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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1958)
WEATHER Mostly cloudy with after noon and evening thunder showers today and Tuesday. High today 78-83 and Tuesday 80-85. BsSshlisM 1896 Daily except Sunday LA GRANDE, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1958 Price 5 Cents 3'OS ctts era II 0 To uxlew liAsks-Pog ke M id READY TO GENERATE Here is a striking view of Brow nine Dam, looking upstream from a point near Homestead, soon to put the first of its huge power generators into operation. . Brownlee Power will start, 'streaming into the Pacific Northwest soon from the mammoth Brownlee Dam, climaxing 11 years of dispute over public vs. private development of the rugged Hells Canyon reach of the Snake River.'- On Sept. 1, the privately-owned Idaho Power Co., which won the struggle, expects to begin operations of the first generating unit at its 360,000-kilowatt installation. All four of its initial power-pro during units are scheduled to be on the line by next December. Construction of the dam, sec end highest rock-fill structure in the world, began throe years ago. It is a quarter-mile wide at the base and will store water in a 57Vi-mile-long reservoir. Production at Brownlee, which stretches across the Snake River between Idaho and Oregon, will start 11 years after Idaho Power advocates over development of Hells Canyon, North America's deepest gorge. The stormy issue, which has stirred debate in Congress, in Northwest political campaigns and across the nation, was resolved in 1955 when the Federal Power Commission licensed the utility's three-dam program as 'best idapted to a comprehensive plan" lor developing the Hells Canyon area. The public power advocates, who wanted the Federal govern ment to build a massive single cam in the gorge, didn't quit even then. They look the matter to the courts. But the FPC de cision was upheld by the U. S. Supreme Court. Last June, a House subcommit tee killed a bill that would have i.ulhorized Federal construction of' a single dam a dam which would have flooded out the Brownlee site. Brownlee is the first of three Governor imiiiuiwuiiiiiiii tsnmmmmmm fSS t 3?:- riLil 1 lL.-dL r-v. 1 COLLEGE BUILDINGS NEARING COMPLETION Gov. Robert D. Holmes will take part in the official dedica tion of three new buildings on the Eastern Oregon Col. lege campus Sept. 8, it was announced today by Dr t Dam Power new projects planned by Idaho Power to harness the upper stretch of river. The entire $164, 000,000 development, licensed by the FPC, ultimately will generate a total of 1,186,000 kilowatts. This, Idaho Power contends, is consid erably more than the proposed single government dam could pro duce. The utility already has begun construction of Oxbow dam, a lilO.OOO-kilowatt producer sche duled for completion in 1960 and located 12 miles downstream from Brownlee. The company's Hells Canyon dam, which will generate 272,000 kilowatts, will be built Bear Scared Lost Woman SHADY COVE UPI Mrs. Claudine Hawks, lost in rugged timber country in the Umpqua National Forest for 30 hours said Sunday a bear cub triggered the ordeal. The 45-year-old housewife said she became lost near Tiller while picking berries when she saw a "little black bear" and turned in the other direction. Searchers found her Saturday evening and carried her out of the forest on a stretcher early Sun day, Holmes, The dam, second highest rock-fill structure in the world, will generate 360,000 kilowatts at capacity. (Photo, Courtesy California-Pacific Utilities Co., La Grande.) Due Soon another 23 miles downstream on completion of Oxbow. Only a brief ceremony is planned when Brownlee's first 90,000-kilowatt generating unit is opened. The final phases of con struction will continue at top speed. Power company president T. E. Roach will throw the switch and send power flowing over a vast interconnected transmission system tying Hell's Canyon to the utility's own service area and ether members of the Northeast power pool. The three-dam development, harnessing the full power poten tial of the Hells Canyon reach, according to the company, also will provide flood control, naviga tion and recreational benefits as well as costly fish-conservation facilities. Roach said it eventual ly will yield a total of $10,000, 000 annually in local, state and Federal taxes. Air Force Moonshot Fizzles; To CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPD The Air Force its first moonshot effort a failure made tentative plans today to try again in four weeks to fire a rocket around the moon. There was speculation Russia might make a similar attempt several days in advance of the second U. S. effort. Meanwhile, the Army was re ported ready to shoot for the moon. Disintegration of the U. S. rocket after it had traveled less State Board To Frank B. Bennett, president. The buildings include Dor ion Hall, left, above, $710,000 dormitory which will be ready for women students Sept. 24; a $625,062 physical education building, right, above, and $203,463 central Mediators Schedule Meet On Truck Tie-Up SAN FRANCISCO (UP!) Federal mediators scheduled a meet ing today in advance of top-level negotiations in San Diego Mimed at settling a dispute that has idled thousands of teamsters in the 11 western states. Mediators George Hillenbrand and .Ralph Patterson of San Fran cisco and Steven Halliiigan of Denver scheduled the ncgolinlimis for Wednesday in an attempt to create a "climate" for settling Ihe Heart Attack Suffered By Gernhardt The Rev. Henry J. Gernhardt, pastor of the First Methodist Church here, was resting comfor tably today in a Boise hospital following a heart attack over the weekend, close friends of the min ister reported. The minister had been con valescing at the Boise hospital since last Monday following an operation for a disorder determin ed to be non-malignant. Two doctors in attendance re ported today the pastor enjoyed a good night and a rapid recov ery is anticipated. Mrs. Gernhardt is at the bed side of her husband. House Kills Housing Bill WASHINGTON (UPI) The House, by a six-vote margin, to day , killed - a . DainocraUc-sponi J ored billion-dollar housing bill. This raised the prospect that Congress will adjourn this week without providing any new funds for city slum clearance and ur ban renewal projects. The bill, opposed as inflation ary by the administration and Re publican congressional leaders, was called up under no-amendment rule which required a two thirds vote for passage. The vote fas 251-134 in favor of the bill, six votes shy of the two-thirds majority needed. , Democratic leaders warned Re publicans in advance of the vote that it was the House's last chance to vote on a housing bill, for the first time since 1948, HUB CAPS STOLEN Robert E. Schie, Rt. 1, La Grande, today reported to city police that four chrome hub caps were removed from his Chevrolet pick-up while parked near a La Grande service station on Adams Avenue. than 10 miles of its projected 220,000 - mile journey into space Sunday was cited by Senate Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas as a "grim warning'' to Americans this coun try is behind Russia in missile development. But most officials stressed there had been little expectation of success in this nation's first effort to probe the mysteries of the moon at close range. Reds Poke Fun European newspapers, mean 8-dny-old dispute. Meanwhile', teamsters lenders were lo confer in Los Angeles to day and Tuesday. Teamster Pres idnet .lames lloffa was tumble to adend because of his appearing before the Senate Rackets Com mittee in Washington. Employers ordered the ll-stale lockout last Monday after 2,:W0 teamsters in Central California and Western Nevada went on strike for higher pay. The strike has idled a great part of transcontinental trucking west of Chicago. It involves 1,000 trucking firms and as many as 100,000 men. Expansion Of Elgin District Meeting Subject ELGIN A hearing on the ques tion of expanding the Elgin Soil Conservation District lo include the remaining 80,000 Union coun ty acres not now under the soil conservation program will be held at 8 o'clock tonight at the dis trict's offices in the Masonic building here. A petition bearing the signa- nature of two-thirds of the farm ers in the district asking for dis trict inclusion already has been filed with the district. Started in 1952, the Elgin soil conservation district comprises 172,000 acres. If tonight s hear ing is favorable the new area can be added to the Elgin district without delay. Retail Bread Prices Hiked PORTLAND (UPI). Retail bread prices went up two cents on the one pound and one - and-one-half pound loaves here today. Trade sources said the hike would be general throughout Ore gon within a few days. Bakers attributed the higher price to a continuing increase in labor costs and other manufactur ing costs. while, expressed disappointment at the U. S. failure. But most expressed confidence the U. S. would succeed in the near future. Communist nations, as expected, poked fun at the U. S. failure and chided this country for build ing up advance publicity for a venture "which had little hope of success." Space research chief Roy John son said after the explosion of the rocket Able I that the Air Force probably also would get Attend heating plant which will serve all campus buildings. The state board of higher education also is scheduled to meet on the La Grande campus Sept. 8 and 9, marking the first time in 14 years an official state board meeting has Who Radiates The Most? LOS ANGELES (UPI I The International Telephone and Tele graph Co. aiinouiH'Pd Sunday (lie development of a complicated de vice which can tell men from women. The device, which can detect the difference in heal radiated by men and women's clothing, has many military and commercial uses, especially where' heal sen sitivity is concerned. Highway 30 Construction Resumed Construction work on Highway 30, west of La Grande, today was tearing up for fullscale opera lions following a five-week shut down over a labor dispute bo tween the operating engineers un ions and the Associated General Contractors. A check of operations just west of Ihe city showed the contrac tor s crusher in operation, as well ps other pieces of heavy equip mcnt. Some 25,000 operating engin eers and workers had been drift ing back to their construction jobs throughout the state since Friday when locals undertook to vote .on ' approval of a, package of fer by the contractors. More than $4 million had been tide up'in the work stoppage. Meanwhile, a check with the state highway department offic es here disclosed, approximately 75 percent-of the construction work on the new section of the Wallowa highway had been com pleted by the contractor, McNutt Sons Construction Company of Eu gene. ' Most of the grading had been completed today, and some sur facing was already prepared for the asphaltic concrete to follow. St. Peter's Church Entered; Nothing Taken Vandals forced their way into Ihe St. Peter's Episcopal church this weekend by breaking a small pane in a basement door and pry ing a door jam with a crowbar, police reported today. There was no evidence anyth ing had been taken. Try Again the next moon chance. It cannot be attempted before Sept. 14 when the moon's perigee again brings it 'relatively close to the earth. Because of the moon's position, Russia could make an attempt a day or so earlier. The Air Force had three moon shots assigned and the Army two. A completely successful flight would have given the earth its first crude pictures of the moon's eternally - hidden dark side. EOC Building Dedication Ike's Emergency Plan Undergoes Changes UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPI) Norway. Colombia and Canada today proposed a resolution for U. N. General Assembly consider ation asking Dug Ilammarskjold lo take steps to settle Ihe Middle East situation. The draft resolution, product of days of negotiation, would em power Secretary-general Hurras skjold ,to g.i personally to the Middle East on another of his "quiet diplomacy" peace mis sions, informed diplomats said. The three-power measure was expected to be made public offi cially later today. Qualified diplomats said it would be possible for the assem bly's emergency session lo vote on the resolution by Thursday and for Ilammarskjold to be in the turbulent Middle East by this weekend. The resolution, designed to make possible the withdrawal of American and British forces from Lebanon and Palestine, calls up on Hammarskjold to conduct a study for the establishment of a U.N. peace force. Economic Program It also would allow him to be gin negotiations on the setting up of an Arab development institution in a Middle East do-it-yourself economic program as suggested by President Eisenhower. Norwegian Deptuy Foreign Min ister Hans Engen did most of the negotiating work on the meas ure. A stiffening attitude by the U.S. against having the' Elsenhow er plan watered down too far cost Engen ' the support of ' several sponsors.! One Eisenhower proposal was for measures to end propaganda warfare by radio and for setting up a clearing house for complaints of such activities. This was strick en entirely from the measure. India refused to accept any ref erence to Eisenhower's proposal for a stand-by peace force, and Moscow Radio asserted today it would oppose such a force. The Indians also had othero bjectlons to the Norwegian draft and were reported pushing their own ideas for a separate resolution. United Arab Republic Foreign 1959 Model Car Production Starts DETROIT UPI The van guard of 182,000 auto industry em ployes, expected to be called back to work for production of 1959 model cars, reported today. " Buick Division of General Mo tors and four Chrysler Corp. lines recalled unemployed workers to begin production on 1050 models They were the first auto compan ies to begin work on the new models. CARS COLLIDE HERE Cars driven by Mary Ann Bre shears, 1002 Alder, La Grande and Bob Gene Austin, Benton ville.iArk.. collided at Adams ave niie and Willow over the weekend with no resulting Injuries, state ,)olice reported. The woman driv er was issued a citation for fail ure to yield the right of way. been held at EOC. Board official will participate In ded. j ication ceremonies. President Bennett indicated an "op. en house," giving area residents an opportunity to In- ? spect the protects, is scheduled for the dedication day. - Minister Mahmoud Fawzi was In sisting upon a definite dale for the withdrawal of American troops from Lebanon and British forces from Jordan. Neither the United Slates nor Britain was ready , to set such a dale until Ihe U. N. had taken udequute steps to in-" sure the territorial integrity and political independence of both countries. 1959 Crop : Insurance ) Available Sales work on 1959 wheat and? barley crop insurance is in fulh swing throughout Union county, Charles Hix, county crop insurance agent for the department of agri1" culture's federal crop insurance1 corporation, reported today. . . Barley has only recently beenj added as an insurable crop in. Union county, Hix said. . n Protection under the insurance" program is limited to the cost of! production, including drnneht . flood, hail, wind, frost, winter-kill " lightning, fire, excessive . rain snow, wildlife, hurricane, tornado, insect infestation and plant di seases. V "This adds up to a Jot of pro tection," Hix said, "and is avail-, able only through the government. agency. Persons having an interest in a wheat or barley crop at the time1 the insurance, Aplicants may apply at the department's Union county offices at the" Sacajawea Annex. ": Fire Destroys Dock, Plant ST. HELENS (UPD Fire swept the St. Helens city dock and a Columbia River Packers Associa tion fish receiving plant Sunday doing an estimated $50,000 dam age. The blaze, which started in a fishermen's net rack shed, spread rapidly before a brisk north wind, and destroyed two buildings; a car, two fishing boats, a. sand, bunker and several fish nets. A serious explosion was averted by a quick-thinking police sergeant. Clyde Buddington, who broke open a building ' leased to , Dahlgren Feed and Building Supplies com pany and aided by four other men, carried some 350 pounds of dynamite from the path of the flames. 2 Dead, 1 Injured In Ontario Auto Wreck NYSSA (UPI) Two persons were killed and another injured in a two-car collision at the in tersection of Highway 201 and Overstreet road one and one-half miles north of Ontario this morn ing. Dead wore Keyoe Hirai, 75, Route 1, Nyssa, and her 16-year-old nephew, Gary Nakanasha, Se attle, v."' ;' Nancy Hill, 16, Nyssa, a pas senger of the other car was ad mitted to a hospital here with facial injuries. . . s
