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Backers off Hope Comigress IFedlenraD mm EDam at Hells Canyon Reserve cession Washington (U.R) Backers of a proposed government dam in Hells Canyon said Saturday they hope Congress will reserve a preliminary decision to license construction of an Idaho Power Company dam in the canyon. But the company president said his firm is "ready and anx- La Grande. Ore. U.R) The Oregon Stat Council of Carpenters, in the second day of their convention here. Sat urday, struck out against pri vate construction of the pro posed Hells Canyon Dam pro i ject. Delegates approved a resolu tion "thanking and commend ing our general officers for their interest and assistance in this fight against private util ities, who are attempting to take this great damsite away from all the people and use it for the selfish gain of a few' -Another resolution urged the stare's congressional dele gation to support bills favor ing federal construction of the project. ious" to start work on its dam to relieve power shortages. He criticized "delaying tactics" by "public power advocates." The decision was handed down by William J. Costello, an exam iner for the Federal Power Com mission. He recommended con struction of Brownlee Dam, but ruled against immediate con struction of two other dams the company sought licenses for Oxbow and Low Hells Canyon. He said construction of Brown lee would mean that the high government dam could not be built Mrs. Evelyn N. Cooper, m at torney who represented public power groups opposing Idaho Power's application for - three dams said Costello's decision will be appealed to the commission itself. ' " An appeal would mean that a final FPC decision could not be reached for several months and perhaps for as long as a year. Without an appeal it could be made in less than two months. Mrs. Cooper said that ' state ments in Costello's decision actu ally favored the high dam over the company plan. In effect the decision, "has thrown down the gauntlet to Congress," she said. Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D Ore.), a high dam advocate, said that if the ruling "is not re versed by a congressional decis ion we are seeing the beginning of the end of the Bonneville power program in the Pacific Northwest." High Dam Gains Rep. Grade Pf ost (D-Ida.) said the decision "makes it manda tory that Congress dispose of the matter by authorizing con struction of the high dam." Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) said Cos tello's decision was based on an assumption "beyond his power to make," but said it would aid in getting the government dam approved. Idaho Power president T. E. Roach said his company was "un derstandably pleased" at the de cision and would go ahead with Brownlee Dam "as soon as final clearance is received." "It is of course our earnest hope," he said, "that the final order of the commission will be forthcoming as soon as physical ly possible and that no further obstacles or delaying tactics will be interposed by the advocates of public power which will be detrimental to our customers." Roach also said that power use is growing so rapidly in Idaho and the Northwest that Oxbow application "without prejudice" and a new application could be filed immediately. Sees Limited Market Costello said a market could be "reasonably predicted" only for the one dam. His decision also said that he did not make a recommendation on the federal dam because the chances of its being authorized are "remote." Backers of the dam contested the statement but made no pub lic estimates of the chances of the authorization bill in this Con gress. Hearings on it were com pleted Friday by a Senate In terior Subcommittee and com mittee action is expected in a week or two. However, ' no House hearings have been sched uled. Costello said in his decision that it would be "completely use less for the FPC to make a recom mendation to Congress on the proposed federal dam. Congress already has a "great store of data" on the proposal and "little new or additional in formation" could be supplied, he said. In any event, he said, the effect of such a recommendation would be to "freeze" develop ment on that section of the river for an "indeterminate" time. Washington GOP Sees Magnuson As Too Strong for Gov. Langlie; Morse-Patterson Fight Shaping By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington (Special) One half of the Republican plan to recapture the Senate seats of Democrats Wayne Morse and Warren G. Magnuson in next year's election has just about reached a state of collapse. . This was the ; plan, widely heralded in the Pacific North west press some months ago, to pit Oregon Gov. Paul Patterson against Morse and Washington Gov. Arthur B. Langlie against Magnuson. . The Langlie half of the gov ernor vs. senator scheme has been all but scrapped by Wash- Look to the Future! Choose GAS Appliances! - , C The MODERN Way On This NEW 1955 GAS RANGE With Gleaming Chrome Top! Vdafc -I.,, T , . Tfo Fcst fel Ever Built fate, NOW! IT 100XS limit COOIS lETTil! Visit your Wedge-J wood Dealer ondJ tee me range mo is actually a yeo ahead in. moder ' design and cower) iertce. Only Wedge -wood is so new oi the way through. See these great new features! f 1 - t - 1 i . 1 I Tw I CMI rml ftfttct-Mtat DM fkMltlWi HOtHrMfHMb lELECT-i-tWU ! S17Q50 " Wmtl tmmtt- UTILITY California-Pacific MEDFORD, OREGON SERVICE Utilities Company PHONE 2-5284 ington state Republicans who reluctantly are coming to the conclusion that Senator Magnu son is invincible. They know for a fact that Magnuson has never been defeated in over 20 years of running for public office and that his popularity appears as high as ever in the Evergreen state, based on a recent Elmo Roper poll taken by the GOP. This has been the outlook here this past week coming out of the governors' conference which Langlie attended, but Patterson missed due to the legislature being in session. Langlie is now being pressed by party bigwigs to run for a fourth term at Olympia, which most observers believe could be his for the running, despite the governor's announced personal preference to step down when his current term expires the end of next year Up to recently, all the talk has been for Langlie to tackle Magnuson. But with GOP optimism about defeating Magnuson falling off sharply, it is being argued that the party cannot afford to have its champion, Langlie, take on Magnuson and be defeated. Bel ter hold . the governorship and wait until a more favorable year to attempt to break the Demo cratic hold on the - state's two Senate seats. .. While all this is still in the backroom political , talk ' stage, it is; thought by "observers here that such a, development in Washington state will have the effect of increasing pressue on Governor Patterson to go against Wayne Morse. . " . The Republican drive to win either, or both of these two seats that will be at stake next year carries momentum , beyond the usual importance attached to a contest over, any Senate seat, for as it now stands all four of the Oregon-Washington seats are occupied by Democrats, a con dition that has served to dimin ish quite considerably the in fluence in legislative affairs of Republican interests in the Pa cific Northwest. Moreover, the "partnership" power policy being promoted by Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay for his home region is jeopardized by the united op position of Morse, Magnuson, Sens. Richard L. Neuberger and Henry M. Jackson, who have suf ficient strength if they exert it fully to block any ."partnership" legislation from passage,through the Senate as long as Democrats control the upper house. These are . factors . that give weight to pressure being brought to bear upon Patterson, who as a senator would give the GOP critically, needed political power in the Senate. Observers here, both Republi can and Democratic, are having all kinds of trouble deciding whether Patterson or Morse is currently the stronger - but there is general agreement that pressure for the governor to challenge the senator is mount ing, particularly as GOP visions of defeating Magnuson in Wash ington state have begun to fade away. Vale, Ore. (U.R) The Malheur County budget board Friday es timated it would cost $498,220 to run the county for the fiscal year 1955-56.' The figure, a $50, 000 , decrease from last year's, amounts to a $500 increase in the tax base. Sates - Rentals foldlmi VHXZL CHAOS Open Sundays and Holiday . 10 a.mto t p.. Weekdays S:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. HUDSON'S PHARMACY 613 E. MAIN PH0N 3-5345 1 Block East et Hawthorne Park General Agreement To Arbitrate Near In Railroad Strike Atlanta U.R) The chief union negotiator in the 55-day-old Louisville and Nashville railroad strike reported Satur day that a "general agreement' has been reached to arbitrate the dispute. But he said details still have to be worked out. Reports Denied G. E. Leightly, chief negotia tor for the 25,000 striking non operating employees, said re ports "that the strike is almost over are not true as of this mo ment." He held out hope, how ever, of an agreement later in the day. Federal Mediation Board of ficials indicated that a formal agreement would be reached "within hours." There was no immediate indi cation whether all issues in the 55-day-old dispute would be set tled, or whether the operating and non-operating unions in volved would agree to ' return to work and arbritrate their dif ferences later. But there was little prospect of settling another labor dispute disrupting the South that of some 40,000 communication wor kers against Southern Bell Tele phone and Telegraph Co. The CIO Communications Workers of America urged Pres ident Eisenhower to name an arbitrator to bring an end to the strike that "is causing untold economic hardship to ' many southern communities." The communications workers offered to submit all the issues involved to ant arbitrator but Southern Bell said it was a "cal culated attempt to gain from an arbitrator what the union has not been able to justify through collective bargaining." Malaria is common in 12 states of the United States. ' Sunday. Mar "31 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Korean Surrenders After 10 Years Hiding in Caves Agana, Guam U.R) A Korean born laborer, who re mained at large on Peleliu island for over 10 years, told reporters Friday that a Japanese-indocrin-ated fear of American "brutality kept him from surrendering. The holdout, Pyonggi Tak chon, 38, was caught pilfering food by a native family on the famous World War II battle ground on April 28.. Hid In Cave Takchon said the Japanese told him the Yanks would cut off his ears, hands and feet, so after the American invasion of the island he took refuge in a cave. He said he lived on coconuts, crabs, wild yams and pilfered food, which he cooked in pots and pans in the cave hideout. He said he had a "long knife" for protection. Tachon said he stayed on the opposite side of Peleliu from where the native lived. He said he sewed rags together for cloth ing and had 360 yet on his arriv al here. He said he did not want to leave Guam but gave no rea son. - i : ' Couldn't Identify Yanks - The holdout was unable to dis tinguish Americans from Guam ians or Filipinos. When asked to identify the- Yanks at the Press conference, he grinned and looked puzzled. But his . eyes popped when he was told the Japanese were beaten in Korea Study of Klamath . Lake Algae Approved ; Klamath Falls, Ore. OJ.R) A scientific study of Upper Klamath lake algae was a step nearer Saturday following tenta tive approval of $1,000 in the city budget contingent on sup port from the county. The study would be carried in conjunction with Oregon State college. Total outlay would be $15,000. ' , during World War II. ' Takchon said he came to An- guar island in 1942 from Teisea City, South Korea, where he had farmed. He was conscripted into a Japanese navy labor battalion, and sent to work on Peleliu air strips and fled to the hills when the Americans attacked. 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