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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Decision on Marginal Irrigation Projects Left Up To Patterson By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington (Special) Secre tary of Interior Douglas McKay has put it up to Gov. Paul Pat terson to" decide in effect whether Oregon shall ask Con gress to authorize any further irrigation projects of the margi nal type that can be made eco nomically feasible with the aid of power revenue from the big multiple - purpose dams now being built on the Columbia river. McKay is in favor of the idea. So is his commissioner of recla mation, Wilbur A. Dexheimer. But up to now Patterson has been opposed to further reclama tion work of this kind, whether it be in the Willamette Valley, central or eastern Oregon. Attitude Indicated Secretary McKay indicated his attitude in putting his stamp of approval on the proposed Crooked river project near Psineville, which would be made economically feasible with the assistance of power revenues from The Dalles dam after that project on the Columbia starts power generation in 1957. The Crooked river proposal bears special significance for future irrigation development in Oregon because it would be the first of its kind the first to benefit economically from power sales of a dam which is utterly unrelated physically from the proposed reclamation project. The project and the dam in this instance are over 100 miles apart. The Bureau of Reclamation calculates that net power bene fits from The Dalles dam over a 74 day period would provide suf ficient revenue $2,171,000 to put local landowners in the project area over the hump in repaying the project's cost, which is estimated at $6,339,000. The project involves using excess waters of Ochocco creek and Crooked river to supply 10,220 acres that are now inadequately irrigated and 9,990 acres of land not presently irrigated at all. Attitude Expressed Patterson's attitude toward this type project was expressed last month at Portland when he testified before the Senate Inter ior Committee on the Hells Can yon project. The governor told the committee one of the reasons he opposed the high federal dam as proposed in the bill sponsored by Sen. Wayne Morse and 29 other senators was that it would offer power revenues to make possible development of the Mountain Home reclamation project in Idaho. When Sen. Richard L. Neuberger pointed out to Patterson that the Crooked river project was based on the same principle financially and asked him what his opinion of that central Oregon project was, the governor replied: "I would be of the same opin ion. 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Secondly, I feel that if we are going to pledge the reve nues from thees power dams to anything we should pledge them to the development of more pow er dams in the Northwest." McKay has sent Patterson his report on the proposed Crooked river project and if the gov ernor continues his expressed at titude and sends back an ad verse report, the chances Con gress will authorize the project would be seriously diminished. If Patterson changes his mind, in the normal course of events Mc Kay can be expected to place the project before Congress, where Sen. Neuberger has already an nounced his support for it. Reclamation C o m m i s sioner Dexheimer at a press conference last week said he envisioned ad; ditional reclamation1 projects by the bureau in Oregon if the prin ciple of using a power subsidy from federal dams on the Colum bia is adopted. The state has a number of planned but un Heat Wave, Flooding Downpours Stretch Over Eastern Region By UNITED PRESS A muggy heat wave, sparked by savage electrical storms and street flooding rains, stretched across the nation's eastern half today. Downpours and ripping winds hit from Wisconsin to southern Louisiana as an advancing cool front battled with a vast blanket of hot, moist air. The storms hit hardest at eastern Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. Communica tions were washed out, city streets were flooded, and tor nadic winds tore down build ings. Lightning Kills Boys The heat crackled with more storms farther east, and at Tam pa, Fla., 9-year-old Syd McDuf fie was killed by a lightning bolt as he played in his back yard during a thunderstorm. His 7-year-old sister standing only a few feet away was unhurt. The May heat wave sent the temperature to 81 late Monday at Caribou, on the northern tip of Maine where some of the na tion's coldest readings are often registered. It was a blistering 104 at Laredo, Tex. The humidity made the heat far worse. New York City swel- Right, 21 Deluxe Wardrobe $30.00 Tuesday, May 24, 1955 authorized irrigation develop ments, including the Willamette Valley projects, John Day proj- ect, Cold Springs project, Warm Springs and Grande Ronde proj ects. The Upper Horse Heaven and Walla Walla projects on the Washington state side of the Columbia are in the same cate gory. Principle in Missouri Basin Dexheimer pointed outto re porters that the principle of re clamation projects being aided by dams built mainly for power, navigation and flood control by the Corps of Engineers has been used in the Missouri basin. "The Columbia basin will be the same," declared Dexheimer. "We are working by this (Crooked river project) and other projects, for a part in the power revenue for irrigation projects in that area." Congress adopted the same principle last year for an. Idaho project, Michaud Flats, where new land is to be irrigated with the assistance of power revenues from Palisades dam over 100 miles away. Whether the same application is to be made in Oregon in the near future appears to depend on the formal stand taken by Gov. Patterson in his report to McKay on the precedent-making Crooked river proposal. tered in 91 per cent humidity, with little promise of relief, and the humidity was 75 per cent early today in Chicago. In the heart of the storm belt, Greenwood, Miss., was swamp ed by 4.7 inches of rain and Shreveport, La., had 4.65. Streets Washed Out Streets were washed out in Tyler, Tex., Vicksburg, Miss., and Shreveport, La., where ris ing waters forced some resi dents "from their homes. Debris blocked four Greenwood streets and communications were cut for a time between Logansport, Miss., and eastern Texas. At least one tornado cork screwed out of the thunderheads ripping across a farm and wood ed section near Arcadia, la. One person was injured, four tenant houses were destroyed, and tim ber was leveled. In Kansas, two and a quarter inches of hail fell as a tornado funnel menaced Wichita, and Butler, Mo., got 2.62 inches of rain. Krishna Menon On Way Home To Make Report Hong Kong (U.R) V. K. Krishna Menon, India's trouble shooting ambassador, left by air today for Bangkok, Thailand, en route to India. Krishna Menon was en route home to report to Prime Minis ter Jawaharlal Nehru on his ten days of talks with the leaders of Communist China on ways to ease the Far East situation through direct U.S.-Communist talks. REASONABLE JUDGE Epsom, England U.R) Judge Tudor Rees refused Monday to convict four men arrested for shooting craps just outside Ep som Downs race track. The gam bling law is "most chaotic," he said, when it prohibits a small game of chance outside the track and allows racing fans to bet thousands of pounds inside. 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He pictured the Sheppards as a happily married couple and said the defenant was incapable of committing the bludgeon murder. The court of appeals is consid ering the new trial motion based on the defense contention of ju dicial errors in the nine -week trial. Another new trial motion, based on defense claims of new evidence, was scheduled for a court of appeals hearing at a la ter date. Inquest Denounced Corrigan denounced the "car nival" inquest and trial, the "gestapo tactics" of the investi gating police and charged that Sheppard "was tried and found guilty in public before he was indicted." Although both the defense and the prosecution had been allotted four hours each to pre sent their arguments, the three defense attorneys argued into late afternoon. The court ad journed for the day after reject ing a prosecution request to en force the time limit against the defense. Defense attorneys were given 15 minutes today to conclude arguments before the prosecu tion presented its rebuttal. 'How To Invest' Show Presented ' New York - (U.R) Wall Street launched a $1,000,000' show to day titled "How To Invest." The "angels" for this first-of- its-kind spectacular are the world's biggest brokerage firms, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner Sr. Beane, and six top corpora tions. Free to the public, the show opened in the big 71st Infantry Regiment Armory on Park Ave nue. It closes on May 30. Main purpose of the 40,000 square feet of displays is to stir up wider interest in stock invest ment. "Business will continue to grow only as it succeeds in creating new investment funds," says Wintrop H. Smith, manag ing partner of Merrill Lynch. . Puppet shows, a six - minute movie and a corps of account ex ecutives will be on hand to ex plain the world of stocks and bonds to the public. But they won't actually tell you what stocks to buy. After its New York premiere, the show takes to the road in the form of a color motion picture. FIRST FLIGHT SET Cologne, Germany ftj.R) West Germany's Newly-revived Deutsche Lufthansa Airline an nounced today it will make its first transatlantic flight June 1. A super Constellation will fly from Hamburg with a stopover at Shannon, Ireland. WON'T RETIRE Mrs. Mathilda Maas refuses to re tire as nurse, even though she is 70 years old. Informed she could not collect pension and salary, she elected to give up salary and continue working at Chicago State Hospital. . Two Accused of Misuse of Funds Portland (U.R) Two officers of the Mt. Hood Hardboard and Plywood Cooperative charged with misusing $160,000 in co-op funds, have been ordered to ap pear before the Securities and Exchange Commission. W. W. Lock, Salem, associa tion secretary, was ordered to appear before the SEC June 7 in possession of records and min utes of the cooperative. Charles E. Goddard, former salesman and now one of the firm's officers, would appear for questioning the following day. Both hearings would be super vised by U.S. District Judge Gus Solomon. Judge Solomon issued the order"" after the two men ap peared in open court. The co-op had sued for an injunction re straining the SEC inquiry, and Lock and Goddard had refused to accept commission subpoenas to testify.. PAINT OR DECORATE NOt"J with a First National HOME IMPROVEMENT LOAN Some Things You Can Dt With a First National Home Improvement Loan Paint Dtceralt , Rt-reef New Siding Geragt Attic Basement Room Ntw Kitchen or Beth Firtplact Fences Landscaping Foundation Step Insulate Ntw Furnace Water, Heater TOY!" ' General Motors, CIO Open Negotiations On Guaranteed Wage Detroit (U.R) General Mo tors Corp. and the CIO United Auto Workers today began day long negotiations for the first time since the talks on the guar anteed annual wage started last month. The company's negotiators had been meeting with the union for only a few hours at a time pre viously, although Ford Motor Co. and the union negotiators have held several all-day sessions on the annual wage issue. Ford's contract with the union expires June 1 while GM's pact has been extended until June 7. CIO and UAW President Wal ter Reuther attended the union's talks with Ford this morning and planned to shift to the GM talks this afternoon. Reuther has been attending talks with both com panies regularly for several weeks. Meanwhile, the union announ ced that General Motors work ers throughout the nation "have approved a strike should the talks fail to reach an agreement. John W. Livingston, UAW vice president and head of the GM negotiating team, said 103 of 107 bargaining units have re ported returns completed. He said the workers voted 93.4 per cent in favor of striking unless they obtain their demands. Complete returns from Ford workers were expected later this week. But union officials said they were sure the Ford work ers would back up their negotia ing committee with a favorable vote. Returns reported so far have been favorable by a wide percentage. The union is seeking a pay in crease, insurance improvements and other fringe benefits but the guaranteed annual wage is the central issue in the talks. Union spokesmen have said they would strike to obtain some form of the GAW but empha sized the strike votes did not mean they would strike imme diately after the expiration of the contracts. The strike votes give the un ion the right to strike after the I I I I 1 V 1 V J Springtime Is painting time! Start today to make your home the prettiest in the block. DO IT NOW. . . contact your painter or paint dealer, get the costs and ask him to arrange a First National Home Improvement Loan. Or drop in at any First National branch for full particulars. And it is not necessary to be a customer to obtain a Low Cost Home Improvement Loan from First National! Quick Approval Lif -Insured Loans No Down Paymtnt No Mortgage Roqulrod LTDRGIT mmniuu. dark contract has expired 'out the pacts can be extended for any period of time by mutual agree ment of the company involved and the union. If a strike is called it will af fect thousands of persons throughout the nation and put a serious crimp in the nation's booming economy. . Birmingham, Ala. (U.R) Aaron Kimble, 23, was recuper ating today from minor injuries he received in a week end fall from a horse. The horse was one of the wooden kind, on a carousel. 3 P vita r? M '( ' :: ' J j fl I ' IJ rtfrvd for only lhfint p - vWiQ Spit "nd C'"KH' if oocan DD3 7C3Q DB.)SCX! MEDFORD BRANCH UTS B(MD OREGON TOGETHER Lithuania Girl i Finds Lost Freedom Chicago U.R) America means a lot to 17-year-old Zita Urbonas. As a little girl she saw her father executed by the Commu nists in Lithuania. It changed her from a happy child to a bitter one.. She and her mother came to the United States in 1950, and life has been better. Now a student at Jones Com mercial High school, Zita said she will apply for American citizenship "the minute it is le gaily f sible." "Here I have the freedom I have always dreamed about," she wrote in an essay. Her story won for her a plaque from the second district American Legion Auxiliary- WZ -.. s -2. .3 b.-C:,,-- mm. 17
