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o o o o o o o o Corps of Engineers Taking Second Look At Proposed Nez Perce Dam r AUL F. EVANS United Prew Correspondent Boise ? Irho Reclmation Engineer Mark Kulp said Sat urday the Army Corps of En gineers is taking s-cond lock at the proposed .N Perce dam iit on the l&iker Snake river to see how it measures up to a tuo-dam tit". loprnent proposed by a group of private power companir-. The corps announced last wett it h.a '.r!id a study of 'teveIopmt.it sits on the lower Srv.lt e and and Salmon rivers. Ir e '.u4y, according to Col. Myron F.ge, chief of the engi neers; Walla Walla district, was pari of A review of the corps' SO-rtuCd 308 report" dealing wtlh conip. eransiva develop ment of the Columbia Basin, ln Oud.ng xt SnaXs river drain age Tls reprj-t, which has become an ott.rl cjirssional docu ment, 0 rvvisrd from time to tiOte as rev am possibilities a r ifivctifa'rd by the engi neers. It as the original report in incidentally, that first gave riae to the possibility of the controversial federal dam in the Hells Canyon reach of the mighty Snake and which pre cipitated one of the hottest northwest political blowups of the decade. Fith Loss Feared The original .Nez Perce site, located immediately below the confluence of the Salmon and Snake rivers, also was mention ed in tiie original 308 report. As flood control dam would have been proposed, the combination power-flood control dam would have been 1.410 feet long and 813 feet high to develop a max imum power capacity of 1,650, 000 kilowatts. But major complaints were voiced by sportsmen that the dam would block spawning salmon from running up the Salmon river and the proposal subsequently was dropped, o It v.as in 1955 that the Pa cific Northwest Power company a group of five private firms scattered from Montana through ed for permission to investigate possible private development of Mountain Sheep and Pleasant Valley on the Snake river. Both sites are above Nez Perce and both would be flooded should that site be developed. None of Cue three possible structures would flood the Hells Canyon site, although the Snake river would be backed up to 1 the face of any dam built there. 690 Foot Dam Proposed Kulp said the proposed Nez Perce dam would back, water 64 miles up the Snake river and about 63 miles up the Salmon. Neither Mountain Sheep or Pleasant Valley the most up stream of the two proposals would flood the Salmon because they would be constructed above it mouth. As proposed by the power icombine, either a 690 or 495 foot dam could be built at Pleas ant Valley with a 250-foot struc ture at Mountain Sheep. Total power output, according to rec ords kept by the bureau of reclamation, could be 1,500.000 kilowatts with the high Pleas ant Valley structure or 880.000, kilowatts if the lower structure were built. ! Kulp points out that the engi neer study will be far more reaching than a mere review of the Nez Perce sit alone. He said several possibilities along the Salmon river are being con sidered, including developments at the Crevice site above Rig gins, Freedom site below Rig gins and a third unnamed site just below Whitebird creek. The possibility of ramming a seven or eight-mile tunnel from the Salmon river to the Snake near Lucile, with sufficient head to develop power, also has been mentioned, Kulp added. Wildlife Service to Take Survey of Tuna Along Pacific Coats Honolulu IP Sea-going de fectives hope to find the clues next month that will solve a multi-million dollar riddle for i the north-eastern Pacific Coast jcommerical tuna fishermen. I The riddle: Why the delect able albacore. upon which the Jcommerical fishing industry de- jpends for prosperity, are so fickle and elusive. j Thirteen years ago the choice tuna catch was a 34 million pound harvest, worth 6 million dollars, in the northeastern Pa cific along the California, Ore gon and Washington coast. To day that same area appears to be as barren as the Great Salt Lake. Have the fish gone south where the fishing still is good? High Dam Backers Seek Quick Action Washington (IP) Demo cratic supporters of a federal high dam at Hells Canyon pre pared Friday to press for quick House action on the measure. Republicans, meanwhile, launch ed a campaign to defeat the bill. The House irrigation and rec lamation subcommittee an nounced it will resume hearings on the measure this week. It also must be considered by the full interior committee before being sent to the House. Democrats favoring the bill were bolstered in their efforts for quick action by the Senate's passage of the measure last week. New Death Date To Be Set for George Sack Portland W A new death date will be set Monday for George F. Sack, who was con victed of the murder of his wife, Goldie. The U.S. Supreme Court rec ently denied Sack a hearing. Sack's attorney indicated clemency from the governor would be sought. Or are the fish still in the north but hiding? That is the question the U.S. government-sponsored" operation "Nepas" hopes to solve in a $30, 000 scientific albacore hunt be ginning July 22. The project is known officially as the North i eastern Pacific Albacore Survey under the supervision of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Nepas will employ a fleet of 11 commerical and government boats to literally sweep the Pa cific along 750 miles of coast waters from Northern California to Northern Washington. Project coordinator, James W. McGary of the Wildlife Service, told United Press, "we hope to accomplish several things with our Nepas project which will help commerical fishermen make bigger catches in what we call this albacore fringe area. "We expect to gather enough scientific data to define the con ditions associated with the pres ence or absences of albacore in this area." McGary added that 'we also want to test the hypo thesis that a band of fish ex tends from the rich Southern California fishery to as far north a Gary's Harbor." Large Area Nine commerical fishing ves sels will work s imultaneously from Morro Bay, Calif., to Gray's Harbor, Wash., trolling "tracks" of ocean 350 miles sea ward. The boats will swing south 40 miles and finally head back towards the coast. Their progress, difficulties and other pertinent data will be radioed each day to McGary on the Wildlife Serv ice vessel Hugh M. Smith. Manwhile, another wildlife vessel, the John R. Manning, will be zig zagging through the track area constantly testing the water for various things such as whether there is enough sea life present to support sizeable schools of albacore. Each boat will use six troll lines with lures and travel at five to seven knots from dawn to dusk, covering a maximum of 75 miles each day. Boyer Discusses Power Situation At Two Meetings Robert A. Boyer, Medford at torney and state Democratic chairman, Saturday discussed the power situation in Oregon and Gov. Robert Holmes' Ore gon Development progam with party leaders in the Columbia river area. He planned to attend a meet ing at 1 p.m. in Hood River and a second meeting in The Dalles. "For the last several years our state's economy has suf fered from the policy of the pri vate utility-Republican coalition to keep low-cost power out of Oregon," Boyer said. "We will continue to face power shortages for at least 4-6 more years as a result of the short-sightedness of j past Republican state govern-1 ments and the current national j administration." Low-Cost Power ! Boyer continued, "The entire economy of Oregon depends on low-cost power. Instead of rec-' ognizing this fact and giving their support to a program ; which would bring new indus- j tries, jobs and tremendous econ-1 omic development, the Republi cans of the Northwest have opposed, again and again, the interests of their own people for the sake of private power monopoly." , He declared that Republican opposition accomplished the de feat this year in the Oregon sen- ate of a bill setting up a non partisan state power commis- j sion. "This commission would not compete with existing pri- i vate utilities," he said "But was designed to insure our state of its share of electrical energy." Sunday, June 30, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TBrBUWS-FTTl P- v - VJs -m Jh -- m ytvf savings work for you at our Insured cSffVlnS Slid L02n You ens relax-too, and mata gore of getting the CjCf JO waotior J iu 88 your familj, b aing regularly with us. 13 llli'ffll ibe-fn Kmerirnna Xnow. win work bard aod gmw qulcily 5b8V4 Sic ui Loaa Way- Wbaf a mora they grow aafely, as thej Cr iostfrtd up to f 19.0O0 by th Federal Sain aod Loan Iosurtoce (Ccxp'r'ji. Si WWf1er 7000 MW ureouots 0 e'oa ar opened (Stlsrnd Soing ud Loan Aoe union all er ton counter-3a--e too pot vm mime to wmk for yoo this mnotb! Add to sot prweoiw epuotor c?ei a newon witb u. O SWINGS AND LOAN nWNEWTMM O o Where you save floes mate a difference Saving n it wi ion of tHt month earn dmdenps a of the first CURRENT DIVIDEND. 3' PER ANNUM T FED ERAL 4m ef tsMatt VW !8- F. tyh, Prsit Vision Screening Project Under Way C. D. (Swede) Larsen, head of the traffic safety division of the Medford Safety council, reports good response to the driver vision screening project of the council. Employees of the Medford branch of the U.S. National bank were screened Wednesday afternoon, with about 40 taking advantage of the opportunity to have a reappraisal of their vision. Drivers of Yellow Cab and other employees took part in the program on Thursday. The clinic will be conducted at Pierce Freight Lines Monday. Larsen emphasized that the screening is conducted as an edu cational project by the Medford Safety council to focus attention on the need for regular reap praisals of drivers vision. "It is every driver's responsi bility to be certain his visual and physical abilities are equal to the job of driving on today's highways," Larsen said. "Just as important is his mature atti tude toward driving." Larsen said firms wishing to participate in the vision-screening project may contact him at Pierce Freight Lines. Most Orchards Will Need Two Sprays There is a large quanity of pear psylla around the valley and most orchards will need two sprays to carry them through harvest, according to C. B. Cordy, county horticulture agent. If psylla are present and there is some honeydew, spray now and follow with the third cover, which should be completed three weeks before harvest, he ad vised. If there are no psylla, the third cover should be applied when timely and growers should tch closely for pyslla. Spray as soon as any psylla appear or at hormone spray time. Six pounds of malathion, three pounds of paratheon or three pounds of EPN per acre are suf ficent for control, Cordy said. Lack of thorough application Is the waak point in psylla control and growers should be sure to drive the sprayer slowly. Three ounces of liquid spreader per 100 gallons is desirable. Reserve Officers To Go On Non-Pay Vancouver Barracks, Tfash., Io a move to gain tha maximum oumber of six-month enlisted trainees within budgetary and apace ceilings available t the Array Kfferve, the department of Army has announced the transfer of 22,000 reserve offi cers to a non-py drill status be ginning July 1. The action, ft-hicb emphasiz es the troop unit program by cretinf new speces for the training of enlisted men, is aim ed at increased trdbp unit mobil ization readiness, according tot Captain Donald L. Clark, public information officer for the Array . military district of Orefon. i Funds previously budgeted for I drill pay for 9.000 officer mobili zation designees and 13,000 of ficer students in USAR schools ' will be transferred to permit re-1 cruiting of additional enlistees in the reserve troop unit pro- j gram particularly in the six-1 month training program. 1 ' ' - , - -'- .....'- J -m , Vi Price Jewelry Sate Necklaces, Brace tot and Earrings. Your chotcw. fcr only Half the Regular Price of 15c to $1.00 m t Terrific! Fabulous! Garden and Lawn TOOL SALE Made of High Quality Tempered Steel and is made for Newberry's by a nationally known manufacturer. Take advantage of these low prices. 14 Tooth Level Head Rakes Reg. Floral Rakes .....Reg. Broom Rakes Reg. Broom Rakes Reg. Floral Hoes Reg. Shank Garden Hoes Reg. Speedy Cultivator Reg. Weeding Hoes Reg. Scuffle Hoes Reg. 14-tooth Bow Rake Reg. Socket Garden Hoe Reg. Spading Fork Reg. Flora! Shovels Reg. 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