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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 22, 1947)
n fo) rm LnJ fo)fo) nn Ul IS Day's Jews lly rilANK JKMKINM FHOM l'ltubiirgli today come Uilt Inlr rcnllnu ili-pitlcli: "Tup ulflclul of the CJIO United Hlrcl Work-in ami Ilia U, U. Hteol Corp, will (lilt llielr signature to iluy Ui new pail which Union I'lcsldcnl Murray deelarc 'assure peace in Ilia UitlusUy for two year'." ll In expected, the dispatches mid, Unit Uie rest of the atrrl In dustry will follow the pattern sol by the UIk bird agreement. JILL lin t yel wscIiifm pud light. n Murruy, In a siuteineVi Issued In i'liubuigli, uyi llm Ulg Bird agreement la "nn answer to nil con gressional labor ballcra hell-bent on destruction of labor union III Amer ica." That l HEAT, not Unlit, on tho llimlluu. Uonuicu Isn't "hell-bent on de struction of lulxir union." 11 In trying to provide workublo luw to keen tliciii from becoming TOO puwrilul. Too much power In too few hand la always duiigcroua. In llm punt ycor or no wo have hud clear look ul some of these danger. 11 la doubtful If Iho lllg Htcel agrvru-nt could have been reached It congress hadn't begun lo move. SKN ATOIl TAKT I Itepubllran.Olilol and Senator Luco (Democrat. Illinois! pilch In a few brlckbuu on their own account. Tuft comments: "The agreement of U. B. Steel with CIO hua prob ably loaned out of the window any real chance lo bring price down." He adda: "This agreement la likely to ael a pattern for similar wage Increases that will prevent any uu ataullnl reduction III prlcea of manu factured product." Lucua : "U. 8. Bleel call pay tho wage increase and allll cul prlcea. 1 think Uiere la enough mar gin in coi puralion pruliu gener ally to meet wage boost and cut prlcea al ihe aaine lime." LETS lei that pas. What we waul ANU NKKD l a workable y lent of labor-busuies relallona. We probably can t gel It without a few hard word here and Uiere. It aeema reasonable thai If we can get labor PKACIS and efficient, big-scale mas production again we ought lo be able lo reduce prlcea and atlll hold wage al Ihelr preset, high level. Anyway, II la worth an honest trtnl-wlUi belli ildea CO-OPKR-A1TNO instead of Unhung each other lo Ihe bloody last dtlch. FHOM Ellciisbutg. far up In Wuh Ington. near the Canadian line, conico new. of a labor-biwlneaa .u,.menL Uial la tar MOKE Inter esting than Ihe new aural wage agreement. ". '',k V. It came oul of arbitration of a wage dispute belwren Ihe Ellen, buig carpenter union and the Kittitas County Associated Con tractor. It went Jar beyond etlle menl of Uie wage Uaue and resulted in a program, accepted by the union, the contractor and leading building material dealer, to check rising building cost in uie unw burg community. THE Klleiuburg agreement, a an. nouueed by the five-man arbt' .....t,.... luu-l nrnvldea: 1. The carpenter union withdraw 1U request for a baslo wage cale of tl.au an hour and double unit on Saturday and accept Uie con tractor' offer of tl.1t an hour and tune and half uho old scalo w 11 tia and time and a half). 3. The conlraclor agree to re duce their prom nguro ou wr mntnirii hv A tier cent. 3. The materials dealer agree to reduce the price of building ma terial by 3 per cent. CTATE SENATOR BUTLER (of " Washington i. chairman of the .rhllrntlcm board, lays: "All three ...i in the nubile Interest, this Joint course of action how what can oc none hi .,.. J . ihn.neh CO-OPERATION to halt the rise In living costs and the threat ol iminuon. TOLERANT, friendly co-operation 1 such as that OET8 US SOME WHERE along the road we all want to travel. Ankeny Trial Set June 16 Lewis H. Ankenv. former local stockbroker, yesterday pleaded not guilty to indictments charging mm with embezzlement and larceny by bailee, and was ordered to stand trial on the first count June 16. Demurrers to both Indictments, argued by Bon Anderson of Port land, Ankcny's attorney, were de nied by Judge David R. Vondon bcrg before Ankony was arraigned. ' Both charges Involve Ankeny's now-bankrupt stock brokerage bus iness. He Is free on $10,000 bond. Terrorists Blow Up Troop Train In Holy Land attack JERUSALEM. Anrll 33 OP! Ter rorists blew up a British troop train southeast of Tel Aviv today, killing at leant eight parsons, and then machliipgunncd the wreckage. The attack was mado two hours after two condemned Jews com mitted suicide with explosives Just before they were to have mounted the gallows. Army sources said they believed the "Egypt Express," bringing sol dlers from that country, had been attacked by members of the Jewish underground fti'oup, Irgun Zval Leiiml, Pour coaches wore demol ished apparently by electrically de tonated mines under the rails. Shots Exchanged Troops and guards were reported to have exchanged fire with the at tackers, out no one was capturca. One of the dead was a child, two civilians and five were soldiers. Those at the scone reported seeing arms, legs and other parts of mu THICK FIVE CENTS Conciliators Up Efforts In Strike WASHINGTON. April it 111 The gavertiment' top eoiielllator lepped up their effort for settle- metii or ina le-oay-oia telephone trlke today by ttummonlng union leader lo private afternoon con ference. Edgar L. Warren, conciliation di rector. Invited the three-man toD- strategy committee of the National feneration of lelconone worker; Joseph A. Belrne. NKTW president; John J. Moran. vice Dreaident. and Chairman Juhn L. Crull of Uie na tional bargaining committee. It was believed that another do. slble government formula to end Uie atrike woukl be discussed. The National Federation of Tele, nhone Worker spurred It local ne loUallng eommllteea over the eoun- try today lo seek "money offer from Itell System companies. Till Instruction was sent out after a mix-up last night In which: lAl the NFTW policy committee announced that the New Jersey Hell Telephone company had offered 7't cent nouriy wage increase to Its worker, and 'B the company said there wa "noUiIng to It.'1 Steel Peace Pact Signed PITT8BUROH. April 33 li Top official of the ClO-Unlled Uteeiworker ana Uie u. a. Hteel corporation today will put Uieir signatures to a new pact which Un Ion President Philip Murray de clared "assures peace In Uie Indus try lor two years, Tlu lining will climax more than three moniu of .ucxotlalloiu) and will make official Uie agree ment providing a tl-per-day In crease tor 140,000 employe of five U. 8. Steel subsidiaries. The Steelworkers' executive board approved Uie agreement Sunday and Uie union's 175-msn wage pol icy committee added its unanimous endorsement yesterday. Murray termed lite wage pact "an answer to all congressional labor baiter hell-bent on destruction of labor union In America." With Its major task of signing "Big Steel" completed, the CIO's biggest union turned to the Job of winning similar wage contract for Uie remainder of the basic and fab Heating steel Industry which em ploys 853,000 member. Nine Die In Plane Pileup COLUMBUS. O.. April 33 P Nine person were killed today when a special Delta Airlines plane car rylng eight employes of Uie com puny, including one top official, collided with a civilian plane and both crashed onto Uie alrimrt here where they were enveloped In flames. The Delta plane was coming Into the airport for a landing when, air line officials said, Uie civilian plane "came down from overhead and struck Uie tall of our ship." Both planes plunged 30 feet to the ground, the civilian plane falling underneath the tall of the Delta ship which had broken In half. The two planes burned for more than an hour after the crash. Flames mado It Impossible to rescue uny of Uie victims. B-29 Explodes, Kills Sixteen HONOLULU. April 33 m A B-29 bomber In which 18 American airmen wcro taking off from Guam rate from Kwajalcln Island's narrow airfield Sunday flashed fire from one of Its chrIiics, exploded Into a flaming ball and crashed Into the sea, killing all aboard, U. S. seventh air forco headquarters reported last night. The dead Included Lt, Keith- H. Orcen, 3110 48th St., Longvlew, Wash. tilated bodies In the wreckage. Probably two dozen other persons were trapped In 4Jie debris. First accounts said two soldiers and seven civilians were Injured serious ly and 31 others less seriously. Almost simultaneously another of. flclal announcement disclosed that a ship carrying approximately 130 uncertified Jewish Immigrants had been spotted by British naval craft ncanng tne Palestine coast. Take Own Lives The doomed Jews, Meyer Peln 8teln and Moshe Biirnzmil clasped explosives secreted In hollowed oranges to their breasts and died In mangled contortion In Jerusalem prison Just before they were to have been hanged. Both were un- derground members and had been condemned for antl-Brltlsh. vio lence. Pour other members or Ir gun were hanged last week, and Irgun had Issued threats of ven geance. , . Spring ?M Jfea r Apple tree along Link river present a colorful sprlnr picture here photographer. We Gudrrian. The picture wa taken from the river on the river, and look across the Illy pond to the hett. Collins Probe Two Way Affair SACRAMENTO, April 33 (Pi New instructions given the state assembly's special InvestlgaUon com mittee have made a two-way affair out of Appellate Judge William C. Do ran charge against Bpeaker Sam L. Collins. ' The committee. Chairman Rich srd J. Dolwlg. 8outh San Fran cisco, announced, will hold It or gantzaUon meeting today. But under an amended resolu tion adopted by the house late yes terday the 30-man group Is to In quire Into more Uian Just the ac cusation made by Uie Los Angeles Judge In a letter Uiat Collins sought to halt raids by state parole officers on gambling Joints. It also Is to ascertain wheUier "In the writing of said letter Uiere has been any Interference with Uie legislative process." Thus both Col lin's and Judge Doran's acts are to be looked Into. Additional Fire Threatens Texas City Buildings TEXAS CITY. Tex., April 33 m Trigger - tense Texas City was thrown Into frightened excitement today when a warehouse containing 1000 tons of ammonium nitrate caught fire and burned for two hours. It was extinguished at 11:26 a. m (CST). The fire broke out In Uie already damaged warehouse of Uie Texas City Terminal Railway . company, packed with tons of Uie same chemical that one week ago, almost to the minute, exploded aboard Uie Orandcamp and killed an estimated 675 persons, and doing untold dam age. Billowing orange smoke, the type Texas City residents have learned to fear, swept over the city. Spencer Creek Bridge Repaired - Motorists wishing to cross SpenceH creek will not be able to use tne Spencer bridge for a few days and must go farther south, near the hatchery. The bridge Is being repaired by a Klamath Forest Protective associa tion crow and the deck was removed Monday. Until lumber Is available try repla.ee the old, rotted planks, which will be a fow days yet, KFPA advised motorists will have to use other crossings. The bridge work Is a minor part of the spring repair program conducted eacK spring by Uie association. dUJOD KEOON, TUEHDAT, APRIL t n n n h n n cwa n Beauty Shows Off In Klamath Cornett Takes Governor's Chair In Snell's Absence Marshall Cornett of Klamath county will become acUng governor of Oregon tomorrow. Cornett, first In succession by virtue of his position as president of the state senate, will take Uie governor's chair as Gov. Earl Snell moves out of the state on a trip to San Francisco. Cornett will hold the Job until Snell returns. Senator Cornett left this after noon for Salem. He said that he knew of no mat ter of great Importance likely to develop while he holds down the state's No. 1 Job, but that lt Is pos sible he may be urged to issue a State CIO Backs Phoners PORTLAND. April 33 (VP) The Oregon CIO was pledged today to support Uie strike of Independent telephone workers throughout the state and CIO Executive Secretary Stanley Earl said longshoremen may loin switchboard girls on the picket lines. Earl told a mass meeting of 1400 phone workers last night Uiat CIO President Phillip Murray had or dered Uie state organization to offer "financial, physical and moral assist ance" to Uie phone strikers. "All our longshoremen aren't working all the time," he declared In promising help on Uie picket lines. Daniel Johnson, San Francisco, chief negotiator for the Coast unions, accused Uie company of strike-breaking pracUces. C. M. Bixler. president of the Ore gon union, said he would ask city authorities today whether Uie Pa clflc Telephone and Telegraph com pany is violating city ordinances In maintaining a "company hotel" ,t the main offices. He said meals were served there and cots aft up for non-strikers. Cancer Fund Containers Out The Klamath Falls 30-30 club, sponsoring Uie 1941 cahcer fund drive, has placed milk bottle con tainers w'.th placards In business houses about town for voluntary contributions and others will be dis tributed throughout the business section of town on Wednesday. Members will receive their supplies at the meeting which will be held this Tuesday evening at the Wlllard. Special girt contributions may oe made by check and sent to Malcolm Epley at The Herald and News, or ZZ, 1M1 (Telephone till) as caught by The Herald and New side of the Howard Barnhisd hone proclamation on daylight savings. There has been considerable agita tion In Portland for daylight sav ings time for Oregon. Cornett Indicated that he Is not favorable to the daylight savings Idea, and probably would turn down the request If it is made to him. Under Oregon's constitution, the succession to Uie governorship be gins with the president of Uie sen ate, followed by the speaker of the house of representatives, secretary of state and state treasurer. Cornett. who served as senate presiding officer In the 1941 legis lature session will take over as act ing governor for the first time to morrow. It will not be the first time, how ever, that a Klamath man has served as acUng governor. In 1931 Harry Bolvln, Klamath attorney and then state legislator and speaker of Uie house of rep resentatives, occupied the gover nor's chair for about 10 days. Gov. Charles H. Martin and President Prank Franclscovlch of the state senate were both out of the state at the time. Truck Tieup Continues Today PORTLAND,' Ore., April 33 UP) The tie-up of commercial hauling here In a dispute between 1200 AFL Teamsters and major oper ators over wages and hours con tinued today with no early settle ment in sight. Many stores have started oper ating their own truck service, some hiring drivers idled by the work stoppage involving 86 companies, but most of Uie freight piled up at rail terminals, warehouses and at marine docks. Emergency hauling of hospital supplies and perishables was organ ized and Uiere were no reports of hardships as Uie second day of the dispute halted 90 per cent of Uie city's trucking. No serious shortage of food supplies was due for weeks, businessmen said. to post office box 118, Klamath Falls. All candidates for queen of the 1941 track meet are requested to be present at the meeting tonight at 1 o'clock when plans for the queen's ball and coronation will be com pleted for Friday night at the arm ory. Details of the 1941 track meet to be held at Modoc field Saturday, April 36, will be completed also at the meeting tonight. WEATHER Mas. faar.SI) 1 Mla.JM rraclpllallan last ! basr M tram Hf ! ala 7.IS Last rear..... MM Hernial . reraeaal: Fair leSar, taaaarraar No. 10915 Snyder Asks Review For Later Action WASHINGTON, April 22 MP) Sec retary of the Treasury Snyder urged the senate today to am tne bill passed overwhelmingly by the noose to eat income taxes from 20 per cent at the bottom to 10.5 per sent at the top. Snyder renewed the Truman ad ministration's opposition to any tax cut for at least another 14 months. but suggested that congress with help from Uie treasury, "review the whole tax system in anticipation of later tax reductions." Cat Not Necessary Declaring that a general cut now 1 "neither neccessary nor appropri ate." Uie first witness before the seriate finance committee hearing on the house-passed bill marshalled wese arguments: 1. Employment is high, national Income is at a record peacetime level, and "under these favorable economic condition present taxes do not impose an excessive hard ship on the American people." 2. "Inflationary pressures hare still not subsided. ... So long as Inflationary pressures exist, there is good economic reason for maintain ing high taxes." 3. The current budgetary sit na tion calls for the maintenance of existing taxes. He said there Is no clear evidence that expenditure in the next fiscal year can be reduced below the president's budget figure of S31M.000.rxe. 4. It would be "sound flnsinelal policy" to achieve as large a budget surplus as possible and apply It against the $258,000,000,000 public ucuw - 5. By concentrating a large re duction In the Individual income tax alone, later well-balanced tax revi sion .would be made more difficult uwl .perhaps imawnriklaj.'t- - - . The house bill, he contended. Is Inequitable, and would complicate the Individual income tax. Syria Joins In Holy Land Move LAKE SUCCESS. N. Y.. April 22 W Syria Joined Egypt today in a formal Arab move to force Immedi ate consideration of Palestine's in dependence at the special session of the United Nations general assem bly opening in New York next Mon day. The proposals asked the assembly to broaden its Palestine discussions to Include action for immediate end ing of Britain's 35-year-old mandate. A preliminary survey indicated the United States and Britain could muster enough support to block the Arab move. They Insist that Uie agenda be confined to the iriginal quesUon submitted by Britain: the establishing of a fact-finding com mittee to prepare for final acUon at Uie regular assembly meeting In September. Authorities Say Brownf ield Not Klamath Man Authorities here are unable to identify the John Owen Brownfield, 48, who was found dead near Grass Valley, Calif., yesterday, and who supposedly was a former resident of Klamath Falls and Portland. Sheriff John Bower of Marvsville has reported no further develop ments in the search for Brown field's slayer, although he has been In contact with Sheriff Lloyd i. Low here and also with other Ore gon law officers. ' Brownfield was shot in the back of Uie head. His body, wrapped in a bright-colored Indian blanket, was found hidden in a thicket near Uie highway 11 miles west of Grass Valley by two motorists who had run out of gas on Uie highway. The man had been reported miss ing from his Marvsville home by his wife on April 18, and the Yuba county coroner determined that he had been dead about 24 hours when the body was found. The body was found In Nevada county, but a short investigation showed that the killing probably took place over the line In Yuba county. Mrs. Brownfield told officers that her husband had $100 when he dis appeared and Sheriff Bower quoted the woman as saying that her hus band had gambled considerably In Portland and Klamath Falls. Frank L. Rhodes. Tulelake police chief, said today that he believed the man killed near Grass Valley was known as "Jack the Sap" Brownfield, a card dealer, when he lived in this country. Rhodes said that the Brownfield he remembers had been In trouble several times and carried an ice pick stab wound in his back, in flicted by a Redding woman sev eral years ago. He was seen In Klamath Falls about a year ago, When word of the death first reached Klamath Falls this morn ing there was some conlecture on the similarity of names of the Marvsville slaying victim and James H. (Brownlel Brownfield, owner of El Rancho Tule near Tule lake, but the Tulelake Brownfield Is alive and well, and unacquainted with the other man. Held i anaji m.mtnmmmmmimm Petite Mrs. Dorothy Smith, lg, signs a statement at Pittsburgh, t In which Police Lt, Peter Con nors aaid the girl admitted stran gling her baby girl 'became she "didn't want her." The baby was 2 month old. AP wlrepboto. Treaty Talks Still Stalled MOSCOW, April 32 fP) The council of foreign ministers went into a second secret session of the day this afternoon in an effort to reacn an accora on tne Austrian peace treaty. It was the third such meeting, bus no conclusive results were an nounced on Uie apparenUy stale mated issues. While official spokesmen were silent on the meeting, reliable in formants said vital questions and territorial claims remained dead locked. It was understood the lineup on these questions remained where It was, with Uie three western powers standing against Russia. Some Informants said they ex pected at least one more secret session would be held before a final decision was reached on whether any of the key deadlocks can be broken during the Moscow confer ence. Bowles Asks Price Board WASHINGTON. April 23 (JP- Chester Bowles, former OPA admin istrator, suggested today the ap pointment of a voluntary price board of businessmen to seek general price reductions in industry. Bowles advanced the. suggestion following a call on President Tru man to congratulate him on his speech to the annual Associated Press luncheon in New York yes terday. ' "I agree with him (Mr. Truman) 100 per cent on the necessity for bringing prices down to avert a collapse," Bowles told reporters. "The speech was San excellent Job. I hope it will be taken to heart. It was a thoughtful and complete statement of the problem." Senator Taft (R-Ohlo) comment ed meanwhile Uiat the agreement of U. S. Steel with the CIO for a 1 a day wage boost probably has "tossed out tne window any real cnance to bring prices down. Taft, who is chairman of the sen ate-house committee on the eco nomic report, told a reporter that Big-Steel-CIO agreement is likely to set a pattern for similar wage in creases that will prevent any sub stantial reduction In prices of manu factured products. 23,607 Pennies Go Into Park Meters In 3 Days Here It takes a lot of small change to make $574. Paul Otterbetn, Uie man who collects coins from Uie city's 673 parking meters twice each week, can testify to that ' For the last three days of last week, $574 was dropped Into the parking gadgets. That figure repre sents 23.607 pennies, 657S mcxies, 30 dimes, and 10 mutilated coins, but doesn't count the 46 slugs slip ped into tne slots by less conscien tious citizens. The total amounf taken in by the meters for Uie week was $1053. Truman Urges More Rural Electrification Programs SPOKANE, April 23 UP) -President Truman told the National Rural Electric Cooperative associa tion today that it cannot consider its Job done, "as long as this coun try has rural people still living and working without Uie benefit of electricity." - In a message read at the associa tion's fifth annual convention, Mr. Truman said, "I have confidence in Uie ability of rural people to work cooperatively toward the goal of complete electrification and I want to assure you of my support and best wishes for success in this endeavor." ' He- said it would -take "purpose of mind as well as ingenuity to push out beyond the densely set tled areas" and provide electricity for all rural residents. "There will be those who say lt cannot be done or should not be done, as they have In Uie past. "What you can do for the de velopment of rural America in terms of new wealth constitutes Long Delay On Western work Feared WASHINGTON, April 22 () Rep. Taber (It-N.Y.) today de scribed protest again! a 41 per cent cat In the Interior depart ment' budget a "the squeal of tack pig.' Secretary Krug declared th If upheld by congress would cause -a tremendous aetbaek In the' nation's economy and perhaps the tart of a major bosines depres sion." The committee recommended ve. terday that congress give the de partment $156,538,413 for the fiscal, year storting next July 1. Thl Is H38.M1.907 less than President Truman's budget estimate. Krug said In a news conferenca. the cut. which would fall malnlv on the reclamation Lureau, would lead the nation into "bankruptcy of Its natural resources." "Good Job" Taber countered that the .' propriatlon committee "did a food Job in the interest of aU the peo ple of the United States, Including those In the reclamation territory.",. He added: "The reclamation bureau will have 1141,000,000 to spend during the next fiscal Tear, rnclurilna- thai . carry-over of unexpended balances That is more than lt had thla yea? , ana I lar more uoeral than wa contemplated by President Truman, in his order last year freezing con struction expenditures. Krug told the news conference the reclamation appropriation re-, ducUons mean that lt will take IS years to complete facilities to serve ' the first 400.000 acres of the Co-, lumbia basin project, which under, present plana was to have been ac-. complished by 1961. a xMiay seen 'At tne recommended rate, the entire project will not be eomplet-. ed until long after most veteran of World War II have became to infirm . to . undertake . irrigatieai farming." he aaid. . The amounts allowed for major project sneh a Grand Coulee, Krug asserted, would not permit continued construction "at any thing like the mlnlmam ceenomie rate." , Bonneville power administration cut, the (eeretary said, may bring brownoot to the Northwest, and ksn-ean of land management reduc tions may lead to s return of rang war.. - Snell finishes Signing Bills SALEM. Anrll 33 WV-Governor Earl Snell completed action today on all bills sent to his office by the legislature, and then left for Cali fornia lor a conierence in oan rrau cisco and a rest in San Diego. He acted on the last bill today, signing a measure providing for county aid in construction of vet erans' memorial buildings. There were 1019 bills introduced In the legislature, of which 635 pere passed. He signed 335 house bills and 356 senate bills. Two bills did not require his signature since they were referred to Uie people. They are the 3 per cent sales tax measure and Uie bill to create a boys' camp at Timber in Washington county. The Bovemor vetoed 13 bills. In cluding eight house bills and four senate bills. The governor finis ted his Job to day, a week earlier than required by the constitution. Three Die In Canal Plunge ECHO. Ore.. April 32 WV-Three men died early today when their car plunged Into the Stanfield irri gation canal near here, state police reported. Dead were Berton Thorhburg. 55, of Lexington; Robert A. Johnson, about 35, Union Pacific railroad section hand at Echo, and an un identified man about 35 years old, police said. The car. a coupe driven by the unidentified man, was demolished. Police pried open a door to take out the bodies. The accident apparently occurred some Ume between 3 and 1 a.m., police said. The ditch walker report ed there was no car in . the ditch at 3 o'clock when he made hi rounds. The wreck was discovered at 1 o'clock. No identification marks were found on the driver, police said. great potential contribution to the national well being." Mr. Truman said more than halt the nation's forms now receive cen tral station light and power. - "That is a splendid record," ha said, "and all of you who have contributed to it can take pride In the progress achieved and in the sound and business-like manner In which you have moved ahead dur ing the relatively short time since the rural electrification program was Inaugurated." ' son, In another message red t the convention, also urged tun :o ops to help bring "rural elecwu'.civ tlon to all of our nation. "America needs the farn-tffl clency that comes from rural elec trification," Anderson said, "and America needs the sound communi ties that develop where people have this modern tool . . . the farmer owned, locally controlled rural elec tric cooperatives have been an ef fective means of helping to equip the family type farm to hold itf own In our national economy."
