Ill Tlic
m mm mm mi
"y i hank ji:nkinh
I in tiflliipti to think Hint among
Aiiinrlciinn who Irnn Hltttlttly to
ward Hip UlenllMlu slrlo In their
imlllli'. tlwrn In ,ici more liiKclunt
liiK thought tliiin this:
"Thn exulted office lit PriiHltlenl
iif Ilia Unllrd stairs o( Aiiirlcn
hhmiltl MKUK 'II IK MAN. It In too
Miorrclly liuportuiit lo nil of tin
lor tin to penult It to bo hawked
nhout among acll-seeklng pollll
tin Ik-which In whnt happens whim
nmbltlnui iiinn Hltt'.K, THE OF
FICE," An ik tlirory, It In certainly Intri
guing but hi practice we've never
coino wllliln mililcd mlnnllo shoot
ing dlnluncri ul giving It u trliil.
Wo MIGHT Hive It u try thin
your.
It w try, It will he with Ike,
Ike's cuiidlilncy In un odd polllloiil
accident. Certain Republicans, look
Inn Iprobiibly Willi inlxrd mollvenl
lor it ciindldiila who cmi WIN, de
cided tnut Ike hun whut It lakes
' Hint In to nay. Ilia CONFIDENCE
OK THE PfcOI'LE.
So they v, nil to work on him.
F.ventuully, he nnld to thcin: "Why,
ye. It thn llcpuullnin party wiiiiu
lie to ho II" candidate, I will ex
cept the honor. Hut 1 will do NO
cuiiipiilKiiliiK. I Imvu a Job Hint will
keep mo very, very buny, II the
OOP loiivriillon Ahnuld iioiiilnntr
me, lot me know. My address will
lie Hit Al'I-J hciulMirlcr In Turin,"
Junt Ilka tlml.
V These politician, of course, did
not think he niriuil It, Their no
llllciil nilndi couldn't onconipnnn
the tliouitht thnt ANY mun, tempt
i (I by Uw possibility' ol becoming
rrrnidf-nt, wouldn't drop KVl.KY
T1IINO ELSE nnd no allrr.tho job
liiiniiuer uud tonus ''
It Uirnrd out tlmt Iko did menu
It. Having given hln answer. In
put on Inn uniform and v. ml to
work building nn iirmy in Europe.
It linn been a toimh Jb. Much
tougher limn exppcti'd. one ol the
li.uuhrM ever tin k li d bv 1111V Allirr-
Icun. lt' a Iouk wity Iroin llnlMit-d i
Hut Iko did exuclly whnt lie nnlo
he'd do. Ho kept hln mouth ntrlct
Iv ihut mid tied Into Ills Job IV
Europe.
The politicians who Imd climbed
upon Inn bund wnaon got uneasy.
Incn they gol H I ILL Mont: UN
EASY. Willi the New Hnmpshlit
primnry In Uie olllnit nd Iko null
nawlim wood mid nnylnit nothing,
they OOT PANICKY.
HulHlcmui know only their ancient
hlbbololh. One ol the ancient am.
dependable pollclc'nl uhlbbolt ui It
thul you cen t BEAT SOMEBODY
WITH NOBODY. Taft. rolling up
hln sleeve, nnd wading Into the
New Hampshire hunting", was d,,
tlnclly nomcbcily. Ike, sawing wood
in Europe and saying nothing,
lookrd to the politician like a
political nobody.
They wero TERRIFIED.
Thev made Iranllo overtures lo
IKK ior Pele'a aake lo gel home
and gel buny. He ignored the over
tures and alayed on with his Job.
Hln political backers, with their
lulures at stake, HEDOED. They
alibied. They said It wasn't true
and never had been true, tha Ike
wan a cinch In New Hampshire,
or anywhere else. They allowed as
, haw II he gal even halt the N.H.
dele Rnten and barely . scraped by
In the popularity poll It would be
a great victory.
And a lot more political tosh..
Well, they guessed wrong. U
iwept tho primary, getting ALL
the OOP delegates and winning the
popularity content handsomely.
What, happened?
Why. the people 8P0KEI They
said WE LIKE IKE. Wo have CON
FIDENCE In him. Wo think he's
the kind of man we need for Pres.
Ident. They went farther than that.
The New Hampshire Democrats
t romped on Truman and gave to
Kefauver the same kind of vol ol
confidence their Republican con
temporaries gave to Elsenhower.
There the situation stands.
What does New Hampshire mean?
I don't know. I'm no prophet.
But what I think happened In lit
tle New Hampshire Is grass root
stuff. I think (and hope) It is what
we newspnper people mil a
GROUND 8WELL.
If It Is, LOOK OUT! TRUE
OROUND 8WELL8 OF PUBLIC
OPINION can't be stopped bv po
litical shenanlgnns. No tact In
political history l better estab
lished than that. It doesn't hap
pen often, but when the times come
around when people mean bus
iness, THEY MEAN BUBINE88.
And they stand for no monkey
business. As I said before, I HOPE this
In one of those times. We need thnt
kind of altitude on Uie pail of the
people.
Basin Road
Bids Opened
PORTLAND Ifl Two and a
qunrtcr million dollars worth ol
highway bids wore opened today
by the Stnlc Highway Commission.
Competition was keen for some of
the Jobs.
One of the big projects, grading
on tho Mo.sler-Tho Dalles .section
of the Columbia River Highway,
drew 12 bids. The low was 610,123
by Rogers Construction Company,
Porllnmt.
Other projects and tho low bids
Included:
Klamath County Orndlng and
paving 2.61 mllos of Modoo Point
Bnrklcv Springs unit of Modoc
Polnt-Algoma Section of The Dal-lcs-Calilornla
Highway about 9
miles north of Klnmnth Fnlls; F.
L. Somers, Kliimulli Fnlls, $338,(18(1.
Lnke County Provldo crushed
rock or crushed gravel at Alkali
I.nko on tho Lakcviow-Burns High-v.-nv
about 26 miles north of the
Valley Fnlls Postofflcc: N. A.
'I'owlo Construction Company, On.
tnrlo, $29,000.
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity and Northern California'
Cloudy Thursday with occasional
snnw Thursday night and Friday,
night M. High Friday 32.
High temp yesterday S3
l Low last night 10
ipreclp March 12 ' . 15
Hlnce Oct. 1
Normal for period M.1
Same period last year 12.58
I'rlce rive Cent M Pages
JlLafcii
0TI FORUM Part of the panel which yesterday considered student protests and rec
ommendations at Oregon Tech is shown above. Left to right: Milt Swopsher, student,
Toledo, Ohio; Oscar Paulson, Salem, state director vocational education; Winston Pur
vine, OTI director; Phil Hitchcock, state senator; and Jim Adams, student, Gold Beach.
Panel members not shown were Charles Boleyn," student, Oak Park, 111.; and Henry
Semon, state represenative.
Strife
01
Students
After
Expl
By WALLACE MYERS -Oregon
Tech students campaign
ing for scholastic Improvements at
the state vocational school here,
found yesterday Ihey would have
lo shift thrlr aim lo a new urgei.
In an attack on the school ad
ministration demanding more In-
slruclonv th student found ine
number of Instructors had been
llmltr 1 by elate directive . . . That
tho a Imlnlslratlon in laying on
two Instructors Monday was mere
ly following order ol Uio Oregon
Lcgislnlure.
A big majority oi un "uormi
refused to attend classes Tuesday
and yesterday In a protest sup
posedly stemming from the laying
off of the two Instructors. Bui
when they learned yesterday of
the legislative directive establish
ing the number of Inslniclors, the
students voted overwhelmingly lo
return lo classes Immediately.
Thcro are sun scvorni rcaoci
points of protest however lo oe
considered. And OTI Director Win
ston Purvlne promised the students
yesterday these other points would
be worked over ono by one. A plan
una mrroerl on whereby Purvlne
nnd his aides will survey the pro
tests with a specini siuacni com
mittee In open meetings.
Hrvi-rnl nlnle officials and legls-
Htors attended ycslerday'a protest
meetings on Ihe campus. Aiirr
hearing Ihe, student beefs and ad
ministrative answers, all the visit
ing dignitaries gave Ihe school and
Its administration a iicaiwjr imi un
the hack. ,, .
Snld Slato Sen. roil Hiicncoca:
"It's a line school nnd it a doing
a good Job . . . If the students
want more Instructors their argu
ment In with the Legislature, noi
the school ndminlslrnllon."
Other vlimora wno concurrcu
with Hitchcock s opinion in so
mnnv words were: stnto itep s.
Ed Oenry nnd Henry Semon; Os
enr Pnul'sen, state director of vo
cational education nnd Purvlne's
mmedlnte superior; Mrs. victor
O'Neill, member of tho Stnto Board
of Education; rreo Henoronner,
vetcrnn's representative on the on
Advisory Bonrcl; nivl Arnold Ora-
Inpp, city superintendent of
schools.
STIJDUNT COMMITTEE
Tho students presented their pro
tests and recommendations through
four-man committee comprised
of: Jim Adnms, Gold Bench;
Chnrles Boleyn, Onk Park, 111.:
ItlchRi'd Mills, Independence; and
Mill Swopshor, Toledo, Ohio, who
served n the principal snokosmnn.
Lylo Read, uorvauin, stuoem
body president, also participated
In vesterdny's meetings with the
officials.,
Read was Irked by a report in
yesterday's Portland Oregenlan
quoting "a student who refused to
give his name"' as saying the stu
dents were striking because of In
competency o f Instructors and
charging OTI was a waste of Ihe
taxpayer's money.
KLAMATH
Return To Classes
anation
"We're sorry that sort of thing
ever got printed," said Read. He
added that the unnamed student
referred to by the Oregonlan was
not authorized to speak for any
one but himself and that his views
were not representative of the stu
dent body.
As for the charge of "waste of
taxpayers' money," Senator Hitch
cock said tersely: 1 lints non
wash." t ine same stuocnt wno pnonea
the Oregonlan the above mentioned
Information also visited the Her
ald and News and demanded his
remarks be published. He was re
fused because It was plainly evi
dent he was not qualified to speak
for the student body.)
Lenders of the classroom waik
ouui earlier this week attributed
the actron to the laving off ol In
structors John Helstand and George
Uerllngs,
H. A. Pedersen, OTT Industrial
section supervisor, who lnyed off
Helstand and Ucrliniis, snld both
men were "good instructors" and
would be rehired If the number of
students In their subjects
warranted.
OTI Instructors are employed and
laid oft under a legislative direc
tive which limits the school to one
Instructor for 15 students. The stu
dents decided yesterday this ratio
GEORGE WILLARD (BILL)
HANSON, former well
known Klamath resident
who died yesterday in a
Seattle hospital where he
had gone for observation.
A heart attack was cause of
death. (Story on page 3.)
Mi
,i
A j
FALLH, I'sjfr
..riDAY, MARCH 13, 1952
ubsides
At Forum
should be changed to allow one
Instructor for every 10 students.
8tate Rep. Henry Semon, chair
man of the Legislature's Joint
Ways and Means Committee, told
tne students me committee nnd
been guided to the 15-to-one raUo
by advice from other vocational
schools.
Purvlne pointed out that his orig
inal budget request lor this period
had been predicted on a 10-to-one
basis.
PROBE ASKED ,
The students also requested yes
terday that when two-thirds of the
students in a class requested, the
administration would conduct a
special Investigation of the "in.
structional value" of the Instructor
in question.
Purvlne said that all student
complaints about instruction were
investigated.
The student committee also pro
tested that OTI's sports program
was being operated at "the expense
o f competent Instruction" and
should he curtailed or completely
aoonsncit.
Hitchcock, Geary and Semon
quickly pointed out thnt the sports
progrnm had no effect on the
school's scholastic facilities: thnt
no state funds were used for sports
nnd thnt curtailment of abolition of
sport3 would not add any money
10 uie scnomsuc fund.
In answer lo a question from
Genry, Purvlne said 'not one cent"
of stnto money Is spent on Inter
scholastlc athletics. He explained
that Ihe sports program is sup
ported entirely by student activity
fees, gnte recelnis and other Inci
dental funds such as gifts and bowl
ing alley receipts.
Purvlne explained further that
student actlvitlv fees were collect.
ed and administered according to
state law.
Yesterday's meetings opened
witn an air of student belligerence
But an open forum session In the
college theater yestcrdny afternoon
concluded in nn atmosphere of
student-administration cooperation
lor a Doner oti.
Bud Chnndler, KFLW manager
served as moderator for Ihe for
uni. He was strongly applntided
when he pleaded for students to
refrain from mnklng "a difference
a dispute" nnd a few minutes
later, the crowd of appmximaatcly
500 students decided lo return to
classes.
It Is regarded as significant by
mnny that the Slato Federation of
Labor in Portland yesterday de
manded an investigation of OTI,
Jnmes Mnrr, executive secretary
of the federation, charged the
school was wasting money and giy,
ing inferior Instruction.
One of the vlsitimr officials yes
terday, eyeing a mimeographed
sncet oi protests oner eel Dy stu
dents, snld many of the protests
were "almost Identical" with for
mer Labor Federation protests
against tne scnooi,
iV , .
Political
HSLTaft
Still Seen
As Threat
WASHINGTON 11 Political op
ponents of President Truman and
Sen. Taft ranked them Thursday
still formiduble" adversaries
dctplU! the New Hampshire pres-;
tucnuai primary victories scored
by Sen. Kefauver and Cen. Elsen
hower.
Kefauver. Tennessee Democrat.
upset Truman in Tuesday's granite
State contest. And Ki&ennower
swept over Ohio's Taft on the
Republican ticket.
Say what you want about Harry
Truman, He s a fighter, especially
when he's
hurt and he'll fight
now," said
Sen. Aiken (R-Vli.
Aiken is
anti-Truman. He has.
not announced his choice lor the
GOP presidential nomination.
The Vermonter predicted last
month Kefauver would "beat the
tar" out of Truman In the New
Hampshire primary.
Kefauver did Just that all
right," Aiken said Thursday "but
now he s got a man Truman
who must be fighting mad and the
going will be rougher."
As for Taft, Sen. Ives (R-N.Y.),
who is backing Elsenhower against
the Ohloan for the GOP presiden
tial nomination declared:
"Don't anyone think tor a min
ute that Bob Taft is out of the
race. On our side, we aren't tak
ing anything for granted. That July
nominating convention is sun a
long way on ana anyuiing can
haDDen In Dolitlcs."
in New Hanipsnire,- &eiauver
won over Truman in the prefer
ential (popularity) contest by 30.-
147 votes to 16.298. The Tennes-
sean also won all 12 Democratic
delegates, who have eight conven.
lion votes.
On the Republican ticket. Eisen
hower piled up 46.497 preferential
votes to 35,820 for Taft. And-
Elsenhower. too. made a clean
sweep of the delegates 14 to the
GOP convention.
Elsenhower backers expressed
delight over the outcome in view
of the fact the general so far has
taken no part in any pre-conventlon
activities in his behalf. He has said
he would accept the nomination
but won't seek it
Ives said the New Hampshire
vote "proved Eisenhower can get
the nomination without coming
home to campaign, if he wants
It that way."
Women Plan
Basin Panel
The first all woman panel to be
aired over Kr lw, :30 p.m. Mon
day night on the "Build the Basin
Forum" will talk on the subject
"How Can We, As Women Help to
Build a Better Basin."
Panel members will deal with
good government, citizenship, edu
cation, politics, economics, public
relations, child welfare and other
pertinent topics.
Panel members scheduled to take'
part in the discussion are Mrs.
Victor O'Neill, member of the Ore
gon Stnte Bonrd of Education; Mrs.
Marshnll Cornett, Nntlonal Commit
teewoman from Oregon; Mrs. Paul
Buck, League of Women Voters;
Mrs. Enrl Kerns, member of the
Klnmnth Falls Center of the Farm
Bureau nnd of the Klnmath County
organization; Mrs. Ann Hayes,
President of the Auxiliary of the
Klamath Fnlls Post, American Le
gion: Mrs. Wnrren C. Noggle, Pres-J
mem Ui I1IC JLMIUgl"C3 Ul MIC miici1
lean Revolution: Mrs. Melvln How
ie, chairman of the Red Cross Can
teen and Mrs. Homer Koertje, sec
retary of the American Associa
tion of University Women.
Listeners are invited to partici
pate in Uie discussions by asking
questions of the panel. Questions
may be phoned to the Herald and
News. 8111 while the program is
on the air.
New Fire Truck
To Be Shown
The City Fire Department Is go
ing to show off Its new $37,000
ladder truck tomorrow. A demon
stration Is scheduled for 3 p.m;,
on 8th St., between Main and Pine
St.
. Saturday, 1 to 4 p.m., the fire
men are holding open house at the
Central Fire Station on Spring St.,
and the public Is invited. The fire
men want to show their qunrters
and equipment. Coffee, soft drinks
and doughnuts will be served. Fire
Chief Roy Rowe said the Coca
Cola Company was furnishing the
soft drinks.
Telephone 8111
No. 2764
Notes:
President
Takes Loss
Cheerfully
KEY WEST, Fla. IP President
Truman Thursday hid behind an
outwardly cheerful countenance
any possible bitterness over his
stunning defeat in New Hampshire
by Sen. Kefauver of Tennessee.
Intimates told newsmen he has
said little even to them of the blow
that befell his prestige in Tuesday's
Democratic Presidential Prefer
ence primary.
They wouldn't talk for quotation.
The only official word from Tru-
miin.s. vacation camp was Presi-
dentlal Secretary Joseph Short's
assertion the New Hampshire de
feat will have absolutely no effect
on tne President s ultimate decision
whether to run again.
Some of these intimates privately
made no effort to hide their own
anger at party leaders In New
Hampshire who persuaded the
President to allow his name to re
main on the ballot there after he
had announced be would ask its
withdrawal.
The President had ODDOsed hav
ing his name entered in any pri
maries. But he was persuaded to
change his mind by party leaders
in new Hanipsnire who had the
support of Democratic National
Chairman Frank E. McKtnney.
The argument apparently was
made that the Truman slate ol
delegates could carry the state.
And the President was told the
delegates wanted to make the race.
"It is always a mistake when
the President is persuaded to do
something against his own political
Judgment," one aide said.
Mills Area
Leading In
RC Race
Mills addition is leading the Res
idential Division race in this year's
nea uross iuna drive, it was an
nounced today. Exec. Secy. Vir
ginia Dixon said the area
has already exceeded the 1951 to
tal contributions by 30 percent and
Is still going.
The progress Teport was made
yesterday at a tea for residential
and county women workers on the
fund drive held in the A. M. Col
lier home, and showed the residen
tial group has fuUfilled $1070.72 of
its $2600 goal. None of the districts
are complete.
Other divisions were moving
right along, too.
Mrs. Dixon reported the ad
vance gifts division is leading the
field, pushing the 70 per cent mark
With $1709 of its $2500 goal.
The business division as achieved
$2304 of its $8500 aoal. industry
has reached $1542 of its $4500 goal
and special groups have tapped
only $106 of a goal of $2000.
The rural area's campaigning
doesn't begin until Saturday, but
Mrs. Scott Warren's Algoma area
nas already been completely can
vassed. It drew $78.
Other rural leaders Include:
Frank Schmidt, Beatty; Mrs. Hel
en Pankey, Bly; Mrs. Ethel Zim
merman, Chiloquin; Chief Ranger
Lou Hnllock, Crater Lake; Don
Rice, Dalry-Hlldebrand; Rev. O. C.
A s h b e e, Bonanza-Lorella-Langell
Valley, Mrs. Jack Chapman and
Mrs. Bill Turbach, Poe Valley;
Mrs. Lucille Barnes. Olene: Mrs.
Pat Hescock, Fort Klamath: Gus
Johnson. Rocky Point.
The county goal is only $5000;
the city's is $20,000.
Rape Case
Filed Here
Charge of assault with intent to
commit rape was filed by the Dis
trict Attorney s on ice late inst
night ngainst Donald Foutz Fitz
gerald, 24, of 3303 Cannon St.
Fitzgerald was arrested by State
Police about 9:30 p.m. at his home
on complaint of a 20-year-old mar
ried woman that he had assaulted
her earlier in the day at her home
on Fnrgo St.
' After several hours questioning
last night Fitzgerald reportedly ad
mitted the assault and this morn
ing waived preliminary hearing in
District Court.
He is held in the County Jail In
lieu of. $5000 bail.
i FI8H COUNT
PORTLAND tfl The upstream
fish count at Bonneville Dam
Wednesday: Chinook 2, steelhead.
6, blueback 1.
Ghostly Skeleton
Moves Haunts To
New Spook Area
STEUBEN VILLE. O. WU- The
ghostly skeleton who danced on
route 40 may have moved to route
i.
A nervous truck driver. Louis
B. Martel of Pawtuckct, R. I.
stopped In Yorkvllle O... Wednes
day night to tell his story to
Police Chief Roger Lolllni.
Martel was driving north on
route 7, which follows the Ohio
river. Near a small airport, he saw
an autemoblle approaching. It
veered toward him and Its lights
went out.
Then a figure Jumped from the
car. Glowing In the lights of the
truck was a skeleton, topped byl
some sort of mask in the shape
oi a skuu ana crossoones.
The skeleton danced.
Martel departed.
The account was very much like
the five ;urles that truckers have
told State highway patrolmen
along the east-west National high
way, route 40, in recent weeks.
That was In Western Ohio. Route!
40 s phantom wore a skeleton suit
loo. with the bones outlined In
luminous paint.
One officer of the patrol has
speculated that the mysterious
motorist may be mentally 111, or
have a macabre sense of humor.
Spring Show
Set To Go
Klamath Falls' Spring opening
officially gets under way tonight
when downtown window displays
along the theme "AH That's New
for '52" are unveiled.
The main event the fashion
show is scheduled for Friday
night at 8 o'clock. A total of 56
models are to show oft Spring
fashions during the show, and the
entertainment will include a bal
let dance number presented by the
Isa Dorah Moldovan dance studio.
organ music, bathing beauty events.
and numbers by the KUHS girls
glee club.
Home appucances and musical
instruments will be displayed on
the Armory floor.
Industrial, automotive and farm
equipment will be displayed Fri
day afternoon on 7th and 8th street
between Pine and Klamath.
Adrhission to the Armory pro
gram is 60 cents a person, and
proceeds will go to youth activities.
At Merrill
The appearance of the bloodmo
bile at Merrill Tuesday turned out
189 people who gave 164 pints of
blood, the Red Cross here an
nounced today.
The Merrill setup attracted do
nors from Malin and Tulelake, as
well as Merrill.
From Tulelake came 83 donors,
Merrill sent 70 and Malin 36.
The Tulelake effort was headed
by Hugh Mullins and Ross Rag
land: the Merrill Group was head
ed bv Mrs. Clifford Shuck and Mrs.
Lucille West.and the Malin drive
was led by M. W. Loosley and
Jack Storey. Many other volun
teers assisted.
The Bloodmobile Monday night
drew 84 pints at an evening ap
pearance in Klamath Falls.
RAM SALE
ALBANY. Ore. Wl The 12th
annual Willamette Valley ram sale
has been set for the 4-H Fair Build
ing here August 2. The sale com
mittee has planned consignments
at 160 rams and 50 ewes in nine
breeds. Entries are to be sent to
the secretary, O. E. Mlkesell,
Albany, by March 25.
"! "'V':- A-3
9 O'clock Sp&ziat
-
'
DOUBLE TAKE Mrs. Paul McEnerny was taking 15-month-old
Kathy to a photographer for a portrait sitting
when the Herald and News cameraman happened along
this morning. The McEnernys operate Paul's Leather Shop,
1134 Main St.
"Socialism"
Tag Denied
By President
CHICAGO tfl President Tru
man lashed out Thursday at op
position to the federal power pro
gram as "vicious" and "one of the
most cynical and dangerous de
velopments In many years."
His remarks were In a special
message sent to the National Rural
Electric Co-Operatlve Association
which Secretary of the Interior
Chapman presented In a prepared
speech.
Both the President and Chapman
pledged to fight for continuation
of the federal power program.
"I am determined to do every
thing I can to see that the policy
of conserving and developing our
priceless water power resources
for the public benefit shall go for
ward," the President said.
"Thi3 campaign to destroy fed
eral power policy must not suc
ceed." Chapman said.
SOCIALISM"
The President said the nnwer In
dustry's "propaganda campaign,"
has switched from attacks on tho
valley authority idea to denounc
ing the public power program as
socialism.
Truman said the power Industry
seeks to "exploit" the nation's wa
ter power resources throughout the
country. He mentioned specifical
ly: me forces or reaction want to
monopolize St. Lawrence nower at
the bus bar. (point of production)
and even take over Niagara Falls
itself for private development.
"They are trying to block the
rural electric co-operatives In Mis
souri from tying together steam
and hydro plants that will result
in more power at lower cost.
"They are trying to grab the
Hells Canyon Reservoir site ,'in
Idaho) on the Snake River where
public development would produce
tuu.uoo more Kilowatts man pri
vate development.
LAW FLOUTED
"They are trying to prevent pub
lic bodies in the State of Washing
ton, acting under laws supported
time after time by the voters of
that state, from buying power facil
ities that private companies are
willing and eager to sell."
In his attack on "the power in
dustry's campaign," Truman said
an extensive advertising campaign ,
by the. power Industry la largely
paid for by taxpayers because th
power companies can deduct tha
costs of the advertisements for In
come tax purposes.
"Until recently," the President
said, "the Dower industry's propa
ganda campaign was largely aimed
at the valley authority idea. . .. .
"The industry undertook to . . .
show that government ventures in
the power field were inefficient and
wasteful.
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"Then suddenly, this propaganda
line changed. It Is easy to see why
it changed. It wasn't convincing
anybody because It wasn't true. . . .
"The people were convinced, by
concrete results, of the value of the
federal power program, and their
representatives In Congress who
had learned at the polls how the
people felt repeatedly voted down
every attack on that program.
"So the private power interests
shifted to a new line of propaganda.
"They raised the cry of 'social
ism' apparently on the theory
that it you can't persuade people,
mavbe you can frighten them. . . .
"You can hardly pick up a news
paper or a magazine these days
without seeing an expensive full
page advertisement denouncing the
socialism' of our public power
program. ... It looks to me as
though that advertising campaign
itself is pretty close to 'socialism'
because the taxpayers finance so
much of the cost."
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