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
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Psychiatrist Held
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Piermont, N.Y. (U.R) Po
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day a prominent psychiatrist
who admitted looting a suburban
home of $1000 worth of anti
ques to furnish his office and
hauling them away in.his flashy
foreign sports car.
Police nabbed Dr. Price
Adams Kirkpatrick when he re
turned to the scene of his crime
in Piermont, N.Y., to retrieve
an expensive camera he had left
on the porch of the house.
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