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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Monday, March 3, 1956!
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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
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;...'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.
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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. I. iU.R) The
Army announced today the cap
I ture of Paulino Viernes, notori
j ous leader of a Huk squadron
j that killed the -wife and daughter
! of the late president Manuel L.
Quezon in an ambush seven
years ago.
The army said Viernes, cap
! tured Sunday in Talvera, would
be questioned today about the
; ambush which also resulted . in
I the death of Quezon's son-in-law
and Quezon City Mayor Ponci
: ano Bernardo.'
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