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Nez Perce Dam Said Detrimental To Fishermen Portland-UJPII-Witnesses told a Federal Power Commission hearing Monday that the pro posed Nez Perce dam on the Snake river would be a detri ment to both sports and com mercial fishing. The FPC is conducting a hearing on rival applications for Nez Perce and Mountain Sheep dams. Roy A. Holland. Bremerton, Wash., attorney and secretary treasurer of the Washington State" Sportsmen's Council, said his group1 definitely op posed the proposed Nez Perce dam. He said the group had passed a resolution opposing construction of any dam on the Snake below its junction with the Salmon river. Favors Mountain Sheep Dr. James A. Crutchfield, associate professor of eco nomics at the University of Washington, said he favored Mountain Sheep over Nez Perce. Pacific Northwest Power Co. has applied to build Moun tain Sheep. Washington Pub lic Power Supply System wants to build Nez Perce. The hearing was in its third week. Proposed sites of the two dams were visited during the week end by utility and FPC representatives. "" i DAMAGED HOUSES This aerial picture The storm was one of a series that swept shows damaged houses in Thrall, Kan., Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas, where a tornado hit over the weeK end. (UPI Telephoto) Medford Tribune SECTION B MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1961 PAGES'! to 8 Lilies Flowers Flowers Gifts SP 3-1733 26 SOUTH CENTRAL Hydrangeas Plus a large Choice of EASTER GIFTS A1RBASE TO CLOSE Tampa, Fla. (UPII The Air Force said Monday it will close MacDill Air Force Base on June 30, 1962. It was an nounced last year that the base would be inactivated be cause of the Air Force's cut back in medium bomber strength. LARGE LIBRARIES Washington - Largest li braries in the United States are the Library of Congress, Harvard u n i versity library and the New York, public library. Clark Gable's Widow Due To Leave Hospital Hollywood -IUPI1- Clark Ga ble's widow, Kay, 43, is ex pected to leave Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital today, eight days after giving birth to the actor's only child, John Clark Gable. The baby was taken home from the hospital Sunday. Ga ble died in the same hospital Nov. 16. SEEKS HOUSE SEAT Nashville, Tenn. UPD The widow of the late Rep. B. Car roll Reece (R-Tenn.) will be among the candidates for his congressional seat in a spe cial election May 16. More than 100 Republicans in the state's first District have en dorsed Mrs. Reece as her hus band's successor. Public Housing for Elderly Is Discussed at Council Meeting Gene Rossman, executive director of the Portland Hous ing authority, said here Mon day there is a "traditional op position" to public housing on the part of several organiza tions. But he attributed this opposition to "public misun derstanding." Rossman, speaking as reg ional president of the Nation al Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials, ad dressed his remarks to a meeting of the Rogue Valley Council on Aging held in the Medford library. Accompanying Rossman was Don Byers, the architect for a new 150-unit public hous ing project in Portland. (By ers may be remembered local ly as the designer of the Med ford Plaza apartments on South Oakdale ave. Rossman served on the 1959 Oregon Centennial commission with Mayor John W. Snider, who also attended yesterday's meetings.) Could Provide Housing Rossman declared that it is "absolutely i n c o nceivable" that private enterprise could provide housing for low-income bracket people, charg ing a rent they can afford, and still make a profit. He said there is no reason for conflict between public and private housing If public housing is properly operated because it is not supposed to operate at a profit. He ad ded that the purpose of public housing is to provide decent and sanitary living facilities for low-income bracket peo ple who could not afford ad equate private housing in the first place. Rossman speaks from ex perience since the Portland Housing authority now oper ates three public housing pro jects, having a total of more than 600 living units. Only 100 of these are for the elder ly, however. 'A Continuous Program' Asked what steps can be taken to counter vocal opposi tion to the idea of public housing, Rossman replied that it requires "a continuous pro gram of public education." Little opposition is heard in Portland anymore, he added. Rossman and Byers had stopped off in Medford yester- liirvi iP:Z4 41 Ify 1 It grows almost like Jack's beanstalk To him, it's amazing. To teeming millions in crowded areas of the world, it's a new source of hope of better food, a richer life. For in food crops, astonishing new growth is being released by the green thumb of science. One striking development in agri culture, for instance, is plant foods created by the people of Standard's ORTHO Division. These plant foods come in dry pellet form... and can literally be "rained" on fields by plane. They can increase yields of fruit and vegetables 100, make pastures rich enough to graze five times more livestock. Imagine what advances like these can mean to the peoples of other free world nations. Our field men see it... working with farmers and the land in 70 countries. Poor soil becomes fertile; plants become rich in nourishment. And this has n larger meaning... more food brings more vitality to peoples of crowded lands, a stronger economy ... a healthier soil for the growth of freedom. planning ahead to nrva you better STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA day while on a trip to San Francisco to get approval of the authority's plans for a 150-unit housing development for Portland's elderly. Rossman said the new de velopment will be 13 stories high, built of concrete, and will be located in northwest Portland near Multnomah sta dium. Called a "high-rise" de velopment, the structure will be a tall building due to the cost of land in this area. Three-Story Building . In addition to the main fa cility, a smaller three-story building, having 39 units, will be erected adjacent to it. This will be reserved for families with pre-sehool children, Ross man said, to give the develop ment an "aura of a typical neighborhood." Also, a two-story commun ity service center will con nect with the main structure, and will house recreational facilities and counseling rooms. The entire development will cost an estimated 51,700,000, which has already been as sured by the federal public housing administration. It is hoped that construcation can start within 60 days with the building to be completed 18 months later. Members of the Rogue Val ley Council on Aging were chiefly interested in how to get started here to determine the need for public housing for the elderly. The Council is interested in what steps would be necessary to have a local housing authority estab lished. On the first point, Rossman explained that the study was undertaken in Portland, large ly at the urging of the mayor. A representative sampling was taken of the 5,000 people in that city who are on old age assistance, and it was found that 3,750 of them, or 75 per cent, were living in substandard dwellings. This survey cost only $500, he said, using the help of graduate students at Portland State college. He said the fed eral public housing adminis tration provides the funds for the study, and also provides an instructor to train the per sons making the survey Rossman pointed out that housing authorities can be established either by the city or the county. The Portland Housing authority is a city body, he said, and ils mem bers are appointed by the mayor. Several members of the Rogue Valley Council on Ag ing said they were thinking in terms 'of having a county authority, since the area's housing problems are county wide. They expressed concern that the county might refuse to establish such an authority. Ex - County Commissioner Ralph James was at the meet ing, and he suggested that "public pressure'' would have a lot to do with the county's action in this respect. Rossman noted that a coun ty housing authority would first have to obtain the per mission and cooperation of a city council before it could do any work within a city. He observed that the same au thority could have jurisdiction over both urban renewal and housing projects, if it chose to organize that way. Tins is not the case in Portland. To finance a housing pro ject, money is borrowed from the federal public housing ad ministration to get the project under way. The housing au thority then sells bonds (back ed by the federal government) on the open market to repay this loan within two years. The authority then has 40 years to pay off the bonds. At the end of this time the project is owned by the au thority. "Theoretically," Rrossman said, "a public housing pro ject pays for itself." But, in practice this is not quite the case. He said the federal hous ing administration subsidizes the authority at the rate of about $10 per unit per month to offset the difference in in come and cost of operation. Rossman did not have the answers to many of the ques tions asked yesterday, since most of them were concerned with the beginnings of a hous ing authority. However, he assured those attending the meeting that he would find Hatfield To Break Ground at Eugene Salem-aiPii-Gov. Mark Hat field will take part in a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday morning for the new state office building in Eugene. At noon he will introduce Chancellor John R. 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