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Twice as Much Oectrical Power Seen deeded by Northwest Region by 1963 Editor's note: This U thr first of thri-e articles on the requirements for new electric power generation in the Pacifir Northwest and what the region's utilities agencies have plan ned to meet these needs. By HENRY C. CURTIS United Press Correspondent Seattle (U.R) The Pacific Northwest's top utilities en gineers make a "conservative" $92,500,000 Said Needed for Power In Northwest Area Washington (U.PJ Army En gineers have told a House ap propriations committee that main power requirements of the Pacific Northwest can be met with an appropriation of $92, 500,000. In engineering testimony re leased yesterday the engineers said it would cost that amount to keep construction of McNary, The Dalles and Chief Joseph dams on schedule during the next year. Closed Door Testimony In order to forestall power shortages, the testimony said, Congress would have to appro priate 63,500,000 for The Dalles, $18,000,000 for Chief Jo seph, and $11,000,000 for Mc Nary. The figures were included in closed-door testimony by Col. William Whipple, engineer ex ecutive for civil works. Engineers also asked $710,000 for advance studies of proposed Oregon projects, including $500, 000 for John Day dam, and $6, 267,000 for maintenance and operation of existing navigation, flood control and other projects in the state. Maintenance and operations fund requests included: Funds for Columbia ' Navigation: Columbia river between Vancouver and The Dalles, $100,000; Columbia river at the mouth, $230,00; Colum bia and lower Willamette below Portland and Vancouver, $1, 600,000; Willamette above Port land and Yamhill, river, $390, 000. Locks, dams and canals: The Dalles - Celilo canal, $100,000; Willamette falls, $160,000. Flood control: Cottage Grove reservoir, $31,000; Dorena, $30. 000: Fern Ridge, $74,000. . Multi - purpose: Bonneville, $1,800,000; Detroit, $309,000; Lookout Point, $320,000; Mc Nary, $1,053,000. estimate that the region will need nearly twice as much elec trical power by 1963-64 as it pro duced in 1953-54. This growth of power genera tion, vital to any economic growth for the Northwest, is a problem facing all utilities, pub lic and private, from the local to federal levels. A report issued this spring by the engineering committee of the Pacific Northwest Governors' Power Policy committee, listed the area's 1963-64 power needs at 13,545,000 kilowatts. The present power resources of the region have a firm capacity of only 7,500,000. Shortage by 1960 The engineers are worried about where the needed new power can be obtained. Projects now under construction or defin itely planned will fall nearly 2,000,000 kilowatts short of meet ing the need. The engineers conclude that a basic power shortage will de velop as early as I960 "unless hydro projects having planning and construction periods shorter than five years are started at once, or unless substantial addi tions of new steam-electric plants are started within two years." The hydroelectric potential is large in the region. Utilities agencies have expressed their intentions of building 45 projects which could produce in excess of 8,000,000 kilowatts by 1964. But, for various reasons, these dams just aren't being built. Washington Studies Steam Of these projects, only five re corded any progress last year. The others were held up by lack of authorization, objections to i : Knowland Revealing Foreign Policy Views Washington (U.R) Senafe Re publican Leader William F. Knowland is laying his foreign policy views before the country in speeches which make no at tempt to conceal his differences with the Eisenhower adminis tration. He is becoming the chief spokesman for what was once described as the '"Taft wing" of the Republican party, after the late Sen. Robert A. Taft. During the past month, Know land has made 10 speeches out side of Washington. He con sistently sticks to the same basic theme of warning against con cessions to international Com munism. Both in these speeches and in other public comments, he has made plain his dissatis faction with President Eisen hower's willingness to . partici pate in a Big Four conference and to carry on bilateral talks with the Chinese Communists. Knowland is widely regarded as an aspirant for the presidency, but. if so, he is keeping his plans a secret. High Court To Decide On Red Registration Washington (U.R) The Su preme Court agreed yesterday to decide at its next term whether the Communist party must reg ister with the Justice Depart ment as a Moscow-controlled con spiracy aimed at overthrowing his government. The tribunal announced it will review the party's appeal from a lower court ruling. It will hear arguments in the case next fall and hand down a decision later probably next year. At stake is the constitutional ity of the government's efforts to clamp tight restrictions on the party's activities through the 1950 subversive control act. The high court announced that it will hold its final session of the present term next Monday and then recess for the summer. Misdemeanor Cases In District Court Portland (U.R) District Attorney William M. Langley yesterday ordered all state mis demeanor cases tried in District Court rather than in Portland Municipal Courts. The move will cut sharply into the volume of drunken driving and other misdemeanor cases handled by the city courts. Langley said he had long doubted that the city had the au thority to pass on state charges because municipal judges are ap pointed rather than elected as their rural counterparts, justic es of the peace, are. JP's do have power to pass on state charges. In line with his police depart ure Langley transferred Deputy District Attorney Donald Lay man to the court house for the handling of cases formerly heard in Municipal Courts. Formerly, the city's three mu nicipal judges handled as many as 350 state cases a month. licenses, fishery problems or in complete determinations of their feasibility. The Washington State Power Commission is studying the possi bilities for augmenting hydro electric power with steam-generated power. The engineers point out that steam power poses a problem of integration of two kinds of power and distribution of costs. The study of steam gen eration has not progressed far enough to provide definite con clusions. Atomic - controlled electricity appears to be in the more-distant future. "The general concensus appears to be," says the engin eers' " group report, "that such atomic-electric power will not be a practical economic competitor in the Pacific Northwest by 1963-1964." English Girl Visits Jackson County' Sees Scenery, Rodeo, Mill Washington Asks New Loyalty Oaths Olympia (U.R) Attorney General Don Eastvold ruled yes terday that all state and local government employees in Wash ington were required by a 1955 law to sign new anti-subversive oaths. He said the oaths which gov ernmental employees had signed in accordance with a 1951. law did not fill the requirements of the new statute. He pointed out that the 1955 law expanded the definition of subversive persons to include members of the Com munist Party and also contains other provisions not included in the earlier act. Eastvold said the various state officials or agencies which ap point employees are responsible for carrying out the provisions of the law. The ruling had been re quested by State Agiculture Di rector Sverre Omdahl, chairman of the State Administration Standards committee. Truman Will Arrive In Portland June ? 7 Portland (U.R) Ex-President Harry S. Truman will ar rive here by train at 5:30 a.m. June 11, Democratic party of ficials announced yesterday. Truman is scheduled to speak that night at the Jefferson-Jackson day dinner. The dinner will be attended by party members from the Pacific Northwest. Miss Dorothy Phillips, 30, of Friern Barnet, a suburb of Lon don, England, spent most of yes terday and today in and around Medford. She was accompanied by Mrs. W. H. Fischer f the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. Miss Phillips, secretary to the chairman of the town council of Friern Barnet, is visiting a friend in Crescent City, Calif., and has been making a side-trip to Grants Pass and Medford. Mrs. Fischer drove to Grants Pass yesterday morning to get Miss Phillips, and brought her here. She spoke at the Medford Rotary club meeting at noon yes terday, and also inspected Elk Lumber company. Tells Impressions At Rotary, Miss Phillips told members she thinks American women are more smartly groom ed and better dressed than their British sisters. She gave her im pressions of this "vast country," saying that the easier life Amer ican women lead in their modern homes was a revelation to her. She noted ingenuity of Ameri cans, and described her reac tions to her first rodeo. There is now no rationing in England, she reported, but there is a far smaller variety of foods available there than here. Yesterday morning, George Flanagan, manager of Elk Lum ber company, showed Miss Phil lips and Mrs. Fischer through his big plant, the first large lum ber mill she has seen. Mrs. Fischer reported the visitor was a bit nervous about some of the heavy machinery used to slice up the logs. She also inspected the Flana gan home, noting a number of appliances which have not yet made their appearance in Eng land, including a garbage dis posal unit. At Kiwanis Today she was to visit Jack sonville and Crater Lake, and was to be the speaker at the noon meeting of the Kiwanis club. Since arriving in Crescent City early in May, the English girl has seen Mt. Shasta, Mt. Lassen, the redwood groves and an Indian reservation in Cali fornia, the House of Mystery, and Oregon Caves. She was the guest of honor at the Josephine County Sheriff's Posse rodeo in Grants Pass Sunday. She plans to leave the United States on June 22. Her trip to America was arranged with the assistance of the wife of a doc tor in Crescent City, with whom she has been corresponding for some time, after writing to the city's newspaper seeking an American correspondent. Youths Confess Mailbox Bombings Portland (U.R) Four Port land teenagers two of them 14 and two 15 yesterday were taken into custody in connection with a series of mailbox bomb ings here. Two of the quartet of Lin coln high school students also admitted that they had placed a dynamite cap under the hood of a car owned by Emory E. Reitz, a Lincoln teacher. Deputy sheriffs said the explosive could have wrecked the car and caused bodily injury to Reitz if the youths had connected it properly. ' The arrests followed a week of investigation and the boys admitted that placing their homemade bombs in mailboxes had been inspired by the Meier and Frank Co. bombing and the Fred Meyer extortion attempts here. ( The apparent leader of the group said he and one of the 14-year-olds found the dynamite caps while on a fishing outing in southwest Washington. Wednesday, June 1, 195S MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE flYl Psychiatrist Held On Robbery Charges Piermont, N.Y. 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