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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
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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.
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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
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Traffic Deaths
2,700 for April
Chicago (U.R) The National
Safety Council said today there
were 2700 traffic deaths for
April, the second consecutive
month that the total has risen.
It was about four per cent
higher than the number for
April of 1954. and was the first
time deaths have gone up two
months in a row since the nation
began a downward trend in high
way deaths in September, 1953.
For the first four months
deaths were 10,480, about the
same as for the first four months
in 1954, but on a mileage basis
this year is better than last, the
council said. Travel was up six
per cent for three months for
which gasoline consumption fig
ures are available, and deaths
were down one per cent.
Of 513 cities reporting for
April, 361 had perfect records.
The three largest were Okla
homa City, Worcester, Mass., and
Salt Lake City. At the end of
four months, 222 cities had per
fect records, the largest being
Hartford, Conn., Berkeley,
Calif., and Lynn, Mass.
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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. They'll tell the child
to slow down, breathe deeply, or
repeat what he has said.
"As a result, the child gets so
self-conscious about what he is
saying and how he is saying it
that he is straining practically
Mexico To Oregon
Horseback Ride Sef
Culver City, Calif. (U.R)
Lewis Crank, president of Eques
trian Trails, said today the Rid
ing and Trail Club will conduct
a Mexico to Oregon horseback
ride beginning June 6.
Crank said more than 100
members of the Los Angeles
club would convene at Tecate,
Mex., to begin the 1500 mile
ride, tentatively scheduled to
last 60 days.
all the time. Consequently he
stutters." '
Fisher said that therapy for
stutterers is mostly a self-help
program for both children and
parents. Once parents learn
stuttering is a matter of tensions,
not mentality, the pressure on
the children are reduced and
stuttering decreases.
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edges using kitchen shears.
Combine any favored fruits re
membering that canned cling
peach slices go well with grape
fruit sections, bananas, pine
apple, etcetera.
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