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Show Gov't Corporation Still Fighting First World War WASHINGTON When Congressman Con-gressman Walter Norbald, of Oregon, was a 10-year-old lad, back in 1918, he noted with interest in-terest the creation out in his tall-tree tall-tree country of the U S. Spruce Corp. by the government to help win World War I. Recently the Congressman, now a grown man. was even more interested to find out that the government-owned corpora tion still was fighting the First World War. "What's worrying me is this," said Mr. Norblad. "If we can't get rid of a World War I government-corporation in 28 years, then what's going to happen to our billion-dollar World War II corporations? For All Eternity? "They'll still be with us when my grandchilden are old, white whiskered gentlemen!" Seems that while no airplane ever was built of the corporation's corpora-tion's World War I spruce, for which Congress originally spent S23.500.000, each spring since 1922 Congress has been appro-priating appro-priating $10,000 to liquidate the ' lumber company. It's not liquidated yet. The government corporation, operating operat-ing on a government basis, paying pay-ing no taxes on its stands of timber, tim-ber, its railroad or its sawmills, is run by a retired Army colonel and other employees including a government chauffer to drive the colonel to his office in a government gov-ernment car! |