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Show o Q . ' Oneida Station s . ONEIDA STATION Mr. at-Mrs. at-Mrs. R. D. Nungesser visited Mr. and Mrs. Claron Henderson in Y catello during the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Charley Erick-and Erick-and boys spent the week-end l;: Grace. I Frank Kendrick was at home in Oneida for the week-end. He has been doing special maintenance work in Park City. The Oneida ladies attended a trousseau tea in honor of Nona Rae Stanton at the Stanton home in Grace Sunday, June 8. I Mrs. Alice Bahen Cummings spent the week-end in Oneida. j A. C. Keljn, system distribution superintendent from Salt Lake vis-' ited Oneida last Wednesday. Jay Adams came to Oneida Sun-' day from. Salt Lake. Jay has worked work-ed in Oneida the last two summers. sum-mers. He will be working here again this summer. this bill would be "the final kiss of death to free government in America." However, Secretary o War Stimson said quick passage, of the bill should not be delayed, by "frivolous objections'1 in congress, con-gress, ' Regardless of the Implications of this drastic measure, many are amazed that such revolutionary legislation leg-islation is deemed necessay to insure in-sure the cooperation and support of Americans in a crucial de'e-ns? program. For the current fiscal year ending end-ing June 30, 1941, indications point to a deficit of between 5V, and G millions of dollars, while this sunt likely will be doubled during the coming year. The army supply bill for 1942, amnuitting tq about 10 bidipns, nqw before the house, swells defense appropriations since June, 1040, to $30,115,000,000, for a two year period. To this must be added the $7,000,000,000 lend-lease appropriation, RFC loans properly, chargeable to defense, and the $6,-000,000,000 $6,-000,000,000 required after 1B43 to complete the twe..-oean navy. Thus., it. i,ir,ii that, during the past year the administration has pushed push-ed through a program obligating the government to expend approximately approx-imately $50,000,000,000 for defense activities. Disparaging this effort, Stacy May, OPM oUief of research, in a radio talk this week. Stated this country shf'tlld double its defense de-fense load and develop an intelligent intelli-gent armament program calling for. $40,000,000,000 worth of production. a year. The announcement by Chief Jul tice Charles Evans Hughes that he would retire July 1 from the supreme su-preme bench caused profound regret re-gret in the capital. The venerable jurist has served since 1930, and, was associate justice from l" Xo 1910, when he 'resigned to become the Republican nominee for the presidency. Justice Hughes has exemplified ex-emplified the highest ideals ol public pub-lic service, and retiVes with the tin. iversnl respect and esteem of all Americans, The senate passed the interior department appropriation bill l"is week adding to the house measure about $4,000,000 in cash and 1!.-000.000 1!.-000.000 in contractual, authoriations for various projects in the west. Seven projects, including the Anderson An-derson Ranch reservoir in Idaho, were transferred from the reclamation reclama-tion revolving fund to the general fund, to facilitate larger allocations. alloca-tions. An additional million dollars dol-lars was provided for conductmg investigations of various projects, which includes the necessary funds for completing such work on tho Grand Valley or Talisades dam in Idaho. Commissioner Tnge has definitely assured the Idaho delegation dele-gation that all details and designs would he finished, so that during; the coming year this project may, become eligible for an initial appropriation ap-propriation to begin construction. I |