TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
No Shortage of Hydroelectric
Power Expected in Near Future
The Dalles (U.R) Public
power agencies that get prefer
ence in allocations of Bonneville
power will feel no hydroeleetri-
city shortage for the next 12
years, according to Byron Price,
assistant administrator of the
BPA.
Price told the annual meeting
of the Wasco County Electric
Cooperative that adequate power
for preference customers would
be supplied from existing proj
ects and from those under con
struction.
Will Meet Needs
He said that, except for large
Industrial loads, the 3,000,000
kilowatts now installed and an
additional 3,000,000 kilowatts of
federal capacity will meet pres
cnt load forecasts of the public
agencies.
Present contracts now limit
new industrial loads to an initial
10,000 kilowatts as a protection
of the preference rights granted
the public agencies by law.
On the other hand, Price
warned, if new hydroelectric
projects are not started in the
immediate future, power sup
plies available from the federal
government will preclude serv
ing an large electroprocess or
heavy power-using industries as
well as private utilities, from
existing dams or those under
construction by 1964.
More Needed
Price told the cooperative
meeting that BPA estimates an
additional 9,000,000 kilowatts will
Rep. Martin Says
House Will Refuse
To Drop Committee
Washington U.fi) Speaker
.Joseph W. Martin. Jr. (R-Mass.)
believes the House will refuse
to abolish it3 Un-American Ac
ticities committee when the
Democrats take control in Janu
ary. The move to kill the commit
tee was launched the day after
Tuesday's congressional elec
tions by Rep. Francis Walter CD
Pa.) who is slated to become
chairman .of the group in the
new Congress.
Walter announced he would
ask the House at the outset of
the session next January to turn
over the committee's functions
to a House Judiciary subcommit
tee. He said he believed that
would stop what he called past
"abuses" of the Un-American
Activities groups' investiga
tive powers.
Walter's proposal has picked
up some support. Rep. Frank
Chelf (D-Ky.) said he will vote
for it And Rep. Kenneth B.
Keating (R-NY) said Saturday
he may support it. Both Chelf
and Keating, along with Walter,
are members of the Judiciary
committee.
But Martin, who has proved
a pretty good judge in the past
of the collective temper and at
titude of the House, told a re
porter late Friday that he does
not believe a majority will sup
port Walter's move.
Korea To Advance
Funds To America
Seoul, Korea (U.R) The
Republic of Korea announced
Saturday that it would advance
the United States another 300,
000,000 hwan so the U.S. Army
in Korea could meet its Octob
er obligations.
Political observers believed
the new move was an attempt
to get the U.S. Army to release
gasoline supplies to the ROK
government, which is threaten
ed with a weekend transporta
tion stoppage.
Hull has told the ROK gov
ernment that he is willing to
sell the ROK petroleum supplies
on the Korean market for hwan.
But he said the U.S. could not
loan the fuel to the ROK's as
long as the Army's hwan supply
was cut off.
The ROK government had re
fused to advance additional
hwan to the U.S. because of a
dispute over the rate of ex
change. BROADCASTS BANNED ,
Tegucigalpa, Honduras (U.R)
The Honduran government
has banned all political broad
casts. The interior ministry Fri
day prohibited radio stations to
air speeches, comments and all
other material dealing with
'political subjects.
Dead line for Sunday Classified Is
at noon Saturday. '
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be needed by 1974 even if no
new electroprocess industries are
added to the Bonneville system.
That would be equivalent to the
capacity of 18 Bonneville dams
or eight The Dalles dams.
Price reported that public ag
U.S. Woman Ordered Out of
Russia Arrives in London
London (U.R) Mrs. Betty
Jane Sommerlatte arrived here
Saturday with her diplomat hus
band on their way home from
Russia under orders from the
United States government to stay
silent about her Moscow arrest.
A spokesman for the American
embassy in London said the
pretty American blonde and her
husband had been instructed by
Washington not to make any
statements about the Russian
claim that she slapped a Red
police agent.
Rsiuses Comment
Although she smiled for pho
tographers as she stepped from
a Scandinavian Airlines plane
Dredge Working
To Clear Debris
From Panama Canal
Balboa, Canal Zone-OJ.R) A
dipper dredge worked Saturday
to clear away approximately
5,000 cubic yards of rock which
slid into the Panama Canal at
Gaillard Cut and blocked one-
half the channel.
The huge mass of rock and
mud tumbled from the north
end of Contractors Hill into the
vital waterway sometime during
Thursday night. It was discov
ered at dawn Friday by an in
spection launch.
The slide narrowed the chan
nel from its normal 300 feet to
175 feet and created a one-way
bottleneck in ship traffic.
Authorities could give no
estimate on how long it would
take to restore Gaillard Cut to
its normal width. But, for the
time being, ships moving
through the canal must take
turns using the one lane left
open.
There were no ships nearby at
the time of the slide since there
is no night transit of the canal
at present.
Canal officials said they ex
pected the latest slide to have
little effect on ship movements
through the canal.
Hunter Held in
Fatal Shooting
' Longview (U.R) Alfred A.
Gifford, 52-year-old Longview
resident, was held in Cowlitz
county jail in lieu of $2000 bail
Saturday on a charge of man
slaughter in connection with last
Sunday's hunting death of Mich
ael W. Lee, 32, of Kelso.
Gifford was arraigned Friday
on an information filed in Cow
litz county superior court. Pros
ecutor Joe L. Johnson alleged
in the complaint that Gifford
was guilty of negligent handling
of a firearm, thereby causing
Lee's death.
A coroner's jury found Thurs
day night that Gifford was guilty
of negligence in the hunting mis
hap. In his testimony at the inquest
Gifford said he fired at what he
believed to be a bear while hunt
ing 20 miles northeast of Long
view. The .35 calibre bullet
struck Lee in the right thigh
at a range of 65 feet. He died
three hours later at a Longview
hospital.
Maple Park District
Slates Bond Election
Residents of Maple Park Wat
er district will vote Dec. 6 on
use of about $75,000 for a bond
issue. Two board members will
be elected.
The bond issue is to permit
expansion of the district and
give Medford water to residents
of the area not now being serv
ed. The district's board chairman,
Allie E. Graham, is running for
reelection, and James Eek, ser
ving under appointment, is a
candidate for an elected term.
Polling place will be the resi
dence of William A. Hughes,
1242 Ben's lane from 8 a.m. to 8
p.m.
Sunday, November 7. 1954
encies have filed on some 15
hydroelectric sites with a total
capacity of 3.7 million kilowatts,
and private companies have filed
on 14 additional sites with a
tota capacity of 1.8 million kilo
watts. that brought "her from Stock
holm, she refused to comment on
the incident.
Mrs. Sommerlatte and her
husband Karl, former second
secretary of the U. S. Embassy
in Moscow, made their exit from
Russia Friday in a Soviet plane.
Twenty Soviet musicians
shared the plane with the Som
merlattes. The stewardess, who
asked that her name be with
held, said none df the Russians
tried to engage either of the
Soramerlattes in conversation
during the flight.
"The Russians were by them
selves and mostly kept quiet,"
the stewardess said.
Mr. and Mrs. Sommerlatte had
little to say, according to the
stewardess.
' The only time any of them
spoke to me was when Mr. Som
merlatte asked me for two
whiskies," she said.
Scuiry From Plane
The Russians scurried away
from the plane when newsmen
crowded around to greet Mrs.
Sommehlatte Friday night..
Neither the Sommeriattes nor
the Russians spoke to the news
men. Mrs. Sommerlatte was accused
of '"hooliganism" by Soviet
authorities after an incident in
volving two Soviet secret police
agents and another American
woman, Mrs. Frances Stiff, wife
of the U.S. Moscow Embassy's
assistant naval attache.
The Russians charged Mrs.
Sommerlatte a 1 1 ac k e d two
"workers" after she had been
asked not to photograph some
children with a heap of rubble
as a background.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Unhurt in Accident
Hollywood (U.R) Mrs. El
eanor Roosevelt escaped injury
but film actor Humphrey Bogart
was cut on the head and in the
face when a movie kleig light
blew up on a studio set and
splattered glass.
The former first lady was vis
iting the movie set of "Desper
ate Hours" at Paramount Stu
dios Friday, talking to Bogart,
the picture's star, , when the
heavy light blew up.
Studio officials said the widow
of the late President was spared
serious injury because her back
was turned to the light.
Bogart, facing the, 'lamp re
ceived gashes in his head and
cuts on his face from glass splin
ters. Two technicians also were
cut. The condition of Bogart and
the technicians was described as
not serious.
FARE ENOUGH
London (U.R) Bernard Haw
ley, 29, was fined $2.80 Satur
day for allegedly trying to
strangle bus conductor William
Henry Lloyd when Lloyd asked
him for his fare.
Returned to Medford
Dr. ROBT. E. LEE, Optometrist
OFFICES NOW OPEN AT THE
BIG Y MARKET BUILDING
1912 N. Pacific Hwy. Phone 3-5923
EASY PARKING
ANNOUNCEMENT
Picard's of Medford
JEWELERS
WILL OPEN ON OR ABOUT NOVEMBER 15th
at the Bigger, Better BIG Y Shopping Center.
The Jewelry Store will be located in the new
section near the west entrance between Dr.
Robert E. Lee, Optometrist, and the Big Y. Toy
land. Free parking at the Big Y let's you enjoy
shopping. -
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ARRIVING In Paris, Josiane
Mariani-Berenger, 19, says she
is seeking TJ. S. visa so she can
marry Marlon Brando, film star,
in America. (International)
Inquiry Into Vote
In New York Slated
New York (U.R) An inten
sive investigation into alleged
voting irregularities in New
York state begins next week,
with 260 investigators checking
rerults that gave Averell Harri
man an apparent victory over
Republican Sen. Irving Ives for
the governorship.
State Atty. Gen. Nathanial
Goldstein said Friday his check
into 19,000 vote challenges
would begin not later than Tues
day and would be completed by
Nov. 25.
If he finds that fraud material
ly affected the results of the
election, Goldstein may petition
the state Supreme Court to order
another election in the areas in
volved. All of the challenges are in 10
counties, five of which are the
populous boroughs of heavily
Democratic Jtfew York City.
New Skyhawk Jet Plane
Reaches 500 MPH Speed
Inyorkern, Calif. (U.R) The
Navy said Saturday Douglas test
pilot Bob Ryan flashed through
the sky at a speed of 500 miles
an hour in the first public dem
onstration of the atom bomb
carrying A4D Skyhawk.
The Skyhawk, described as
the smallest and lightest U. S.
jet combat plane, was one of sev
eral late model Navy warplanes
demonstrated for aviation writ
ers and Navy officials Friday at
the Naval Ordinance Test sta
tion here.
The Skyhawk is able to fly at
least 2600 miles non-stop and is
less than half the size of many
jet fighters but can outperform
a number of theturrent types.
It can carry atomic weapons,
rockets and missiles.
Knowland's Loss of
Majority Leader Job
Said Blow to Korea
Seoul, Korea (U.R) A
semi-official Korean newspaper
said Saturday Republican Sen.
William F. Knowland's fall from
majority to minority leader may
be Korea's "biggest loss" in last
Tuesday's American elections.
The Korean Republic, which
reflects government thinking,
called the California senator "a
great friend of Korea and the
whole of free Asia."
State Department Sidesteps
Demand By Ousted Diplomat
Washington (U.R) The
State Department Saturday
ducked demands of ousted ca
reer diplomat John Patton Dav
ies Jr., that it publish the rec
ord of his case, including a rec
ommendation that the . United
States seek a "preventive show
down" with Russia.
Davies was fired Friday by
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles on grounds he lacked
"judgment, discretion and reli
ability" necessary for his high
diplomatic position. Davies im
mediately said he would not cpn
test the decision but wanted the
full record of his case published.
A department spokesman said
it has been past practice in such
cases not to make the records
public.
. He also declined to say what,
French Authorities
Jail 13 Leaders of
Fanatical Outlaws
Algiers, Algeria (U.R)
French authorities Saturday
jailed 13 leaders of a fanatical
band of Arab outlaws which
has killed at least 10 persons in
a bloody revolt.
Officials said white-capped
Foreign Legionnaires joined reg
ular French army troops in
rounding up the principal organ
izers of the terrorist movement.
Awell-placed source said the
leaders were arrested Friday
jiight at Turgot, in the Oran
Department, where an army pa
trol was ambushed.
Fight Phantoms
French forces hunting through
the arid eastern part of Algeria
found themselves fighting a
phantom foe in their concentrat
ed drive to quell the 1,250-man
unrising.
The troops were reported to
be slowly gaining control over
the desolate mountain region
where the terrorists have been
operating but officials said the
rroels now are resorting to hit-and-run
night raids to keep clear
of French planes, tanks and half
tracks. Security forces Friday also
rounded up about 175 persons
suspected of having connections
with the terrorists, who call
themselves "The Army of God."
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if any, part Davies' 1950 recom
mendation of a. "preventive
showdown" with the Soviet Un-i
ion played in his firing. It was
presumed Davies in his hitherto
unknown proposal had urged
steps that might lead to a "pre
ventive war," something Presi
dent Eisenhower has strongly
opposed ...
Not Eligible for Pension
The 46-year-old diplomat, a
veteran of 23 years in the For
eign service, is not eligible for
a pension because he has not yet
reached the retirement age of
50. Experts said he likely will
get back contributions he has
been making through the years
toward such a fund.
Davies, a central target of
Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R
Wis.), had undergone eight pre
vious loyalty-security investiga
tions and had been cleared each
time.
Dulles said Friday that a spec
ial security hearing board reach
ed the unanimous decision in the
latest investigation.
Dulles said that neither he nor
the board found Davies to be
disloyal "in the sense of having
any Communistic affinity or con
sciously aiding or abetting any
alien elements hostile to the Un
ited States." But Dulles said "It
is not enough that an employee
be of complete and unswerving
loyalty. He must be reliable,
trustworthy, of good conduct and
character."
Enough Recrimination
In announcing he would not
contest the decision, Davies said
"there has been enough recrim
ination. I am not prepared to add
to it and thereby detract from
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the strength of my country in its
mortal struggle with the Com
munist enemy."
Davies said "there are inade
quate grounds for such judg
ment. But the secretary of state
has more important problems on
his hands than the reputation
and future of one civil servant."
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Sen. Walter Bedell Smith, for
mer undersecretary of state and
ambassador to Moscow, said
earlier that he had found Davies
while in Moscow, "an able, well
informed Foreign Service officer."
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