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
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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.
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