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4 Salem, Oregon, Monday, November 8, 1948
Engineers' Report on Columbia Basin Project
The Corps of Engineers Review report on the Columbia
river and tributaries by Colonel Theoran D. Weaver, north
Pacific division engineer, reviews the details of the $3 bil
lion plan, the projects recommended for construction and
the estimated costs. It is of profound significance in the
development of the Pacific northwest.
The consequences of the devastating flood of 1948 ac
centuated the need of revision of the 1932 report in order
that measures for flood protection, of additoinal power
required for the expanding economy and for necessary
navigation, irrigation and other improvements actually
essential.
The program outlines a coordinated pattern for still
longer range future development and has been soundly
prepared from an engineering and economic standpoint,
reflecting post-war and post-flood conditions.
Positive protection against major damage from floods in the
Columbia River Basin Is assured under the plan recommended
In the report. Colonel Weaver emphasized, however, that the
plan is thoroughly multiple-purpose and not a flood control or
a power plan alone. In many basins Hood control and power
cannot be provided from the same reservoirs. In fact, it is gen
erally impossible excent where enough storage is provided for
both purposes separately. In the Columbia Basin, however, due
to the stream characteristics peculiar to this region, a thoroughly
coordinated plan has been worked out which allows highly ef
ficient power production by the same series of reservoirs which
provide reliable flood control.
The report stresses the serious power shortage in
which both publicly and privately owned power supply
keeps falling further behind the reouirements of a ranidlv
growing population to an extent which is already retard
ing new industrial development. The demand for addi
tional supplies of cheap power is region-wide, says the
report, coming alike from labor and from management,
from the farms, from all political parties and from both
public and private utilities.
This power shortage is of very real and Immediate con
cern to business and the general nublic in the Pacific Northwest.
In the Columbia Basin potential resources for low-cost nower
are available, and plans are submitted for the Installation of over
six million kilowatts of additional hydro-electric generating
capacity at costs far below the cost of such power in other
regions.
Along with power development, navigation and flood con
trol goes irrigation. The series of great dams most effec
tive in providing for flood control, navigation and power
purposes cannot be physically located so as to provide
major amounts of direct irrigation at the same time the
report points out. The very large reservoirs required
must be placed In isolated areas and, in general, irrigation
by diversion from such reservoirs is impracticable. Con
gress up to now has required payment of the reimbursable
costs of irrigation projects.
Most Irrigation projects of the future cannot be paid for fully
by normal financing; but they are still very important for bal
anced economic development of the region as a whole. It Is
suggested that If the states concerned should see fit to counle
the development of power, flood control and navigation In the
. Corps of Engineers' plan with the development of the 13 Irriga
tion projects recommended by the secretary of the Interior, an
Increase In power rates required to pay the deficit In these
Irrigation costs would require only $0.60 per kilowatt vear from
power rates, which Is less than the net Income from the power
rates now In effect. This would provide a reasonable subsidy
to Irrigation hy the region In which the power Is developed and
Is not a national subsidy.
It would not require any Immediate increase in power
rates and only small effect on future rate increases.
Another departure from previous policy is also advocated
In the report; namely that where there is a net annual
tax suffered by local government units as a direct result
of the construction of the multiple-purpose reservoirs in
the main control plan, it is recommended that the chief of
engineers be authorized to pay to the states considered
as charges against the power features of the respective
projects. This provision, while costing the federal gov
ernment only relatively minor amounts annually, should
be most helpful to certain areas.
The report, furthermore, gives full endorsement and
place in the planning for such vital elements as the preser
vation and enhancement of the fisheries, soil conservation,
pollution abatement, major drainage and recreation.
.
The necessity of Willamette valley projects is also stress
ed. The report states :
''The modified and extended Willamette Vallev Project pro
vides fcr a system of twenty multiple-purpose reservoirs in
cluding five reservoirs new existing or under construction
supplemented by levees, channel improvement, bank protec
tion, drainage work, hydro electric power Plants and recrea
tional facilities at selected reservoirs, reconstruction of Willam
ette fall.-; Locks, and provision of facilities for artificial prepa
ration of f:h This plan is as previously recommended in the
separate rrnnrt on the Willamette River Sub-Basin Hans.
The modified Willamette Valley Troject will reduced by RS
pTr.-nt tiie annual damage done hv floods in that aeriouslv
rami red an a by reservoirs and levees. Other Important ac-eomplishmer-t,
are extensive improvements In drainage; water
supply for tne irrigation of 452.000 acres of agricultural lands-com-d-r.ihle
improvement in navigation: and the addition of
ar.i.WHi kilowatts of power that will serve the Federal svstcnv
reereition: fi-h and other conservation uses."
The rst:mated federal cost of the Willamette vallev
pro ret is $:i.'!".7 Irt.tioO and the non federal fund cost $41,
lll.iif'O. The h-.fh construction costs now prevailing,
double what thev were before the war. are partially offset
by the prr-atrr operating efficiency of the new planned
power system.
'Oh, My Aching Back . . .'
Trinreton. W. Vs. i4" Thai r.OP elephant sort of fellow
Isaac J. Sweeney, and Sweeney's aehlni hark felt like It.
He had watered on republican Thomas T.. Dewey In the
recent presidential election.
Me pair off by pushing Henry Brewster 11 Ion miles in
rubber-tired wheelbarrow. The trip over a hilly highway
turn rnnrrion o niurueia loo nearly sis hours.
Sweeney, husky and In his 30s, wore a big Dewey sign,
while Brewster, 64, reclined against cushions and blandished
a President Truman poster.
"One food thing," groaned Sweeney. "Henry only weighs
110 pounds." Roth mea work as machinist In the Virginia
railway shops here.
BY BECK
Things to Worry About
VOUR. SON, RODNEY, HA APPARENTLY W
BEEN READING THE CURRENT NEWSPAPER!
STORIES ON THE IIFE Of THE NEWLY-
' -SSl flECTED PRESIDENT, PARTICULARLY THOSE
;', T DESCRIBING HIS MISCHIEVOU5NI5S IN gS
PNAVE NO DESIRE TO fe
HIS AMBITION BUT HIS
A5 BECOME DEPLORABLE
IT CHANGE IMMEDIATELY
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Everyone Was Against
Truman-But the People
By DREW PEARSON
Washington My wife has been making things quite difficult
for me ever since election day.
She talks about "that cute little Harry" and won't let me forget
that I predicted he would not be re-elected.
"Such a nice little man," she says, "and he got no help from
anyone. The
ligation to some of the cabinet
Judases who buttered you up
to your face, while making deals
with the enemy behind your
back; nor to others in your of
ficial family who don't pull
their full weight on the oar.
"The people will applaud if
you get rid of them; if you ban
ish entirely all government-by-cronies.
The nation is expecting big
things of you, Mr. President big
things in extremely trying
times.
"For my part I would much
rather write the good than the
bad. And though I know you be
lieve in fair criticsm, I for one
would like to urge that we
work, strive, give as a United
Nation and 'Help Harry, Not
Hamper Him' to make democ
racy live."
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Drtw Feartoo
BY DON UPJOHN
It begins to look as if the toga which Governor-elect Doug
las McKay has worn so gracefully in the state senate is going to
get badly mauled and out of shape the way it is being grabbed and
yanked at by
the friends nf
the nume r o u s
candidates
who'd like to
wear same. Now
with indications
it will be well
along into De
cember with
possibility of it's
being even late
in that month
jisassv'
Don I'pjoha
ness has been the committee
meeting rooms. Edlund owns a
well bred canary, a roller. This
bird never fails to start up his
most demonstrative song when
President Truman speaks. His
other tunes are soft and appeal
ing. During the radio election
return reports well into the
hours of the morning after, the
canary kept up his wild song,
much to the wonder of the group
that sat up to hear the reports
through, at the Edlund home.
before a succes
sor is named to Doug the gar
ment may be in tatters before .
Doug removes it and it is placed . We hope Oscar doesn t mis-
around new shoulders by the take hls "nary for a crow.
county court. Incidentally, the
members of the county court are Claude Goes Soft
getting a little touch of the pull- (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
ing and hauling themselves and This paper, along with almost
may come out of the contest every other paper in the world,
with a dislocated shoulder or receives contributions from am-
two. ateur poets. Some are good.
Some are fair, some are terrible.
Oscar Gets the Bird Our sense of poetic values does
Silverton Local republicans not incline us to judge into
are coming in tor plenty of rib- which of the above departments
bmg since final election reports most of the contributions fall,
are known. One citizen is re- However, in fear of depriving
ceiving good-naturedly much at- the world of a possible genius
tention in a reminder of a fact we are going to establish a
after his wife inadvertently re- poetry department.
vealed the family secret. This is
Oscar Edlund, chairman of the We bet the mute inglorious
Silverton Republican club, and Miltons of Benton county are
whose down-town place of busi- sharpening their pencils.
Steadiest Visitor at Hospital Barks
Medford, Mass. (U.fi) The steadiest visitor at Lawrence Memor
ial hospital barks at the door instead of knocking.
The caller is Gal, a six-year-old German shepherd seeing-eye
dog. Gal makes daily visits to her blind mistress. Dr. Muriel An
derson, 52, an osteopathic physician from David City, Neb.
Inseparable for five years, Gal and Dr. Anderson were parted
temporarily when the woman was struck by a truck while visiting
friends in Medford.
Despite Dr. Anderson's long hospitalization with a fractured leg
and hip. Gal never failed her blind mistress. The dog eats and
sleeps at the home of Dr. Anderson's friends.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
A Double-Cross Section
Ear a3
BY HAL
New York, (Pi The political
try and check into what's wrong
This is a fine idea. But Noah
to buy a rampr
guage. He start-
ed building his
ark in dry weather.
The pollsters
pre s e n t e d in
their e 1 e c t ion
forecasts what
they termed a r
cross-section ofj
America. But
they must feci
now it was a
double-cross section.
What America would like to
see is a cross-section of a few
pollsters It shouldn't be hard
to get. At the moment any sec
tion of a pollster is likely to be
pretty cross.
Perhaps the most depressing
aspect of the whole situation Is
the number of horrible puns
that are springing up like dan
delions. Such as:
"Now that the election is over
we must all poll together "
"You can tell a politician's
drowning if he grabs at any
straw vote "
"It wasn't the donkey's back
that was broken by the last
straw vote "
"Barber poles are still red.
white and blue but the elec
tion polls were read, wrong and
blue "
"The republicans are still
asking, 'Where's Elmo?" "
"Give a candidate enough Ro
per and he 11 hang himself.''
"Harry is the first president
to lose in a Gallup and win in a
walk "
Looking back, it would seem
that the basic trouble with poll
sters Is that they reversed the
radio programs by asking the
$64 question first. The only In
dustry In which a man can safe
lv start at the top is flagpole sitting.
BOYLE
pollsters say they are going to
with their polls.
didn't wait until after the flood
Perhaps the poobahs of the
polls would do better next time
by asking a few warmup ques
tions before the real campaign
program begins. That way they
could loosen up the voters and
win their confidence before
springing the pay-off query.
In the next four years, for
example, they could practice up
by tackling some old unanswer
ed problems that never get set
tled in election years. A few
samples:
"Why does it always rain af
ter a man pays two-bits for a
shooshine?''
"Isn't it possible to take a pic
ture of a family reunion without
having three of your relatives
look like zombies?"
"How many street beggars ac
tually ride home In limousines
after their day's work?"
"What do people who live on
a shoestring tie their future to?"
"How much does the average
butcher's thumb weigh?"
"Why even after 25 years of
marriage does a w ife still close
her eyes when her husband kiss
es her?"
"Why does the same husband
keep his eyes ooen?"
A pollster once questioned
whether Dr. Kinsey's method
was scientifically accurate. But
today he still stands as one of
the few opinion-takers who
hasn't been proved wrong.
He was wise enough to pick a
subject that isn't put to a po
pular vote. Politics is a matter
of public election sex Is still
pretty much a matter cf private
selection.
But right or wrong, the poli
tical pollsters will always be
with us Their forecasts are real
ly a kind of group gossip.
They are a sop to every man's
secret desire to know what his
neighbors think even though
they are polls apart.
liberals were
against him, the
conservat i v e s
were against
him. Everybody
was against
him but the
people."
I have re
in i n d e d her
that, at least, 1
p r e d 1 c ted a
democratic sen
ate and that I reaped a harvest
of squawks and jeers even for
doing that.
But she isn't satisfied.
"No, you can't alibi," she
says. "I know you too well. That
' poor little man fighting all
alone, and you discouraged him
by predicting he would lose.
Such a nice man, I just love
him."
"Listen," says I gruffly. "Mrs.
Truman isn't going to like hear
ing you say that about her hus
band. And I don't either. Love
and politics don't mix."
"This wasn't politics," replies
Mrs. P. "This was a lot bigger.
This was bigger than any vic
tory Roosevelt ever won, be
cause Roosevelt never had Wal
lace and the Dixiecrats running
against him. I want you to tell
everyone what a really great
victory this was."
"They don't need me to tell
'em," I argue back. "They know
it. Besides. I tried to call the
shots all during the campaign.
I said a lot of nice things about
the president. I was about the
only one who defended his idea
of sending Chief Justice Vinson
to Moscow.
"I compared his courageous
war record with Dewey's farm
draft deferment. I told about his
devout desire for peace and his
reluctance to drop the atomic
bomb. I defended him on a
whole raft of things. But...."
"Yes. I know your alibi," says
the wife, not even willing to let
me finish what I was going to
say. "The republican editors cut
all the nice things you said out
of the column. So what? Then
say them on the radio where you
aren't censored.
"I want you to come out." she
demands, "and give Harry a
great big hand. You're chairman
of 'be kind to pussy week'
why don't you start a "be kind
to Harry week'?''
"Incidentally, you're always
going in for democracy contests
and slogans," continues Mrs. P.,
who is now really steamed up.
"I'll give you a slogan free.
You won't have to pay me
$20,000 in prizes. Here it is:
'Don't hamper Harry, help
him.' "
Well, that ended that. How
ever, Mrs. P., who has good
sense about most things (except
pigs), hit the nail right on the
head.
It was a great victory, in a
sense greater than Roosevelt's
victories because Truman fought
it singlehanded, with a divided
party, and with an extra quota
of nonpaying deadheads drag
ging their feet on his band
wagon. So, to the president of the
United States, I would like to
say:
"Although I was wrong in
predicting your defeat, I am
glad I was wrong. And after that
grand fight you put up, and re
gardless' of any names you may
have called me, I don't know
anyone I would rather eat
humble pie for than a good sport
and a great battler like you.
"You. Mr. President, now
have your own mandate from
the people. You won it entirely
on your own. You need feel no
inferiority complex that you
were a political accident who
came into office through an
other man's choice.
"Nor need you feel anv ob-
The Power of Advertising
Jamestown, N.Y. Mi Gus Nestle, manager of the Palace
theatre. Is convinced the hard way of the power of ad
vertising. Nestle, plugging a give-away show next week, posted a sign
proclaiming: "Money Is Free at the Palace." Next morning ha
reported to police that somebody broke In and swiped fl.OOO
from an office strongbox.
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OPEN FORUM
Legislature to Be Watched
(Editor's Note: Contributions to this column must
be confined to 300 words and signed by writer)
To the Editor: Being a newcomer to your state, I have been
reading the . . . papers to sort of acquaint myself with Ideas and
opinions of the general public here.
I enclose a clipping (from a
local paper) about the old age didn't say anything about where
pensions which have been grant- the money was coming from to
ed to the old folks in Oregon.
.. ;.I.J. ur. b Pa" "
But to raise the old folks' pen
sions, that is terrible and we
The piece is entitled: "Wreck
Ahead for State Finances."
- T 1 t rnln
nhaeaA a email farm in thp val.
ley ... I was shocked at this leYy
editorial. For, although in Colo
rado we paid our old folks more
pension than they have now
why they didn't favor the tax
Well, he said, most prop
erty owners who voted had just
paid their 1948 taxes and they
were just about double what
ELECTION-WENT-ROUND
Flushed friends of Harry Tru
man were talking with him at
Independence. Mo., regarding
the chief factor behind his vic
tory. He said it was hard work.
"I grew up on a farm where you
have to work for what you get,"
remarked the president.
While Truman's campaigning
undoubtedly won him votes,
Wallace's didn't. Here are the
tell-tale figures: Of Wallace's
986,771 votes, 844,189 came
from eight states. The rest of the
country where he gathered
crowds just didn't vote for him.
In other words, 40 states were
not affected by his trips or his
radio broadcasts.
The only three cabinet mem
bers who really worked for the
re-election of their chief were
Attorney General Tom Clark,
Secretary of Agriculture Char
lie Brannan and Secretary of
Labor Maurice Tobin. They
rolled up their sleeves.
New speaker Sam Rayburn
has grave doubts as to whether
the new congress will tolerate
Congressman J. "Kickback"
Thomas, regardless of whether
he is convicted for taking salary
kickbacks from clerks and sten
ographers. Republican governor Kim Sig
ler of Michigan was defeated by
a young protege of Justice
Frank Murphy Mennen Will
iams. Williams, whose grand
father founded the Williams
soap and Mennen's baby-powder
business, came to Washington as
aide to Murphy when he was
attorney general with Will
iams. You can figure on Will
iams challenging the seat of
Senator Homer Ferguson the
next time around.
The man who swung last-minute
votes against Sigler was
Mayor George Welch of Grand
Rapids, president of the mayors
conference of America. He
granted, never once did I see an they were last year. So anything
Iji..ii i i,,i r.- ,h.f sounded like taxes was voted
cuuuiial in a iu. t i-
read like this one.
So I asked my brother-in-law
to explain what was the trouble
against.
I asked him how come Oregon
went republican. He said a
He said Oregon does nothing but great many of us democrats ot
complain all the time because part democrats vote :or repuD
they have to give the old people licans in our home state because
any pension at all; that the old hey are ood fellows, and we
folks are watched continually I'ke them. And some like Doug
to see they do not work and are McKay they live here, and, like
always in fear of losing their Morse and some more, they do
pensions. 8ood work for us in Washington,
This seems a strange state of D-C
affairs to me. Surely this is a But he added, "I think this
free country. Then he tells me time when the legislature meets
that the last legislature passed they will be watched very close
a bill to raise all state and coun- ly and their fate might be like
ty employes' salaries. Some even the 80th congress was in this el
were raised as much as $100 a ection."
month. But that was considered H. D. CHANTEY,
perfectly all right, and they Turner, Oregon,
On Appointment for Senator
To the Editor: After electing Doug McKay governor, and he will
make an outstanding one, it is necessary to appoint a senator from
Marion county to serve his unexpired term. This must be done by
the Marion county court. ough understanding ol the prob-
I would like to suggest the iems of Marion county folks,
name of H. R. (Farmer) Jones He served in several sessions
my neighbor. I like him best of of the legislature, and is a vet
all those whose name has been eran ber of theWayi and
suggested Means committee. This commit-
I have' known him over 30 tee..is the "ie orkin com
years. As both a farmer and fruit mlt.'e in Vhue hoIe egJture,
buyer, he is absolutely honest, fs !' the tough problem of
dependable and a credit to Mar- um match ,tate incom wlth
ion county. He has a very thor- ou'g-
He was "nosed out" this last
" ..... Spring Dy one vote, and It was
whaled thousands of votes away sure a loss to Marion county. He
from Sigler by telling Michi- was one ' our verV "Pre
aanders how Sigler knifed the sentatives. Let's get him back
plan to rebate part of the sales working for us. "y
Route 8, Salem.
Some Hat!
Boston 0J.R) Bostonlans who
thought they had seen about ev
erything in women's hats were
tax to Michigan schools and
cities.
Shrewdest move Truman
made in the entire campaign
was reconvening the 80th con
gress right after the Philadel
phia convention in July. When
the republicans adjourned with
nut nctino on Inflation nrir-. in for a surprise at the Boston
iviuuiiery council a siyie snow.
Featured was a 15-karat gold
hat with diamond trimmings
valued at $10,000.
control, housing or teachers'
pay, etc., it clinched more votes
than any other campaign issues.
'Copyright 19481
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