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.
Chessman said he has decided
not to write a third book be
cause he has already caused
prison authorities "too many difficulties."
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