Medford
Tribune
Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1950
Pages 1-6
Northwest Had Excess Storage Water In
January, Dr. Paul Raver Tells Meeting
Of Columbia Basin Inter-Agency Group
Salem, Ore., Feb. 9 (U.R) In entire west is being made to de-
contrast to some areas of the na
tion which are faced with water
shortages, the Pacific northwest
had excess storage water and a
large flow of water which en
abled the northwest power pool
to continue during January with
out any serious interruptions, Dr.
Paul J. Raver, Bonneville power
administrator, reported today.
Frequency Sags
Dr. Raver told the Columbia
Basin Inter-Agency committee
meeting here today that because
of the prolonged cold spell, the
termine If a complete survey
should be made. There has been
talk that, if a sufficient surplus
of water should be found in the
Northwest, beyond all needs for
power, reclamation and other
purposes, it might be exportable
to other areas where the water
supply is short.
To Continue Serious
Dr. Raver said the power sit
uation in the Northwest will con
tinue to be serious at least until
the end of 1953, when further
electrical frequency in the area, power generation at McNary,
sagged below 60 cycles eight
times in January but with milder
weather, a capacity load now is
being carried in the pool.
The Bonneville administrator
said there had been some line
breakages on lines of Bonneville
customers. But the BPA was able
to divert power over other lines
to continue service.
S. P. McCasland of Boise, Ida.,
with the U. S. Bureau of Recla
mation, said a "reconnaissance"
of the water situation in the
Hungry Horse and Detroit dams
should uirnisn a now oi unin
terrupted power to present cus
tomers. However, no new con
tracts can be made with either
private or public power users at
least until 1953, he said.
Col. O. E. Walsh, North Pacific
division engineer for the U. S.
corps of engineers, said that elim
ination by the bureau of the
budget of several smaller dams
in the Willamette valley project
will seriously interfere with the
From where I sit ... Ay Joe Marsh
"Left-Handed Compliment"
See where bank In Denver Is
putting In left-handed checkbooks.
They figure their southpaw depos
itors deserve just as much consid
eration as the right handcrs.
Time was when it was believed
that left-handed people had no
right to exist at all. If a youngster
showed signs of using his left
hand, his parents were supposed to
break him of the habit to forct
him to use his right.
But today most doctors will tell
you that changing a child's natu
ral left-handed tendency usually
causes more harm than good.
Stammering and other nervous dis
orders often get their start that
way with children.
From where I sit, if a man wants
to use his left hand that's hit
business. It's not such a good idea
to make anyone do things our way.
just because ice think it's right.
Personally, I think a mellow glass
of beer Is the finest beverage on
earth. If you happen to prefer a
Coke why, go to it! Only leave me
the same freedom of choice, won't
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effectiveness of the entire proj
ect.
Col. Walsh, who is a member
of the Columbia Basin Inter
Agency committee, urged that
the group hold an early meet
ing in the Willamette basin area
to consider the deletions and
take whatever action they deem
advisable.
Rogue Work Complete
Gov. Douglas McKay of Ore
gon, host of the meeting, urged
that the Willamette Basin meet
ing be held at an early date so
that protests could be forwarded
to northwest members of con
gress in time to assure action
while the joint army-reclamation
bill is still in committee.
rnl. Walsh rerjorted that cold
weather caused suspension of
virtually all army projects
the northwest in January. He
said 100 inches of snow at the
Detroit dam site on the north
Santiam river prevents any work
at the present time.
Harold T. Nelson of Boise. Ida.,
with the U. S. department of
interior, said all work was com
pleted Tuesday on an investiga
tion of the Rogue River basin,
and a report on it is expected to
be out soon.
One Whistle Okay;
Two And You're Up
On Conduct Charge
Newark, N. J., Feb. 9 (U.R)
Nineteen policewomen and a
chief magistrate today drew
the fine distinction between
flirting and disorderly con
duct. Their conclusions, reached
after a daylong conference of
judicious inquiry, were:
A flirt may whistle once at
a woman without injuring her
dignity or getting into trouble.
Persistence after the male flirt
is told nothing is doing con
stitutes disorderly conduct.
"We always give ihom a
chance to go away," Police
woman Martha Brent said In
summing up the conclusions,
"but if they bother us after
that, it's a different story."
California forests are at pres
ent growing about a billion and
a half board feet of lumber annually.
Northwest Power
Rates May Jump,
Cordon Advised
Washington, Feb. 9 (U.R)
The reclamation bureau has ad
vised Sen. Guy Cordon (R., Ore.),'
that public power rates in the
Pacific northwest eventually
may be raised.
Reclamation Commls s i o n e r
Michael Straus told Cordon the
present rate of $17.50 per kilo
watt year would go up to S21.57
when 17 existing and proposed
projects are operating together.
Letter Read
Straus estimated the increase
without reference to a proposal
to use interest collected on
power investments to Aid In re
payment of project costs.
Cordon read a letter from
Straus during senate interior
committee hearings on the Col
umbia river coordinated plan
Earl B. Ostrander, Bonneville
power administration official,
was testifying.
"Is S21.57 enough to return
all costs allocable to power on
these projects without the use
of the interest component?" Cor
don asked Ostrander.
"Yes," Ostrander said, "If
those projects are operated as a
power pool. The rate, however
reflects a pay-out only for power
There is no irrigation in there."
Other Projects
Straus said the increase would
be necessary when the following
power projects were operating
together: Bonneville, Grand Cou
lee, Hungry Hnrse, McNary
Chief Joseph. Detroit, Meridian,
Roza, Chandler. Big Cliff, Ice
Harbor. Lower Monumental. Al
beni Falls. Hells Canyon, Hills
Creek, Waldo Lake and Dexter,
Street Car Strike In
San Francisco Looms
San Francisco, Feb. 9 (U.R)-
Threat of a system-wide strike
of AFL municipal streetcar and
bus operators over a dispute
about work schedules loomed
today.
Nearly 500 union men voted
at a meeting to ballot Thursday
on a strike that would tie up
transportation in this city of
850.000.
The strike threat arose when
new "split shift" work schedules
went into effect on the No. 26
line.
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custom, pins white bow on drapes in the Villa Margherlta, Rome, to
show actress lngrid BergniAn's baby is a boy. Father Felix A. Mor
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In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
President Truman accepts the
Taft-Hartley law as an instru
ment for dealing with the coal
strike, puts a three-man board
to work digging up the facts
with orders to pour on the heal
and bring in a report by next
Monday and may later call for
an injunction sending the miners
back to work for 80 days.
Whether he would have in
voked Taft-Hartley against any
body but Miner Boss Lewis,
whom he dislikes, is an interest
ing subject for speculation but
is probably not material to the
present problem, which is how
lo get coal enough dug to keep
the country warm and its indus
tries moving.
THE miners, bitter and augry,
say they "won't be black
jacked into the mines." A rank-
and-file Pennsylvania coal digger
tells a reporter: "Let em put us
in jail. If the government puts
us to work for Uncle Sam and
gives us a contract, we'll dig
coal. But not under this Taft
Hartley stuff."
A mine-leader says:
"We are not going back to
work under somebody dominat
ing us. . . . No contract, no work
under Taft-Hartley or anybody
else. ... If they want coal dug,
let Taft and Hartley and Truman
come and dig it."
IT SOUNDS like a show-down
which is probably what we'll
have to have. Boils have to come
to a head before they can be
treated and the patient relieved.
PARTY Republicans, after la
boring mightily without bene
fit of twilight sleep, bring forth
a platform in which they name
liberty vs. socialism as their top
campaign issue in 1950.
It sounds nice and all thai,
but it's vague and remote. Social
ism isn't going to happen next
year or the year after that. It
will come so crecpingly that no
body will be able to tell when
it's here. Using it as a 1950 top
campaign issue is a good deal like
telling the children the big bad
boogcy man will get 'em of they
aren't good.
The children are bad a little
bit, just enough to see what will
happen, and when the boogey
man doesn't come they put the
statement down accurately for
what it is, which is a scheme
to SCARE 'em inlo being good.
On the subject of finances, the
Republicans are a little smarter.
(They've always been financially
smarter than the Democrats.)
They drop the idea of $100-
per-plate dinners (or $10, or $zu,
or anything that sounds like big
money) and start a series of old-
fashioned basket dinners at a
buck a basket. While they munch
their chicken and fried potatoes
at these affairs, they propose to
talk over the heavy affairs of
the nation and what ought to De
done about it.
(Their idea, of course, is that
the thing to do about it is to re
turn the Republican party to
power.)
THAT'S one move in the right
direction. If the Republicans
are ever going to get back into
power, they've got to GET HUM
BLE. They've got to get down
among the common people and
be regular fellows.
(Among other things, they'll
have to convince the common
people that you just CAN'T vote
yourself rich. At the present mo
ment, the common people don't
believe that. They think you
CAN vote yourself rich. We've
been doing it for ycars and
running up a 257 billion dollar
debt in the process. I he Repub
licans will have to be really
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out of that idea.)
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LET'S close on a
Homer Angell,
congressman from
county, Oregon. ,
Homer let go a crack the other
day to the effect that the 1 admin
istration is spending with a lav
ish hand." He added with a biting
flourish that "Uncle Sam needs
psychiatrist."
He cited this as proof:
The government sells the old
battleship Oregon for $35,000
and THEN TURNS AROUND
AND BUYS THE SALVAGE
FROM IT FOR $101,739,
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Man Survives 8 Days Locked In Box Car
Los Angeles, Feb. 9-lU.RI-A 49-
year-old man was taken from a
locked box car at an automobile
plant here today and said he was
imprisoned when he fell asleep
the car eight days ago in
Highland Park, Mich.
The man, John Lee Ford, a
Negro, was examined by t h e
plant nurse at the Lincoln-Mercury
assembly plant of the Ford
Motor company in fcast Los An
geles and pronounced in "good
condition, considering his experiences."
Ford told sheriff's deputies he
went to the Highland Park Ford
plant to see about getting back
his former Job. While he waited
to see the foreman, he crawled
into the box car to take a nap
and was sealed inside when the
carload of auto parts was started
on its way January 31.
Dlllllth Minn (It Pi rhllrfran
playing with matches caused a
ure wnicn am JU damage to
house belonging to Ed Oven.
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