Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983, February 13, 1949, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextI I Flf 8, RetrMer-RuarA?, Eugene, Ore., Sun., Feb. 18, 1949 Fishing and Power Groups Clash At Hearing on Deschutes Dam SALEM W) Tht battle was Joined here Friday between fish- lnf and power interests, ana cen tral Oregon's Deschutes River was the oblect of all the struggle. More than 300 persons jammed l hearing before the House utili ties Committee Thursday night on whether the Deschutes River should be closed to any power de velopment, and thus be forever saved for salmon. Competitors Oppose The bill was vigorously op posed by representatives of the Portland General Electric Co., Pacific Power and Light Co., and th Washington Water Power Co. These three companies have or ganized a new company which wants to build a $12,000,000 power dam on the Deschutes River. - Sponsors of the bill, who pre sented the unusual spectacle of having commercial and sports fishing interests fighting on the same side of a question, claimed the dam would destroy the salmon run on the river, Roln Program They declared it would ruin the Columbia River fisheries devel opment program, which forbids any more power dams on the Co lumbia River and Its tributaries below McNary Dam. They also claimed that the dnm wouldn't produce enough power to have much effect on the power jhort agt. But Gen. Thomas M. Robins, former Northwest division Army Engineer and president of the eompany which wants to build tht dam, denied that any sizeable number of salmon now go up the river. Ha said his company would pay for a hatchery below the pro posed dam, so the lower part of the Deschutes could be used for aalmon. Power More Valuable 1 say that $1,800,000 worth of kilowatt hours produced each year 'Par Cleaning and Glazing ELECTRIC CLEANERS lilt Willamette St. ' Fb. 300 by this dam would be worth far more than the fish," Gen. Robins said. "The utilities are only trying to carry out their responsibility to their customers In supplying tnem with power during a critical shortage." But the opponent of the dam said that by the time the 75,000, kllowatt plant would be finished n December, 1850, other power projects would have relieved the shortage. Salmon Production High Donald R. Johnson, biologist for the State Fish Commission, said the Deschutes eventually could produce $2,700,000 worth of salm on a year, or 15 of all the salmon produced in the Columbia -Basin. Other witnesses for the dam stressed the need for power to relieve unemployment and pro mote Industrial development. Other opponents of the dam said 75 per cent of the basin's spawning area already has Been destroyed, and that the $17,000,000 annual salmon catch is only a remnant of what It used to be. City Ballots Ready For March 1 Election Sample ballots have been pre pared for the special city election to be held March 1, and re now available at the city recorder's office. . Voters pamphlets will be dis tributed on Fehruary 18 and 19 by the Eugene High School Ser vice Club. At issue In the election will be three measures, all requested by the Eugene Water Board and sanctioned by the city council: Issuance of $3 million In general obligation bonds; changing the board's name to be Eugene Water and Electric Board; and author ization to negotiate short-term loans of $500,000 or less when the board sees fit. r frritt.cAi; 1 I t ... , i i I 1 I " '. -v.; I Employes Blast Airline Merger WASHINGTON H" Em: ploye of American Overseas Air lines Friday blasted as an unwar-i .l-husband. Harold William move we ... a: (mm Belter 'Late i Than Never KLAMATH FALLS UP) Po lice said they thought it wag going to be kind of hard to pick up the trail. Mrs. C. D. Calvert, Bremerton, Wash., asked police here to locate NewFEP bW It that It WouU . I minister M fair emnu MlP ft totJ Art Metal Airline Desks PROVIDE IMPROVED EFFICIENCY . MOURN JTTUN . GREATER COMFORT Scientific drawer arrangements permit the most efficient functional layout For individual desk work. Flat top, typewriter and secretarial models for your selection. The Airline Desk with its smart styling nd the new Mellc-Gray finish add distinction to any office. , Greater convenience and foot freedom provided by the island bases in Airline Desk onng a new nign in comfort to the user. ffksN ALSO TWO USED STEEL DESKS $85.00 - $95.00 Ja((eij Stationery do. TWO STORES 78 Wast Broadway 843 Main AYeet Eugene Springfield With food prices dropping rapidly, market proprietors are forced to resort to those almost forgotten arts salesmanship and mer chandising to lure customers. At a meat market in New York, hostess Renee Kleiman, left, passes out free coffee and sandwiches to shoppers. Police had been stationed outside to keep order, but the expected mobs didn't materialize. Pollster Crossley Defends Methods Used to Forecast By Knox Craig IOWA CITY, la. (At A na tionally-known Republican opin ion sampler expressed doubt Fri day about the justification of poll sters forecasting election results. Archibald Crossley, who with other pollsters missed on the pres idential election winner last No vember, made the assertion In a paper prepared for a symposium at Friday's session of the Iowa conference on "attitude and opin ion research." Defends Methods At the same time he vigorously defended the methods used in sampling and interviewing. George Gallup, another well known opinion tester who also missed in November, appeared with Crossley. The conference Is sponsored by the University of Iowa. Crossley listed as the greatest problem In polling as trying "to find out who will vote." Small Percentage Referring to forecasts, Crossley said that he now doubted if poll sters were ever justified In mak ing them "because in so many elections so many electoral votes are decided by such an extremely small percentage of the voters that calling results in those states in volves a considerable factor of chance," Crossley said the election was so close that slightly over 29,000 voters could have elected Dewey. He said 3000 votes in Ohio, about 9000 in California and 17,000 In Illinois would have done it. Not Enough Evidence "I personally do not believe that we have enough evidence yet to prove that sampling was con sistently and positively the cause of substantial error," he declared, "nor that we are quite so stupid in this respect as it is being bandied about sometimes for competitive gain." The Crossley poll, taken three weeks before election, showed a possible error of 1.7 to 2.7 per cent, Crossley said, based on the actual results. "I think that most statisticians would agree," he said, "that a dis parity of two percentage points, and perhaps more, between sample results and known facts would be considered 'allowable error." Stay-at-Homes It is in the field of determining who will vote, Crossley said, that "we really are experimenting." The problem is one of measuring stay-at-nomes. "My frank opinion Is that if we neglect the solution of this prob. lem we are wasting valuable time," he declared. "There is an extremely important job to be done here and this conference should get It started." Ireland Marks Date With Freedom Birth DUBLIN, Eire (IP) Eire's gov ernment Friday proclaimed Easter Monday, April 18 the 33rd anni versary of the Bloody Easter up rising as the dale when this country officially becomes the in dependent Republic of Ireland. The proclamation will be the final act in establishing the Re public of Irelnnd, entirely free of any ties with the United Kingdom. . EDITOR ON VISIT PORTLAND OIF Paul C. Smith, editor and general man ager of the San Francisco Chron icle, was in Oregon this weekend for a series of Lincoln Day speeches to Republican organiza tions and to the Oregon State Legislature, KVIDENCE BILL PASSF.SS SALEM W.R) A move to streamline court procedure was underway as the Senate passed and sent to the House a bill to permit photographic evidence to be Introduced as original evl ; dence. Isolated Family Feared Dead WALLA WALLA, Wash. U.R A family stranded high in the Blue Mountains near Bingham springs, ore., was feared dead or ill Saturday by pilots who dropped food and hay to their remote farm. Herman Martin, manager of the Martin Air Field here, said pilots observed no sign of life around the farm. They said snow had pil ed up to the eaves of the house and no tracks or other evidence of an attempt to reach cleared roads were observed. The name of the family was not known. Martin said planes from the Sky Ranch and other local air fields would fly food and supplies to other farmers, marooned in the Eureka region Saturday. He said the area was isolated by Thursday night's thaws which carried tons of top soil onto high ways, closing off dotens. of county roads. ranted, monopolistic move ine h He disappeared proposed saie oi u.cir comy..., '"iKJamath FaiU 25 years ago, I ' an American AirWays, ' mi - n J U.... airline! i ney oiieivu vj-uuj ...... and run itnhemselves. ' ' iii 'p ' Jl J The employes hired James M.jNQUf KreSIQeill ntilllCU Af Simpson Company SHELTON VP) The Simpson Logging Company announced Fri day that C. H. Kreienbaum of Se attle has retired as president to take a new position as vice chair man of the board of directors. William" G. Seed,' 41, of Seattle, ... . i 1 U.;.fln .,,M.B0 Bill Ready SALEM - UP) -The Senate ! "77"' " new Labor and Industries Committee a "Parad alrl Prlrinv It uinnlH LM,,.. . 51on to act in . , new fair employment practices1. The new bU toll?. bill, which is designed to prevent s of ft Xei v J emnlovers inn nninn fm J!,i'aW' ard follou.. ... 'fcl criminating Bgainst anv nerenn ' ve provision, , M , Ig.., vt because of his rare or ralipinn ! " The new bill will take th. ni, William of a Democratic-sponsored meas- said the M. V.. Landis, fiery former chairman of the fjivil Aeronautics tspara ana onetime dean of Harvard law school, to spearhead their fight. Further, they said they thought they could raise $12,000,000 if necessary to back up their pur chase offer. ... Landis filed with the aeronau tics board a brief stating that more han 200 mployes from pilots to office workers could run the transatlantic air service "un der conditions which it is be lieved will more soundly protect the public interest." The proposed merger of Amer ican Overseas and Pan American, announced last December, is one of the biggest, most financially complicated deals in airline his tory. It was worked out oy Juan TV Trlppe, president of Pan Amer ican, the world's largest inter national airline, and C. R. Smith, president of American Airlines. American Overseas is an Amer ican Airlines subsidiary of which Smith also is president. j Landis said the deal amounted to "cartelization of international air traffic of enormous magni tude." He said it would be a long step toward a chosen Instrument for international aviation which has been opposed by all agencies of the U. S. government. He proposed that if the board would not throw out the case, it should at least investigate Pan American's size and prewar record of "cooperation with the Army and Navy in furtherance of the national defense." Landis said American overseas had been to its employes "more than a bundle of assets, an in vestment Of capital or a collection of operating rights. It has been a way of life," ure. I wlsinai bill The principal change in the new! state aft" " h fc lllll Yll IIK TO SPECIALIZED SVSTi 4kV nr..... . Ja katme Excelsior Springs, Mo., Feb. 12 Ibined . M successful has a present board 'chairman, succeeds: system proven lor treating rheu to the new position of chairman and president Company officials said Kreienbaum, 54, president since 194S, had been advised by his physicians to take a less active role.. C. Henry Bacon, Jr., 40, genera manager of the Lumbermen's Mercantile Company at Shelton since 1945, Has left that firm to join Simpson Logging Company as assistant to the president. Bacon wi'l have offices here. matism amazing -. 1 ith the ru specialize", eral waters and tahTri tine rheu- svstpm f M,EK1 and arthritis that an scribed In th. " W book will be sent itmK.Z.ri.W'.(: free to any reader of this paper; freedom from Z, who will write for it. Yn,,Tn,. rAesJ . The book entitled, "Rheuma tism," fully explains why drugs and medicines give only temporary relief and .fail to remove the aauses of the trouble. The Ball Clinic Springs, Mo., has perfected s specialized system of treatment Dept. 2605, Excelsior!; J for rheumatism and arthritis com- son h h., k. ..... . prV" Kimball Succeeds Brown in Navy Post WASHINGTON (A0) John Nicholas Brown resigned Friday as assistant secretary of the Navy lor air. Dan A. Kimball of Los Angeles was appointed to succeed him. The White House also announc ed President Truman has named John T. Koehler, now assist-nt general counsel for the Navy, as aa assistant of the secretary of the navy. He succeeds Mark E. An drews, whose resignation was an nounced earlier this week. Kimball is executive vice-president of the Aerojet Engineering Corp., of Azusa, Calif,, and vice president and director of General Tire and Rubber Co. He will re place Brown the second week In March. A veteran of World War 1, Kim ball was trained as a pilot in the same group as General James Doollttle. Koehler, born in North Brad dock, Pa., March 14, 1904, is a graduate of Princeton University and the Harvard law school. He practiced law in New York and in Pittsburgh from 1930 to 1933 when he became an attorney in the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Rabelais Is credited with pre paring I lie first almanac In 1533, ! I r wuwivj i r uro vz ... tun - k" - Elderly Sunbather Dies Of Burns Under Lamp OAKLAND, Calif. 01,0 Clif ford Llsher, 78-year-old property owner, accidentally fell asleep under his sunlamp and was fatally Durned. He died Saturday at Per- manente Hospital from third de gree bums. Llsher was found unconscious beneath his burned-out sunlamp Saturday morning by his landlady, Mrs. Blanche Cox, when she went to his room to investigate running water. Police concluded that Lisher had fallen asleep under the sunlamp and that It had burned until It blew a fuse. : POWER CRISIS EASED TACOMA, Wash. AJ.IO North west electricity users Saturday were told they could resume nor mal power consumption except during the 5 to 6 p.m. peak load period each evening. A check on a field of clover recently showed that more than tour-nrthi of the pollinating In secti were honey bees. 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