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IX MZDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, Juna 28, I9S5 Echo Park Dam Taken Out of Bill by House Interior Group Washington U.R) The House Interior Committee approved a bill today to authorize the Upper Colorado Reclamation' Project after completely eliminating Echo Park Dam from the bill. A roll call vote of 20 to 6 was recorded for the bill itself. A mo tion to eliminate a proposed study of Echo Park Dam and al ternative projects was carried on a 19 to 6 vote. Other Vote s Other committee votes ap proved the inclusion' of Navajo Dam in New Mexico in the bill, and permission for negotiation between the city of Denver and the Department of Interior for Blue River water supplies. The estimated cost of the units included in the bill is $760,000,- 000. The Senate has approved a version of the project that event ually would cost about $1,500,- 000,000. The committee also voted, 13 to 12, to eliminate a subcommit tee amendment which would 1 have required immediate con struction of the Canadian River Project in Texas. The committee votes were taken without discussion on a ruling by chairman Clair Engle (D-Calif). Rep. Craig Hosmer (R Calif.) protested, saying the vot ing was "in violation of the rules Grange Eagle Point Grange Reports from State Grange at Klamath Fallswere a highlight of Eagle Point Grange meeting June 21 with Master Mabel Wertz presiding. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Wood were obligated in the First and Sec ond degrees. Jake Brown had charge of the ceremony. Bill Wattenberg noted that the state highway commission had no money for improving Ante lope and Pruitt hills. Bob Bit terling promised a petition would be ready to submit at the next meeting. Grant Hubbell reported Jack son county third in issuance of new Grange Fire Insurance pol icies In the state. Agriculture committeemen Bob Bitterling and Millroy Charley pointed out the decline in livestick prices, apparently due to poor feed conditions. Concerning education Mrs. John Huffman noted that Ray Tresham, Darrill Stanley and Leonard Bradshaw were elected to school board posts. Cal Lusk was asked to aid on the legislative committee. Bill Wattenberg told of the cost of good signs. Cliff Moore, Bob Bitterling and Otis Hill vere asked to check their areas concerning interested people wanting their names on the signs. - Secretary Agnes Hubbell. was presented a pennant for having collected 100 per cent dues. The lecturer's program con sisted of group singing, masters report from state .Grange by Mabel Wert and members by Ed Cowden and his .violin ac companied by Mabel Wertz at the piano, -y Mrs. Augusta Perry explained about articles made from wal rus tusks and walrus fur also shells and articles from Guana and Siam all of these on the display table. - Mrs. John Huffman's shirt, first prize winner in. the coun ty, was displayed too. The HEC Ladies entertained the men for Father's day with strawberry shortcake and whip ped cream. Next Grange meeting, July 5. will feature a potluck dinner beginning promptly at 7 p.m. Home Economics club will meet at noon June 29 for a pot luck lunch at the home of Mrs, Paul Force, Houston rd., Phoe nix. Each one is asked to bring her table service. WINE CONSUMPTION San Francisco Americans drink, on an. average, one pint of wine per week. By comparison Frenchmen consume about one pint of wine, on an average, each day. Lucille Miller Free on Bail as Trial Date Set Brattleboro, Vt. (U.R) Mrs. Lucille Miller, 44-year-old moth er accused of advising youths not to register for the draft, was free in $1,000 bail today 'to await trial-July 11. Ralph Chapman, counsel for Mrs. Miller, said the Bethel, Vt., woman "probably would actively assist" in her own defense. Judge Orders Trial U. S. District Judge Ernest W. Gibson ordered the trial yester day after a government psychi atrist testified Mrs. Miller capa ble of aiding in her defense. " She was released from St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washing ton, D. C, last week after under going court ordered examina tions. Mrs. Miller and her 46-year-old husband, Manuel, barricaded themselves in their rural home May 3 when federal marshals sought to take Mrs. Miller to the hospital. They were subdued by tear gas -.after a nearly 12-hour siege. Free on Ball Miller is free on $10,000 bail furnished by his neighbors to await trial on an indictment charging he obstructed federal marshals. Mrs. Miller indicated previ ously that sh-would challenge the constitutionality of the peace time draft system in higher courts if she is convictedShe ad vocates a highly paid volunteer defense force, claiming conscrip tion in peacetime violates the federal constitution. Shipping Company Reaps Big Gain on Conversion Plan Washington (U.R) A ship ping company which bought two new ships at half price from the government now is about to get more than the purchase price from the government to convert the ships. ; Sen. John J. Williams (R-Del.) today termed the - whole deal "fantastic" and "an unjustified waste of the taxpayers money." What it amounts to, Williams said, is that , the government is giving the shipping company more in cash than it acutally cost the company to buy - the ships. " Here is the deal as outlined by Williams: " - Coct $17,800,000 The two ships, the Free State Mariner and the Pine Tree Mariner, were built two years ago at a cost to the government of $17,500,000. Under a recently concluded agreement, the two ships are being sold to the Oceanic Steam ship Co. at a cost of $9,720,000 or about half their original cost to the government. - And now the Maritime Admin istration has come to Congress asking for an appropriation of $11,300,000 to give to the steam ship company to convert the two T ships into passenger vessels. , " 6 1 of House procedure." "Hybrid Document" After the vote, Hosmer charged that the bill was a "hy brid, political document." He said nuclear developments may make the power plants of the project "obsolete" long be fore the 100 years they are sup posed to operate is past. Rep. A. L. Miller (R-Neb.) re plied that the bill had received "thorough, careful and exhaus tive hearings" from a subcom mittee. "If this country is going to grow," he said, "It has to de velop its natural resources." He said he thought Hosmer was more concerned with? the qustion of what effect the power project would produce might have in Southern California. CHANGING MIND after living In Red China, CpL William A Cowart. Dalton. Ga.. one of American prisoners who refused re patriation after Korean war, Is leaving for United States at own , request, Peiping government announces. (International) Chessman, Other Convicts Smuggled New Manuscript of Book from San Quentin San Francisco (U.R) Author convict Caryl Chessman . dis closed today that he and several other San Quentin convicts con spired to smuggle the bulky manuscript of his latest book, "Trial By Ordeal," out of death row. Chessman told a reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle that "five or six" persons were in volved in the smuggling scheme and that it was "strictly a con vict deal." The scheme began last. Janu ary after Chessman's first book, "Cell 2455, Death Row," had been published to critical ac claim. He had just finished typing out 585 pages of his sec ond, "Trial By Ordeal." ' . When Chessman tried to turn over the manuscript of "Trial By Ordeal" to his attorney, Rosalie Asher, prison officials confis cated it. Assistant State Attor ney Clarence Linn said the of ficials were within their rights and that they could even destroy it if they wanted. But Chessman said he decided "They'd never get an opportu nity to do this." "So I had a talk withj another convict," he said. "He may or may not have been a condemned man . : . I must protect the men involved at all costs." Chessman said he turned over a carbon copy of the manuscript to convict No. 1 in three separate installments "and it might have gone out of death row in some trash." This convict turned it over to a second convict, who hid it in the prison while Chessman's at torneys fought a legal battle to get the original manuscript re leased. When the inmate guarding the manuscript was suddenly changed to another job, a crisis arose. The convict apparently decided to get the manuscript out of the prison, Chessman said. Chessman would not specify how this was done, but he said: "A minimum security prisoner could have left it lying around and by prearrangement an out sider could have picked it up and mailed it." Chessman said he learned that his publisher, Prentice-Hall, had received the manuscript when Warden Harley O. Teets came to him May 28 and said the. book was going to be published July 11 four days before Chessman's scheduled execution. , In "Trial By Ordeal," Chess man tells of seven years in con demned row. He was sentenced in Los Angeles in 1948 for kid-nap-rape. 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