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. I believe that the revenue
from these power dams should
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be considered and handled as a
separate item. I think logically
they should go into the general
fund of the United States and
then if the Congress desires to
subsidize, and that it what it is,
these reclamation projects we
should do it openly and intelli
gently and vote the money out
of our Treasury in the usual
manner. 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-
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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.
I'm Wild about the way
my Plymouth performs with
entirely new grade Mobilgas
Nine out of every ten owners of pre
1955 Plymouths and many others
cars get smooth, knock-free mileage
when they use new grade Mobilgas
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Atiorneys Argue
Against Reversal
In Sheppard Case
Cleveland, O. U.R) Prosecu
tion attorneys today argued
against reversal of the second
degree murder conviction of Dr.
Samuel Sheppard on the second
day of a hearing on the defense
motion for a new trial.
The hearing began Monday
with defense attorneys telling
the three-judge court of appeals
'that if the young osteopath had
killed his wife, Marilyn, last
July 4, "it would have been a
perfect crime" with "no trace of
murder."
Pictured as Happy
Chief defense attorney Wil
liam J. Corrigan said Sheppard
"could haye planned his wife's
death in many ways. I know of
a way to kill a person and leave
no trace of murder. Doctors
know it, and I know it."
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..
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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
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throughout the nation and put a
serious crimp in the nation's
booming economy. .
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Lithuania Girl
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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-
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