TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER **, 1951
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WATER Water is rapidly be
coming one of the moat important
elements in politics, as w*U ssjn
the physical and economic life of
our people.. Biblical stories snout
O the destructiveness of the flood
and about miniature wars waaad
over wells digged by Abraham and
Isaac; historic references to the
Euphrates, the Nile and the Rubi
con; significance of oceans, riven
and canals as commercial thor
oughfares' and protective barriers,
t, have served to emphasise the im
portance of water in the develop
ing experiences of the human race.
> Until a few years SBU the Influence
; of wafer was economic rather than
f m political, so far a» North America
l w was concerned. Pioneer homestead- 1
era located near springs, and large,
i communities grew up adjacent to
ocean harbors or natural landings
. on navigable rivers. Factories were
built whfre water power could turn
the wheels of Industry. Political
prestige acquired by these water
t • side communities was incidental to
the economic advantages enjoyed.
POLITICAL —‘The inventive gq
ga nlus of man discovered' how to use
steel rgUs and Concrete pavement
instead of rivers as avenues ms
transportation, and how to convert
local witer power into transmissi
ble electric current. It was no long
er necessary for cities to be con
nected with' navigable water, qg
that factories should depend for
power upon an immediately adja
cent waterfall. Rivera were divert
ed into irrigation projects, while
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now become a football in one of the
greatest political games in history.
INEVITABLE? That was a
natural if not an inevitable de
velopment. As other families mov
ed into the community, the plo
/ rights Actional
1 communities along the river re
squired sharing of privileges by the
first town established. As conflicts
arose between these claimants,
moved in to assume that preroga
tive. It fas a ,relatively abort and
easy steß fop government to chatwe
its attitude from referee to assump
tion of ownership, dp we have such
installations at expense
on the Coiorwto
vers, proposals for development of
the Missouri and dozens of smaller
rlvew (including the Roanoke in
'North Carolina and Virginia) un
der the gtiiae pf flood oontrol for
U* Wtofetodd, but actually for
genenpeu of electric power in
competition with private enterprise
■ TOTAL Comes now a much
more comprehensive total program
for federal government, control of
I all streams ip the United States
This proposed scheme is involved
in recent appointments by Presi
dsnt Trufegt of a National Water
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HARNETT
Resources Policx Commission. Tsp
tstlve plan caitt for ten fe flfteea
' toting the origin of triWtarSTta
|ll rivers. _
CENTRALIZED There are tfO
significant phases of tentative rec
ommendations. First is that "fee
purpose of developing the resource
es of a river basin a single unified
Dfen for entire basin be the barif
for such development;" and.^’MShM
or sevep affected federal agenoles,
some form of stole representation "
Id other words, the Man calls to*
at least six federal representatives,
prcmbly one state member, end
possibly one private enterprise
spokesman on each regional com
mission. Stated another way, the
commission would be called region
al, but it would in fget be com
pletely controlled tag Washington.
RAW That was a bit too raw
even for the North Carolina state
government, which under leader
ship of Governor Kerr Scott has
been pretty thoroughly committed
to federal control of water-power
and other items traditionally re-1
served to state and local govern
ments and to the people. Bac|c in
September the. president’s commis
sion submitted the proposed plan
to North Carolina- No action was
taken until last week when. George
Rosa,, director at conservation -and
development, caUtd a conference to
consider and reply to tlw Septem
ber .inquiries. Fourteen ifeople at
tended that edhrerertee, twelve of
sentatives of an electric power com
pany. Consensus of-the conference,
as reported, next day in a letter
signed by Director Ross, was that
the overall kfeg had merit; but g|iat
< North Caroßna could not go along
entirely qntil some questions of
the Power of a national central,
"review board” had been clarified.
GOVERNMENTAL Questions '
raised had to do with relationship I
of States to the federal government,
sO’^wCai:
sfet« and local governments. Pa
msu&amzjg!
era of land, water. tahqhinery or
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able conclusion is .that majority
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THE DAILY RECORD, DUNN, N. O
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1 OAKLAND. Oftltf. (ID-Otto F.
’ bfeynird. 42-year old gardener
WhOSS photography hobby MUfeed
: % hip "swr scare, comes up in
court fesfey on g simple vagrancy
I Maynard was arrested Sunday on
th» totaPtatot of netghiyrt w&a be
oame suspicious of hk activities
elaborate photographic equipment,
pictures of defense installations and
notes on the effects of the atom
bomb.
However, the FBI decided May
nard was simply a camera enthus
iast His notes on the atom bomb
ware taken from civilian defense
pamphlets and.dealt only with the
effects of the bomb.
DETROIT W—The home haircut
Was an its way hack in Detroit to
day. Detroit department stores re
ported a tush for home hqircutt
ing equipment.
Behind the rush was an. announ
cement by barbers two weeks ago.
that the price of a haircut prob
ably would be raised 25 cents tri
$1.50 before Christmas.
GROTON, Conn. (IPi—Col. M. J.
Retrosgy says that the easiest
way to make a few dollars is to
send the government a bill.
He asked Uncle Sam to pay $23
for gasoline, purchased for a gov
ernment plane at the Groton Fly
ing Service.
The check that he got back was
made out for $665,506.41, roughly
20,000 times more than the $23 he
asked for.
Petrosky locked the check In his
safe and wired the government
that a “slight overpayment” had
been made, and would they please
tell him what to do with the check.
lAs an afterthought, he added:
j “What about the 933*
OKLAHOMA CITY (W Jack
Woody wasn’t serving on a district
court Jury today, hut' he had one
of the best excuses the judge ever
heard.
A The prosecutor asked the 28-
'year-old salesman if he knew any
reason why he couldn’t serve as
an impartial and unbiased juror in
a bpotlegging case.
'■Wbjf. yea- I believe 1 do.” Woody
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VAJfr NUYS, C*W. lift—George
9, Wilson complained to ffttioe
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in his hand.
WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass «*-
For 3| years, until he was 86, Fran
cois la siege gulped down a dally
shot of gin. Than be switched from
gin to brandy at hia doctor’s, ad
vice. Last Saturday, when he cele
brated his 81th birthday, la Siege
predicted he would live to be 100.
. He died yesterday. ,
,he makes no exceptions—even for
himself. After having difficulty ne
gotiating a turn in his car after a
party, the judge had himself arres
ted, sgried the complaint against
himself, Mid pleaded guilty before
himseU.
He then fined himself S2OO and
warned himself not to appear in
court atqfci ha the same charge.
th» idea of governmental. rather
than pmate enterprise control, and
that the mala question is whether
that cohtaot shall be exercised at
national, state or local government
al tab* So »l few* wafer tow to
come a political football, subject
arouna by * veri
puDnc crucial from county coin
missloner to president of the United
States.
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