Walla Walla Union-Bulletin (Newspaper) - December 12, 1948, Walla Walla, Washington THE W U 40 U Fri day 47 04 Deficiency In rainfall Walla Union SUNDAY Our 80th Year No 241 Member NBA Service Inc BeU Feature Syndicate and Allied Dally of Walla Walla Wash Sunday December 12 1948 Sunday lOc Copy Three Pages McNary Dam Work Is Being Speeded Grand Jury Monday to See Pumpkin Papers Farm Labor Camp Buying Is Favored Pouring Job Finished on Flood Project First At McNary Dam Due Soon Construction work on McNary if ishway and bays of the dam his progressed to the point where contractors will soon begin the placement of concrete in the walls of the world's largest single lilt navigation lock on the ington shore of the Columbia river according to the district engineer Walla Walla district corps of en- This will mark the start at heavy construction that will con- until the dam is completed Under the present contract which runs until September 30 1930 the navigation lock the north ment embankment the north shore at an expenditure of Batch Plant In McNary dam contractors com- prised of Guy F com- pany Ostrander Construction com- pany and J A Jones company have completed tion of a Noble batching plant with four mixers and are ready to run j tests using cement shipped in byi barge and aggregate trucked from I an aggregate plant set up on rian island by J G Shotwell who has a contract to supply ates The first of the cement will be o into the west or downstream end j f the navigation lock Workmen are busy on McNary dam getting ready for the crete Upper left excavation for the navigation locK east or upstream end on the Washington shore This is the approximate site of gate to the lock Upper right is a view looking upstream showing drilling for excavation in main fishway nel between the navigation lock on the Washington shore and the north end of the spillway at the dam Lower left shows the Noble batch plant and one of the big cranes which will used to the concrete and place it in the navigation lock and Washington shore section of the spillway at the dam The plant when complete will have four mixers in operation Lower right shows McNary dam contractors equipment at work on the excavation in the spillway dam excavation for navigation lock taken at the west or downstream end showing the north wall on the Washington shore and tion for the Gantry crane trestle It is at this location where the first concrete placement will occur Excavation for the navigation lock has been completed Army engineers photos engravings U S and Toss Diplomats Out X Here's the CHRISTMAS GIFT that FITS Everyone A GIFT CERTIFICATE with a beautiful packaged rustic gift shoe manente Cement company's plant n Redwood City Calif to the Cruz Cement facilities in where it will be trans- erred to barges specially d from wartime for ment up the Columbia river to the ement silo on the Washington hore near the dam site From the ilo it will be trucked to the ng plant During the early stages construction the cement will be can tern tney best and be own For nave an selection Slippers for end c Hosiery for every one on your 3 E WILTON'S SHOES 3.1 ST Tel 476 WASHINGTON Romania throwing two American and twoj British diplomats out of the try and the United States is by similar orders for Romanian envoys assigned to ington The Romanian Communist SEATTLE state board said the four it js tossing 180 Million to j I VI Public Schools Most of the cement will be i education recommendation of a 551 ired with spies and By Snowslide By Associated Press The state highway department re Asked County To Set Up Authority To Buy Land and Keep Housing Project Going A definite recommendation that he Walla Walla county commission stablish a housing authority to the Walla Walla farm or camp was made Saturday by special committee named by the to study the on No county money is expected be needed for the camp hase the committee reported Steps recommended by the com- as announced by Chairman Burrows 1 Establish a housing authority dth a board ng various agricultural interests 2 Borrow from the on Finance corporation or other the needed to hase the Walla Walla farm labor amp from the federal government 3 Negotiate a lease with the farm labor ee for operation of the Walla a camp with option for the com- to purchase the camp from tie housing authority at a later date V Oregon Men Participate Three representatives of the group were present Saturday at the meeting and took in discussions leading to the recommendations They were Grant York chairman of the farm bor committee Roy Howard a member of the committee and leas Golsbury manager of the on farm labor camp which the committee now York reported that the plan is to the farm labor com- separating it from the Chamber of Com- merce with which it is now Continued on page 5 col U N Approves PARIS Sunday W The United Nations general ly recessed at 2 Sunday un- til 3 afternoon without completing action on the Korean case Pouring of concrete on the Mill creek flood control paving project was completed late Saturday the only work remaining on the job being approximately three days of clean-up detail next week All carpenters who have been working on construction of forms were laid off Friday night and the concrete men were expected to Four Testify Didn't Aid or Know Red finish up Saturday night according to Ralph Hawkins construction Final pouring of concrete on the Mill creek paving project Saturday marks the end of con- struction work on the contract held by the Guy F At- kinson Co under the U.S army corps of engineers t Details of the project as well as a history of flood control here and pictures of the program are carried in a special roundup on pages six and seven of Section II of today's superintendent for the Guy F At- kinson Co Construction of a concrete izer wall at the upper end of the project to keep rocks from rolling nto the channel was completed uring the past week The final curing Saturday was on the south wall in the channel near First nd Main streets Sheridan Everett resident ieer for the U.S army corps of said that much of the work in the channel has Chest Closes Autumn Drive PARIS United Nations assembly Saturday night approved over Russian and Arab objection a Palestine concilia tion commission which will try to bring permanent peace to the Holy land The final vote on the conciliation plan jointly sponsored by th United States and Britain was 35 to 15 with eight abstentions It wa taken as a tense crowd overflowed the theater of the Palais de Chail lot and as the strove to wind up its Paris meeting Saturday night pei Tr th Ported at 5 p.m Saturday night Until the time the final vote wa lie schools is due to reach the j saboteurs The U S called this Snoqualmie pass would remain j counted British delegates said the ridiculous Britain delayed a closed all night It set no tentative i issue remained in doubt When Dr next month A board spokesman announced j on whether to demand after a two day session here of Australia that the recommendation will be for a SI appropriation for It is about above the appropriations made in 1947 In explaining the need for recall of Romanian diplomats from j London This latest flareup in of the state's y i president of Rotary plows punched a the result the crowded assembly an way through the big slide blocking j hall rang with The con the cold i the road a mile west of the summit I fusion was so great Evatt had tc the road was his gavel to restore order tional money hoard war was revealed both here and There were The Israeli delegation said the Bucharest where the major action jcv potholes in the frozen j Jewish nation is ready to enter in to direct negotiations with the Arabi Continued on Page 5 Col 5 The annual Community Chest peal ended officially Saturday ust 1.4 per cent or short the goal of Pigman Brothers Alger Hiss Henry Wadleigh Testify for Grand Jury At Saturday Sessions NEW YORK of government documents hidden by Whittaker Chambers in a pumpkin on his farm will be brought here over the week-end for scrutiny of the federal grand jury As the jury concluded a Saturday session U S Attorney John F X McGohey announced that the house un-American activities committee had authorized the move The committee and the justice have been in a over the films which the will examine Monday Will Meet Nights McGohey said the jury would meet nights if necessary to com- lete its work by Wednesday date Rep Richard M Nixon house committee member said i Washington he would bring the here himself Chambers admitted former Com- munist courier led house ee investigators to the films in pumpkin at his minster Md farm last Friday Disclosure of the films and other in Chambers possession quick life probe f alleged Communist espionage be- ng conducted by the New York rand jury and the un-American committee Twelve of the secret were made public Saturday by the com- The jury Saturday heard three of he former government officials by Chambers of supplying lim the documents for delivery to Russian agents One William Ward Pigman of Appleton Wis a one-time chemist in the U S bureau of standards HIM u i J f unprecedented 32 per cent in- centered It involved an surface crease in the states children of of diplomatic insults in polite terms i Thousands of tons of snow g fac of on has direct wilt oe m IAIC i ui nnn t t the irom beatue direct to aroa thp rr-nnrt ibut the Arabs have refused ype of movement The barges increase of 101000 raised to conceal the bitterness Those who voted against of by Tidewater Shaver total in 1946 to 434.000 It also cited ing such incidents as this Th c Danger is tn eg reate i Afghanistan Cm Fred Haupt chairman Pali Troeh associate chairman a James McKee executive secretary said that while the drive ende short of the amount needed they were perfectly confident that th full quota would be reached by con- expected within fee next few days By Saturday noon the coffers hat been swelled to Haupt explained that the Com munity Chest is a position and the office in the city hall was open every day to receive money pledges and to handle mation and take care of the busi ness of the Chest Agencies To Get Funds Since the goal is in sight the six dependent agencies have been informed that it will not be sary to cut their budgets and tha each organization will receive full amount during the year McKee in commenting on appeal said compared to the er five years the drive just com has been tough Arthur Jones president of the board of directors of the Chest Saturday issued a statement thank ing all individuals who voluntarily assisted with the drive He the work of the chairman co chairman division heads women divisions and the solicitors for thei outstanding Record Here Landed Although the goal has not ye been achieved Walla Walla far better example than Yakim Spokane and numerous other cit ies Jones explained Jones said that Clarence Brad en had been named to the representing the board of war 70 new school j Named in Trial The four Anglo-American diplo- the commission Afghanistan suffocated in Cuba and Pakistan plus the Arab Syria Lebanon di Arabia Iraq and and the picture the six Slav bloc Motorists were asked to stay Poland Czechoslovakia away from Snoqualmie until White Russia and Soviet road was Main and side raine streets of North Bend west of the A spokesman for the Israeli ipass and Easton and Cle Elum on Ration said the com- cast were clogged freight mission set up by resolution of the trucks waiting for the route to U N general assembly was open ed with the view of placating the Travelers said traffic conditions Arabs and that no effort was made by Tidewater Shaver j total in 1946 Aggregate Stockpile i rising costs The aggregate plant on Berrian Since the sland about four miles upstream j buildings and 59 additions to mats had been in connection rom the dam site will furnish buildings total of 1.022 trials in Romania of alleged gregate for trucking to the j classrooms have been constructed I plotters spies and saboteurs where it will be the program of the the Communist government A conveyor will carry the statement said in the latest of those trials the aggregate from that point to after this program is government alleged that one of the I completed 30.000 children still will defendants had confessed that the Two larse Gantry cranes will beibe in rented halls and basements Americans and British promised used to move the concrete from makeshift rooms or in classes they would parachute arms and he mixer plant to the forms a basis troops into Romania for thc concrete will be placed The recommended funds forces in event of conflict for help to districts in The state department denied bad in the upper Yakima make body acceptable to Continued on 5 Col 5 financing new building against the American diplo- jcv Israel ma's American Minister Rudolph E sn informed Ro- woman Communist foreign minister Anna Pauker in a note delivered to her Friday Notes Released At the same time said I that in conformity with usual in- j practice the two would be withdrawn the charges against j gj i which bears directly on ridiculous and contrary lo reasons whv fertilizers which are pensable Jo some crops vital as press is presenting a complementary to natural s which this in others Vast Public Works Outlay Includes Nearby Projects Low Cost Nitrates Would Solve Fertilizer Riddle Americans WASHINGTON nation's j spent for navigation improvements jjc planners have a on inland waterways to aid program for developing i barge transportation of such bulk the vast water resources in our commodities as coal ore era in basins i gasoline and fertilizers released series of articles Zinz from current now carry more than notes between ihc second dealing with soil Nitrates in one Jorm or another and barring any violent economic 1000 of araj He IS this one: It has become i are needed by a major part of upheavals the These arc the announced also lhat the increasingly apparent that the everywhere around the year 2000 by army engineers the iic be so where wheat and pea places outlined by army engineers on drew up the hydroelectric Soil but Stubblefield home Community Chest FINAL CHEST GOAL appeared for the first time After testifying issued a statement in which he said I categorically deny that I have ever had any dealings with Whittaker Chambers or that I ever knew the man gay Chambers Lied I further unqualifiedly deny that have ever given to Chambers or to any other person any authorized governmental information I am low appearing before the grand jury and have answered all ions put to me His brother George Pigman so was a surprise witness ment officials would not say about him except that he oo once worked for the ment The other two targets of Ders accusations who testified were Alger Hiss former state department official and m witness before the jury all week and Henry J Wadleigh also a Continued on Page S CoL f Amount received tote power chiefly in state department the to be Friday that two iy that is are major enterprises j f of its too diplomats arc persona depletion to such a degree that I In Umatilla county com- 3 More than erata it not retarded the fertilizers have been tried north west More than i watershed worx aimed a t saving American government can lead wily to serious in wheat fields and found be spent surface soil larm American government gave tirm of all based on James secretary of or alw reducing Hoods its action and culture production and marketing Anther would would be by such unnecessary to dwell at agency Many farmers for a flood as and purely length the that depiction i mould buy three times as much as with the Romanian has reached a critical slaje have been buying at the moves against two Americans is selting worse at ar high as long as ana merely to but some hate the Blue mountain area the against ers bemoaning the scarcity charts from the Let vs then discuss without nitrates more than cither or of wholly retaliatory build-up on that point i and -one aspect ol a very broad U 31 surh as is now operating forest ana terracing Ohio 2 for con- on acres irrigation of and Another bej Cd i action CHEST CAMPAIGN COMPLETE HELP FINISH THE JOB MAIL CONTRIBUTION BOX 793 See Ad Page 22 This Christmas GIVE A GIFT That All The Family Will Enjoy A gift that will keep on giving through the years A gift that makes for easier and more comfortable living A gift that others will see and appreciate A gift that is practical and useful A GIFT OF FURNITURE or an APPLIANCE Page Section For Your CHRISTMAS GIFT SUGGESTIONS DERBY FURNITURE ELECTRIC AWer Sts Tel 1519 We now have a stock of thost small electrical have been hard to get i
