EIGHT MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Monday, Juna 18. 1958
Hells Canyon Dam Issue Pomises To Be One
Of Most Interesting Sideshows in Congress
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribu Correspodent
Washington The Hells Can
yon dam drama is fast approach
ing a dramatic political climax,
with every
thing but cow
boys and In
dians in sight to
make this one
of the more in
teresting side
shows of the
final weeks of
this Congress.
l trz. 1- . ine way i
a. Bobi. smiui turns out will
undoubtedly have sharp po
litical repercussions in Washing
ton, Oregon and Idaho, if not
in the West as a whole this criti
cal election year.
Pacific Northwest Democrats
in both Houses and Senate are
mobilizing their strength their
party has to push through to a
decisive vote the legislation that
would authorize federal con
struction of a high dam in Hells
Canyon of the Snake River.
Their main source of strength
lies in the whiphand of the
Democratic leaders. Sen. Lyn
don Johnson and Speaker Sam
Raybum, who have agreed to
make the bill a party issue
against the GOP.
Morse, Maemuson Anxious
Those most anxious to put the
bill across are Sen. Wayne
Morse, who will be running for
reelection against Douglas Mc
Kay, the ex-secretary of Inter
ior who officially opposed the
high dam; and Sen. Warren G
Magnuson, who will be running
for reelection in Washington
state against Gov. Arthur B
Langlie, another critic of Hells
Canyon dam.
Mobilizing the opposition to
the bill is the Eisenhower ad
ministration, which would pre
fer to have Idaho Power Co. go
through with its plans for build
ing smaller dams in that stretch
of the Snake. The administra
tion is applying all the pressure
it can to Republicans and doubt
ful Democrats to get them to
top the Hells Canyon drive.
Although the GOP lacks party
votes to control either chamber,
it is relying on some southern
Democrats to join the opposition
on this bill. The other big ad
vantage the administration has
is control of the White House.
where a veto by the president
could kill the bill without doubt.
whether the simple majority
vote is there to pass the bill
through both houses is in doubt,
but there is no question that a
two-thirds vote needed to over
ride a veto is not in sight.
President on Spot
But the White House hopes
not to have to become the final
focal point on this major re
source development issue. One
western Republican senator who
is a member of the Senate In
terior Committee, where the bill
is pending, disclosed that he was
told by an administration of
ficial: "You've got to stop the Hells
Canyon bill in Congress to pre
vent the president from being
put on the spot."
This senator said he replied
with noticeable indignation:
"Why should we have to take
him off the spot? Isn't he the
leader of our party?"
There is no question but what
western members of Congress
are on the spot on Hells Canyon,
not because of it as a specific
project which they might like
or dislike in itself. But because
for years it has been the rule
for westerners as a bloc to stick
together in common support of
federal projects for water de
velopment. Unless they did this,
they found eastern lawmakers
could more easily kill them off
in their antipathy for what many
regarded as western boon-
Four Bodies Removed
From Air Crash Site
Kelso, Wash. U.R) A ground
party arrived back here early
yesterday with the bodies of
four persons, the victims of a
light plane crash more than a
month ago.,
Cowlitz county sheriff's offi
cers identified the bodies as
those of four Californians who
had been missing since their
plane disappeared May 11 on a
flight from Renton, Wash., to
Eugene, Ore.
Aboard the craft were A. D.
Posten, 35, pilot of the plane.
his wife Dorothy, 35, both of
Redondo Beach, Calif., and Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Leep, both
about 35, of La Mirada, Calif.
Officers said that the plane
wreckage was discovered about
6:30 p.m. Saturday evening by
"Allen Burgin and William
Stokes, two losgers who had
gone to the remote area in
search of salvagable timber.
The crash scene was described
as being in "very rough and
rugged country, about 15 miles
southwest of here.
Rape-Killer of
Young Girl Sought
Vernal, Utah U.R) Police
sought today the rape-killer of a
teen-aged drug store clerk whose
body was found Sunday in the
Ashley canal, three miles south
of Vernal.
Norma Rodcbeck, 17, was last
seen June 13 when she left the
drugstore for home. Her beaten
and sexually-mutilated body was
found in the canal by her em
ployer, Blaine Anderson, and
Ray Cundick.
Sheriff L. M. Snyder said a
coroner's examination revealed
the girl's body had been slashed
in several places. There were
bruises all over the body and
black and blue marks about the
throat.
The girl was definitely the
victim of a sexual attack, Sny
der said. He added that her
clothes had been violently torn
from her body
doggies.
Two Ht Vital Staka
Two Colorado lawmakers.
Sen. Eugene D. Millikin and
Rep. J. Edgar Chenoweth, are
key Republicans who at the mo
ment have a vital stake in
whether or not the western bloc
is to stick together or fly apart
along partisan lines. Because of
fears for the fate of a reclama
tion project in their state, they
have indicated they will vote
for the Hells Canyon bill. Be
cause they each sit on the com
mittees handling the bill, their
votes may make the difference
between sending it to the floor
of House and Senate or killing
it off.
A good many Democratic
backers of the Hells Canyon bill
feel they have been double-crossed
by inter-mountain state Re
publicans whom they helped
earlier this year to get the $760
000,000 federal Upper Colorado
storage-power project enacted
into law They thought they
could count on these same Re
publicans to help them with
Hells Canyon when it came up
later with half as big a price tag.
Sen. Arthur V. Watkins (R-
Utah), leader of the Upper Colo
rado bill fight, claims he made
no deals with anyone to support
Hells Canyon in return for sup
port of his bill. Hells Canyon
advocates' don't claim he made
a deal, but they thought he
would abide bv the old rule of
the West in Congress.
Power Question
Private utilities are fighting
the Hells Canyon bill with all
their might, having made quite
an issue in recent years of the
private vs. public power ques
tion involved in development of
the Snake River. If the Hells
Canyon bill were enacted, it
would jeopardize ,, the Idaho
Power scheme, just as comple
tion of Idaho Power's three dams
would prevent the high dam
from ever being built.
The Upper Colorado bill went
through by wide margins, but
it had the administration's
vigorous support. Its adoption
was an administration victory.
The final votes on Hells Canyon
are expected to be close, but
adoption of this bill would be a
major upset for the administra
tion although the president
can always have the last word.
Either way it turns out, it
will provide campaign fodder
the partisan battlers in many a
western political contest this
fall, especially in the senate
races of the Pacific Northwest.
Around Hollywood
By ALINE MOSBY
United Press Correspondent
Aline Mosby
Hollywood U.R Judy
Holiday eased herself clumsily
down on her movie set today
in m-vr i 1 and confessed
VST ' . WZZffV . :
the u 1 1 imate
mate in non
glamour: A
waistline pad
ded to 38 inch
es for an en
tire picture.
Usually a n
expectant mo
ther is coyly
portrayed in the movies by a
woman in a smock or heavy coat
standing behind a table. But for
probably the first time in Hol
lywood films, an actress now
will play every scene in a full
length movie, "Full of Life," as
a very pregnant woman.
"I'm wearing pads because
this picture is all about my stom
ach," said Judy in that slightly
sing-song voice that has made
her the queen of light comedy.
"I'm enjoying it tremendously."
Always Annoyed
"I've always been annoyed by
these movies in which pregnant
women look just darling and so
comfortable. This Is a very real
story. Why movies never showed
pregnant women before, I don't
know."
To make Judy look 38 inch
es around the middle the ward
robe department outfitted her
with a white gauze undergar
ment suitably padded.
She has two outfits one for
Quotes From the News
By UNITED PRESS
Superior, Wis. U.R) Former Ambassador to India Chester
Bowles, on the Republican claim the U.S. has an effective foreign
policy:
"It is a fraud designed to lull the American people into a false
complacency at a time when they can least afford such a luxury."
Philadelphia Dr. Burril Crohn, first man to diagnose ileitis,
the disease for which President Eisenhower underwent surgery, on
whether another attack can be expected:
"You should not be expecting any recurrences."
Ruston, La. Murder suspect Jerry Mathews, to the slain man
and a would-be victim before the shooting:
"You didn't think I meant it when I said I was going to kill
both of you.".
Washington Sen. Esles Kefauver, on why his criticism of
Adlai Stevenson, during the Florida primaries, became bitter:
"I got mad and lost my head after Millard Caldwell said a lot
of nasty things about me and Stevenson didn't do anything about
it." :.
New York David J. McDonald, president of the United Steel
workers, on why joint contract talks between the union and the
Big Three steel companies have been recessed;
"We have called in negotiating teams to meet with 11 major
companies because we have got nowhere in our talks with the Big
inree.
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Lebanon AreaScanned
For Missing Airplane
Lebanon U.PJ Planes took
to the air again today in the te
dious job of searching heavily
forested mountains for a private
plane missing since Thursday
with its two passengers.
Planes and ground parties
spent a fruitless day yesterday,
running down possible leads and
searching the densely wooded
area.
The search today centered on
the west slope of the Cascade
range of mountains near the
South Santiam highway east of
here.
Missing aboard the craft are
Dr. Ralph Johnston, about 35, a
Lebanon dentist, and Hardwick
1 Hanson, 32, a Seventh-Day Ad
ventist evangelist of Salem.
The pair has been missing
since they took off from here
Thursday, en route to Minne
apolis. Minn., where their wives
. were visiting relatives.
NO LAP DOG
Johannesburg. South Africa
(U.R) Farmer Edwin Jacobs said
today he had had no trouble
with marauders or burglars
since he installed a lion as a
"watchdog" 19 months ago. The
4P0-pound lion roars throughout
the night, scaring off prowlers.
It was brought from a Pretoria
zoo as a six-week-old cub.
Notice
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we will no longer be in position to take orders
for green-cut slabwood.
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the eight-month period and the
other to wear in the scenes be-
fore she goes to the hospital to
have the baby.
Most actresses would pale at
the thought of hiding their fig
ures in such a role. But Judy
yawns she has no worries about
disguising her trim figure on
the screen.
Chance to Relax
"I can relax and I don't have
to hold my tutnmy in," she said.
"I don t have to wear all those
cinches and girdles. And I don't
have to diet! These maternity
clothes cover everything."
Judy has a real-life exper
ience to draw from as she has
a child of three. She and her
husband reportedly are separ
ated but she refuses to discuss
her marital situation. She also
remembers the actual pregnant
appearance of Lucille Ball on
televisions "I Love Lucy" for
the months before Miss Ball had
her real-life baby. That show,
she thinks, may have broken
the ice for the acceptability of
"Full of Life."
The movie also marks Judy's
swansong to Hollywood for two
years. She's returning to New
York to begin rehearsals in Sep
tember for her first appearance
on Broadway' in seven years
and her first musical, "The
Bells Are Ringing."
Hawaii came under jurisdic
tion of the United States offi
cially in 1898. (
Oregon Publishers j
Elect Oregonian
Chief as President
Bend (U.R) Members of Ore
gon Newspaper Publisher Asso
ciation elected M. J. Frey, pub
lisher of The Oregonian, as their
new president Saturday at the
group's convention here.
C. L. McKinley of The Times,
Junction City, was elected vice
president and Philip N. Bladine,
News Register, McMinnville,
treasurer. Carl C. Webb was re
tained as secretary-treasurer. Al
ton F. Baker of the Eugene
Register Guard was named as
the ONPA representative-at-large
for the board of trustees for the
Eric Allen Memorial Fund.
Directors Elected .
The six directors are Albert
Hawkins, Valley News, Beaver
ton, district 1: Ed Coman, the
Independent, Woodburn, district
2; Art Lowe, The Gazette-Times,
Corvallis, district 3; John E.
Voorheis, Grants Pass Courier,
district 4; Mary. E. Brown, the
Spokesman, Redmond, district 5;
and Don Lynch, Argus Observer,
Ontario, district 6.
- A feature of the convention's
banquet Friday night was the
presentation of the Amos Voor
heis plaque, an award given for
outstanding achievement in jour
nalism. The plaque was awarded
to Phil F. Brogan, and presented
Jon Peerce Receives
Ovation in Russia
. Moscow (U.R) A Russian
audience gave Metropolitan
Opera star Jan Peerce a 10-min-ute
ovation when he completed
singing the lead role of Alfred in
Verdi's "Traviata," here Sunday
night.
It was the first time' an Amer
ican singer has performed with
a Russian cast on a Moscow
stage since the Russian revolu
tion. The Brooklyn-born Peerce
took six curtain calls to shouts
of "Peerce, bravo, bravo!"
by, Robert W. Sawyer, former
editor and publisher of the Bend
Bulletin.
The 1957 convention of tha
ONPA will be June 14 and 15
at Gearhart.
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