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TUESDAg. AUGUST 2. 1960 MEDFOBD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. B 5 o Oo 1 3 W 4 -4-g..- ft- & 1 .... - -J!- v.... ,v.w(.;: aiE.v wW.iiaJSi -VS JFALLS BEING PRESERVED This i a view of ' Prospect Point, a luvoritc view ins area for honeymooncrs and tourists, after a nrly 200-foot section crumbled into' the swirrKig JJsiagara rivers lower gorge on 7jh Century fisscriptior. o A By GERARD J. GAGNON Niagara Falls, N.Y. - lUPD -Nearly three centuries ago the ltjin cataracts of Niagara! were describe s "a vast anS prodigious c:fifence of water Qhich falls down after a sur prising and a.'Aonishing man ner, in so muca that the uni verse does not afford parallel." Those words were peiQ d in 1G78 by Father R. P. Louis Hennepin, widi.' - traveled French missionary and plorer. Today his dcsc-lption of (jiagara falls still rings true. But, the question is-for how much longer? Recently an earth dam was thrown up near the brgik of the Am(0can falls to divert enough waler so work crews could clear debris left at the base by a big rockslide in 1954. What came to light has had officials pondering. Crack) Disclosed The de-waterij portion of Ih : falls (..closed large cracks in (he rock formation, lead ing Pi speculation more rock falls Qre in nature's plans. One geologist opined that if the deep, wide cracks weaken the formation enough a por tion of the AO.erican f;s larger than a football field would collapse into the gorge. This, he indicated, would turn that portion of the (Kiajcslic, 1 (igjfoot high falls into just fX L1MIUC. Q Last Oeek a team of fgir consultants who inspected me area said tjjit any measures to 'qU erosion would be im practical. They reported there was no danger of any imme diate collapse nor of any siz able rockfall for a consider able tiine. car A 9- ?m I , o V , V K T N I o i T .0 Q .o f'!KrK ." added, we rVfkC-nmO-'vident that Jf'l 'mlPRhall contim ! 7tl- ''i'l1:!1 I i and willing - "1 WG Bi-ing new evince 10 your, bedroom - c h o o- natural eiors or two siyi-s oi a V.'r' , , - u Cover your bed with Amen- can Beauty roses in fi-to-iiti ss-stitch. Easy to i fabu lous in effect! Pattern 7412: tran.- 12 rose motifs; quilt- tying design Send Thirty - five efnts (coins) for this pattern -id 10 cents for each pattenl for lst.cl.iss mailing. Send to Med-1 ford Mail Tr.ne, Household "renl issues" and not dis Arts Dept.. P. O. Box 16Ptort tne nation's accomplish Old Chelsea Station, New : ments and purposes. York 11, N. Y. Print plainly Wiley said world peace was NAME. ADDRESS. ZONE. ! the main issue of the cam PATTERN NUMBER. : paign plus strengthening of JUST OUT! Our New 1960 defenses, reducing cast-west Alice Brooks Needlecraft Book contains THREE FREE Patterns. Plus ideas galore for home furnishings, fashions, gifts, toys, bazaar sellers -exciting, unusual designs to crochet, knit, sew. embroider. huck weave, ciuilt. Be first with the newest - send 25 cents nowl o - ' s. , 'CM July 28, 1954. Though notning can be done to heal the present damage, lan is now attempting to preserve the furare grandeur of the fallsO iHoSds True Rockslides are nothing new at the falls. The first rerdcd fall was in 1818 when a huge chunk broke A' the Ameri can falls. The latest of major size was July 28. 1954, when some 185,000 lOiS of rock fell at rosr.Qt point. Two yenrs Inter, two-thir of a mile bc?ow the falls, an esti mated 120,000 9uns of rock crushed the Schoellkopf pow er station ex-0Dramafic Collapses "Din-frig the lOHOs several dramatic ocollapscs occurred. Thw-e persons were killo Uibojj day, 1930, when the roof of the Cave of Ihe Winds collapsed. In J;uuur the fol lowing year the edge of '(jo American falls 300 feet from Luna island slid, leaving a gap that can be seen today. On Aug. 13, 1934, some 45, 000 tons of rock toppled into Ihe gorge, again at the Amer ican falls. And just a little more than a year later thous ands of tons showered down on the tracks of the Scenic Gorge rail route, resulting in its abandonment. The stone formation at Nia gara consists oPmany lars, the topmost of hard livestone. Below are successive layers of various shale limestone and standslone. The wearing away of these underlaycrs is .constant with 200.000 cubic feet-a-second of waler ing over, in and thwjgh tne cracked formation. The ero.-tpn process is be lieved to have slowed some what in recent centuries, man hopes to slow it even more. Though nothing within rea- Oonably econonv bounds may fill the cracks an heal tPre present damage, future dam age may be minimized. O Not only is r..an atPempting to preserve the grandeur of the falls, but he'll continue to b-Oefit from its mighty fori The New York State Power a u thority 6s "solidly on schedule" on its $7'l-million Niagara hydro power project. The first electrical current is expected to be generate on Feb. 10(3)961. Russia Warned U:S. M Refex Vigilance Washington - H'PH - Sen.Ql exander Wiley of Wisconsin, senior Republican on the Sen ate foreign relntfcs commit tee, has warned Russia that the U.S. will not relax its vi!nce durins the current politicaQcamtehsn. J Q "In the 6jys ahead, wucy added, "we should make it as always we uously be ready regardless of an election - to protect the ram parts of freedom. WUG) said "We sWuld 6VI. it r,lr.v-' In ItlP f!(lMllU- ,,t countries0hat "we are Q . not aslet." that "we : sna continue W vigorously export ,ri ;;,, those fundrt)ental policies that wi'Qimprove the outlook for peaVe." and that "we will strongly oi.se Communist efforti0.t expan sion." Parties Urged ALthe same time Wiley urg ed fiMh parties and their pres- laentiai canmaaies to presem tensions, and creating a coun ter-attack to tiie Communist propaganda offensive. Other great issues, he said, are the need "to maintain and further strengthen the econ omy at home" and the adop tion "of new programs for 1 preserving human rights ana promoting human progress." o 4. 1 (UPI 'elcphoto) The present redevelopment engineerir has two prime igjactical objectives - to cut clown on erosion by distribut ing the vater more evenly, and to aeOlr jjore power by diversion of the flow. QThe water diversion will not mean, however, any de crease in the Niagara Spectac ular. Under the Canada United Smiles Niagara divers ion treaty of 1950 certain minimum amounts of water n;t flow over the falls at specified times of the day and periods Of the year or the benefit of sightseers who flock here from all parts of the world. q Authorities also are going all out to beautify the falls area. Visitors will find many new parks, roads, bridges Qid scenic observation points. Program Dedicated A 36.5 million improvement program on the Niagara parks reservation was recently dedicated. Highlight was for mal opening of the SI. 85 mil lion Amoric; Rapids bridge, a 590-footo spa: connecting GoS. island with the main land. A new 4,000-foot section of the Niagara parkVQiy also was decncaiea. All this appears to be (hi keeping with the hopes cO two Scottish clewymen, sec onded by many other peoplel t-: 1 n. ii ti.rfl,n,,i -,ayr U1K HUU SlllttM UllULlgllUUl lilt flow-Qvorld who have visited the falls. 0 S;fid (Kie Rev. Andrew Reed and the Rev. James Mathew son of the Congregationalist church in 1835: "Niagara falls should be deen-.ed the piierty of civilized man kind." 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SMITH aus Tribune Washinglon M, Correspondent Sacramento (Special;ali fornia once again has its eye on j vital Pacific Northwest r 4F'j,''i resource t'l which it wouia "Ke to import into the rapidly expanding golden state. A decade or more ago Cal ifornia turned a longing eye on the Colum bia river as a possible solu tion for the water needs of its arid Central Valley. A gigantic Rube Goldberg plan was conceived within the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation for channeling some of the North west's generous water supply southward via canals from one river system to another until it finally wound up in the irrigation ditches near Salinas and Fresno. But this blueprint, considered fantas tic in its conception and '. necessary, never got past the drawing board. Today California officials fSiy tney aon t need uoiumbio river water. They have plenty in their own rivers, especially in northern California, to serve the expected deiftaiQl of what will be the nation's most heavily populated state iglo' near future. Wants Kilowatts 0 But California dOss wort Columbia river kilowaOs -cheap power to energize irri gation pumps, industrial plants and resiiO.'ntial circuits. And officials of this state are bily working on a plan o secure substantial blocke of power from the Bonneville power system. o California could get along without Bonneville power. Its utilities could build more and more oil-fueled steam plants that would generate high cost kilowatts during the dry sum mer months when stream flows are lowest in this state and irrigation pumping power demands are highest. But, like every customer, A llnhl. smitb file Family. GotiMl Editor') Note: The Family Council consists of a Judee, a psychlntrltt, three elercymen, a newspaper editor, a wOoienQ. editor and two writers, liacli artlrle Is a summary of an actual "ase history. The Council reports on problems that have been dealt A1i by responsible agencies and counselors. Louise R. - She should re tire before she is fired. Jane M. - I don't like to sit around doing nothing. Louise R. - My problem in volves my closest friend, Jane. We have known one another since childhood and are now past 70. AQ our children Ore married and we sharQa9ionie. We both went to work after our children were grown, but I retired more than five years aio. Jane, however, is stil& working. I feel very strongly that she should retire now. If o',e doesn't, she's going to be fired id tlQt will hurt her vy much. Her eyesight is lailing and she gets slower and slow er, mentOly and physically. It iOridiculous for a woman of her iige to travel to and from wMrk and put in a full day when it isn't economically necessary. Jane M. - It',not true that my eyesight is failing. I ;0! just as well as I did five yOrs ago. The doctor hasn't changed my glasses in years. I find that I'm well able to keep up with the work. I'm a little tired when I get home, bQ who isn't? Louise insists on treating me like an old, feeble woman. I have always becQ healthy and I haven't missed a day's work in years. Nobody has jet complained about my woTk. Louise says they're just being kind to me, but I don't believe it. I rarely make an error. I have worked hard all my life. I'm not HQ kind of per son who likes to sit around doing nothing. Louise enjoys hersfrU visiting friends and family but I prefer grkQ The Council: Louise's belief that Jane's errmloyer may be suffering in fetence out of kindness to her is probably way off base. The best-hearted employers manage to rid themselves of unwanted em ployees- without too rauffi bloodsiSd on either aide of the firing line. Undoubtedly Jane s em ployer has found, like S'$ff r n . . pontest, Pomona many othtjg-.rjjiat older work ers are extremely dependable, their attendance recora is ex cellent, and when they areS'n the right spot, their perform ance is equal to, or better than, the younger employees. Louise expresses herself in terms of concern for Jane, but her attitude suggests some thing else. She seems to have a keen eye for signs of deter ioration in Jane, but is less observant of Jane's admirable health and spirit. She express es herself in threatening terms. Friendly concern .should take the form of en- California WOUld like to get, its power at a loy5,r cost. Bonneville power is cheaper, and it is so plentiful these days that substantial amounts are going to waste for lack of customers in the Pacific Northwest. This fresh interest in Co lumbia river kilowatts is di rectly connected to the mam mouth California Qater Plan which is nearing a critical point i)iecision by the voters of this state. On the ballot this November is a proposi tion which they must approve if the state is to go forward with a S1.7 billion bond issue. The bond sale would finance construction of the world's highest dam on the Feather river and a huge system of aqueducts to carry water from ..n-ll, -ntirnin itiln itc Mill lllfl 11 tclllllfl 111(1 "llu v? ......ii , i i nn,,u aillHUCl U Mllll WJ 111! ell yunm tion ail agricultural centers. Heart of Wat Plan Some $50 million has al ready been spent on the Oro ville Dam which wilLbe 735 feet high, 29 feet higiTer than ffliover Dam, world's highest. Orovillecbam would store 3.5 million acre-feet of precious SOiter that would flow down the aqueducts. This dam ana the aqueducts comprise the heart of the California water plan. To ge? this water to all its centers of ilo'ed, however, pumping statdms will be re quired. Gravity will carry the water southward from the Oieights to which it is pumped. To reach Los Angeles Gnrt the other valleys and towns of southorn California, for ex ample, the d'oOr mitft be pumpojl ovotf the Tchvhapi Mountain Range. ft will lobe grcOter quan tities of power to energi0 these pumping slatlcsib-more powc than California' new dams can produce. If Caifcr nia can import hip kilo watts from Oriojon, it will help reduce tie? considerobleo costs of thio water system. Some California officials aijp worried tht t?ie cost per acre of water delivered may be prohibitive to some farm ers who would otherwise open couragenient rather than dis couragement. It is quite possible that Lou ise's unpleasant suggestions have thoroughly fiOjhtened Jane and forced her-to cling to her job even harder than she would ordinarily care to. In reaction to Louise's "You are much too old to work," Jane may have stiffened her back to prove she isn't yet ready for the rubbish heap. After five years of retire ment, Louise may be bored with herself and probably is deteriorating far more rapidly than Jane simply because of lack of vital conneQion with the workaday world. Perhaps it is hard for her to watch her girlhood chum still going strong. We think Jane shouldvork as long as she cares to, but she shouldn't hold Qi to ft;r job out of fear of falling into hopeless disQe. With her spir it, she can well look around O new interests qSO that eventually she can retire simply because tlff-re is some thing else she wants tcQlo. (Copyright ie60. General C Features Corp.) Grange Nftos Phoenix Grange Lecturer Mrs. Ralph Swin gle preceded the meeting at Phoenix Grange July 26 wQh an entertainment r(30Bi"nrr and a briS? talk by a student. ntertainers were the "Ea ger Beve'-s," who are Marcla and Richard Bever of Centra"? Point. The youngsters sing and play guitars. James Scott, who wo'i a trip to. Corvallis on a 4-H scholarship, explain ed some details about the schiling. The meeting was opened with the seating drill and Mi.er Lloyd Lacy presiding. JJd White:e gave a fi n;fv)rjorjj50n theGkrange Fes tival plans. M r s. Olin Poe reminded 'Uxnmv. thp li-nlllintf and Grange will do final judging in oepieoer so 5uwiuinuv Granges must do their Judg ing before that time. q There was some discussign on the Phoenix school district reorganization. Mrs. -Willis House, HEC chairman, requested that pro ceeds from the Republican dinner that was given recent ly be applied to the building fund. The serving committee in cluded Mr. and Mrs. Frank Perl and Mr. and Mrs. Lharies Hockersmith. up another quarter million acres of fertile land to fruit and vegetable production inQ The (ime wi come jn (he the Central Valley. I not too ar AistanX tllulre The great capital costs of ' when even the Pacific North- building this system of dams; and aqueducts - with invest ment capital that will cost the state about 4 per cent in terest - represent the basic cause of uncertainty about just how feasible this water plan will be in actual opera tion. But obviously, cheap kilo- Por&ep-Cal mo Kil Includtv Saw, sturdy ifeef carrying cole, chrome-pafed blade, rip guide, wrenches, iub ricanf, '0:Jc-up9ci iw and manual. Heavy-duty 12 amp motor , KickProof clutch Inttant dtplh and bevel adjustments Calibrated depth scale Safely telescoping guard Ball-bearings THROUGHOUT SAVE $13(510 Model 113AK Keg. (99.95 MONEY SAVING FLOOR SARE NEWS QUALITY FLOOR CONDITIO NOW AT A NEW LOW PRICE 3995 INCLINES : Ofiggftg & ovjimjuuimu BRUSHES 2 POLISHING BRUSHES 2 BUFFING PADS It's Newl Lindell Vacuum Power Sweeper For Lawns & Hard Service Areas Single Point Height Adjust ment Swivel Rearheel Compartmonted Bag De signed to Redujg. 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