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.
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DAMAGED HOUSES This aerial picture The storm was one of a series that swept
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where a tornado hit over the weeK end. (UPI Telephoto)
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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-
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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. Richards
of the State System of Higher
Education at a Rotary meet
i in Salem.
out the answers while In San
Francisco and report back at
a later date.
IT MOVES MOUNTAINS
Milwaukee, Wis.-UIPD-Some .
Milwaukeeans appear to have
performed the impossible for
love. A marble statue of the
goddess Venus weighing 500
shapely pounds has disap.
peared from the garden .of
Harold J. Fitzgerald. Fitzger
ald told authorities Monday
the statue was so heavy it
took three men to lift it onto
its pedestal. But whoever took
it didn't even leave footprints
in his garden.
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