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
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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.
The seventh safety test was
conducted at 6:19 a.m. (PST)
with the firing, of a device
held 400-feet aloft by a bal
loon at Yucca Flats.
Two hours and five minutes
later a device, "called "Col
fax" was fired at the bottom
of a 500- foot shaft. No out
side fallout was reported by
the AEC.
The first test, dubbed "Hi
dalgo" was reported to have
been "an extremely low nu
clear reaction." Some fallout
was recorded near the site.
Rockefeller Center in the
center of Manhattan measures
about 13 acres.
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