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Friday, April 6. 1958' MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NIX Morse Sees Flood Threat in Snake, Columbia Basins Washington (U.PJ Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) said today above-average snow packs in tributaries of the Snake river are a flood threat to the Snake and nn nn M Ml 0RR0W THE-'CL M IF ItS 6! DOH'T Columbia basins. He blamed what he called "partnership-do nothing"' policies for delaying or blocking con struction of storage dams in the Snake river basin. Morse said April 1 reports ihow that the snowpack in the Snake tributaries is from 20 per cent to 58 per cent above normal. The same tributaries had packs from below-normal to 17 per cent above normal in the winter preceding the 1943 Columbia river flood, he said. Foes Minimize Need "Some opponents of a federal j Hells Canyon dam have mini- j mized the need for flood control ; storage which the high dam would provide by claiming that the snow packs did not con tribute a great deal to the 1948 j flood," he said. "That was due to the accidents of weather. . "We are now faced with the " threat of a flood in which the snow pack in the tributaries above the Hells Cahyon site might be a major cause of flood." Morse's statements were made in a letter to Chairman James E, Murray (D-Mont.) of the Senate Interior Committee. The com mittee is holding hearings on problems in the Upper Columbia basin. Poriland Traction May Come To Vote Portland (U.PJ City Com missioner William Bowes says he will recommend a November vote to put the city of Portland in the traction business if a satis factory franchise agreement can not be worked out with a private firm. o Bowes told the city council yesterday he had always been gainst municipal ownership but that it appeared the only way out If no solution is reached with Rose City Transit Company. The firm has asked a two-year operating permit which would allow it to raise fares or cut serv ices whenever its quarterly net profit from operations fell below five per cent. Bowes called the guaranteed profit proposition ridiculous and unworthy of con sideration,". ,, . , UO Medical School Announces Gilts Portland (U.R) The Uni versity of Oregon Medical school announced today that it has re ceived $127,723. in gifts the past month, most of it for specific re search Droblems. Largest grant was from the United States Public Health Service which gave $49,621 to be used for leukemia researcn linrirr Dr. Edwin E. Ossood. Other gifts were from the Na tional Institute' of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, Oregon Heart Association, and the Na tional Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness. There was also a grant from the Air Force for research on tolerance of cold and fatigue. Missing Flier Lands Safely in Colorado Grand Junction, Colo. (U.R! Fran DeCastro, 38, Littleton Colo., landed his light airplane safely at the Grand Junction air field early today, ending reports he was missing on a flight from Las Vegas, Nev., to Denver. The Civil Aeronautics Com jnunications office said DeCastro reported he was merely delayed in flight. The plane was first reported missing when Dick Nolan, Greeley, Colo., telephoned Salt Lake City CAA officials and said DeCastro's plane had not arrived at Denver as scheduled. The two had left Las Vegas at the same time in separate planes. US Plane Crashes in Japan; No Survivors Tokyo !U.R) Three Air Force para-medics reached the wreck age of a C-119 transport plane on a southern Japan mountain today and reported there were no survivors from the crash. Far East Air Force Head quarters ftere did not say wheth er the bodies of the four crew men and one passenger who were in the plane when it crash ed Tuesday were found. CLOSED SAT.f APRIL 7 For Annual Invenfory Walt Young's MEDFORD STATIONERY STORE 210 East Main OF OUR BRIGHT Tax b!J3 s PEN TONIGHT and SATUHPAY UNTIL 9:00 O'CLOCK H EK ' ' ' 'X C ' ' ' MERCURY ' - RECORDING 4 ' & BOX SPRIGS m n n sfoYngs I... nSSH n 11 II M I I II I r-i I IN OUR CTORE! mSmm r .. . -r e: u U UU W )W 1 ! iWSSCsJl! ill't IIHHiiHfi' ssS 'SJ&ili SESarDAifEiiPORT & emiAiK suites Im OVER W:WX SETS TO (e VNM : CHOOSE f ROM - FULL 1 y) FOAM RUBRER U0f UJJ , FAST FREE DELIVERY O NEW PHONE 3-4573 MEDFORD FURNITURE mmm m run or i win Jim j j i v v IMS" H Eft ST ATUKOAY km YOU DON'T HAVE TO BUY OR BE HERE TO WIN- COME 111! REGISTER! YOU MAY BE A .S fiT 9 davehp i nn ccra Prizes Gnclude Lamps .Tables Radios, Mattresses - FEliEE! WINNER! Sixth fislarllett 220 No. Bartiet in & BflRTLETT
