Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983, January 07, 1955, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Text2A Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore. Frl., Jan. 7, 1955 Democrats Critical Of Power Remarks r' WASHINGTON OB Reaction of Pacific-Northwest .lawmakers to President Eisenhower's State-of-the-Union message divided on political lines. - Democrats took a pessimistic view, labeling the President's re marks as "disappointing" or "reiteration" of previous speeches. At least one Republican, however, said he was glau to hear the President "again announce his belief in the partnership principle because it Is the progressive and forward-looking approach to de velopment of power in the Northwest" : That view was voiced by Rep. Ellsworth (R-Ore) who said the President's speech "indicates a change from the hidebound reaction- : : iary attitude of our political op- FPC Tables muuuii iu ivni Private Dams ;" WASHINGTON tfl The Fed ; eral Power Commission has de clined to rule at this time on a '. move by a public power group to - kill plans for private power dams ' In the Hells Canyon area of the '; Snake River. ; The Commission Thursday de- icirea acuon on a motion 10 dis miss the Idaho Power Co.'s appli cations to build three dams in the .Snake between Idaho and Ore- ; (on. ; Tho company's dams would : flood the site' of a proposed fed eral hydro-electric project - The FPC said it would not con- - aider the motion, filed by the Na- " 4lnn.il IT11. A ....,11 after "the record is certified to th pr.miVitilfilnn fnr final ni-ilnn " rpl.. - 1 ..., v.. .;,!.: after FPC examiner William J. ' Pnatolln unltna hl flnnlclin In the case, probably in April or May. Theen, if the dismissal mo tion has not been granted, the case will be appealed to the ' rinmmlitRlnn ltcaTf. PLANS DIFFER The association said in its mo tion that Idaho Power's applica tions should be dismissed be cause dam building plans pro posed in briefs filed by the com pany and the FPC legal staff dif fer from those described in the applications. v The staff recommended in a brief that the three proposed dams be licensed. The association asked in its mo tion that portions of the company and staff briefs be stricken if the applications were not dismissed. The FPC said the motion "re quest the commission to render a final decision in these proceed ings and the commission would "have to consider a substantial portion of the record in order to determine whether the motion Is sufficient to Justify such a deci sion." ADDITION AT. TIM P. The record in the case, after a year-long hearing on Idaho Power's applications, Includes 159 exhibits and volumes of trans crip covering 19,258 pages. The FPC suggested that the as sociation be given additional time for filing of its reply to the FPC staff and Idaho Power briefs to offset time lost as a result of the dismissal motion. Examiner Costello later an nounced suspension of deadlines for the filing of reply and rebuttal briefs, which wero to have been submitted Jan. 10 and Jan. 31. He said Evelyn Cooper, lawyer for the association, indicated re cently she probably would ask that the Jan. 10 deadline be ex tended 40 days if her motion were denied and 21 days if it were "partially denied." Some extension probably will be given, Costello Indicated. Jane Russell Signs $1 Million Contract HOLLYWOOD Wl Jane Rus sell has a new movie contract that will give her a million dol lars for six pictures In five years, but the payments will be spread over a 20-ycar period. Howard Hughes of RKO Pic tures, who drafted the contract said Thursday that three of the films will be released by 20th Century-Fox. Tho contract gives the shapely actress tho privilege of making pictures for other com panies, including Russficld Corp., the one she operates with her husband, former football star Bob Watcrficld. ponents that all hydroelectric power development in the North west should be paid for with the taxpayers money." Sen. Neubergcr (D-Ore.) said the message "ignored ... the ob vious need for a high multi-pur pose project at Hells Canyon . . . although the President has given his blessing to a more costly un dertaking in the upper Colorado area. SAID ILL-ADVISED Sen. Morse (Ind-Ore.) said do mestic issues discussed in the message indicated the President was being ill-advised by "reac tionaries in his palace guard. Sen. Jackson (D-Wash.) said the reiteration of the partnership philosophy of resource develop ment "fails to face up ' to the Pa cific Northwest's "fundamental need" for additional power. He said the Priest Rapids Dam legislation, which the President cited as an example of partner ship principle, "has produced only a lawsuit instead of the much hailed cooperation that re portedly would result." 'PROOF OF PUDDING' Sen. Magnuson (D-Wash.) also seized on the President's mention of Priest Rapids Dam as a part nership project, saying that if the dam is built It will be done by the public utility districts in Washington alone without any help from the federal govern ment" He said he would like to see the budget recommend "one single dollar for Ice Harbor, Hells Canyon or Priest Rapids. That s proof of the pudding, not words." Congresswoman Edith Green CD-Ore.) also stated she was not in agreement with the President's remarks on resource develop ment and is "anxious to see the President's recommendations for education spelled out in consid erable detail." t pwhuj m i mi ,'" " pi : r?v lVi.JiliV m .iitlfii, ir'i i' i n M' I ' British Avert Rail Strike LONDON m Union leaders Friday suspended a call for a nationwide railroad strike which could have crippled the nation's booming economy. But Union Secretary "Big Jim" Campbell warned a new strike call would go out if further wage talks are not satisfactory. The suspension of the walkout followed a long government-called conference between officials of the 400,000-strong National Union of Railwaymcn (NUR) and the British Transport Commis sion, which runs the state-owned lines. The walkout had been scheduled for Sunday midnight. A union statement said assur ances by the commission "creato satisfactory basis for negotia tion and speedy settlement." Union officials said the trans port chiefs agreed that "wage rates would be adjusted" and that "thero would be no hag gling." The Transport Commission. which prcviosuly argued it was unable to grant pay hikes, had no comment. City Managers Plan Convention ASTORIA w The Northwest City Managers Assn. will hold its annual convention here Feb. 26- 28, Astoria City "Manager Brewer Billie said Friday. The date for the convention was originally set for a week earlier. About 100 are expected from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, British Columbia and Alaska. PETERSEN GOES TO JAIL Joseph S. Petersen Jr., right foreground, walks with a handcuff linking him to a fellow prisoner hidden behind his back as he leaves the Federal courthouse at Alexandria, Va., bound for jail. Another prisoner is at left. A police officer in right background. Petersen, former National Security Agency analyst, drew a seven-year prison term for misuse of secret documents. Fields Vanish Again Inside Red Hungary WASHINGTON W U. S. of ficials disclosed Friday that Noel and Herta Field have again van ished from American sight inside Communist Hungary. - The Fields, freed last Nov. 17 after five years in a Hungarian jail, were reported by the Hun garian press last month to have Locust Horde Devours Crops In Morocco CASABLANCA, North Africa (in Clouds of locusts winged north ward over Morocco Friday, de vouring everything green in their path. Casablanca authorities estimat ed that the flight of the locusts from the southern desert already had caused millions of dollars worth of damages. Farmers appealed to the gov ernment to declare a state of "national disaster" which would enable them to recover part of their losses in francs. Some of the colonists predicted it will be years before their har vests are normal again. Strong winds swept hordes of locusts into Fedala, six miles north of Casablanca, where 80 per cent of Morocco's fresh vege tables are marketed. Officials reported from Fedala that the locusts had eaten $22,850 (eight million francs) worth of lettuce, beans and tomatoes in less than a day. More than 1,000 specially train ed men joined French and Moroc can farmers in an effort to .'nd the plague, and duster-planes and trucks sprayed poisons on the swarms of locusts. A central organizing committee in the Moroccan capital of Rabat met to coordinate plans for the battle. Sign Trade Pact MOSCOW W Soviet Russia and Communist Yugoslavia this week signed their first trade agreement since 1948. The form alities were carried out in the Soviet trade ministry. The pact, to run for a year, envisages an exchange of goods from both sides totaling 20 million dollars. sought asylum in Budapest. Offi cial efforts to affirm or deny these reports have been unavail ing. In fact, officials said, the u. . legation at Budapest no longer knows the whereabouts of the mysterious American couple. AT SAME ADDRESS Officials here said U. S. Min ister Christian M. Ravndal has been pressing the Hungarian For eign Office for information. They said Ravndal was told two days ago that the Fields were at the same Budapest address at which he had visited them last Nov. 18, the day after the Hungarian gov ernment officially announced they had been freed and spy charges against them dropped. When Ravndal sent aides to the address Wednesday, officials said they were told the Fields had checked out around Dec. IS. It was one more bizarre chap ter in the case of the disappear ing Field family. Noel's brother Hermann, 44, was freed by com munist Poland last October after five years' imprisonment Rejoin ed by his wife in November, he dropped out of the public eye somewhere in Switzerland. 1 no State Department has issued him a passport, but is not saying where ho is. Another member of the fam ily who disappeared behind the Iron Curtain is Enka Glaser Wal- lach, 31-year-old foster daughter of the Noel Fields. She was last reported in a Soviet prison camp BOTH AILING Ravndal reported last Nov. 18 he found Noel and Herta "well off," and happy to be free again He said both were ailing and wanted to enter a Budapest hos pital for treatment. American officials have been wary about expressing any opin ion on whether the Noel Fields would ever return to the United States. Noel, 50, who worked for the State Department before World War 11, has been named in congressional hearings as onetime member of a Communist cell in Washington. Wage Boost Favored By Lawmakers i ' '!..! Most in Accord With President WASHINGTON W President Eisenhower's proposal to raise the nationwide minimum wage from 75 to 90 cents an hour had generally good reception in Congress Friday. Eisenhower's renewed request for changes in the Taft-Hartley Law to advance its "basic objec tives" did not appear to have much more practical chance of achievement than last year, when Congress rejected his revision bill. Sen. Clements (D-Ky), the as sistant Democratic floor leader, said the new Democratic Con gress "will raise the minimum wage." He declined to forecast how much. 20 PERCENT BOOST Sen. H. Alexander Smith (R- NJ), outgoing chairman of the Senate Labor Committee which will handle the legislation, in cluded the 90-cent figure in a bill he introduced, and said he would fight to havo it enacted. That would be a 20 per cent boost over the present minimum, fixed in 4949. Sen. Hill (D-AIa), prospective new chairman of the committee, indicated a lower figurn might be more acceptable, although a number of other Democrats have called for $1 or more. Hill said he would have no objection to a boost equal to the rise in the cost of living since 1949 about 13 per cent. MOST IN SOUTH The 15. cent hourly Increase recommended by Eisenhower would give an automatic wage boost to an estimated 1,300,000 workers, most of them in the South. Some southerners appear ed unfriendly to the whole idea of an increase, partly on the ground it would indirectly affect farm labor costs. Outside the South, what criticism there was centered on the fact that the President didn't request an even higher minimum. AFL President George Meany called the 90-cent figure "puny." CIO officials also termed it in adequate. SEVEN DIE IN FIRE TOKYO W Seven persons died in a predawn fire whicti de stroyed a two-story furniture store Friday. Red Planes Spotted TAIPEH, Formosa Wl Four groups of Communist planes were spotted near tho Chinese Nation alist Tachen Islands Friday but did not attack, the Nationalist de fense ministry said. ANTIKISSING SQUAD TURIN, Italy wt A new police anti-kissing squad went into ac tion Thursday in Turin's motion picture theaters and in the first four hours they arrested 35 cou pies. d JIM1DAY ballweneed ')JvaHhcA m 6 ft y All work done here by a real shaver expert Parts available (or all leading makes: Sunbeam, Schick and Remington. S&U GREEN STAMPS Segues Cardinal in Indochina SAIGON, Viet Nam WT Francis Cardinal Spellman flew Friday to Hue, ancient capital of the court of Annam and home of ex-Em peror Bao Dai, the Viet Nam chief of state. Negro Singer to Make Debut at Opera House? . NEW YORK tf Marian An-, derson will make her debut at the Metropolitan Opera House Friday night first Negrp ever to sing there. "I'm not sure this happen ing," she commented. "This is the high point of my career." 1 The famed singer, once de scribed by Maestro Arturo Toscannini as "a voice that comes once in a century," will, play the fortune teller in Ver di'J "Masked Ball." In the audience will be her husband, Orpheus H. Fisher, an architect; and their two daughters. Miss Anderson said that as a girl she "dreamed of the Met" and once saved money to attend a performance only to find she didn't have half enough for the cheapest ticket But now "things that have happened have been so grati fying," she said. Rudolph Bing, general man ager of the Metropolitan Opera Co., said last October he en gaged her for the role because he thought she would be "wonderful"- in it. Asked at the time whether it meant Negro singers would be welcomed into the com pany, he said it would depend simply on whether a singer suited the role. "I wouldn't hire anyone be cause he is a Negro and I wouldn't refuse to hire anyone because he is a Negro," said Bing. Miss Anderson said: ; "With opera, regardless of race, no one wants to aspire to the Met unless he or she is very serious about it. "But the wonderful thing to know is that it is there to at tain, if you are worthy of it." LINER RENAMED BREMERHAVEN,:. Germany Ua Germany's first postwar pas. senger liner, the 19,000-ton Grips- W holm, Friday was -renamed Ber lirt. ' "-' :"'f ' ' f Pair Sentenced PORTLAND W Two Baker County men pleaded guilty here Thursday to owning a whisky still. They were placed on proba-j tion by federal Judge uus j. Solomon. Joseph R. Gilssan, 54, was put on probation for two years, Peter wtnaier, oi, lor six months. Rithalcr also was fined $500. Tires on Time ' No Down Payment O.K. RUBBER WELDERS V 2855 W. 11th 'Drive' Out As. Sato Linoleum Formica XU Oralnboardi ant Floors DAVE $.1 CAMPBELL Kuppenheimer clothes are an investment in good appearance! THE HAN'S SHOP Earl Bjrom 12 Bast Mtb At. For Foot Troubles See Eugene's Leading Foot Specialist Dr. Bandshuh . 18 Yean to Eugene Examination Free 874 Willamette Pu. 4-3133 PROSPECTORS URANIUM GOLD COMPLETE ACCURATE CHEMICAL ASSAY on mil ores, minerals. QualiUthrt report $7.50 per sample. Quantlta. tire prices on request. 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