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Newspaper Page TextBonneville-Califorma Intertie To Get Going-Over by Interior Group By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Wuhlngton Correspondent Washington - The proposed power intertie between the Bonneville system and Cali fornia is going to get another going-over by the Senate In t e r 1 o r Com mittee because o f doubts o f some commit tee members. The Interior D e p a rtment A. bom. smiiii recemiy urgea the committee to endorse the intertie plan, which has been under consideration for about, a year. "It is hard to find a reason for not having made the sale," Assistant Secretary Fred G. Aandahl wrote to the commit tee about the concept ol tell ing surplus kilowatts from the Columbia river system to Cali fornia utilities. "This energy is now being wasted to the ocean in water spilled from federal reservoirs without generating power because there is no immediate market for such power." Interior is anxious to con nect with the California mar- Iraf .rti a. tMtfa a (rani-mlccinn line built by California Ore gon Power Co. that would hook up with the Bonneville ayatem In southern Oregon and run to the California border and tie into the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. system. Forthcoming senate hear ings are expected to focus on the terms of such an arrange ment. Interior reported that it estimates $1,800,000 worth of dump power now going to waste could be sold to Cali fornia annually. A detailed study of the private intertie was submitted recently to the committee by Bonne rville Power Administration. But no contract setting forth precise terms has been drafted, an Interior official said. This is what the com mittee plans to explore in Hearings sei ior eariy in may. The committee last week received a report on the inter tie from the U.S. General Accounting Office which no ted that certain information was omitted, notably the char ges COPCO would make for hauling the power over its line and the affect of these charges on the feasibility of the project. GAO did endorse the prin ciple of the sale of surplus power, however, by saying "the additional revenues ao cruine to BPA would operate to lessen the amount of future rate increase that may other wise be necessary to meet the existing repayment require ments of the Columbia river power system." The Federal Power Com mission, in its report to the committee, reported its belief (hat "a high voltage intercon lection between the Pacific ft o r t h w est and California would be desirable and eco nomically feasable regardless of whether the regional facili ties are constructed and fi nanced by the federal govern ment or by private interests." A federally-constructed in tertie to California would ne cessitate legislation to avert the extension of the Bonne ville marketing area-and the operation of the preference clause - Into California, GAO observed. That is, government lawyers have concluded that California's public power ag encies could make a claim on Columbia river power, under the preference clause, if a fed eral power line were built to or into California beyond the present limit of the Bonner vllle system. That would mean, in effect, the power going to California could not be shut off when the surplus of energy Is gone - unless special legislation were first enacted to guarantee that pow er sales in California would b offered only after an de mands In the Pacific North west have been met. Northwest Public Power Association officials reported ly have urged that no action be taken by the committee to endorse the private intertie. Pacific Gas and Electric, on the other hand, Is urging its approval. The Interior Department needs no approval from Con gress to make the power sale contract, but It is trying to obtain the endorsement to avoid any criticism from Northwest Democrats If it goes through wltn the deal. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF A KANSAS CITY psychoanalyst prizes this letter from a satisfied ex-patient: "Dear Doc: Your treatment sure has eliminated what ailed me. A year ago the phone would ring ana I was afraid to answer it. Today I ans wer it whether it rings or not.'' Hollywood roulette ts the latest pastime of the moom plkshur act A famous he. alar kisses six leading ladles blindfolded then has to guess which Is the ona who never was married to him. No TV addict was the late Frank Lloyd Wright "Television," was his dic tum, "Is nothing more than chewing gum for the eyeballs." W3 r ' m m A dear young sophomore at a state college was kicked out Just because they found a record player in her room a 6-foot-2 diso Jockey. C 1M0, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate Radiation Control Data Lacking by Board of Health Portland -The 1957 State Legislature assigned respon sibility for Oregon radiation control to the Mate board of health. Today, three years later, health board officials frankly admit they have only a minimum of information about the problem, and little or no control program. Part of the reason can be found in the peculiar word ing of the law itself, which stipulated that a two-year study would be made of x-ray equipment used throughout Oregon before a control pro gram was to be developed. The study has now been completed through the coop eration of medical, dental, hospital, commercial and in dustrial groups which use radiation in their everyday Warm Weather Predicted for Next 30 Days Sultland, Md. (Science Serv ice) Most of the nation will have temperatures averaging above seasonal normals dur ing the next 30 days, the U.S. Weather Bureau predicted here. The extended forecast sec tion said the only exceptions would be below normal tem peratures over the Pacific Northwest and near normal ones from the Great Lakes westward to the Continental Divide. Precipitation Is expected to exceed normal over the Great Lakes and upper Mississippi Valley, as well as over the Pa cific Northwest. Less than usual amounts of precipitation are forecast over the south ern half of the nation, except for normal amounts over the Southern Plains. In unspeci fied areas, near normal rain fall is indicated. The recent abrupt change in weather conditions over much of the country, from un seasonable cold to unusual warmth, followed a sudden shift northward in the wester lies, a strong band of air flow ing from west to east at high altitudes. During March, the westerlies were very far south for that month, allowing fre quent, strong breakthroughs of cold, Canadian air. Jerome Namias, chief of the Weather Bureau's extended forecast section, told Science Service that in a marked change the westerlies have now abruptly shifted north ward, bringing a heat wave to much of the country. This un usually warm weather is ex pected to last a few days, then shift to more normal condi tions, followed by a return to very warm temperatures again. Portland-fllPB-Dock workers and longshoremen in Portland and Columbia river ports re turned to their Jobs Thursday after a 24-hour work stoppage to hold contract explanation meetings. ROUTE MAN WANTED QUIRED. CelletHm anal ilieriitf It ll Har Is natossarr. ExaotioMl monthly earninos. Can rtanalaa' art Mats supolsmanrarr Income, alono with prosant lob. 11W aih investment (for invantonrl required tor immcdiare start, far interview with tales representative, state tie. marital status, knewledqe of area, end if cash available for immediate start. UNIVERSAL DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, Bex 156D WRIT! MEDFORD MAIL TRUUNI MAIL Till BUM, Maerore, Or, Friday, April 22, IfeO J Bock Stairs: Period of Readjustment Or . IIFtttlKf u . . ... ..... ' work. Dr. Richard H. Wilcox, Oregon's new state health of ficer, recently launched step two by appointing a commit tee of five health board and civil defense agency experts to develop recommendations, which will have to be approv ed by the 1961 Legislature, for any comprehensive Ore gon control program. This is not to say that noth ing has been done so far to control potential radiation hazards, or that the health board is in the dark about the size or nature of the prob lem it faces. Air samples have been col lected since 19S3 from a sta tion atop the state office building in Portland, and for about five years from a simi lar station in Klamath Falls. Rainwater samples have been collected in Portland for some three years. The health board can report, for example, that the high radiation count from an air sample so far thii year was read March 25, and the 24-hour exposure showed 2.7 micro microcuries per cubic meter of air. Low reading was 0.1 and average for the first three months of 1860 was 0.7. These are only "crude" readings made with a simple geiger counter, because that's all the equipment which the health board has personnel to operate. The samples must be sent all the way to Washing ton, D.C. fqr precise readings, and findings may be a long time in reaching Oregon. Comparison Difficult Rainfall samples can't be1 measured In Oregon at all, i and the measurement volume ; used by federal health author-: ities does not correspond to the volume used for air sam-; pies, which makes compari son difficult. The high read ing for rainfall so far this year is listed as "less than 2,500 micro microcuries per cubic liter," the low is "less than 350" and the average is 480. When you start trying to pin the experts down on what ; the figures mean, you runJ into trouble. Nobody really j knows for sure, they point! out, Just what constitutes a i dangerous radiation level in air or water. There are some standards developed by the National Committee on Radiation Pro tection, but they are little more than guides at the pres ent time, because the subject simply has not been studied long enough to give any very exact answers. It will be at least a generation before the experts will have much more than educated guesses. The situation is roughly comparable to the problem of explaining the value of Salk vaccine when it was first re leased for general use. No body could say for sure Just how efficient it would prove as a polio preventive, and no body knew how long the pro tection would last. Physicians still don't have all the an swers five years later, but they are learning more with each year that passes. New Wilderness Bill to Remove Debated Feature Washington -IW8- Sens. Jo seph C. O'Mahoney D-Wyo.) and Gordon Allott (R-Colo.) have teamed up to write a new wilderness preservation bill designed to remove controver sial features which have so far blocked Its passage. The new bill, in the form of I a substitute to legislation now before the Senate Interior Committee, would reserve for Congress the right to desig nate any land as a wilderness area. The original measure would give that authority to the sec retary of agriculture. The new version also would spell out, by legal land de scription, areas already car rying the wilderness designa tion as of Feb. 1, 1960. O'Ma honey said this amounted to 5,834,496 acres. ; The Wyoming senator said there were 8,269,000 addition-; al acres in 11 Western states; currently carrying a "prlmi-' tive" designation. This land could be later set aside as wilderness, but not until the secretaries of agri culture and interior recom mended it. Their r e c o m m e ndatlons would have to carry comment from other affected federal agencies and the governors of; states where the land was lo cated. Western senators earlier ' were successful in amending' the original bill to permit grazing in wilderness areas. This feature was retained in the Allot-O'Mahoney substi tute. But other than grazing, no commercial activity would be permitted. States which have land with wilderness potential include Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Idaho, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico and California. Br MEHH1MAN SMITH UPI Whit House Reporter Washington mn - Back stairs at the White House: The post-White House read justment of President and Mrs. Eisenhower was a sub ject of conversation this week down in Georgia where the First Family was enjoying a long spring vacation at the Augusta National Golf Club. The world, after next Jan. 20. may be a fairly confusing, and most certainly an expen sive place for the President and Mamie. They will be, in effect, on their own for the first time in a great many years. Since the days when Eisen hower was a high-ranking Army officer, he and his wife have had a great many serv ices performed for them al most automatically: services that will be totally absent when they leave the White House. For one thing, there will not be a doctor and a well staffed, well-supplied clinic at their beck and call 24 hours a day when they leave the White House. There will be no guards at the gate of their Gettysburg farm unless they hire them. There will be no secretary, no social staff for Mrs. Eisen hower unless she lays out the money for this type of help on which she has come to rely heavily for many of the daily details of life. It probably has been 30 years since either Eisen hower or his wife saw the inside of a shoe repair shop. Going to the barbershop will be a new experience for the President. For years, the barber has come to him. There'll be no helicopters or transport planes on tap, no flfet of limousines, no ready room for chauffeurs. Eisenhower has picked out an office in Gettysburg. He will have a small suite on the campus of Gettysburg College In a house once set aside as living quarters for the college president. The head of the school has an other home and the chief executive will use the com fortable house on the campus at least for the months short ly after his retirement from office when he will be cop ing with daily mountains of j fo life after the White House jis not new by any means. i f ...... ...tMin. T mail with in, help of only , ; ! ES with the Eisenhowers, the tiny staff. Congress either late this session or sometime early next year probably will be asked to restore Eisenhower's rank as a five-star Army gen eral. (He resigned from the Army when he entered pall tics to run for President in 1952). j Either as a retired Preai- dent or a restored five-star general, the chief executive i will be permitted a small pay roll by the government. But this would consist at most of ! only a secretary, an aide and j probably a driver. j This means his valet, his , cook, Mrs. Eisenhower's maid and any other help will have to be paid out of pocket. The valet, the cook and the maid are now personal em ployees of the Eisenhowers, but their domestic staff is vast by comparison. They've accus tomed to a great many serv ants, and a large supporting staff of aides, secretaries, doctors, file clerks, advisers, lawyers, drivers, baggage handlers, pilots and protec tors. The problem of adjusting process may be unusually painful, because it htt be so long, actually since the late 1930s, since they have functioned without a large) supporting staff provided by Uncle Sam. SPECIALS! U" PiYWOOD C. D. $h ge SHEETING J m. 4x7 Sheets I H4 and 1x8 $ar f" 00 ROUGH M "pt(M CEDAR m0 2W WINDOWS and . a? DOOR CASINGS per foot PAT & MIKE'S BUILDERS SERVICE 2802 Crater lak Hwy. Ph. SP 2-8376 Studies Indicate Hardiness of Foot-Mouth Virus Washington-fSciencs) Serv- ice)-The virus that causes foot-and-mouth disease in cat tle, swine and goats is a hardier bug than previously believed. Recent studies have shown that the ribonucleic acid core of the virus, the part that produces the disease, may be more resistant to destruction by heat than scientists had thought, the U.S. Department of Agriculture here reports. Heat Seals Core Earlier experiments had in dicated that the ability of foot-and-mouth virus to pro duce disease was destroyed by heating the virus to 140 degrees Fahrenheit or higher. Now Dr. Howard L. Bach- rach, biochemist of USDA's Agricultural Research Service has found that such heat treatment only seals the In fectious core within the pro tein covering of the virus and blocks its ability to infect susceptible animal cells. The sealed-in cores were found to be infectious once the pro tein covering was chemically removed. More Dangerous Thus, Dr. Bachrach con cludes, the foot-and-mouth virus may be more danger ous than previously consid ered because nature may have ways of matching his chemi cal method of releasing the locked-in infectious core of the heat-treated virus. Other studies have shown that meat from animals in fected with foot-and-mouth disease is not rendered free of the virus by the usual pro- j cedures of ripening which inactivates virus in muscle tissue), boning, salting and storage. The virus may sur vive in residual blood or lymph nodes of boned, salt- cured meat for at least 50 days, and in the bone marrow In refrigerated carcasses for at least 73 days. 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