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o o Board Kecommends Repayment Keducfioti '- r7T "XTi For Columbia WASHINGTON- (AP) A spe cial board has recommended a program designed to reduce by more than S2 million during the next 10 years the repayment costs of water users of the Columbia Basin project in Washington State. Undersecretary of the Interior James K. Carr, making the report public Tuesday, explained t h e possible savings would result from a comparison with the Keclama tinn Bureau's proposal to the water users in 190). This became a matter of controversy and led to the appointment of the special board. A compulation indicated also that under a sliding scale adjust ment over the recommended 50 year repayment period this sav ings would be more than SI. 9 inil-i lion to the water-users when lotal costs are compared to the 1960 proposal. j Ceilings Lifted The special board recommend-i M thai ceilings on expenditures j for the project be lifted and that 1h Hpmrlmpnl nnwoeH i raniH. : y as possible with full develop- liient of the 1.029.000-acre project, j Further, the board proposed elim-. "'""'" ination of several regulations to C'loy. "allow the project to operate more; McCloy briefed Kennedy for nearly as a standard reclamation 'more than an hour at the White nroii'et " House late Monday on his lengthy piwjtvi. i,.,M. ...:,u vu..,.i..l,nl. ,.,..l. Carr said the boards recom 1 .ji. boards recom-. mendations will be reviewed im-i mediately. He added that Secretary Stewart I.. Idall will establish the depart-1 ments position, in the matter by Sept 1. Immediately following, the. Reclamation Bureau will be-i gin negotiations again on changes in repayment coniracis uasea on Idall s findings. I There is pending in the House a Senate-passed bill to provide a one-year deferment in drainage ; charges due in 1962 on the as-1 sumption new contracts will be negotiated, voted upon by the Stormy Weather Eases In Nation By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Stormy weather and heavy rains tapered off today after , Monday's thunderstorms caused : aso in which Kennedy flash floods in many areas from i pc(se() to defend West Berlin by southern New England to Colo-: force if necessary, rado. j However, the Khnishchev-Mc- A violent thunderstorm hit New ' Cloy meeting was described as York City at the evening rush j frank and cordial in tone, hour, tying up traffic, flooding j Although the Moscow disarma suhway tunnels and expressways I ment discussions were largely and knocking out service on the I fruitless, as were the previous Pennsylvania Railroad's main i two-weeks talks on the subject in line to Philadelphia. I Washington, U.S. authorities saw The storm, which dumped near- enough hope in the slight Soviet h- one inch of rain in one hour, I modification to warrant pursuing delayed thousands of commuters. Electric power was knocked out in 5.000 homes in Brooklyn and Queens. Airplane travel was dis rupted. Flash floods also hit the area o! Johnstown. Pa., after a two-inch rainfall. Floodwalers rolled out of the southwest Virginia mountains , inlo the town of llaysi, washing : awav several houses and two gen oral stores and leaving about 50 Cnambiss vinston. i since a Senate committee head- persons homeless. j Surge'ry.' rs Orville Wakefield, ed by Sen. John L. McClellan, l- Thunderstorms caused floodinq irSt Clif ford Whorton, Mrs. Clif- f Ark., found work stoppages and in sections of Colorado, with f(mj Huffman, Rosebure: Deruci- j excessive overtime practices heavy property damage. A worn-1 ous crlintry( Wilbur; Wayne Boy ' were costing delays and ovcr-ex-an was killed by lightning in a tcr Oakland. penditures in space programs, storm near Delta in Western ' Discharged I Kennedy, Goldberg said, ex- Colorado. I Billv Kirkpatrick. Mrs. Virgil peels everyone concerned with Eight inches of rain drenched Mills 'and daughter, Sherrv Diane, ) missile-space project work to do Alnha. in northeast Iowa. Nearly ( Roscburg; Charles Keelv, Mrs. Jus jon and to respect the no- 7 inches of rain was reported in ItawKe e, nt s. The storms broke out in the clash of hot, muggy air over most of the southern and the cool- j er. dry air in the northern re - s'"ns- ! Nearly two inches of rain doused Omaha, -Neb. and Nan-' tucket, Jlass. Cool air moved into the North east, dropping temperatures into the 40s and alls in the northern up per Great Lakes and along Ihe St. Lawrence Valley. Generally ' ard Brusscau, .Mrs. Leonard Gren- ilemenl procedures makes strikes normal readings were reported in sky and daughter, Laurie Sue, i unnecessary. I'mnterrupled and ffmost other areas with hot weath- ( Mrs. James Korney and daughter, economical completion of projects er continuing in most of t h e Jodie fiae. Roseburg; .Mrs. Vein in view of the world situation, is Southland. ; Stout, Jlyrlle Point. too important for that, he said. Wasco County, State Tax Commission Take Differing Approaches To Assessed Vauation Of Major Taxpayer By FRED MARTIN, Jr. SALKM (AP A running battle over who will pay thousands of dollars in taxes Harvey Alumi num Co. or other Waco County taxpayers entered a new round today. 1 The State Tax Commission to day set the 11 true cah value for Harvey property at The Dalles at $43 1 million. The county Board of Equalization put the llaney property on Ihe rolls earlier this year at SIM 3 million. A spokesman lor Harvey said the company probably will ask an injunction to prevent the county from irsing the S4.'l 1 million set hv the Tax com mission. Pays On County Valuation If the $21 5 million county figure prevails. Harvey will hae Y.l 6 per cent of the valued property In Wasco County and pay nit rndrr 11 per en' of the county's 11 property taxes. At the 54:! 1 million Tax com mission fiiuire. Harvey would have 29 3 per cent of the property and pay shyhtly Irss than 19 per cent of the property taxes in the county. The difference between the per centase of value and the percent age of taxes results from variation of Harvey property in different taxing districts In 19. the 1aip ordered the ""hen partially compiled Harey River Basin water-users and submitted to the' Congress early in 1962. About half the project land is now under, the irrigation. The board proposed a graduated re-' payment schedule. It noted that the repayment contracts original ly signed in 1945 have been the subject of negotiations since 19.i;i. A graduated repayment sched ule, the board said, "will offer! substantial relief from high water costs during the first 20 years of water-users repayments without' materially affecting the ultimate White House Stays Mum On Report r. n-i. WASHINGTON (AP) The ' hlle llOUSe remained mUlT) to- "a.v oil the report President Ken- ney received from his disarma- j lain Willi iiu Usui lie v mnt wci-n. ...... . ... ,.,.., ,,., .lining in ai iiic line- ijuu.ic session was Secretary of State Hpun Riwk uhn flies to Varis ,hl. ..,i. , mp. im, . Sonif.a ministers of Britain, i France an(j Germany on the Ber- j lin sltualion. j McC0Vi wno i,as just concluded ; ,w0 we(,ks of disarmament dis-1 ,.,,ss,ons at Moscow, is the first, hick-ranking American to have a lengthy session with Khrushchev since the Kennedy - Khrushchev meeting in Vienna June 3-4 at which Khrushchev advanced his Berlin plan.' McCloy saw Khrush chev at the Soviet chief's Black Sea resort. Khrushchev says he will sign a peace treaty witft communist j j East Germany this year. He con tends this will wipe out western ; rights in West Berlin. j I Informants said Khrushchev re flated his position during his rlis-1 jcussiun with McCloy and added! ' nothing basically new. I I Khrushchev reDorledlv made I plaln his dislike for Kennedy's i a(ilo.TV soeech to the nation a 1 the matter further. Hospital News Visiting Hours 2 to 3:30 D.m. and 7 to 8 p.: Douglas Community Hospital Admitted Medit-JilT T;lviH Din?. "Mrs Glen t7 d,..-k.,-t. tii-c rMt.iria Floyd Booher. Winston; Kenneth ni inw en, rminei uii . juiiii r nun- v, Wide: Donald Ross Dillard; Charles Lawrence, Portland, Merey Hospital . Admitted Medical: Bonnie Webber, Eli Hall, Koebure. Suraerv: Mrs. Cecil Sherwood. Roseburg; John Postell, Sutherlin Discharged Barbara Ramsdell, .Mrs. Carl Col- Iter. Mrs. hldon Caley, .Mrs. irank Hogg Sr., -Mrs. Earl .Mattin. How- plant put on the tax rolls at $22 3 million. Harvey paid the taxes under protest. This is still pend ins. Claims Record' Tax The county in 1959 set the value at $20 million, and the Tax com mivion. actins under statutory authority, increased the valuation to $40 million. In 10 the county hoard said the alue was $19 mil lion . but th-1 Tax commission set it at S42 million. K a c h y'vr Harvey obtained a lesal order allowing it to pay taxes on the counly valuation. If the state eventually win. Waco Countv will come in for a big slice of cash from Harvey. This could materially reduce future property taxes. Wasco County's other taxpayers paid an additional $141 ,4os" in taxes in 19."9 and an additional $138,000 more in 19fi0 because the lower values were used on Harvey properties, the Tax commission sail. County Assessor C. A. Wood tnid the coinmissMin that m School liirict No. 9. where the Harvey plant is located, that property owners paid $16.30 more for each $1,000 of assessed value because the lower value wa used for Hiirvey. j The Thx commission said it seeks on.y to treat Haney the Water Users amount to be repaid to the United States." Alter 30 years, under the recom-1 mendation. the water-uers would i be required to pay :t0 cents more ; per acre per year than w as sug-1 gested in the I960 proposal. j The board said the average re payment per acre under its sug-1 geslion would be $131.60 during the 50-year period, compared toi S133.30 under the bureau s I960 suggested contract. "Thus," Carr said, '"the board's recommendations for total repay ment are not materially different from the bureau of reclamation's I960 proposal. "The board also suggested that the districts be given credit for drainage charges paid in 1960 and ! 1961. For those lands that paid i the additional drainage charges in 1960 and 1961, the remaining drainage charge ultimately to be assumed would be reduced to S127 50 unless the districts choose to give an immediate refund." The board agreed with the water-user groups in retaining the original repayment obligation of S85 per acre in a 40-year period for protect irrigation laciuues otner than additional drainage works Sliding Scale Charge j To cover both the S85 charge and the controversial drainage charges, the board recommended; a single, sliding scale charge overj 50 years. Under this, the water-users to-, tal water charge other than op .-, j ,.," ,,.. wnili,i h- met by pavmenls of SI an acre for llle (l sl five vears and S1.40 acle fr the second five years, These compare to suggested cnare5 asi vear of $150 and ,n resnectivelv. Members ot me noara a r r: chairman William K. Gianelli, state water ofticial. Sacramento, Calif.; Lascelle Coles, manager of the Ohoco Irrigation District. Prineville, Ore., and president o tne National Reclamation Associa Uion; and Dr. Hoy h. Hullnian, Ccan 0f agriculture and director 0f the experiment station, Mon tana Stale University, Uozenian, Mont. Labor Stoppage End Demanded VANDKRBERG AIR FORCE BASE (AP) Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg said today that now the United States is "un der the gun" in the Berlin crisis there is no excuse tor any further missile base labor stoppages. The labor 'secretary, touring major bases to shore up a two month old no-strike pledge, said that any serious breach of the pledge could result in President Kennedy seeking a legal no-strike ban from Congress. Goldberg said, however, that the voluntary pledge is working well that man-days a month lost to missile base labor' disputes measured in many thousands a year ago is now measured in only a few hundred. He said President Kennedy keemnj r ose t;ih nn the illinium j strike, no-lockout pledge fhis is a test we are ma ing.' the labor secretary told tne local missile site labor rclalions committee at Strategic Air (fun njand headquarters, Omaha, Neb. late Monday. "But the president will have nn hesitancy in going to Congress i for strike-banning legislation I if I that becomes necessary," Gold- berg said. Goldberg's theme at every stop has been that establishment of na tional and local missile labor set same was other Oreson taxpay ers. Harvey contends the higher Tax commisvion value would make it pay more than its share of taxes in Wasco County. A Harvey spokesman said 1ae based on the higher Tax commis sion valuation would cause it to pay the hit-diet tax per pound of any aluminum producer in the Northwest, The company also con tends the industrial development it brought to Wasco County was a boost to the economy and is a factor to he considered If it is required to pay the higher tax. the economic climate of the state will be damaged. Harvey claims Harvey first re-tsted Tax com mission ettorts to appraise its plants, but permitted a enmph'-e appraisal in lfi0, the Tax com mission said. And the Tax commission aked Ameriran Appraisal Co., .Milwau kee, Wis., to appraise the properly this year for the contested 10 valuation. Harvey a'jrfed to Ihe appraisal hut required the ap praiser to post a bowl. That bond was first put at $2.'j0.oo0. the com mission said, but later reduced to $40,000. The state finances the ftond at $12. .V) per $1,000. The outcome of that appraisal could bear strongly on di-'rinution of the tax load m Wasco Coun'v. K if- SPACE SHIP This is a scene' from a new Soviet color documentary film entitled "First Voyage to the Stars," described as showing technician making final tests on the spoce ship of Yuri Gagarin, Soviet astronaut. Picture was made available in Moscow by Tass, Soviet news agency. Letters CCCP on the capsule are translated as the U.S.S R. The letters BOSTOK are translated as meaning "East." (AP) Manned Space Flight Try MOSCOW (AP) Informed but unofficial sources said today it is likely the Soviet Union will try to launch another manned space flight around the earth soon, pos sibly within a week or 10 days. There was no official confirma tion. The sources said the flight might include two men ins'ead of one since it is known here thep; is a booster rocket sufficiently strong to orbit a two-man space The ... . IT ,..vW , "Si Invijiine a pl.ice where cool, pure w ater silently bubbles liorn die earth . . . uiih a refreshing j invention to the most weary visitor. This is the setting, 1 about a?.' century ago, in the little '. town of Tumwater, in Washington ) Territory. Here, hardy Northwest pioneers discovered a dkimond-clcar artesian water that flowed at constant volume and temperature all year around. ) Although its fame grew as a wonderful drinking water, the deep artesian wells held a more im portant secret one that was finally revealed in the summer of 189j. The remarkable water of Tumwater was also a naturally perfect brewing water! Since that time, the flavor secret of Olympia Beer has been this same artesian water. Its rare ability to coax the very essence from choice grains ancPhops creates the distinctive taste and',' golden clarity you enjoy in every glass of light, refreshing Olympia Beer. "fl's th! WfutCr' " 0 Likely By Soviets ' vehicle. It appeared unlikely Maj. Yuri Gagarin would he united to make i a second journey because of the i risk and because of the advantage of increasing the number accom plishing space flight'. I The supposition is strengthened by the fact it would be a great propaganda advantage to the So viet Union to put Iwo men togeth er in orbit before America man aged even one. w- i. , i ' 1 J" !'' rf A ( 1 I? remarkable " water mm Non-Stop Service Opens j WASHINGTON ( AP) North west Airlines begins non-stop jet plane service today between Port land, Ore., and Washington, U.C. j Airline officials said they will I also begin non-stop (lights between f tlie capital and Sealtle-Tacoma. SALEM MEET SET SALKM (AP) The Board of Aeronautics will meet in Salem Aug. 10, it announced today. tw-I, o si Visitors are always welcome to "Out of Ainerka's Exceptional Breweries. Olympia Brewing Company, Tumwater, near Olympia, Washington, U.S.A.,8.00 to 4:30 every day. Tun., Av$. 1, 1947 Th Nwftview, Rtfcurg, 3" Former Marine Commander Randolph McC. Pate Dies WASHINGTON lAP) Gen Randolph McC Pale, former com mandant of the Marine Corps, died Mnndav night, the corps an nounced today. Pale. fi:i. was admitted to the Naval Hospital at nearby Belhes da. Md . Wednesday. The Marine Corps said dealh was caused by an intestinal tu mor. Pate served two successive two year lours as head of the Marine Corps, beginning in January 19,iS. He retired Jan. 1, 10. Long Servic He had been a Marine officer since September 1921. lie had fought in all the campaigns since that time expeditionary action in Santo Domingo and China before World War II, at Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima in that war, and laier in Korea. Pale was awarded the Legion of Merit for outstanding service as deputy chief of staff for the fleet Marine force in the Pacific in World War II. He was cited in particular for his performance in the bitterly contested battles on i Palau. Iwo Jima and Okinawa. In all those operations he was deputy to Gen. Holland M. Smith, ! known as "Howling Mad" Smith. In Korea, Pate received the Dis tinguished Service Medal while commanding the 1st Marine Divi sion. Supply Plannr Pate served in various positions after returning to the United Stales after World War II. Among those jobs was assignment to the 'office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff i where he was deputy director of ' the staff handling supply plans. . to , ' '-v . , Sj" "V of Tumwater i In September 19.'i2, Pale took command of the 2nd Marine Divi sion at Camp I.e.ieune. iVC, then moved to Korea to command the 1st Division until 1954. In that ear. Pate was appoint ed assistant commandant of the .Marine Corps and chief of slaif. He is survived liy his widow, the former Mary Khzahcih Bunting of ; Winnipeg, Canada, whom he met while stationed m San Diego. The general had maintained his of(i. cial residence al Heaufort, SC. A native of Purl Hoyal. S.C.. ho , was a graduate of Virginia Mili tary Institute, where he was first captain of the Cadet Corps and class president for four years. Pate will he buried in Arlington I National Cemetery. Plans for the ; funeral were not immediately j available. La Grande Fire Destroys 7 Buildings In Hour I.A GRANDE. Ore. (AP) Six storage structures am) a vacant apartment house in I.a Grande were destroyed Monday night when a roaring' blaze consumed them in less than an hour. Firemen said the buildings wera so quickly devoured by the fierce flames that it was nearly impos sible to determine where the fire started. Leland Brown, I.a Grande, th owner of the apartment house and three other fire-ravaged struc tures, estimated his loss at some $12,000. He said lh buildings were not insured. t iAr Hal,,
