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Show SEIVIXG CHICLE SF.EDLECAIAVT Federal Plan to lame Missouri River After War Will Benefit 11 Dams Curb Erosion, Released by Wteiero Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE It on THEYRE telling Roosevelt, ny WALTER SIIEAD sectur- bulent, muddy Missouri, which annually roars its flood crests along its twisting one-sixt- For more than SO year feeble attempt have been made to hackle the detructive power of the Million of dollar have been expended in levee and dam In attempt to prevent the costly flood which annually destroy vast sum In crop and property. Damage of the 1943 floods alone wa placed at Mis-aour- l. 13.1,000,000. Army engineer and the bureau of reclamation of the Interior department have been for ome time at In the development of a comprehensive plan. The army approached the Job from the standpoint of navigation and flood control. The reclamation engineer were interested also In Irrigation, erosion control and power projects. On November 27, 1944, a reconciliation report wa filed In which the two agencies were In complete accord and the congress in its flood control bill accepted the entire program and also authorized $200,000,-30- 0 each to the army and the eros-purpose- s TOO Mien WATER-T- he ram- paging Missouri river is eroding millions of tons of good soil sway every year. Here the flood waters carved into the bank, washing out a road, and leaving a pillar of earth to indicate the earlier line. bureau of reclamation to get the program underway. President Roosevelt signed the bill 23. but put a hiatus in the proceedings by recommending the creation of a Missouri Valley authority to handle the project and asserting that his approval of the bill was with the distinct understanding that it would in no way Jeopardize the creation of such an agency. He appealed for early consideration of the new authority by the 79th congress. The President further asserted: I consider the projects authorized by the bill to be primarily for postwar construction. on December Only Blue-Pri- nt Now. Hence, the project is now merely in the blue-pristage and it is possible that a fight may develop in the new congress over whether there shall be divided responsibility as to the army and the reclamation bureau, or whether a new Missouri valley authority shall be created. Proponents of single regional control point to the Tennessee Valley authority and its successful operation as a yardstick for future federal policy in developing and controlling all the nation's waterways. However, there are powerful interests which oppose the creation of these regional authorities, such as the power utility interests, the railroads, the national rivers and harbors congress, the Mississippi Valley association, and even divided public opinion along the waterway. Tlie rule of thumb, for instance, of the TVA is that regional authority will produce the largest possible benefits at the least possible costs, and "each task must be carried out to such a way as to contribute to the total result to salvage every nt .. ONE OF MANY dams and reservoirs already constructed In the Missouri Valley basin Is the Gibson dam on the bun river In Montana. Tbe lop of the great wall la about 200 feet above the river bed. Eighty-nin- e more aurb projects are planned. possible benefit and the ultimate goal should be the greatest procurable economic returns and human benefits for the entire region." Arguments on Rule. Even agricultural Interests are divided on the pros and cons of regional authorities as opposed to operation by established federal agencies. For instance, to agricultural sections where there is plentiful rainfall along the lower Missouri and water resources are adequate, opposition Is voiced as "subsidized competition" by the extension of Irrigation. Public opinion is joined to industrial areas with the railroads to opposing the development of new competing waterways. One basic objection to operation bureau has by the reclamation come from large land owners and ranchers of the west and northwest. Under the law governing the bureau of reclamation, this agency cannot propose irrigation for more than 160 acres of land for any one person. Another objection is that all reclamation projects must be over a period of approximately 40 years. In contrast, the statutes governing TVA give 60 years or more for liquidation and a regional authority likely would not be hamstrung by the limitation of acreage proviso. In a recent pronouncement however, Harry W. Bashore, commissioner of the reclamation bureau said: "We continue to stand on the basic policy that the bureau will support the principle of relatively small family farms as one of the foundations of American agriculture and rural social life. On new land Which is brought under irrigation fcr the first time, we shall insist that the undeveloped property be parcelled in lots of not more than new land and furnishing supplemental water to 547,000 additional acres to Increase crop value ap$130,000,000 proximately annually on 53,000 farms of about 90 acres each. 4 To increase the population of ffie Basin by about 636,000 from irrigation development alone. 5 To increase the assessed valuation of properties approximate- r u. It tie N- - . Address r' ;r v i 4k of these aprons takes less than one yard to make. The colorful embroidery is so simple even a youngster just learning could do it. j'ACII 'V FAYE EMERSON Bed Spread Made Ktnr tohelp relieve con- gestion and irritation in upper bronchial tubes, muscular soreness or tightness, couching spasms most young mother rub Vicks VapoRubon throat, chcstand back at bedtime. And at once VapoRub 36-Inc- h Whereupon the driver, asking no pEtfSTRlTSs ly $600,000,000. to upper bronchial drove her straight to the .. ... questions, C To furnish adequate and safe tubes with its special where the picture wai playwater supply and sewage facilities theater medicinal vapors The meter rang up $6.00, ahe THIS spread for a double bed for 19 cities and towns along the ing. may be made out of chintz or the bill and he paid It lent Schary river. material that you any Anyway, that the atory. chest and back 7 To construct 17 hydroelectric V have on hand. Eleven and one-ha-Pf surfaces Like a plants whirh will provide 3,800,000,-00- 0 bed I-jrTU Be Seeing You yards will be required for a warming poultice, kilowatt hours of electricity to Is Incidentally, the first of the rehabilitation picSo soothing, comforting . . .VapoRub be sold at an annual value of $17, which will probably be a invites restful sleep and keeps on worktures, 141,000. before it ends. Joseph Cotten ing for hours to relieve distress. And . . . cycle 8 To create additional recrethe returned soldier. Ginger CNLY VAPORUB Gives You this speational facilities through formation plays and are coaction. I t's cial ncnctrating-stimulatinTemple Shirley Rogers of new lakes and parks and the prothe nest know n home remedy for reRKOs "Enchanted Cottage ttars. tection of fish and wild life. lieving miseries Is another one, with Dorothy Mc9 To introduce proper land use, Guire and Robert Young In leadof childrens colds. Try itl soil erosion conservation, contour ing rolea. Warner Bro. have three treatment and reforestation. of ached uled "The Very Thought States in the Missouri Basin water- You, "Janie Gets Married." and shed include approximately two-thirThia Love of Our. of Montana, from the source of the Missouri to the southwest New York fell heels over head In corner of the state; North Dakota. love with little Margaret OBrien South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, the instant she arrived. But Marincluding roughly the northeast half garet never lost her head, though 54 inches wide and, if you follow from a line bisecting the state from two of her pictures, "Music for the cutting diagram given here, and "Meet Me in St not a scrap of goods will be the northwest to the southeast cor- Millions ner; approximately the northeast Louis, were being shown at big wasted. quarter of Colorado; the north hall movie houses, with crowds pouring Cut the center parts first; then of Kansas; a tip of the southwest to to see them. She could have apside sections for the the radio of on procorner of Minnesota; any number strip along peared then the cover; pillow the west boundary of Iowa and grams, attended any number of strips for the pillow cover and the northern part of Missouri from parties. Everyone adored her. spread. This leaves a long strip a line reaching from the Ozarks to Lana Turner and Van Johnson for the flounce. You may buy P. M. the southwest in a northeasterly cord draw the leading roles to Metros seam welting or cover cable direction to St. Louis. THRU FRIDAY MONDAY which with bias strips as at A. Use your Needs of the people to these wide- production of "The Pirate, did machine cording foot for the seam Lunt Alfred Fontaine and ntABLU(XETWOKFtQGAM Lynn ly scattered areas of long distances so the stitching will be close will This probably be to that are divergent Those living along on the stage. the cord as at B. the lower river want flood protection one of those pictures that are so gor160 acres." cares look at to that nobody at one season, and supplemental wa- geous Forms Shrink in Size. NOTE This spread Is from SEWING whether theres a plot or not. AnyIASI CALL! It Is nef too lata to During the past 20 years the aver- ter for navigation at others. In the Book 1 which Is S3 pages of illustrated a if who cares about they way, plot directions for slip covers, dressing tables, start tha new year right with age size farm or ranch in the states western and northwestern section can watch the wearLana, lovely couch covers and other things to keep the people want protection from loof the Missouri basin have intha new "KWIK account syi-temarvelous costumes? homes bright and attractive for the duraDifferent and better than creased, rather than diminished in cal floods, water for irrigation, wa- ing tion. To get a copy of Book 1 enclose any other ever devised. It Is size, due largely to the decrease in ter for sanitary and domestic uses 15 centa with name and address direct Though Dan Duryea succeeded to: particularly adaptable to ANY population. For instance, in 1920, and power for various purposes. Franchot Tone as business with a president of the up the average size farm in Montana The comprehensive plan which has to $100,000 annually, "KWIK at Cornell, he had was 480 acres, in Wyoming was been agreed upon is intended to dramatic club MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS lasts for 4 years. no thought of acting professionally; 749 acres and to Nebraska it was store water to prevent floods and Bedford Hills New York in an six It took Sent postpaid, with privilege years advertising 10 Drawer 339 acres. By 1940 the farms had water the land In time of drought. to lead him to the stage, to return If unsatisfactory, for increased to 821 acres, 1,866 acres The great river will be made to agency Enclose 15 cents for Book No. L of playing men youd a career only $7.83, plus sales tax . and to serve the within live Its and 391 acres, respectively. people He does it again to choke. to A. JAMES, 2602 Washington like W. Name Dust bowls, droughts. Hoods have basin and thus decrease its destrucBoulevard, Ogden, Utah The Woman in the Window hea driven farmers and ranchers from tive power. Address as a bodyguard who turns cast the plains states during the past Will Pay for Itself. blackmailer after his boss is murdecade. Net loss of population in Construction cost of the plan is dered. 1930 1940 to in the estimated at the period from 0 approximately seven plains states was 302,314. In which is to be William Powell Is going to appear area of North the Missouri-Souri- s from the sale of water and again as the tote Floreni Ziegfeld, Dakota, a strictly rural farm area, power over a period to be deter- this time to Metros r. Tech"JIM, 5 28.7 per cent of the population 'Vs ' mined. Only $400,000,000 of this cost nicolor "Ziegfeld Follies." Powell moved out, equal to 1,000 families has been authorized. ACT first played the Follies producer in of five each. The financial loss enwhich The Great a stake in nation The has entire Ziegfeld, LIKE AH tailed by this shift of population fx brought Luise Rainer an Academy to at least four of these states is maintaining the agricultural prodaward. reflected to abandoned farms, aban- uctivity of the plains states, for even OLD MAN in the drought period of doned towns and unused propertnever able to be seven states Montana, the type Theyll .. v. TOO AY I ties. It is further reflected to in- these comic Michael OShea. A crease of size and congestion in the Dakotas, Wyoming, Colorado, Kan- in his first film, Lady of Burthree larger cities of the basin, Den- sas and Nebraska, produced 41.5 I he then played Jack Lonof cent the 43.4 lesque," nations wheat; per ver, Omaha and Kansas City. 43.8 per cent don to the film based on the authors cent of the per rye; These Benefits Expected. he was Mulveroy to The The agreed plan of the reclama- of our barley; 15.3 per cent of our life; Eve of St. Mark, and a Actionized 10 per cent of our com. oats and tion bureau and the army engineers character based on Henry Kaiser to Droughts, the dustbowls and the "The Man From Frisco. is intended to do these things: And on of the water level 1 Provide flood lowering ground and navigation he NBCs "Gaslight Gayeties," the rampaging river has percontrol on the river from its mouth by to honors Beatrice with shares Kay to Sioux City, a distance of abont mitted wheat yields to reach 20 e ditties. singing to 5 acre bushels the times of 760 miles, by construction only levees and revetments to provide a chan- 1879, 1882, 1883, 1895 and not again They rented a $65,000 necklace of nel 6 feet deep and 300 feet wide. until 1942. In many of those inter- white jade for Hedy Lamarr to the behas 89 been 2 Construct yield reservoirs and vening years In wear Perilous. "Experiment 10 to bushels the acre, and dams with a combined capacity of low Then they photographed it, and it of acres of thousands seeded land of water. acre feet 45,700,000 (An wasnt white enough for the is water a foot deep over have been abandoned year to and just acre-focamera. So they covered It with 40 one acre.) This is more than the year out. cents worth of white, washable HOW LOW, discouraged, they can But at last the government has make-up- ! annual average flow of the river at soothes fast with make yon feel those nagging mns-cl- e its mouth. These reservoirs are to developed a comprehensive plan aches. In Soretone Liniment be constructed to withhold water aimed at the relief of this agriculyon get the benefit of methyl saliAudrey Young of the Broadway along the main tributaries including tural arsenal of the nation. From musical comedy stage, has never cylate, a most effective the Yellowstone, the Big Horn, the Cut Bank. Mont., in the northwest ing agent. And Sorelones cold heat yet been seen on the screen; her Belle Fourche, the Cheyenne, the to St. Louis in the southeast; from first action brings yon fast, is Paramounts Out of picture North Platte, the Republican, the Denver in the southwest to Devils This World. relief. Soretone Liniment acts to : Shes good enough, Smoky Hill and along the main Lake, N. D., to the northeast the though, so Paramount borrowed 1, Dilate surface capillary blood harnessed Missouri will extend its her from RKO for a in cases of stream. leading role in vessels, 3 Irrigation of 4,760,400 acres of benefits but not until after the war. "George Whites Scandals of 1945. MUSCULAR LUMBAGO 2, Check muscular cramps, OR BACKACHE ODDS AND ENDS 3, Enhance local circulation, Sus ts fatigue w sspwurt 4, Help reduce local swelling. Goods Of . STMUrS lf g 13-in- 10-in- KUTA 2:00 ml sales-volu- $1,325,-000,00- all-sta- you , t 1930-193- 9 i low-bro- - old-tim- S0BET8H ot pain-relie- COLD HEAT v ACIiOfl - ' " Ginny Simms, star of x Johnny f'n tents , recently was chilly at rehearsul and asked for a fur coat it seemed to walk to her alone, till Johnny stepped out of it. . . . Boh Hopes sponsor anconnounced that Bobs new ''v-- ten-ye- I? DtpC Saa rranclac , lallt, cents for Pattern taxi at the Warner studio and forgot to tell the driver her destination. But ahe did ahout T11 be see-ln- g you" to a group of friend. d .. Sewing Circle Needleeraft Bos 3317 Enclose Seems she sent Selznick International producer, Dora Schary, a bill for $6.00 as tha fee for plugging his picture, Ill Be Seeing You. The Roosevelt bride got into a WNU WatklusUa course for 2,4G0 miles through seven states, will become one of the major postwar projects. More than 11 million people live in this great basin of a half billion acres, comprish of the area of ing the United States. Llttls mslcrUl. eujr stitchrry, task hostess gifts. Pattern 727J contain transfer pattern of motifs; patterns; dh reettona. Dus to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly morn time Is required in filling orders for a few o tha most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: del stagescreen'radio Provide Irrigation, Electric Service Harnessing the nations ond mightiest river, the t Million People Living in Its Basin Not Even One Yard Per Apron LAND now laying waste and overgrown with sagebrush can be brought Into productivity by adeGOOD 3 '4. 4 quate irrigation. This picture show- a tract a few thousand feet away from productive Irrigated toad. tract involved what is heliet ed to be the largest total sum ever negotiated in a single deal for radio talent. . . Bud Vallee returns to the screen in Ieople Are Funny.. . F.ddie Bracken inherits s in radio one of the choice when he gets his own show Februars 14 the time immediately following Charlie McCarthy. MUSCULAR PAINS For fastest action, let dry, rub in again. Theres only one Soretone insist on it for Soretone result. 501. A big bottle, only $1. Sue to Mist SORE MUSCLES Sut to mnwk MINOR SPRAINS Thofjgti lime-sftol- and McKesson makes it il ippllH cold, Ingrdfnt to flora-io- n ct like hm to inrreu tuperflria) lupply blond t the are and IndtK flowing aaaea of wanaiK lh |