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Washington, Jan. 24 iU.PJ
Engineers laid today it may be
poisible to find a cheap way to
transform sea water into fresh
water on a big scale. But, they
added, it will take a long time.
Government officials, from
President Truman on down, hope
the engineers are right about
being able to do the job cheaply
because they look to sea water
as an answer to future water
shortages. In fact, Mr. Truman
asked congress in his 1951 fis
cal budget for $500,000 for such
research.
Cost Prohibitive
It long has been possible to
convert sea water into drinking
water. But, engineers said, the
initial cost of doing it on a big
scale is a 1 m o s t prohibitive
about $1 a gallon.
For example, the engineers
said, it would cost more than
$1,000,000,000 to build plants
and pipes to handle New York
city's requirements of about 920,
000,000 gallons a day.
Greatly increased use of water
for home, industrial and irriga
tion uses has underlined the ne
cessity of finding new sources
of fresh water.
Mr. Truman emphasized that
point in his budget message
And Secretary of Interior Os
car L. Chapman wrote recently
that California will have reached
the limits of its normal water
supply by 1975. By then, Chap
man said, California will be us
ing more than one trillion gal
lons of water a year for indus
trial and drinking purposes. He
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said this means that new sources
of supply will have to be found.
Nitt Don Work
- So far, the navy has done all
of the government's experiment
al work with sea water. It has
installed distilling units on ships
and on some Pacific islands.
There is another method,
known as ion. exchange through
chemistry. This method was used
during the war on life rafts for
shipwrecked sailors and downed
airmen. Through this method
survivors could produce a few
quarts of drinkable water from
the sea with a distilling kit. But
it was expensive.
Griscom-Russcll company, of
New York, has done-most of the
work for the navy. Engineers
for that company estimate that
they could produce distilling
units which would produce be
tween 60,000,000. and 120,000,
000 gallons of water daily for
New York.
"The cost would be very
high," Kenenth Ris, president of
the company, said. "But it could
be done with our present equip
ment. The original cost would be
in excess of $60,000,000 for such
plants, but the fuel costs would
n't be too high once the plant
got under way."
Explosion Rips
Through College Dorm
' Houston, Tex., Jan. 24 (U.R)
Homicide officers today ques
tioned students for clues to who
set off a homemade bomb in a
Rice Institute dormitory.
The bomb blew a two-foot
hole in the wall of a second
floor corridor. The blast ripped
four doors from their hinges and
broke several windows.
There were no casualties, but
police said "everyone in the vi
cinity" could have been killed
had the bomb been placed in a
"strategic" position.
Police believed the bomb was
made by someone who "wasn't
a complete amateur." It was
constructed by packing a pound
of TNT in a short pipe. Pieces
of brick and papers were stuffed
on top of the explosive.
Rice Institute President Will
iam V. Houston maintained a
belief that the bomb was ex
ploded by a prankster.
One student commented:
"Prank, hell. That stuff was like
shrapnel."
1,000 Pickets Patrol
Carlsbad Potash Plant
Carlsbad, N. M., Jan. 24 (U.R)
More than 1,000 pickets patrolled
the strikebound Carlsbad potash
plants today as a company back-to-work
deadline passed without
a noticeable break in the two-month-old
strike.
A spokesman for the "Big
Three" potash companies esti
mated that between 350 and 400
workmen went through the
?icket lines this morning. About
00 of them, they said, were
members of the striking CIO
Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers'
union.
More than 1,500 union mem
bers struck last November 19
for higher, wages and better
working conditions.
Use Mail Tribune Want Ada
i .
Dorothy Nicholls, member of
the Episcopal Church's Na
tional Youth Commission who
is the new chairman of the Ad
visory Youth Committee of
Church World Service.
Logging Conclave
Slated For Next
Month At Chico
Sierra-Cascade Logging con
ference will conduct its first an
nual meeting on February 2,
3 and 4 at Chico, CaU airport,
combining a pine logging equip
ment show and a "rigger's round
table," according to A. A. Laus
mann and George Flanagan,
Medford, Rogue ' River district
directors.
The theme will be "How Can
We Reduce Logging Costs."
Speakers planned are E. J.
Regan, California state senator;
P. A. Thompson, United States
forest service regional forester;
DeWitt Nelson, California state
forester; Walter S. Johnson,
American Box company; W. S.
Rosecrans, California board of
forestry; Charles T. Gray, Stock
ton Box company, and William
R. Schofield, California Forest
Protective association.
Varied Subjects
Subjects will include stump
age, forest practice, road build
ing, fall and bucking, yarding
and loading and hauling, unload-,
ing and decking.
Advance registration indicates
a large attendance, the two di
rectors reported. They said hotel
space is being filled up rapid
ly and suggested that those plan
ning to go from this area make
reservation arrangements as soon
as possible.
In order to coordinate travel
and hotel reservations, Flanagan
and Lausmann have advised log
gers of this district to inform
L. L. Simpson so that he can
tell conference officials. His
telephone numbers are 2-7481
and 2-2364.
Fills Need
The new organization, a sub
sidiary of the Pacific Logging
conference, fills a long felt need
for the pine operators of Cal
ifornia and for the Rogue and
Klamath River areas of Oregon,
the two men said. H. R. Crane,
Corning, Cal., is president.
Special arrangements are be
ing made to provide transporta
tion by car or bus to Chico from
Gerber for those who travel to
the conference by train.
Letter From Washington
y HARRIS ILUWORTH
Mambar f Caaicaaa tnm Orafaa
The question of U. S. foreign
policy, with interest sharply fo
cused as the result of tne aban
donment of Formosa by the Tru
man administration, has been the
top subject of discussion here
lately. One member of the house
called attention to Truman's
statement that "today, the free
people of the world nave new
vigor and new hone for the cause
of peace." That, the member
pointed out, is ridiculous in view
of the fact that at the close of
the war in 1945 the Russian gov
ernment controlled 180.uuu.uuu
people. In 1948 the expansion of
the iron curtain area included
450,000,000 people. Today, after
the fall of China to Russian domi'
nation, the Soviet government
rules 800,000,000. Certainly those
people are not free people. Sure
ly they cannot honestly be said
to have new hope and vigor.
For a long time I have resent
ed the use of the ohrase "our bi
partisan foreign policy." There
never has been, in fact, any part
nership between the administra
tion and republicans on import
ant foreign policy matters. The
most recent example of the out
right refusal of the administra
tion and the state department to
cooperate was the announcement
regarding Formosa which came
without warning. Republicans
were not a party to the crime in
Asia.
SCHOOLS, especially high
Uranium Production
Talks Scheduled
London, Jan. 24 (U.R) Amer
ica, Britain and Belguim will be
gin talks in Washington January
30 on matters of mutual inter
est in connection with atomic
energy, the foreign office an
nounced today.
The talks were expected to
center around uranium produc
tion in the Belgian Congo, now
earmarked entirely for the
United States.
A foreign office spokesman
declined to discuss the possib
ility that Britain was asking for
a share of the Congo produc
tion. Belief that the talks would re
volve around the Congo uran
ium was strengthened by the
fact that Canada will not take
part in the talks.
The spokesman would not say
on whose initiative the talks
were scheduled. He said, they
would be held on the "ambassa
dorial level."
He also said there were no
plans for an allied conference on
production of a hydrogen bomb.
The Grange
Pomona Grange
Regular meeting of Jackson
County Pomona Grange will be
held at Bellvlew Grange Janu
ary 28 at 10 a.m. Dinner will
be served by, ladles of Bellview;
those attending are to bring sal
ads and desserts.
Greenville, Tex., Jan. 24 (U.R)
Police authorities said they had
no leads today on the theft of
upwards of $50,000 in industrial
diamonds from an oil well sup
ply firm yesterday.
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schools, may be Interested in
knowing about a chart which has
recently been produced by the
bureau of land management of
the department of interior. This
chart shows clearly and graphic
ally, the distribution of the land
of the United States how it was
distributed, when it was par
celled out, and by what act of
congress. The data is complete
from the beginning of our gov
ernment under the Constitution
down to date. Ortb of these charts
can be obtained either by writing
me or directly to the bureau.
' . .
CONGRESSMAN John Taber
of New York, former chairman
of the house appropriations com
mittee in the 80th congress,
points out that the budget
amount requested by the presi
dent is actually nearly $51 bil
lions. Mr. Taber figures it this
way: "If you add the new appro
priations that he is asking for,
including the contract authori
zations, the deficiency which this
congress is asked to provide, the
new authorization which thus
congress is asked to provide, and
the items provided for In new
legislation carrying an over-all
picture of what the president is
asking the congress to give him
in this session, you get a total of
$50,833,000,000."
The cash requests, he says, are
really $9 billion more than the
cash provided by the extravagant
first session of this 81st congress.
Tuesday, January 24, 1950
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Unitao" Pitas
Hollywood, Jan. 24 (U.R)
The big noises of the Musicians'
union opened for business today
in w n a t they
declared was
the country's
fanciest office
building.
The building
has pink pil
lars, glass
walls, tropical
g a r d ens and
e x e cuti v e s '
desks to suit
their personalities.
Virginia "There isn't
MacPhtrwa a union in the
country that has offices like
this," Kelly Shugart, a union
representative, said. "In fact,
this Is a better looking building
than the bosses have."
The union unveiled Its $5,
000,000 headquarters with a
party for 15,000 guests, a 12
hour continuous television broad
cast, a transcontinental radio
show featuring Bob Hope, Bing
Crosby and Lionel Barrymore,
and a platform across Vine street
to accommodate the fans.
"We've been saving up for
this," Shugart said proudly, "for
55 years. We started over a cigar
store. Now we are up to the
caliber of management."
As a result, the union hopes it
may be able to talk more money
out of them.
"It makes them feel better
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coming to a fine place like this
to negotiate," Shugart explained.
"We felt embarrassed and at a
disadvantage before."
The saffron yellow building,
backed up to a movie studio in
the heart of Hollywood, has a
pink-pillared lobby, a tropical
patio, and a plush 700-seat audi
torium on the main floor. Sound
proof rehearsal halls and a rum
pus room, also sound-proof, are
in the basement.
On the second floor are the
wood-panelled offices, including
one with a circular desk for
President J. K. (Spike) Wallace,
71, who was one of the original
Paul Whiteman men.
"Petrillo's office doesn't equal
this," Shugart noted.
Personality In Mind
"The desks were designed
with the personality of the de
partment in mind. For instance,
the president's completely sur
rounds him."
The Los Angeles local, second
only to New York's in size, has
14,500 members. The money for
the building was saved from dues
of $1 a month and $50 initiation
fee.
Besides the national radio
show, the opening ceremonies
Saturday afternoon Included a
12-hour local radio broadcast, an
85-plcce band with 10 directors
working in relnys, 13 orchestras
and 30 dance bands.
The national union head.
James Petrillo, was invited but
didn't come.
"He'i a great negotiator," Shu
gart explained, "but he doesn't
particularly take an Interest."
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dishes exotic, achieved commer
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Grown almost exclusive in Okla
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1945..
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