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EIGHT MEDPCRD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Monday, August 15, 1953
Decision by FPC Regarding
Hells Canyon Declared To
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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
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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
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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.
"Why in the name of almighty
hades," he roared, "do we al
ways have to have soft-boiled
eggs around here?" e
Nobody could answer, really.
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