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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."
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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
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