16 Capita Journal, Salem, Ore., Tuesday, January 31, 1950
Program for River Development
In NW to Cost $3 to $5 Billion
By CHARLES D. W ATKINS
Washington, Jan. 31 VP) In the power-short Pacific north
west the federal government is pushing a program of river de
veloDnient for power, flood control and irrigation estimated
to cost $3,000,000,000 to $5,000,000,000 before it is completed.
The largest concrete structure oi any Kind in me worm
Grand Coulee Dam on the Col
umbia river in Washington state
is a part of this program. The
dam Is 550 feet high and 4,173
feet long. It forms Franklin D,
Boosevelt Lake, which is 151
miles in length.
Grand Coulee hasn't yet
reached full production but al
ready, according to the reclam
atlon bureau, It is the world's
greatest electric power plant. Its
present capacity is rated at
1,316,000 kilowatts, (an average
city of 50,000 requires about
25,000 kilowatts).
Grand Coulee is also the most
expensive project of its kind in
this country. The reclamation
bureau reckons the cost of the
dam itself at $140,000,000.
Including Grand Coulee Dam,
the projects already under way
in the Columbia River valley in
Washington and Oregon and in
its tributaries in Idaho and Mon
tana add up to an estimated cost
of $1,536,505,000. Government
engineers say that the program
already under way will produce,
when completed, 5,320,000 kilo
watts of power, control floods
in the various valleys and irri
gate more than 1,000,000 acres
of land.
To date the government has
spent a total of $678,264,541 on
its Pacific northwest program.
Present power production is just
over 2,000,000 kilowatts, with
Grand Coulee generating the big
share. Bonneville Dam near
Portland, Ore., is the other main
producer. This power is disri
buted in Washington and Oregon
by the Bonneville Power admin
istration over its $145,000,000
transmission system.
The reclamation bureau' says
Grand Coulee and Bonneville
Dams already are repaying the
government part of their cost
from earnings. These as well as
the contemplated dams are sup
posed to repay the entire cost of
their power projects. The costs
of navigation, flood control and
Irrigation works are borne by
the government.
President Truman asked con
gress early this year for nearly
$300,000,000 to carry forward
the projects already underway
on the Columbia and its trib
utaries.
These projects, with their
estimated cost and peak power
output on completion:
Bonneville, $84,858,000 and
564,000 kilowatts; Grand Coulee
(the entire project), $762,000,000
and 2,172,000 kilowatts; McNary
dam, $227,028,000 and 980,000
$206,000,000 and 860,000 kilo
watts; Detroit Dam, $70,000,000
and 250,000 kilowatts; Dorena
project, $14,385,000 (no power);
Lookout, $63,634,000 and 115,000
kilowatts; Chief Joseph Dam,
kilowatts, and Hungry Horse (on
Flathead river in Montana),
$104,800,000 and 285,000 kilo
watts. The Bonneville, Grand Coulee,
McNary and Chief Joseph pro
jects are on the Columbia. De
troit, Dorena and Lookout on the
Willamette River.
To date the expenditures have
been; Grand Coulee and Colum
bia Basin, $293,000,000; Bonne
ville, $84,858,000; McNary, $72,-
575,000; Chief Joseph, $8,172,
000; Detroit, $20,572,000; Dorena
(flood control dam), $z,385,uuu
Lookout, $6,364,000, and Hungry
Horse, $41,738,000.
Junior Class Members
Hold Rally Tuesday
Salem high school's junior
class members are to hold a class
rally dinner Tuesday evening at
6:45 prior to the Salem-OSC rook
game.
James Boone, class president,
will preside over the dinner
under the direction of Miss Ola
L. Clark, class adviser.
Class cheer leaders, Colleen
McNeil and Johnny Rex, will
lead the students in school yells
in preparation for the game.
Entertainment is also on the
program for the dinner, which
will include several vocal and
instrumental numbers by mem
bers of the class with artistic
talent.
There are extensive deposits
of manganese in South Dakota's
Missouri valley, but they are
in a form difficult to refine.
a lovely mane.
Loretta Young, the only star
Miss Clark knows who looks
equally lovely with short hair
and long.
Joan Evans, the most entic
ing hair among the younger set.
That phone number it . .
3-3131
Red haired Susan Hayward Has
'Sexiest Head of Hair in Town'
By PATRICIA CLARY
(United Pru etfttf correspondent)
Hollywood, Jan. 31 U.R) Redhalred Susan Haywaid has the
exiest head of hair in town, a hairdresser said today.
The sexiest blond and brunette in Hollywood history, respective
ly, were the late Jean Harlow and Hedy Lamarr, Marie Clark said.
"Susan's hair is vibrant and sensuous," Miss Clark said. "It
radiates sex. I never saw a com-
blnation like that red-brown
color with her red-brown eyes."
Both her hair and Miss La
marr's would be just as entic
ing cut short, she added. But
they never will be.
"Susan feels her long hau
ls as important to her as Sam
son's was," she said, "and she's
right. Hair is one of the sexiest
things about a woman."
There hasn't been a blonde
head in Hollywood since Har
low's that radiated her allure.
Miss Clark said.
"They've tried to, but they
never equalled her. Usually they
just make copies. Take Betty
Grable, for Instance. If I had
her, I'd darken her hair to hon
eyblonde and take those friz
zy curls out."
The town's sexiest short hair
cut belongs to Claudette Col
bert, Miss Clark said, and it's the
same one she's worn for years.
"No matter what the fashion,
Claudette always wears her hair
the same becoming way. She's
in a class by herself."
Another alluring head of hair
belongs to Ann Blyth, on whom i
Miss Clark worked in Samuel
Goldwyn's "Our Very Own."
She'd look even better with a
short haircut," Miss Clark mur
mured. But I understand she
promised her mother, who's
dead, that she'd never cut her
hair."
Others on her list of sexy
coifs:
Madeleine Carroll, for soft,
natural blondness.
Greer Garson, for light red
hair. I
Norma Shearer, who still has
Traubel Sulking
Oyer No Contract
New York, Jan. 31 (U.PJ The
Metropolitan opera tried today
to patch things up with prima
donna, Helen Traubel, sulking
like a hard-to-get big league
baseball pitcher.
But the red-haired Wagnerian
soprano said her decision to quit
the company at the end of the
season still stands until she sees
what the Metropolitan has to
offer.
Miss Traubel said even the
threat of "foreign" competition,
led by her chief Wagnerian
rivcl, Norwegian Kirstan Flag-
stad, hasn't made her think
twice In her feud with Rudolph
Bing, the Met's director-to-be.
She is fuming because Bing,
who takes over June 1, hasn't
offered her a new contract yet
for the 1950-51 season. She and
her manager, James A David
son, felt Bing should have had
things settled, at least on an in
formal basis, by last November
or December, particularly be
cause of her position as the'
Met's No. 1 operatic soprano.
However, Davidson expected
to find a letter from Bing at his
New York office today. Bing,
calling the entire incident "very
unfortunate and rather hasty,"
said he wrote Miss Traubel last
Friday inviting her to see him.
But the statements of two
other beautiful, although lesser
operatic stars could hardly im
prove Miss Traubel'i outraged
artistic temperament.
Lovely Dorothy Kirsten, now
in Los Angeles, and Patrice
Munsell, here in New York, said
they certainly would be on the
Met's schedule next season be
cause Bing already has asked
them. They felt their contracts
were all arranged but the sign
ing. Sacketf Honeymoons
In Mexico City
Piedmont, Calif., Jan. 31 (U.fi)
Sheldon F. Sackett, west coast
newspaper publisher and radio
station owner, honeymooned to
day with his bride, the former
Miss Elizabeth Worthington.
They planned to fly to Mexico
City today for their honeymoon.
The couple was married yes
terday at Piedmont Community
church. The service was read
by Dr. Holland F. Burr, with
Mrs. A .C. Worthington, sister-
in-law of the bride, acting as
matron of honor, and Leland R.
Sackett, the bridegroom's broth
er, acting as best man.
The bride is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Worthington
of Berkeley, Calif.
Sackett's business interests
include radio stations KOOS,
Coos Bay, Ore.; KROW, Oak
land, Calif.; KVAN, Vancouver,
Wash., and KRSC, Seattle,
Wash.; and the newspapers, Coos
Bay Times, and Illustrated Press,
of Oakland. He recently bought
the building and presses of the
suspended Seattle Star.
1950 Hop Prices iF
Now Above Parity
Portland, Jan. 31 VP) Rising
prices for 1950 hops may side
track the need for the federal
hop market agreement. The
more active market may also
result in lifting of the sale em
bargo on 1949 crop surpluses.
Traders reported recent boosts
of 3 to 4 cents a pound had
raised the average to 66 cents,
at or above the parity support
level.
Willamette valley seeded hops
are selling for 63 to 64 cents.
Seedless hops from the Yakima
district are bringing up to 75
cents. Foreign buyers are add
ing to the demand, the trade
reported.
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