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Battle Over Colorado River Water Is 26 Years Old and Still Not Settled San Francisco U.P) The caustic backyard fight between Arizona and California over rights to Colorado river water Is 26 years old this year and it will be at least four years more before the feud is finally settled. The battle will move closer to settlement on Feb. 11 when Spe cial Master Simon H. Rifkind re convenes the historic suit and California attorneys stand be fore the court to present that state's side of the story. The present action is but a scant five years old. It was filed as an original action in the U.S. Supreme court in 1952 by Ari zona to settle Arizona's claims to 3.8 million annual acre feet of water from the Colorado. California was named as defend ant in the suit. Arizona's suit did not move to trial, however, until last June. The interim years were filled with motions to join other states in the Colorado River Basin ar guments and investigations. The net result of the legal moves was to make Utah and New Mexico parties to the suit and to allow Nevada and the U.S. government to enter the suit as intervenors. Rifkind, a former New York Federal judge, was named by the Supreme court to hear the evidence and to report his find ings to the court for final deci sion. Thus far in the suit the state of Arizona has been able to pre sent its claim to the 3.8 million acre feet of water from the river yearly. Of this amount, Arizona says two million acre feet should come from the main stream of the river and one million from Former Local Girl ' Home from Hospital Beverly Jean Daily Clark, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Daily, 830 East Ninth St., has returned to her home in Hay ward, Calif., from the Fairmont Rehabilitation Center in San Le- andro, according to word re ceived here. Her home is at 2137 Lynn St., Hayward, and she would welcome notes from her Medford friends. Mrs. Clark was stricken with polio on Sept. 2, 1954, while in Bangor, Me. She has been in sev eral rehabilitation institutions and spent several months at Fairmont. - The patient has a live-in nurse, Iron lung, rocking bed. portable respirator and wheel chair, all provided by the March of Dimes, it was stated. Her husband, S. Sgt. Eddie Clark, has reenlisted In the serv ice and is stationed at Parks Air Force Base. the Gila, a tributary. For purposes of comparison, one acre foot of water will cover an acre of land one foot deep Arizona's claim is equal to about one trillion, 330 billion gallons of water a year. California is next to present its proof. California claims a right to the amount it now takes each year from the river, 5,382. 000 acre feet or about one tril lion, 884 billion gallons a year. California's chief legal coun sel, Northcutt Ely, said he will need approximately 40 days or more, depending on how long it takes for cross examination of each witness, to present the state's case and rebut testimony of Arizona witnesses. Arizona took 39 trial days be tween June and August of last year to present its case. California Next On the basis of the schedule of trial days presented to the states of Rifkind, California 51st Year Medford 1 Price 10c United Press Full Leased Wire Tribune United Press Full Leased Wim 2nd Section MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1957 Pages 1-6 V A 11 r- , i y. , . . 'i m I? t - x k, "rsrT , rt " ,f x H MAKING BIRTHDAY CALL on Chancellor Konrad Adenauer at Bonn, West Germany's top military leaders discuss rearmament. From left: Defense Minister Franz Joseph Strauss, Lt Gen. Adolf Heusinger, Lt. Gen. Hans Speidel, Lt. Gen. Kammhuber and Adenauer. Occasion marked eighty-first birthday of Adenauer. ( International j Treatment of Mind, Body Can Permanently Sober Alcoholics HEWSON EYES VISIT London (U.R) Brian Hew son, Britain's No. 1 miler, said today he will visit the U. S. in March and that he hopes to run against Olympic champion Ron Delany and metric half-mile title-holder Tom Courtney. By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York (U.R) Alcoholics can be sobered permanently by treating both their minds and their bodies, according to a lead ing proponent of the glandular theory of why drink wrecks one man but is a take-it-or-leave-it proposition to another. Dr. John W. Tinera, in pre senting the glandular theory to the Medical Society of the state of New York, said alcoholism merely was a sympton of a dis ordered functioning of the ad renal glands which are located over the kidneys and secrete a host of body-regulating chem icals. The adrenal glands of the al coholic, he continued, fail to contribute enough of their com plex chemicals to total body chemistry. The result is con stant and drastic ups-and-downs of blood sugar levels which pro duces a distressing awareness of functional deficiencies. Alco hol ups the blood sugar levels quickly and so the alcoholic be comes dependent upon it. In body chemistry, under-active adrenals are stimulated by We Have SOLD A LOT of APPLIANCES During Our Sale . . . But Have Some GOOD DEALS LEFT! - BETTER GET YOURS NOW! 189 95 NEW FULL-SIZE RANGES $ Automatic, Light and Everything . NEW WHIRLPOOL AUTOMATIC washfr sonnoo w m Floor Model NEW DRYERS Floor Models . 200 $9950 REFRIGERATORS S145 209 FREEZER S 95 MARINE? ARVAIR M 220 WEST MAIN PHONE 2-4922 alcohol into overactivity. For a short time, they secrete too much rather than too little. Then production falls even low er than it was and their re serves are progressively de pleted. So, as time passes, more and more alcohol is needed to bring the alcoholic's body chem istry up to par. Meanwhile, this chemical dis order is producing effects on his personality. His thinking be comes disordered; he is more and more anti-social and turned inward upon himself, said Dr. Tinera. His inner tension are high and his attitudes negative. To sober up this alcoholic permanently Dr. Tinera corrects his chemical balance with injections of an ex tract of adrenal body-regulating chemicals over a period of months. That is body treatment. Mind treatment is "educating and redirecting the patient to a more fruitful outlook on life." Dr. Tinera, head of the en doctrine clinic of St. John's Riverside Hospital at Yonkers. N.Y., said he had considerable success rehabilitating alcoholics with this method. But before this body-mind treatment can work, there must be "a firm resolve on the part of the patient to stop drinking. Experience has shown that noth j ing will be accomplished if he j states he will limit his drinking ! even to one or two cocktails be- fore dinner." j The value of the glandular ap ; proach, he said, was that the j family physician could rehabili ! tate many alcoholics by ordinary ' office work. That's important because the family physician ! sees in the main "business or j pressional men who may inci ! dentally exhibit neuroses or manifestations of their glandu lar deficiencies as predisposing to or resulting from their alco holism." j As for the mind theory of the I causes of alcoholism he point ! ed out that "psychiatry has fal i len far- short in its per cent of i recoveries." But internal medi- cine hasn't done any better, j which deflates the body theory, j Therefore, alcoholism is a mind- PP&L Official Named : Freedom Drive Head i Portland Paul B. McKee, : president of Pacific Power and Light company, will serve as state chairman of the annual Crusade for Freedom campaign. I Arthur W. Page, president of j Crusade for Freedom, Inc., an 1 nounced in New York. The campaign will be held . during February, with a major- ity of activities scheduled be i tween Feb. 12 and 22, which has been designated as Freedom Week. j E. C. Sammons. president of the United States National bank, will again be state treasurer for ' the campaign. In accepting the appointment, ' McKee stressed that all funds collected in Oregon will go to wards the direct support of Ra dio Free Europe and Free Eu rope Press. The campaign has the support of President Eisen- howcr as well ?s military', busi ness, labor and church leaders. Pendleton U.R) The pro posed Mission dam near Pendle ton will not be built in the foreseeable- future, according to an attorney for the Umatilla Indians. body state and a combination of psychiatry and internal medi cine "is a requisite" in treatment. Prees Purchase Rental Car System Mr. and Mrs. James Pree, 425 South Oakdale ave., last week acquired franchises for the Avis Rental Car system and Bee Hive U-Drive cars and trucks for Jack son county and the Grants Pass area. Pree has been local agent for the Avis and Bee Hive systems for the past eight years. For the past iVz years, he has been own er of Jim Pree's Tune-Up and Repair station, West 6th and North Grape sts. Mrs. Pree owned Bert Pree's Dress shop, 526 East Main St., until Sept. 17. She is now asso ciated with Vandagrift and Leev er Real Estate agency, 328 South Central ave., and will continue in her present position there. Both Mr. and Mrs. Pree are ac tive members of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. They have resided in Medford for 10 years. Headquarters for Avis and Bee Hive rentals in Jackson county will continue to be at Pree's service station and at the Medford airport. might be able to finish its pre sentation by the end of July. That would leave eight more weeks of trial before a yejir end recess for Nevada, New Mexico and Utah and the fed eral government. The cases of the smaller states are expected to be relatively short. The presentation of the United States, however, will take longer. Despite Rifkind's published judicial wish to end the litiga tion by September, the United States is already on record as needing at least eight months to put its proof into the record. The United States has laid claim to control of 12 million annual acre feet of water from the river for all of its various water contracts, agencies and Indian reservation. On the basis of claims for In dians alone, the United States would need at least 60 trial days to present proof and testimony. This vould take the trial through 1958 at the earliest. Began in 1931 Rifkind would then need time to review the evidence and make his report to the Supreme Court. After his findings are published, the court will allow' the states and the government time to file exceptions to the findings and to hold oral arguments before the court. The best guess by the experts is that the case could not be decided until 1960 eight yearg after the filing of the suit. The same experts point out that tiiis is a conservative esti mate since a similar water suit between Wyoming and Colorado was filed in 1911 and the final motion in the case was not de cided until 1940, some 29 years later. The first action in the Arizona-California conflict was filed in 1931 and was dismissed. Later suits were filed in 1934 and 1936. , Even on the basis of conserva tive estimates and disregarding a judicial order to shorten the case, the case will be almost 30 years old before a positive de cision as to rights can be made. Only RAMBLER Has Bo?h! (D Big Car Room and Comfort! Compact Car Economy and Handling! Why pay tli penalty of unwieldy bulk to get the room you want? 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