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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1959)
J VTT t wwr?-: (J" t:tt t "1 (Vw ,? , J? - PROPOSED DAM SITE Outline shows location of proposed 690-foot High Mountain Sheep dam on Snake River, one-half mile above confluence of Salmon and Snake Rivers. THE BEND BULLETIN 4 Tuesday, October 6, 1959 Phil F. Brogan, Associate Editor An Independent Newspaper Lou W. Mevcrs. Circulation Manager William A. Yates, Managing Editor Loren E. Dyer, Mechanical Superintendent Robert W. Chandler Editor and Publisher Entered as Second Class Matter, January 6, 1917, a the Post Office at Bend, Oregon, under Act of March 3,' 1879. Battle of the Middle Snake River not over, another round coming up Columbia or if we solve the problem WHrSTtN MCSSY-CO.ROUND TV fakery probe to replace Mr. K. goes to Washington to 11 tdHor To the Editor: My brother and his family ore 'still missing in an airplane up in By Drew Pearson i Charles Van Doren, the Columbia WASHINGTON Oren Harris, ; University instructor, on Dec. 5, the congressman from Arkansas, J956, having won $19,500. Stempel j your country, and with the coming who sometimes rivals Senator has cnarged at ne got questions I of hunting season, we would cer McClellan of Arkansas for show-; and answers in advance and was ' tainly appreciate your printing an manship, today moves his probe jina directed t0 miss a question i item directed at hunters, about of TV quiz shows into the large. and ,ose Va Dore Sl)0nsor our folks again. Keystone offers1 vrong phc?, besl road bid wrong 'me' vrong turn House caucus room where stand ing room only is expected. Congressman Harris has been marking time for one year in his of 21 was Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,! They are Stanley, Marie and manufacturers of Serutan, and'Knthy Lee Swenumson, and Ma- Geritol. ne's sister, Dell Jett. They went Special to The Bulbtln PUINEV1LI.E - The Keystone Construction Co., a Hudspeth in terest which is building the new Princvillc dam on the Crooked River, was also apparent low bid der for a road proicct re-routing I Highway 27 south of the dam. Bids Mrs. Regan Leydenfrost of New down March 23 on flight from Investigation of independent gov-:York 'als0 sajd she t he) in ; Bcllingham, Wash., to Redmond, ernment agencies, but he will now wjnmng jgnn on rjott0 0n CBS in antl were last contacted near Yak open the biggest drama since the -.j,:,. Vnf Kim. iima. The plane is a red and white exit of Nikita Khixishchev. The baI1 an 'artjst of Provincetown Comanche. No. N 5513 P. A $1000 witnesses who will file before his Mass., stated that she also got:lcward for finding them is still ...vpiwic ""'" I answers in advance while appear-;'" SNAKE RIVER CANYON No other Pacific Northwest river, not ex cepting the mainstream of the Columbia or the Deschutes, has been so involved in the hydroelectric politics of the re gion is this stretch of the Snake River between Weiser and Lewiston, Idaho. , And the fight is far from over. Another round is on its way. First preliminaries were over what Is called the "Hells Canyon" stretch. That ended when Idaho Power Com pany was given a federal license to con struct three power projects Browplce, Oxbow and Hells Canyon in the upper canyon east of Baker. The upper canyon battle finally died when Congress refused to pass a measure calling for construction of a giant federal dam at Hells Canyon. The fight moved downstream when Pacific Northwest Power Company a combine of four Northwest utilities filed applications for licenses at Moun tain Sheep and Pleasant Valley, down stream from what is called the Hells Canyon area. Opposition developed from the same groups which fought Idaho Pow er. They got some unexpected help from Fred Seaton, secretary of the In terior in the Eisenhower cabinet, who felt the proposals did not provide enoi'Th storage. The Federal Power Commission, charged by Congress with licensing hydro developments, turned down the license application on the grounds that any development of this stretch of the Snake which did not include n dam at the Nez Perce silo was "inferior". And this, of course, Is true. Nez Perce, on the Snake below its confluence with the Imnaha and Salm on Rivers, is a magnificent dam site, no doubt about It. But, it's only good if either wc ig nore the salmon fishery resource of the of passing downstream migratory salm on over high dams. f And no one is willing to throw away the salmon resource nearly one-third of the salmon which pass over the counting boards downstream dams spawn in the Salmon river, alone. And the problem of passing fish downstream over dams is far from solved. There have been proposals that a moratorium be declared" on all dam construction in this area of the Snake until the fishery problem is solved. Well, that might take a long time, Indeed. For it takes six years to observe the life span and reproduction rate of a batch of salmon. From the time the eggs are deposited in gravel beds until those eggs are reflected in spawning salmon is a long time. And it is almost a certainty that more than one genera tion will have to be observed before anything definite can be learned. Nez Perce, as noted above, is a wonderful damsite. It would back water up the Snake to Hells Canyon, as well as up the Imnaha and Salmon Riv ers, and would provide a total storage capacity of well over five million acre feet. But, with fish passage an insoluble problem for the time being, some alter nate proposal might be considered. So, Pacific Northwest and its mem ber companies Pacific Power and Light, Portland General Electric, Wash ington Water Power and Montana Pow er are proposing to build a high dam at the Mountain Sheep site. (Tomorrow: How does High Moun tain Sheep get away from the fishery problem? Where is it? What storage wilj it provide? Is there opposition to the proposal?) whatsoever with the independent: ing on Dott0i May Wi lm Though agencies of government under in- she lost she was aid m Col. vesication, but a great deal of;gate . Paimoiive was sponsor "T , , """"6" of Dotto, and the advertis ng agen- lenge, $64,00 Question, Dotto, 21, and other TV shows which drew fabulous ratings and cost the spon sors a total of $18,000,000 annually. The producers who staged these dramas, and in some eases faketi them, certainly merit investiga tion. But also meriting investiga tion is whether the big sponsors, networks, and Madison Avenue executives behind the shows knew about the fakery. Louis Cowan, president of CBS television, for instance, owned two of the quiz programs, $64,000 Chal lenge and $f4,000 Question. In government, if an official sells the government something in which he owns an interest, it's a "conflict of interest" and the official is fired and can go to jail. Televi sion apparently has different standards than the government, but TV standards are supposed to be regulated by the Federal Com munications Commission an in dependent agency which seems to have been sitting on its hands. In the case of Cowan's $64,000 Challenge, Rev. Charles E. Jack son of Tullahoma, Tenn., stated that, as a guest on that program, he was given the winning answers in advance by Shirley Bernstein, coproducer. As a result he won $4,000. P. Lorillard's Old Gold cy was leu Jiaies. Producer it Indicted One of the most interesting wit nesses scheduled to appear be fore the Harris Committee is James E. Snodgrass, a 36-year-old artist, who when given the answers to 21 in advance, mailed the questions and answers to him self in three rigistered letters. The dates of registration clear ly showed that he had received the answers in advance of going before the TV cameras, and when New York police satisfied them selves that the envelopes had not been opened, Albert Freedman, producer of 21, was indicted for perjury. He had told a New York grand jury that he had not coach ed Snodgrass. Snodgrass was approached aft er his first appearance on 21 and told there would be a long series of matches with his opponent, Hank Bloomgardcn, and that Bloomgarden would eventually win. He opposed Bloomgarden in nine contests, of which seven were ties. He was told to give the wrong answer on one show but gave the right answer anyway. On the final show, he was not given I the answers, and that put him off; the program. j That's how the wool was pulled over the public's eyes in one of the biggest pieces of phony show- cigarettes was then sponsoring the Challenge on CBS. The ad- manship since the davs of Barn- vertising agency was Lennen and urn. However, some of (lie biggest advertisers m the USA poured Economics is mighty unscientific Newell. Said CBS-TV President Cowan in November, 1958, one month aft er the quiz-show scandal broke: "The quiz shows will come back. It's a wonder TV quality, on the aggregate, is as good as it is." ABC-TV President Oliver Treyz backed him up. "Quizzes are com ing back," he said. "You can't kill 'em." One year has passed and they have not come back. But you can understand why Cowan and Treyz were so confident. For during the entire year since the scandal broke, the FCC has made abso lutely no move to investigate the most flagrant fakery on television in history. Parade of Witnesses Two of the first witnesses ap pearing before Chairman Harris are Jack Barry and Dan F.nright, producers of Dotto, 21, Tic Tac Dough, and Concentration, three of which they sold to NBC for a price reputedly between $2,500,- 000 and $4,500,000. Another witness is Herbert Stempel, who later wrote: "I pos ed as a starving GI who lost to' Van Doren. For more than a year 1 have been a living lie." Stempel was advanced $18,500 while still on the show, even though he could have lost all his winnings. "We needed Stempel on the show," Enright explained this un usual advance payment. "His winnings were running high and there was a great deal of public interest in his appearances. Stempel was finally defeated by $18,000,000 into these side shows of the air. They included: Procter and Gamble, Colgate - Paimoiive Soap, Old Gold Cigarettes, Seru tan, General Foods, and Revlon. How carefully did they investi- We would all appreciate this very much. Sincerely, Glen Swenumson Arlington, Tex., Stpt 30, 1959 To the Editor: Concerning the headlines: "No children have turned green," in the .editorial section of the Bend Bulletin of Sept. 18, 1959 (Eugene Register-Guard). I believe that the minutes of the Bend City Commission show that at one city commission meeting a Baer appeared and made the statement, in effect, that if Bend, Ore., fluoridated its city water, "all the green lawns in Bend would turn brown," or die. Will you please contact the Eu gene Register-Guard, or Louis ville, Ky., and find out if they now have any lawns that are not brown or are not dead, i.e., have any Louisville or Eugene lawns turned brown? R. E. Johnson Bend, Oregon ' Sept. 30, 1959 State visit set by Rockefeller SALEM (UPI) Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York will visit Oregon sometime before the Pres idential primary next May 20, Gov. Mark Hatfield said today. But Hatfield had no further comment on the visit or whether he had definite knowledge that Rockefeller would be a candidate for the Republican nomination for President. It is generally thought that Gov. Victor L. Evcrhait, of Hincs, Ore., chose the wrong place and the wrong time to make a wrong turn. He drove up Bond and made a left turn onto Oregon from the right hand lane yesterday morn ing. It was the wrong place and time because he pulled across the path of another car in the left hand lane, and the other car was were opened at the Bureau of Rec lamation oil ice. Sixteen bidders submitted fig ures for building the seven and a half miles of crushed gravel road which will run south from rfnm in a iitnrtinn nninl with ihp old highway route at the Salt-1 yesterday: Creek - Roberts road junction. Great interest was shown by contractors in the bids, and fig-1 e(f bai ures were ciose.y cu.npem.ve . . Kenne(n R g ires 3g Cu, Keystone Corporation bid $lW.;and Roland p clasen, 44, Port. 620.50. as compared to the esti- ,and each Red f . mate of $237,4300 given by Bur-, and he,d din eau of Reclamation engineers. j r Earl L. McNutt, Eugene, was ! second apparent low bidder, with! $174,025.36 as his figure. Next in i line was the Linn-Lane Construe-! I tion Co., Sweet Home with a fig- j tnej a ponce car. oau was .du. umer arrests Dy ueno. ponce j wauer a. scnrocK, imo w. i Third, was cited for driving with an expired auto license, and post- cite before thev invested their Rockefeller will vie with Vice millions? They dropped the pro- Gilbert Lucas ends training Gilbert Lucas, seaman appren tice and son of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Lucas, Bend, has just com pleted nine weeks of recuit train- lire of $182,470.50. Low bids were to be forwarded to the regional office. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, for study and award of contract. It is ex- nlpcteH here that the contract will i f . inn n, Cn f-XI 1 ! be awarded within three or tour '"s " ' weeks. No definite starting date home ,on 14 days receu" leave, for building the road has been 1 He Wl" rePort to 0,8 USS Oris named ; Icany, an aircraft carrier, for duty Included in the construction will, at San ,Dieg' where the shiP be the 7.5 miles of crushed gravel j now. undergoing repairs prior to a surface from the dam, west j crulse- around Taylor Butte. A timber Lucas enlisted in the U. S. Navy bridge will be built over Bear n June ,17-,and, was Processed Creek, and a guard rail across !,rou8h th,e ocal recruiting sta the dam is also included in the.! t,on.,.by Ch'ef Joe Tribble, re contract cruiting officer. While at San Die- Latest report from the construe-! 8' Qa3 quaimeo. tor journalism tion site of the Prinevilie dam is that the deep pothoft in the river bed has been tamped full and level to the river bed. Water in the river has swollen from recent rains, and further increase in the river flow will require diversion into the diversion tunnel, it was stated. The small trickle of water In late summer was being carried through a temporary pipe across the working area at the base of the dam. Counties share in distribution The Oregon State Tax Commis sion announced today that it has distributed payments totaling work. grams when the scandal began to break publicly. But how much did they police their own advertising? How much did the networks police meir programs? ,v . 117,518.52 to thirty-one counties Repub . can nomination a though in whjcn electric cooperatives Rockefeller has said oiUy that he te The monic3 are' credited will make up his mind before the; c0 , f rf h iirst ot tne year. ,ax is a 2 per cent gross earnings Turn nf lh ctnfo't inn Mima Pa.' . i w. .r .... . utiseu upon sales oi energy And most important of all, what Publican officials have endorsed ; and is in lieu of ad valorem taxes oixon ior me nominauon. iney upon the transmission and dis are Secretary of State Howell Ap-I tribution lines of the cooperatives pling and State Treasurer Sig for the tax year 1959-60. Unander- : The amount of $117,518.52 is a Appling would like to see Rock- 6 per cent increase over last year efcller as a vice-presidential nom-: and a 46.5 per cent increase over inec on the Nixon ticket. ' the taxes paid 5 years ago. Hatfield plans to stay out of the' Following is the amount of tax primary and support the Rcpubli-' Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson can primary winner. j received: Nixon will be in Oregon Satur- Crook. $1,897.92; Deschutes. $2, day to dedicate The Dalles dam. l4B(5 fit and Jefferson. $1,661.45. did the complacent Federal Com munications Commission, which has the right to suspend or can cel any TV license, do about it? Paar planning to quit TV MIAMI. Fla. (LTD - Telcvi sion star Jack Paar said today he intends to quit television when his current contract with the Na tional Broadcasting Co. expires. "Show business just Isn't some thing I feel I have to be in for the rest of my live." Paar, who, is vacationing here. said. i The controversial comedian did I not disclose w hat he intended to I do after his retirement from the entertainment business but indi-1 cated the pressure of his five-nights-a-weck program was too much of a strain. "t don't have the drive," he said. "I don't crave money that much." POSITIVE PROOF NEW YORK (UPI Mrs. Rosalie Dean Campbell, seeking a separation, told Justice Henry Ep stein Monday that when she in formed her husband "you've got to make up your mind whether you want liquor or me" he im mediately ordered another bottle of liqupr. THH ANSWER ISiYfcqid at ttisfriwdltj praw54w TH5?IFT-WISE PTJ n Central Oregonians have hocn privileged to hear three prominent members of I he U. S. Senate speak In this area in remit days each of them with the same economic pitch, al though varying widely in degree. The pitch is one vvhich has largely become t he economic principle of the Democratic patty. Of the three Sena tors here N'enberger, Morse and Humphrey Minnesota's Hubert IIiT'ilirey mr.dj the most capital of it. The theory was outlined in general c'-t-.'U recently in a publication of the r;inniitt.?c for Economic Growth. Attth of the pamphlet wrs Leon Keyser Vvz. i Columbia and Harvard trained economist and lawyer with a long rec en! of fiovprnmenl service in key spots l :-:!-r the Democrats, including seven t:i:'s in the Couuril of Economic Ad vi.xrft und.v President Truman. Keysei ling is a leading exponent of the "a little inflation Is good for every one" theory, which sounds fine to everyone not trapped on a fixed income. Opposed to this theory in recent years has been President Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers, headed by Arthur Burns. This group has largely been re sponsible for the "tight money" policies of recent years. For the average person or even one who is far better informed than the average the choice between the two economic dicta Is a difficult one, if not impossible. There is no scientific measurement In economics, it is impossible to set up controlled experiments on the national economy, and two economists fre quently will dr.-nv diametrically oppo site conclusions from the same data. So the argument will continue, with no real answer in sight. Kcop it alive, Senator, good gosh Senator Thruston H. Morion of Kentucky was downright unkind to the hopes of Oregon's Governor Mark Hat field Inst week. Senator Morion, national chairman of the Republican party, was asked (lur ing a visit to Oregon what he thought of the chances of Governor Hatfield to be nominated for the Vice-Presidency on the Republican ticket next yerr. Senator Morion said that he didn't think the Governor's chances were very good. He was considerably less than enthusiastic in his reply, if we read the reports correctly. This wasn't very nice of the Sena tor, particularly In the middle of the World Series. 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