London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 8, 1945, London, Middlesex Ii tomorrow 1945 or Mon River May get harness on h in by France Herron tomorrow staff writer of expected to stir a Huff and a puff is the flood control Bill plopped into a Busy congressional if passed with its present proposals the Bills ultimate result will be a firm handcuffing of More levees an Power plants and improved navigation along the nations the plan is an enormous including an appropriation 0f and nearly 36 contemplated projects in some 20 for harnessing and putting Rivers to Worvie the so fat As jobs Are con appears such a vast construction program will require skilled labor of All veterans of this War will have been Well qualified for much of the engineers will be especially As would ordnance and maintenance signal and tank corps truck and Bulldozer mechanics and Jim trained those in the Bill Point to the Tennessee Valley authority As a Success Ful Guinea in the annual report for the fiscal year Tva earned a net income of More than 20 billion dollars 75 per cent of All Power generated by the project channelled into War i oceangoing vessels now much of the chemicals and High to winning the War manufactured in the Tennessee aluminium and two important War also Are located in this area and Are supplied with Tva electrical freight traffic Dowa fhe Tennessee River is breaking All and because of improved Channel conditions it has been possible to build oceangoing vessels in the River arguments anticipated against the Bill Are that Cost of construction May be greater than the actual and that there Are not enough buyers to Purchase All the Power that project would be capable of opponents also Are sure to claim that the government does not have a right to condemn private property for the build ing of Public works on the tremendous scale required in the if the Tva is a the utilities can be expected to the project an encroachment on private property by the Federal should the Bill Rivers and River groups to be laced together Are Connecticut Hudson and Delaware James and Roanoke Chattahoochee and Tomb gee Lawrence and great Monona Cumberland and Wabash upper and lower Mississippi Platte and red River of the North Arkansas and red River of the South Rio Grande and Sacramento and san projects have already been carried out on two of the principal the Colo Rado is now largely controlled by Boulder the grand Coulee and Bonneville on the also Are in town in Tennessee the completion of floodwater storage facilities by next year will reduce crests on the lower Ohio and Mississippi by to four tvs annual output of 12 billion kilowatt hours of electricity makes it the largest Power producer in the with three quarters of its output going into War also through tvs cooperative pro Grams More than seedlings have been planted on eroded private and Public Tva electricity is distributed to about Consumers through 130 locally owned and managed municipal and co operative Power sales in 1943 totalled Missouri River Valley the Missouri watershed covers about on sixth the total area of the United including nearly Square Miles of bad floods in and frequently during 1943 and 1944 wrought heavy damage in this of much of the nations floods in May and june of last year caused Worth of proposals for the Eva area include deepening of the 760mile main River Channel to Sioux City from six to nine Extension of irrigation to additional acres and construction of hydroelectric Power the Saint red and White Rivers Drain this stretch ing Westward from the missis Sippi to the much of the nations of and 95 per cent of its and All of the worlds helium Are found in these Square erosion is a serious More than acres have been made use less already and More Are irrigation is essential in the dust and flood control is important Columbia River Valley Waterpower resources of the Pacific Northwest Are estimated at 41 per cent of the total potential hydroelectric Power of the grand Coulee and Bonne Ville projects have tapped much of this sponsors of a Tva for the Northwest advocate construction and operation of new dams for Power and As Well As conservation of Timber resources and of adequate fishing supplies to Benefit the regions major in the program sponsored by the flood control Bill would take from ten to 15 years to wide world photo sufficient Power to illuminate Chicago is produced by this Generator at grand Generator and Turbine tip the Scales at this Section is 45feet in Dia meter and 22feet the entire unit with water Theel and Shaft Equa is height of an eight Story booze Wotko by de Wicox tomorrow Slaff writer the Manhattan a Mikics Circle has heaped orchids on the sparkling new musical on the hailing the newcomer to Broadway As the oklahoma11 of the current thus adding another Feather to the already Well trimmed Cap of Young Leonard Bernstein who is responsible for the Bright boasting no less than 17 lavish on toe town is a rollicking tile of three sailors on leave in one of whom Falls in love with a photograph of miss the subway Best tune a suggestive ditty done with Mae West come up to my As the pvt Eues Grety longer at the Box composer Bernstein was off to Pittsburgh for an appearance with the symphony orchestra there As guest and piano musical Wise acres Are tabbing this Young Mackof Al musical As a possible successor to the late great George the nations Bobby sock brigade cried in their pcs Ida As Frankie the voice Sinatra deserted the hit Parade and was replaced by Lawrence whose rendition of dont Fence me in didst suit any so far no eggs have been new York City boor Sellers report sales for Cronin Green years and Ernie bytes Brave while across the nation in los Angeles the readers preferred immortal the Irving Stone novel in the fiction with correspondent Pyles by Joop tops on the nonfiction Mary creator the Bro alway hit which stars Frank Fay and a Rabbit is readying a Humero is Book about j j times wide world and Fross a Datton photos nations watersheds Wahidi May follow Tva pattern if flood control Bill is passed by Congress Columbia mis Souri Valley and Arkansas in right Corner is shot of army planes carry latin american diplomats on Tva tour Over Chica Augua lower left shows the Arizona spillway of Boulder i schooling raises opposing views the College campuses being trod these Days already discharged veterans of world War ii Are pretty but some re hot arguments Are being waged about the entire future of postwar As it will affect seme soldiers expected to go to school some Day at government about veterans have enrolled so far in schools and colleges of the nation under the i Bill of this Mere trickle has done Little to help col Leges financially As they braced themselves for conditions brought on by much smaller total female enrol already at an Al time will Rise Only a trifle and the draft will continue to take its share of 18yearold president Raymond University of in his 25th annual report As Volunteer census taker for the National sees As the col Leges chief Hope of solvency the tuition fees of veterans slaked to free schooling by the Bill of eventual Large trek to school was viewed with fears by president Hutchins of the University of who in a Colliers article said in part educational As the big time football Racket cannot resist Money the i Bill of rights gives the colleges and universities a Chance to get More Money than they have Ever dreamed of they will not want to keep out unqualified veterans they will not want to expel those who he also thought that veterans unable to get jobs and offered a Chance to live at government expense simply by going school will become educational among his recommendations have nationwide examinations to screen out veterans who cannot really succeed in College or profit by despite the educators were not opinions of some of them were president University of Cali prospects for higher education at the of were never to be eligible for government financed a Veteran Man or woman must have served at least 90 Days on Active status on or after and must be Dis charged tiber than All such of whether they were under or Over 25 they entered Are eligible for one year of school at Uncle Sams anybody whose education actually was interrupted by the or anybody who was under 25 when he entered May obtain additional schooling not to exceed the length of time spent in it is presumed that if a Soldier was under 25 when he entered his education was no schooling shall exceed four and it must be started within two years after Date of discharge or end of the is the government pays directly to the College up to a year for tuition and the Veteran will receive dire itly Jor subsistence s50 a month if he has no dependents and a month if be brighter nor do we expect to be demoralized by the veterans or to de moralize president Lewis Bennington 194546 higher education will face the greatest crisis and greatest Opportunity in the nations history All indications Are that the returning veterans will be most eager to work hard on a serious adult course of at the University of Wisconsin 263 veterans have already and the total May run to this presi Dent Dykstra said it will be no kindness to let any Man do substandard work for any considerable or to encourage men to try College work in order to get an education stipend from Uncle More than 700 veterans Are enrolled at new York like Many Reserve program expansion among postwar Navy plans first instalment of the navys postwar legislative designed to keep the United states in the top ranks of world sea will go before Congress the associated press a Bill intended to retain Many Reserve officers now on Active duty probably will be according to the news under present Law these men would return to when the War the Navy is making a study to find out How Many of them would like to make the service their on the matter of maintaining a sufficient sea Force after Japan and Germany Are one legislator said that Congress May be asked to extend the War emergency into peace time to jeep Reserve officers on this would be inthe event that return to civilian life threatens to leave the Navy without sufficient officers to staff the the House affairs committee has created a seven member subgroup to study possible permanent United states Possession of japanese mandated islands in the undertaken with Navy department the study is in tended to determine what present japanese holdings Are needed by the United states for outer defense the committees conclusions will not be binding on any treaty chairman Vinson of the naval affairs committee said everybody recognizes weve got to have a defense ring beyond Pearl which in the past has been the Advance defense base of United states were going into the whole scope of japanese islands in the South Pacific we will determine whether it willbe Worth while to fortify whether All or part of them will be of use to the Navy after the chairman of the subcommittee is representative Drewry of Virginia other members Are Lyndon Johnson Bradley Izac Mott Cole and Bates the associated press said that Legisla Tion May be proposed to set up 50 Little Annapolis courses throughout the country to train officers for the peace time members of the House com Mittee suggested that this program be established through expanded naval re serve officers training corps in regular civilian schools having a course of studies to that at the naval it was cannot be enlarged Erx ugh to meet the postwar navys annual demand for Basic Bills relating to the navys Post War bases and the expected to be set aside by Congress until Victory is nearer among matters Corning up eventually will be the determination of what Advance bases should be operated by the Navy on a per manent an inspection trip through the Pacific by House naval affairs committee members Likely other permits them to Start when Ever they want rather than wait for the next regular term to most popular courses for the returned soldiers at Are and business while there is much discussion about the postwar schooling of i there has been very Little about the prospects for some service Many of whom Are the new Jersey College for Rutgers is Well on its with a pro including Liberal Entrance require International news photo ii vet takes study rough in safety Council tip to returning gis the 1944 civilian casualty lists were announced last week by the safety and it appears that were by far the most dangerous spots to the civilian world with three Accident for every single mishap on the pointing out that the average Blue heaven is As treacherous As a the Council released figures whih was about aver age for flip report residential the Capitol during and 142 were Here Are the ways in which some of them won purple a Young became a statistic he spit on an electric Light bulb and it promptly exploded in his a Man swallowed a lighted cigarette when he fell while smoking in a sleepwalker was rather badly Cut up when lie ambled into an electric fan Dur ing a nocturnal and a Young her Mouth whip trying to open of Beer with her the Council promises to let us when its Safe enough to venture Button in the Philadelphia look a Booby
