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Power Association Lists Purposes; High
Dam at Copper Canyon on Roane Is Aim
(Editor's note: The follow
Irrg is a verbatim copy ot a
statement of purposes is
sued by the newly-tormed
Josephine County Public
Power Association, .which
recently proposed construc
tion of a high dam at Cop
per Canyon on the Rogue
river above Agness. It is re
printed from the Grants
Pass Courier. Comment on
the statement appears in the
editorial column on Page 4.)
Our first purpose is to form
a people's utility district to
facilitate an intelligent de
velopment of the Central
Rogue Basin. We realize, how
ever, that this district, so
formed, will have commis
sioners elected by the people,
who will be in charge of the
administrative affairs of the
district. We are sure they will
reflect mature wisdom in mak
ing policies, and establishing
their own goals. However, it
is the hope of the sponsoring
association that we may influ
ence these goals by preparing
an objective report. The fol
lowing goals are the desires of
the present sponsoring asso
ciation and shall be desig
nated and known as "The
Dean Water Conservation
Plan for the Rogue Basin."
According to the history of
the Rogue Basin, there never
has been a time that water
hasn't been a major problem,
and it is our aim that we
should eliminate this prob
lem, and for the first time in
history water shall be avail
able to all people in the
Rogue Basin, filling their
needs with surplus. We know
that no customer will be too
large or too small for us to
serve.
We know we have available
at the Copper Canyon Dam
Bite in excess of six million
acre-feet annually. We realize
that Copper Canyon is a con
siderable distance from the
heavily populated part of the
basin; consequently, it would
be necessary to slack water
in the Rogue by a high dam
in order to get economical ac
cess to pumping zones. This,
we are reasonably sure, can
be accomplished.
These pumping zones will
be located in Graves Creek,
Jump Off Joe Creek, Apple
gate River, and below the
falls on the Illinois to serve
the Selma-Cave Junction area.
From these pumping zones we
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and I'm inviting you to at
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Friday, January 20th, cele
brating the merger of
The Rogue Valley
State Bank
Medford
and
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Portland
Watch for your Treasure
Chest key in the mail."
Rogue Valley Branch
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East Medford Branch
701 East Jackson
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hope to supply all the needs
of Josephine County, not only
for agriculture, but for in
dustry, for mining, or for any
other use.
After our own immediate
needs, we hope to have excess
water, to supply all the needs
of Jackson County. We are
reasonably sure that this can
be accomplished at a price not
prohibitive; so it will be a
profitable adventure for the
consumer. We also hope that
every consideration will be
given "to draw down" on the
reservoir, so as not to inter
fere with the recreational po
tential. We believe that there
can be installed one million
six - hundred thousand horse
power capacity at Copper
Canyon Dam. We believe we
can operate this equipment at
full capacity for six months
annually.
We also believe that a pow
er exchange agreement can
be negotiated with the Bonne
ville Power Administration,
whereby we may furnish max
imum power during the time
of high water, so we may re
ceive power back again at
low water in the summer
months to facilitate our water
program, and to limit our own
generating system to the mini
mum amount of water neces
sary to supply all of the needs
of the Rogue River below the
dam, so as to assure no water
shortage in Curry County;
thus holding the reservoir
draw-down to a minimum.
Now comes flood control.
We realize that the proposed
dams on the Upper Rogue do
not protect us here in Jose
phine County from high wa
ter, caused by creative condi
tions occurring below the dam
sites. Such high water can
be very destructive!
We propose that a pumping
zone be installed above the
town of Rogue River, and a
reservoir be built in the Evans
Creek area, so flood waters
may be pumped off when they
occur, thus ending forever the
threat of floods in the Grants
Pass area.
We propose that similar sta
tions be installed where need
ed, to protect life and prop
erly. The power for such pur
pose will be available here,
produced from the Copper
Canyon power supply.
ow we face the fish prob
lem. For many years great
sacrifice has been made to
protect our anadromous fish.
With this problem in mind, a
preliminary survey o the
Lower Rogue was conducted,
and it appeared to be a simple
task to pass these fish into
the Chelco River watershed,
through a natural fish escape
ment to the sea, by using a
route around the Copper Can
yon high dam. However,
when we thing of the price
we paid in the past, and the
price we are paying at the
present, we hereby recom
mend that this route should
not be used, but in its place
we seal the river against fish
escapement forever. This
should be a deterrent to a bad
memory of the past and pres
ent anadromous fish policies.
We regret in this instance all
we can do is to recommend.
We believe that the district
should employ a competent
fish biologist. This biologist
would be given a free hand
in insuring a maximum of fish
in the lake area. We recom
mend that we spend liberally
to insure the utmost in fish
capacity, but we must bear in
mind that this type of fishing
will bring millions of dollars
to our economy. We should
prepare to create facilities to
accommodate the demands of
a sudden influx of five hun
dred thousand tourists annual
ly. We recommend for recrea
you is our
responsibility.
PHONl Sf 2 8030
tion in general the proposals
set forth by the Josephine
County Water Resources
Board that part of the subcom
mittee on recreation's report
referring to the construction
of Copper Canyon dam be
adopted.
There's no need at the
present time to review those
recommendations, for they
are part of public record on
file at the Josephine County
Courthouse.
Now we shall consider pow
er. We know we shall have in
excess of our own needs, three
hundred thousand kilowatts
of firm power. Although it
should be the policy to en
courage the use of this power
within our district, we recom
The so-called pickerel weed,
like the proverbial small boy,
likes to wade in shallow wa
ter. In fact, this plant insists
on spending its entire life
standing in water, and will
flourish there provided the
water is reasonably warm
and correctly shallow.
In the warmer parts of the
country the pickerel weed
will blossom throughout the
entire year. Its long spikes of
violet-blue flowers, each with
two bright yellow spots at
the base of the petals, looks
a great deal like the common
hyacinth. Each blossom lasts
but a single day, but it is
followed by another and an
other. The stalks grow taller
and taller, and the succession
of bloom is almost contin
uous. It's a Pest
The pickerel weed has be
come-somewhat of a pest in
some localities, completely
clogging some streams, and in
a few sections it has become
a serious problem in noxious
weed control. There are rec
ords of some colonies of the
weed in some southern states
where a thousand acres are
completely choked with it, ac
cording to estimates based on
aerial and ground reconnais
sance. The name pickerel weed
was reached by a rather
roundabout method. Growing
as the weed does in fresh
water creeks and ponds, some
fishermen noticed that pick
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Legislative Briefs
Salem - IUPD - The Joint
Ways and Means committee
Wednesday approved for in
troduction a bill appropriat
ing $1,250,000 to run the leg
islature until the session ends.
The funds also would be
used for legislative purposes
during the interim until the
1983 legislatureconvenes.
The Oregon Dairymen's as
sociation, meeting here, indi
cated desire today that two
measures to benefit their in
dustry be passed.
One would tighten the
audit milk law. Dairymen said
it would further protect farm
ers. The other, which was ex
pected to get stiff opposition,
is known as the "Fair Trades
practices Act." It would elim
inate discounts to retail milk
outlets and lending of dairy
display equipment.
A 42-bilI package of elect
ion law revisions and a special
election bill for School Dis
trict 1 in Multnomah County
were described Wednesday at
the first meeting of the House
Committee on Elections and
Reapportionment.
Jack Thompson, elections
director, said he considered
the election law revision mea
sures to be primarly "house
keeping suggestions. His of
fice prepared them. They are
noncontrovcrsial, he said.
Rep. Edward Whclan, D
Portland, said a bill which
would save Multnomah Coun
ty an estimated $100,000 in a
special election March 8
would be introduced today. It
would allow the district to
pool precincts to cut down
on polling places.
Rep. Joe Rogers, R. Inde
pendence, told the House Edu
cation committee Wednesday
surplus driver training funds
should be distributed on the
basis of student participation
in driver training programs.
REMEMBER-
Price
Buy the Pir Tir
Sat the Second at '1 rRiie
5$ Bud' Tire
Mill 100 Mertlt Rivi?r!d - S
fttOtOVO WW" TIVu9t.
mend the first option to pur
chase this power at cost
should go to the Coos-Curry
Electric at Port Orford, Ore.
Should there be an excess
beyond the needs of their dis
trict, and beyond the needs
of our district, we recommend
the public power pool for the
benefit of the State of Ore
gon's public power distribu
tors. This now is a general
outline of our goal and pur
poses of the Josephine County
Public Power Association,
and in closing may we pray,
"God help us to influence the
future, in order that we may
be free from fear or want."
Approved by the Board of
Directors January 6, 1961. W.
I. DAVIDSON, Chairman.
Small Worlds
Around Us
By Lynn M. Watkins
(Register and Tribune Syndicate,
1961)
erel were nearly always pres
ent in the near vicinity of
the plant, and the observers
assumed that the fish were
using the roots of the plant
for depositing their eggs.
Pickerel as well as many
other species of fish will lay
eggs in among the roots or
stems of acquatic plants, if
the plant is growing in water
deep enough for them to
swim. But there is actually
no scientific reason why pick
erel would select this partic
ular plant near which to de
posit their eggs.
Peculiar Odor
A more reasonable explana
tion for the naming of the
plant would seem to be the
peculiar odor of the blossom,
which attracts to itself a
steady stream of flies and
many other kinds of insects,
The fish come because the
table is always set with a
plentiful supply of available
and choice food. Pickerel as
well as other fish frequent
places where food is in good
supply, and the service speedy
Around these blue flowers
with the deep green, pointed
leaves there is always a meal
of bugs.
So the colorful and common
pickerel weed wades in the
water, and although the plant
is considered a pest, it does
add a certain wild beauty to
the warm friendliness of a
babbling brook where the del
icate blue reflects itself on
limpid waters.
Rogers said extra funds now
are returned to the Highway
Department each year.
James Turnbull, deputy su
perintendent of public instruc
tion, said $5,000 more would
be needed by the Stale Board
of Education for driver train
ing instruction i civil service
pay scales are raised. The
board's driver training budg
et now stands at $30,000.
The committee also is con
sidering a bill to upgrade
teacher certification require
ments. The bill would require
all teachers to have five years
of training, instead of only
high school teachers.
Hatfield Wants Fair
For Agriculture
Salem (UPD - Mark Hatfield
said Wednesday he would like
to see the Oregon State Fair
return to a greater emphasis
on agriculture.
One way to do this, he sug
gested, would be to place the
slate fair commission under
the agriculture department.
Under Hatfield's reorganiza
tion plan, the agriculture de
partment in turn would be
under the proposed new na
tural resources department.
Hatfield made his remarks
to delegates attending a
a meeting of the Oregon
Dairymen's association.
Identical Twins Appear
In Divorce Suit
Los Angeles -IUPD- Identical
twins appeared in court
Thursday In connection with
a divorce suil, and both gave
their first names as Anna.
"Our. mother liked the
name," explained Anna Lou
isa Fause and Anna Theresa
Peralta, 27. Anna Louisa was
granted a divorce.
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By Jack Smith
(c) 1960 Tlmcs-Mlrror Syndicate
There's news from the Pen
tagon that the V. S. Navy has
gone over from traditional
cotton bunting to new syn
thetic fabrics for signal flags.
They say the synthetic is vis
ible a mile farther.
This is good news, along
with the Army's announce
ment of a $30 rocket grenade
that can knock any known
tank out of the ball game.
One of the overlooked con
sequences of the H bomb is
the shadow it casts over many
lesser achievements.
The bomb is of such enor
mous interest that few of us
pay attention to any other ad
vance in the march of mili
tary science.
All sorts o minor lights are
hidden in the glare of Eniwe
tok. The nuclear physicists win
all the acclaim, including a
social status previously ac
corded only to cabinet mem
bers and four-star generals.
Soviets Say U.S.
Planes Buzz Ships
Moscow tUPB A top Soviet
official charged Wednesday
that U. S. planes buzzed more
than 200 Russian ships "at
mast-ton height" during the
last five months of 1960.
The official, Merchant Mar
ine Minister Viktor Bakayev,
also accused U. S. Navy ves
sels of "shamming combat at
tacks in dangerous proximity"
to Soviet ships.
"These provocations were
not of a fortuitous but rather
of a systematic nature, and
were undertaken obviously on
instructions of the U. S. War
Department and encourage
ment of the Eisenhower ad
ministration," he said.
Bakayev's charges, carried
by the official Tass news
agency, came in a news con
ference at the merchant mar
ine exhibition here.
A dramatic note was inject
ed into the Bakayev confer
ence when a messenger rush
ed in with a telegram alleg
ing that an American jet
plane buzzed another Soviet
ship, the Pyotr Shirshov, in
the Mediterranean only Wed
nesday. Bakayev blamed the buzz
ings on the Eisenhower ad
ministration, but he said it
was hoped that "with the com
ing into office of the new
American government, the sit
uation will change."
Anfiropoogsf Jakes
Beer on Expedition
Cambridge, England - (DPI) -Cambridge
university anthro
pologist Stephen Day today
explained how his expedition
to the arid Sahara Desert
managed to get along without
European food or the ameni
ties of civilization.
"We took along 1,500 cans
of English beer," he said.
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offering every used car in our stock
for lale at tho regular low prices,
there are NO FINANCE CHARGSS
far tko first year!
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But other men, dedicated to
less fashionable scientific
fields, go on working in their
humble laboratories, develop
ing such blessings as nerve
gas, chocolate that won't melt
on a long march and a supply
rocket that will shoot soda
crackers and hors de'oeuvrcs
18,000 yards.
Fortunately, plenty of our
bright people are pretending
that H bomb doesn't exist.
They are going right ahead
preparing for what is called
limited war. Limited war
means there would be some
body left.
This is a smart idea. Any
prizefighter knows that if you
base your defense on the
other fellow's right, he is like
ly to kick you in the ankle.
Nobody honors the inven
tors, gunsmiths and dieticians
who are looking out for the
footsoldier in the next lim
ited war.
They keep on giving ot
their genius, with no more no-
lice than a circus Juggler gets
competing with the center
ring where the Hon is swal
lowing the prelty lady lion
tamer.
But their work reassures us
that the old values still have
merit. Not everything loved
can be incinerated In the nu
clear flash.
I'm delighted to hear that
the Navy has no thought of
scrapping the signal flag just
because we have evolved Into
an age In which electronic
messages can be bounced off
the moon.
There are some things sail
ors say lo eacn oilier mat
shouldn't be overheard even
in the emptiness of space.
Suppose one of our ships,
faced with the not uncommon
crisis of the sea, meets another
ship on the Pacific waste and
recognizes her as a possible
source of relief.
With the new, high-visibil
ity signal flags, it would be no
problem to advise the other
ship of the trouble and ask
assistance, without the whole
world eavesdropping.
The vivid little triangles are
affixed to a line and up she
goes, singing out the cap
tain's message:
"We are out of strawberry
ice cream. Can you help us?
Such a communication
would make perfect sense be
tween two U. S. navel ves
sels on the high sea.
I wouldn't want It lo fall,
however, on the ears of the
U. S. Army or the Marines
These organizations haven't
vet cot over the fact thai
throughout World War II the
Navy got the most ice cream.
As for hostile monitors,
they would surely mistinter
pret such a message. It prob
ably would lend to limited
war.
In fact, the world Is so
snoopy and touchy these days
I wonder if the U. S. Navy
is really wise in Increasing
Die visibility of Its bunting.
Anyway, Red China will
probably have It In six years.
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