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. Royalty, operator of an
electrical company, filed suit in
Superior Court for the sum yes-
terday. He charged Miss Duke
had paid only $19,275 of a $40,- j
014 bill for the alarm system, I
which was installed last year.
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