FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
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ciavs reclamation suggestion uoens
ew Element in John Dav Controversy
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington Secretary of
Interior Douglas McKay has in
troduced a new element into the
John Day dam "partnership"
controversy by his suggestion
that future reclamation in the
Pacific Northwest might be par
tially financed by the project's
power revenues.
The John Day project dram
atized this fall by the Neuber-ger-Coon
debates has hereto
fore been regarded as a power,
navigation and flood control
dam. Irrigation was not part of
the picture, either under Rep
Sam Coon's proposal for "part
nership" construction of the
dam or Sen. Richard L. Neu
berger's preference for federal
construction as authorized by
Congress in 1950.
Answers Own Question
McKay raised the issue of re
clamation in a speech last week
to the annual convention of the
National Reclamation Associa
tion at Lincoln. Neb. Tracing
the historical development of
reclamation in the West through
use of power from government-
built dams to offset part of the
cost of irrigation facilities, Mo
Kay posed the question: "How
then does this fit in with the
partnership (power) policy?"
To answer his own question
the secretary went on to tell the
delegates of the Coon bill for
John Day dam under which
three power companies Pacific
Power and Light, Portland Gen
eral Electric and Washington
Water Power have offered to
put up 88 per cent of the Proj
ect's cost in return for its power
output for 50 years.
"The entire structure, power
J facilities and all, would remain
in the title of the federal govern
ment. It would be operated in
accordance with the over-all
river control plan," explained
McKay.
Congress Could Decide Future
"At the end of 50 years, the
government would be released
from all obligations to the utility
and own the complete structure.
Then the Congress could make
a decision as to the future op
erating plan for the facility. How
ever the plant is operated and
the power marketed- the rev
enue from the sale of power
would be available for further
resources development if Con
gress saw fit to so provide," said
McKay.
"The public would own the
structure and all of its revenue
producing capabilities at the end
of 50 years under either pro
posal," he added. "If Congress
desired to earmark power rev
enue for resources development
by means of specific legislation
or through a basin account, it
would be entirely possible. We
could then proceed with long
range irrigation development of
additional acreage in the Colum
bia River basin. Congress would-
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be secure in the knowledge that
revenue from this structure, as
well as from the other dams fi
nanced by the federal govern
ment, would be available for
such purposes."
Throughout his speech, McKay
stressed that the administration
plans to continue reclamation
development. He cited as a major
example the Upper Colorado
project, a federal undertaking
entirely which is now pending
in Congress and which would
authorize the government to
spend about a billion dollars in
BLAME RUSSIA FOR ISRAELI WAR Trucks shown
here, somewhere in the Negev. Israel, are part of the
materiel captured by Israeli forces in an attack on Egyp
tian forces m the El Auja border zone. United States offi
cials blamed Russia for the latest Egyptian-Israeli fighting
and any Middle Eastern war it may spawn. Pulling no
punches, the officials said Russia's decision to push Red
arms sales in the Middle East is the cause of the biggest
outbreak of fighting in the area in more than six years.
As We Live
Mother Shouldn't Push
Girl Into Courtship
Some people cling with dead
ly tenacity and nothing seems
adequate to shake them off.
(Q) "I am a senior in high
school. At one of our dances, I
met a fellow who has graduated
from college
and is now in
business. H e
seemed to like
me and has be
come a regu
lar pest, al
w a y s calling
me up f o r
dates to do
this, that, or
4F
Dr. HKrlock the other thing
with him. He is nice enough- but
1 am not really interested in him.
I have a lot to do at school with
my work, sports, dramatics, and
other school activities. I am plan
ning to go on to college so I
must do good work at school.
"My mother thinks I should
go out more with this fellow. He
has been buttering her up so she
are
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Tuesday, Norembr 8. 1955
power dams and irrigation
works. He added, however, that
"we must keep federal expendi'
ture and participation at a rea
sonable minimum."
Plan Doesn't Fit
But in answer to his question
of how does reclamation "fit in
with the partnership policy?"
the secretary used the John Day
plan to show that for all practi
cal purposes it does not fit. As
a "partnership" undertaking,
John Day could contribute to
reclamation, McKay suggested
only after the 50-year partner-
By ELIZABETH HURLOCK, PH.D.
ininxs tie is such a nice young
man' with 'so much more to of
fer' than my school friends. I
realize she is right, but I am not
just interested in him and I dis
like pests who bother me all
the time. How can I get rid of
him without being positively
rude?" J. C.
(A) If you turn down this
young man's invitations often
enough, he should eventually
take the hint and let you alone.
You might stress your preoccu
pation with school and the many
activities you want to participate
in.
Your mother, like many
others, views this young man as
"eligible" and so encourages you
to accept his invitations. Try to
point out to her that going to
college means a lot to you, and
you must do good work at school
to be accepted by the college of
your choice. Explain to her that
you want to have fun while you
are still a schoolgirl. This should
make her realize that frying to
No weary, withered "cukes" at Safeway ! Ours
perky and flavorful, crisp-meated as a new apple.
Chosen in the field by Safeway buyers, these
cucumbers are cooled during smpmem
flowing over ice. aiees
and satisfying for salads
at Safeway
ship agreement had terminated
and the federal government had
then obtained the unimpaired
right to use the power as Con
gress determines.
The convention's only action
bearing on the "partnership"
policy was passage of a water
policy statement, which Oregon's
delegate, Marshall Dana of Port
land helped prepare. It said: "If
private capital is to participate
in the development of the power
features of multi-purposes proj
ects ... in area or basin-wide
developments where reclamation
is involved, then provision
should be made for an allocation
of revenue from income from
power to supply the differential
between the total component
allocated to irrigation and the
ability of the water users to
pay."
"Without this provision that
power revenue in an amount
sufficient to make the project
feasible be so allocated, the proj
ect could be rendered infeasi
ble." the convention statement
declared. "Under these proposals
great benefit might come to
reclamation from the proposals
. . . which are aimed to imple
ment the partnership concept of
development."
Seen Initial Bid
The reclamationists did not
stipulate whether or not they
would be willing to wait 50 years
to get power revenue for new
irrigation projects, in accord
ance with Secretary McKay's
suggestion.
Some Washington observers
believe that McKay's suggestion
is most of all an initial bid by
the Bureau of Reclamation to
generate public opinion in favor
of a policy that would earmark
for reclamation the power rev
enues that "partnership" and
federal dams earn after the 50-
year payout period has elapsed.
No policy now exists, for Con
gress has yet to determine what
should be done with power reve
nues from government dams aft
er the U.S. Treasury has been
fully reimbursed with interest
for the construction costs that
have been charged to power.
Nina Warren, Mate
Start Housekeeping
Beverly Hills, Calif. U.R)
Nina (Honeybear) Warren,
youngest daughter of Chief Jus
tice Earl Warren, and her hus
band, Dr. Stuart Brien- started
housekeeping here yesterday aft
er their elopment and one-week
honeymoon in Las Vegas.
Mrs. Brien, 22, clutched a toy
stuffed bear which she said was
given her 'by the Riviera Hotel
where she was married Tuesday.
Brien, 33, practices here.
push you into a courtship is pre
mature.
(COPYRIGHT 1955.
GENERAL FEATURES CORP.)
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SHARES AWARD Ameri
can scientist Willis Lamb
(above) of Stanford Universi
ty, CaL, shared the 1955
Nobel Prize for nuclear re
search with another Ameri
can scientist, Polykarp Kusch
of Columbia University.
Jockey Quarters
Shaken by Explosion
Tampa, Fla. OJ.R) A single
dynamite charge last midnight
exploded in the jockey quarters
at Sunshine park race track that
suffered some S80,000 in damag
es by a bombing last June.
No arrests were made in the
earlier bombing last June 2,
when two charges of dynamite
went off in the race track club
house, and authorities never
found a reason for the explo
sions. The charge last night, some
150 feet from the clubhouse of
the track located at Oidsmar, 20
miles west of here, did little
damage, officials said.
TOBIN CRITICALLY ILL
Indianapolis (U.P.) Daniel
J. Tobin, 80, president emeritus
of the AFL Teamsters Union and
former Democratic party power,
was reported critically ill today
at St. Vincent's hospital here.
Toothpick Added To
Articles Menacing
ealth of People
By DELOS SMITH
United Press Science Editor
: New York (U.R) Among oth
er things menacing people today
are toothpicks. Bartenders stick
them into onions and olives. Wo
men put them into canapes and
meatballs. From those places,
they get into alimentary canals
where they raise a great deal of
hob.
The Medical Society of the
state of New York has, in effect,
tipped off the professional that
when confronted by what is
known as "the acute abdomen"
and the routine efforts to find
out what is the trouble have fail
ed, then the doctor may suspect
it is a toothpick.
Man in Pain
The society did so by circu
lating an account by Dr. Elmer
G. St. John of Binghamton, N.Y.
of his experiences with a tooth
pick which had run aground
while navigating the alimentary
canal of a 48-year-old man who
had been admitted to the hos
pital with a very acute abdo
men." He had been in much pain for
30 hours. X-rays showed nothing.
There was some localized ten
derness but nothing to indicate
anything definite. Various things
were suspected, but there was
nothing to do since the man's
condition was alarming except
to open him up and explore
Only then was a toothpick found
puncturing the intestinal wall.
After "a fairly stormy convales
cence" the man was out of the
hospital in two weeks,
Consistent Trouble
Dr. St. John was so exercised
by his experience that he went
through the files of many med
ical journals and discovered that
he wasn't, by any means, the
first doctor to find a toothpick
in a patient, or was his patient
the first one to have his life
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menaced by a toothpick.
He was struck by the fact
that of all the "foreign bodies"
which human beings manage to
swallow, the toothpick seemed
the only one which consistently
gave trouble. The reason is its
length and its sharp ends it is
too long to get around curves
and corners readily and its sharp
ends catch easily on the shores,
which they puncture or "per
forate." '
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Hollywood U.R Actress
Jill Jarman said yesterday she
will not seek a battery complaint
against film star Susan Hayward
in connection with their fight in
the bedroom of actor Donald
Barry.
, Miss Jarman said she would
tell Deputy City Attorney Ste
phen R. Powers of Van Nuys
that she wants "to drop the
whole thing." A hearing had
been scheduled for Nov. 16 in
the altercation.
More cattle are now finished ,
on grain feed, and the average
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risen fom 474 pounds in 1920-40
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