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OREGON
NEWS REVIEW
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land. Oregon. F ebruary 1.'», 1935, under the uct of Congress of
March 3, 1879
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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. Certified 11
alta fescue weed will sell higher!
than the support price of 35 ]
cents a pound for blue tag seed.
Jackm an believes.
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