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Sunday, Bembr 19, 1134
Demos May Support Larger Program For Colorado Basin
"Washington (U.R) The
Democratic House majority in
the new Congress may endorse
a more generous plan for devel
opment of the Upper Colorado
River Basin than proposed by
Republicans, Rep. Clair Engle,
(D-Calif.), said Saturday.
Engle is slated to be chairman
f the House Interior Commit
tee which will handle a bill to
authorize the Upper Colorado
project. It would cost eveniuauy
more than $1,000,000.
Engle voted in committee for
an authorization bill earlier this
year. He said he doesn't know
if the Democrats in Congress
will put the Upper Colorado
project, which includes contro
versial Echo Park dam, on their
legislative program.
Political Decision
But he said that if the project
is included it can hardly call
for fewer works than endorsed
by the Republican administra
tion earlier this year under what
he called a "political decision
made in the White House." .
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"My hunch is that the Demo
crats will trump their ace if
they get in the card game at all,"
he said.
President : Eisenhower this
year asked, unsuccessfully, for
authorization of two main dams
in the big project, Echo Park
and Glen Canyon on the "Colo
rado, and for conditional auth
orization of some eight other
dams and 11 "participating" ir
rigation and other water supply
projects.
Additional Dam
The House committee added
another dam, Curecanti on the
Gunnison river in Colorado, to
the administration bill before
reporting it to the House. The
Senate committee added three
more, Flaming Gorge and Cross
Mountain in Colorado and Nava
jo in New Mexico.
The bill for the Senate com
mittee version of the bill would
be just under $1,500,000.
Engle earlier said he is seek
ing a compromise with South
ern California interests who op
posed the project. Los Angeles
and other Southern California
areas draw their major water
supply from the Lower Colorado
and fear it may be jeopardized
by the Upper Basin project.
The congressman refused to
predict whether an authoriza
tion bill actually will be passed
by the new congress. Backers
of the project, will have to start
from scratch, facing hurdles of
both committee and floor votes
in both houses. ...
Hilton's Condition
Said Still Critical
Long Beach, Calif. (U.R)
Author James Hilton, 54, re
mained in critical condition and
near death Saturday from an
unidentified infection which hos
pitalized him almost a month
ago.
A Seaside Memorial hospital
spokesman said the novelist still
was m an oxygen tent and in a
semi-conscious state. He was
hospitalized Nov. 21. Specialists
have been unable to determine
the exact nature of the infec
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Laughead Part of Strange
Cult of Fellow Believers
. Chicago (U.R) Dr. Charles Laughead's prophecies of earth
quakes, floods and the end of the known world have brought to
light a strange cult of fellow believers.
The 44-year-old doctor, ousted from a Michigan State College
post because of his dire predictions, is apparently not alone in
believing that space creatures in flying saucers are watching us
all the time.
Seeks New Job
He is currently living with the high priestess of the cult, a
frail suburban housewife, as he searches for a new job.
His hostess, 53-year-old grandmother Mrs. Dorothy Martin,
says she receives . extra sensory messages from the creatures in
outer space.
.. She said they have told her that Chicago can expect a tidal
wave next Tuesday, along with "cataclysmic" events elsewhere
in the country. Even worse disasters, including a worldwide
flood, are likely for 1955, she said.
A University of Iowa student, Darold Powers, 19, meanwhile
revealed that he and others meet every month to discuss Mrs.
Martin's messages from the creatures she calls "connoiters."
Other Similar Groups
There are several similar groups elsewhere in the country,
Powers said.
Laughead meanwhile stuck to his predictions and found time
to attend a meeting of 100 Chicago flying saucer enthusiasts.
"Some sound tapes were run off" he said. "Nobody understood
them but it was obvious that an organized attempt at communica
tion with the earth had been captured on the tape."
"Confirmation of the existence of flying saucers and creatures
in outer space is constantly coming in,", the tall doctor said.
"Most people don't recognize the evidence but they'll find out.'
Bad Weather Receives
Blame for Fatal Auto
Accidents Across US
By UNITED PRESS
Bad weather .and slippery
roads were blamed Saturday for
many fatal automobile accidents,
writing a grim close to this week
in which the nation observed
Safe Driving Day on Wednes
day. Stormy weather over much
of the nation caused at least 28
deaths after 6 a.m. Friday, a
United Press survey showed.
Eight of the deaths were in
Illinois, five in Indiana, three
in Texas and Nebraska, two each
in Michigan and Iowa, and one
each in Pennsylvania, Minneso
ta, New York, Oregon, and Ohio.
Dust Causes Crash .
Blowing dust was blamed for
the death of three high school
students whose car crashed into
a freight train near Paducah,
Tex. Police said the dust appar
ently obscured their vision. '.
Light snow and freezing rain
made many highways slippery
in a belt from Pennsylvania to
Oregon. '
Four students from Pennsyl
vania and New York were killed
in a single accident at Crisman,
111., last night when their 'car
skidded into a halted truck.
A similar accident earlier in
the day killed four workmen on
a slick road in Indiana. '
The snow came down through
the night on practically all the
Midwest, ranging from three to
six " inches in northern Illinois
. . . .
and Indiana ana most or aowa.
In New England, a hasty com
bination of sleet and freezing
rain rakea Massacnuseus, ew
Hampshire,' Vermont and Maine.
Icy" Highways
The weather turned Midwest
roads intn iev runwavs and was
blamed for at least seven high
way fatalities. :?c:
. . Near Jasper, Ind., four con
struction workers were killed
when their.; auto crashed into a
truck on a bridee. Two men
were killed when their car hit
a truck on an icy road near
Hazleton, Iowa, and a two-car
collision on. a snow-pacKea nign
way .near Preston," Minn., killed
one man and injured three oth-
At South Bend, Ind., police
and neighbors searched for five
hours before finding the body
of a five-year-old girl who had
crashed thdough ice and drown
ed in a lagoon.
1 In the Southwest high winds
returned to stir up choking dust
clouds : in Kansas and eastern
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Production Year
For Nation's Farms
Washington (U.R) -The na
tion's farmers had their fifth
largest production year in his
tory in 1954 despite drought in
the South, heavy rust damage in
Dakota wheat fields and wide
spread surplus-reducing federal
crop controls.
An annual Agriculture De
partment summary Friday show
ed output of corn and wheat
put under control program this
year were down from last
year. But stepped-up production
of some crops and uniformly
high yields on others helped to
swell the total output.
The total production was top
ped only by the record year of
1948 and by harvests in 1949,
1952 and 1953.
Four New Marks
Only soybean, rice, sugar
beets and orange crops set new
records this year. But farmers
harvested near-record crops of
oats, barley sorghum grain,
cranberries and., commercial
fresh-market . vegetables and
above-average crops of 13 other
commodities. '
The report estimated the size
of this year's corn crop at 2,964,
639,000 bushels, down 7 per cent
from last year and under the
3,000,000,000 bushel mark for
the only fifth time in the past
12 years. ' .
Crop planners hoped that a
17 per cent acreage cut-back
program in the commercial-producing
cornarea would hold to
tal .output to about 2,645,000,000
bushels.
Forfeit Price Supports
Many commercial area farm
ers violated allotments and for
feited price supports because
they feed the key livestock grain
to. their own livestock. Output
in the Corn Belt alone, heart of
the commercial com area, was
down only 6 per cent from last
year.
Nevertheless, hot, dry weath
er that seared much of the
Southwestern corn crop helped
hold output below last year and
fairly close to hoped for produc
tion. ,
The crops reporting board fig
ured this year's wheat crop to
talled 969,781,000 bushels. That
is down 17 per cent from last
year. .
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winds near coast mostly easterly
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