Medford
Tribune
United Presi Full Leased Wire
United Presi Full Leased Wire
Second Section
MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1956
Pages 1-6
Congress Extends Water Pollution
Control Act for Five More Years
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington Congress has
moved to beef up the fight
against stream pollution by
s t rengthening
and extending
the water pol
lution control
act for anoth
er five years
Under the
revised pro
gram, which
provides feder
al grants to
a. Robe srnitn me states tor
attacks on pollution, a water pol
lution control advisory board is
to be expanded in size. It advises
the head of the U.S. Public
Health Service on pollution prob
lems across the country.
Congress first enacted a water
pollution control program in
1948. After holding hearings on
proposed extensions of this pro
gram, Congress said it is "im
pressed with the seriousness of
the increasing water - poUution
problem and the need to control
pollution as a significant mea
sure for conserving the nation's
water resources."
Euential Assistance
The new act provides for con
tinuing essential assistance to
the control program by authoriz
ing: 1. Intensified research to de-
I : 1 f feft 1 . 1
WED Congressman James Roosevelt and Gladys Irene
Owens, a secretary in his Washington office, beam follow
ing their marriage at the home of Rev. George Lyon
Pratt, pastor of the Episcopal Church of the Advent in
Los Angeles.
termine the effects of new pollu
tants on public health and on
other water uses and to develop
feasible methods of treatment;
2. Technical assistance to
states, particularly on new and
complex problems.
3. Demonstrations, studies and
training.
4. Matching grants to. states for
developing their own programs.
5. Interstate cooperation
through regional councils and in
terstate compacts.
6. Collaboration between fed
eral, state and interstate agen
cies on pollution control legisla
tion. One of the areas covered by
the bill is interestate rivers,
which are sometimes 'difficult
for individual states to control.
Under this program, reports of
pollution coming te the Public
Health Service could result in a
federal suit against the offending
party to bring about abatement.
Grants To States
Under' the program, the feder
al government could provide $3,
000,000 in grants to the states
each year for the five year
length of the revised act. Wash
ington state would be eligible for
$34,066 and Oregon $22,623 in
federal grants for pollution con
trol.
But the big money in the pro
gram is for aid in construction of
sewage treatment plants. Con
gress approved up to $50,000.
000 annually for the next 10
years for grants to states, cities
or other local public agencies
for planning or building such
treatment facilities. The limita
tion of the amount of the grant
on any single project is $250,000
or 30 per cent of the estimated
cost, whichever is smaller.
Conservation groups were par
ticularly pleased with this sec
tion of the bill, because it prom
ises a stepped up campaign
against sewage pollution which
is harmful to fish life in the
country's rivers and streams.
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San Francisco Apparent low
bid for construction of a road
project near Shasta was sub
mitted by Peter Kiewit Son's
company, 208 West Main st.,
Medford, according to the office
of Raymond Archibald, division
engineer for the bureau of pub
lic roads.
The Medford firm bid $388,
571. Second low was Somers
and Stacy, Klamath Falls, at
$397,951. The third bid at $504,
277 was by Harms Brothers. Sac
ramento. Bids were opened Tues
day. The project, to be completed
in . 255 days, is on the Everett
Memorial highway in the Shasta
Trinity National forest in Siski
you county. Work begins: near
tTie north city limits of Mt.
Shasta and extends northeast for
7.46 miles. The roadbed will be
26 feet wide.
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Bock Stairs: Caught in Traffic Snarl
By PATRICIA WIGGINS
United Press Correspondent
Gettysburg, Pa U.PJ Back
stairs at the Eisenhower farm:
Army Secretary Wilber A.
Brucker was in the long, almost
bumper to bumper line of traffic
circling President Eisenhower's
farm for the best look-see at the
presidential acres on Sunday.
Brucker was the featured
speaker at the start of Gettys
burg's three-day commemora
tion of its famous battle. Mr.
Eisenhower originally had plan
ned to attend. Since his illness
ruled out the President's ap
pearance, the closest the Army
secretary got to the President
was the tourist route along his
farm.
The news briefings held by
White House Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty in a former
gym next to Gettysburg's movie
theater are far from formal af
fairs. Hagerty himself set the mode
of dress the firs day of the Pres
ident's arrival: Cool as possible
sport shirts. With the tempera
ture outside breaking 90 every
day since then, and the gym even
worse, Bermuda shorts also have
made an appearance.
ir plates bearing color portraits
of the first family are selling at
the rate of about 1,000 year in
Gettysburg shops. They are
about as popular as Lincoln
plates.
Some circles may be wonder-;
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Statement of Condition
PORTLAND, OREGON
JUNE 30, 1956
RESOURCES
Cosh on Hond and in Banks $ 128,024,172.41
United States Government Obligations, Direct
and Fully Guaranteed 194,875,125.16
Obligations of United States Government
Agencies. 9,908,979.62
State,County and Municipal Bonds and Warrant 78,962,45 1.34
Stock in Federal Reserve Bank 1 ,500,000.00
Loans and Discounts 426,600,5 1 9.95
Of !Mj totnl $87,719,6 29.26 wholly guaranteed or In
sured by the United States Government or its agencies.
Accrued Interest Receivable '. - 3,577,987.92
Bank Premises, Furniture and Fixtures and Safe
Deposit Vaults 10,992,477.19
Other Real Estate Owned 98,449.68
Primarily property held for future bonk expansion.
Customers' Liability on Accounts of Letters of
Credit, Acceptances and Endorsed Bills '1,176,418.76
Other Resources.... 588,452.94
TOTAL RESOURCES.."..' $ 856,305,034.97
LIABILITIES
Capita! $ 20,000,000.00
Surplus 30,000,000.00
Undivided Profits 15,077,480.66
TOTAL CAPITAL FUNDS..... $ 65,077.480.66
Reserve for Possible Loon Losses 4,527 ,825.09
Thisreserve isto apply against any loon losses that moy
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isaname JSJSJSJJ! "76,788.99
Liability for Letters of Credit and as Acceptor,
Endorser or Maker of Acceptances and For
eign Bills 1,176,418.76
Interest Received in Advance 5,975,839.37
Reserve for Interest, Dividends, Taxes, etc. . . -. 4,383,342.78
Other Liabilities 787,339.32
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