6 THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1947 THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE.
Many More Rural Families to
Get Electricity by REA Leans
Approximately 396,000 farm
The REA reported that despite
families and other rural consumers the fact that more loans have been
in 44 states and Alaska will get made in the last two years than in
electric service as a result of loans the previous 10 years of the pro
approved by the rural electrifica gram the backlog of applications
tion administratien during the fis as of June 30, 1947 amounted to
cal year that ended June 30, 1947, $278,000,000 as compared with
the U. S. department of agricul $196,000,000 a year earlier.
Approximately 2,500,000 farms
ture announced Monday.
In Oregon, loans approved dur and at least as Imany non-rural
ing the fiscal year, 1947, totaled establishments such as cross roads
$1,970,000 which was paid for the stores, schools, and residences were
building of 376 miles -of line to still without electric service as of
connect 302 more consumers. January 1.
REA had a total of $258,341,296
Farms still lacking service in Ore
gon as of January 1, |947 totaled available from which to make
10,323.
loans during the 1947 fiscal year.
The 1947 funds will enable the Of this $ 150,000,000 was authorized
borrowers, most of them locally by congress for 1947 and $8,341,298
owned and operated rural electric remained available from previous
cooperatives, to build over 135,000 congressional authorizations be
miles of new power lines and to cause of the state allotment pro
increase the capacity of some of vision of the rural electrification
the systems already built.
act. The carry-over into 1948 of
The loans approved amount to unallocated funds is $6,992,126
$251,3349,172, a volume of loans which, with the new Congressional
exceeded only by the $.300,000,000 authorization of $225,000,000.00,
program of the fiscal year 1946. makes up the total loan fund
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SEA LION HUNTING
AUTHORIZED BY STATE
TILLAMOOK—Residents of Til
lamook's coastal areas will be
interested to note that five sections
along the Oregon coast have been
opened by the Oregon Fish Com
mission as sections in which sea
lions may be killed.
This is done in the interests of
the protection and preservation of
salmon runs, the commission an
nounced. The areas, which ex
tend into the Pacific in a 114 mile
radius from mouths of Netarts
Bay, Sixes river, Elk river, Ne
halem bay and river and Tillamook
bay.
Earlier this summer three other
open areas were designated—the
mouths of the Rogue river, Coos
and Umpqua bays.
CROWN-WILLAMETTE TO
SEED 1200 ACRES
SEASIDE—Plans for the re
forestration of about 1200 acres
of land this fall are being made
by foresters of the Crown-Willa
mette company here. While plans
are not complete, it is expected
that about 300 acres in the Vol-
mer creek area will be planted with
seedlings; about 400 acres in the
Saddle Mountain area will be hand-
seeded and 500 acres on the North
fork of the Klatskanine will be
available for the current fiscal
year.
Loans made in fiscal year 1947
increased the amount of all loans
approved by REA since its in
ception to $1,068,436,000. These
loans are made at two per cent
interest and are amortized over a
maximum of 35 years. To date
repayments are nearly $20,000,-
000 ahead of schedule and pay
ments overdue 30 days or more,
are a fraction of one per cent.
Actual construction of the power
lines financed by 1947 loans in
most cases has not yet been com
pleted, largely because of the de
lay in obtaining construction mat
erials. The improvement in the
supply situation during the year,
however, is reflected in the record
of connections: 32 new REA-fin-
anced systems were energized dur
ing the year, the largest number
in any year since Pearl Harbor.
Consumers were connected to REA
financed systems at the rate of
24.000 a month, the highest in
REA history.
The year also marked a con
tinuation of the upward trend in
power consumption on rural lines,
which accounts for the fact that
a larger portion of the 1947 loans
were made to finance enlarged
power capacity for many existing
systems. During the J947 fiscal
year, consumption averaged 1,686
kilowatt-hours (kwh) per con
sumer. In 1946 the average was
1,542 kwh and in 1941 it was 827
kwh. These figures include some
wholesale sales; sales to ultimate
consumers averaged 114 kwh per
month in 1946 and 123 kwh in
1947.
New Enlistment
Plan in Effect
The regular army’s new plan
authorizing enlisments and reen
listments for initial assignment to
the European Command took ef
fect Friday, August 1, Captain
Kenneth Swenson, Army recruit
ing service Post Office Bldg.,
Longview, Washington has an
nounced. This command includes
the Mediterranean Theater as well,
the Captain saijl.
In explaining the new directive,
Captain Swenson revealed the fol
lowing personnel as being eligible:
Men from civil life who have had
previous service in either the army,
navy, marine corps or coast guard;
men whose current enlistments
are terminating and who desire
to reenlist immediately for Euro
pean duty and those men who are
eligible and request immediate dis
charge for the convenience of the
government for the purpose of re
enlistment for Europe. In con
nection with these enlistments,
Captain Swenson pointed out that
applicants term must be for three,
four or five years.
Exceptions to this authority are
seeded by airplane.
The program is part of the
Crown’s effort to create a sus
tained-yield industry
in
the
county.
FOUR STATE
BUILDINGS AUTHORIZED
SALEM—The Oregon Board of
Control and Emergency Board ap
proved during the week construc
tion of two buildings at the Oregon
Insane Hospital and two at the
Fairview home (feeble minded in
stitution) at a total cost of $1,-
439,991.
Approval of the two buildings
at the Feeble-minded institution
was a victory for the Emergency
Board. At the last joint meeting
the Board of Control- held out for
three buildings.
Secretary of
State Robert S. Farrell Jr., fought
a losing battle for three buildings
or none and voted no on the ap
proval of two.
$15,000 CLAIM FILED BY
FIRM AGAINST CITY
GRESHAM—As a sequal to a
fire which destroyed the Gresham
Woodworking Company’s plant on
Cleveland avenue on July 24th, the
city of Gresham is in receipt of a
claim for $45,000 damages.
The claim was tended to the city
m the form of a letter from At
torney E. Earl Feike, of Portland,
counsel for the woodworking con
cern and Mrs. Sophia Thoren, own
er of the building which was razed
by the blaze.
The fire along the railroad right-
of-way was started by the fire de
partment on the evening, of July
property. The contention of the
claimants is that embers from this
fire started the blaze in the wood
working concern.
such personnel as are qualified for
enlistment only in the army air
forces. Former members of the
armed forces whose prior service
qualifies them for duty other than
the AAF may be enlisted—if
otherwise qualified—in the grade
of Staff Sergeant or below, Cap
tain Swenson reported. Assign
ment to the European command,
unassigned, is limited to white ap
plicants only of the third pay
grade or below.
Men currently serving in the
army who reenlist will be ordered
directly from place of enlistment
to Camp Kilmer, New Jersey.
Those men residing • within the
sixth army area enlisting from
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