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Federal Hells Canyon Dam Project Dead;
Mourners Merely Delaying Its Funeral
Washington tfl The Federal
Hells Canyon dam project is
dead. The mourners are merely
delaying its funeral.
Its death is a victory for the
administration in the Public vs.
Private Power battle, with the
administration the private
side.
The victory has been assured
from the time two Southern
Democrats lined up with the
solid front of Republicans in the
House Interior committee
against a Senate-approved gov
ernment "high dam" project.
Maneuvering by Democrats
has prevented a final negative
committee vote. But even if the
committee and the House itself
should pass the bill, it would
face a certain presidential veto
which its boosters lack the votes
to override.
Supporters ofo the Federal
Hells Canyon project were not
ready to admit complete defeat
They were sure to propose an
other government hydroelectric
and conservation project else'
where in the Northwest.
Drtam Dissolving
But their dream of a gigantic
federal power plant in the
Snake river gorge near the Ore
gon-Idaho border was dissolv
ing.
In its place will be the three
Idaho Power Co. dams, spon'
sored by the Eisenhower admin
istration, licensed by the Feder
al Power commission. They are
the Oxbow, Brownlee and Low
Hells Canyon units on the Mid
dle Snake sites which would
have been flooded out if the
high dam had been built. Two
of the private dams already are
being constructed.
The end of the Hells Canyon
battle came shortly after pro
ponents of the high dam had
achieved their greatest victory.
On June 23 the Hells Canyon
bill passed the Senate, causing
public power advocates led by
Sen. Wayne Morse (D.-Ore.) to
predict equal success in the
House.
But opponents of the federal
dam, uniting in one of the most
concentrated efforts to kill legis
lation ever seen in Washington,
lined up the votes needed to nail
the lid on the Hells Canyon
coffin.
Although Idaho Power ac
quired the original Oxbow site
in 1916, the Hells Canyon story
actually began 11 years ago. A
big government dam on the
Snake river was first proposed
in a 1946 report by the director
of the Reclamation bureau.
Apply for Permit
In June, 1947, within a month
after the Corps of Engineers an
nounced hearings on plans for
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developing of the Middle Snake,
Idaho Power applied to the FPC
for permission to start a new
project at Oxbow.
The company subsequently
sought approval for private de
velopment of the Brownlee and
Little Hells Canyon sites.
The Truman administration's
Interior department, headed by
Oscar L. Chapman, opposed
granting the private licenses.
But Chapman's successor, Doug
las McKay, an Eisenhower ap
pointee, withdrew the depart
ment's objections on May 5
1953.
The FPC granted the licenses
to Idaho Power on Aug. 4, 1955.
The Democrats seized on the
Hells Canyon case as a political
issue. The controversy played a
part of unknown dimensions
in the sweeping political changes
in Idaho, Oregon and Washing
ton in the November, 1956, elec
tions.
McKay Resigns
McKay resigned his post and
although armed with White
House backing, failed to win
Morse's Senate seat.
Frank Church, a public power
advocate, won a surprise victory
over Sen. Herman Welker (R.
Ida.) a long-time opponent of the
federal Hells Canyon dam.
Refreshed by these and other
political victories, the Demo
crats launched new efforts on
behalf of the federal high dam
when the 85th Congress opened
last January.
They were given another
boost in May when the Senate
Anti-Trust and Monopoly sub
committee, headed by Sen. Estes
Kefauver (D.-Tenn.) started an
investigation into rapid tax
amortization certificates issued
Idaho Power for construction of
the low dams.
The special privilege, award
ed on grounds that the power
projects were importants to U.S.
defense industry, would have
permitted Idaho Power to write
off, as a deduction from its tax
able income, part of its invest
ment over a five-year period.
Fast Write-Off '
Democrats on the subcommit
tee charged that the company
would save up to $85,000,000 by
its use of the fast write-off as
compared with the normal 50
yeai tax amortization plan.
Oi the eve of the Senate vote,
Idaho Power returned the tax
certificates to the Office of De
fense Mobilization in order to
"clear the air" so the Hells Can
yon issue could be "settled on
its merits."
The move failed to sway Son
ate Democrats, who voted June
23 for a federal high dam, in
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Tueiday. July 23, 1937
stead of the private develop
ment. The story was different in the
House Interior committee where
two Democrats joined the Re
publican minority to block the
'Missing Witness1 in Sheppard
Murder Case Telephones Florida
Deland, Fla. If Dr. Sam
uel R. Gerber, Cuyahoga Coun
ty. Ohio, coroner, declared to
day that Donald Joseph Wedler
did not tell lha truth when he
confessed to tha 1S54 murder
of Marily Shappard.
Deland, Fla. (lf A sheriff's
deputy said today that a widely
sought "missing witness" in the
Sheppard murder case tele
phoned to Florida early today
from Waterloo, Iowa.
The call came as Cleveland
authorities began grilling bushy
haired Donald Joseph Wedler,
23, here about his "confession"
in the 1954 murder of Marilyn
Sheppard.
Three Ohio officials who
helped prosecute the victim's
husband entered Wedler's jail
cell. They were Coroner Samuel
R. Gerber, Detective Dave Yettra
and James McArthur, retired
homicide chief.
Gerber, who has been doubt
ful of Wedler's "confession,"
was asked about a report he al
ready has made up his mind in
the case.
"If 1 had already made up my
mind, I wouldn't be down here,"
he snapped.
Sheriff Rodney Thursby said
the call came during the night.
He said it was taken by a Day
tona Beach deputy and the caller
identified himself as merchant
seaman trnest James Kololol-
ias, Long Beach, Calif.
Nervous Motorist
Kolofolias told investigators
in Cleveland three years ago
that he was picked up by a man
there who acted nervous and
bore stains that might have been
olood. It was about the time the
wife of Dr. Samuel Sheppard,
Cleveland osteopath, was slain.
Sheppard is serving a life sen
tence for the crime.
In Columbus, Ohio, mean
while, mystery writer Erie Stan
ley Gardner, active in the Shep
pard case in an unofficial capac
ity, said he has a "very import
ant new clue" in the case. He
refused to give details.
Gardner and his associates
have been in Deland where they
said after a test on Wedler that
he was telling the truth appar
ently when he said he probably
killed Marilyn Sheppard during
a robbery attempt.
Thursby said he did not per
sonally take the call from Water
loo and that he was now await
ing further word from the
caller. By mid-morning nothing
Plum Varieties
Showing Promise
Buffalo, N. Y. W Fruit
breeders at the New York State
Agricultural Experiment Station
here have developed several su
perior varieties of plums that
show promise for the fruit-growing
industry.
The varieties, being planted
by growers in New York state,
include Stanley, Albion, Hall and
American Mira belle. Stanley,
which is replacing Italian Prune,
is the most widely grown so far.
Italian Prune figures in the
parentage of two other selections.
unnamed to date, that show
promise and are available on a
restricted basis for trial by in
terested growers from the New
York State Fruit Testing Asso
ciation here.
One is a large, reddish-blue
freestone plum that ripens early
and may be of value for road
side stands or for local fresh
fruit markets. The second is a
late season prune that has good
quality, is self-fruitful and may
have value in prolonging the sea
son for prune-type plums.
Other varieties also are under
test in the Station orchards that
may prove of value to New York
State growers in the future.
They include an early prune-type
plum from Oregon and a very
productive late selection from
the Vineland Station in Ontario,
Canada.
Grants Pass Man Found
Innocent of Manslaughter
Grants Pass OP A Circuit
Court jury late Monday found
William Lewis Chapin, 82, inno
cent of a manslaughter charge
in connection with the fatal
shooting June 12 of Wyatt R.
Swisher, 32, at a motel here.
The jury deliberated an hour
and 45 minutes. Chapin had
pleaded self-defense.
BIRD OF PARADOX
Paterson, N.J. (If Even Sol
omon would have had a tough
time solving this one. A news
paper report of a stray parakeet
flying into a local hospital
brought 30 letters and phone
calls from persons each claiming
the bird as his own.
bill.
The federal dam's supporters
will have to wait for two more
years until the 86th Congress
to reintroduce the same legislation.
further had been heard, how
ever.
Test Called Off
Gardner's so-called Court of
Last Resort had planned to give
Dr. Sam a lie detector test in
Ohio Penitentiary, but Gov. C.
William O'Neill, who had au
thorized it, ordered it postponed
until he is convinced that Wed
ler's story is true.
Gardner insisted when he ar
rived in Ohio Monday night that
the investigation would go one.
But after talking the matter
over with his associates he said
"we may and we may not in
vestigate." Kolofolias was supposed to
have been hitchhiking in Cleve
'Curious' American
Says Chinese Smiles
Changed To Hostility
Seattle (If) A curious
American who sneaked into Red
China three months ago says
Communist smiles changed to
hostility when they found out
he was a businessman and Ko
rean war veteran.
Donald K. Blackwood, 24, his
Korean wife, Junv Sukrhee, 23,
and their son Robert, 10 months,
landed here Monday night
aboard a Northwest Orient air
liner from the Far East.
Curious About Nation
Blackwood said he took his
family with him when he crossed
Car Runs Info Truck
Killing Portland Man
Portland 'IP A car crashed
into a gasoline truck on High
way 30 near Rooster Rock state
park Monday night, killing one
Portland man and critically in
juring another.
Killed was Harry Edward Bix
ler, 64. Taken to a Portland hos
pital with pultiple injuries was
Roscoe J. Loveland Jr., 24, Port
land. The truck driver, George
H. Rowe II, 42, Portland, was
not injured.
Police said the truck was not
loaded with gasoline but that
it caught fire from the impact.
The volunteer fire department
at Corbett put out the blaze.
It was the 18th traffic death of
the year in Multnomah county
outside of Portland.
Dental Personnel
Attend YA Courses
Chicago KB More than 100
career dental personnel from all
over the nation have taken post
graduate courses at the Veterans
Administration Dental Training
Center during its three years.
The training prograrn pro
vides instruction in special prob
lems encountered by VA field
stations and a review of the
basic principles and latest de
velopments of dentistry .Enroll
ment is drawn from dentists and
auxiliary personnel employed by
the Veterans Administration
dental program. '
Courses are designed to meet
VA requirements and include
geriatrics, psychiatry and anes
thesiology. Novice dental assist
ants and technicians are offered
shorter courses.
Among the participating fac
ulty members are officials from
the American Dental Associa
tion, researchers from Argonne
National Laboratory and profes
sors from the University of
Chicago.
Seattle (IPi The body of An
ton Boyke, 23, Victoria, B.C.,
was found in the Pacific Ocean
20 miles west of Grays Harbor
Monday after he fell from the
sailing yacht Saturn, the Coast
Guard reported.
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In Aleutians Recorded ,
New York UK A "fairly
strong" earthquake probably
centered near the Aleutian Is
lands was recorded today in
seismograph readings ,at , Ford
ham University.
The Rev. Joseph Lynch, chief
Fordham seismologist, said the
temblor had a magnitude of 6.5.
The world premiere of Puc
cini's opera, "Tosca," was in
Rome on Jan. 14, 1900.
land on the day of Marilyn's
death.
At the time Sheppard was con
victed for his pregnant wife's
death no other suspect who
might have been the motorist
could be found to confront Kolo
folias. There was the possibility that
the merchant seaman might
identify Wedler as having been
in the Cleveland area.
McArthur, retired chief of the
Cleveland homicide squad who
directed the Sheppard murder
investigation, promised a thor
ough study of points of conflict
between Wedler's story and the
way police believe the murder
was committed.
into Red China from the Portu
guese territory of Macao April
26 "because we did not want to
become separated."
The young American from Cin
cinnati, Ohio, said he left Ko
rea, where he was a clothing
salesman, for Communist China
because of "curiosity" about the
nation. He said they sought out
the Red checkpoint to report
their entry and the "why fors."
"At first the Reds seemed to
like it," Blackwood said. "But
then they changed their atti
tude, apparently because they
found I was in the armed forces
during the Korean war and was
a businessman."
Blackwood was discharged
from the Air Force as an Air
man 1C in October, 1954.
Had 'Companions'
The Blackwood family was
taken to Canton where they
were kept under house arrest
in two different hotels. "We
didn't have armed guards, just
what the Reds called 'com
panions'," he said.
The Reds expelled the family
from Communist China two
weeks ago, and they went to
Hong Kong to await transporta
tion to the U.S.
Smith Access Road
Opens Timber Area
Coos Bay Wl The Smith
river access road, a 67-mile seg
ment costing $7 million, makes
timber valued at $90 million ac
cessible, according to Ross
Youngblood of the Bureau of
Land Management here.
The road, the last three miles
of which are still being con
structed, winds along the Smith
on an easterly course starting
in northwest Douglas county, 13
miles from the river's mouth.
Youngblood said the valuable
timber, mostly Douglas fir, cov
ers about 100,000 acres.
Florence Chadwick
Sets Swim for Aug. 5
Weston - Super - Mare, Eng
land OH Florence Chadwick
today postponed until Aug. 5
her plan to swim across the 10
mile Bristol Channel because of
high winds and rough water.
The 36-year-old English chan
nel champion hoped that tide
conditions will be suitable at
that time.
Two Feet of Snow
Falls in Argentina
Buenos Aires W While
much of the United States was
sweltering in heat wave, parts
of Argentina today had a cold
wave with below-freezing tem
peratures and heavy snowfalls.
Points in the western part of
the country reported two feet
oi snow.
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Suspect Arrested in
Slaying of Policemen
Venice, Calif. ilfi A suspect
in the Monday slaying of two
El Segundo, Calif., policemen
was arrested today and booked
on suspicion of murder after
telling patrons of a bar that more
police should be murdered.
The suspect, John Phillip
Petersen, 30, told arresting of
ficers: , 1
"I guess you guys picked me
up for the murder."
A Lot of Talking
A bartender called police to
report that Petersen had been
dcing a lot of talking about the
murders. The bartender had a
friend follow the suspect home,
then called police.
Officers surrounded the hohse
and arrested Petersen! They said
they found some clothing stuff
ed in a closet that possibly con-
Optometric Society
To Meet Tonight
The July meeting of the
Southern Oregon Optrometric
society will be held starting at
6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 23, at
the Rogue Valley Country club.
Dr. R. L. Stephen of Grants
Pass, president of the society,
urged all optrometrists in the
area to attend to discuss plans
for the fall and winter public
affairs program. v
A report on the driver-vision
screening program conducted
recently by the Medford Safety
Council will be presented by Dr.
Robert Harland, secretary.
State Optometric Group
To Be in Safetyrama
Portland The Oregon Opto
metric association will partici
pate in the Oregon Traffic Safe
tyrama which will run from
July 25 through Aug. 3 in the
Meier and Frank auditorium in
Portland. The general theme of
the association's booth will be
"Jt Takes More Than 2020."
Dr. Don B. Chambers of Mil
waukee is in charge of arrange
ments for the booth. He says
there will be a professional op
tometrist present at all times.
Interested persons may have
their visaul acuity, color per
ception, and depth perception
checked if they so desire.
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tained bloodstains
El Segundo Police Officer
James Gilbert, who drove by
early Monday, when the two
slain officers were questioning
a motorist moments before the
killings, was called in for iden
tification purposes today. He
said Petersen "could be" the
suspect.
. Four teenagers who earlier
were robbed in a lovers' lane
strike by the gunmen were to
face Petersen to help in the
identification. One of the young
sters, a 15-year-old girl, was
raped by the bandit before he
fled in their car.
Routine Traffic Check
Officers Milton Curtis, 25, and
Richard A. Phillips, 29, were
slain when they stopped the kill
er for a routine traffic check.
After shooting the officers, the
suspect abandoned the stolen car
and fled on foot into the beach
area.
A house to house search was
carried on during the night by
more than 100 officers who set
up roadblocks in an attempt to
corner the suspected slayer.
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