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SIXTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, April 12, 195S Ers. Sleuberger Proposes Vote by Public on Issue of Hells Canyon Power Legislature Gets Resolution To Put Plan Before People By BILL FORCE United Press Correspondent Salem (U.R) Tne people of Oregon should be allowed to ex press an opinion on whether they want federal development of hydroelectric power on the middle Snake river, Rep. Mau rine Neuberger said today. The Portland Democrat, wife of Oregon's Democratic senator in Congress, introduced a reso lution in the state Legislature that would put the issue before the voters at the next special or general election. Both members of the husband-wife political team have consistently favored a federal high dam at the Hells Canyon site on the Snake. Sports interests yesterday converged on a Senate Natural Resources Committee hearing on a House-approved bill to create a water resources board in Oregon. Don Hodges, biolo gist for the Oregon Fish Com mission, feared the proposed act would encourage an accelerated construction of dams, to the de triment of migratory fish runs. The Dalles Man Supports It Rollin Boles, also representing fishing interests, said he ap proved the general principles of the bill but felt that the ma chinery for public hearings set up for the proposed water board would be so slow and ponderous that entire migratory fish might be lost. P. V. Snyder of the State Game Commission said the com mission was not opposed to the water board but questioned the set of rigid priorities for water use set up in the bill. He said the commission favored a more flexible system that could be adjusted for different areas of the state. ' E. L. Brown, The Dalles attor ney for widespread irrigation in terests in central Oregon, gave general support to the bill as it was amended by the House Com merce and Utilities Committee. His principle suggestion for a change by the Senate was to make the state engineer chair man of the proposed board. Floor Action in House In floor action in the House vesterday, approval was given to a bill that would fill the gap left when the State Supreme Court threw out the law relating to writing insufficient fund checks. The court ruled that the portion of the .criminal code was unconstitutional because it didn't say whether the crime of writing bad checks was a felony of a misdemeanor. The bill introduced by Sen. John Hounsell (R-Hood River) and Rep. George Annala (D Hood River) would make NSF checks up to $75 a misdemeanor and those written above that a felony. The Senate already has passed the bill. On the Senate side, a bill ap propriating funds for continued operation of the Willamette Ba son Commission was sent back to the joint ways and means committee. The bill was opposed by supporters of the Upper Co lumbia River Basin Commission which was cut off with no funds by the ways and means group. Both commissions would be wiped out by the proposed state water board. A proposal to require banks to go on a five-day week in Ore eon was given a public hearing today. 1 Charges of Treason Pondered for 176 Washington (U.P.) The Jus- j tice Department is considering bringing treason charges against 176 Americans held prisoners by the Communists during the.Ko rean war. Assistant Attorney General William F. Tompkins told a House appropriations subcom mittee in testimony made public Sunday that the Defense De partment pas referred the cases to the Justice Department for study. Tompkins also said the depart ment has been informed by the military to expect "many more" such referrals. "Our original fig ure of approximately 2(J0 such cases may, therefore, be too con servative," he said. Tompkins gave no details of the cases under investigation, nor did he give any names. He said only that they arose "out of activities of prisoners in the Korean hostilities." Bloodhounds Join In Search for SiSssang Passenger en Plane Crash Goldendale, Wash. U.R) Bloodhounds entered the search today for Hank Baker, 20-year-old The Dalles youth who has been missing since he set out in search of help for a companion injured badly in a light plane crash on Simcoe peak north of here. Hope was fading that Baker would be found alive. There were two more inches of fresh snow in the search area today and it was snowing hard early this morning. But two blood hounds, owned by Dallas Ben nett of Roseburg, Ore., were sent up in hopes they could help lead searchers to the missing youth. The sheriff s office here said conditions were so bad this morning that two rigs got stuck heading into the area. Paramed ics had to await a break in the storm before they could jump. One search crew camped near the downed plane all night. Members of the Crag Rats from Hood River and the moun tain rescue council from Seattle joined the search today. Jack LaRoque, 40, also of The Dalles, suffered serious injuries in the plane crash. After 33 hours, LaRoque was pulled from the plane's wreck age Sunday by three air force paramedics who parachuted to the scene in the face of 36-mile- an-hour winds. He was evacuat ed to a The Dalles hospital where surgeons feared they may have to amputate one of his froz en feet. , All trace of Baker was oblit erated by snow and howling wind. The youth spent Saturday night in the wreckage trying to aid the injured pilot and set out Sunday morning for help. Air searchers who spotted the wreckage at midday Sunday also saw footprints but the snows soon covered them. "Unless he found his way out of the snow, it will be a miracle if we find him alive," Capt. Har old Palmer of Portland said aft er a final sweep Monday. Today's search will be con centrated near the plane on the theory that Baker could not have gotten far through blizzards and cold temperatures. Buddy Baer Files Cross-Suit in Divorce Hollywood (U.R) Buddy Baer, former heavyweight box er turned actor, has filed a cross-complaint for divorce from his third wife, the former May Mann, on charges she in sisted on "absolute quiet" about their home. Baer, 39, filed the suit yester day in Superior Court. Mrs. Baer, 37, a magazine writer who married the fighter in 1949, has filed an amended complaint for separate maintenance. In his cross-suit, Baer denied his wife's charges that he "openly" associated with other women. He said the accusations were made only to impugn his moral character and to embar rass him. Don's Duke Faces Charge Of Failure To Pay Bill Hoilywood (U.R) Doris Duke, one of the world's richest women, was charged today with failure to pay a $20,739 bill for installation of a burglar alarm at her Beverly Hills estate. M. B. 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