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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1956)
r High Dam Sponsors Said To Have Way To Get Bill From Committee By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Sponsors of the high Hells Canyon dam bill re portedly have found a way to ipring this legislation out of the House and Senate committees JSTVi where it has t been lying idle for months. Blocked by a solid Republi can lineup of votes against the bill plus opposition from a few Southern De mocrats, the Democratic spon sor! of Hells Canyon have ob tained nothing more to date A. RobL Smith than favorable reports from the House and Senate subcommit tees on reclamation. One vote could decide the is sue if it is brought to a head in either committee, and because that voting margin has not been apparent up to now the Demo crats have not called for com mittee votes on the bill. Now the project's sponsors think they have found the Achil les heel of the GOP forces who have stood behind :;the Eisen hower administration in oppos ing the high dam in the Snake river where Idaho Power Co. has been licensed to build three smaller projects. This appears to be the situat ion: Colorado members of Congress are pushing to gain approval of the Frying Pan reclamation pro ject on the Arkansas river of southeastern Colorado. Inasmuch as this measure failed to gain en ough votes to be brought up for debate in the House in the Re publican 83rd Congress, it is still considered touch and go. In Chenoweth District The project lies .in the con gressional district of Rep. J. Ed gar Chenoweth (R-Cal.), who is a member of the House Interior Committee in which both the Frying Pan and the Hells Can yon bills are now lodged. Chenoweth has opposed Hells Canyon in the past. Backers of that bill are now making it clear to him that the chances of his getting committee approval of his Frying Pan bill depend on whether he may be willing to look the other way when Hells Canyon comes up for a vote. . Since the committee is control led by the Democrats, they can call the tune for all practical purposes on when the votes should be taken if at all on the two bills. By the same token, something of the same maneuver may be in the works in the Senate In terior Committee, ;which includes Sen. Eugene D. Millikin (R-Colo.) among its members. Millikin has indicated he would vote against the! Hells Canyon-bill if it came to a vote. Success Problematical The prospect of this back scratching manuever being suc cessful in coming weeks is prob elmatical, in the view of Hells Canyon sponsors. It might spring the bill onto the House or Senate floor but beyond that the outlook for favorable action on this controversial bill is general ly regarded as poor. Even if passed by both houses, it would doubtless run into a presidential veto from President Eisenhower. And there would probably not . be enough votes to muster a two-thirds margin needed to override a veto. But Democrats think this would at least give them a clear cut showing that the Democratic Congress' was willing, if notable, tb''substtute the high: dam for Jhe three private utility pro jects. Going into a national election that is to be pitched in major re spects on the different philoso phies of development of natural resources, this would divide the Republicans from the Democrats on the long-standing dispute over Hells Canyon. But it wouldn't be likely to change the picture in the mid dle Snake River, where Idaho Power is pushing forward with Sunday, April 29. 1956 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Japanese Ambassador To Visit in Portland Portland' ttJ.R) First Port land visit of the new Japanese ambassador to the United States has been scheduled for May 8 and 9 and a series of special events has been arranged by the Japan Society of Oregon and the Japanese Ancestoral Society to honor Masayuki Tani. The new ambassador is a for mer minister of foreign affairs in the Japanese government. While in Oregon he will visit Gresham, Multnomah Falls. Bonneville dam and Hood Rivr. A national speed paving record was set with the laying of 393 feet of asphalt in a 24-foot wide pavement in 24 minutes, 35 seconds. construction that is unlikely now to be stopped. Hitchcock Asks More Aggressive Campaign Eugene U.R) Phil Hitch cock today called on Oregon Re publicans to adopt a more ag gressive campaing program. The candiated for the Republican senatorial nomination said such a program was essential to a GOP victory. The 51-year-old former state senator told Lane county Re publican women here at noon that "we need candidates who will remain loyal to Republican party principles and who can at tract voters away from the opposition." Dr. Rutter Gives Report at Meeting . "The Care of the Asthmatic," was title of a paper given by Dr. P. H. Rutter at a meeting of Southern Oregon Osteopathic as sociation held at the Rutter home in Phoenix, April 26. Dr. J. S. Heatherington, presi dent, appointed Dr. A. A. Griffin chairman of a public relations committee. Next regular meet ing will be May 24. Dead line for Sunday Clarified ii at noon Saturday TV SERIES for. Everyone This Week: "How to Improve Your Character" KBES-TV Channel 5 Sunday, 1:45 P.M. IG DAYS! tV2on.,Tue.,Wed A sen PLAY Tlil 2 E ''GflEDFORD M AND OVER IN And Merchandise CERTIFICATES! DFORD FURH TUBE and III rl J n THIS BIG 11.6 Cu. 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