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Show It's His Choice I Washington Column Critical Power Shortage Surrounds New Site H-Bo- PROVO, UTAH UTAH, COUNTY, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER By PETER EDSON only 110,000 kw. of power to disNEA Washington Correspondent pose of from two dams Dale Lo Hollow on the Cumberland river WASHINGTON (NEA) 195Q 27, tion of the new materials n. plant in the Augusta, S. C, vicinity, raises many prob lems on electric p6wcr shortage in this area. Next to Bonneville in the northwest, the southeast Is the number two power shortage area in the U .5. in Tennessee, and Allatoona in northwest Georgia. But thera ara eight other dams' and generating plants under construction with a total capacity of 880,000 kw. And 1 other projects In the area with a potential capacity of over 1,000,000 kw., have been authorized by congress, though not appropriated for. Biggest of the projects under construction is the mile-lon- g, dam and 280.000 kw. power plant at Clark Hill on the Savannah river. It is about 25 miles upstream from the plant site. Clark Hilt is now scheduled for completion in 1952-5- 4, but the work could presumably be speeded up. Plant Rates Priority Power frbm this t75.000.000 project was originally intended to take care of normal commercial and residential growth. But a government installation like the Savannah river AEC plant would presumably get first claim on such power if demanded in national defense interest. Still farther upstream is the site of another authorized army engineers' dam and 90,000 kw. power plant at Hartwell. Engineering has been started on this $68,000,000 project, but ground has not been broken. It is now scheduled for completion in 1953. Southeastern power adminis tration has opened offices at Ga., near Hartwell. Ben Creim, former Bonneville engineer and bureau of reclamation regional manager in the west, is H-bo- Ga.,-Aike- Combining Resources Exploded Mystery It Not the least important aspect of the councoalition between the tries is that of economic problems. Seeking to solve some of these, President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee reached an understanding in their December meeting raw materials. about the shortages Since then economic experts from the United States and Great Britain have been working on plans for pooling resources. The idea is a system of allocations of scarce materials such as chemicals and some metals. This is likely to be a tough problem. Not only economics experts but industrial specialists will be needed to decide such questions as the bases of allocations. No doubt quite as much diplomacy will need to be called into play as in the political situation. There is no doubt thatCit will have to be solved, however, for no military setup is stronger than the economic and industrial system which supports it. In these strange and troubled times, it takes no4 more than an unexplained gadget like this to set off a wave of anxious rumor and speculation. It is human nature to be concerned about things whose existence is known or suspected but whose nature and purpose are not known. It seems to be human nature also to examine strange things with one eye open for the supernatural. The development of atomic energy suggests strange new forces. The flying saucers and talk of the exploration of space have created notions of visitors from other planets. The world seems full of things we know about, but only vaguely. In that the present age is not greatly different from any other, but we can't help thinking that there will be much more peace of mind when the shrouds of mystery can be taken from some of these things. Meanwhile every explanation of strange objects helps a little. There is a bold hotel operator in Decatur, Illinois. He announced that his hotel has not raised prices above the December 1 level, and does not intend to do so. Neither, he said, does it intend to pay higher prices for supplies than it did as of that date. 4This immediately engenders a lively curiosity as to how he will make out with his resolution not to pay higher prices to his suppliers. Yet in announcing this plan he has put a finger squarely' on the fundamental element of price control, the element which the government apparently forgets when it attempts to control prices News and Security on a piecemeal basis. The price of a hotel room is inescapably determined by the price the hotel must pay for linens, soap, fuel and its myriad other supplies and the wages it must pay. for maids, clerks, elevator operators and the rest. The price of the room cannot be held at an arbitrarily selected point unless the other prices and the wages can also be held arbitrarily at a level consistent with that American newspaper people are more noted for their vehement opposition to any form of censorship than for happy acceptance of it, but most of them heaved a sigh of relief when Tokyo headquarters announced a plan for screening all dispatches from and about the Korea battle front. The Army said it was not censorship, but it is unless the line between censorship and something else is exceedingly fine. We don't like censorship, but the requirements of war are different from those of normal living. War correspondents know that what they write could cost men's lives; they don't want that to happen. They also know that very often they do not have enough knowledge to judge accurately whether a given piece of information is dangerous. Military men cannot always tell but their batting average ought to beeither, er than that of people with little or no high military training. point. This logic applies to industrial plants, grocery stores and other businessess. There is no sense in trying to fool ourselves about it. Many, students work their way through college. The reverse would be fine, too. When two fenders meet it always seems to be the other fellow who didn't stop in time. Merry-go-Rou- nd By DREW PEARSON "WASHINGTON President Truman was set to order a freeze on all prices as a part of his rt emergency proclamation, until he had a talk with Economic Stabilization Director Alan Valentine and Price Administrator Mike Di Salle. Mr. Truman called in the two men. outlined his plan and asked for comment. Valentine threw up his hands. "Mr. president," he said. "I don't know how we could enforce the order. What kind of a staff do you have, Mike?" "A secretary, a telephone and a legal adviser," of Toledo. replied the usually jovial "The problem is, Mr. President," added Valentine. "If we can't enforce the freeze, there will be such general disregard that price ceilings will be a joke. We cannot afford to let price stabilization be destroyed before it is strong enough to I or be effective." The president then agreed to hold off the price freeze until at least a skeleton staff is organized. Note The inescapable fact is that the White House has had months to appoint a price administrator. Three months alone have passed cince congress tgave the president power to control all but certain farm prices. (The farm lobby excluded some of these from the legislation.) Furthermore, three expert administrators are easily available in or near Washington Leon Henderson; Paul Porter and Retiring Gov. Chester Bowles of Connecticut. However, the president seems to have an inferiority complex about calling on men who served under Roosevelt. SECRET ALUMINUM DEAL A secret deal has been made between the United States and Canada to expand Canadian aluminum production at the expense of aluminum mills in the United States. However, the "Aluminum Corporation of America which operates an affiliate in Canada indirectly will get a windfall. The deal was arranged in private talks between Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, Production Boss William Harrison and Canada's Minister of Trade C. D. Howe. By it the United States agrees to furnish steel for building a giant aluminum works in the wilds of'British Columbia, which though it will take tfree years to complete, will eventually produce 500,000 tons of aluminum annually. The deal follows urgings by Alcoa (Aluminum Company of America) that the government buy more aluminum from Canada., This would throw the business to Alcoa's Siamese twin, Alcan, and at the same time prevent building up Alcoa's competitors in the TJ.S.A. Alcoa's first attempt to swing this deal failed last October, when Stuart Symington and Jess Larson stopped it. However, Secretary of Commerce Sawyer and Production Boss Harrison have now gone over their heads. The new Canadian aluminum center will be located at Kitimat, a deserted Indian village in the heart of a virgin forest wilderness. This is only 1,600 miles from Siberian air bases, as compared with proposed American plants on the Gulf Coast, 5,000 miles from Siberia. Note This same Aluminum Corporation of Canada sold 200,000 pounds of precious aluminum to Communist China, 1,000,000 pounds to Communist Poland and 3,000,000, pounds to Communist Czechoslovakia all after the Com- price-contr- ol ex-pri- ! W vests orw vsh. v -- vy ce ISOLAtY6NBAtTLE A backstage move to dump independent Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon and place Homer Cape-har- t, ardent Indiana isolationist, on the foreign relations committee, is being cooked up in senate ' cloakrooms. The diametrically opposing views of these two men were summed up at the recent closed-doRepublican caucus. "We ought to demand that the president not only fire Acheson," Capehart grumbled, "but replace him with a man who disagrees with everything the secretary of state stands for." In contrast, Morse cooked his "goose with Republican diehards by arguing against the resolutions. Since then the move to substitute Capehart for Morse on the vital foreign relations committee has intensified. It is spearheaded by the powerful Republican committee on committees, headed by Hugh Butler, even though Butler virtually; promised Morse the foreign relations spot last summer. Capehart, however, is a member of the committee on committees, as are other members of the GOP isolationist wing. When Morse caught wind of the switch, he wrote Butler: "I am aware of an attempt being made to keep me off the foreign relations committee. I believe it will be healthy for the Republican conference to have a full discussion on this. I am perfectly willing to lay my record for supporting sound Republican principles alongside the record of any member of the committee on committees." The outcome of this battle will indicate fairly clearly whether future Republican policy will drift isolationist. or anti-Aches- on 200-fo- ot er er Question, Answers Once News Now History Taken from the files of th You and the Service Provo Herald By DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA Staff Correspondent 20 Years Ago DEC. WASHINGTON City officials opened bids for 3,500 feet of 24 and pipe to be used in laying the new sewer on the west side of' the city. Bidding were Massey Concrete Products Co., Utah Fire Clay Co., and Salt Lake Pressed Brick . . . the Wasatch Gas company was granted a franchise to lay a natural gas line from Ogden to Pocatello, but the proposed rate schedule was not approved . . . Jean Dale, old Salt Lake City cabaret sfnger, went to trial for the murder of Sam Frank, Memphis, Tenn., jewelry auctioneer . . . . Marquette defeated BYU at Milwaukee, 35 to 31 . . . undefeated State and untied Washington Cougars were slated to meet Alabama in the Rose Bowl game . . . Dr. J. P. Bowdish of Butte, Mont., accepted the post as director of the Utah county health unit. 36-in- ch 21-ye- ar Prime minister Winston Churchill appealed to the Italian people, monarchy and army to cast out Benito Mussolini and come to peace with Great Britain before British forces were compelled to come to "much closer gripe" with Italy .. .Provo's St. Francis Catholic church held a solemn midnight mass of the Immaculate Conception... Judging of the entries in Provo junior Chamber of Commerce began . Mrs. R. C. Street honored her daughter, Louise at a troussea tea at the family home. .Churches, . . . Letters to The Editor What Is (NEA) How long do you have to stay in the army when you re drafted? A 21 months. Q My neighbor has been in the organized reserves and marching one night a week for two years. I have stayed away from it but I received my call to active duty before he did. It doesn't make sense. How do you explain that situation? A Members of organized reserve units aren't getting individual orders. They must await calls to active duty along with their whole unit. However, they're calling up individual reservists not in organized units who have special skills. Q What's the schedule of individuals being called up for Q Z7, 1930 DEC. 27, 1940 munist attack on South Korea. Some of this aluminum is now being used against United Nations troops in Korea. f WAlTCENSbRSHIP GeneraltMacArthur is leaving it up to his field commanders, as to how far they should go in censoring war news. His secret instructions are: "delay transmission of news and establish news blackouts whenever in your judgment military necessity requires such action." Inside fact is that MacArthur resisted censorship until premature dispatches leaked out about the evacuation of Hungnam. On two previous occasions, the joint chiefs of staff had urged him to clamp censorship on military news, but he ignored their recommendations, explaining it would take 300 censors and he didn't have any. Finally after the Hungnam incident, MacArthur reluctantly ordered war news to be "screened for security." In the secret instructions sent to all field commanders, MacArthur stressed, "It is not desired to impose complete censorship." "You will direct your staff, all public information officers and subordinate commandrs (A) Not to discuss with correspondents any prohibited information; (B) To institute a check for security over all military communication facilities under your command to insure that no message involving breach of security is transmitted (if security Is involved the correspondent desiring to transmit same will either agree to elimination of security breaches or the message will be delayed until security is not involved); (C) To direct commercial communication facilities operating, in your area to withhold transmission, of news dispatches until they have been checked for security by your public information personnel." heart-to-hea- ex-may- ' 3VX 10 Years Ago Price Freeze to be Held Up Until Staff Organized; Secret Aluminum Deal Revealed 10-st- ate Primary .reason is that the south is growing, industrially. faster than new power supply can be made available. A second reason is that large blocs of Ten nessee Valley Authority power are already assigned to defense and atomic energy production in the Knoxville area. Principal power generating in the area now are: companies 1. The privately owned South Carolina Electric and Gas Co. It now has an estimated 300,000 a 225,000 kilowatt peak load-wi- th kw. capacity. It has been buying 40,000 kw. from the state power authority. 2. This South Carolina Public Service Authority operates the 132,000 kw. SanteeTCooper dam and power plant some 100 miles oast of the materials plant site. The Santee-Coopystem was started as a public works administration project back in depression days. It was completed by. bond sale, most of the bonds being held now by Reconstruction Finance Corporation. County Plant Is Too Small 3. The Greenwood county utilthe small Buzity board operates zard's Roost hydro-electr- ic plant some 75 miles to the northwest. But this installation does not generate enough power for its own customers, and is afraid it will be swallowed up by the state's Santee-Coopsystem. 4. Georgia Power and Light operates on the other side of the Savannah river, but has never sold power in South Carolina. One reason is that it has no power to spare, with a peak load of 1,300,000 kw. that is constantly growing. Another reason these companies don't like to connect their grids and operate across state lines is that to do so would bring them under audit and control regulation of federal power commission. ' Last March, Interior Secretary Oscar Chapman created the Southeastern power 'administration to handle the marketing of any surplus power that might become available from army corps of engineers flood control dams. SPA's area includes Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia and the southwest corner of Pennsylvania. Tennessee Valley authority territory is excluded. So. far, therefore, SPA has had tery. Way to Hold Prices Washington is good to have the Navy step forward and name the mysterious spherical gadget which apparently dropped out of the blue sky onto a New Mexico mountainside. It was the sort of gadget to excite all manner of speculation metallic, strangely made, containing photographic film, electrical devices, and an alarm clock. This combination could stimulate the imagination for days on end. But it's really very simple, according to a Navy spokesman. The Navy uses such gadgets to study cosmic rays at high altitudes. Apparently this exploded the mys- non-Commun- ist mb the Public's Political Responsibility? Editor Herald: It would seem that politics Is something we can not get along without, but the deplorable state into which it is rapidly drifting is a matter which deeply concerns a lot of inquiring minds. The present crisis makes one wonder if it Is not a direct result of perverted politics rather than an issue of necessity tp preserve our way of life. It is not so difficult to point out a sufficient number of reasons for making the above statement. Let us take ior example, the recent political campaign,-in which aspirants for public office resorted to the most degraded tactics of defamation of character and slanderous abuse, which could have no other motive than selfishness to gain, a personal ambition and not service to their constituencies. Again, what respectable citizen regards with any degree of tolerance the exhibition of netty. childish strife and contention going on in our national capitol instead of the unity which is so nt emer necessary" in the gency? The incident which proved the greatest species of military dis grace in the annals of U. S. his tory, if the truth was divulged or made known, was nothing more than treacherous intrigue perpetrated by corruption in politics. The survivors of the impending war will be thoroughly aware of the cause of war. They will then realize perhaps that profits from preparations for war looms much larger in their greedy eyes than human welfare and happiness. We must not forget that political regimes are dominated by money power and that the power of propaganda ia always effective in pitting the gullible masses against themselves. J. V. FORD. " Q'sandA's Q Is the volcano Paricutin still active? A The volcano Paricutin, born in a Mexican field in February, 1943 is slowly losing the vigor were of its youth. Eruptions slightly less intense and less frequent by the end of 1949 than in former years. " ii KOVO er KDYL 69 Story Princn f:lSINw,s 30 Gabriel Heatter :00 Q Do automobiles outnumber horses on American farms? A This year, for the first time, automobiles outnumber horses on now American farms. Farmers own 5,800,000 autos and 5,310,000 horses. The figures were just about reversed last year. :4SSam 7:00 Greater - Utah Valley T:30Marvin Miller 7:4SNewarecl S:eO'Dolara and Sans S:15 BYU vs. Utah " S:30 8:5 " " 0:001 . " :1S Bet- Your LU District Attorney Sportlight The Big" Story Gordon MacRae Lucille Norman Garetb Larsan News Top Ten Records . One Man's Family Kaltenborn Great GUdersleeve ' News and Weather Eugen Jeleanik. Dream Time ; Melody Lane News and Weather Mindy Carson Dane Music " 10:3! " 10:45Melody Parade " 11:001 11:151 " " 1:30 Fletcher 11:45 News 1 Henderson ' v x . Broadcast " . S:00Frank 8:30!By Jensen t: 15 HarmonyHemingway Hiway 10:00!Kate Smith 10:15 Lanny Rosa 10:30jHomemaker ' Harmonies 10:4S!'4 Time ll:00!Hcatter 's Mailbag ll:15IDlck Haymes " 11:30 11:43 Songs of Times 12:00 Bob Eberley Stay Tuned to 960 KC for oxact starting timo of oach B.Y.U. Gam 1:00 1:131 Farm Ladies' - -Fair l:30Broadway 1:431 Melodies g:00!Hit Parade - 2:1S 2:30, i Utah Trail . 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N Report News J am bore Farm Roundup Old- Corral " " " :00 Sun-U- p Frolic " :1S :30 Newi 0:45 Sun-U- p Frolic 7:00 Robert Hurleigh 7:15 Melody Tim 7:30 News 7:45 Jambor DENVER j THURSDAY, DEC. 28 : pr-se- ks KNEU HOP Jan- Augtaat Ralph rianagaa New Hormel Girls " 9:30! 8:45 Fulton Lewis 18:00 News 10:13 Bridge to Dreamland From cut-bac- KCSU 1320 Holiday . Music Ha 11a of Ivy ' Ha yea M TOURNAMENT H-bo- (The radio programs listed below are submitted by the radio stations who are responsible for their accuracy. In case of seeming Inaccuracies or for further Information call the respective radio stations.) What is the world's largest fresh-watlake? A Lake Superior, which has an area of 31.820 square miles BASKETBALL Diverting Clark Hill and Hart mawell power to the terials' plant will only aggravate the growing power shortage of this area. It would make 'power and brown-out- s inevitable. Only solution will be to build other hydro-electr- ic power plants now authorized by con gress, plus still greater steam plant expansion by Georgia Power, South Carolina Electric and other private utilities. Radio Programs Wednesday, Dec. 27 Q 1 SPA?-hea- d. active duty in the army? In other words how much time do you get after your first call before you have to report? A Reservists first will be tentatively selected and ordered to their nearest medical facilities for complete physical examinations. They will then return to their homes, and be ordered to active duty from there if they pass physical examinations. To close out personal affairs, they will be given- - 21 days from, the date of receipt of their orders at their homes to the date on which they are directed to report to training divisions or reception centers. Q If I get a deferment from a call to active duty because of my LYNN BARI ASKS being In an essential occupation DIVORCE FROM LUFT and then change Jobs, does my HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 27 (U.R) deferment continue for six. Film actress Lynn Bari, 31, dimonths anyway? A. No. As soon as you leave a vorced movie producer Sid Luft, Tuesday on grounds that he job which gave you a deferment 34, preferred night clubbing to mainmust service let know you your a home. taining it. about who name has been linkQ I am on the list of essential ed Luft, with actress romantically occupations put out by the Labor Garland, told reporters thatJudy he to Department according my job. and the actress were "only But they have turned down my friends." Miss Garland, who separequest for a deferment Can they rated last week from film director do that to me? Vincente Minneli has denied that A Yes, indeed. The Depart- night club appearances with Luft ment of Labor list Is only a guide. had anything to do with the It's not a guarantee of deferment. breakup of her marriage. Q What is the imaginary line across the sky? A The Zodiac is an imaginary belt of the heavens containing twelve divisions or signs corresponding roughly to the months of the year. -- El-bert- on, ' - David Harum Love and Learn Dave Garroway For the Ladies " Emerson Smith ' - News and Weather Double er Nothing " Live Like a Millionaire Life Can Be Road of Life Pepper Young Happiness Backstage Wife Stella Dallas . 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