Wastunglon Mirror
Oregon May Get tittle Power
From Idaho Company's Dams
Br A. ROBERT SMITH
Statesman Correspondent
WASHINGTON Oregon and Washington state would get little
or none of the power potential of the middle Snake River under
the scheme of development preferred by Idaho Power Co. t
The utility, which is explaining its plan for building three dams
In the hearings before the Federal Power Commission, plans to use
as much or all of the power output of its projects for energy de
mand in its own service
area.
Idaho Power's service area blank
ets southern Idaho and extends
into eastern Oregon to Baker.
Idaho Wants One Dam First
Idaho Power would prefer to
build Oxbow first, bringing it on
the line in 20 months with 151,
000, KW; then build Brownlee 11
miles up river and bring its 360,
O0O KW into production two
years later; finally, building its
third dam near the site of the
proposed high Hells Canyon dam
with a completion date for that
272,000 KW plant some four years
later. The utility's attorney terms
this construction schedule "an
orderly sequence" because it
would permit Idaho Power to
keep pace with its peak market
demands. This schedule would
stretchout the construction over
the next nine years.
If market demands do not quite
match this new generating out
put, the utility would be willing
to dump its surplus energy into
the Northwest Power Pool, as it
has in the past, temporarily in an
increasing-amount. In 1952 it
dumped in 400,000 KWH. This
would be facilitated by direct
inter-ties between its system and
the Bonneville grid. But just how
much surplus energy it might
have is doubtful
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If it is ordered to build all
three dams simultaneously, which
it says it could do in 38 months,
a sizeable block of power would
be available at that time for de
livery to the pool. Company
charts show that it would be on
the order of 500,000 to 600,000
KW. This would gradually dim
inish each year thereafter as the
load on its own system increased,
until in the mid-1960s Idaho
would command the whole of the
output of the Hells Canyon area.
If it is permitted to build the
dams one by one, substantially
less power would be declared sur
plus for delivery to he pool, if
there would be any at alL This
was forecast by R. P. Parry, chief
attorney for the company in his
opening statement in the Hells
Canyon hearings, as follows: r
"The power studies which we
will present will show that there
is and will be a complete market
for the power produced by these
projects in the company's . own
service area as iney are duiii in
orderly sequence."
Idaho First Customer
In brief, whether the three
dams were to be built simultan
eously or one after the other,
Idaho Power's service area would
get first call on the energy and
the power pool would get what is
left over and by the utility's
estimate of market demands in
its own service area, there would
be none left over 10 or 12 years
from now. This, at least, is the
way. in which Idaho Power is ask
ing the FPC for permission to
operate. Thus far in the hear
ings FPC has made no counter
demands.
This is seen as a' significant
point in the Hells Canyon contro
versy, for while Washington and
Oregon are doomed to suffer a
power shortage for an indefinite
number of years as they have for
the past several years, Idaho has
and will continue to have all the
power it can use. Idaho Power has
been on a large expansion pro
gram since the end of World War
II to keep up with what it has
testified is the fastest growing
market oercentaee-wise in the
region.
More Power Needed
And it has shown that it will
need additional generating sup
ply to'.keep pace in the years
ahead. It's only prospective short
age will come in 1955, so it has
contracted to firm up its hydro
output during peak periods with
steam power from Utah Power
and Light Co., during 1955-57.
But it has conceded that it could
develop sites on the Snake other
than those in and near Hells
Canyon to fulfill its public utility
responsibility. It's just that, as
T. EL Roach, Idaho Power presi
dent put it, "We don't know of
any better sites on the Snake."
The high dam proposed in re
cent years by the Bureau of Re
clamation would, by contrast, at
the outset be a major power pro
ducer in the BonneviUe-operated
grid for the entire Pacific North
west Because it is a storage dam
by design, it would shut down all
but one generator during the
spring runoff period in order to
fill its reservoir.
Save Water for Winter
Then during the fall and win
ter low-water seasons, its reser
voir would be drawn down, send
ing water through its generators
and those of all hydro plants in
operation downstream. This pow
er, over a million Kilowatts, would
be for delivery to load centers
that most require it
Bills now in Congress to auth
orize the high dam respect Ida
ho's needs with a clause that
would reserve up to 500,000 KW
from Hells Canyon for delivery to
that state. There is no such guar
antee for Oregon or Washington
under the plan of the Boise util
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AIR REBIRTH SLOW I
LONDON (INS)-British avia
tion circles predict that the long
heralded rebirth of German civil
aviation will net take place be
fore 1955. These sources assert
that it 'will' take; at least two
more years for the new Iiuftansa
to set up its first international
airlines. An Agence i France
Presse dispatch from London re
ported that the .German airlines
will probably use American
equipment at first They report-
edly have not yet chosen between
the Douslas DC 7 and the Lock-
heed Super-Consteiiauon.
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Gas Company j
Back in Fight j
For Pipeline I
WASHINGTON to - Northwest
Natural Gas Co. Wednesday jump
ed back into the contest for per
mission to build the first natural
gas pipeline into the Pacific North
west. Northwest Attorney Arthur G.
Lane said his firm could save con
sumers in that area SO million dol
lars in 20 years in comparison
with what two other competitors
for a permit can do. j
Lane told a Power Commission
examiner his concern has no gas
at present since its application to
export gas from Southern Alberta,
Canada, was refused. j
But, he said, after West- Coast
Transmission Co., Ltd. and Pacific
Northwest Pipelines Corp. complete
their cases the Commission will
see that their programs are t$o
costly.
Then, he said, the Alberta gov
ernment will agree to giving North
west a permit He asserted lower
construction costs would result
from having gas fields closer to
the consumers.
To Enter Information
Examiner Glen R. Law told Lafie
that even though his firm now has
"no visible source of gas." fee
would allow him to enter North
west's market information into the
record.
Northwest's statement that it sill
hopes o build a Northwest pipe
line cane as a surprise.
At a hearing last May, Lane said
his firm's application for a permit
in southern Alberta had been with
drawn. Lists Prices
Pacific Northwest's vice presi
dent, Robert R. Herring of Hous
ton, Tex., later listed a number of
comparative prices of oil and coal
in several Washington and Oregon
communities his firm hopes to
serve.
In Spokane, he testified, it would
cost 99 cents to Si. 04 to heat la
home with oil for a certain length
of time. For the same period. If
would cost 64 to 73 cents to heat
with coal and $1.20 to neat with
gas, he said.
This higher figure on the gas,
he told a reporter later, was mis
leading. He said gas is more effi
cient and actually would be cheap
er than the other fuels.
Herring presented to the hearing
a list of about 100 communities in
Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Wyo
ming, Utah and Colorado which lie
said would be served if Pacific
Northwest gets the permit '
He said it. would not be econom
ical" to provide gas service to
Hoquiam, Bremerton and Shelton,
all in Washington.
Ike Believes
Foreign Aid
Cut Too Heavy
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WASHINGTON UPi - President
Eisenhower, at a news conference
Wednesday, summed up his first
six months in office, as a period
of progress but not as much is
he had hoped for. j
Once the conference got around
to questions and answers, it roam
ed over these other subjects. j
Foreign aid Eisenhower thinks
a $1,100,000,000 cut in aid funds
voted by the House Appropriations
Committee is too heavy. He rank
ed foreign aid right alongside this
country's own national security."!
McCarthy A reporter remark
ed that some people think he ought
to crack down on Sen. McCarthy
(R-Wisc.) to bring discipline into
the Republican Party. Eisenhower
said he isn't going to question t$e
motives of anyone. He said he in
tends to stand for what he believes
right and It's too bad if that is fn
opposition to the position of some
body else. But he said he won't
take a stand on the basis of per
sonalities. Drought The chief executive
insisted politics hasn t entered into
the setting up of areas in the South
west which will receive drought
relief. lie said he hadn't even heard
the word mentioned in connection
with the drought aid program.
It was six -months ago Monday
that Eisenhower took the presiden
tial oath and brought a change of
administrations to Washington. Re
porters asked him if he would cafe
to appraise those six months as
various other persons have done.
The President grinned, hesitated
a moment, and said he wouldn't
want to take advantage of newsmen
by using the next 25 minutes for 'a
long talk.
Then he went -on in a serious
and philosophical vein to say he
would be completely deceitful if he
tried to pretend that everything
that could be done actually hid
been done following the change In
reeimes. i -:'! c -
I While it "hasn't been so rapid is
to be completely satisfactory, ae
said, progress has been made. For
one thing,' he said people in the
executive and legislative branches
the government are coming M
eye to eye on problem cop-
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Murder Case
Against Boy
Dismissed ;
. ANCHORAGE, Alaska tf)
Charges of first degree murder
against nine-year-old Jimmy Ellis
of Mountain View , were dismissed
Wednesday and he was charged,
instead, with being a juvenile de
linquent. -
The boy was accused of stabbing
fatally his small playmate, Bobbie
Jean Denney, 5, with , a pocket
knife.
This was the first case of its
kind in Alaska and lawyers said
it was one of the few on record.
The law presumes a child under 14
is incapable of the crime of mur
der unless it can be shown he has
the mental capacity for such an
act.
The delinquency chrges will be
held in U. S. Commissioner's court
and the recommendationa there
will depend upon psychiatric and
other examinations of the boy. At
present Jimmy is in a foster home
under supervision of public welfare
officials.
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Shrine Hospital
SPOKANE (A The Shriners ho
pital for Crippled Chidlren in Spo
kane has been willed a lead mine
in Stevens county which once turn
ed out 100 tons of high grade ore
a day.
The Electric Point mine was
left the hospital by Mrs. Maude
Simonton, who had beenimpressed
by the Shrine unit's work. The
mine, which was in production
from 1916 to 1920, paid 1190,000 in
dividends. ? i
The Shriners hope to convert the
diggings to cash to be used for
hospital work. i
CROOKS FRUSTRATED '
DENVER (INS) -Burglars who
labored long and hard to cart an
80-pound safe from the Aurora
Motor Sales Co. on a stolen
pickup truck found on exami
nation it was empty. Both safe
and truck were recovered by po
lice from the bottom of a sub
urban Denver Lake.
The population of the Gold
Coast of Africa is estimated at
4,400,000, and all but 7,000 are
of African origin.
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Rifle Accident
Fatal to Boy
Yakima UFi A 15-year-old boy
was killed Wednesday afternoon
while he and another youth were
shooting fish in a slough near the
Yakima river.
Rufus Lewis was apparently fa
tally injured when his .22 caliber
rifle discharged while he was walk
ing up a path.
The victim's .companion, Donald
Price. 11. said Lewis obtained
both rifles and invited him on the
fish-shooting trip.
Firemen Recover
Body From River
SPOKANE UB City firemen re
covered the body of a man float
ing in the Spokane river here Wed
nesday. The victim was tentatively ident
ified as Ray Charles Long. 44.
Fireman reported there were no
signes of violence.
Homer writes about geese.
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Transit Firm; ;
Loses Plea
' PORTLAND If! The City
Ccuncil Wednesday denied a port
land Traction Company request for
a reduction in its city gross fran
chise tax, and a PTC spokesman
promptly announced a directors'
meeting Thursday I to consider
whether to seek a fare increase.
! Gordon Steele, president of PTC,
estimated the tax reduction would
have saved the company $10,000
annually.
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