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G Q O 9r ooco o O 00WBNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1960 O O o Q MEDFORD MAIL THlUNE, MEDFORB, 'Hfc omething for Everyone' in Scheme f Northwest Power for California By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent (Second in a Series) Sacramento, Calif. - (Spe cial) - There is something for everyone in the plan now in final prepara tion by which C a 1 i fornia , hopes to im j port cheap ' Columbia riv- 4 " "V er kilowatts, f ""W- ) C a lifornia Would not be thine away !" from Oregon and Washington or the fed eral Bonneville sy.it em. It would be giving aFgood as It ftkes, California officials maintain. They say: Oregon would gainax rev enues from a .big non-federal power line running southward I f o from the Columbia river. Surplus power now being wasted in the Pacific North west would be sold.Q)nd the revenue would help pay off Northwest projects and hold down the prevailing low cost of Bonneville power. The Northwest could secure power from California during seasonal or emergency short age periods. Integration of power sourc es in both regjans would re sult in a greawr amount of energy for peak demands in both areas. And it would revive the coal industry in Washington state, conserve millions of bar rels of California oil, and even help alleviate s?nog con ditions in California. These are some of the sug gested benefits which a pri vate engineering firm, H. Zin der & Associates, has enumer ated in a preliminary report prepared for the state of Cali fornia in support of the idea of connecting California to the Bonneville power system. Two Major Circuits The report, written by Sol E. Schultz, former Bonneville Power administration engi neer, is based upon a connifcA tion consisting of two major high voltage circuits extend ing from The Dalles and John Day dams southward through Oregon via Redmond and Klamath Falls and into Cali fornia via ShrQa and the bay area and on south to the Los Angeles area. "Broadly, we find that the potential benefits to be de rived from a common carrier interconnection between the Northwest and California just ify its construction at the earliest possible date," t h e Schultz report stated. "In developing our analysis and this conclusion, we have adhered to our instruction from the state of California that the Pacific Northwest has a first priority to all fed eral hyroelectic power devel ped here." it added. Ralph M. Brody, Gov. Ed m u n d G. Brown's special counsel on water matters, em phasized this latter point in an interview. "Whatever is done, the pri orities of the Northwest for power must be maintained," declared Brody. "We atalk ing about power that is truly surplus to the needs of the Northwest." Californiadocs not want any extension of the prefer ence clause on Bonneville power across OregonV south- " CHATS WITH MOTHER Vice President Richard M. Nixon enjoys a chat with nis mother, Mrs. Hannah Nixon of Whittier, Calif., as the GOP presidential nominee ar rived at Whittier College to be greeted by a cneering crowd of 2u,00u person. Nixon left early today lOr Hawaii. (UPI Telcphoto) Action on Transfer of Regional Post Office To Seattle Postponed Washington D.C. - FuiQier '. action on the transfer of re . gional post office operations " from Portland to Seattle has been postponed. Confirmation of this action came by telegram from Sen. Olin D. Johnston (D-South Carolina), chairman of the post office and civil service committee, to Sen. ' Wayne Morse. In the telegram to Morse, Johnston said, "I am happy to inform you that I have re ceived information that the postmaster general has agreed to my request of July 2, 1960, to withhold further action on the transfer of the regional operations office from Port land, Oregon, to Seattle, Wash ington. . "As you are aware, this ac tion on my part was taken at your request and in accord ance with my desire to see that he Post Office department is operated in an efficient man ner and on an economical basis. . "For your information the following is the telegram which I sent to the postmaster general: , "It has been broughtfto the committee's attenljjmgat you Miss Oregon Gets Keys To Salem Salem - IUPI1 - Miss Oregon of 1960, Rosemary Doolen, ar rived here Tuesday from Sea side where she captured the title as Miss Salem and was ieted by state and city ofwe ls at a state capitol recep tion. ' The 19-year-old blonde waQ Riven the keys to the city by Mayor Russell Bonesteele and was greeted on behalf of the state by Secretary of State Howell Appling Jr. . : The band struck up with Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" ! Her family lives in Medford and she attended Willamette University last year. r Actor Ordered To 1 Answer Complaints ' ; Gkale. Calif . -jg!l- Actor Tab Hunter must ffppear at the city attorney's office Aug. 22 to answer complaints of neighbors that he beat his pet dog. i ' The hearing was scheduled for Tuesday but postponed by inutual agreement of the city attorney and Hunter's counsel. . Hunter denied the charges which were based on com plaints of neighbors that he beat the animal when it dug hoie in his lswn. plan to move the regional operations office from Port land, Oregon, to Seattle, Wash ington. "I request in strongest terms that you delay such ac tion until the committee has had an opportunity to study the matter. This proposed move has been represented to the committee as contrary to good business practices and economy as well as a serious drop in employee morale . . . " Sw&etland Raps Parly Conventions Portland - IUPD - State Sen", Monroe Swcetland, D e m o cratic candidate for Secretary of Stafe, said here Tuesday that "national0 conventions merely ratify the candidates and do not select them." Sweetland made his ob servation at a Downtown Ro tary club meeting at the Ben son hotel. He said that convention demonstrations were a thing of the past and cited the ex amples of the huge demonstra tions this year for Adlai StevenstO at the Democratic National convention and Barry Goldwater at the Re publican convention as having "no real effect." Sweetland said the presi dential candidates for each party are now selected months before the conventions. Warrant Issued For John Carradine Los Angeles niPD A bench warrant has been issued for the arrest of actor John Car radine for fai'ling to show up for the third time at a civil court Rearing on a $537 judg ment against him. Superior Court Commis lintnn RnHHa issued the warrant Tuesday and s bail at $105. Mitchell Gertz, former agent for Carradine, sought the money for fees he claims the actor owes him since 1957. Carradine was reported per forming in summer stock in Washington State. Queen Elizabeth Plans India Visit New Delhi - IUPD - The dates of Queen Elizabeth's and Prince Philip's visit to India and Pakistan were made pub lic here and in London Tues day, f The five-week visit will begin next Jan. 21 in India. The royal couple will be in Pakistan from Feb. 1 to 16 and then return to India for tha final two wecki. Trujillo's Brother Quits ern border into California, he said. That is, no public agen cy in California which might receive surplus Bonneville power over this new transmis- "i l-i i e ft,. x(i,luI1 wuum nave any piui- V IhpercfiLe right to continue get- r ,v& v fffitine it in Dreference to nnn- ''sL!- ppubllc purcljgyers in the If it takes federal legisla tion to make this pledge legal ancPbinding, Brody said, Caiio fornia is willing to support it. Northwest senators, notably Sen. Henry M. Jackson VSD- Wash.) and Sen. Hall S. Lusk (D-Ore.), recently expressed concern that any transmission of surplus power from (we Bonneville system into Cali fornia would posibly obligate the Northwest to honor pref erence demands of public agencies in CaOfoia - unless special legislation is passed to clearly prevent this. The concern of these sen ators was aroused by a pro posal by the Interior depart ment for selling surplus pow er to Pacific Gas & Electric company over a small line which PG&E and California Oregon Power company would build. Gov. MaJ. O. Hatfield '(f) Oregon joined in favcng leg islative safeguards. The con tract is still pending, but the senate interior committee has asked that it be deferred. The Schulz report assumes that the private interfpnnec- tion between BPA and PG&E will be accomplished. It states that this would not affect the feasibility of the larger dual circuit line, an might inv prove the reliability of the whole intertie operation. Schultz assumed, for h i s study, that the transmissQm circuits in California would be built by a non-federal pub lic agency, such as the state through its department of wa ter resources which is build ing the dams and aqueduct; and in Oregon "by a non-profit organization (because we are not certain that any pub lic agency exists in the state that is appropriately consti tuted to build the transmission facilitiesO" He estimated the entire circuit would cost $200 million to build. ov. Pat Brown's special counsel, Brody, has been meeting periodically with Jo- Oel Hill, Oregon's public utili ties commissioner, and Earl Coo, Washington state re sources chief, in an effort to develop a power intertie ac ceptable to the governors of all those states. If the states or some public or private iilities within the states built the line, no fed eral legislation would be gje quired, except the sfieguard respecting tfife prefer ence clause. If the federal govern ment builds the line, Congress would have to authbrize and finance it. Within such a proposal lie the seeds of a brand new west ern power fight. (Next - The Columbia -Powerhouse for the West) Jobless Fraud Probes Soughto Salem - ll'Pll - Oregon Em ployment Commissioner Da vid H. Cameron said Tuesday that the state will requcifj) more federal funds for prob ing of frauds among Oregiw Unemployment Compensation claimants. The action was urged by the Advisory Council on Un employment Compensation at a recent (Meeting in Eugene. The present program, he said, has accomplished much toward slowing down inroads on the trust :nd due to fraud "but the council expressed fear that economy - minded budget cuts might curtail the activity in tCt future." A centOl fraud investiga tion unit is maintained by the Oregon Employment Depart ment with investigators in six Oregon cities. SoQe 30.639 cases were under investigation between July 1. 1959 id June 30 of this yeai But most of thesg turned out to be legitimalf, g'ameron said. Willful hit s representation decisions were issued in 401 cases during this acriod and overpayment was noted in Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic (UPI) President Hec tor Trujillo has presented his "irrevocable resignation" to the Dominican Congress, it was announced officially to day. President Trujillo, brother of Dominican strong man Gen eralissimo Rafael I. Trujillo, has been in office since 1952. His present term was to end in 1962. First report of TrQillo's resignation was heard in Cara cas, Venezuela, on La Voz Do minicana, the official Domini can government radio. Ac cording to the radio an nouncement, Vice President Joaquin Vidcla Balagucr also submitted his resignation. Trujillo's resignation was ceived by a special joint ses sion of Congress. The Congress immediately appointed a joint commission to visit the President and ask him to withdraw his resigna- tion. o Phair Criticizes Senator Kennedy Pendleton (UPI)- Ron Phair, GOP congressional candidate from Oregoa's second district, Tuesday criticized Sen. John Kennedy for a recent speech attacking Vice PresidenD Richard Nixori and Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson. SEJiair said he was "extreme ly disappointed" in Kennedy for lambasting Nixon, and added, "Kennedy is extremely ill advised." The Republican from Klam ath Falls met with Nixon and with farm leaders in Chicago last week. Following the meeting, Phair said he was in "complete agreement with Nixon's attitude." Central Point Boy InSerious Condition Jesse O'Neil Smith, 16, of 5316 Table Rock rd., Central Point, was reported still in serious condition at Rogue Valley hospital today follow ing an accident Monday morn ing. Smith was operating a bi cycle south on Table Rock rd. about 'i mile north of the jsylion with Vilas rd. when the bicycle angled into the path of a log truck, ac cli"g to slate police. A passenger on the bicycle, Roy Don Crawford, 11, of 5168 Table Rock rd., Central Point, was reported in good condition at Crater Osteopa thic hospital suffering from concussion and fractured pel vis. Smith was reported to have head ii.ries. The log truck, owned by Bruce L. Blew, was operated by Grant Roy Clyde, 29, of Third St., Rogue River. He told police that he started to pas the two bovQon the bi cycle when the accident oc curred. No citation was issued, police said. 239 cases amounting to $30, 925. Of this, $17,645 was re covered within the year. There were 20 convictions. Smith Protests Industry Lack Milton - Freewater - (I'PH -Former Gov. Elmo Smith Tuesday protested the "lack of attention" given to Oregon in the placing of defense and space-age industries. In a speech at Milton-FO:-watcr, the Republican candi date for the U.S. Senate also called for "development of better markets'' for Oregon's farm, factory and forest pre ucts. Smith said Oregon is near the bottom of the list of stales in federal installatChs. and charged that Oregon dollars are subsidizing defense indus tries in neighboring stales. The Albany publisher said because 0gon is a producer state, it must develop more favorable markets in order to compete with other areas. He called for more "favorite freight rates, protection against untor competition from fi.t'Q-n producers," andQ luii use oi laim surpluses to feed the needy in other parts of the world. Polaris Warhead Trigger Tested Cape Canaveral, Fla.-ttiPD- The Navy revealed Tuesday night that it has begun test ing machinery to trigger a nuclear warhead in Polaris missiles. An arming and fusing mechanism rode in the nose cone of a Polaris fired 1,150 statute miles from land to a target in the South Atlantic southeast of here. The rocket carried a dummy warhead. The arming device was trig gered in the tests as the Po l.Qs' engines ig)iited a split second after the missile rode to a height of about 70 feet on a column of compressed air from a "ship motion simu lator tube. Telemetry transmitters rid ing in the nose relayed details of the test to ground tracking stations. Salem Postmaster Confined in Hospital Sale in IPD Salem Post master Albert C. Gragg re mained in satisfactory condi tion in a Salem hospital today following major surgery Mon day. Authorities said it might be two months before he could return to his duties. Look AND WATCH FOR Melbourne, Australia - HIPP -Capt. Robert Gee, 8(i, former British parliamentarian, died today. CHOLERA EPIDEMIC Lahore, Pakistan - (UPI) - A cholera epidemic in the Pa walpindi and Lahore areas killed 205 persons between May 21 and Aug. 1, accSding to government figures. Army medical teams are fighting the epidemic. There have been 1,543 cholera cases since it started. $50,000 Damages Asked After Wreck Yreka - A damage suit for 0,350 was filed in Siskiyou County Superior court last Friday by Minne I. Tosh, guardian for Garry F. Scott, 17, for injuries sustained in a collision involving a dump truck ownea by Louis Sbar baro and William Perala, both of Weed. The accident occurred at the junction of highway 99 and Abrams ifake rd. near Mt. Shasta on July 27, 19. 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