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FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, March 13, 1953 Morse, Ellsworth Tangle as Power Policy Battle Starts By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington The power pol icy fight in Congress is on, with both sides vowing to trade punches with their opponents on into the summer and into next year's presidential election. The opening skirmish of this past week brought with it a di rect clash between Sen. Wayne Morse, who is leading the fight for a high Hells Canyon dam, and Rep. Harris Ellsworth, who is taking the lead in behalf of "partnership" construction of Cougar and Green Peter dams in the Willamette basin. After introducing his bill, Ells worth issued a statement warn ing that opposition by Oregon Democratic members of Congress could possibly block approval of his bill. Stressing not only the power benefits of the two proj ects, Ellsworth declared: "It will be a great shame our people are denied this ur gently needed flood control be cause of the political opposition of men who are still living in the New Deal federal power monopoly days." This had no sooner hit the pages of Oregon newspapers when Morse struck back with reply that charged Oregon Re publican congressmen with "frantic alibiing" and serving as spokesman for private utilities Urging that Cougar and Green Peter dams be bult by the feder al government, Morse declared: "When Republican members McClellan Pledges Full Investigation Info Peress Case Washington rflJ.R) Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) promised Saturday to "lay it on the line" In a new investigation of the now-celebrated Army career of "former Maj. Irving Peress. . McClellan said the Senate in vestigating committee which he heads will delve "completely and thoroughly" into the Army's handling of Peress from his in duction to his controversial dis charge. "We will just lay it on the line," McClellan said. "The case hss become of such prominence to the people in view of the fact that a captain was promoted to major with derogatory informa tion in his file that we want to clear it up." Peress has been called a "Fifth Amendment Communist" by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.), a member of the subcommittee who formerly was its chairman and handled the first investiga tion of the case. McCarthy complained that the New York dentist was promoted and later given an honorable discharge by the Army despite his refusal to answer if he was a Communist when asked by McCarthy. McClellan said the new hear ings on the case, beginning next Tuesday, should end within a week or 10 days. He said 22 per sons would be called as wit nesses, including Army Secre tary Robert T. Stevens, former army counsellor John G. Adams and probably Peress himself. The Peress case played a prom inent part in McCarthy's feud with the Army last year. Judge Gives Two-Year Term for Embezzlement Portland (U.R) Multnomah County Circuit Judge Lowell Mundorff Friday sentenced Fred Young, 61, to two years in the state penitentiary for embezzling funds while an employee of Sears Roebuck & Company. The sentence was ordered suspended to allow Young's at torneys time to prepare an ap peal or a motion for a new trial. Young would remain free on bail. Young was convicted by a jury of embezzling at least S8000 while manager of the firm's tire department at its Portland store. Sears Roebuck filed a civil ac tion Friday seeking to determine the amount taken. The company estimate was 850,000. ifotpoiiifc All the HOT WATER Yon Want Whenever You Want It 20 1 A Month Down Payment on Approved Credit "Medford's Exclusive Hotpoint Dealer" City Appliance, Inc. 127 North Central Phone 3-5743 Across From Penney'i No of Congress from Oregon seek to mislead the people of Oregon by statements to the effect that votes cannot be obtained in Con gress for the construction of these projects by the federal gov ernment, they should make clear they are talking about only Re publican votes." Ellsworth argued that for years the development of Ore gon flood control and power dams had been kept "out of poli tics," with the result that Look out Point, Detroit, Fern Ridge and Dorena dams had been built in the Willamette. "It is a mean and tragic situa tion," the GOP congressman ex claimed, charging Democrats with making the construction of such projects a partisan matter. He said the Pacific Northwest's need for electric power had gone beyond the federal government's ability to finance all the new projects needed, hence the need for the "partnership" between local utilities and the govern ment to share costs. Morse shot back that the "part nership" policy was a "diver sionary tactic" that would pro duce "little power and then only high cost power." He called it a "phoney scheme" which he said Congress would not go for. Picking up his argument that it is Republican opposition that has slowed down federal devel opment, Morse added: "The an swer to them is to" replace them with Democrats because it has been Democratic administrations that have built the great power projects of the Pacific North west, such as Bonneville, Grand Coulee, The Dalles and McNary. And it has been Democrats in the House and Senate who have continued to fight for them over the opposition of the Republican administration." "Ellsworth called this a "re actionary approach that harked back to the days of Harold Ickes, former interior secretary. He said: "Democrat members of the present Oregon delegation in Congress are now advancing the reactionary idea that hydro-elec trie power in the great dams of the Pacific Northwest must be developed by the federal govern ment or not at all." So far within the Oregon dele gation it has a three-to-one con test, the three Democrats joining forces for federal development, with Ellsworth thus far all alone in defending the "partnership" policy. Rep. Sam Coon is a "part nership" backer but has not jumped into the fray as yet, while Rep. Walter Norblad has made no public indications of his position on the controversial power ssue. On The Side By E. V. Durling (Distributed by King Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Don there within your dreams, A possible future shine. Wherein your life could hence forth breathe, I'ntourhed. unshared by mine? Is there within your heart a need, That mine rannot fulfill. One chord that anv other hand. Could better wake or still? Adelaide Proctor Are you about to become a proud papa? Perhaps you are and don't know it. Could also be your wife is to become a mother tomorrow and doesn't know it. A Milwaukee woman, who recently gave birth to a fine baby boy, didn't know she was going to become a mother until less than a day before the child arrived. Nothing indicat ed a blessed event was immin ent. There had been no change in her figure. Furthermore she was 45, and the new arrival was her first baby! Get It Right There is a belief that when "Diamond Jim" Brady first met Lillian Russel he was a success ful businessman, worth mil lions, and she a Broadway star. Get it right. Jim was only 25 and just getting started in a business way when he first met Lillian. She was only 19 and practically unknown enter tainer singing at Tony Pastor's. At that time Lillian was living in Brooklyn. Jim usually met her after the show and they rode home on the trolley cars. Their friendship lasted for near ly forty years. Passing By Tony Pope. Brilliant ' young chef de cuisine. Tony is an It alian. As a deep student of his tory of the culinary art Tony is always prepared to prove that the Italians taught the French how to cook. Among the Married How sharp are you on wed ding anniversaries? Of course, you know the twenty - fifth is the silver wedding. How about the fifteenth? Or the tenth? Or the fifth? What type of gift would be appropriate for a third wedding anniversary? That's a tough query. I'll help you. The third anniversary is the leather wedding. Incident ally, have you ever seen a gift shop window display of presents appropriate for the various wed ding anniversaries? That could inspire much interest and also bring some additional business to an enterprising shopkeeper. Asides Among the beautiful and tal ented women who had passed the spinster age limit before they became brides was Ger aldine Farrar. She was 34 when married for the first time . . . America's favorite soup is to mato soup. So I note it claimed. My favorite is clam chowder. After that, vegetable soup. Then chicken okra. Tomato soup is eighth on my list. Asking Queries from clients. Q. Irv ing Berlin has been awarded a gold medal by Congress for writing the song "God Bless America." Wasn't George M. Cohan awarded a similar medal for writing the song "Over There?" A. Cohan did receive the medal you mention but it was not awarded him until 1940, or twenty-three years after he wrote "Over There." Sen. Morse Attacks Dworshak's Stand On Hells Canyon Washingto n (U.R) S e n. Wayne L. Morse (D-Ore.) accused Sen. Henry C. Dworshak (R-Ida.) Saturday of trying to "carry water on both shoulders" in his attitude toward the Hells Can yon project. In a Senate speech, Morse as sailed Dworshak's statements on the Hells Canyon issue over the past several years. He accused the Idaho senator of not taking a stand on the question of a high dam at Hells Canyon until after he was reelected last year. Opposed Morse Bill Dworshak recently made a speech opposing a bill by Morse and 29 other senators to author ize construction of a high federal dam on the Oregon-Idaho bor der. He said the dam was "po litical." In that speech, Morse said, Dworshak "indicated his opposi tion for the first time in pub lic so far as I am aware. Cer tainly he did not do so during his campaign for reelection." Phantom Projects Morse also criticized Dwor shak for advocating "little phan tom projects on the headwaters" of the Snake river as an alter nate to the big dam. Private power sources have urged con struction of three low-level dams on the river. ' "I am almost sure that I com pletely understand Dworshak's power policy," Morse said. "Thus far, in serving the people of Idaho, he has been chiefly re sponsible for a series of inter minable studies of river reaches in Idaho already studied half to death." Morse said "I am not too sure but what that might not con stitute a violation of his well known stand on economy in government." Washington Farm Boy Killed in Accident Lorenzo, Wash. (U.R) A 12- year-old Lorenzo farm boy was killed Saturday when a truck, driven by his father, crushed him against a gate post on their farm. The boy was Bobbie Jensen, the son of Victor and Josephine Jensen of Lorenzo. Officers said the father and son had just finished feeding their cattle. Bobbie stood by the gate to keep the cattle from get ting out. as the father drove from the yard. As the truck went through the gate, the boy was trapped be tween its right front corner and the fence post. The accident was investigated by Deputy Sheriff Harry Taylor of Jefferson county. 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