2A 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-
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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-
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after "the record is certified to
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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
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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."
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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cher Bragno, 28, heiress to a
fortune left by her grandmother,
watched Thursday as state ex
aminers counted stocks and se
curities valued at millions of dol
lars. She was present at the open
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