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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1955)
o Delay Seen in Hells Canyon Dam Construction Due to Finances BY A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribua Correspondent Washington Idaho Power Company will be financially un sole to start major construction on its three-dam scheme in Hells Canyon of the Snake rivr for 6M at least a year, possibly two w years, despite its victory in gain ing a license from" the Federal Power Commission, That is the consensus of FPC experts who see no possibility that Idaho Power could obtain needed capital investment to underwrite its projects as long M its right to build them is being challenged in the courts. National Hells Canyon Associa- lion and other harkers of the nigh federal Hells Canyon pro ject have said they will take their fight against Idaho Power's low dams into the U.S. Court of Appeals here within two months. Estimates of how long the courts will tie up the matter s5un from one to two years, as- auming one side or the other appeals it ultimately to the Su S3preme Court. Security Buyers Leary FPC officials point out that potential buyers of utility se curities are generally unwilling to risk investing in projects that might be rendered illegal by a court decision. They point to the two years and two months delay in the construction of Roanoke Rapids dam by Virginia & Electric and Power company be cause it couldn't be financed while it was being opposed in federal court. Meanwhile, the impetus, to take the Hells Canyon case into court has (gained newi strength this past week in the fast chang ing" political climate that was resulted from the illness of President Eisenhower and the Improbability that he will seek a second term. Backers of the high Hells Canyon project are now privately expressing renew- d confidence that they can eventually win the battle they uegan some xnree years ago. The significance, then, of the delay enforced upon Idaho Pow er by the court case lies not so much in what the courts may determine as what meanwhile ' might happen in Congress. What ever the courts may decide, Congress can upset Idaho Pow er's pirns and prevent construc tion Af its low dams in the mir dle Snaker River. And only ' Congress, of course, can auth ' orize construction of the high dam. driven Additional Time In a word, the one to two year delay provided by the forthcom ing litigation gives sponsors of the high dam bill that much additional time to attempt to win appval irfHhe House and Senate of their legislation. FPC legal experts say that Congress would simply have to pass the high dam bill and put up funds to start constructionin order to That. is, such action by Con gress would Jive the government power to condemn any Idaho Power property in the area and pay it for its loss, and then start building the hisjh dam. To many observers the pos sibility of this ever happening has seemed very dim in view of the current political situation an administration opposed to the governriient dam and a Congress so narrowly divided that it is questionable that suf ficient votes can be mustered to put the bill through. Also, it was generaly thought that even if passed by Congress, the bill would be vetoed by President Eisenhower, who until last week two-term president. Election May Be Tossup The new element of confidence among high dam backers stems from the expectation that next year's presidential election will be a tossup instead of a sure thing for the incumbent admin istration which has opposed high Hells Canyon dam. Many are hopeful it will result in a re turn to power of the Democrats in the White House and in both houses of Congress, with the result that the voting lineup would change favorably for pas sage of the Hells Canyon legis lation. Only next year's elections can point to the final outcome of looked like an almost certain the Hells Canyon controversy. National Advertisements Feature Crater Lake Park New York Millions of vacation-minded families will be urged to visit Oregon's Crater Lake National park in full page magazine advertisements spon sored by Sinclair Oil Corpora tion. The advertisements will ap- Shafer To Speak For Mining Group At Thursday Meet Max Shafer of the Grants Pass office of the State Department of Geology and Mineral Indust ries will report on geological 'as pects of the Lakeview uranium strike at a meeting of the North west Mining council at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. , at the Lincoln school gymnasium. e Also at the meeting, which is open to.anyone interested in min ing and its various aspects, of ficers will be elected. Election of officers was postponed from last meeting, and Frank DeSou za, president of the council, urged members to attend. AEC Film Slated Also scheduled is a showing of the Atomic Energy commis sion's film, "Operation Ivy," col or motion pictures of the South Pacific hydrogen1 device explo sion. Members have been reminded by Bruce Manley that the board of higher education will provide a geology course ' during the winter term at Southern Oregon college. Members may enroll for any course listed in the Univer sity of Oregon catalog and an instructor will be furnished. Thad W. Hatten, secretary of the (jouncil, has urged members interested in taking courses to suggest c8urse best suited to needs of members. Fees for a prevent Idaho Power from go-f three-hour course will be $24 ing further with its project. a school term. pear in national publications such as the Oct. 10 issue of Time, as well as The New Yorker, Na tional Grange Monthly, Natural History Magazine and National Geographic. Titled "The Mountain That Swallowed Itself," the advertise ment describes Oregon's scenic Crater lake as one of the eight natural wonders of the world. The lake was formed many cen turies ago when' the 7,000 foot cone of a mighty volcano collap sed, and some 17 cubic miles of mountain were swallowed into the depths. , v 1 Crater lake is described3 as one of the deepest lakes on the North American continent and the bluest one in the world. Its waters offer what many consid er the finest fishing in the en tire park system with trout 36 inches long on record. Readers are told that the park also has excellent skiing facil ities ancf an. average annual snowfall '.of fifty feet. Here, where lava once bubbled, tour ists can drive around the spec tacular crater rim or take a boat trip beneath towering 2,000 foot cliffs. Alaska Missionary Speaker for Church ' Miss Camilla Drake, a mis sionary from the Maranatha children's homestead, Fairbanks, Alaska, will speak at a mid week prayer service of the First Baptist church, North Central ave. at Fifth st., Wednesday, Oct. 5, at 7:30 p.m. m . Miss Drake is a graduate of the Bible Institute of Los Ang eles and has been ' serving in the Alaskan children's home un der the Conservative Baptist Home Mission society since 1950. The Medford church has been aiding the work in Alaska with gifts and supplies for several years. mmm Adrienne's .our big spcciol TO Ml Our great 30th birthday sale is now in progress! If you've not been in ... don't wait ... this it our biggest and best sale ever . . . with astounding buys in every department! Many one-of-a-kind item going at less than cost ... so hurry, come in and save! Includes clutches and , Af iarge tote bags. . 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(U.R) Bill Fischer dropped a hole-in-one on the 17th hole at Riverside Country Club here recently, but the other members of his four some were only moderately im pressed. After all, the three had made aces during the season themselves. Fischer's feat was the seventh hole-in-one on the course this year and the ninth of the season on Sheboygan links. Traffic Violators' v ; To Attend Movie The two judges in Medford with jurisdiction over traffic of fenses this week will be giving "free passes" to a theater as part of their sentences, it was reported yesterday. The "passes" are for the Craterian theater, where Friday a short film entitled "Devil Take Us" will start playing.. It has re ceived widespread publicity as a realistic presentation of the dangers of traffic law violation. It is a documentry about high way safety, and has earned a number of awards and honors for its dramatic presentation of the problem. - - . District Judge Rawles Moore and Municipal Judge James Main have been supplied with passes according to Theater Man ager Robert Corbin, and will impose the requirement of see ing the .film on those who are convicted of traffic offenses this week. Tuesday. October 4, 185S MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE Bock Stairs: Blaring Bugles Abandoned NOT GOING V San Diego, Calif. (U.R) An 82-year-old woman called police headquarters recently after she and her 88-year-old husband read about Civil Defense plans to evacuate the city if it is threatened by a hydrogen bomb attack. "I just called to tell you we're not going," she said and hung up. By WARREN DUFFEE United Prat Corespondent " Denver (U.R) Backstairs-1 at the temporary White House: Bugle calls which normally are played from phonograph rec ords and broadcast over a public address system at Fitzsimons Army General Hospital, where President Eisenhower is hospi talized, have been abandoned temporarily in that part of the hospital . grounds nearest the President's eighth floor fower suite. ! There -had been no complaints, but Maj. Gen. Martin E. Griffin, the Fitzsimons commanding of ficer, wasn't taking any chances. . Backstage the White House staff is giving plenty of thought to the best location for the Presi dent's month and possibly longer of restful convalescence after he leaves the hospital. His Gettysburg,' Pa., farm is an obvious likelihood. But it's not a certainty. No decision has been made. . The President hasn't needed a haircut since he entered the hos pital nine days ago. But he gets his daily shave. A hospital corpsman shaves the President with a nationally-ad vertised razor. Weary reporters keeping the long vigil in temporary- White House press headquarters at Lowry Air Force Base had an other complication ' thrown in the other day.. " They had become spur-of-the-moment music experts. When Press Secretary James C. Hagerty announced that the President was listening to sooth ing recordings of Bach, they first checked to be sure he hadn't said "bop.". ' There were even more wrin kled brows when Hagerty, no music critic himself, read off the :list of the selections "Air For G String, "Minuet from Sym phony No. 92,? "Gigue" and "Sheep May Safely Graze." ' Before the exchange was over, the harassed Hagerty observed: "You know, when I get back to Washington, the first thing I'm going to do, when this thing breaks up, is to get out and sub scribe to - a music appreciation course." . A glassed museum case on the first floor of the hospital dis plays a golf ball Mr. Eisenhower used in a four-man match on the Fitzsimons course. A card under the display says the President used it to sink a one-foot putt while he and Col. Stanton Smith were beating Brig. Gen. . Paul Robinson and Col. Walter H. Waltrip in a "close match." The golf ball lays in the same case with the cartridge belt worn by 1st Lt. William Thomas Fitz--simons, discribed as the first American officer killed in World War I and for whom the modern hospital towering overthe plains east of Denver is named. Also on display are 11 frag ments of an aerial bomb which killed the young medical offi cer. The card says they were re covered from tfcp body. NEW STREET NAMES Edinburg, Tex. (U.R) Every street in this city of 16,000 resi dents will be renamed next Feb ruary, the City Commission has decided. 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