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3 1 3 3" TEH MEDPORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, Norembw 18, 1954 Northwest Power Groups Pressing To Keep Pace With Private Firms Editor'! note: The third in m teriei on Lionel Barrymore. Today: His per sonal life. By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail-Tribun Correspondent Wasjiington Pacific North west public power groups are pressing the Atomic Energy Commission for an opportunity to keep pace with the region's private utilities in the frantic race now underway for develop ment of electric power from atomic energy. To date, only private power companies and corporations have been admitted to experiment with secret engineering data and fissionable materials produced by the AEC at its various instal lations around the nation. Study Contract Granted Last spring the AEC granted a study contract to five Northwest power companies who organized the syndicate known as Pacific Northwest Power Cp. Under this pact, the utilities are mak ing a study of the "feasibility of designing and constructing a nuclear reactor for the produc tion of electric power. At this stage, most officials here say ' it is anyone's guess whether , atomic power which is found to be economically feas ible in stream power areas will soon be made cheaply enough to rival the Northwest's low-cost hydroelectricity. But the region's utilities think there is sufficient chance of this prospect becoming a reality that they are financing their current study under AEC auspices. Similar Privileges Asked Members of the board of di rectors of American Public Pow er Association called on AEC officials several days ago to grant similar study privileges to their group. Leading figure in the group representing North west public bodies was Dr. Paul Raver, former Head of Bonne ville Power Administration and presently the superintendent of Seattle City Light. Members of the group say they received a promise from AEC General Manager K. D. Nichols LEAVES HOSPITAL Wear ing dark glasses, ex-Queen Narriman of Egypt leaves Montchoisi Clinic in Lau sanne, Switzerland. She had undergone delicate operation after arriving here early last month for medical checkup. She announced she intends to divorce her second husband, Dr. Adham el Nakeen. 2 OF THE FAMOUS PORTER-CABLE Portable Electric Tools AND THE DE WALT Power Shop Saw By Factory Experts SATURDAY NOVEMBER 20 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. See how you can save hours of hard work and cut your repair bills with the most rugged and de pendable line of tools on the market today. These factory representa t i v e s will give you helpful hints on how to easily complete those do-it-yourself pro jects. DON'T This Informative POWER SHOP MISS Demonstration! Hubbard B MAIN AND RIVERSIDE ros Inc. PHONE 2-6189 that "something will be worked out." The AEC under the Eisenhow er administration has operated under the announced policy of favoring private industrial, de velopment of atomic power as opposed to federal government development. That is, when the day arrives to build an atomic "Grand Coulee" assuming it does the administration wants to see it done by private utilities instead of the government. Departure From Policy If, as some scientists and en gineers predict, atomic power is made economically feasible with in the commg decade, such a policy would represent a depart ure from the hydroelectric policy of the past decades under which the federal government played a major role in power production and gave preference in its sale to local public bodies. In short, if public agencies are going to get in on the -atomic power field they foresee' that they will need to develop their own sources of power, build their own reactors, or else pur chase it from nearby utilities that are large enough to finance this new source of energy. . Consequently, the public pow er groups see that their best hope lies in at least trying to keep t ' , , . aoreasi 01 tneir private com petitors and avoid being crowded completely out of the picture in the atomic age of tomorrow. Crash Victim Said Drag Race Driver Portland U.R) Portland po lice said yesterday they had learned an 18-year-old youth killed in an auto crash last week was engaged in a 70-mile- an-hour drag race with another young motorist when the acci dent, occurred. Thomas Leslie Robinson was killed when his car crashed into a tree. . The other youth, also 18, told police during questioning that he and Robinson had left a girl's home in Portland shortly before the accident and were trying to see who could reach Parkrose first. He said he was unable to keep up with Robinson and had dropped out of the race. He said he was unaware of the fatal acci dent until later. Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent I i Betty Huffon Hear Dcree Completion Las Vegas U.R) Actress Betty Hutton completes her six week Nevada residence requir ment tomorrow and is expected to join her sister, Marion, before a district judge in a plea for final divorce. Betty already has obtained an interlocutory decree in Califor nia from Charles O'Curran, a film dance director, whom she married' here in March, 1952. Her first marriage was to cam era manufacturer Ted Bisken. Marion will divorce ; writer Jack Douglas in advance of her Dec. 4 marriage to music direc tor Victor Schoen. 7 . : Betty recently gave her final stage performance at a local re sort hotel. She said she would devote herself . to raising her two children. Hollywood U.R) W h e n Lionel Barrymore was asked what he thought was worth while in life, he answered, "youth, health and someone to love you." Some friends believe Barry more retained the first goal, but he lost the last two virtu ally at once in 1936. His wife. Aline Mofbr died suddenly in their garden on Christmas Eve. Lionel went to the home of friends. Mrs. J. E. Wheeler and her family, and never re turned to his house on Roxbury Drive. For ten years the house stood empty, as he and Irene had left it. The story grew that her jewels still were on her dress ing table and her clothes in the closet. Sold House "I did not want to live in the house again and I couldn't ac cept the idea of anyone else's living in it," he once said. He finally sold it. A few days after his wife's death he leaned too heavily on his drawing board and accident ally (although psychiatrists say most accidents are subconscious ly on purpose) fell and broke his hip. Saddened over his wife's death, Barymore had the double pain of lying for months in a hospital, "like a creature on the Venetian rack, tugged by ropes and pulleys, tortured in body and sour of mind. "I was not a good patient,' he admitted later. "Days were black and nights blacker. I was mainly frightened and convinced that I could never walk again and was washed up as an actor. MGM arranged for him to act in bed or Tjehind desks, and gradually he learned to walk. Then one day he tripped over a microphone cable on the set of "Saratoga," and broke his hip again. When he finally got out of the pulleys and ropes,, he could not walk. But his siidio bosses quietly gave him roles so he could keep his earning power and self-respect. He made 40 pictures in his wheelchair, many in the Dr. Kildare series, Barrymore was so happy with his role as the grumpy doctor that he subscribed to medical journals and became, as he said, "a second-class quack and first- class hypochrondriac." Used Crutches At home he got around on crutches. Yet he often insisted he could walk. . . "I am handicapped only by a twice-oroKen nip which has knit ted but which makes walking a burden," he recently wrote m his autobiography. ' "It is ridiculous I have already reposed so long on my rear. One of these days when the sun shines I shall start prancing around again." v- Lionel lived a full, rich life, but he never called himself happy. He was an admitted pes simist. He talked about the "threat of self-destruction that hangs over the world", and felt his country had changed for the worse because of "strangulating taxes and loss of free enter prise. He also realized the gifted, creative persons are( not the happy ones. "How fortunate, I say, for the sheep who can munch in unison and adjust to the world," he recently told an interviewer. "How painful for the artists, the musicians and the actors who fail to keep time Actress Vera-Ellen To Marry Oilman Tonight Hollywood ' U.R) Actress Vera-Ellen will marry oilman Victor Rothschild tonight in a private cnurcn ceremony in nearby San Fernando Valley. They announced their engage ment three months ago and drew a wedding license yesterday. The dancer said she and Roths child would honeymoon in Palm Springs, and then travel to Mexi co aboard his 85 foot yacht. She formerly was married to British stage dancer-Robert High- tower. The marriage is Roths child's first. , Brussels To Stage World Fair in 1958 Brussels J.R) A 1958 world's . fair will be staged in Brussels, and every nation in the world will be invited to partici pate in the vast enterprise to be held in the Belgian capital's Cen tury Buildings. During the next four ' yaars the face of Brussels- itself will be lifted to prepare for the fair. Roads will be planned, huge au tomobile parks constructed, buildings knocked down and even larger buildings put up. The theme will be, "In the Service of Mankind." Brussels means to become the capital of the world during the summer of 1958. Industry, both national and in ternational will be on display. The great scientific discoveries of the past 50 years will vie with economic,- social, cultural and spiritual exhibitions for the attention of world visitors. ' Perhaps the greatest attraction of all will be the gathering of the world's greatest art treasures in a vast new library for the dur ation of the fair. Excavation of the site of the library to be named the Albertium after Bel gium's late King Albert already has begun. 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