The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, August 19, 1953, Page 1, Image 1

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.FLORAL PARK, N. Y. A
ehatij young sumaa, using ax a
'shield a bank manager kidnaped
fromhia own front lawn. Tuesday
staged a bank, robberty netting
nearly $200,000 possibly the
Creates! amount of cash ever taken
In a bank holdup in the United
State. ., !" ' .
The manager was taken along
la his own ear to cover the escape,
but was dumped t out a few
miles from the bank, a branch of
the Franklin National j Bank. His
car was found abandoned later.
The daring bandit's ideed may
have been, prompted partly by
U.S., Russ
Pariicipa
By FRANCIS W. CARPENTER j
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (JF) The Soviet Union proposed
Tuesday the United Nations set up a Korean Peace Conference made
up of 11 countries, including five "neutrals." The proposal ran di
rectly counter to United States desires to limit the conference to
actual combatants.
Soviet Chief Delegate Andrei
One paper which has been rid
ing Joe McCarthy hard is the
New York Post whose editor,
James Wechsler, in his callow
days was a Young Communist.
Long ago he recanted and has
been fighting Communism Stung
by the Post's jibes at his inquisi
torial methods, McCarthy called
Wechsler before his committee to
interrogate him about some fo his
books which, had been found in
U. S. overseas libraries. Only Joe
really never got around to asking
about the books because he didn't
know what they were, whether
they were books written during
WechslerV Communist days or
afterwards. But McCarthy soon
found he had tried to bell a bob
cat Before he got through he was
the one who was scratched.
Contending that he was called
not because of bis authorship of
some books that got into the over
seas libraries but for the purpose
of intimidating him as Post edi
tor Wechsler asked the American
Society, of Newspaper Editors to
read the transcript and see if the
McCarthy interrogation wasnl 'a
threat to freedom of the press.
The eleven-man committee named
to study the case couldn't agree
on such a conclusion, and "re
manded" the transcript to the at
tention of all editors. Four com
mitteemen however, Bill Tugman
of the Eugene Register-Guard
among them, signed a separate
report stating they regarded the
Wechsler quiz "a peril to Ameri
can freedom. They explained:
"A press put to the frequent
necessity of explaining its news
and editorial policies to a United
States
(Continued on editorial page 4)
A-Board Chief
Sues for Divorce
LAS VEGAS, Nev- Cfl Gordon
Dean, ' former chairman of the
Atomic Energy Commission,- filed
sui Tuesday for a divorce from
his wife of 23 years, Adelaide. :
Dean, 47,. charged mental cruel
ty. His district court petition stated
agreement had been reached on
division, of community property and
custody of . their - two children,
Martha, 20, and Franklin, 14.1
Bathroom Knocked
Off House by Truck
EUGENE VFi A driverless truck
carrying a power shovel knocked
the bathroom wing off a house here
Tuesday. .
The wing was moved about 10
feet from the home of Bill Boyer.
Mrs. Boyer and her two children
were in another part of the house. J
Police cited the driver. Van
Smith of Springfield, for leaving
a vehicle unattended with the
motor running. He told patrolmen
be had parked the truck a block
away from the bouse and gone to
inspect a job.
NEWPORT FRANCHISE
NEWPORT Ore.jui. A 20-year
exclusive franchise for the Centra!
Lincoln PUD to supply electric
current to Newport was approved
.Monday night by the City Council, f
Animal Crackers
Bv WARREN GOODRICH
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&OMEONE TOLP HIM TO PUT
HIS BEST FOOT FOS?WARD.
CHIP
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reveise. He told his kidnap victim
be had once worked for another
bank, but someone else got the
promotion be'd hoped for an he
left the Job, embittered. -
First; estimates gave the amount
scooped into bags by bank em
ployes under the bandit s gun at
about $160,000, but a final tally
raised it to" $191,280.
' As far as could be ascertained
the only bank robbery exceeding
it occurred in September, 1930,
when seven men with machine
guns took $2,268,700 in loot from
the Lincoln National Bank at Lin
ed Neb. However, less than $2S,-
007 of this was cash.
Clash Over
nts at Parley
Y. Vishinsky recommended the
i following conference list in a re
solution put before the U.N. As
sembly's 60-nation Political Com
mittee: i
The United States, Britain,
France,! Red China, North Korea
and South Korea, the Soviet Union,
India, Poland. Sweden and Bur
ma (the latter five being the
neutrals." "
Excludes South Korea
: He also proposed that decisions
of the conference will be considered
adopted! if they have the consent
of the parties which signed the
armistice agreement. This would
exclude! the South Korean govern
ment of Syngman Rhee, which did
not sign the armistice.
Western delegates pointed out VI
shinsky'S. list included only four of
the 17 countries which fought for
the U.N. and that a combination of
the Communist bloc plus the neu
trals conceivably could out-vote the
U.N. minority.
"Sleazy i Maneuver"
Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge.
Jr., chief U.S. delegate, quickly de
nounced! the Russian resolution as
a "sleazy maneuver" and said it
was designed to let the Commu
nists dominate the conference.
Swedish delegation sources said
that Sweden would not take part
in the conference, since Sweden al
ready is serving on the Prisoner
of War Repatriation Commission.
Vishinsky tossed in his resolu
tior without fanfare as the United
States, Britain, France, Australia
and New Zealand outlined their
ideas for the conference. The com
mittee began work on the Korea
Peace Conference , after adminis
tering the grey-haired Russian del
egate two sound thrashings via the
ballot
4 Grass Fires
In Mid-Valley
The. mid-valley area had four
grass fires reported Tuesday, but
none was serious.
Dallas had its 19th fire in nine
days. The rural fire patrol put
out a 10-acre grass fire at the N.
E. Erickson farm four miles north
of Rickreall on Highway 99W.
About three acres of grain were
destroyed, the rest was stubble.
Silverton reported two fires,
one on an empty lot on N. First
St A stubble fire brought fire
men to the George Kaufman farm
in the Evergreen district near
Silverton.
A great deal of smoke but no
damage resulted from a control-
set vetch stubble fire at the John
Berhorft farm five miles north
east of Sublimity. 1
Residents in the Macleay dis
trict near Salem reported seeing
smoke northwest of them, but no
report of a fire had been made.
Max.
87
85
67
Min.
52
58
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Prcip.
S&Icm
Portland
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tvac
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San' Francisco
Chicago
79
56
84
tiew York 78
Wfflamett River -3.3 leet.
rORECAST (from V. S. weather
bureau. McNary field. Salem) : .
Generally fair and warm, but with
variable cloudiness today and tomor
row. Continued warm temperatures.
Hif h today near 88 to 90. low to
ni(ht near 50. Temperature at 12:01
a .in. was SB decrees.
SAUtM PRECIPITATION
Since Start of Weather Tear Sept. 1
This Year Last Year Normal
43.84 . 3SJ0
Board of Control Delays Action
On Plea for More Pen Guards
A request for additional guards
by State Penitentiary Warden
Clarence Gladden was taken, un
der advisement Tuesday by mem
bers of the State Board of Con
trol. . - -
Gladden said he previously had
requested 35 additional guards
but the State Finance Depart
ment reduced the number to 23.
An additional 35 guards would
boost the total at the institution
to 159. !
Governor Paul Patterson said
be would confer with Gladden
prior to Friday when the State
Emergency Board is slated to
meet in Salem. In event addi
tional guards are employed it
will be necessary for the emer
gency board to appropriate funds
covering their salaries . and ex
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State Treasurer Sig Unander
tokt the board there apparently
are too many state-owned auto
mobiles operating without state
seals on the sides of the cars. He
103RD YEAS
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On Plane
In Alaska
KETCHIKAN, Alaska A
New Mexico and Texas oil man
vanished with his politically promi
nent wife and two daughters on a
private! plane flight from an island
air field near here Monday night
A filth person, a 17 year old
youth, also was believed to have
been aboard
Half a dozen Canadian planes
and several American craft joined
in a wide search on both sides of
the. international border. American
searchers believed the plane may
no: have gone far.
The missing man is Ellis Hall,
54, of Albuquerque. He is the presi
dent of two Abilene, Texas, oil
firms and a director of the Inde
pendent Petroleum .Assn. of Amer
ica.' !
Mrs. 'Hall is a former Demo
cratic national committeewoman
for New Mexico and a daughter
of the state s former Gov. A. W
HockenhulL s
The two other members of the
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family are Joann, 20, Mrs. Hall's
daughter, and Elizabeth. 21, Hall's
daughter, both by previous marri
ages.
Mrs. Hall is the former wife of
Nolan P. Walter, deceased presi
dent of the New Mexico State
Bank.
The Juneau airport where the
soumoouna mgnt originated, re
ported Patrick Hibben, 17, of Al
buquerque, also was aboard there,
but there Vas no report on him at
Annette Island, where the plane re
fueled and took off late Monday
for an eastward and southward
flight across British Columbia's
rugged and heavily timbered in-
tenor.
GPO Suspends
Worker Silent
AtRedHemng
, WASHINGTON W Edward
Rothschild,' Government Printing
Office bookbinder, refused to say
Tuesday j whether be was t Com
munist, stole a secret code, or en
gaged is espionage.' The G.P.O.
suspended him within an hour.
Rothschild was summoned before
the Senate Investigations subcom
mittee to face what Chairman Mc
Carthy (K-Wis. t said were "some
of the most serious charges ever
made against a government offi
cial. i
"Mr. Rothschild," the Senator
said sternly, "very, very serious
charges have been made concern
ing you, that you have been a long
time member of the Communist
Party, you have stolen secret docu
ments, your wife has been a mem
ber sad officer of the Communist
Party."
'He offered the slender pipe-smok
ing witness a chance to comment
at any length. Rothschild shook his
head in refusal.
McKay Visits
Statehouse
Secretary of the Interior Dou
glas McKay dropped into his old
quarters in the Oregon capitol
Tuesday morning to pay his res
pects to his successor, Governor
Paul L. Patterson.
The secretary and Mrs. McKay
who have been vacationing at
Neskdwin the past two' weeks
plan to fly to San Francisco
Thursday night where McKay is
scheduled to address the Com
monwealth Club Friday noon.
From San Francisco they will fly
to Washington, D.C., arriving in
the national capital about Satur
day midnight
also charged that some cars were
being used for social calls at
night Unander directed his
charges to State Finance De
partment Director Harry Dorman.
Dorman said the only state
cars exempted from displaying
the seal are those operated by
the State Parole Board and the
State Liquor Control Commis
sion. He said Parole Board cars
were used in running down par
ole violators while the Liquor
Control Commission cars are
used by investigators whose op
erations would be nullified
through the use of identification
marks. .
The state treasurer also said,
in bis opinion, the number of
state investigators in the field
could be reduced.
The Intermountain Plumbing
Company, Boise, Ida. received a
contract for installing automatic
sprinkling systems in the Hill
crest School for-Girls and the
State Blind School. low bid
was 1603.80.
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Reservation Made
For Kinsey'g Book
INDIANAPOLIS UR The In
dianapolis public library disclosed
Tuesday that it has a reservation
card dated April 5, 1948, for Dr.
Alfred C Kinsey's "Sexual Be
havior of the Human Female.
The book will go on sale next
month.
The library did not identify the
foresighted reader except as a
human male.
ect
nsion of
treet
Extension! of TradexS treet from
Winter to 12th Street tftifaciliUte
heavy truck traffic gotthumbs
down by the planning committee
of the Salem Planning and "Zon
ing Commission Tuesday nighK
The planning committee's re-J
port was passed on to the City
Council.
The report listed the following
reasons for turning down the ex
tension:
All improvements would have
to be borne by the city st a cost
of about $45,000.
Considerable property would
have to be condemned and pur
chased by the city.
The expense of necessary fills
and bridges..
Southern pacific indicated, to
the committee it would give per
mission to pass over the existing
right-of-way.
But Willamette University ob
jected to the street improvement
and pointed out that, one of its
planned classroom bull dine
would be close to the street and
truck noises.,1 The university also
said it would be reluctant to sell
the necessary ground at 12th
Street for the street
(Additional zoning details on
page 2.)
Old Town of
Butteville May
If a request- for vacation.. of
several streets and alleys in the
town of Butteville, located In the
northern part of the country on
the Willamette River, is granted
it may result in the disappear
ance of the town as a corporate
entity.
The request was made Tuesday
by Beryl and Ethel Breithaupt
(who own land adjacent to the
townsite) of the Marion County
Court : and involves vacation of
First, Second and Third Streets
as well as several unnamed alleys.
The plat of the community was
recorded May 30, 1860, and a re
vised plat was filed Dec 2, 187a
Butteville was incorporated by
an act of the 1901 Legislature.
No action was taken by the court
In other action before the
court Tuesday, a complaint was
heard from Mrs. H. Dunsmoor,
2015 N. 34th St, who claims cars
have been speeding on Sunny-
view Avenue. She asked that traf
fic speeds be established on
Sunnyyiew from Evergreen Ave
nue to Fisher Road. The matter
was referred to the County Engi
neer s office by the court
$200,000 Suit
Filed in Steam
Cooker Death
A suit for $200,000 was filed
Tuesday in Marion County Cir-
buit Court, by J. Ross Hughes,
1884 Evergreen Ave., whose son
died Sept 4, 1932, in a California
Packing Company steam cooker,
The suit against the company
alleges; that negligence was in
volved and, in part, the complaint
claims the company failed to pro
vide a-signal whereby someone
inside the cooker could let any
one outside know he Was there;
that the company failed to have
adequate lighting inside the cook
er; that the company failed to
have a: method of opening the
cooker door from the inside, and
also that several rules about the
company are insufficient
The boy, Charles Ross Hughes,
18, was employed at the cannery
as a cook's helper and evidently
was inside the cooker when the
door was shut near 10 p. m. Sept
4, 1952, His body was found in
side about 45 minutes later.
The cooker, or retort, is des
cribed in the complaint as a
steeT jacketed cylinder 27 feet by
5 feet with a manually operated
steel door to enter it Tracks are
provided inside the cooker for
pushing racks of vegetables or
fruits to be cooked. The temper
ature is raised to 280 degrees
Fahrenheit by-steam jets inside
the retort to cook the fruits or
vegetables.
UNDERSTATEMENT OF WEEK
LOS ANGELES UB A gunman
with $2,600 loot in his hands Toes
day brushed aside a woman groc
ery clerk and dashed out with the f
understatement of the week
"I'm in hurry.
Zoners Re j
Exte
TradeS
Disappear
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The Oregoa Statesman, Salem,- Oregon Wednesday. '"August 19. 19S3
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Power Policy
Business 'Rises Along With
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With temperatures well up in the 80s again, business at this neighborhood lemonade stand at the
corner ef 14th and Chemeketa Streets has been booming. Shewn above from left te right at the
stand are proprietresses Bobbette Mathews and Sydne Williamson, paying enstomer Reid English
and credit customers Jimmy and David Williamson. (Statesman Photo)
Linn County
Womjm-Dies..
At Age of 101
Statesnsaa News Serrice
ALBANY Funeral services
will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m.
ic the Fisher Funeral Home here
for Mrs. Mary McPherren, long
time Linn County resident- who
died Sunday at the age of 101.
Born Mary J. Danner. Nov. 18,
1851, in the Shenandoah Valley
of West Virginia, she was the
daughter of Elisabeth and Hiram
Danner. Her grandmother carried
ammunition for the patriots dur
ing the American Revolution and
her father fought on the side of
the Union Army during the Civil
War.
When she was two years old
she moved with her family to
Keithsburg, I1L, the move . being
made by flatbcat down the Ohio
River. She was married at Keiths
burg to H. Oliver McPherren,
Feb. 18, 1869, and the couple
moved to Oregon in 1902, settling
near Knox Butte. They were
credited with owning the first
purebred Shorthorn herd in Ore
gon.
The couple celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary in
1919. Mr. McPherren died six
years later in 1925. Mrs. McPher
ren's 100th birthday was the oc
casion for a big reunion of the
family, drawing more than 200
members including five genera
tions. She had remained active
until recently doing fancy work.
light house work and was especi
ally proud of the fact that her
eyesight permitted her to work
crossword puzzles.
Surviving are seven children.
Mrs. Harry McGuire, Albany, Mrs.
Lura Vincent, Klamath Falls, Mrs.
Winnie Angell, Kennewick, Wash.,
Mrs. Hattie McCIellan, Aleda, 111,
Vera McPherren, Albany, and L.
A. McPherren, Lebanon; sister,
Mrs. Etta Soule in South Dako
ta; also 36 grandchildren, 55 great
grandchildren and 13 great-great
granchildren. -
The Kev. George Huber will
officiate t chapel services. Bur
ial will 'be in Riverside Cemetery.
Western International
At' Salem 11. Trt-Clty 0.
At Lewlston S, Spokan 4.
At Edmonton S. Vancouver t.
At CaltaiT S. Victoria 7.
At Wanatcbc . Yakima L
Coast League
At Seattle S, Portland 13.
4t Oakland 2-0. Hollywood 7-1.
At Saa Diego 18. Sacramento 3.
At Los Angeles S. San rrandseo 8.
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At New York S. Washington 18.
At Chicago 3-3. St. Louis 3-1.
At Boston 3. Philadelphia i.
At Detroit 3. Cleveland 3.
National League'
At Brooklyn 4. New York 3 (11 Inn.)
At Cincinnati 2. Milwaukee a
At Philadelphia L. Pittsburgh 8."
At SU Louis S. Chicago i.
Federal :
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Methodist Bishop
McConnell Dies
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PORTSMOUTH, O. J! .U Francis
J. McConnell.' retired Methodist
bishop, writer and educator, died
Tuesday St his hornet at nearby
Lucasville on his 82nd birthday.
Bishop McConnell served as a
bishop in New York, Pittsburgh,
and Portland. Ore., and for years
did religious work in ndia. He was
a former president of the Federal
Council of Churches" of Christ
Silverton Water
Shortage Eased,
Ration Continues
Statesman News Serrlee
SILVERTON Silvertan's wat
er shortage has been eased by
rationing, .but the ban on irrigat
ing will continue until the reser
voir is completely filled again.
Water Superintendent Lewis
Yates said Tuesday.
The reservoir was 11 feet from
the top when the ration plan was
begun Thursday. Now it is slight
ly under three feet from the
full mark. t
The ban will probably be lifted
when it reaches full capacity,
Yates said.
Today Statesman
Section 1 .
Editorials, features 4
Society, women's 6
Valley news ... 7
Section 2 "
Sports, ..... -.1, 2
Markets , - 4
Comics 5
Radio, TV 15
Classified ads . 6, 7
City Sewage Plant Offers Free
Low Grade Type Fertilizer
By DON SCARBOROUGH
Staff Writer, The Statesman
Five men and a million dollars
worth of equipment are dispos
ing of Salem's sewage and turn
ing out tons of free fertilizer on
the side. "
' Now a little more than a year
old, Salem's sewage disposal plant
on the North River road has
yielded about 80 tons of fertilizer
as the side product of keeping
the Willamette River free of sew
age pollution.
The fertilizer is low grade, ad
mits plant superintendent Clif
ford Reed. "But it's free end our
customers don't seem to mind
because they can have as much
as they, want, so long as they
bring their own containers and
haul it away themselves.
Right now, he said, most of it
Is used to fertilize the city parks.
It is about LS per cent nitrogen
and 2 per cent each of phosphate
and potassium. It is also .useful
as a mulch. Reed .said.
-Actually the plant began pro-
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of Ike-
Temperature
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French Bring
Troops to Paris
PARIS Ml The French govern
ment moved extra troops into the
Paris region Tuesday for anti-riot
duty in case the Communists stir
up violence over the 'stalemated
strike situation. -
Between 500 and 600 soldiers
were assigned to back up the
Paris security forces, government
sources said. There were unco--firmed
reports that the reinforce
ments Included some tanks.
With the unions and Premier Jo
seph - Laniel's cabinet at logger
heads for the second week over pro
posed governmental economies.
Parliament probably will be called
next Tuesday to consider the situa
tion. The strike crisis developed
as the members of Parliament
were on a vacation that was sup
posed to last until October.
The police guard on the street
corners at either end of the Hotel
Matignon the premier's official
residence had been increased
from two to four - at each corner
Tuesday night
Widespread strikes gripped vital
public services. Losses in the rail
roads, postal services, coal mines
were estimated Tuesday at more
than 40 million dollars.
Salem Man Killed
As Train, Car Hit
LOS GATOS, Calif. (Jf)-A Sa
lem, Ore. man was killed here
Monday night when a Southern
Pacific train hit his car at a
Crossing. He was Rudolph Herlof
sen, ! 43, a construction worker.
cessinsr the fertilizer with the sr
rival of summer heat "We have
two huge storage tanks or 'diges
ters', holding about 270 more tons
of wastes that we shall make in
to useable fertilizer as fast as we
can." Each tank can hold a year's
supply of solid sewage wastes.
The sewage, coming in from
Salem and, since the first of the
month, from West Salem, is
screened, treated with chlorine
and allowed to stand quietly in
pools while the solid sewage
waste settles to the bottom.
Disinfected by the chlorine and
93 per tent free of foreign mat
ter, the liquid is drained off into
the Willamette.
The solid waste is stored in the
two 750,000 gallon digester tanks
and then is fed slowly into shal
low sunbaked "beds." Here the
waste lies for from 10-20 days
depending on the weather. When
thoroughly dried out, it if brok
en up and is ready for use on
gardens and lawns. '
Clorine has killed SH rrrft
ous germs. Reed said.
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Dams Still in
Federal Plans
WASHINGTON U) The Eisen
hower j administration Tuesday an
nounced its! power policy in a dec
laration emphasizing that . "local
interests, either public or private"
must fill the key role in supplying
electricity & the nation.1
At the sanie time Interior De
partment officials said the federal
government! would ) continue to
build tylg multi-purpose dami that
are beyond! the capacity of local
enterprise. i; f .
These dams, administered bv the
department are basically for rec
lamation slid irrigation of arid
lands jlargely in the West. But
power is a! by-product that often
overshadow! the original purpose.
The I policy declaration said the
jot of meeting the nation's power
needs Ss 'tremendous."
1 1? will require "a partnership of
thei states and local communities,
private citiienj, and the federal
government! all working, together.
the! statement continued. "It is not
a policy of 1 monopoly by any one
of thesis parties." - i i
Fewer I Monopoly
interior Secretary I McKay has
expressed the view the new Re
publican administration inherited
a i powpr policy from the Demo
crats Conceived with: the idea of
a 'government power j monopoly In
large areasi of the nation.
President Eisenhower, at a news
conference x June, cited the Ten
nessee Valley, Authority, , with Jts
great power production, as an ex
ample pf "creeping socialism.!" He
emphasized! be was notf out to , de
stroy TVA.I-' " . I
Meat' Significant
in the ligit of these admin sirs--
tion views, Interior Department of
ficials Tuesday pointed to these as
tnefmost significant paragraphs in
the! new power policy; I
rut is rccQgnized 1 that - the pri
mary -k-espjjmsibility for supplying
power beeds of an area rests with
the people 5 locally. ; I .
, rrhi responsibility ef the Depart
ment pt the Interior" Is to i give
leadership land assistance in the
conservation and wise utilization
of natural resources, i i
fThe department does not as
Slime jUiat it has - the exclusive
right of responsibility for the con
struction of dams or the genera
tion, transmission and sale of elec
tric! energy! in any: area, basin., or
region. . i -, ' . i . -
Local Interests !''!''' '
'In general, it will not oddosc
thelieortstruction of facilities which
local interests, either public or
prifatei are willing and able to
proyidej In Accordance with licenses
and! other Controls of the Federal
Poer Cornmission or other sp
proriate regulatory bodies : and
which are consonant with the best
development of the natural. re
sources of the area." I , ,
Iii this connection it was recalled
that under the Eisenhower admin
istration th Interior Department
hasiwithdrawn its opposition to the
Idaho Power Co.'s application to
the iFeqeralj Power Commission to
build three! dams on : the Snake
River between Idaho and Oregon,
Tie Ijormir Democratic interior
secretary, Oscar Chapman, had in
tervened against the application.
He flavored a big federal dam: at
Hells Canyon. j
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The iew bower policy was an
noutceq anq discussed with news
mert Tuesday by Interior Under
secretary Ralph Tudor and Assist
ant iSecretary Fred G. Aandahl for
McKayJ who is on vacation. I
lit Denveri Eisenhower nailed it
dow?t by issuing a statement say
ing jthepolijy had been cleared by
all the appropriate cabinet officers
andf other agency heads.
"I fully approve of this policy,
the President said, adding it "is
in accord -with the principle that
the states and local communities,
private citizens and the federal
government Itself should cooperate
in an ejffortl actively to fncourage
the ideveloprnent of the natural re
sources of tie country." i
Protect j Customers i I i
The i statement issued here said
the jnew policy would fully protect
'preference customers' of the fed
eral! dams. These are largely cities
and Other gpverhment units, and
cooperatives! 1 j '
It said rates would be; set "Jut
as low as passible without unjusti
fied! charges! against the taxpay.
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WASHINGTON m AcUng Sec
retajry i )f tik Interior Ralph A.
Tudor skid Tuesday that details of
the Reclamation Bureau's 174 mil
lion dollar .Construction program
for the: ear lending next June 30
will jbe announced later this week.
Cobdj Hiickleberry -t
Picking in Prospect '
PORTIJND m Good picking
is ifi prospect : for huckleberry
seekers in tbe Mount Hood National
Forest Chis season.
SiiperVisori Uoyd Olson said
Tuesday! , the berries should r be
ready by the weekend. ... ..
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