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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
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TH5?IFT-WISE PTJ
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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.
Each batter Is expected to keep a
rally alive, not to ground Into a double
play, Senator. Keep that boomlet alive,
Thruston.
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