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ZIOKT MEDrORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE - Tuesday, June 21, 1955 House Expected To Authorize Trinity Project; Vote Slated Thursday on Hells Canyon Dam Washington (U.R) The House waa expected to pass late today a bill authorizing the So smooth nSrM it leaves you jjj breathless Kgi mirnofF mthe tptaies a . t name j vii una 0 proof Made from 1 00 grain neutral spina. Sec Picne Smirnoff FU. Inc.. Hartford. Conn. $225,000,000 Trinity River pro ject in California. "I don't know anybody against it," said Rep. Clair Engle (D Calif), author of the bill and chairman of the House Interior committee which handled it. Least Controversial It was the first, and apparent ly the least controversial, of four major water and power projects pending in this Congress to come to a House vote. A bill to authorize a S160, 000,000 version of the Upper Colorado Project is awaiting a vote by the full Interior commit tee after winning subcommittee backing last week. The Senate has passed a $1,500,000 version. The Senate Interior Commit tee has recommended a bill au thorizing the $156,000,000 Fry ing Pan-Arkansas Project and House committee hearings are to be completed shortly on a simi lar measure. Hells Canyon Vote The Senate committee is scheduled to vote Thursday on a bill to authorize the $350,000,000 Hells Canyon dam on the Idaho Oregon border. House hearings on the project will be held in July. The Trinity project would di vert some 700,000 acre-feet of water from Trinity river, nor mally flowing directly into the Pacific, into California's Central Valley. On its way, it would go through four power houses with a total installed capacity of 233, 000 kilowatts. Carpenters, Employers Set Strike Conference Portland (U.R) Federal Mediator Leroy Smith called representatives of striking car penters and employers into a conference this afternoon to dis cuss possible ways to end their dispute. He said he made the move in the public interest because no progress was being made by the principals in getting the strike settled. Major construction here has been halted by the three week long walkout over the un ion's demand for a 10-cent hour ly pay increase. PETROLEUM AREAS Oklahoma City Areas favor able to the discovery of oil and gas in the U.S. are estimated at more than one billion acres. Of this vast domain, about 15 per cent is held under leasing rights. EXPRESSING CONTEMPT after being jailed for stabbing teacher at New York's Joan of Arc junior high school, Jose Vargas, 17, appears unconcerned after being booked. James O'Farrell, who was knifed after ordering Vargas from class, is In critical condition at Knickerbocker Hospital. (International) Battling Housewife Freed from Hospital Brattleboro, Vt. (U.R) Mrs. Lucille Miller, 44, mother accused of urging youths to ig nore the draft law, has been ord ered released immediately from a federal mental instiution. U.S. District Judge Ernest W. Gibson directed Mrs. Miller's re lease yesterday and ordered a hearing June 27 to determine if she is mentally competent to stand trial. . Mrs. Miller , and her husband, Manuel, 46, held off federal mar shals May 3 for 11 hours when they came to take Mrs. Miller to St. Elizabeth's hospital in Washington, D.C. They were sub dued by tear gas and .Mrs. Miller has been in the Washington hos pital for tests since. Miller is awaiting trial on an indictment charging he obstruct ed federal officiails. He is free in $10,000 bail furnished by his Bethel, Vt., neighbors. Survey Scheduled For New Highway On South Coast Salem (U.R) The State Highway commission said today it has approved a survey for a new section of the Oregon Coast highway between Coos Bay and Bandon that would shorten the motoring distance between those two cities by eight miles. The new route of the Oregon Coast highway would leave the present coast highway at Del- mar, about halfway between Coos Bay and Coquille, and take off on an entirely new course, eliminating numerous curves. Approve Survey The commission approved a survey and an economic analysis of the project. " The commission plans to use the fifth floor of the state high way building here for. communi cations facilities arid other pur poses. The floor formerly was occupied by the Oregon Liquor Control commission and the state purchasing division. The commission denied the Hood River Chamber of Com merce permission to install scen ic road signs on state highways in the Hood River valley. Prisoner Recaptured Minutes After Escape Salem (U.R) A trusty ,who "wanted to help his wife" was captured here Sunday just a few minutes after he escaped from the state penitentiary grounds. Warden Clarence Gladden said the prisoner, Emile Ebert, ap parently got a letter from his wife saying she was in financial difficulties and thought he could leave the prison to give her some help. Ebert is serving a five - year sentence from Multnomah coun ty for burglary not in a dwelling. DEATH RATES Washington The Korean war killed 33,417 Americans during its duration. In the same period about 650,000 Americans died as a result of cancer. . Idaho Lists 90th .. Polio Case of Year Boise (U.R) Idaho health au thorities yesterday listed the state's 90th oolio case of the year a case of "true" polio in a two-year-old boy in Sandpoint. y "true" polio, the depart ment indicated that physicians could find no apparent connec tion with the mass inoculation Drocram last Aoril In which about 32,000 children received Salk vaccine. 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