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o o SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, March 3, 1956! info Hells anizations Enter anyon Controversy 4 A By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington The nation's major wildlife and conservation organizations last week stepped 'jmSm""''i into the Hells Car-yon fight for the first time in what may be a last ditch effort by sponsors of a high dam to gam congres sional authori zatan of that Robt. Smith piujtxi. The conservationists ar fresh from one of their 'greatest vic tories in recc9it years stopping the Eisenhower administration from winning authorization of the proposed Echo Park dam, one unit of the Upper Colorado storage project which would have flooded out parts of Dino saur National Monument. Under heavy criticism for backing Echo Park dam, Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay finally agreed that it should be dropped and the Upper Colorado reclamation bill is now expected to be enact ed into law within the next mth. The Hells Canyon squabble never appealed to the conserva tion groups previously, because they could see no threat to the interests of wildlife whether the government built a single high dam in the Snake river or Idaho Power Co. built a series of lower projects. Disastrous Effect The Citizens Committee on Natural Resources said last week that it has concluded that elim Cjnation of the high Hells Can yon project from the main con trol plan for the Columbia basin "is forcing water and power in terests to advocate high dams on the Clearwater river, where a disastrous effect on fish and wild life resources of national import ance will needlessly result." They were referring to Bruces Eddy dam, which President Ei senhower mentioned in his re cent budget message, and Penny Cliffs dam, a nearby related pro juct. Both sites have been mention ed by the Corps of Engineers as places to build storage dams which could make up for the loss of flood control storage at Hells Canyon, assuming the high dam is not built. To Protect Resources ''With the Echo Park contro versy out of the way, conserva tionists are now turning to pro tect natural resources from this new threat," declared Dr. Ira N. Gabrielson, chairman of the committee and head of the Wild life Management Institute, "Let me stress that this is not part of the public vs. private power controversy, nor is it an attempt to prevent necessary flood con trol or power development. These needs can be met without jeopardy to important public values by intelligent use of other dam sites in the Columbia basin. The kind of short-sighted plan ning that would allow the Clear water and Salmon river dams to be built can also lead to the building of Glacier View dam, which would inundate an import ant part of Glacier National Park." Other leaders in the Citizens Committee on Natural Resources are Howard Zahniser, executive secretary of the Wilderness So ciety, and Dewey Anderson of the Public Affairs Institute. Would Wipe Out Grounds "Big dams on either the Clear water or the Salmon would wipe out ( important fish spawning Century of Roads ... Oregon will celebrate a cen tury of statehood in 1959, and Washington State and British Columbia will then be fit to pitch in nd help with centen nials of their own. The Fraser River Gold Rush of '58 and '59 were the biggest things to occur in the region since the Great Emigration of 1842, outside Ore gon's becoming3 a state. The Fraser find, with the' Cariboo discoveries and the strikes in Idaho and Montana that follow ed, were sources of the first big road-building jobs in the region's history. One job was the 300-mile road up the Frer, costing a million and a quarter dollars. The sec ond was the 600 miles of road constructed by John Mullan, a U.S. Army Engineer 28 years old at the start, from Wallula Qnd Walla Walla to Fort Benton or from the head of navigation on the Columbia to the same on the Missouri. The Fraser road was 18 feet wide, the Mullan road 25 in theory. Each job would have been impossible to carry through without availability of logs and lumber. But each remained a simple trail-road, even for those days. The common ambition of q the region's young men of brawn and vigor was to bring in rail roads and steam cars. MightyMarket . . . By 18&0 railroad building had become an outlet for ties, heavy construction timbers, fine car stock. In the 1850 Census it was shown that the United States then had about 9,000 miles of railroads which bore up the traffic of steam locomotives and - freight and passenger trains, mainly in eastern areas of the United States. This mileage "was to grown to 326 miles in 1860. Illinois had 2,790 miles. Missouri 817. and Iawo 655. The graders and track layers were driving hard for the prairies and the Great Plains even before 1850. And in 1853 the actual survey of a northern transcontinental railroad route to Puget Sound got under way. The America- railroad story looked back to 1813. Then Oliver Ames, designer of steam flour mills and of steam dredge named Orukter Amphibole, began to proclaim the coming of steam railroads. He stood well nigh alone in his time. But the Iron Horse began to snort and roll by 1331. And in the 1840s railroad fever possessed the na tion. BG1851 the Erie Railroad was under construction. Stewart Holbrook has told the entire story in his "American Rail road," of the linking of the Hud son and the Great Lakes. The Giant Grows . . . Towns and hamlets drowsed beside old wilderness trails that had become turnpikes. Then the surveyors eam through. Next the sanss of wild fightins Irish stormed almg. diicine and drill-j.-); for Dunkirk on Lske Erie at f'."-!. ihst fc Chicago and ct. Louis. The towns heaved o - T"pTr rvc'v? to .... .. ,.r j .;.-5is vjth the ;...'l-CJd:, to t"2 chances of tim- grounds, inundate many thous-: ands of acres of forest land, and in addition destroy critical win ter range for some of the coun try's finest elk and deer herds," argued Dr. Gabrielson. "It makes little sense to reduce drastical ly the amount of water storage at Hells Canyon, where no im portant wildlife or scenic values are at stake, if this means the destruction of scenic and wild life resources that the nation could otherwise save for the en joyment of present and future generations." Legislation to authorize con struction of a high Hells Canyon dam by the Bureau of Reclama tion is on dead center in both House and Senate interior com mittees. Democrats who are sponsoring it don't currently have enough votes to approve it, and Republicans who are op posing it dpn't have sufficient votes to kill it outright. Most observers believe if Con gress fails to enact a Hells Can yon bill this session, Idaho Pow er will have won its fight against the government project and will have little or no interference from there on out to building its low dams in the Snake river. High dam backers hope the con servationists will help turn the tide. Harriman Attacks President Dulles On Cold War Gains New York (U.R) New York Gov. Averell Harriman attacked President Eisenhower and Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles last night for allowing the Russians to make "dangerous political and diplomatic gains" in the cold war. Harriman, inactive candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination, in a full dress for eign policy speech, lashed out at the Republican administration in general and Dulles in parti cular. Indecision To Blame He said "indecision and inac tion" of the administration was partly to blame for the Middle Eastern crisis. He charged Dulles with giving misinformation and a "dangerous misinterpretation" of Soviet strategy to a Senate committee. . Harriman, who has not for mally entered the presidential nominating race but calls him self an "inactive" contender, addressed the Nationalities Divi sion of the Democratic National Committee at a dinner at the Hotel Plaza. No Creative Leadership The governor said the admini stration was incapable of crea tive leadership and charged its policies and actions "unwittingly helped the Soviet campaign" by giving them a "psychological Italian Reds Demand New lough' Policy Rome, Italy U.R) Dele gates claiming to represent 500, G00 of Italy's card-carrying Communists publicly denounced party leaders Saturday and de manded a return to a "tough" policy to win control of the government. Six hundred rank- and- file Communists gathered here from all over Italy and 39 of their leaders issued a manifesto blast ing the Moscow-directed "soft" line of party boss Palmiro Tog liatti. It scorned party leaders for saying Communism could gain control of the government through elections. "Only a return to a Marxist Leninist line can save the Ital ian proletariat from new fail ure," they said. break through" in the cold war after the Big Four summit con ference. He said Dulles has "tarnish ed the good name of the United States" with an "unquenchable passion for slogans, generally war-like." The former 'U.S. ambassador to Moscow and global trouble shooter during the Truman ad ministration charged that Presi dent Eisenhower helped the Rus sians picture themselves as peaceful by his strategy at Ge neva last summer. Dead line for Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday A Nkhol's Worth of . . . Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Press Feature Writer Barman Nichols Washington (U.R) Even man's best friend, the dog, is not immune from surveys. This particular study was made by the division of research and press analysis of Paul F. K-'J" y-""'VS Ellis and Dana P. Kelly As sociates. One conclusion was that thousands of dogs in the country prob ably get a bet ter diet with vitamin supple m e n t s than many thou sands of human beings. "For the most part," Paul Ellis added, "man is a good friend of the dog, but he could be a better one." It was explained that a great many dog owners kill their, dogs beggars all with kindness. That is they feed the pups too much. Others underfeed- them. The survey was made among dog owners, breeders, " trainers, and dog doctors the veteri narians. Most of the people in the sur vey had poodles, both big and little. Other pouplar breeds in cluded boxers, German shep herds, and cocker spaniels. Forty per cent of the owners admitted that part of the diet for their pets included table scraps. These included some of the dogs with pretty fancy hides and long pedigrees. The. word vitamin crept into the report in every other para graph. The canines enjoy a wide variety of foods including such items as milk, eggs, vege tables, cereals, cheese, soup and fruit. One Chihuahua thrives on a daily "lunch" of cold cuts, cot tage cheese, lettuce and green pepper. The pampered show dogs, it was said, get more meat and dry food and less canned food than pooches which can afford no blue ribbons. How often should you lead your pup to the food trough? Well over half of the hundreds who answered a questionnaire feed their grown dogs only once a day. Some feed them twice a day and admitted to sneaking a goody under the table every now an then. The latter practice is discouraged by the dog doctors. For puppies the answers ranged from "keep food before them constantly" to twice a day. But 75 per cent said they start puppy feedings after weaning at no less than four times a day. . The report from the doctors said that dogs come down with some of the miseries which hit humans. Such as -vitamin deficiencies, old-age troubles, anemia, skin conditions, poor appetite, malnu trition, arthritis and neuritlf and over-feeding or improper diet. And significantly, 97 out of 100 vets said they didn't recom mend a different diet for a pure bred dog than for a mutt of un identified parents. And what about cats? I don't know, but before I get into trouble with a couple of cat owners I know, I'm going to look into the matter. Buy At Builders Supply oil QOALITX BLOCKS Bricks. Flues Drain Tile V27 W. McAndrews Phone 2-4107 Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport ber sales for construction, and to hopes of. a new fast way to rich markets for their products. The tumult . and the shouting swelled. So it roared on to the Far West. In 1853 James Brooks had the New Albany & Salem Railroad operating in Indiana but so badly that Horace Greeley had to ride a handcar all of one moonlit night to keep a lecture date. In 1848 William Butler Ogden took a ten-mile ride with his steam cars out on the Illinois land from Lake Michigan and brought back wheat a trip that started the change of Chi cago from a farmers' trading place to the big junction of American 'railroading. Every! new mile made a new market for lumber. And finally payloads of lumber brought the railroads to Oregon State and Washington Territory. Dogs Join Search For Klamath Youth Klamath Falls (U.R) Blood hounds joined the search today for 10-year-old Alvin Decker, missing in freezing, snow-covered country here since last Thursday. The bloodhounds and their owner, Russell Cone, flew here last night from Los Gatos, Calif., .aboard a Coast Guard plane. They came here after Klamath County sheriff's officers, forest rangers and the Klamath Air Rescue Unit were unable to find any trace of the Decker boy. Alvin last was seen Thursday morning when he left for school. He was wearing only jeans and a light, fur-collared jacket. Since then, temperatures have been below the freezing mark and a six-inch layer of snow covers the ground. Sheriff Murray Britton said the boy may have been planning to run away from home. An ear lier report had placed him at a highway junction a short dis tance east of here. However, offi cers were unable last night to es tablish his path past that point. Alvin's parents, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Decker, feared he might have fallen into a reclama tion canal which passes near Klamath Falls. Huk Squadron Leader Captured in Philippines ! Manila, P. 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