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Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore 4A Mnn., Dec. 21, 1953 McKay Cites Need for Dams Secretary Silent On BPA Position PORTLAND W The North. west must have more dams to meet the region's growth, but private money can be called on to speed them, Douglas McKay, secretary of the interior, said here Sunday in an interview. McKay, home for the holidays praised the recently negotiated 20-year contracts between the Bonneville Administration and private utilities, but he said they wouldn't mean much in a few years if more power were not made available. The region needs an added 400,000 kilowatts i year just to stay up with growth he said. But private money wants to go Into dam building McKay said. "I saw a story out of Wash Ington the other day," he said "which said private utility com panics are planning to spend 20 billion dollars in the next 20 years on power development. 1 know that about 500 million dot lara in private money is ready to go, in Northwest development, including what Idaho Power Co. wants to spend in Hells Canyon." McKay said that the Bonne ville administration will continue to do "a certain amount of plan ning to estimate requirements on various parts of the system." This extended the future role of Bonneville beyond what Ralph Tudor, Interior undersecretary, had outlined here last week. Tu dor said it would be strictly an agency to wholesale power de veloped at dams of the Army En gineers and the Reclamation Bu reau. McKay said that in the past Bonneville had been "promoting public power," and this was go ing to stop. He had no comment on a suc cessor to Paul Raver as Bonne ville administrator, who is to re sign shortly to accept the Seattle City Light superintendence Millikan Rites Set Wednesday PASADENA, Calif. -Dr. Rob ert Millikan, world renowned sci entist and dean of American physicists, is dead. The 85-year-old Nobel Prize winner succumbed Saturday at a rest hftm. TTa had fcaftn fcaf4..f4 den with infirmities of age for several monuis. His hodv will lip in cilia Tn. day at Forest Lawn Memorial i-arK in nearuy Glendale. Private services are being planned for Wednesday. Dr. Millikan, an authority on cosmic rays, for years was head of the California Institute of Tech nology here. He lived in nearby San Marino. Winner of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1923, he held 25 honor ary degrees from universities and wrote 18 books and hundreds of papers. His son, Dr. Clark Millikan, professor of Aeronautics at Cal tech, was with his father when the end came. Another son, Max M. Millikan, is professor of eco nomics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Mlllikan's wife, the former Greta Blanchard, to whom he had boon married since 1902, died last Oct. 10. 'Good Samaritan' Robbed by Pair SWEET HOME Herbert E. Wood of Roseburg was treated here Sunday aiternoon for a se vere scalp gash inflicted, he told, police, by two men he tried to aid. Wood said he was driving o.ist on the South Santiam Highway Sunday afternoon when he stop ped to see If he could aid two men whose car was in the ditch. He stepped In the back of his car to get a chain, and they walked up and knocked him unconscious. When he regained conscious ness, he said, he lacked $100 in traveler's checks and $115 in cur rency. Tele-fun by Wanen Goodrich ft X7 FROSTY, THE PINK-NOSED BUFFALO An albino American buffalo, born in a snowdrift on a farm, makes quite an armload for Mrs. Arthur Lange.1, who Is raring for the unusual calf. Named Frosty, because of Us white coat, the calf has a pink nose and blue eyes. Mrs. Langci is wife of the manager of the C. C. Koltcs farm, Fargo, N.D., where the buffalo was born. With Frosty, a fe male, the farm now has 17 buffalo as show animals. American buffalo, or bison, normally are dark brown. Novelist Wins Stalin Prize MOSCOW OPI The Soviets sa luted American Left Wing Novel ist Howard Fast Monday, award ing him a $25,000 Stalin Peace Prize. Fast himself presented the same prize to another American winner, Negro Singer ram iione son, in ceremonies in New York's Harlem three months ago. The Soviet Communist Tarly newspaper, Pravda, announced the 1953 awards Monday, the 74th anniversary of Joseph Stalin's birth. The prizes, Communist equiva lent of the Nobel awards, were established in 1949 as part of the celebration for the Soviet Premi er's 70th anniversary. A gold medal goes with the cash award. Pravda hailed the author as a "courageous fighter for Ideals of defending the rights of man. who represents the true progressive America which has nothing in common with the America of the reactionaries." In New York, Fast, termed the prize "the highest honor that can be conferred to any person in these times." Fast, 39, is the author o "The Last Frontier," "Citizen Tom Paine," "Freedom Road" and other best sellers. A frequent advoratp of left wing Couple Anxious to Find Out Whether Gift Plea is Hoax PHILADELPHIA MS A subur ban couple hope a message from Canada Monday will help them out of an unhappy Christmas di- lema. It began Friday when Mr. and Mrs. John D. Wcsthoff of West- brook Park bought a Christmas tree. Attached to it was a note. In a childish scrawl it read: "Dear Santa 1 am a poor lit tle orphan girl, age 12, and I would like to have for Christmas an angora hat and mils set. Col or red, if possible. Thank you, Santa. Love and kisses. Eva Hughes." The writer gave her address as "Springfield, Kings Co., N. B., Canada." Then, because they wanted to "help a poor little girl have a happy Christmas," the Westhoffs organized a gift-raising campaign among the neighbors. Mrs. West hoff bought the red angora hat and mittens. All concerned pitched in to help the "orphan" girl in Canada have a Christmas such as she never dreamed. Then came dis illusionment. The manager of the Philadel phia Better Business Bureau, Verner Caggin, heard about, the note and cautioned the West hoffs that it might all be a hoax. Repeated checks of similar let ters have been made and none has ever proved legitimate, Gag gin said . The bureau's chief investiga tor, George Conner, said such a racket has been going on for over 20 yeans. "Already 20 or 30 letters have been turned over to the bureau this year," he said, "and the worst is yet to come. Usually they are attached to the larger, more expensive trees in hopes someone of means or an organi zation will receive them and respond." The Westhoffs were bewild ered and crushed. "We've got six or seven gifts now with another 10 or 15 com ing." -Wcsthoff explained. "Now I don't know what to do." Mrs. Westhoff said "the whole thing has just about spoiled our Christmas?' Meanwhile, a neighbor of the Westhoffs, Thomas Waters, a contributor to the gift collection himself, decided to check. He called the Royal Canadian Mount ed Police at a barracks near Springfield in New Brunswick. Officials there said the notes are a common practice among chil dren who live many miles from towns and rarely get an oppor tunity to see Santa. But they promised to investigate this par ticular case. The Westhoffs hope the moun ties are able to turn up a real, live little orphan, named Eva Hughes. causes, the writer was convicted in 1947 of contempt of Congress along with 10 other members of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee. The group, described by the FBI as a Communist front, refused to submit its records to (he House Un-American Activities Committee. , Fast was sentenced to three months in jail and fined $300. He went to prison In June, 1950. Tho author has refused to an swer congressional committee questions about his alleged Com munist connections. 5 y For Your Shopping Convenience . . . Special Christmas Shopping Hours At Eugene Stores s They will be open until 9 p. m. MONDAY (TONIGHT) TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY Normal Closing Hours Christmas Eve the FAMILY SAVINGS CENTER 15 l v f Mom, Did, Sialar and Brother all havA Mvings account! at Padnc Fifit Federal, Men mam id me wieiy ana earning! of the "Northweet'i largest." 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