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Show Page TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1931 The Dragerton Tribune, Dragerton,,Utah 6 Classified Department HOME TOWN REPORTER National Defense Needs Force Big Cut in REA Appropriations By WALTER A. SIIEAD national THE NEEDS of thehave sharply program curtailed plans for extension of the rural telephone program under the there is a spirit of cooperation BUSINESS & INVEST. OPPOR. WE HAVE AN EXCELLENT selection of businesses for sale all over America. Write for free directory. 17 be- tween AT & T and Bell with REA, so much more cooperation that it is a refreshing contrast to past attitude of the private power in- rural electrification administration. dustry. For Instance, RfiA had asked for CHARLES FORD N. WABASH AVE. & ASSOCIATES CHICAGO , ILL. TO RENT OR LEASE MODERN STORE Will Lease 38 S. Main St., Salt Lake City, Utah JOHN C. CUTLER ASSN. 544 Constitution Bldg. Salt Lake City. Utah Mornings 50 Buy U.S. Savings Bonds! a $30,000,000 appropriation for this Washington Silhouettes fiscal year and obtained only Washington Silhouettes Almost a of which, plus a carry-ove- r Lincoln wor$5,000,000, gives the agency $14,000,-00- 0 century ago Abraham shipped in a red brick church on to carry on its work this year. the triangle formed by the conflux Cutbacks in all kinds of essential of New York avenue and H streets. equipment, particularly wire, cop- The old church, the New York Aveper' and other materials necessary nue Presbyterian church, has been to the defense effort under alloa new steel and concrete cation by the national production razed and .is being erected on the authority, enters into the curtail- building of . The ment of the rural telephone pro- same site . . shows original plan Pennsylvania gram. And there is a parallel which Washington past avenue uninterrupted running, may be drawn today in this con- the White House. Today the street nection, for it was just about this is broken off at 15th street by the time "during World War II when around and jogs the REA program was cut back treasury building The the White story is told Hoyse. and expansion Of electric lines for incensed Andrew Jackson that wai farmers was drastically cut. of traffic noise passing his by the And although the big telephone White House bedroom and when he companies, the American Telephone built the original half of the treasand Telegraph Company and the ury building he planted his cane in Bell Telephone System have as- the center of Pennsylvania avenue sured REA they will not be as and ordered it to be built there, shortsighted as the private power thus swinging street and traffic industry, and are willing to sit farther away from the executive down and work out differences and mansion. allocation of territory, there is some indication they are moving into certain areas, just as the power Restrictions Unlikely While debate in congress moves industry did five or six years ago when REA was handicapped by lack toward a fever pitch over the conof equipment, material and money. troversy in sending troops to Europe, the legislators likely will not There is a difference in the dare to hamstring the President or and the power telephone set-n- p the military in voting against the set-uhowever. The power Presidents authority or limiting coops could operate, if neceswhatever number of troops the milsary, independent of the private itary deems necessary to protect electric companies, but the cothe United States wherever the op telephone companies, and the President deems necessary. And if small private companies, are it comes to a question of a fighting forced to tie-i- n with the Bell war in Europe over any act of system, both for aggression, the President will ask calls and for telephone service congress for complete authority and from the farm to the various a declaration of war. towns $9,-000,0- OWNER TESTIFIES AT CRIME PROBE . . . Arthur owner of the championship Cleveland Browns profesMcBride, sional football team, is sworn in as a witness In the Eefauver senate crime committee hearing in Cleveland. McBride told the probers that he had never had any acquaintance or association with the Capone gang In Chicago. Be completed his testimony with the flat assertion, under oath, that he never violated a state or federal law. BROWNS STAR DUST John Lair Builds Renfro Valley Into American Folk Music Shrine By INEZ GERHARD LAIR,-on- e of the first to JOHN the hillbilly field on the was well known in radio, his to boyair before he returned hood home In Renfro Valley, Ky., to rebuild the old settlement and set up a shrine to American folk music. He originates, produces and emcees all radio programs emanating from the Valley, programs based on reality. If a possum hunt Is to be broadcast, movable equipment Is taken to the woods and so-call- ed Ted Mack is amazed daily at the thousands of contributions received as a result of the appearance of the two Godfrey boys on his ABC Original Amateur Hour. The Muscular Dystrophy Association, which is trying to raise $250,000 for research for a cure for the ailment, called the boys to his attention. They and their two brothers suffer from the disease. p, long-distan- ce and cities. Curt Masseys rating, for his As a matter of fact, officials of now matches that the hunt is actually staged. All of afternoon show, e REA r night-timquarter-houonly recently conferred with Government Reorganization the programs personnel actually of any it. He and officials of the big telephone comThe citizens committee for the live in the settlement. Lairs music musical, and deserves over allocation of Tilton blonde Martha little Hoover panies territory report has listed govlibrary Is one of the biggest pretty where farmers been have voices two of the ernment waiting pleasantest reorganization proposals sources of music collections in the have for service for years, and up to now it will seek to emphasize in this on the air. United States. have been unable to get this service congress, as follows: 1. Modernizafrom the private companies. How- tion of the civil service procedures; Terry Moore decided she was since the advent of the rural 2. Post office reforms to trim the narold Lloyd and Jimmy Con-li-n being typed, after being seen with ever, weeks three filming spent deficit and remove a collie in Son of Lassie, a horse telephone program under REA the one sequence In Mad Wedneto offered have private companies a from postmaster of Return in appointment gorilla October, sday; they are seen chasing a In Mighty Joe Young and a squir- move In to these areas, although political control; 3 Unification of the lion up and down fire rel in 'The Great Rypert. All she REA has made allocations to re- federal hospital systems; 4. Reescapes, in and out of offices needed was to appear with all those cently formed cooperative compan- duction of alleged ineificiency in and along narrow ledges of a cats in Paramounts Rhubarb. ies there. By and large, however, the veterans administration. skyscraper. Instead, she breaks the sequence with Victor Mature KWikaw y by ' v .., I i Debbie Reynolds will probably in Gambling House. , I J Z1 jA , I succeed to the kind of roles that used to assign to Judy Gar' it Producer Howard Hawks had to .. , ; i ' land; apparently she is being put on three additional guards when , 'A I I A r jj groomed for them. So far she has he sealed the set of The Thing; made four musicals In her two years not only the hired help but some ' K f A.s i i Vi ! y .. ... 'SJ A 'A' ' v on the screen; now she is to be of RKOs top executives and pro; ' r:.ASa vVV with Gene Kelly in ducers were curious about the Singing in the Rain. Theres a identity of it. He finally took a long, hard pull ahead of her if she dozen of the latter on a personally is to take Judys place. conducted tour of the sound stages, but first made them promise not Did you know that theres a movie to reveal the secret. actress named Theda Barr? Either her mother doted on Theda Bara, Bing Crosby sings, dances and queen of the silent pictures, or the plays piano in Mr. Music, young lady thought an adaptation and It all comes naturally; hes of the former sirens name might never taken a lesson In any of bring her fame. them. Sings by ear, plays by ear, has so much natural rhythm Fans of The Guiding Light, that he picks up steps easily. daytime serial, will act as jurors to decide the fate of one of the ODDS AND ENDS .. . Friends of leading characters who is on trial for murder. Listeners to the current Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz say sequence have been asked to follow they may name the infant expected the testimony carefully, and at the on July 4th Desilu . . . Paul Lees, end of the trial, late this month, to the most decorated Marine of World send in ballots as if they were jury War II, has a featured role in v A v members. Programs on CBS week- Paramounts Submarine Command . . . Rising beef costs and day afternoons. FOXHOLE BREATHER . . . P.F.C. Harold G. Trimble of the threat of meat rationing made Omer, Ben Grauer recently finished one it difficult for Warner Bros, to lease Michigan, an American machine gunner, relaxes and takes a little breather in his foxhole on the fighting front. He is guardof his most interesting reading as- 500 head of cattle for a stampede in scene the recorded he ing a point in the Wonju area where the battle has raged off and Worth entire local Fort ranchsignments on savagely for several weeks. Note the Talkfor ers didnt want their steers to go book, The Brave Bulls, piles of empty machine cartridges near his weapon. Rest does not come very often to ing Books for the Blind, making it into the movies . . . Randolph Scott our hard pressed troops in the Korean available to millions of sightless carries his lunch to work. struggle, and they know how to take advantage of it when It does. persons. 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