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TEK MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Thursday, March 1. 1958
Salem (U.P.i A possible new
legal barrier faced dam projects
on the Snake river and Oregon's
Deschutes river today.
Robert Y. Thornton, Oregon's
Democratic attorney general,
issued an opinion holding that
two private utility companies
would be violating Oregon crim
inal law in proceeding to con
struct dams at Hells Canyon on
the Snake and at the Pelton site
on the Deschutes without a li
cense from the State Hydroelec
tric Commission.
Idaho Power" Company has a
federal OK for construction in
Hells Canyon as has Portland
General Electric Company on
the Deschutes.
Some officials saw the possi
bility of a long drawn-out legal
battle which could go to the
U. S. Supreme Court.
Penalties Listed.
Thornton's opinion was in a
letter to State Rep. Robert J.
StpwarH TCpatino nemnrrat. The
attorney general also sent let-
Mamie Joins Ike
Following Message
Washington (U.P.) With
outstretched hand, . President
Eisenhower last night placed
"my 4amie" just where she
will be in the campaign months
ahead by his side.
The public only got a glimpss
of the first lady during the
President's television talk. It
came when, at Mr. Eisenhow
er's bidding she momentarily
stood by his gide before the
cameras at the Conclusion of
the telecast. But earlier, Mrs.
Eisenhower was giving the
President moral support while
sitting just out of camera range
during his speech.
Her eyes never left his face.
And when he finShed and beck
oned her to join him, she grasp
ed his hand with a tremulous'
smile that gave away hej- feel
ings. Yesterday, in response to a
flood of inquiries for her reac
tion to the President's decision,
Mrs. Eisenhower relayed to re
porters' that she would be at the
President's side when he ad
dressecfe the nation, just as she
always has been. The President
saw to it that she was.
ters to Robert F. Vaughan, Bak
er county district attorney, and
to Warren H. Albright, Jeffer
son county district attorney, ask
ing them to investigate reports
that the two companies were
actually engaged in building the
dams.
Penalties for proceeding with
construction without a license,
Thornton said, were S1000 fine
or six months imprisonment, or
both.
Thornton's letter to Steward
said, in part: "Idaho Power, by
seeking application for a pre
liminary permit from the hydro
electric commission of Oregon,
has submitted itself to the state's
jurisdiction. The company has
asked the hydroelectric commis
sion to approve this application
and issue a license with the ac
companying right to appropriate
a certain quantity of water from
the Snake river. In approving
this application the Oregon Hy
droelectric Commission must
follow Oregon, law and be gov
erned by the mandatory limita
tions imposed therein, regardless
of the rights and privileges
granted under the federal pow
er act, until otherwise determ
ined by the Supreme Court of
Oregon."
Thornton said that to his
knowledge the commission had
not waived any of the statutory
requirements for a preliminary
permit and added, "I advise you
that the applicant, the Idaho
Power Company, is in violation
of the provisions of the Oregon
law and subject to criminal pen
alties. Thornton told Albright, the
Jefferson county district attor
ney: "It appears that the Port
land General Electric Company
is proceeding to construct the
Pelton dam without obtaining a
license from the hydroelectric
commission of Oregon. This ap
pears tore a plain violation of
the Oregon law."
Thornton said he has been
studying the legal problems of
the two companies since the
U. S. Supreme Court upheld a
federal license for Pelton dam.
Thomas E. Roach, president of
Idaho Power, said his firm had
been advised "by competent
legal counsel" that the company
"has done nothing that in any
way c o n f 1 i c t s with, any ap
plicable or overriding provisions
of Oregon law."
"Idaho Power is proceeding
with, the construction of its
Brownlee project under author
ity of a federal license issued by
the Federal Power Commission
. he said.
Baker county officials, where
jurisdiction of the Idaho Power
case would lie in Oregon, fore
cast that the company would
demur to any charge and take
the care "all the way to the
Foreign Policy To
Move Off 'Center'
Washington U.R) President
Eisenhower's decision to seek a
second term will move foreign
policy operations off "dead cen
ter" at a crucially important
time, officials said today.
They also said the President's
decision promised stability and
continuity' in American foreign
policy during the coming months
even though it is sure, to be. a
campaign issue.
Officials frankly acknowl
edged that election year attacks
and doubt as to whether the
President would run frequently
have caused indecision in foreign
policy recently in the face ofi
new Communist challenges.
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles had no comment on the
President's decision. But Djilles'
big smile betrayed his true feel
ings. Informants said foreign affairs
played a big role in Mr. Eisen
hower's decision to run.
They said the President
wanted to continue pushing vari
ous foreign policy programs
through Congress, the United
Nations and other international
agencies.
Also, they said, the President
was "particularly dijrbed" by
Democratic charges that Ameri
can foreign policy under his ad
ministration has been 'misguided
and mishandled. " l
United States Supreme Court if
necessary."
PGE Board Chairman Thomas
W. Delzell declined to comment
until company attorneys have
time to study, the ruling.
Japan's First Jet
Squadron Formed
Tsuiki, Japan (U.R) Japan's
first F86 Sabre jet combat squad
ron was formed today to the
screaming accompaniment of its
first eight jet fighters.
. Watching proudly as the Sabre
jets swept past with the blood
red rising run. insignia on their
fuselages was Maj. Gen. Minoru
Genda, a Japanese ljsro of World
War II who was aboard the car
rier Akagi for the attack on
Pearl Harbor. '
Genda is now commander of
the fighter-interceptor training
wing which came into being Dec.
1. He hopes to train pilots for
1300 planes by 1960.
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FOLLOWING FLIGHT OF BALL, President Eisenhower
has just taken practice swing before playing on Glen Arvin
Country Club course at Thomasville, Ga. (International)
More Salk Vaccine
Allotted to Oregon
Portland OJ.R) Another 3645
cc's of Salk vaccine have been
allotted to Oregon, Dr. Harold
M. Erickson, state health officer,
said today. Dr. Erickson said the
additional will go into regular
commercial channels.
The release, the second in five
days anonunced for Oregon, ;will
come with the Wyeth Company.
It will be available to druggists
and physicians as soon as or
dered by pharmaceutical distributors.
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