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Show I fi S5Ti HOfTIE M 111 Town W. J IN WASHINGTON '-fSi Jm BEA Appropriations THE RURAL electrification administration ad-ministration has allocated $18.-831,000 $18.-831,000 to 61 borrowers for the rural telephone program Involving 21,-408 21,-408 miles of line and 74,585 subscribers sub-scribers in the first year of its operation. i This allocation was made from a total of 609 applications amounting to $00,470,956. The state of Texas leads in actual allocation of loans j with seven borrowers, or new tele- phone co-ops, with $4,704,000 for ! 6,809 miles of line and 15,461 sub- j scribers. Minnesota comes second, I Louisiana third. New Mexico fourth, then comes Iowa, Indiana, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Utah and Alabama in the order named. The loan allocations have been made to 20 newly formed farmer co-operatives and to 41 commercial, companies. As was pointed out in this column last week, work of the rural telephone program will be hampered and cut back considerably consider-ably during the coming year due to lack of money and the scarcity of essential materials. For Instance approximately $30,000,000 is available avail-able for 1951 fiscal year, but there will be only about $14,000,000 for 1952. If you do not have telephone service on your farm write to the rural electrification administration, department of agriculture, Washington, Wash-ington, D.C., and ask for their booklet book-let "A Telephone for Your Farm." Answers to all questions are Included. In-cluded. House Throws Out Bill You can lobby and high pressure a small group of men much easier -than you can a 50-member house appropriations committee. That Is the answer to the backward step taken by that house committee -when by a coalition vote of 31 to 18 the committee overrode its chairman, Rep. Clarence Cannon of Missouri, and threw the single- ! package appropriation bill into the ash can. As a result the house will go back to the 50-year-old obsolete methods of making up appropriations appropria-tions for the government expenses ' In 11 separate measures, consider ed by 11 separate sub-committees, passed at separate times which presents pre-sents any member from knowing what expenses of government will be until the final eleventh bill is passed. Another reason for the retrogressive retrogres-sive step was the jealousy for power, pow-er, for under the single package appropriation bill the chairmanships for these 11 subcommittees were eliminated, and the chances for logrolling log-rolling and "back-scratching" in -the whole committer are much less than in the smaller sub-committees. This is the second reorganization reorganiza-tion plan in the house which has been discarded at this session, the first having been restoring autocratic auto-cratic and dictatorial power in the rules committee wherein eight men on that committee can, by their opposition, prevent any bill from coming to a vote on the floor of the tiouse. Washington Silhouettes Washington Silhouettes Land around the beautiful Jefferson memorial me-morial located on the tidal basin Has sunK approximately 10 incnes .... With an Influx of some 300,000 tiew war workers coming into the city, some agencies such as the patent office, the REA and other smaller agencies may be moved to other cities for the duration as was the case during World War II and plans are being made for dispersal of some other important agencies to points within a radius of 20 miles of Washington, which means construction of new buildings build-ings Another angle to this dispersal is the possible bombing of the nation's capital .... For about two years there has been a "for sale" sign on a modern brick ehurch edifice and rectory in the 4600 block of 13th street N. W. Cas Sales Increase Remember the Kerr bill, vetoed by President Truman, which would have taken the poor, downtrodden independent gas compainies from under Jurisdiction of the federal power commission and permitted unlimited rate Increases? Well FPC reports operating revenue of these natural gas companies under FPC totalled $110,219,004 for November, only 24.9 per cent increase over the same month, a year ago, and gas sales to consumers up 12.2 per oent in the same period. For the year ending November 30, net income in-come of the companies was $169,-022,049, $169,-022,049, an Increase of 32.4 per cent. So successful was the first one, that despite unsettled world conditions, condi-tions, a second United States International In-ternational Trade Fair will be held. That the United States finally had the back-bone to brand Communist Com-munist China as an aggressor in Korea was received here with mix-d mix-d feelings. First, elation that the United States position has been maintained, and second, some apprehension ap-prehension as to what the next . move will bring sanctions, block ades, or "limited" war. |