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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Corvallis (U.R) Oregon
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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.
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