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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.
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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-
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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. U.R) St.
Olaf College announced that it
will abandon a requirement
that all students of Norwegian
descent take at least a one-year
course in Norwegian language,
history or literature.
grandson from grade school re
cently and returned home by bus
bringing three grandchildren
with her for a visit during part
of their vacation.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cameron,
delegates to the Grange conven
tion at Ontario, and John Gray,
grangemaster, who also attend
ed, returned to their homes
Saturday following the session.
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aration, some states must pass
disaster or civil defense legisla
tion, although 21 states, includ
ing Oregon, already have disas
ter laws on the books.
To Evaluate Resources
Two civil defense plans will
be used to guide national prep
arations: 1. Under the interim plan now
in effect for state and commu
nity level defense, leaden will
evaluate their resources and de
termine the effects of an atom
bomb attack occurring before
Jan. 1, 1953.
2. 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. A 5 by 10-inch brass
box, described as waterproof,
bombproof and rustproof, was
buried containing present records.
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