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10 YEARS AGO
March 26. 1942
(It Was Thursday)
' Audience packs courthouse
auditorium during water com
mission hearing on installation
of water meters; many alterna
tives suggested to save ,5,000,000
gallons of water needed for
army cantonment near Medford.
f Arthur Perrv's Ye
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Smudge Pot column: Farmers
complain that Deni grass, wrucn
bends the wrong way, is bother
ing them.
20 YEARS AGO
March 26, 1932
at Was Saturday)
Proposed April 1 opening of
Crater Lake National park ex
pected to be delayed by unusu
ally heavy snowfall: reports
from park state 104 inches has
fallen during past two weeks.
Norris Porter, Medford, takes
contest at Pacific Coast confer
ence fencing championships.
30 YEARS AGO
March 26. 1922
at Was Sunday) "
"Flivver" driven by Medford
chief of police "almost over
turns in wild chase after .speed
er"; violator finally caught near
Voorhies crossing.
Medford woman sends letter
of appreciation to Ku Klux Klan
members after they anonymous
ly presented her with $25.
40 YEARS AGO
March 26, 1912
(It Was Tuesday)
Thirty Medford men meet in
Medford hotel to discuss forma
tion of a National Guard unit
here.
Medford fire department drills
for first time as paid organiza
tion; Chief Gene Amann prom
ises improved protection for high
. buildings.
Court Records
DISTRICT COURT
Powell L. Everett, overload. $36 50.
Stephen O. Wilson, no motor vehicle
license. S6.
Gene W. Weitman. no red flag on
extended load. $6.
Morris L. Frink, overload. $116.
Charles L. Frye. overheight load. $6.
Carl S. Robbins. failure to stop at
stop sign S10. overwidtn load. 7.
Wayne K. Griffeth, passing with in
sufficient clearance, slu.
Earl L. Sands, no operator's license,
court costs only.
George W. Campbell, driving while
operator s license suspended. iu.
Lester Benjamin Simmons, petty
larceny, $30.
Carl D. Sample, no operator's li
cense, court costs only.
Gerald R. Albright, overwidth load.
115.
Raleigh Matthews, drunk on public
nignway.
Charles E. Bennett, overload.
$162.50.
Arthur Harding, no operator's li
cense, $10.
CIRCUIT COURT -
Olive Rae Kincaid vs. Charles Glenn
Kincaid. divorce decree.
Clara E. Bunting vs. Walter R.
Bunting, divorce decree.
Margaret Marie Bishop vs. C. R.
..Broughton and others, complaint in
suit to quiet title.
Katherine Seabright vs. John R.
Seabright divorce decree.
Mary Louise Miller vs. Archie Syl
vester Miller, divorce decree.
Georgeann Nilsson vs. Ralph H.
Nilsson. waiver of defendant and
divorce decree.
Florence Bromley Love vs. Eugene
H. Love, waiver of defendant and
divorce decree.
Norma Rosalie Akins vs. Richard
Dale Akins, divorce decree.
Estate of Joseph Ramony Da Bar be.
setition.
Estate of Joseph Ramony De Barbe,
petition.
Dead Una on Classified Ada:
Monday for Monday: noon Saturday
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Editorial Correspondence
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however windy, cool, crisp and cloudless skies.
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Climatically probably all of us living on the Pacific coast are
spoiled. We really don't know what bad weather is, compared with
tne poor unionunaxes wno nave w uvc eas. uic awwcb.
rs t Mis abpIiact VAnllAft1r.n i a trin tSv "hllUffv" to
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Davis Junction, Illinois, to see one of Aunt A's farms which had
been wrecked by a cyclone barn and house strewn all over the
400 acres, and a thousand dollars loss in livestock. A thousand
dollars loss was noimng 10 iase m one s sinue or a smue in u
days! No one killed or hurt, however. One odd and fortunate
thing about Rockford, Illinois, a few miles north of Davis June-
.a ti m x ' x tl.
tion, there were cyclones an around tne iorest cixy norm, sou in,
east and west, but never one within five miles of it. The C of C
advertised this fact.
Yesterday, being so nice and balmy, decided to take advantage
of it by attending the hoss-races across the bay at Golden Gate
Fields. Never again! there were close to 25,000 people who had
the same idea and the place was like the N. Y. subway at 5 p.m.
Usually the distaff member of the family has all the luck,
but it was the other way around this time. Nothing to boast about,
but the outdoor "sport of kings" was not as expensive entertain
ment as it usually is. Those who attend hoss races for reasons
other than entertainment, are as "easy-marks" as those who go
to a political rally for factual information. But don't take them
in under any circumstances, on week-ends. Even the entertain
ment is then eliminated if the weather is OK. ' ,
$
Some new features since the "Salade" days at Agua Cali
ente, Mexico. They advertise "inexpensive admission fees today,"
which in view of inflation prices has some validity. But if the
place is packed, as it was yesterday, you decide to go into the
"club house" another charge. But only reserved seats are avail
able in the club house which takes another contribution. If your
reserved seats are poor because all the good ones have been sold
you are advised to get a "box". Before you get through finding
a decent place to sit, your entrance fee has risen above the specu
lators "cut" on Broadway, and
club" before you try any more
Recent experiences have reminded the. writer of a very old
story.
There was the ship captain who, back in New York after a
long cruise, decided to "paint the town red," in the time-honored
tradition of the sea. But after making a round of the refreshment
parlors, 25 or 30 of them, until long after midnight, he finally
departed for his hotel. En route he leaned against a lamp post
(this was many years ago), and bursting into tears declared,
"The whole world's rotten!" (The trouble with the captain was he
had eaten a limburger-cheese sandwich early in the evening, and
a piece of the exceedingly ripe
in his mustache!)
Well, if any visitor in San
ing route this past week attended the movie at the State theatre
on Market, then "The Rose Tatoo" at the Geary; followed by the
Japanese movie classic Rashmahon at the Stage Door; the French
movie winner "La Rande" at the Vogue; ending up at the peep
hole murder trial at the Criminal
ing the ship captain's example
rotten!" AND WITH CAUSE.
We feel compelled to admit
New Yorker" that the press errs
plorably or frequently as some
but more frequently than should be the case. A friend in Medford
sent us a copy of Owen Lattimore's statement before the Mc-
Carren committee for example,
and the case so different from that
no one could believe they referred
occasion.
We grant, of course, requirements of time and space, render
anything like a complete factual
possible, only the highlights can
lights usually are items chiefly interesting to the rank and file at
the moment what is popular, what will make a headline. But
in this case both the UP and the AP were guilty of giving an ab
solutely INCORRECT picture of
send out, practically excluding
exaggerating the validity of the committee's accusations. They
also made it appear Lattimore was a perjurer, when not even the
most bitter critics of the Johns
one.
The time is coming if it isn't here now when the newspa
pers of the country in their own SELF-INTEREST, must be more
meticulous about their reporting
those of a controversial political character. British newspapers,
particularly the Manchester Guardian, set a good example in this
direction which U. S. newspapers
Another example, in a less
ports of this "peephole murder"
local press factually. The Chronicle, for example, maintained the
defendant, Elbert Belote, took
first degree very badly, turning
and sputtering between clenched
wrong!" .
The Call Bulletin, however,
dict without batting an eye, said, "Well that's that," and arose to
follow his keeper back to his cell, with stoical self-possession, and
commendable resignation.
Who was right? We don't know, for while we looked in on the
trial the final day we did not return for the verdict. On general
principles we would go along with the Chronicle rather than the
Hearst paper, but it may not have been true in this case. The ex
ample, however, only shows: (1) how two mature, and in this case
experienced people, can differ in describing the same incident and
(2) how necessary it has become for the newspapers of this coun
try to stop-look-and-listen, with special emphasis upon the need
of a bit of house-cleaning in their OWN profession.
Perhaps the Academy "Oscar" awards the other night in
LA. could have been worse, but someone would have had to work
overtime to make them so. Imagine, top-awards to "An American
in Paris" and to Humphrey Bog art's ACTING in "The African
Queen"! Angels and Ministers of Grace defend us what NEXT!!
Vivien Leigh was OK in "The Streetcar Named Desire," but how
in creation was Kim Hunter chosen over Marlon Brando? Accord
ing to one report from Hollywood, Brando was disregarded be
cause, quote: "Marlon isn't very popular in Hollywood"
What in heck has personal popularity in Hollywood got to
do with it? Or is that the tip-off? Does that explain WHY these
Academy awards are going down hill so fast that they soon won't
be taken any more seriously than the mimeograph outputs of the
studio press-agents?
Returning to news and news-treatment, we found under a
small head on an inside page of "The Examiner" the following
item: '
Tha Los Angeles County Medical Association has
decided to proceed immediately against soma of tha 200
'CPS' member-doctors who hava baaa cheating that as
sociation out of thousands of dollars by charging for op
erations that were never performed, imaginary x-ray
treatments and rendering bills for services never per
formed. TWO HUNDRED of them!
This is hard to believe, even in L.A.! But there is the item,
and the Los Angeles Medical Association is quoted so it can
hardly be another, attack on the profession certainly not along
the reprehensible line of "socialization."
Ho, hum the above we grant, isn't very, cheering guess we
will have to join the ship captain who failed to get that piece
of limburger out of his mustache! R.W.R.
CORN YIELD BOOSTED
Champaign, 111. (U.fD The
University of Illinois college of
agriculture reports a new record
average corn yield of 107 bushels
per acre on 21 experimental
fields in 1951. The previous high
was 102 bushels in 1948.
Wednesday, March It. 1932
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more like Fall than Spring,
in me neavena, am , uucsn .
hi mill ha nn r'VrT .OTJIT
you vow you will join the "turt
hoss races in Sunny California.
limburger had become imbedded
Francisco had followed the follow.
Court, he would feel like follow
and crying "the whole world's
along with the magazine "The
deplorably at times. Not as de
of its prejudiced critics maintain.
which 'gives a picture of the man
given by the press reports, that
to the same person or the same
coverage of such a hearing inv
be used, and naturally the high
the situation by the news they did
Lattimore's, defense and greatly
Hopkins professor claimed he was
of important events, especially
would be wise to follow.
serious field, was the news re
case how they differed in the
the jury verdict of guilty in the
white as a sheet, shaking his head
teeth: "It's unfair, it's bad, it's
maintained Belote took the ver
COLLEGE GETS RARE GIFT
Ithaca, N. Y. (U.R) A rare
4,000 volume Brazilian library,
including material printed at the
time of the important Portuguese
and Spanish explorations of the
16th century, has been donated
to Cornell university.
Crosstovn
MISTER JOHNSQM
"If I was a bachelor like you are, Mr. Johnson. I sura
wouldn't let myself in for all this heavy gardenin'l"
Matter of Fact
CANDIDATE MacARTHUR
Washington General Douglas
MacArthur's statement last week
was conned over, if not exactly
nervously, at least with a faintly
anxious interest, by the leaders
of the campaign for General
Dwight D. Eisenhower. And all
concerned reached the same con
clusions. First, General MacArthur
must now be counted an active
candidate, at least on a contin
gent basis. Second, if Senator
Robert A. Taft's campaign really
collapses, as it shows some signs
of doing, MacArthur will then
become the spearhead of an all.
out, last-ditch stop Eisenhower
drive backed by the powerul
"anti-me-too" wing of the Re
publican party.
It is not easy to define, of
course, the precise point at
which the Taft campaign might
at some future date be said to
have failed. Taft's definition
would certainly differ from that
of the Eisenhower men. Some
of these are already, in fact.
saying that "Bob Taft's all wash
ed up, on the grounds that
Taft's only real chance rested
on showing unchallengeable
strength on the first ballot at
Chicago, and that this is now
clearly impossible.
A more sensible view seems
to be that two tests must first
be . applied, before it will be
clear whether or not Taft is out
of the running. The first test
is obviously the Wisconsin pri
mary on April 1. Even the Taft
men agree that Taft has every
possible advantage in Wisconsin
notably including the fact that
Eisenhower is not entered there
and that Taft must win hands
down in Wisconsin if he is to
win at alL Taft's Wisconsin man
ager Tom Coleman,, has predict
ed that Taft will take all thirty
delegates. He might drop two or
.three to a second string candi
date, Harold E. Stassen or Gov
ernor Earl Warren of California,
anrr still survive. But if Taft
loses more than a handful of
delegates, he almost automatic
ally becomes a second string
candidate himself.
THE second test is in many
ways more decisive. Taft's
basic strength has always rested
with the regular organizations
in the non-primary states, nota
bly in the South, where dele
gates can be delivered more or
less at will by a few profession
als. By and large, the profes
sionals have been for Taft, in
part simply because they sym
pathize with his views. But
especially among Southern Re
publicans, ideas are far less
important than being for the
winner. A rush of the profes
sionals to Eisenhower, as the
probable winner, would of course
spell Taft's doom.
The Eisenhower leaders claim
that at least a biggish trickle has
already started. They are coy
about names, for obvious rea
sons, but they are saying that
they have been approached by
numerous previously pro - Taft
professionals from Florida, Ken
tucky, and other southern states.
The alacrity with which Gover
nor Driscoll of New Jersey jump
ed on the Eisenhow bandwagon
after New Hampshire, and the
current effort of the Warren
supporters to identify their man
with Eisenhower, at least make
these claims sound believable.
If Taft does poorly in Wis
consin, the trickle will tend to
become a flood. Then only Gen
eral MacArthur might stem the
flood, given the determined sup
port of the large numbers of
powerful Republicans who have
no stomach for the foreign policy
of which Eisenhower is a
is too easily forgotten that.
at least judging from the voting I
record in Congress, these Re
publicans are an actual majority
in the party. Ever since the
death of Senator Arthur Vanden
berg, well over half the Senate
Republicans, including nine of
the thirteen freshman who stand
this year for re-election, have
rather consistently followed Taft
on foreign policy. Eisenhower's
nomination and election would
be something like a death-kneLu
By Roland Cot
r
Stewart Aba
for this wing of the Republican
party.
AND this wing of the party
is certainly not going to ac
cept sentence of death . without
a struggle. If the Taft candidacy
clearly fails, a MacArthur can
didacy will give the anti-me-too
Republicans a chance to match
military glamor against military
glamor. And MacArthur is noth
ing if not anti-me-too, on domes
tic as well as foreign issues. The
tone of his recent statements and
speeches in one of which he
went so far as to warn that
creeping socialism even threat
ens professional football places
MacArthur well to the right of
Taft.
The question remains whether
an active MacArthur candidacy
could restrain the nervous pro
fessionals, if the Taft candidacy
bogged down. Since Eisenhow
er's extraordinary personal popu
larity is clearly his central asset,
the answer largely depends on
whether MacArthur really has
the huge popular following his
supporters claim for him. If this
following is really great as it
seemed to be just after Mac
Arthur's dismissal he might be
able to stem the Eisenhower
flood. If it is largely a myth
as it seemed to be in the 1948
pre-convention campaign, and as
it has sometimes seemed to be
since then nothing on earth can
stop Eisenhower if the Taft can
didacy collapses in the next few
weeks.
(Copyright, 1952,
New York Herald Tribune. Inc.)
Officials Free
To Go Ahead With
Stale Bond Issues
Washington CU.fO Federal
Reserve Governor Oliver S
Powell said Wednesday state of
ficials now are free to go ahead
with state bond issues for such
things as veterans bonuses if
they deem them essential.
President Truman asked De
fense Mobilizer Charles E. Wit
son Monday to remove regula
tions covering borrowing by
state and local governments but
urged the subdivisions to limit
themselves to essential bor
rowing.
Borrowing Screened
Under Powell's supervision,
private investment bankers have
been screening proposed public
and private borrowing to weed
out programs deemed not "essen
tial" to national defense.
Powell said his National Vol
untary Credit Restraint commit
tee will comply with the presi
dent's request He said "it will
depend on state officials" wheth
er bonds to finance bonuses and
other "non - essential" projects
are issued.
Under the voluntary restraint
program, 67 state and local bond
Issues totalling $300,795,000
have been postponed voluntar
ily, including issues in Oregon,
Montana and West Virginia
which were to be used to finance
veterans bonuses.
Vast Oil Empire In Canada Outlined
Calgary, Alta. (U.R) A vast
oil empire will be pioneered in
western Canada by American
capital in the not-too-distant fu
ture, an American banker said
here Tuesday.
E. O. Buck, vice president of
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In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
I'm sure you must have fol
lowed, as I have," the dramatic
story, of the cougar dogs that
were, trapped., on a dangerous
ledge on the snow-swept side of
a mountain up north of Seattle.
MEN braved the mountain's
wintry hazards to ' SAVE THE
DOGS. They arrived too late.
The two animals marooned on
the ledge were dead victims of
cold, not hunger, veteran woods
men of the region said.
That is a minor matter. The
big story is that American men
risked their lives to save the
lives of the dogs.
THE story speaks (mistaken.
ly, I think) of their VALUE.
Let's not fool ourselves. It was
no property consideration that
led those men up that icy moun
tain.
The Good Book says (John
XV, 13): "Greater love hath no
man than this, that a man lay
down his life for his friends."
Those mountaineers up in north
ern Washington didn't actually
lay down their lives. But they
LAID THEM ON THE LINE.
They were WILLING to die in
an attempt to save the lives of
their canine friends.
rPO ME, that highlights one of
- GREAT mistakes we've made
in our foreign policy. Our lead
ers have permitted us to be pic
tured to the world as cold, hard,
DOLLAR-CHASERS.
It isn't true.
We aren't that kind of peo
ple. WE'RE WARM-HEARTED
AND SENTIMENTAL. Those
men who climbed the mountain
up north of Seattle to try to save
a couple of dogs are TYPICAL
Americans. We're built that
way. The dollar-chasing picture
has been conjured up by our
enemies.
It's a lie. '
But our leaders, by their in
eptness, have permitted it to
be HUNG ON US to our great
harm throughout the world. As
a result, our leadership in world
affairs has been discredited 'in
the eyes of BILLIONS of people
who FEAR us instead of admir
ing and trusting us.
That is little short of catas
trophic
llTHAT'S wrong with us?
That's a big question, but
I'll try to answer it according
to my own convictions. When
we say that Americans are warm
hearted, sentimental folk, cher
ishing ideals for which they are
willing to give their lives if need
be (as witness this attempted
rescue of canine friends trapped
on a storm-swept Washington
mountain) we mean that AS A
RULE they are like that.
But
NO proverb is more universal
in its truth than this one: THERE
ARE EXCEPTIONS TO ALL
RULES.
There are exceptions to the
rule that Americans are warm
hearted, sentimental, kindly
people. There are Americans
who are hard and cold and
grasping. Americans who are
willing to BETRAY THEIR
TRUST to line their pockets.
They are exceptions. There's
another proverb that says "ex
ceptions prove the rule."
IfERE'S what I'm getting at:
We've permitted these excep
tions to GET INTO POWER.
We've permitted it by our care
lessness in choosing our leaders.
We've permitted our judgment
to be warped by demagogues
who have appealed to our baser
instincts and our hatreds and
our suspicions.
The result is the fix we're in
now.
T THINK we REALIZE it
We're groping, blindly but
eagerly, for leadership that we
can TRUST. Leaders who will
lead us in the right direction
The direction we really want to
go.
That explains what has hap
pened in New Hampshire and
Minnesota. We have a feeling
that we can trust Eisenhower.
It is an instinctive feeling. Hence
our willingness to accept him
on fatih. Anyway, I HOPE
I'm right If we really do feel
that way it is a groundswell.
If it IS a groundswell, it
must mean that the people - of
the United States of America
are in the mood to take over
their government and see to it
that they get the kind of leaders
they feel they can trust
That would be great
the National Bank of Com
merce, Houston, Tex., said indi
cations pointed to Alberta, Sas
katchewan, Manitoba, Montana
and North Dakota becoming a
sprawling oil empire rivalling
the fields in eastern Texas.
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Tha Swallows Again
To the Editor: I was so in
hopes that we could get by this
spring without that Capistrano
swallow myth barging into the
press. But here comes Frank
Jenkins in his Sunday Mail Trib
une column: "Hot Story Upcom
ing on Big Surprise of the Year
Swallows Fail To Return To
Capistrano."
Cripes, they seldom do arrive
on schedule as the old Mission
promoters and California gener
ally would have us believe they
do. How could the swallows ar
rive on any given date? They
are flight feeders, would starve
to death if the ground was cov
ered with insects, as they did
several years ago in the deep
south when a sudden freeze
killed off insect life.
But the tourists do flock to the
ancient Mission on March 19 to
gaze raptly at cock sparrows
and swifts (do they know the
difference?) quarreling over
nesting right. And the pretty,
scantily clad guide girls are
there to trail them through the
old hide and tallow workshop in
back and discreetly vanish when
they arrive in the well stocked
souvenir room.
It is discouraging. I have
fought the thing in newspapers
and magazines from Michigan to
the Pacific Coast. But it persist
ently pops up every springtime.
There are people who prefer to
believe what they prefer to be
ieve, regardless of facts and
logic. These are the ones'' the
Kremlin cuties are aiming at
with their phony claims of pri
ority in all inventions; that we
started the mess in Korea and
are now dumping disease carry
ing spiders, flies and lice on the
north Korean Reds. Didn't
someone once remark; "what
fools ye mortals be"?
F.J.Clifford,
1319 Old Stage road,
Medford, Ore.
Wildlife Federation
To the Editor: The Wildlife
Federation is a league of state
groups and organizations having
as their objective the conserva
tion and wise use of our natural
resources. It is a non-profit, non
political organization.
Help us restore, protect and
conserve your outdoors.
The primary purpose is to
educate the adult and youth in
the necessity of conserving our
natural resources for the bene
fit of all citizens of the United
States. Stop polluting our river
systems and endangering aqua
tic life and public health by
proper sewage and waste dis
posal treatment. Stop erosion of
valuable top soil by proper soil
practices and treatment. ' Stop
depletion of forest timber from
fires mismanagement and. dis
ease by scientific forest man
agement. Help provide America's wild
life with adequate food and
shelter for its survival. Conserve
and protect the environment
that wildlife requires. Conserve,
protect, restore America's na
tural resources.
Marilyn J. Gast,
Upton Road,
Central Point, Oregon
Credit Cards
To the Editor: Several years
ago some person bought gaso
line at a filling station in Tilla
mook, using a credit card which
had my name on it. I have no
idea how this person acquired
my credit card. Anyway, the
purchase was billed to me and I
refused to pay it. The oil com
pany took the loss. '
Since then I have received
many credit cards, all of which
have been immediately torn up
and thrown away. Now credit
cards have been extended to in
clude restaurants, motels, cloth
ing stores, jewelers, and even
an optometrist in San Francisco.
An enterprising crook able to
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get hold of somebody's credit
card could take a trip all over
the western states, buying new
clothes, jewelry, new glasses,
and what not at the places listed
in the membership directory
and -could charge it all to the
person whose name appears on
the credit card. Therefore, I ant
offering this free advice to any.
body who wants to take it: Un
less you are planning to take a
trip and use the credit card your
self, tear it up and throw it
away.
Charles L. Coyle, M.D.
' Medical Center Bidg.,
Medford, Ore.
Thanks for Orchid
To the Editor- Just a note to
tell you how pleased we were
to see the mention you made of
airlines employing femmes in
connection with your editorial
on "Railroad Adds Feminine
Touch" in the Medford Mail
Tribune on March 18. Naturally
we take this for an "orchid"
and thank you for calling this
tc the attention of the public.
I am sure all the women who
read this editorial will be as
grateful to you as I am for your
giving credit to the women who
have had to battle for their sex
since Carrie Chapman Catt
Mary M. Blake,
District Publicity Manager
United Air Lines, ,
Seattle, Wash.
Hells Canyon Dam
Hearings Started
By Subcommittee
Washington U.R) A House
interior subcommittee started
hearings Wednesday on a bill to
authorize the spectacular and
controversial Hells Canyon dam
on the Idaho-Oregon border.
Secretary of Interior Oscar L.
Chapman was the first scheduled
witness in support of the dam,
which would be the highest in
the world. Reclamation Commis
sioner Michael W. Straus and
other Interior Department offi
cials were to follow Chapman.
Seven Days Allowed
The subcommittee on recla
mation and irrigation is allowing
seven days for testimony on the
$404,000,000 project.
Top opponents scheduled to
appear next week include T. E.
Roche, president of the Idaho
Power company, and S. V. Sharp,
president of the Southwest Idaho
Water Users association. The
power company has proposed
five smaller dams in the same
gorge of the Snake river where
the government dam would be
built.
Site Northeast of Baker
The site is some 60 miles north
east of Baker, Ore. The dam
would be about 20 feet higher
than Hoover dam on the Colo
rado, now the highest. It would
impound 4,400,00 acre feet of
water and have a 900,000 kilo
watt power capacity.
A much smaller power plant
in. Scriver creek in Idaho is part
of the project.
President Truman - asked for
authorization of the project, and
an $8,000,000 appropriation to
get it started, in his 1953 fiscal
year budget. He said the dam
was needed to help meet power
demands in the Pacific North
west.
DEFENSE SPEEDED UP
Waltham, Mass. U.R The
Raytheon Manufacturing Co., has
thrown a high-frequency "shake"
into the salvage of essential
metals for defense. A new ultra
sonic vibrator shakes vital
metals free of insulating materi
al, doing the work of 10 people
under former methods in less
time.
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