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Show i ft 12 Sunday, April' 6, 1947 SUNDAY HERALD Public Power Fight Bobs Up Agaiiijn. Republican Congress Br PETER ED SON ' NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 5 (NEA) A new drive is on to limit the , ' lederal government's electric power business and reduce com- , petition to the private power companies. Half a dozen bills have been introduced in congress to accomplish this end. Most formidable for-midable vehicle it -a complicated bill sponsored by Democratic Sen. Elmer Thomas of, Oklahoma. It has particular' interest in the west, where most federal power projects are located. But in the long run this bill would affect every consumer of electric energy because of its Indirect bearing on power rates. The Thomas bill would set up k new power policy. It would Old Postmaster 'Santa Claus' Dies SANTA CLAUS, Ind., April 5 U.R Oscar L. Phillips. 57. the "Santa Claus" of Santa Claus, Ind.. died today. As postmaster for the past 12 years in this little Spencer county coun-ty village, Phillips answered letters let-ters to Santa from thousands of children each Christmas season. He died in his home a few hours after suffering a heart seizure. Phillips took over as postmaster postmas-ter in 1935 after the death of James Martin, the ruddy-faced, lolly man who first earned the Nicholas or aan Shaw Believes He's Part Ghost take away from the interior department's de-partment's bureau of reclamation its present rights to build, trans mission- lines and make direct sales of electric power produced at government-built dams. Exist ing contracts and all operations of the TVA would be exempted. But on all future public, power developments,, the government would be hamstrung, if not completely com-pletely stopped. Bureau of reclamation, army engineers, or other federal agencies agen-cies could still build dams for flood control, navigation, and irrigation irri-gation projects. Where feasible, electric generators could be in- Stalled as a sideline, if specifically authorized by congress. But the building of dams for the sole purpose of generating electricity would be banned. Building of new power transmis sion lines by the government would, also be banned. And so would the building of government govern-ment steam generating plants to "firm up" the quantity of power from hydro-electric generators in seasons of low water or peak loads. Public Power Question All government power, says the Thomas bill, would have to be sold at wholesale, at the damsite, to distributing companies which would then resell it to ultimate consumers. Privately-owned electric elec-tric power companies would be permitted to resell this current at a profit. This goes right to the heart of the whole public power question whether any private interest should have the right to profits from a utility paid for and supported by taxes. The Thomas bill would transfer LONDON, April 5 (U.P George Bernard ' Shaw believes he is three-quarters - of , t a J ghost now but doesn't, believe he will ever be a whole one, according to an interview witn tne -yu-year-oia playwright - published today by the spiritualist newspaper "Psy-; imc news. j , "To roe," Shaw said, "belief in Individual survival is horror. To tealize that, think not of your own individual survival but vof mine. Imagine GBS initials going on through centuries! Could you near- ivr- Shaw cheerfully admitted that he always cheats at spiritualist seances and hence is no longer invited to them. But. telepathy, ne saw, was a different thing. ' "I sometimes think suddently cf people I have not seen for years,"- but said, "and next day i get a letter from them." Blossom Queen ta Claim. Ind" Previously. he; the federal power commission had been a blacksmith; a farmer and an employe of the state highway high-way department. Phillips looked little like his predecessor, who actually resembled re-sembled old St. Nick. Phillips had a sallow complexion and, although al-though he was slightly stout, was not fat enough to play the role of Santa without the aid of pillows. the right to sell all government power. FPC is now purely a regulatory regu-latory agency. It has broad authority over the sale and distribution dis-tribution of electric power in interstate commerce. It now approves ap-proves all sales by bureau of reclamation. But to take this regulatory agency and make it the government's sole power-marketing power-marketing agency is a step which FPC itself did not ask for and' may not want. Rates at which government power could be sold would by the Thomas bill have to be set high enough to pay back to . the U. S. Treasury within a reason- (V.r able time the cost of the power project plus interest on the governments gov-ernments investment. This is practically the requirement of present reclamation laws, except that now interest equivalents do not have to be paid back to the treasury. Net effect of all these proposed changes would be to set rates for power produced by government generators at the highest levels the traffic will bear, instead of at lowest rates possible. Competition Keeps Price Down , If government power rates were thus raised at wholesale, distributing companies might Kin of Missing form Organization NEW YORK. April 5 Some 250 New Yorkers who have loved ones listed by the war department de-partment as "missing and presumably pre-sumably dead" got together today to-day and decided to do something about their agony of uncertainty. They announced the formation of ."Kin Seeking Missing Military Personnel. Inc.," and said they would press for establishment of a governmental agency to search for missing servicemen in all parts of the world. Thomas F. Ward, Veteran federal fed-eral court clerk and a member of the organization's executive committee, outlined its plans to circulate netitinrts. to bp fnnvarri- r i i . i i t - ed to congress, calling for such;i"ve me way cirarea lor raising an agency. rates to consumers. - "We cannot be fully convinced! One of the .few things which that our missing person is dead; has not gone up in price during tne war is the cost of electricity. A principal reason has been the competition between public and private power. Nobody seems to have lost any money by these low rates, for the consumption of electricity has increased steadily all through the war and is still going up. -. Some private power companies might like to raise rates, but all. feel it would be politically dangerous. dan-gerous. What, private power companies com-panies fear is that if rates are raised, municipalities will want to take over and operate the utilities under public ownership. Anything private power com- unless we have more than a presumption pre-sumption to go by," said Ward, whose son, Sgt. Joseph P. Ward was shot down over Burma in April. 1945. "Nor can we help but believe that he might be alive somewhere some-where since he is only presumed dead. "While 'presumptive death' is a necessary expedient on the part of the war department, it is not a very tangible thing to suffice as solace to a relative of a soldier of a sailor reported 'missing in action.' "Certainly, until definite proof 1 to . the contrary is established, we, who have lost our dear ones. Grady, Phillips Get Assignments have the right to presume that ! panies can do to check the growth they are still living." iof publicly owned and operated power is to their advantage. In fixing policy for the sale of government power, the Thomas bill would give first preference to federally-financed rural coops. co-ops. Second preference would go to state-licensed non-profit irri- wicutvrTnv a-u a mo Kation districts. Third to federal cpartment officials have been 7 selected for important diplomatic I sumers No preference would be assignments- in the Far East, it:,v;n. to private co-ops, to in-was in-was learned todav. jdustnal users, to state power Authoritative "sources Saidiauthorities nor to public utility President Truman has asked Henry F. Grady of San Francisco, assistant secretary of state from 1939 to 194L to be the first United Unit-ed States ambassador to India. William Phillips of Beverly, Mass., a retired diplomatic officer offi-cer who served as undersecretary of state irom ismj xo ismij, nas SHANGHAI, April 5 (U.R) John been asked by Siam and France w. Powell's China Weekly Review 10 serve un Rc.iii toiuihim un and the American-owned Shang J? rev.ew seiiiemcm ui mehai Evening Post-Mercury today French Indo-Chma boundary l,:,:,, ha h. rv,;A districts usually counties as organized in the northwest. Chinese Policies Severely Scored question. He was expected toj handling of the case of Frederick i l .1, i ii-nuiiiiJS 1 Jn;t 8 Mysberg, a Netherlands citizen IfharcrpH with violating the new restructions on gold bullion trans- the assignment. Government sources indicated Grady had accepted the president's presi-dent's offer and that an announcement an-nouncement of his appointment would be made as soon as the Indian government approves the choice. The appointment is subject sub-ject to senate confirmation. Identity Hidden Of 'Miss Nobody' PHOENIX, Ariz., April 5 (U.R) jtection of those laws to Mysberg. The true identity of "Miss No- body," who, as Susan Bower. GrevllOUnd LllieS baffled New Jersey police for 34! V V . , , , days last fall, has been establish- Maintain Schedules ed, but is being withheld to pro-i tect her family from notoriety, Dr. John A. Larson, superintendent superintend-ent of the state hospital for the insane, said today. actions, Mysberg is manager of Abis and company, an American firm. Powell asked notice of the case by the United States senate, which is considering a treaty of com merce and friendship recently signed between the U. S. and China. Powell said Chinese mill ; tary find other authorities "are in jfact flagrantly violating China's own laws by denying the pro- DALLAS, Tex:, April 5 (U.R) Southwestern Greyhound Bus Lines maintained pass enger schedules today despite a two- The girl was committed to the 'day-old wage strike by mainten- lnstitution irom xxogaies, Ariz., ance workers in nine states. A company spokesman said busses left the garages before the start of the strike yesterday so union drivers would not have to cross picket lines of the Interna tional Machinists Association (Ind.) - Each day on earth begins atj Southwestern serves Texas, Ok-East Ok-East Cape the eastermost extre- lahoma. Kansas. Missouri. Arkstn. mity of Siberia, before it begins! sas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Colo- at any oiner piace. raao ana Tennessee, when she refused to reveal her identity. Larson said she was being be-ing treated as a patient, and had refused to cooperate in treatments treat-ments if the family name is brought in. Nancy Anderson, 17, daughter of me secretary oi agriculture, will reign over the, 1947 Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, April 12 and 13. $700,000 Trust fimd Proposed For Widows, Orphans of tlirie Disaster - WASHINGTON April 3 IU.RV- Rep. Charles W. VurselL HL, aid today that -he planned to introduce in-troduce legislation next week, to create ' at $700,000 trust fund for tha widows and orphans rof the coal miners killed in the Centralis Cen-tralis disaster and the Pineville, Ky explosion, of. 1945. ynder Vursell's plan, the money to be used would be the S700.000 levied as a fine against the United Mine Workers for contempt of court. UMW President John L. Lewis requested, its use lor that purpose at a house labor committee commit-tee .meeting Thursday and several committee members indicated approval. ap-proval. f rVursell, who -represents the Illinois Il-linois district in which the Cen-tralia Cen-tralia explosion, occurred,, said financial help ' was seriously needed by the- dependents of the lllCentralla victims and 'the 24 miners killed gt,' Pltrevilltf ' There were' these - other con gressional developments as both the senate and .house, continued an Easter weekend recess:. Subversives Rep. Richard M. Nlxbh, R., Cal., a member of the house un-American activities committee, demanded that '.the' justice department publish a list of all organizations it considers subversive.- Department officials said the list would not be completed com-pleted for another month - and that it still had not been decided whether to make it public. Nixon said it was "only fair" for the government to let its employes know what - organizations they may join without being fired under un-der President Truman's loyalty directive. Labor A new tentative draft of labor legislation was prepared for - consideration by, the senate labor committee next week. It includes a plan to authorize use of injunctions against strikes in 4 vital Industries. This authority; would be part of an overall plan to improve mediation and. bar" gaining procedure and at the same time provide machinery for handling critical strikes when peaceable methods fail. Taxes Hope all but vanished for beginning lower withholding tax rates on July 1 but there was still a possibility that an income tax cut would be made retroactive retroac-tive to then. Chairman Eugene D. Mlllikin of the senate finance tomimttee said May 1 was the earliest a tax reduction bill could reach the senate floor. A treasury official said that even with prompt action this would be too late -to prepare new-withholding rates by July 1. Sea Power The house was told that the navy had given top priority to undersea warfare studies because it considers mod' era submarines a "positive threat' totj. S. sea power. The statement state-ment was contained in . report by the house services committee urging - approval of $30,000,000 appropriation ' authorization to build two experimental submarines. subma-rines. ;i . Reorganisation Chairman Robert A. Taft of the senate Republican'' Re-publican'' policy committee' said he believed the senate was doing Ma better legislative job" tinder the streamlined arrangement provided pro-vided by the congressional reorganization reor-ganization act. He doubted, however, how-ever, that there had been an advantage ad-vantage in halving the number of committees because the committee com-mittee .burden of individual senators was still just as heavy. -. In developing- heat-resistant metal for jet engines, si lonn of "metal torture" is used: spinning the metal in disc form 1200 mph at 1400 F. until it flies apart PROVO STORE A IF IT IE EG - IE A TT Jgti 20 ONLY GIRLS SKIRTS ALL WOOL 22 SKIOIP IE AIRILY . Si;; jk m : -:!r:::- - :;;;::;K!Hi;g 5 Fi t!V:-'.i:,mh 50 ONLY BOYS SUITS Double and Single Breasted .... m r m m 75 I, 'fV MARKED DOWN ! 500 PAIR GIRLS' I J ! 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