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In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS I wonder how many of those present the other day at the dedication of Copco's Big Bend power plant in the Klamath river below Keno remember that bleak day a decade and a half ago when a party of U. S. engineers ar rived in the Basin to disclose t to us that they were going to work on the century-old plan to divert the Klamath river down through the lava beds to the Pit, whence its waters would find their way into - Shasta dam. It was a rugged situation. If the proposal had gone through to completion, the Klamath river valley in Ore gon and California would now be an approximation of the Owens valley. PORTUNATELY, it didn't go through. Running SCARED, we start ed a battle to keep our water. Victory came when we fin ished up and got through the legislatures of Oregon and California and the congress of the United States the Klam ath River compact - which protects our water for all time. rTHE Klamath river is the No. 2 power stream of the Pacific Coast. Its total po tential is nearly a million kilo watts - two Bonnevilles or one Grand Coulee. Power is one of the basic essentials of industrial de velopment. The other essen tials are useful raw materials, a market for the finished pro ducts and transportation to get the finished products to the market expeditiously and economically. Here in our mythical State of Jefferson, we have all of these. But, without water, all of them would be useles. Water is the magic ingredient. 17ULL develoDment of the Klamaths waters, of course is primarily important to the Klamath Basin, which reaches from the high deserts of the far ' interior to the Pacific ocean. But the Klamath develop ment can serve as a PAT TERN for all of Southern Oregon and Northern Cali fornia. The Klamath's head waters are STORED. That is to say, the winter's excess pre cipitation is RETAINED IN THE RIVER'S UPPER REACHES instead of being allowed to run away unused to the sea, often doing inci dental damage in the way of floods in the run-off season. When comes the arid sum mer, the winter's surplus is ready to be released for use in the river's lower reaches for all of the uses to which water is put in our Western economy. That is the perfect answer to all of our Western water problems. What has been ac comolished in the case of the Klamath can be accomplished in the, case of all of our rivers. Academy Exams Set November 7, Porter Announces Washington, D. C. - Civil i Service examinations for service academy candidates have been scheduled for Mon day, Nov. 17, 1958, for young men interested in the U. S. ! Naval Academy, U. S. Air Force Academy and U. S. Military Academy. The office of Rep. Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.) today re minded men between the ages of 17 and 22 to contact him no later than Oct. 13 if they wished to take the examina tion. Inquiries should be T OOKING a little farther, it XJ seems reasonable -that what is being accomplished in the basin of the Klamath river can serve as the pattern for solution of California's fan tastically complicated and immensely critical water problem. j Simply stated, this is Cali-I fornia's problem to save up ! in the winter, for use in the summer, the surplus water that now runs away unused to the sea. The bulk of Cali fornia's surplus precipitation occurs in the north. The ob vious thing to do is to pro vide storage in the north for this surplus precipitation. The storage should be pro vided FIRST - for only when the surplus is stored can there be water enough for all . of California's needs. A good rule is to do first things first. If you want rabbit soup, you must first catch your rabbit. If California wants water enough in the dry summers, it must first store up the sur plus precipitation of the wet winters. sent to the congressman's Washington, D. C.r office. Room 324 House Office Building, to help the candi date meet the deadline, Por ter said. For the 1959 classes, Repre sentative Porter has one va cancy to fill at the U. S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., and two va cancies at the U. S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. There are no vacancies to be filled at West Point next year from the Fourth Congression al District, he said. Civil Service examinations will be given in several cities in the district. Each applicant will receive from Porter a letter of authorization to take the test. The location and time will be designated in the letter. Porter said he would name alternates as well as principal appointments and he urged all interested men to apply. Candidates must be in good physical condition. They are required to take and pass a physical examination, and must have reached their 17th but not their 22nd birthday by July 1, 1959. Examinations for the U. S. Coast Guard Academy and the U. S. Merchant Marine Academy are arranged differ ently. Nationwide competitive ex aminations for entrance to the Coast Guard Academy will be held February 24 and 25, 1959. There are no ap pointments or geographical quotas for entrance, Porter said. Men. interested should send their inquiries to Coast Guard Headquarters, Wash ington, D. C, before January 15, 1959. Requirements are similar to the other acad- Irene Dunne Backs Right-To-Work Law Hollywood (CFD Actress Irene Dunne has refused to change her "wholehearted" support of California's Right-to-Work proposal. Miss Dunne received a tele gram from AFL-CIO Presi dent George Meany Sunday asking her to '"reconsider" her stand on the November ref erendum which would outlaw the union shop. The actress, who is an ac tive Republican and has ac cepted an honorary post with supporters of the "Right-to-work measure," said she had "freely considered both sides of the question" before com ing to a decision. She told Meany in an an swer to his telegram that she had not changed her mind. She declined to comment on a statement by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt who accused her of "perhaps unwittingly allying herself with those who seek to enslave the American worker." SOUND SLEEPER Rome -(UPD- A non-stop horn wakened nearly everyone in the neighborhood. The police they summoned found Tran cesco Porro, 43, fast asleep against the horn of his park ed truck. Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Nashville, Tenn.-Gov. Frank Clement, on the dynamiting of integrated Clinton High school: "We have a choice of education by democracy or educa tion by dynamite. We will have law and order in Tennessee so help me God!" Washington-Russian scientist Abatoli A. Blagonravov, on Soviet plans for space exploration: ""Sooner or later most probably we will be able to send up a man-carrying Sputnik that will be circling the earth. I can'l say when that will be at present." Nicosia, Cyprus-British Gov. Sir Hugh Foot, blaming new outbreaks of violence on Cypriot Archbishop Makarios: "It is a tragic thing that the religious leader of the Greek community in Cyprus should so seriously deceive and. mislead them. It is a terrible thing that he should openly encourage them to violence." New York-Milwaukee Braves pitcher Warren Spahn, aft er pitching the Braves third winning game in the World Series: "Tired? Hell no. I could pitch relief tomorrow (Monday) if they need me-bul I hope they don't. Disarmament Seen At Top of UN List MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Monday, October 6, 1958 5 United Nations, N. Y. -(ITD-Pressure built up in the Un ited Nations General assem bly today to put the disarm ament issue at the top of the list when the main political committee begins work on Wednesday. India and the Soviet Union both filed draft resolutions with the UN Secretariat this week end calling for immed iate suspension of nuclear weapons tests. The assembly opened its last two days of its annual policy debate. Indian Defense Minister V. K. Krichna Men on will wind up the debate Tuesday and it was expected he would base a major part of his speech on the disarm ament issue. Windshields Tell ( u r insurance agent Selby's will install your wind shield while you rest in a comfortable waiting room. Cokes are on the house. AEC Conducts Two Safely Experiments ' Atomic Test Site, Nev. (UPD -Atomic Energy Commissions scientists Sunday conducted two nuclear safety experi ments in a little more than two hours. 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