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
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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
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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.
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