per acre. But the fact th at the House less lucky circumstances many lives could have been This year, crops specialist ex has completed its work does not lost. The National Board observes that the incident pects yield to fall to slighUy less mean that C ongress can adjourn. The House m ust sit around and points to the “untold potential hazards which exist than 200 pounds per acre. fescue: Most of the acre m ark tim e until the Senate is in the normal day-to-day highway transportation oi age Alta cut for seed is in the W il ready to stop talking and get dangerous materials.” lam ette valley. While yields its w ork done. O ur solution to J he Board s recommendations are varied. One is will be reduced somewhat they this problem will be to recess but in session technically the establishment of a safe routing plan for the trans will approxim ate the norm al j u continue n til the Senate is ready to adj yield of 200 to 250 pounds per portation of dangerous chemicals and explosives for Yields in Union county ourn the session. areas containing vehicular tunnels, bridges and con acre. will be cut by tw o-thuds and Lumber Is Bureau Victim gested highways. Another is better fire fighting will range about 200 pounds per The U. S D epartm ent of Agri c u ltu re is apparently l a r g e equipment for tunnels, including extinguishers capable acre, the specialist believes. enough for one of its bureaus to Common ryegrass: Severer of dealing with various types of fires. Still another is w inter injury in the W illam ette forget the existence of another standardized legislation governing the movement of valley m aterially decreased the T he Forest Service is charged w ith the task, among other things, these dangerous substances, coupled with severe stand. A fter much spring a ir of helping stabilize the lum ber reseeding, the crop is still penalties for violations. Finally, the Board urges that l plane it U‘\ T ’P ,b industry by stim ulating new uses a program to educate shippers, trucking firms a n d , likely , to be . somewhat m hort f Or wood products. The Commo- d riv e r« o b n n U i » , . ® « i s a n a supply due to reduced acreage. acreage, dity C redit Corporation, in the , . indertaken by local and national I instead of the usual 90,000 acres sam e departm ent, has charge oil a u th o ritie s . there will be about 60.000 acres the grain storage and price sup p ort program . The National Fire Protection Association has said cut ior seed Accordingly, th e lum ber indus-1 “At times not only „ are the , , life . and property on on our our Union , t A” unusu!,ly dry spring *n ihe hitrbwovD county area accounts for try in the Pacific N orthw est is g ways seriously exposed, but our homes, hospitals, the low seed yields in th at area, still w ondering w hy the CCC. in its first call for bids on storage J theatres, commercial and manufacturing establish- Jackman states. bins for M idwest corn, prepared | ments, and sometimes schools and churches mav be Word from the Spokane area greatly endangered” by the movement of h a z a r t o u s H U ^ " ^ nSlterials over streets and highways. Corrective set- produced. t o d i c . u f ? S d s ^ t h a ” ion must be taken without delay. sector w ill be about 25 per cent of normal. Much creeping redi fescue seed is produced in Can-1 ada b u t Jackm an does not know t the status of the crop. 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