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Many Obstacles Said To IBe in Path of Northwest MydroeDecfric Development Editor'! not:' This is the second of thret articles on the requirements for new electric power feneration in the Pacific Northwest and what the region's utilities agencies have planned to meet these needs. By HENRY G. CURTIS . United Press Correspondent . Seattle (U.PJ The Pacific Northwest, which needs 6,000, 000 new kilowatts of electric power by 1964 to avoid a power shortage, could have twice that much additional power but for "obstacles" in the way of hydro electric developments. The Pacific Northwest Gov ernors' power policy Committee estimates the region will fall 2, 000,000 kilowatts short of meet ing 1964 power demands. But the reason is not a lack of good hydroelectric sites which could be developed. The policy committee lists 70 potential new projects which . could produce 12,000.000 addi tional kilowatts. Public and private utilities and the federal government have expressed "positive intentions" for devel opment of 45 of these sites with a power output in excess of 8,000,000 kilowatts. Delays in construction starts, plus the long period of time needed to build large hydro proj ects, will keep most of this po tential power from being on the line by 1964. Hell Canyon Held Up A classic "obstacle" has blocked hydroelectric develop ment of Hells Canyon on the Snake river. The Idaho Power Co. has applied for licenses to build three low dams in the canyon to produce 719.000 kilo watts. Public power forces favor a single, high government dam to produce 800,000 kilo watts. The argument over which type of development there should be has delayed construc tion of any dam for more than two years. A Federal Power Commission Examiner this month recommended that Idaho Power be licensed to build the first of its three dams, but ap peals from the high dam sup porters will cause still more de lays. John Day dam on the Colum bia could produce 1,105,000 kilo watts of power if built. Libby dam, on the Kootenai river in Montana, could provide 600.000 kilowatts and has been authorized by the federal gov ernment. However, construction cannot be started until the in ternational joint commission works out the problem of reser voir flooding in British Colum bia. Several Projects Planned A proposed Seattle city light development at Boundary, on the Pend Oreille, might produce as much as 570,000 kilowatts. A preliminary permit has been issued but construction time would be eight years and op position from mining interests could delay a construction li cense. Priest Rapids on the Columbia could produce 954,000 kilowatts. The Grant County Public Util ity District has a preliminary permit for a dam, but such a project is another eight-year job. The Chelan county PUD's pro posed 585.000 kilowatt develop ment of Rocky Reach on the Columbia is at the same state of Funeral Escort Dies in Collision Portland (U.R) A motor cycle rider escorting a funeral procession was fatally injured yesterday afternoon when he struck a Portland Traction Com pany bus. Dead was Arthur Severson, about 50, an employee of Web ster's funeral service which sup plies escorts for funerals. Police said he cut out to drive to the head of the procession when he struck a bus driven by James T. Sullivan, 49. Force of the crash threw the motorcycle 44 feet. No one else was injured and the funeral pro cession proceeded in 20 minutes. development as Priest Rapids and would take eight years in construction. Puget Sound Power and Light Co. and the Douglas county PUD both have applied for prelim inary permits to build a 392.000 kilowatt development at Wells Climbers Scale Himalaya Peak London (U.R) Man was master today of nature's three highest and most treacherous mountain peaks. A British expedition's con quest of 28,164 foot Mr. Kang chenjunga in the Himalayas, con sidered the mountain climber's toughest challenge, climaxed the historic triumph by man over the world's three greatest peaks within a space of three years. The nine-man expedition, led by Dr. Charles Evans, reported its victory in a telegram Wed nesday from Darjeeling, India, which is on the Nepal border 50 miles from Kangchjunga. The Times of London disclosed the conquest in a copyrighted dis patch today. Another British group con quered 29,002-foot Mt. Everest, the world's tallest, in May, 1953. Last July 31, an Italian expedi tion successfully assaulted 28,-250-foot Mt. Godwin Austen, the second highest, known as Kr2. NEW LAKE SHIPS Massena, N.Y. (U.R) At least half a dozen new ships will ply the Great Lakes this summer. The Finnish-American line is putting on the Mariefors, Hamerfors, and the Helsingfors, each 2,500 tons. The French line is adding the Ville ide Quebec and the Ville de Montreal. The Aranje line will have a new vessel to re place the Prins Wil lem V, which was sunk last fall. on the Columbia. Competition for this site probably will add to a delay in a construction start for the seven-year project. Obstacles Are Many Dams at Penny Cliffs and Bruce 's Eddy on the north fork of the Clearwater could produce 585.000 kilowatts, but the pri vate power companies proposing their construction by joint ven ture are still gathering feasibil ity data. Partnership construc tion is planned for Green Peter and Cougar dams in Oregon. Lower Granite, Little Goose, Lower monumental and Ice Har bor on the Snake below Hells Canyon have been authorized. Together they could supply 775, 000 kilowatts and Ice Harbor with 195.000 potential kilowatts is in the advanced planning stage. However, all four dams are bitterly opposed by fisheries interests, -and Congress has failed to appropriate funds for their construction.. The Puget Sound Utilities Council is discussing with Brit ish Columbia official's the possi bility of a dam at Mica Creek in the Canadian province. Storage water behind the dam would add more than 1,000,000 new kilo watts in downstream production, the council contends, but this project is still in the talking stage. The many smaller projects for construction face the same obsta cles and delays as these major developments. SS I j B On Smart New VS $1499 . I vi; $2499 $3499 Atoms for Peace Exhibit Launched in Britain London (U.R) U. S. Ambas sador Winthrop W. Aldrich launched an American "Atoms For Peace" exhibition on a 13 city tour of Britain Wednesday night. The exhibition, which already has appeared in most of the capi tals of Western Europe, shows with films, models and visual aids the possibilities of improv ing standards of living and in dustry through international cooperation. VALUES TO $49.95 For Now And All Through Summer At . . . Drastically Reduced Prices! WOOLS or ORLONS In all the beautiful pastels and whites that are so popular now. Buy Now and Pay In July! Feather Light, .Washable, Rubber Soled BANTAMS by O'Omphie Never before such fashion in a feather - light, washable shoe. White braid doodles on denim in faded blue, navy, turquoise, pink or charcoal. Also gold on white linen. Full and half sizes. BURELSON'S SHOE SALON Main and. Bartlett Streets 7 Phone 2-6428 The ONLY Burelson's in Medford Thurtday, Junt 2, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVS ALL DRESSED UP AND NO WAY TO GO Britons mill about in London's Victoria Sta tion in hopes there will be a train for them. Britain moved to mobilize every car and truck in the nation if needed to meet the strangling chaos of a countrywide railroad strike. Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden received the legal power to do this by seizure if necessary from Queen Elizabeth IL Madras Pair Finds Stork Joke Unfunny Madras, Ore. (U.R) The joke about people racing the stork to the hospital isn't so funny to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mc Inturff Jr., of Madras. They have made the hurried, harried jaunt twice in one year, and both times the stork won. Not only that, but the two chil dren were born at almost the same spot. On May 31, a dash from Mad ras to Pioneer Memorial hospital in Prineville 38 miles away was climaxed with the birth of a girl, Aletha Louise, on the outskirts of Prinville. On July 17, 1954, 'the Mcln turffs were in a hurry to reach the hospital. A son, Tommy Joe, was born on the same' outskirts of Prineville. .Mother and four - pound, three ounce daughter are doing fine. Buying MILK Today? Reach for GILLIAN'S In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In Washington the U. S. su preme court issues its long-, awaited directive on the ending j of racial segregation in American public schools. j The high court says such seg- regation MUST END AS SOON j AS FEASIBLE, taking local con ditions into account. THAT is to say (Luke IX-62): "No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." DEFINING its "taking local conditions into account" dic tum, the court says: LOCAL COURTS can decide whether local school authorities are making prompt and reason able starts toward full compli ance ith the high court's direc tive. It adds: The lower courts, sitting as courts , of equity, may properly take local problems into account. I TAKE it the high court has read Sir Walter Scott's The Monastery, in which this advice is offered to the over-eager: "Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your ploughshare too deep into new land." THE court may have read one other bit of wisdom from the ancients that of Sancho Panza to his too-impatient master in Cervantes Don Quixote: "Rome was not built in a day." THE evils of racial segregation in America have been a long time in the making and it stands to reason that they can not be cured in a day. I think our su preme court is tackling a huge job in the wisest possible way. ALONG the same general line: ' In Dayton, O., one man was killed and six others were wounded in what the police de scribe as a wild shooting spree in the lobby of the Third Nation al Bank. The police add that they haven't yet been able to find out the cause of the ruckus. Well, whatever it was, the sit uation wasn't bettered any by hair-trigger shooting. The same goes for the cold war in which we are now engaged. Let's start shooting only as a LAST resort. IN RESPONSE to questions at a news conference, Ike told the reporters he doesn't like pol itics in what he termed the DE ROGATORY sense of the word. But He added The Presidency is fascinating when considered in the sense of striving for such things as world peace and MINIMIZING THE CHANCES OF WAR. THAT, sir, is the most fascin ating job in the world. And, at this stage in human history, the MOST IMPORTANT. 1 OSC Plans To Back Market News Service Corvallis (U.R) Oregon State College extension service today said it would put up neces sary funds to" maintain the De partment of Agriculture dairy and poultry market news service beyond its scheduled June 30 closure. The funds would come out of the extension service's budget. Matching funds for the federally supported market news service were not approved during the recent legislative session. PAPER HAPPY Washington (U.R) The United States uses more paper and paperboard than any other nation, reports the American Forest Products Industries, Inc. Per capita consumption stands at nearly 800 pounds a year. 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