London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1945, London, Middlesex 11 tomorrow 1 planners see the Missouri fertilizing Prosperity Eva Bill pending would help Many find Homes Young Man May be a Wise slogan for return ing veterans if the irrigation and employment projects planned by the department of the Interior in a report to Interior Secretary Harold commissioner Harry Bashore of the reclamation Bureau out lined these plans Homes for veterans and War workers in 17 Western network of irrigated of water to be brought to additional families whose land is inadequately least 200 other projects for construction work and manufacture of machinery and electrical Bash ores report followed one Day after Secretary Ickes made Public a letter to president Roosevelt in which he bid frankly for the postwar Job of develop ing a giant water and Power project for the nation to provide millions of Ickes assured the president that All m a time facilities of his department could be turned quickly to the task of harness ing the country Waters in an Ocean to Ocean reclamation and Power the letter was seen by Washington observers As the latest move in a tilt Between the two main advocates of greater postwar Power Ickes and David head of the Tennessee Valley both personalities maintain that their organizations Are the Best suited to handle the herculean Ickes told the president that his depart ment could master the Job by shifting gradually from War to the nearest economic equivalent in the Field of con regional develop but it must be regional development at its the program must embrace entire usually basins of great Rivers and their it must provide for full and unified development of All resources within the Region and the Ideal program would Call for simultaneous attack upon All phases of the creation of a Missouri Valley authority along the lines of Tva is provided in a Bill introduced recently by James Murray the measure Calls for a unified program to harness the Missouri River so that its upper stretches would be Given proper irrigation facilities Aad its lower portions controls against new president Roosevelt has asked Congress to authorize a Basic engineering plan for the Missouri Stiver to be supervised by a Missouri River Valley authority similar to the Here is a synthesis of plans drawn up by the army and the Interior depart ment which May in time bring vast new navigation and flood control facilities to the Missouri Missouri River Basin Boundary Benton great Falls Livingston Peck Reservoir Miles City Montana Thermopolis Casper Wyoming Stanton North Dakota South Bismarck imobr6dge rapid Pierre Oacoma Dakota Yankton Sioux City Nebraska projects to be authorized Missouri River levees Sioux to Platte River Platte River to to Kansas Kansas to Jefferson to Jefferson to Mouth Sioux Council main Stem reservoirs Garrison big Bend fort Randall Gavins Point tributaries of Republican River i Medicine Creek Reservoir Bonny Reservoir red Willow Reservoir Enders Reservoir Pioneer Reservoir Yellowstone Basin i Boysen Reservoir Mission Reservoir Reservoir projects now authorized Kanopolis Reservoir Harlan county Reservoir Osceola Reservoir Creek Reservoir i Chillicothe Reservoir Arlington Reservoir South grand Reservoir de Terre Reservoir Reservoir Cherry Creek Reservoir the Kansas and flood control North Platte River d Nowaj Council Bluffs Colorado Missouri Chillicothe Kansas Smoky Hill Topeka Jefferson i City hepcat Arad bookworms by Joseph Wechsberg tomorrow staff writer the new Book seasons first big seller is Captain fron Castile by Samuel Shellabarger a historical Romance of the age of Pedro de handsome hot blooded castilian flees from the false accusations of the inquisition and joins m with Cortes in the Conquest of the heroine is a Beautiful Gypsy girl who shares his adventures and enough kill adventures to make four movies out of 20th Century Fox bought the Book for and the literary Guild made it their january anything can happen by George and Helen papashvily Harper is a delightful humorous Story of a russian who comes to the land where anything can happen and sure Hie authors Are Able to make people laugh with not at and there tragicomic Charm going through oat the Here is the newest list of current fiction bestsellers from the new York the Green years immortal wife forever Amber Earth and High heaven Green Dolphin Street the Robe leave her to heaven Ben Ames the bolivars Cannery Row the razors Edge As you can escape leading the with religious novels a close lean Back in your1 Foxholes and Bil lets and take a deep during one week recently the metropolitan opera House from monday to pellets the magic Lucia i the philharmonic symphony featured As guests Fritz Nathan Leon hard the Budapest string Quad Tette played a Beethoven ment the Hollywood Victory com Mittee for screen and radio has so far arranged for performances by individual Good picture meet me in a sentimental musical picture of the Good old Days in Louis forty years ago charming performances by Judy Garland and Margaret opinions Are mixed about Cronin the keys of the which 20th Century turned into a of the trials and Tribu lations of father some think it never grows others pro fess to have fallen sap news features authorized reservoirs reservoirs to be authorized levees to be authorized 0 200 Miles a new project suggested by president Roosevelt and now awaiting congressional May make the Missouri River Plains Region of Pioneer Tva of world War under the new called the Missouri Valley Square Miles of land drained by americas second largest River will be subject to a joint army Interior department program of dam building and water con the funds were earmarked As part of a billion Dollar flood control the Senate has already okayed the proposal and action by the lower House is expected the Eva will be part of the Broad program for seven regional water shed from the Columbia to the Alabama including by agreement with Canada the Lon planned Lawrence Seaway project the developed during the depression years and which cheaper flood and navigable Waterways to the Tennessee Valley will be the Model for the it is estimated that More than acres of heretofore waste land will be made Fertile by the nine states will be directly affected by the and River traffic will be greatly according to present plans the army corps of engineers and the depart1 Merit of the Interior have divided the program into six subdivisions the upper Missouri River the Yellowstone River fort Peck to Sioux minor Western and Kansas and the lower Missouri and books await go Joes return the Veteran of world War 1 returned Home after polishing off the Heinie he found a tumultuous Miles of ticker a blare of brass plenty of but not much he had finished one Job on the battlefields of but he found that his most difficult task came when he got Back into tried to find a it was Tough to get Back into the shuffle and few provi Sions had been made to help fit him for his old role of just Plain John j address civvies the Veteran of this War will fare much soldiers Bill of rights will help him Over rough spots in his personal reconversion Back to useful civilian benefits today i is receiving and will receive when he diffs the Khaki Dwarf those Given his dad Back Here is a clearcut com Parison of conditions awaiting Homecoming veterans of two world wars Muster out pay total disability pay veterans administration boards to review Dis charges claims procedure employment aids reemployment unemployment Bene fits world War i top Bonus upon single Man received a month none none existed until some months after de Mobili none slowed by red no effective employ ment or Job placement service no no one Ever heard of world War ii top Muster out single Man now gets is 15 a with additional special rates and allowances for specific injuries and More seriously disabling made a full War Agency with expansion authorized of present 100 authorized by i Bill of Quick settler Jent of claims Manda tory under finest veterans employment Job counselling and Job placement service operated by veterans for reemployment rights provided under selective service act of a week if completely Unzem up to a total of 52 educational aunties oppor loan provisions for Busi Ness veterans preference in Federal civil service hospitalization for world War i nothing for the Able but not sex not granted until world War ii every Veteran who is eligible at eligible for at least one is sgt on length of up to four for those who were under 25 they went into and those can show their education Wasi delayed or impeded by government a year plus month subsistence for those a month to with government does not make but will guarantee 50 per up to limit of or of a Loans made by local agencies such government guarantee per cent repayment if Veteran makes him a better Many More preferences now Able to vets of both granted by Congress v subject to preference for those a service connected 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