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I f. TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, June VI, 1950 Letter From Washington By HARRIS ELLSWORTH Mambar el Congrau From Oregon Alter many months of discus- ion, the house ways and means committee produced a tax bill. It reduces a number of the more Irritating "war excuse" taxes. To make up for revenue thus elim inated, the committee provided for some additional taxation, the heavy burden of which will fall on large corporate 1 n c o m es. There is little doube that the bill will pass both house and senate and be signed by the president. It should be noted that this tax bill does not ac tually reduce or eliminate taxes it will raise substantially the same amount of money as is be ing levied now. The new bill shifts the places from which tax collections are made and it will seem like a mild relief. But the people, the consumers, will con tinue to pay the taxes indirect ly. WHEN THE appropriations bill is finally completed by the senate and cleared through con ference and final passage by both houses, I believe It will con tain some really good news for the people at Charleston on Coos Bay. Meanwhilef I am able to report that the engineers antici pate the availability of funds for beginning work on that proj ect soon after the middle of July, and are even now com pleting plans and designs for the bulkheads and some other con struction there. When I visit Charleston and Coos Bay this fall, I shall enjoy telling the whole rather involved story of our struggle to secure this ap THERE IS A saying to the effect that an elephant never forgets. Apparently the demo cratic donkey has a long mem orv too. Two years ago Presi dent Truman decided he wanted a balcony on the south portico of the White House. The Tru man plan to change the archi tecture f the White House was presented to the federal fine arts commission, composed of nationally-known and qualified experts In the art, architectural nd engineering fields. The com- m la lion unanimously disap proved of i balcony being lo cated in the middle of the south portico of the White House. White House officials made no . tecret that the president was plenty "burned" over the com mission's descislon and, disre garding the advice of the ex perts, went ahead and had the balcony made part of the White House, already crumbling from old age and decay. Since then a major repair job has been itarted on the executive man lion. Thil week the terms of four members of the fine arts com mission who opposed the presi dent'! balcony expired. The president refused to reappoint any of the four, replacing them with new members. ... ROBERT L. McCORMICK, re learch director of the citizens committee for the Hoover re port, says his organization is very much opposed to two of President Truman's latest pro posals for reorganization of the executive departments. McCor mick was assistant to Herbert Hoover during the operation of the reorganization committee. McCormick declared that the president's two recent proposals regarding the reconstruction fi nance corporation and the crea tion of a department of health, education and security are "in conflict with the recommenda tions of the Hoover commission." The president wants the RFC transferred to the commerce de partment. The Hoover commis sion said the RFC should be transferred to the jurisdiction of the treasury department. The reorganization plan ere ating a department of health education and security also is "at variance" with the Hoover commission recommendations. McCormick said that the presi dent's plan would put the health service under the jurisdiction of the social security administrator, while the Hoover commission urged that the health service be set up as an independent United Medical administration, taking in the medical activities of the armed services and the veterans' administration. Gold Hill Gold Hill, June 27 Mr. and Mrs. Jack Henririckson and baby daughter have moved Into the Roland Washburn apartment. The former residents, Mr. and Mrs. James Early are now liv ing in the Wilbur Martin tenant house. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Robbins are now living In the Leanard Olson house on Second avenue. rourieen cnnciren who will enter school In September were taken to the pre-school clinic held in the Community Metho- church on June 19 and were examined by Jackson county health officer. Dr. A. E. Mrrkel. Mrs. Melford who has been chairman of the clinic was as sisted by Mrs. Delos Walker and Mrs. Melvin Burnett. Four babies were also given a check up by the doctor at the meeting. Mrs. Maude Coy Robinson has been elected to teach In the ju nior high In Medford during the summer session. Registration will be held Monday morning, June 28 and classes will end July 28. While attending nimmer ses sion of the Boston University, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sage will attend the wedding of Mrs. Sage's brother, James Kostrelos on June 24. Mr. Sage and family will return home for the begin ning of school in September. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry McDougal are in Seattle where he is attend ing the summer session at Wash ington university. He will teach in the local high school next year. He was elected to replace Miss Geneva Davis who resigned. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hunt ley are the parents of a girl born June 20, at Sacred Heart hospi tal In Medford. The baby weighed 5S4 pounds. Miss Dena Jones returned to Corvallis Saturday night, where she was taking part In 4-H sum mer session work. She arrived Saturday noon to attend the wedding of Leona Holrierness. Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Morrison and children of Cascadia, Ore., visited Mr. and Mrs. Ferd Jones over the recent week-end. Wendall Jones spent several days in Grants Pass with his brother-in-law Woodrow Nealy and children while Mrs. Nealy went to Portland on a business trip. Wendnll returned home Thursday. Mrs. John Essman and chil dren from Olympia, Wash., who Relief in Sight For Flood-Harried Pacific Northwest By United Press Relief was in sight today for flood-harried Oregon, Washing ton, Idaho and British Colum bia as forecast of river levels in the Columbia basin indicated the turning point had been reached and streams would begin to sub side. In Vancouver, B. C the do minion water resources board said the Fraser and Columbia rivers rose Saturday night but had been dropping since. The level of the Columbia at Trail, B. C, was reported at 42.1 feet. The Fraser river at Mission, B. C, dropped .2 to below 23 feet in four hours. Sunday and the Columbia at Revelstoke, B. C, was down more than a foot to 18.3. Kootenai Drops The surging Kootenai 1 n northern Idaho showed a drop of 1.1 feet in 24 hours at Bon ners Ferry. River Forecaster Elmer Fisher said in Portland the lower and middle Columbia wouldn't go down as rapidly as hoped, but added that the river would crest at 25.3 feet at Vancouver, Wash., and begin a gradual decline Monday night. Fisher said a slow decline would continue through Thurs day with an accelerated rate starting next week-end. have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Bailey, left Thursday to visit in Sacramento, Cal., a few days. They will return here be fore returning to their home, in Olympia. Mr. and Mrs. Merle Reid of Inglewood visited Mr. R e i d's sistrr and husband Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Stewart, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. While here they visited Oregon Caves and Crater Lake. The couple Is visiting throughout the Pacific Northwest to Vancouver, B. C, and when they return to Colifor nla will visit Yosemite, Sequoia National parks and other places of Interest. Teen-age activities night was held at the school gym June 20 with a number of young people enjoying different games. Mrs. John Stieber and Mrs. D. H. Stewart of the B. P. W. club assisted the group. Next week, Mrs. Kenneth Palmer and Mrs. T. Z. Smith will be the assistants. Mrs. Joe Blair and son Ray mond were Gold Hill visitors June 18. They are former resi dents of Gold Hill. Clarence Shaver of Ashland was a business visitor here June 23. Mr. and Mrs. James Keyes and children have moved from the Reed apartment to a new home on Blackwell Hill. Lester Thompson and Joe Morgan attended the janitors' conference in Klamath Falls last week. Janitors from Grants Pass joined the men here and they made the trip in the Gold Hill school bus driven by Mor gan. They returned home Satur day night. Mr. and Mrs. Clark and two sons and daughter o f Hobbs, N. M., are visiting their daugh ter and family, Mr. and Mrs Thomas Davis on Galls Creek. Mrs. E. A. Edwards went to Monterey, Cal., by plane to at tend the graduation of her Steps Taken to Develop Ground Observer Systems in Northwest fEdltlr'i nott: ThlB ! tha t.cond or threr artltl.t on orfiton and na tional civil defenla planning.) By Lorry I, Lokay Salem, Ore., June 27 (U.R) Nearly six months ago a num ber of U. S. governors, including Gov. Douglas McKay of Oregon, were asked by Secretary of De fense Louis Johnson to set up adequate air raid warning serv ices. Critical targets in Oregon and Washington have since been as sumed to Include the major northwest cities of Seattle and Portland, the Hanford atomic works, northwest forests and our dams, which provide all our power. Enemy attack could come as sabotage; bacteriological (germ) warfare; chemical (gas) warfare, and atom bombing. Observers Needed Johnson said ground observ ers were needed in addition to radar screen because recent radar tests brought out weak nesses In the "watchdog. Because Johnson's letter did not say how to develop a ground observer system, the public criti cize the request. However, state defense leader Louis E. Starr of Portland estimated that 6,000 Oregon volunteers would be needed at the outset, with ob servation posts set up first across the northern half of the state. Despite public criticism, here is what has happened to civil- - i Al SHOWN I ' - " w-vHiwv J STUDEBAKER CHAMPION I , . v J No Uniformity Seen On July 3 Closings Medford shoppers will find some of their favorite shopping centers closed on Monday, July but numerous stores, espec ially chain stores will observe only the July 4 holiday itself. Several department stores, "dime" stores, numerous food stores, and some drug stores have indicated they will remain open while a number of apparel shops and shoe stores have announced they will close. Lumber mills in the area also are following no set policy. Most, however, will observe the holi day with shutdowns varying in length from two days, July 3 and 4, to week-long vacations begin ning June 30. WEATHER By United Press Northern California: Fair to day, tonight and Wednesday ex cept occasional high cloudiness extreme north and local fog on coast; slightly warmer over in terior today; west to northwest winds 10-20 MPH off coast e cept southerly 8-15 MPH Cape Mendocino northward. ian defense to date or is pending on federal level; 1. Five detailed advisory bul letins have been issued to gov ernors in order to get the civil defense program started on a sound footing. Courses Given 2. Scores of first-level tech nicians have received, or now are receiving, training courses in radioactivity. One course be gan last week at Reed college in Portland. Meanwhile, colleges, such as the University of Ore gon, have been receiving atom field research grants. 3. Mock atom bomb "attacks" will be made July 17-21 on Se attle and later on Chicago in order to give us an idea how to use present resources and to give us data to complete a practical national civil defense plan. Washington, D. C, already has been "attacked." One of Oregon's five defense deputy directors, Jack A. Hayes, said Seattle, under the leader ship of Mayor William Devin, is one of the better prepared cities for coping with disasters. Hayes said he understood the attacks involve personnel In hospitals, police, communica tions, and other facilities solving problems pn what to do when an atom bomb does stipulated amount of damage to resources: To Distribute Guide 4. The aforementioned basic defense plan will be distributed September 1 as a guide to the creation by Jan. 1, 1953, of a modern, flexible, and practical civil defense program to meet all types of 20th century war fare. Much of this plan will refer to the mock atom bomb "at tacks" on the three U. S. cities. and the plan will be the basing point for overall planning until the whole operation is completed Jan. 1. 1953. Meanwhile, the timetable for training key personnel and the general public includes: Until May 15, 1951 Medical, radio, chemical and other first level technicians. Until May 15. 1952 Second level personnel, such as dentists, doctors and nurses. Until Jan. 1, 1953 The gen eral public if the war threat still looms. On state level defense prep- Northfield, Minn. 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The national civil defense plan to be distributed to gov ernors and mayors of cities of more than 50,000 population by September 1 will be specific, rather than generalized like the interim plan. Area resource needs will be listed and state leaders will be able to tell local leaders what to do for civil de fense. Communities will know whether to prepare for the pos sibility of an atom bomb attack, or to stand by to send aid to the prime targets. Hayes listed Olympia and Salem as possible secondary tar gets because "seats of govern ment always are sites for air attacks." Paul J. Larsen, director of the civilian mobilization office, em phasized the following about civil defense: 1. It will save lives, but the planning is against the possi bility of a war, not the prob ability. 2. Civil defense means the military is free to fight, not to usurp civilian responsibility. 3. Civil defense must be based on self-help and mutual aid. Solomon Approved As District Judge Washington, June 27 U.R) The senate Judiciary committee yesterday approved the appoint ment of Gus J. Solomon, Port land, Ore., as United States dis trict judge for Oregon. Solomon's nomination now goes to the senate for confirma tion. Approval of Solomon by the senate committee was delayed after charges were made that he had associated with communist organizations. He denied the charges. Solomon, i democrat, was en dorsed by Oregon's republican senators, Wayne Morse and Guy Cordon. , Dead line on Claisified Arts: 3:30 p.m. for following day; 10 a m. Monday for Monday; noon Saturday tor Sunday a.m. The Grange Eagle Point Grange Eagle Point Grange third and fourth degree team will put on the work on July 18 Instead of July 6 as previously announced. FOR POSTERITY Fort Lewis, Wash. (U.R) Rec ords of Army life here, 1930 style, have been buried for pos terity at the base of the post flagpole. 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