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4 The News-Review, Roieburg, Ore. Mon., June 13, 1955 Folks Aren't Interested in Boat-Rocking Any More In The Day's News (Continued from Page One) Publithtd Daily Except Sunday by the i ' . News-Review Company. Inc. '.. Knit f 4 hcI ilui illc Mar 1, a patt alllca Baaabsrg. OragaH, aitfar act ( March t. U1S. . CHARLES V. STANTON, Editor and Mimgtr Mtmbar of tho Atsociatod Press, Ortgon Ntwspaptr Puoll-Jiers - Association, the Audi) Bureau of Circulations Eapraaanta bf WEST HOLL1DAT CO.. INC., allleaa In New York. Chlcafa, San Franelica, Lai tiilu, Seallla. ParlUnd, U.ni.r UBSCBIFTION KATES In Ortfan B; Mall Par Taar. tllf : all rnanlha. .Mi Inraa nantka, M.S5. OaUlaa Ottian Br Mall Par laar. al manlfca, it.Ml Ihraa aaantha, UH. Br Nawi-Barlaw t'arrl.r Par laar, Sl (In aaranoa), ! than ana raar. far naanth, ll.Sa. A VITAL DECISION Charles V. Stanton Fow people in Douglas County, I imagine, have given much thought to the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the authority of the Federal Power Commission in granting a license to Portland General Electric to build Pelton dam on the Deschutes River. Why should Douglas County residents be corp-erned with what happens to the Descihutes River? Sure, we know it's a fine fishing stream. But irrigation and power , are needed, so why object to a dam? Perhaps if impairment of the sports fishery were the Only factor involved, the decision would be of less import. But, as it stands, the decision seems to indicate 'hat the State of Oregon has no control over the use of its rivers, and that the federal government can do what it desires to do with our water. , Did you ever hear of the scheme for the "Ladder of Rivers?" ' ' The federal government has blueprinted a plan where by the North Umpqua and Rogue rivers would be dammed in their upper reaches. The water would be tunneled through the summit of the Cascades and dumped into the Klamath Lakes. Then, by canal and tunnel, water divert ed from the Umpqua, Rogue and Klamath lakes an.l riv ers, would be transported to California. Unless laws are changed, there is nothing to prevent this diversion of water, rio matter how much we obiect. The State of Oregon has no say in the matter, according to the Supreme Court's decision. State's Rights Are Cone i ' It has always been presumed that each state hpd con trol over its non-navigable waters. The Desert Iind Act of 1877 conveyed to western states the right of control over waters flowing from the public domain. Then the fed eral government began setting up power reserva'ions Most of the North Umpqua River is so reserved. Author ity to establish power reservations was specifically grant ed by Congress in 1910. uregon s laws provide lor license or power projects by the State Hydroelectric Commission, and also grants the Oregon Fish Commission the power to veto where se rious impairment of the fishery resource is involved The Fish Commission, joined by the Came Commis sion, vetoed the proposed Pelton Dam. The Oregon Hy droelectric Commission refused a license. The Federal Power Commission, however, gran-ted a license lo PCIE. The power company appealed the . Oregon ruling. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a 2 to 1 de- . cision against the company. The issue than was (akpn to the Supreme Court, which overruled the Appeals Court and upheld the authority of the FPC to grant the license for Pelton Dam, inasmuch as it is to be biriltann "re served'' land. As lands along any stream can be brought into a power reservation simpy by administrative decree, the decision virtually, rules out all control by any state over the wat ers within its boundaries. Change In Law Needed Western states, which are principally affected, inas much as they contain such a large proportion of public domain, should combine efforts to amend federal 'aws, and thereby retain rights to control and direct uses of their waters. But it may be difficult to obtain agreement among states. California is thirsty. It also is populous and politically strong. It has nothing to lose and every thing to gain by the decision. If it can muster enough power, it can steal water from neighboring states, just so long as the water passes through a generating turbine. Oregon has two senators believing in government pow er monopoly. They could hardly be expected to work for any amendment which might weaken federal authority over rivers suitable for power development. We hear much talk about "multiple purpose." but the only "purpose" seemingly under consideration is that of power. , The scope of the court decision eclipses the fish fight. It opens up the whole field of state's rights. JiJ tBo.Je FORT STANTON, N.M. U What's new in cemeteries? Well, if you are really a cemetery connoisseur, there are a couple of interesting ones here at this cmtury-old former Army post where "Blackjack" Pershine, later a famous general, earned his nickname playing cards. Some people like hospitals. Some like night clubs. Some like ceme teries. I'm a cemetery man myself, and I suppose most people are. Night clubs cost too much. Hos pitals make you nervous. But nothing gives you a better per spective on the importance of life than a visit to a cemetery No other place is as restful. Only in a cemetery do the dead generally have to pay an admission fee while the living can enter and leave 1 nore nu,sl nnve 'nought of this be free, j fr'"" "icy died an inland death. The elflor Pmnlri. f th. F.I. em section of the United States iaics t arc usuallv well-cared for. Rut thev are also often primly trimmed and j patterned and have a caught-as-K-- is.fi.rvr i.!, . . nZ .... i I prisoned in glass does. '!;ned ,w,th 4 ,f?'lcd hand-carved Tt,. ... , l anchor. Many of those with names ,Lh , c,mc,,r", hcr,e r bear Scamnavian names, somewhat careless and unkempt. They wear their grass long in-1 separate corner, lined up stead of trim and tidv. They have i forever, rest four sailors from the a frontier down-to earih expression, imprisoned crew of the German if you can think of cemeteries as!rad'r ;af SP"- scuttled off having individual expressions. And 1 So,llh America eaily in the Sec of course thev do just as trees !ond World War. and peopc and pigeons oo. Do ,nv (ule,n , wonlt,rj Both cemeteries seem to have I what happened lo Hermann Neu-I had a "welcome stranger" altitude,! hoff (born Aug. 8, 1910 or Otto giving shelter to anyone, overcome : Zcitscli (born April 1. 1910' Well ! by the storms of this world. 1 here thev la rrv. plrrnal nine. Th bigger cemetery is the new r one. More than half a century ago the Army post was turned into natioMl hospital for tubercular members of the American Mer chant Marine. It seems, apart from the bene fit of climate, an mid place to cure sailors homesick for seas far away. Hut the vista of bonding grass on rolling hills reaching lo distant mountains gives one the feeling of being aboard a ship straining toward a high shore. Many of the 951 niarineis buried . u" m "e rv v 'l lnr identity of a name and carry only .... . i , J" j '"I""-"" ' IZt '"a' '..L' ,,' fcw s,rave h"ve r"de weathered wooden crosses mates, under the Iron Cross and burgeoning cactus plants. The older cemetery is the stnal- ler one. It must have been started Khrushchev Invites Western Newsmen BELGRADE, Yugoslavia I -Soviet Communist boss Nikita Khrushchev is making good and fast on his invitation here to Western newsmen to visit Moscow. Staggering out of the farewell banquet which wound up the Soviet-Yugoslav talks here early last Friday, Khrushchev after five hours of dining and toasting gave "come one, come all to Moscow" bid to correspondents clustered around the door. The next day some 14 corre spondents, many of them Ameri cans, swamped the Soviet Embas sy with visa applications. In Stal in's day the requests would have languished for months before they were rejected. The cmbasssy here now has informed Eric Bourne, British cor respondent for the London Daily Express and the Christian Science Monitor, his visa had been granted. A Soviet embassy spokesman said that in addition 'to Bourne. four other correspondents had re ceived visas. They are Frank Kelley, Rome correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune; Jack Bogon, NBC Rome correspondent; Rene Mc Coll, London Daily Express, and Seymour Freidin, New York Post. Dulles Appeals For Approval Of Austrian Treaty WASHINGTON W Secretary of State Dulles said here Russian agreement to an Austrian treaty "may open the way to further co operation to fulfill other wartime pledges" by the Soviet Union. Dulles went before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee head ed by Sen. George (D-Ga) to ap peal for rapid approval of the Austrian peace treaty. Dulles said; "President Eisenhower staled in his sneech of April 16, 1953, and the United States has repeated on numerous occasions since, that So viet agreement to the Austrian treaty fulfilling the Moscow agree ment of 1943 would be considered a significant deed as distinct from words. "It may open the way to further cooperation to luiiiii other war time nlednes." Dulles hopeful attitude came on the eve of Big Four talks which the West wants to hold with the Soviet Union next month. Donald Imlih Sentenced To Die In Cas Chamber HOOD RIVER i Donald Dwaine lmlah, 20. will be re sentenced June 17 lo die in the state gas chamber. He Is accused of Hie slaying July S. 1953, of his guardian Bruce llouck. Imlah was convicted without recommendation for leniency, mak ing the death sentence mandatory. The case was appealed to tlic State Supreme Court but the ap peal was denied. shortly after the military fort was ! stablishcd- in 185.V I Here are buried a number of Army cavalrymen who nxle to 'death to make the frontiei safe, Hut time has destroyed most of their headstones. Who knows what man lies below. . . ami how he died . . and whv? Their true mon ument: The great Wild west its- "','' ! Hospitably interred with them I are a few civilian pioneers. There I aiSO a Small, OOV S Size firave. lovingly outlined with pebbles, ami ucanng a headstone that sav.il simply: Charles." The grave is! sunken, but flowers still bloom upon it. Somebody remembers -Charles. As I walked toward the gate a i dove whirred u3 with a soft feath-i ered thunder. 1 saw two small ecus; in the nest she hid mada in the i dry parched grass, and k::rw that ' as soon as I was gone she would I I oi urn to that nest, and that out of , mis out Home of death new life ! would hatch and fly. : A cemetery is a pleasant place ' u you aren I in a nurrv. Porter Hits At Charges Of Congressman Ellsworth EUGENE Our present Fourth District Congressman, Harris Ells worth of Roseburg, stated last week that the opponents of "part nership" dams are in the position of "hunger strikers" in that they (.Morse. Neuherger and Green, in particular) "want government own ership of electric power or none at all." This is nonsense and Mr. Ells worth knows it. What we Demo crats don't like about "partner ship" as promoted by the GOP is that the electric power so gener ated will not be low cost power nor will it be available on a re gional basis, the two features that made the Bonneville Power Ad ministration so outstandingly suc cessful and which include prefer ence for public bodies and the fa mous "postage stamp" rate policy. Far from being "on strike," Democrats representing Oregon in Congress have been fighting hard for appropriations to build the al ready authorized dams at Cougar Creek on the south Fork of the McKenzie River, at Green Peter on the Santiam River and at the John Day site on the Columbia River. Such appropriations are not ex penditures of tax money- They are investments, gilt - edged invest ments as proved by the eagerness WASHINGTON (NEA) The battle between the railroads and (he motor trucking industry is a two-ring affair. In one ring the railroads are try ing to keep the truckers from get ting any of the freight business now served by rail lines. In the other ring, the railroads are trying to got into the motoT truck business themselves, on an ever-increasing scale. In the middle is the U S. Inter state Commerce Commission. From railway management's point of view, motor truck lines have been muscling into the rail roads' once exclusive freight busi ness to such an extent that they nave lo muscle back to survive One of the key cases is Frisco i Transportation Company' opera- i lion, going back more than 10 1 years. Originally the St. Louis and; !an rraneisco Railway Company bought out six private truck lines and established Frisco as a subsid iary to run them. ICC licensed Frisco lo operate "auxiliary and supplementary" service to its main rail line. But in issuing the certificate, these restrictions were inadvertently left out. ICC ORDERED the- limiting phrases put back in. Frisco con tested. It claimed the right to oper ate an unrestricted motor freight service in six states from Mississ ippi to Texas. Last April ICC denied Frisco the night to unrestricted truck opera uon aim iimnexi it 10 auxiliary moi or services between "key points in accord with past rail transporta tion policy. This key point operation L best illustrated in the Santa Fe Trails Transportation Company case. This AT. & S.F. subsidarv has been Mlreix..! In Anarnt a timnlnmnn. lary tmck service along its rail line from Kansas City to Dodge l ily. K.insis., and from Dodge City to Denver. Santa Fe now Si-eks to drop Dodge City as a key point so as to give through truck service from Kansas City to Denver. ICC turned down this petition in February. Hut the railway company is asking for a reconsideration which is pending. Another case still pending in- volves Chicago, Rock lTland ami Pacific's subsidiarv Rock Island Motnr Transit Companv. Last Dc- cember ICC granted Rock Island the right to operate an unrestnct-l I f 1 eter Cadon 5IT DOWN. PLEASE! i of the private utilities to undertake inese projects. Mr. Ellsworth and his Republi can colleagues are the ones taking an unreasonable position, to wit high cost private power or noth ing! Anyone who has bought a home using a 20 or 30 year loan knows how substantial a difference one percentage in interest rate can make in the total pay-out. The United Slates government cati bor row money at least 1 per cent be low the interest rate available to other groups, public and private. Such savings mean a far lower cao ital expenditure and hence lower rates. These "partners" and Mr. Ells worth don't care about low rates If they did. Mr. Ellsworth's legis lation would include a defnite for mula for determining the alloca tion of costs between the govern ment anrt the "partner. " Instead of issuing such wild baseless charges, our Congressman might welt emulate his colleague, Sam Coon of Baker, and consent to defend his "partnership" views in a series of debates in his Dis trict this Fall. Certainly power pol icy is the most vital of all domes tic issues, for upon its success the economic future of Oregon largely depends. CHARLES 0. PORTER 2775 University St. Eugene, Oregon- ed truck service from Chicago to Omaha. AMERICAN TRUCKING associ ations and affected independent motor carriers in the area have askeoV for reconsideration of this decision. They also ask that key point restrictions be applied at Omaha. Des Moines, Davenport, Rock Island and Moline. Their argument is that existing motor carriers. now provide ade quate truck service between Chi cago and Omaha. The trucking in dustry maintains that if the de cision is not reversed, it will lead to general railroad usurpation o( truck business. New York Central. Central of heorgia ana other railway com Da nil's are also seeking to have kev point restrictions lifted. They seek to offer truck service over their entire system areas. SINCE PASSAGE of the Motor Carrier Act of 1935. ICC has re peatedly ruled that competition be tween motor carriers and railroads must be maintained? This comes under1 the general policy that one form of transportation must not control another. A major change in thus policy has now been rocommened by the President's Advisory Commit tee on Transportation, headed by Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks. This committee would end the present requirements that the ICC administer the Interstate Com merce Act lo preserve the inher ent advantages", and competition between all forms of transporta tion. The Weeks Cabinet committee recommends that thus policy be changed so as to 'reduce econom ic regulation. . .restrictions, con ditions or limitations on individual modes of transport." Shopping Center Site Purchased At Riddle A four-acre tract of land at Rid dle has been purchased by Fred Vedder Sr and Fred Veilder Jr.. and the Myrtle Creek Mail re ports thev will build a supermar ket on the site The land was bought from Riddle Manufactur ing Co. A 80 by 120 foot masonry block building is lo rise first on the site, with other buildings for a shopping center planned lat"r. Room is to b reserved for a sna cious parking lot. strike has stopped the suburban trains which Londoners normally use to get from their homes to their places of business in the city. So those who havo automo biles are using them to drive to work. The result has been a ter rific traffic congestion which would have been aggravi'ed if the queen had ridden thr )ugh the I streets, in accordance with cus-! torn, in the traditional roach. The British are bound by tra- j dition in a way that is unfamiliar! to us. But, you see, thev are ca-1 pable of BREAKING WiTH TRA DITION when ordinary common sense calls for the breik. Keep this in mind. 1 Queen Elizabeth presented the Conservative Party's program to the parliament. She didn't write her speech. It was written for her by the Conservative Party. If the Labor Party had won in the recent elections, she would have presented the Labor Party's program to the parliament. Her speech would have been written for her by the Labor Party. That being the case, you mav ask, WHY HAVE A QUEEN? This is the best answci I can think of: j Elizabeth is a charming young i woman. She has been schooled i since her birth, IN THE HARD-i EST KIND OF SCHOOL, in the' principles of winning friends and ' influencing people. Her job is to i Keep me uritisn people LIKING THEIR GOVERNMENT and be lieving that it is the best govern ment on earth. When vou come right down to it, that is VERY important. But let's get back to her speech. j She pledged a British Common-, wealth struggle for peace. She said the British government will I whole-heartedly support the Unit- j ed Nations, the Atlantic alliance and the new Western European Union. She announced government: plans to keen Rritain nrosoerous. i Then she WARNED THE LEG-! TSLATORS nf what she called j THE GRAVE SITUATION CRE-I ATET BY THE RAILROAD STRIKE. That was her only reference to the strike emergency that caused parliament to assembly five days early. Let's watch very closelv these British strikes, of which the rail road strike is the most menacing because it is handicaoping Brit-1 ish industry in the midst of an in dustrial boom that is tremendous ly heartening to the British peo ple after all these years of au stere scarcity. Because in Rritain the govern ment OWNS THE RAILROADS, the British government will have to handle the raMroad strike. Maybe it wll be able to do good job of it. 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