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o SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, March 13, 1956 One C Under ivman Cons fluclear P truction; 14 ower riant Is ore Planned (Editor's not: The Atomic Energy Commission said recently that 13 civilian nuclear power plants are "under construction, in process of design or proposed"' for completion between 1957 and 196;:. Fllowing is a report on their current status.) q By JOSEPH L. MYLER Jniled Press Correspondent Washington (U.Rj One civil ian atomic power plant is actu ally under construction. Fourteen others have been proposed. As of now, however, the Atomic Energy commission has awarded no contracts and granted no licenses or building permits for any of them. The plant under construction is at Shippingport, Pa. It is ex pected to be completed some (jime next year. It is strictly ex perimental. Although it will generate 60, 003 kilowatts or more of electri cal power, it will do so at an economically prohibtive cost Plans for Klamath Insulating Board Plant Announced Portland (U.R) Plans for construction in the near future of a multi-million dollar insul ating board plant near Klamath Falls have been confirmed by A. R. Fisher, New York, presi dent of the Johns-Manville Corp., it was reported here Monday. Cost of the new plant was es tin(ited at 12 million dollars. Fisher said operations were ex pected to start in the summer of 19570 About 250 persons will be employed with an annual pay roll oftbout one million dollars. Future Expansion - The announcement said a pro vision in construction plans for future expansion would mean the plant ultimately would em ploy 400 persons. It will be located about 20 miles north of Klamath Falls on Highway 97 and the Williamson river. The operation represents one of the first major commer cial uses developed for lodge pole or jackpine and will re quire about 50,000 cords of this type of timber each year. Wood will be obtained from the Rogue river, Deschutes- and Fremont national forests and from pri vate lands. q The new insulating board plant will cover an operating floor space of about 275,000 square feet. Fisher stressed that manufacture of insulating board is not a chemical process and therefore the water pollution problem is minimized. Building Board Among produtcs to Be manu factured will be natural finish building board, decorative ceil ing panels and wall plank, in sulating board sheathing, ac coustical panels and roof insula tionPincluding a new roof .insul ation and inside finish in one operation. The Klamath countv Dlant is part of a 34 million dollar ex pansion program the firm is un dertaking on the Pacific Coast. Johns-Manville currently has 32 plants and three mines in the U.S. and Canada. Disagree on How Soon Sleam Power Needed qiympia (U.R) The State Power commission disagreed Monday with an estimate by Gov. Arthur B. Langlie on how soon steam power generating facilities will be needed to sup plement' Washington's source of electrical energy. In an interview, Langlie esti mated that a steam plant would not be necessary in the state for 7 to 12 years. The governor emphasized that his estimate was based on an assumption that "low-cost hydro-electric power will be developed first and it should be." J. Frank Ward, managing di rector of the Power commission, disagreed when asked to com ment. 'T don't know where he got his information," Ward said. '"He didn't get it from rue." Ward agreed that hydroelec tric power is the most desirable source, out he said its develop ment is so slow that steam plants would be required within five to six years at the latest. Grange Central Point Grange Ben Tucker, county agent, will be the guest speaker at Central Point Grange when it convenes at 8 p.m. Friday, March 16. The county agent will speak on "Public Relations," to the subordinate Grange, then will talk to the Juvenile Grange on "Farming." Serving committee for the evening will be, Mr. and Mrs. Clem Ault, Mr. ' and Mrs. Wal ter Sutherland, and Clinton Charleyo 52 mills per kilowatt-hour at the start. The total cost of this plant, counting research and develop ment, will be about S35 million. It is being built for the AEC by the Westinghouse Electric Corp. and Duquesne Light Co. Du quesne is paying about S15,000, 000 of the cost, the AEC the rest. Industry Pays Half The Shippingport plant was included by the AEC recently in a list of 15 civilian atomic power plants "under construction, in process of design or proposed . . . for completion during the pe riod between 1957 and 1962." It said total costs of the 15 plants will be over $50'o,000,000 with industry paying about half. "As presently proposed" the plants will generate a total of nearly 1,000,000 kilowatts of elc trical power. The 14 plants not yet started include: Four costing nearly $150,000, 000 which industry would build at its own expense under AEC license. Three large plants which would b,e built under the AEC's "power demonstration program" at a total cost of 5165,000,000. Of this, the government would pay S55.000.000. The AEC has ac cepted these proposals as a basis for negotiating government-aid contracts. Seven smaller plants proposed by non-federal public groups for construction under the demon stration program with govern ment help. Costs and cost-sharing have not been firmly estimated. Status of Proposals Here is the status of the four privately-financed proposals: General Electric Co. - Pacific Gas & Electric Co., 5.100-10,000 kilowatts, Livermore-Pleasanton area, Alameda county, Calif. li cense applied for, not yet grant ed, not expected soon. Consolidated Edison Co., 140, 000 kilowatts, Indian Point, N. Y. license applied for, not yet granted, but may get building permit soon. Such permits can be granted in anticipation of license. Commonwealth , Edison Co., 180,000 kilowatts, Dresen, 111. license applied for, not yet grant ed. May get building permit soon. , Pennsylvania Power-Light Co., 150,000 kilowatts, eastern Penn- Honest Parly Replaces Sheared Off Birch Tree Salem (U.R) Two months ago someone drove a car over the front lawn of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Kelley here shearing off a small tree. Monday morning, the Kelley's looked out the front window to find a new white birch tree planted in place of the old one during the night. Mrs. Kelley said the roots of the old tree had been removed and the new one planted in a "professional" manner. The grateful Mrs. Kelley said she guessed "there still were some honest people in the world." sylvania. This company, accord ing to AEC, has merely "indicat ed its intention." It has not ap plied for license. The three large power demon stration proposals: Yankee Atomic Electric Co., 134.000 kilowatts, Rowe, Mass. no license application yet; no as sistance contract negotiated. Johnson Asks Stand On Amendment Washington (U.R) Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson suggested today that the administration take a stand on the new version of the Brick er Amendment before the Sen ate tackles the controversial proposal. There is no point, Johnson told the United Press, of calling the amendment up for debate and "tieing the Senate in a knot" if the proposal does not have ad ministration backing. The amend ment, a point of controversy for some years, would limit the ef fectiveness of treaties as domes tic law. It was believed Senate Repub lican Leader William F. Know land (Calif.) would bring the matter up today at a meeting of GOP congresional leaders with President Eisenhower. Knowland has said he would support the revised amendment and hoped the administration would too. The revised version of the amendment was approved last week by the Senate Judiciary Committee. It is now up to the Senate Democratic Policy Com mittee to decide whether to call it before the full Senate for de bate. The new version was drafted by Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R 111.) but it has the full support of Sen. John W. Bricker (R-O.), author of previous versions of the amendment. The proposed amendment, as now drafted, would state: "A pro vision of a treaty or other inter national agreement which con flicts with any provision of this Constitution shall not be of any force or effect." Consumers Public Power Dis trict of Nebraska, 75,000 kilo watts no license application yet, no assistance contract nego tiated. The seven smaller plants (Elk River, Minn.; Gainesville, Fla.; Piqua. O.; Hersey, Mich.; Orlan do, Fla.; Holyoke, Mass., and Anchorage, Alaska) the AEC so far has accepted none 'of these proposals as a basis for contract negotiations. They are .under study. New Enzyme Diagnosis Fatal Children's Disease Washington (U.R) Govern ment scientists have finally solved thevriddle of a mysterious disease which often blinds and kills children who cannot toler ate milk. They announced they have dis covered a new enzyme in the blood of normal persons and that the absence of this enzyme causes this condition known as galactosemia or galactose diabe tes. Piles Like Poison Infants born with this basic defect in their chemical machin ery are unable to utilize or even tolerate galactose, one of the sugars in milk. 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