Bonneville-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.
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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.
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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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on a clear day could be seen ;
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