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O EIGHT MEDPCRD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, August 15, 1953 Decision by FPC Regarding Hells Canyon Declared To o ... I I. tfe A Hoax on rne kudiic Washineton. D. C. (Special) --"The Federal Power Commis sion decision in the Hells Can non case is so misleading that g is an imposition upon the caress and public," Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) said today, o "The FPC tried -to fool the oAmerican people in it announce ment of the decision giving away thefinest remaining dam- te on the North American irontinent to the Idaho Power Company," Senator Morse con- otinued. The rest of his statement cfollows: "The FPC" implies that the rivatsDutility dams would pro duce power at lower cost than fee high dam. That is not true cJnd the Commission knows it. The Commission implies that ;Jhe private utility dams would produce more power than Would rpe attributable to high Hells Canyon dam. That is not true 'jind the Commission knows it. JThe Commission hides the fet't that the company plan ould not help meet the impend Jng Pacific Northwest power jihortage. " "The Commission keeps re ferring to the "three-dam plan" cnvhile its own decision indicates rst may extend the nine-year per- amA for building low Hells t-Tanyon or cancel altogether the Requirement that it be built. "In its press release the Com mission said (quoting its own de cision): 'we conclude that, as suming financing, construction rmd operation of both plans by gie same entity, the ratio of power benefits to power costs agef the three-dam plan is greater than that for the one-dam plan.' G "In at least one wire service story this statement was under standably interpreted as mean ing that the Company three-dam plan would produce power at Kss unit cost than the proposed deral high dam. What the atement actually means is that Jf the Government were to build the dams under both plans or the Company were to do so the ratio of benefits to costs would be higher for the three dams for the amount of power they pro duce. To those unfamiliar with these terms the statement would indicate that the high dam is uneconomical. "By resorting to technical terms and not explaining their use the FPC obscured the fact that the three-dam plan would waste permanently the power potential of the Hells Canyon stretch of the Snake river that only the high dam woud de velop to the fullest. Power Cost Estimates "It obscures and buries the basic fact, upon which the eco nomic future of the Pacific Northwest depends, that the fed eral high dam would produce more power at less cost per unit than the private utility one, two or three dams. This is true for the simple fact tha the cost of financing, the main variable cost factor in dam construction requiring large capital invest ment, is the rate of interest paid on borrowed money. The United States would have much lower actual rates of interest than the Idaho Power Company. This ex plains the FPC examiner's find ing that: ' . . . the facts seem to point to the inescapable conclu sion that with the marked and substantial advantage of the Government's credit, the High Dam would be dollar for dollar the better investment and the more nearly ideal development of the Middle Snake.' "Not only does the FPC not contest this finding, it observes: 'Needless to say if the supplying of power at the lower costs re sulting from Federal develop ment should be considered .as a decisive factor, there would be few cases involving major power projects where private development could be licensed under the Act because of the substantial difference in annual cost of investment money in TheyTl Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo WELL .WELL - BUSTERWU4TdRE VOU COINS HERE? WHERE yoo SWIM? I'M AT THE GILTWOffE-j DO MX) EVER STAY THERE.? THIRTY" DOLLJRS A DAY BUT X RSURE ONE MiSttT AS WELL DO THINGS RlSWT ULFUN6US-0 HUH? OH, WE COME DOWN HERE EVER YE4R-WE GOT , A LnTLE PLACE BACK A WAYS' rjhsus is putting rri ON BK3-HE UASMT ( MENTIONED HES DOWN HERE FOR ONE VAY ON THE OFRCE ounNe- 4 ) HE ATE A BOX LUNCH UNDER THE B0.4RDW4LK 4ND TOOK HIS AFTER-DINNER STROLL IN FRONT OF THE IF HES GOT A ROOM.WHy IS HE WEARING HIS BATHING surr under His brRbtr CLOTHES? IVE HE4RD OF N4ME-DROPPERS-BUT HE DROPS ADDRESSES 4 ND RATES-POR THIRTY BUCKS HE'D WANT A PARTNERSHIP IN THE HOTELI oliptV4 If o con. m ximg reATutex stnimcatk. Im. WOUtD "CHT5 BESCTVgP. Meeting the bo4rd vwlk s4unterer who W4NT5 TO BE SEEtf IM THE RlSWT PUCES -fcVWRSS AND kfe.Nl, WHEELIMS.W.VA. Bing Crosby's Son Injured in Accident Raymond, Wash. (U.R) Philip Crosby, 21-year-old son of crooner Bing Crosby, was doing "pretty well" in a New Riverview hospital today after favor of federal over private financing.' "The FPC attempts to fudge this finding by saying that taxes also explain the advantages of federal financing, but this is a separate factor which does not detract from the overwhelming advantage of federal financing. The federal investment pays for itself and more with power revenues alone, not to mention increased tax revenues from new business and income that the federal project would make possible than could be under taken at the higher electric rates .that the Idaho Power Company would have .to charge." suffering a fractured back and minor lacerations in a Sunday auto accident. Young Crosby, an Army pri ate stationed at Fort Lewis, Wash., was injured yesterday when his auto crashed through guard railings and two embank ments on a hill just inside the Raymond city limits. The auto ripped up four guard posts, crashed over a 15 foot embankment, rolled across some railroad tracks, down an other incline and came to a stop on the tideflats along the Willapa river. It was demol ished. Crosby told ambulance driver Harold Perkins that he had fallen asleep at the wheel. At the time, he was traveling north from Raymond to Fort Lewis on U.S. Highway 101. At the hospital, attendants took 16 X-rays to determine his condition. VICTOR MOORE RECOVERING Hollywood (U.R) Actor Vic tor Moore, 79, was in "good condition" today in a Santa Monica hospital where he is recovering from a serious case of pneumonia. The performer was rushed to St. John's Hos pital Thursday in a semi-coma. Attendants said his recovery has been rapid. Nation's Egg-Eating Trend Said Turning To Fried Eggs But Some Like 'Em Boiled Use Mail Tribune Want Ads By H. D. QUIGG New York (U.R) A nation wide trend has been spotted that should not go unheralded. If you know a herald who isn't working at the moment, give him this: The nation is trending more toward fried eggs. What this augurs for the na tion's stomachs must be a sub ject of ominous concern for peo ple who prefer their eggs cod dled, boiled, baked, poached, or shirred. Or people like Jimmy Dur ante, who says "I eats 'em rawr." . And for the residents of Prov idence, R. I., who, despite the trend, prefer their eggs boiled. The trend and the steadfast adhering of Providence to boil ing was spotted by the Nation al Geographic Society, a group of learned persons (eggheads) who seem to stretch geography a long way all over the map, in fact. The society, in its news bulle tin issued from the nation's cap ital, does not say where it got its information on the national fried-egg trend, and Providence's boiled-egg bent, and maybe it's best we not inquire. Other Habits It offers the following addi tional egg habits: 1. Half the shoppers in Mans field, O., Columbus, O., and Wichita, Kan., still buy their eggs by the bag rather than the carton. 2. Chicago housewives go for light -yolk eggs; those in sur rounding towns go for orange yolks. 3. Bostonians will pay several cents a dozen more for brown shell eggs; New Yorkers pay more for white shells. 4. Americans ate an average of 414 eggs per person last year more than ever before, and al most half again as many as 40 years ago. 5. Hot out of the nest, an egg has a temperature of 105 de grees. But if you don't put the chill on it "it deteriorates fast." The preference for white or brown eggs, the society explains, comes from the days when it was difficult to ship them without ELEANOR IN JAPAN Tokyo (U.R) Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt arrived in Japan by air from the United States to day. She will stay a week, mak ing tours of Kyoto and Kikko. The widow of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt is sched uled to leave Aug. 21 for Hong Kong and Bangkok where she plans to attend a conference of the U.N. Association. Tokyo (U.R) Horrified po lice guards surrounded Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako with drawn guns today when a mother-bear and her cub con fronted the strolling royal cou ple near their villa. The bears blinked at the scene and fled. damaging quality. So, eggs laid nearest home (brown in Boston, white in New York) were deemed the best quality. "Today," the bulletin says, "it matters little where hens lay their bids for immortality . . . their eggs will likely travel far to the frying pan." Telltale Sound Well, it's good to know at long last why hens make such a rack et. One whole year on the farm there was a hen Julia by name who bounced me awake every morning by bidding shrilly for immortality. And as for the trend toward fried eggs, the society merely t observes it and offers no ex planation. Maybe it's just the pendulum swinging. Take my father, for instance. He liked soft-boiled eggs. For 35 years, beginning in 1900, Daddy ate aoft-boiled egg every morn ing, without fail, for breakfast and relished it. One morning in the summer of 1935 he was served his egg. Ha looked at it. He cut into it and stared at it some more. His face got red. He slammed his fork on the table. 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