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Economy IPDans off Hoover Commission '
CouDd Save SILO (for (Each (Person on US
Washington (U.R) Govern
ment economy plan of the Hoov
er commission, if adopted, could
mean a saving equal to more
than $10 for every man, woman
and child.
But don't rush out and start
spending any tax cut yet. Con
gress shows no disposition to
adopt any of the proposals this
year. And, on some of the more
controversial suggestions, prob
ably never.
The $10-or-more saving fig
ures out this way: Population,
165,000,000; estimated savings
of more than $1,728,000,000 if
the government made all the
changes proposed in the first
11 reports of the Hoover com
mission. The commission hasn't put a
dollar sign on how much addi
tion savings might be proposed
in nine more reports yet to come.
However, former President
Herbert Hoover, commission
chairman, has estimated savings
up to 87,000,000,000 a year could
be made if some 200 pressure
groups would take a two-year
holiday from their opposition to
government economy moves.
Wide Rang of Activities .
The first 11 reports dealt with
a wide range of federal activit
ies, from hiring and firing prac
tices and buying habits to com
petition with private industry,
Most of the proposed savings
would come from cutting out
some of the things that the gov
ernment now does Opponents
call it "curtailment of govern
ment services."
A notable exception to the
"cut-it-out" theory, however, was
a recent report on government
research. The commission said
the government isn't doing
enough in the research field
particularly about weapons and
medicine.
Far Too Little
The commission felt that $1,
400,000,000 earmarked, for re
search in the fiscal year start
ing July 1 is far too little to
hold world leadership in wea
pons or achieve further "dra
matic" results in medicine com
parable to the Salk polio vac
cine discovery.
. The proposals to cut out some
government activities have rais
ed the loudest protests.
Perhaps the most vociferous
came on a report on medical
programs which said the gov
ernment could save $250,000,000
a year by consolidations and el
iminations. Veterans organiza
tions jumped with both feet onto
a proposal to eliminate free hos
pitalization for veterans with
non-service-connected disabilit
ies, and to make a more realis
tic determination of disability
ratings for service-connected dis
abilities. Among some of the other pro
posed savngs:
Personnel: At least $450,000,
000 a year by overhauling the
hiring and firing practices, elim
inating patronage and other re
forms. Paperwork: About $250,000,
000 a year by cutting down on
the flood of letters and directives
written and filed by govern
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ment officials. The commission
said the government creates 25,
000,000,000 pieces of paper work
each year.
Transportation: $150,000,000
a year by eliminating "duplica
tion, inefficiency and waste."
Examples criticized included the
flying of dog food to Okinawa
and overseas shipment of priv
ate automobiles of service per
sonnel. Storage: About $288,000,000
a year through more efficient
use of storage space and increas
Adventurers Stock Supplies for
Drift Across Atlantic on Raft
Montreal (U.R) Four beard
ed adventurers laid in supplies
of cognac, cigarettes and pate de
foie gras today aboard an un
tested raft on which they hope
to drift to Europe.
They also oiled two rifles
which they were given to shoot
whales which might upset the
raft or unfriendly fish on the
trip they estimated would take
two or three months at a two to
seven-knot clip.
"We're just about set," black-
haired skipper Henri Beaudoul,
28, told a reporter who boarded
the ramshackle craft at a dock
at the nearly Longueuil, Que.,
Boating Club. "We hope to get
a tow to Quebec City where
we'll be given a government
send-off and a provincial flag.
But if not, we'll hoist our 18 by
10-foot sail and shove off under
our own power Saturday or
Sunday.
Several Formalities Remain
Before Beadout, two other
French immigrants and a
French-speaking Canadian who
can't swim leave, however, sev
eral formalities remain to be
completed. The Canadian gov
ernment still hasn t registered
two war-surplus "Gibson Girl"
emergency radio transmitters
they will carry, and the raft
early today lacked a formal
name. It was to be christened
with imported campagne by the
wife of Montreal Mayor Jean
Drapeau after a "dummy run"
across the St. Lawrence river.
Beaudout, formerly of Limo
g e s, "official photographer"
Gaston Vanackere. a 27-year-old
blond-bearded native of Lille,
cook Bernard Soeiuel, 24, for
merly of Lisieux in Normandy,
and historian and super-pro-motor
Paul LaPointe, a 30-year-old
Montrealer, got the idea to
go the way of the dugout a year
ago. They started building the
raft of seven 30-foot British
Columbia Red cedar logs and a
mass of three-inch Manila rope
three weeks ago.
Will Make Wills
All but Beaudout, whose 26
year old wife . Jeannine legally
shares his property under a mar
riage contract, will make their
wills. They are unmarried and
are leaving what savings remain
from the $5,000 cost of the trip
to the skipper's wife and two-
year-old daughter, Chantal.
None of the crewmen admit
ted being worried about Atlantic
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ed use of commercial facilities
A task force estimated that the
government has storage space
twice the size of Manhattan Is
land, at a cost of $3,500,000,000
a year.
Hamburgers Stored
A 60-year supply of canned
hamburgers, at the present rate
of consumption, is among those
items being stored by the Navy.
The Navy pointed out the supply'
would last only a short time in
combat. Other items include an
eight-year supply of blue trous
gales or other hazards. But just
in case, they bought a war sur
plus, yellow four-man life raft
and the two short range trans
mitters. They will not carry a
radio receiving set. Beaudout,
as navigator, bought a second
hand sextant, lifeboat compass
and marine chronometer, plus
pens that write under water. He
said he learned to navigate in
the French merchant navy.
They will live in a green can-
Debt Blamed for
Kidnap Attempt
Of Portland Boy
Portland (U.R) Jesse W.
Moore, a mild appearing 63-year-old
machinist, was held on
a charge of attempted kidnaping
today after confessing to police
he tried to abduct the grandson
of a Portland industrialist be
cause he was "desperately in
debt."
Moore, whose gun was found
in the bedroom where the kid
nap .attempt took place, sud
denly broke down while eating
hotcakes during the noon hour
yesterday.
The kidnap attempt was made
early Monday at the home of
Lillian Weinstein on one of her
twin six-year-old boys. It was
broken up by Mrs. Weinstein
and her mother who fought
with the masked intruder until
he fled through the window by
which he had entered. Mrs.
Weinstein, a divorcee, is the
daughter of S. J. Zidell, owner
of the Zidell Machinery it Sup
ply Company.
Wedding Planned
Moore told Detective Captain
William Browne he decided on
the kidnaping on the spur of the
moment. He said he was "des
perately in debt" on the eve of
his wedding, scheduled for Sun
day, to a neighbor of the Wein
stein family.
Detective Michael O'Leary
said Moore denied any intent to
harm the boy.
In the struggle a crudely
printed ransom note and the gun
were left behind. Police traced
the gun to Moore.
Moore was held under $20,000
bail.
Youngster Object
Of Search Parties ;
Longview, Wash. (U.R)
Search parties were organized
here today to hunt for two-year-old
Pat Moore who was report
ed missing at 7 p.m. yesterday
along the Coweeman river 15
miles east of here.
The hoy, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Kenneth Moore, Kelso, had ac
companied his parents on a fish
ing trip near Boy Scout Camp
Coweeman. Moore said the child
and several other children were
playing at the edge of the river
while he was fishing.
He later noticed that the
younger boy was missing but
neither Moore nor the other chil
dren saw him fall into the river.
Sheriff's officers searched the
area last night and resumed it
again toftay with volunteer help.
NOT DAVEY CROCKETT
Mt. Clemens, Mich. (U.R)
Police answered a call early
Tuesday to rescue a "boy in a
Davey Crockett hat" from his
perch in a tree". They found an
indignant raccoon .
Ceurteeui
Wednesday
ers and a six-year store of can
ned ham chunks. The commis
sion estimated the government
could, by better buying practic
es, save $340,000,000 a year on
food and clothes. -
Another report on surplus pro
perty charged that the govern
ment has stockpiled enough of
some items to last 20 to 30 years.
It estimated that "billions" could
be saved by purging govern
ment warehouses and selling sur
plus goods to private industry.
vas-covered eight by 10-foot
cabin and sleep in Army sleep
ing bags, heat their canned food
on a naptha stove and keep eat
ables, water and fruit juices
stowed in airtight cans between
the deck and the logs.
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Grange Master Urges
Two-Price Program
Klamath Falls (U.R) A two
price support program for wheat
was urged yesterday by State !
Grange Master Elmer McClure,
Milwaukie, at the 82nd annual
convention of the Oregon
Grange. .
McClure also urged the grange
to support legislation pending
in Congress to authorize federal
construction of a high dam at
Hells Canyon on the Snake river,
and asked that the body renew
efforts to re-establish the post of
lieutenant governor in Oregon.
During the morning session,
George Brown, executive secre
tary of the state CIO, urged co
operation among farm - labor
groups for favorable legislation
on, the Hells Canyon issue.
Nearly 100 resolutions have
been prepared for introduction
during the week-long session.
CERTIFICATE LOST
London (U.R) Conservative '
Walter Bromley-Davenport, an
official of the British Postal
Services in the last Parliament,
couldn't take his seat in the new
House of Commons Tuesday. His
certificate of reelection had been
lost in the mail.
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Neukirchen, Saar (U.R) Ten
miners were killed and six oth
ers injured in the collapse of a
"gneisenaur" coal mine tunnel
1,500 feet underground Tuesday.
Sixteen . miners were. trapped
when 210 feet of a newly-erected
.tunnel crashed down around
them.
The bodies of six miners were
brought out Tuesday. Two others
were brought out in a critically
injured condition, and died later
in a hospital.
Eight more miners were
brought out during the night,
two of them dead. The others
were taken to a hospital where
their condition was not serious.
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