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Collections Top Investments in Reclamation Work Washington ;U.R) The Unit ed States has spent $2,600,000, 000 for projects, during the 50 year history of the reclamation program and has collected S4, 000,000,000 in federal taxes from them. Reclamation Com missioner W. A. Dexheimer said today. In addition, he said, the gov ernment has been repaid almost $600,000,000 of the construction cost through sale of hydroelec tric power and through receipts from project water users. Inpayment Small Repayment of construction costs still is comparatively small in proportion to costs, Dexheimer said, because most of the projects have been in use only 10 or 15 years. Repayment is flowing into the treasury at a rate of about $60, 000,000 a year, Dexheimer said, and will increase gradually as more projects are completed. Tax and repayment income from major projects like the 4 Columbia basin, Colorado -Big Thompson, Missouri basin and others will not be felt for many years, he said. That will be when these areas are fully developed in terms of irrigation, service institutions, processing, manu facturing and other activities which follow development of re sources. In addition to having brought into the treasury about 35 per cent more money than the gov ernment invested in the proj ects, Dexheimer said, reclama tion contributes to the national economy in various ways. Sugar cane has been culti vated only about 500 years. r ' j . ;.-"7'':; ' "... '"'' -':-(.' W-Zi zISH --A " V' " A "-'' Z'--:' k?y::k:'f: ; . ' Z-; 4 'A iW&&& V; ZZ' ' v":" ' i Typical Monterey coast scene is pictured above in a reproduction of one of the new all-color photos being given away at Standard Oil Com pany of California outlets this summer. Fifteen views, fr'itable for framing, are being distributed by the company in a program to encourage travel to the beamy spots of the West. Each scene is described in text on the reverse. Photo above was taken by Hollywood Cameraman Frank Tanner. Text is bv columnist Stanton Delanlane. Ex-Luftwaffe Ace Helping To Keep U.S. Planes Flying Ft. Knox, Ky. (U.R) An Army private here who shot down Allied planes for the Luft waffe during World War II now is helping to keep U.S. Air Force planes flying. Pvt. George Kozmon, a former lieutenant in the Hungarian Royal Air Force, has crammed a lifetime of adventure into the 10 years that saw him change from an officer of the Axis forces to an American enlisted man. A mechanic here, he still is technically a "security risk" be cause he has relatives behind the Iron Curtain in Communist Hun gary. Under Army regulations he must serve out his two years as a private because of this classification. Before he was drafted, how ever, he was offered a first lieu tenant's commission in the U. S. Air Force, which he refused be cause it would have meant four more years in uniform. Kozmon, who flew one of the first German-made jet planes against the Allies in World War II, is getting a little tired of military uniforms. He hopes to exchange the current olive drab for that of a commercial airlines pilot when he is discharged. In the closing days of World War II, Kozmon was shot down by the Russians and imprisoned. He escaped and made his way to Germany, where he was cap tured by the U. S. Third Ar mored Division in 1945. When he was freed at war's end, he married his childhood sweetheart who was a nurse in Berlin. He and his wife then moved to West Germany, where Kozmon worked as an electrical engineer. He and his wife came to the United States under an immigration quota in 1952, and he enrolled in electrical engin eering at Cleveland's Fenn Col lege. He was promptly drafted and put back in uniform, but, thanks to this military, service, he is now a naturalized citizen. And air enthusiast since he took up glider flying in Hungary as a boy of eight, Kozmon' tinkers with planes here and flies occasionally. Longest Arch Bridge In World Opens Soon Tokyo (U.R) t- The longest arch bridge in the world, the Inoura Narrows bridge spanning the mouth of Omura Bay at Nagasaki, will open for traffic soon. The Omura Narrows, separat ing the towns of Inoura and Seto, are 40 meters deep, with a current flowing at about nine knots. Because of this it is not possible to even build a scaffold in the narrows to assemble an arch. Japanese engineers stretched a half arch from the coast on both sides. The two halves met in the middle of the narrows an operation requiring the high est degree of precision in all as pects of the construction work. The bridge is 7.5 meters wide and 316.26 in length. Its central span is supported by a fixed steel arch of braced ribs 216 me ters long. The arch span weighs 1,759.52 tons. The span length of this arch ranks third in the world for a fixed steel arch. The longest is the 289.6-meter rainbow bridge spanning the Niagara Falls. The second is the Henry Hudson Bridge, of 243.8 meters, in New York City. The rarely used cantilever tie-back system was adopted for the construction of the arch. The system was required because conditions rendered the usual scaffolding for the construction work impossible. The construction work was executed with a total budget of $1,530,000. Tuesday, May 31, 1955 MEDFORD (OREOOK) MAIL TRIBUNE TlVt Although there are four va rieties of frozen cooked potatoes on the market, 85 per cent of all frozen cooked potatoes is processed as French fried potatoes. 117 S. CENTRAL PHONE 2-6241 I jigsi; i , p m lyQiy ft S . jHHlllifefr j j ORIGINALLY 359.95 SAVE $60 ' jgjjiP fOlilfe&l ! i $10 down on terms iYO $14 per month X'y- jl IB J New outomatic defrost system puts on end to "re- ' M jSt -if ' frigerator drudgery.'" 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At the end of four months, 222 cities had per fect records, the largest being Hartford, Conn., Berkeley, Calif., and Lynn, Mass. Dead line for Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday. Caution Urged in Aiding Stutterers Dayton, O. (U.R) A speech expert says that parents of chil dren who stutter should be care ful in trying to help the young sters. Too much effort can make the situation worse, according to Cletus Fisher, executive director of the Dayton Hearing and Speech Society Stutterers make up one of the largest groups of handicapped persons, with about seven of ev ery 1.000 persons affected to some degree. "Stutterers are not born, they're made," Fisher said. "It seems that stuttering is the re sult of an emotional problem. "The average child of two to five makes 45 repetitions per 1,000 words. That is normal. It does not make him a stutterer. "But many families can't let the youngster grow out of it nor mally. They try to do something about it. 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