National Reports
WYANT, SAMUEL MARKHAM, WILLIAM K. Jr.
National Reports Resource Policies to Be Reappraised By Samuel Markham Portland After analyzing the heavy beating Republicans took in local campaigns in the mountain states and the Pacific...
...The Eisenhower Administration, shortly after taking office, began a systematic reversal of the conservation policies inaugurated by Franklin D. Roosevelt and carried on by Harry Truman...
...An agency called the American-Hungarian Welfare Committee was organized to finance the project...
...Representative Sam Coon of Oregon introduced a bill that would have given a Pacific Northwest utility combine all the power from the proposed John Day dam on the Columbia River for 50 years at bargain prices, the Government itself building the dam...
...Western states of the share of oil revenues that would have accrued to them in the oil-forcducalion amendment...
...Another aspect of the partnership was to turn valuable water-power sites over to private companies, with the Government financing the flood-control and other non-reimhursable features, such as fish ladders...
...Fifty men and women of the parish spent most of a Sunday cleaning the basement recreation rooms where the Hungarians were to be quartered...
...Louis for 22 years and is now 67...
...Very nice people...
...Members of his flock of 100 families are just as Hungarian and just as American as he is, which is saying a great deal, and if anybody in this city is qualified to give newly arrived Hungarians a hospitable welcome, they are...
...This proposal, which is about to go into effect, resulted in a widespread revolt among farmers who had banded together in rural electric cooperatives...
...Since World War II, his little church has been receiving station for some 60 Hungarian displaced-person families...
...Acting in concert, these groups not only can nullify any future giveaways but may be able to put across measures to continue Federal development of waters, soils and forests...
...Other people offered homes and jobs...
...A large dairy contracted to supply free milk, butter and cheese in unlimited quantities...
...I believe in the resurrection of Hungary...
...In addition, the Republicans lost control of state legislatures and Governorships in Oregon and Washington as a result of their opposition to continued Federal development of the Columbia Basin's magnificent water resources...
...The most disastrous feature of the partnership program was the giveaway of the Hell's Canyon site on the Snake River to the Idaho Power Company...
...The American Red Cross furnished cots and bedding...
...His life here is one of great simplicity, but he retains about him a kind of elegant courtesy and bluff good fellowship...
...Louis The obvious and logical place for St...
...Except for California, the West is sparsely populated, has relatively little local capital, is short of technical skills, and can only look to the Federal Government for further development of its rich and varied natural resources...
...Women called up to inquire whether there were children for adoption...
...Well it might, since these policies were mainly responsible for the loss of Senate seats in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Colorado, Nevada and Arizona—states where the development of natural resources is closely associated with economic conditions...
...With their sweeping Congressional and state-house victories, Western Democrats have become a vital liberal force in Congress...
...Here in the Pacific Northwest, Senator Wayne Morse, campaigning mainly on conservation issues, defeated Douglas McKay, former Secretary of the Interior, who had sponsored many of the giveaways...
...In recent days, when the Reverend Victor T. Suren, director of the St...
...This dam, now being built as the first of a series of three, will result in the loss of a big block of low-cost power to Oregon and Washington, and the further loss of valuable flood control to the entire Columbia Basin...
...He came in 1950, to be exact, and is now a citizen...
...For 20 years he was a chaplain in the Hungarian Army, serving with the Royal Life Guard at Budapest...
...In Oregon, Congressmen Coon and Ellsworth, running in strongly Republican districts, went down mainly because of their sponsorship of so-called partnership bills that would have given dam sites on the Columbia and McKenzie Rivers to private enterprise...
...Father Gyarmathy said it could be translated as follows: "I believe in a God...
...Louisan named Arpad L. Kertesz, who not so many years ago was himself brought here under auspices of Father Suren's agency...
...This church is a red-brick building in a blighted downtown area, far from the green suburbs where most of the parishioners live...
...Heading the welfare committee was a St...
...Concretely, this policy would have allowed the big grazing interests to gain perpetual control of the range-lands of the national forests, whereas now they have only permittee status...
...Stephen of Hungary Catholic Church at 1041 Chouteau Avenue...
...which gave an Alabama company $350,000 worth of timber on payment of a mere $2,500 for patenting fees...
...These are now established in St...
...The voters realized that the partnership had resulted in complete stoppage of the Columbia River control plan, under which over 6 million kilowatts of Federal power capacity had been developed in the past 20 years—power which resulted in low electric bills for homes, farms and shops and promised the advent of large metallurgical industries...
...Louis citizens were delighted at a chance to assist fleshand-blood victims of Communist oppression...
...Other Administration decisions also brought widespread discontent...
...Realizing this fact, the Democrats since 1933 have consistently sponsored Federal projects...
...I just adore them...
...Another aspect of the so-called partnership program was to increase the rates on power generated by Federal dams in the Southwest, on the theory that the Government should not subsidize power users...
...However, a bill to bring this about, introduced by Representative Harris Ellsworth of Oregon, was killed by the Republican 83rd Congress...
...This was true, for example, in the case of the tidelands-oil giveaway, which robbed the...
...Although never clearly spelled out, the partnership was essentially a policy of letting private enterprise develop whatever resources it could and would develop, with the Government offering any assistance that might be needed...
...I am proud to be an American...
...Many good Yankee Americans have come forward," Father John told a reporter...
...Such policies plainly resulted in the defeat of numerous Republican Congressional candidates...
...Louis to begin absorbing its new contingent of Hungarian refugees is the St...
...Father Gyarmathy, known widely as Father John, studied to be a medical missionary and once served briefly in the Congo...
...St Louis Welcomes Hungarian Refugees By William K. Wyant Jr...
...It was true, too, concerning the Al Sarena mining claims in an Oregon national forest...
...National Reports Resource Policies to Be Reappraised By Samuel Markham Portland After analyzing the heavy beating Republicans took in local campaigns in the mountain states and the Pacific Northwest, the Administration announced that it would reappraise its natural-resource policies...
...When all these activities were publicized, many St...
...The Democratic 84th Congress killed Coon's bill...
...The big dams on the Columbia River, the vast reclamation projects, the national-forest system, and even the national parks are all monuments to the principle that resources which local capital cannot develop must be developed by the Federal Government for the benefit not only of the region but of the nation as a whole...
...At the church, clothing donated by parishioners and other well-wishers accumulated...
...They control 10 seats in the Senate and more in the House...
...Louis and form a substantial percentage of the parish membership...
...Father Suren and Father Gyarmathy were kept busy at their telephones, talking to people who wanted to help...
...In gold letters on a dark red board above the stage of the women's dormitory was a credo in Hungarian...
...Also placed in readiness was an upstairs refectory and kitchen, ordinarily used for meetings of the Ladies' Altar Society...
...The outrages in Hungary caused the deepest kind of indignation and frustration...
...The place was somewhat bare but it was cheerful, and the fragrance of chicken paprika was everywhere...
...Amen...
...Stephen of Hungary Church offered to make permanent homes for 30 families and provide temporary housing for 30 more...
...Senator Herman Welker, who fought the Democratic Hell's Canyon bill and consistently defended the Idaho Power Company's right to the Snake River, was beaten by the relatively unknown Democrat Frank Church in Idaho...
...It tried to substitute for Federal development of Western natural resources something it called a "partnership program...
...He has lived in St...
...Its pastor is a warm-hearted and hospitable man, the Reverend John Gyarmathy...
...Louis Resettlement Committee for Catholic Refugees, sought help in welcoming 200 more Hungarians, the St...
...The people in the West have obviously been fully educated on the meaning of conservation, and they have implemented their knowledge at the polls...
...I believe in an everlasting truth of God...
...I believe in a Fatherland...
...A market proprietor told Father Gyarmathy he would see that the newcomers had plenty to eat...
...Senator Warren Magnuson easily defeated Governor Arthur Langlie, a well-known proponent of the partnership...
Vol. 39 • November 1956 • No. 51
