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History from the tiles of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 vein ago:
10 YEARS AGO
July 5, 1952 (Saturday)
The demolished airplane
and body of a student flier
from Tacoma, Wash., who left
the Medford airport four years
ago, found near Roseburg.
Robert Elliott of Medford
will automatically become a
member of the Republican na
tional committee under a rule
change adopted by the nation
al convention in Chicago.
20 YEARS AGO
July 5, 1942 (Sunday)
Hollywood star Florence
Rice buys Sams Valley ranch
and plans erection of new
home; the actress Is a daugh
ter of sports columnist Grant
land Rice.
From Arthur Perry'8 "Yc
Smudge Pot" column: "The
Fourth of July on the Pa
cific coast, with firecrackers
tabooed, showed the night be
fore Christmas how to be
quiet."
30 YEARS AGO
July 5, 1932 (Tueaday)
Many Medford backyards
raided by vandals; one citizen
reports that a thief broke into
his barn to milk his cow and
steal the milk beiore he got
up.
Lower fishing licenses are
urged In the Rogue valley aa
an Inducement to the tourist
trade.
40 YEARS AGO
Julv 5. 1922 (Wednesday)
Vacationing auloists are ad
vised to drive to Crater lake
by way of Derby rd. to avoid
construction on the main
highway.
England promises to pay
her World War I debts but re
fuses to pay them In a lump
sum.
50 YEARS AGO
July 5, 1912 (Friday)
Cartoon characters "Mutt
and Jeff" are Identified by lo
cal readers aa having origi
nated from two OrcRon men
-Tom S'evens of Burns and
Scotty Fjrguaou of Douglas
county.
The old Medford fire wagon
Is converted into a three-line
nozzler to be used if any big
buildings are endangered by
fire.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nina or ten correct Is superior;
aeven of eight It excellent; five Ol
six Is flood.
1. What is a horse's with
ers? 2. In what small country on
the Mediterranean is the fam
ous gambling casino of Monte
Carlo?
3. Name the largest island
group In the Malay Archi
pelago. 4. What is the capital of
West Virginia?
5. When President MiKin
loy was assassinated, who suc
ceeded to the Presidency?
6. In printing books, are
even numbered pages on the
left or right?
7. Frem what is snuff
made?
B. What American person
Is credited with inventing the
sewing machine?
9. Who Is the author of the
novel "Mlla IB" a story about
the Ghettos of Warsaw under
German control?
10. When copper and line
are mixed, what alloy results?
Answerst 1. Rldqa between
shoulder bones. 2. Monaco.
3. Philippine Islands. 4.
Charleston. 5. Theodore Roo
sevelt. 8. Lelt, 7. Tobacco.
8. Ellas Howe, 9. Leon Uris.
10. Fran.
THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1962
Freedom From and Freedom To
The controversial Supreme Court decision,
which banned the use of an officially-prescribed
prayer in school classrooms, has been widely de
plored as being a move toward eliminating re
ligion entirely from public life.
We do not view it this way. We do not believe
that it could, for instance, be construed as ban
ning such things as religious songs sung by choral
groups, or Christmas programs, or other such
manifestations in which religion plays a central
role.
There is a distinction here, and the distinction
is found in the First Amendment to the Constitu
tion itself, on which the decision was based.
QF religion the First Ammendment says:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establish
ment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof ..."
The school prayer, being officially prescribed
and imposed on school children, was in effect an
"establishment" of religion.
But school programs, whether or not they
have a religious theme, are not classroom exer
cises. No one is forced to participate. No one is
forced to attend. In most instances they do not
involve expenditures of tax funds.
This, it seems to us,
religion, and should be just as strongly protected
by the Constitution as is a student's right, in a
compulsory classroom,' to be protected from "of
ficial" prayers which may
or religious behels.
"INE aspect of the Amendment is negative ; the
other is positive. Both are equally important.
The school prayer ruling, it seems to us, has
been widely misinterpreted. It does NU1 enjoin
all mention of God from
enjoin is an official, state-written prayer.
Many dedicated Christians can object to this,
if on no other grounds than that found in VI
Matthew 5 :
"... when you pray, go into your room and shut the
door and pray to your Father who Is In secret; and your
Father who sees in secret will reward you." (RSV)
This, from Jesus Himself, hardly jibes with
the rote-recitation by uninterested and uninspired
students of an innocuous, not to say vapid, officially-prescribed
prayer, under the leadership of
a teacher who may or may not be interested.
rESPITE the concurring opinion of Mr. Justice
Douglas, the ruling decision does not take
God out of American official life, nor even out of
the schools.
Voluntary "free exercise" of religion is a far
different thing, and to our mind far more vivid
and meaningful, than an officially-imposed
prayer. '
Some of our greatest music, painting and
drama is religion-centered, as are our Thanks
giving and Christmas celebrations, for Christians,
and other feast days and holy clays, for other
religions.
They are all part of the tradition of this
varied, divergent and multiform nation so long
as their observance is freely voluntary, and im
posed on no one.
npiIIS, it seems to us, is the dividing line between
"establishment" and "free exercise."
And, in a nation where more than a third of
the populace has no church affiliation, and the
rest are splintered into hundreds of denomina
tions, seels, churches, and religions, "free ex
ercise" of religion can have no other meaning
than to include the freedom to abstain from re
ligion and religious observances.
Freedom includes "freedom from" as well as
"freedom to." One without the other is incom
plete. And the writers of the First Amendment,
with great wisdom, insured that Americans will
continue to have both. E. A.
"A ntis "Ne ve r Built An yth ing
Sir Charles Snow is a widely known, dis
tinguished, and sometimes controversial English
man w ho has been successful in several complete
ly different careers . as
administrator, novelist, and teacher.
Earlier this year, upon his induction as Rector
of St. Andrews University in Scotland, he ad
dressed his remarks to the topic of Magnanimity.
(It is, incidentally, one of the finest brief state
ments of contemporary
we have read recently.
Harper s. )
In the course of his remarks, he said :
"... What Is the root of the contemporary passion for
the prefix 'antl' . . . ? It is an expression of that nihilism
which fills the vacuum created by the withdrawal of
positive directives for living, whether religious or
humanist . . .
ABI1
T later, Iv added :
"We live in an age when frustration and fear make men
harsh and full of hale, and thai Is the worst motive either
for private or for social actum ..."
This is the kev to our violent distaste for the
"Anti-This" and' "Anti-That" Crusades, the
"Impeach So-and-So" and "Recall Sueh-and-Such"
movements.
Sir Charles concluded by saying:
i
"... Hatred is easy, destruction is easy. And that par- ;
ticular kind of ea;nno is ultimately nauseating to the !
soul," 1
This is truth. Nations are not made great, nor
people wise and good, by hate and destruction.!
They need positive, constructive action and
love. E. A. i
is "the free exercise'' of
offend his sensibilities
classrooms. What it does
a scientist, government
humanistic philosophy
It appears in the July
Nailed
Divided Nation
Linked By Airline
By PHIL NEWSOM
United Press International
New York-IUPII-Farlda Haq
is a smiling, almond-eyed
beauty who at the age of 22
remembers only vaguely the
terror of her family's flight
from India at the time of
partition.
That was in 1947 when In
dia and Pakistan were being
divided and in New Delhi the
Sikhs were running wild
against the Moslems.
Farida remembers only her
English-born mother telling
her that no matter what she
might see happen to her Mos
lem father, she was not to
cry out nor even admit that
he was her father. Her own
life would be at stake.
Along with some 9 million
other Moslems, her family
fled penniless to Pakistan
where eventually they settled
in the ancient city of Lahore,
recently visited by Mrs. Jac
queline Kennedy.
Today, Farida is helping to
disprove Kipling's belief that
"east is cast and west is west
and never the twain shall
meet."
Even In modern-day Pakis
tan Farida- Is somewhat
unique.
Unusual Occupations
In Pakistan is has not been
unusual for women to par
ticipate in such professions as
medicine, the law or politics.
But the business girl as she
is known in the United States
or other western nations is
emerging only slowly in Pak
istan behind President Ayub
Khan's determined drive to
eliminate many of the stulti
fying effects of orthodox
Mohammedanism.
Farida drops in on New
York once a week or so, and
is as much at home In western
dress as in her native sari.
"But," she says, "even
when I'm here, I like to wear
a sari when I dress up in the
evening."
And then she giggles.
"Maybe I like people to
look at me."
Farida is a stewardess for
Pakistan International Air
lines which, like Farida, is
unique and a story in Itself.
Objections
She took her Job over the
stern objections of her two
brothers who cling to the
ancient belief that the out
side world is no place for a
Moslem girl without a family
escort.
"Bui that," says Farida, "is
nothing. The father of a
Try and
By BENNETT CERF-
Y7TlEN IRVING LEVINE was acting as Moscow corres
' pondent he once tried out a new transistor radio on a
Soviet train. The Russian seated next to him tried desper
ately to contain his curi- v, , .,,
ositv, but finally could . '
stand it no longer. The
way he phrased his ques
tion was this, however:
"We have those things,
too. What is it?"
Levine met another
Soviet citi.-.rn who had
just returned from
guided tour to Denmark
"Economic condition:
there, he reported, ate
desperate. The Danes ob
viously are pennile.
There wasn't a line
front of a single shop!"
A patipnt rushed Into a neurvnosn'st's office and cried, "Doctor,
Doctor! The gnosis of my ancestors have taken to descending
upon me every night en masse. They perch on top of the fence
posta around my garden and acre-am epithets .nd imprecations
at nie. What can 1 do-"
The doctor replied thoughtfully, "I not concern joursclf, my
good fellow. Just sharpen those fence poet "
A btoker got a birthday remembrance from his son at camp
an inexpensive tie clasp. The accompanying note read: ' Pear
lVp: This isn't much, but II I all jou can afford. Love, Chrta."
C tr Bfnnett Celt. Pisinbuted b- Kmr Feature S)-ndl;(Bg
MEDFOHD MAIL
friend of mine would not even
speak to her for a year and
a half after she took a job
on the airline."
It has been said of Pakis
tan that it is a nation held
together by religion and an
airline.
Divided Pakistan lies on
either side of India, separated
by more than 1,000 miles.
The government-owned Pak
istan International Airlines
provides the link.
It flies everything from
DC-3's to the latest jets and
is bringing a new way of
life to isolated communities
of Pakistan, some of which
once were accessible only by
footpath.
An example is the mountain-locked
city of Chitral,
219 miles north of Peshawar
at the mouth of the Khyber
pass in west Pakistan.
A road barely passable by
automobile ran 161 miles
north from Peshawar and
then was broken by 20 miles
of footpath. The latter stretch
again was passable by car
but the trip took two to three
days.
PIA now covers it in 45
minutes.
Regular flights from Dacca
in east Pakistan to Karachi
in the west carry perishable
goods which otherwise would
take a week by ship.
The line is President Ayub's
not-so-secret weapon for uni
fying the vastly different cul
tures of the two wings of
Pakistan, which speak differ
ent languages, live in differ
ent climates and surroundings
and are bound together only
by religion.
PIA's general manager for
the United States and Canada
is a bouncy man named Sha
meem D. Ahmed.
"nIA," he says, "is espe
cially interested in making
f'"nds."
He and Farida are good rec
ommendations. REQUEST NAME PLATES
Munich, Germany -IIMI-Res-idents
of Schwabing, this
city's Bohemian district, asked
Wednesday that all police
wear nameplatcs or numbers
so they can be identified in
any future brawls Schwabing
has been the scene of almost
nightly street fights recently
between police and mobs of
students, artists and rowdies.
The disorders began one night
when police stopped three
guitarists from playing in the
main street and a brawl fol
lowed. Stop Me
TRIBUNE, MEDFOHD, OREGON
Vlaffer of Fact
c) New York Herald
ON MOSS GARDENING
Washington - Leisure, one
is told, is the big new thing
in American life. A professor
has written a
book rather
strongly a p
proving leis
ure. Maga
zines are de
voting sec
tions to leis
ure and its
uses, some of
which seem to
be very odd
But if you are an old-fashioned
American, dedicated to
productive toil and suspicious
of easy going 'eisure, a way
out can still be recommended
to you. Start a moss garden.
As far as can be discover
ed, the experiment is a novel
one in this country. A learn
ed Japanese, writing on moss
gardening for a recent Jour
nal of Economic Botany, was
unable to find a record of
more than one American moss
garden. It flourished on one
of the great Long Island es
tates of the 1920s, and it Drob-
ably dried up pretty rapidly,
which is fatal for moss gar
dens, after tne stock market
crash of 1929.
VET ignorance and neces-
suy, in comoination. are
great promoters of experimen
tation. In this case, moreover.
the spur of necessity and the
uianess or ignorance were
reinforced by the prod of
memory. The most memorably
beautiful garden in the world,
and one of the oldest, beyond
doubt, belongs to the Moss
Temple outside Kyoto. Sure
ly art and nature together
have never contrived anything
to surpass that carpet of a
hundred different mosses.
glowing in the green shade
of the great trees, masking the
water-lapped rocks, even
creeping up the sun-flecked
hillside.
Between the Moss Temple's
immemorial glades, and a
sunless, airless pit about 10
by 18 feet, there was only
one connection, but that a
strong one. On the architect's
blueprints, the pit had been
optimistically described as a
"planting area," but if plant
ed, very little seemed likely
to grow there except moss.
The questions remained, how
to get moss, and once got,
how to plant it.
These questions were brisk
ly answered by Mrs. Donald,
the single-handed creator of
the fern valley at the Nation
al Arboretum. You get moss,
it turns out, by going into the
countryside and digging it up.
And you plant it, with wide
ly varying results, by prepar
ing the kind of soil that is bos
tile to most other kinds of
growth; by muddying the
soil's surface . to an almost
soupy consistency; and by pat
ting the moss-clumps into this
semi-soup. After that, you
hope for the best.
TN a moss garden, to be sure,
- you need something more
than moss; but where moss is
comfortable, the plants of the
American woodlands are pret-
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It's Time Again '
To the Editor: Sir. why
should the people of Oregon
fall in step with others, when
they feel that it is definitely
the others who are out of
step?
A question:
What is the real purpose of
DST? What does it accom
plish? If it is important, then it
should be observed by all
states.
If it isn't important, then it
is the instigators who should
fall in line.
It is surely clear, by now.
that the time question is not
something that involves state
rights.
Paul F. Wilson,
814 Rerrydale,
Medford.
Twice Born
To the Editor: "If any man
be in Christ, he is a new crea
ture: old things are passed
away: behold, all things are
become new" til Cor. 5:17).
When Christ
Knocked at my heart,
I asked Him in;
He came with silent step
And light came, too,
And peace;
And then I looked and saw
That everywhere His love
Was shining on the sons
of men,
For se'.f had died.
And fear
Had given way to faith.
And I vis born anew,
When Christ came in.
Mildred HI 11 ::'y.
Alsnp
indeed.
By Joseph Altop
Tribune Syndicate
ty comfortable too. The wild
azalea for high growth; blood
root and trout-lily, oconee
bells, solomn's seal, and hep
atica for the mid-level; and
partridge berry and winter
green to interpentrate the
moss-carpet - all these are at
home with mosses. So are the
ferns, in all their wonderful
variety, from the lordly royal
fern to the Infinitely delicate
maidenhair spleenwort.
For a moss-garden, finally,
you need a place like that pit
of a "planting area" which
will never become a passage
way for large, carelessly
trampling feet. And you need
a sprinkler system, to give
yeur mosses 10 or 15 minutes
of misty spray on every sec
ond day, except in wet weath
er. These practical require
ments were easy to meet; and
the rest was done with the
help of Mrs. Donald.
The result, it must be add
ed, is remarkably unlike the
marvel of the Moss Temple.
It lacks majesty and mystery.
It is neither splendid nor ro
mantic. It is a garden to be
looked at inch by inch, like
those dish gardens nature-
minded children used to
make, in the old days when
children did other things be
sides look at television.
IN FACT, the first thing that
a beginning moss gardener
discovers is that his experi
ment positively demands to be
looked at inch by inch, and al
most every day. The point is
that weeds arc just as eager
to flourish among mosses as
anywhere else. Furthermore,
if a weed seedling attains
more than microscopic size,
it cannot be extracted without
bringing with it a large
chunk of the moss carpet.
Hence a serious moss garden
er's almost permanent posture
is a deep crouch. And this is
why moss gardening is an easy
way out, if you are threaten
ed with an excess of easy-going-leisure.
All the same, the rewards
can be considerable. After a
shriveled-looking start, that
moss which grew in emerald
green-velvet clumps along a
shady stream-side regains its
true emerald velvetyness.
That other moss, which re
sembles a heavy blue-green
plush, begins to be at home
beneath the maidenhair
spleenwort's fragile fronds.
The moss carpet, in sum, be
gins to form. And so you be
gin to feel you have accom
plished something not often
accomplished, except in Jap
an, where moss gardeners ate
numerous enough to gather in
clubs, to share their hobby
with many a gentle, enthusi
astic hiss. Good Luck to
them!
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
This is written on July 3.
Today's big question:
What shall we do tomor
row? APPROPRIATE thought for
today:
One hundred eighty six
years ago this evening, our
ancestors were getting ready
to declare their intention to
dissolve the political bands
which had connected them
with another country, "and
to assume among the powers
of the earth the separate and
equal station to which the
Laws of Nature and Nature's
God entitle them."
The next day, they made
their declaration. Having
made it, they closed it with
these ringing words:
"And for the support of
this Declaration, with a firm
reliance on the protection of
Divine Providence, we mutu
allv pledge to each other OUR
LIVES. OUR FORTUNES
AND OUR SACRED HON
OR." V
HAVE many problems
in these days.
Perhaps if we approached
them in the same spirit in
w h I c h our ancestors ap-
proached their Declaration of
Independence we would be
more apt to find a satisfactory
solution of them.
IROM Algiers:
France formally proclaim
ed Algeria an INDEPEN
DENT state, ending 132 years
of French rule over this
sprawling northwest African
territory.
The proclamation stated
'The President of the
French Republic declares
that France recognizes sol
emnly the independence of
Algeria."
IT SOUNDS wonderful
doesn't it?
But listen:
r S disr'ch S
f rodan0tion
mm of t
of j a
Udall's Timing of
Mountain Sheep
Proposal Surprises
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Washington
Correspondent
Washington (Special) The
most surprising thing about
Secretary ol
the Interior
Stewart
Udall's pro
posal for fed
eral construc
tion of H 1 g h
Mountain
Sheep dam on
t h e Oregon
Idaho border
was his tim
ing. His proposal may become
an important election cam
paign issue this fall but
it is not an issue eagerly
sought by Pacific Northwest
Democrats who are up for re
election. In fact, some Dem
ocrats would like to adopt
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c Field Enterprises Inc.
PERSONAL PREJUDICES
Nobody is more surely or
swiftly corrupted by bad com
pany than the man who in
sists he lives for himself; a
person who imagines he can
be self-sufficient soon be
comes as poisoned as a stag
nant pool.
How can we expect to
decrease the homicide rate
on the highways when the
bulk of motorists don't even
know left from right, and
keep using their left-turn
flicker for right turns, and
vice versa?
Whenever I hear a man say,
"It's not the money, it's the
principle of the thing," I
quickly reach to see if my
wallet is still there.
When we quit our vices,
out of exhaustion or fear,
we flatter ourselves that
we have risen above them
-but, in such cases, we have
simply sunk beneath them.
A m e r i c a's emancipation
from the mother-country was
political and economic, but
not social or personal: and
any man with a well-modulated
British accent can still
undo the American woman.
The man who thinks he
can't be fooled is the most
easily iaken-jusi as the
mark of the expert poker
player is his willingness to
be bluffed.
What a magnificent chance
the stale of Israel muffed by
executing Eichmann instead
of following God's first ex
ample and branding him with
the mark of Cain on his fore
head and setting him loose to
wander through the earth.
One of the reasons that
men behave politically so
much worse than they ever
would personally was suc
cinctly expressed by Rich
ard Whately, the English
theologian, two centuries
ago, when he saidt "Parly
spirit enlists & man's vir
tues in the cause of his
vices,"
Wives who tell their hus
bands everything that hap
pened to them before they
were married are neither can
did or honest, but simply
foolish; for a husband does
not readily forgive a wife for
having committed those trans
gressions he would have urg
ed upon her had he been with
her at the time.
"Freedom" is the most fu
tile and meaningless slogan
for any group to campaign
under, for everybody be
lieves in freedom-the des
pot most of all, who loves
freedom so much that he
wants every bit of it for
himself, with none left over
for the rest.
Men in their 30s who arc
still "pursuing" their studies
will never overtake them.
independence goes on to say:
"Even as the proclamation
was made by French Presi
dent Charles De Gaulle in
Paris a POWER struggle be
j tween the pro-leftist and mo-
derate Algerian nationalist
leaders threatened to plunge
the new-born nation INTO
BLOODY CIVIL WAR."
THIS STRUGGLE
POWER'
FOR
What harm it has wrought
since the world began!
"E TALK of sending a man
' to the moon - perhaps
within this decade.
We speak cas olly of inter
spac9,l travel within the con
ceivable future.
There seems to be no prob
lem that we regard as unsolv
able. lVOULDN'T it be wonderful
"if we could learn how to
banish this STRUGGLE FOR i
POWER that so often since .
the bemnning of recorded his- i
iry has wrecked men
nihil
the old foreign policy rule for
the campaign: that partisan
politics stops at the water's
edge. ;
In this case the water is the
turbulent Snake river as it
flows past several magnificent
dam sites below Hells Canyon,
focal point of many past elec
tion arguments concerning
public vs. private power de
velopment. The Hells Canyon
matter was won by the Re
publicans and Idaho Power
company during the Eisen
hower Administration, and
lost by the congressional Dem
ocrats who favored federal
construction of a high dam.
Sen. Frank Church (D-Ida-ho)
was elected in 1956 as a
staunch champion of a federal
Hells Canyon dam. This year,
seeking reelection, he greet
ed Udall's proposal for feder
al construction of Mountain
Sheep dam with a delicately,
worded non-committal state
ment which ventured nothing
more bold than the observa
tion: "It seems clear that the
Nez Perce dam on the Middle
Snake river below the mouth
of the Salmon should not be
licensed for construction at
this time, since the fish pas
sage problem has not been
solved." Church said the Fed
eral Power commission would
have to decide whether Moun
tain Sheep dam should ba
built as a federal or non-fed
eral project. 1
Sore at Udall 1
Northwest lawmakers 'are
caught in someone's fire no
matter which way they move.
The public power organiza
tions are sore at Udall for say
ing Nez Perce -dam threatens
fish when they have been try
ing to sell the FPC and the
people of the Northwest on
the idea that new fish facili
ties will take care of all that.
The private power companies
re sore at Udall because
they've InvesUd great sums
in their effort to build Moun
tain Sheep as a private multi
purpose dam. The organized
conservationists are opposed
to the Nez Perce, but Udall's
backstage efforts to line them
up in favor of Mountain Sheep
have not noticeably succeed
ed. Rep. AI Ullman (D-Ore,"),
who was elected to Congress
also in 19S6 as a Hells Canyon
champion, boldly supported
Udall's position. Since his
eastern Oregon district bor
ders on the Snake river, his
reelection campaign is most
apt to feel any impact this
controversy may have this
fall. Pacific Power and Light
company, one of four utilities
which wants to share in build
ing Mountain Sheep dam, is
strong in Ullman's district. .
I have consistently sup
ported private development
where single purpose needs
are met but have by the same
token believed that where
broad multiple uses are in
volved in the key sites on the
mainstem of the Snake and
the Columbia, the public in
terest is better served by
public instruction," said Ull
man. This site involves ma
jor storage capacity to ba
utilized for flood control and
for downstream power needs.
It would appear to better
serve the region and the na
tion through public construc
tion." Declaration Unique ;
Ullman's declaration of sup
port was unique. Nine years
ago Secretary of Interior
Douglas McKay, standing be
hind the same prs confer
ence table used by Udall last
week, announced he was with
drawing the government's pro
posal for federal Hells Canyon
dam and immediately there
were cries of anguish and joy
(respectively from Democfats
and Republicans) in Congress.
Udall's announcement drew
thunders of silence by com
parison from the floor of Con
gress. Congressman Ullman
was the exception in the
House.
The immediate exception
in the Senate was Sen. Maur
ine Neuberger (D-Ore), who
sent Udall a letter approving
his position. Her late husband
was elected in 1954 as a harsh
critic of the GOP "partner
ship" power policy of encour
aging local utilities. Mrg.
Neuberger indicated a similar
attitude in writing Udall: -
"Valuable public property
is involved in this particular
undeveloped portion of the
Columbia Basin. Indeed, the
water storage, flood control
ar.d power benefits in the
Middle Snake live a magni
tude equal to those of the
Hells Canyon section, which
a previous commission waste
fully licensed for less-than-full
development. We can ill
afford to lightly dispose Of
the balance of the Middle
Snake's great potential."
If Udall's proposal is fo
succeed, it will take a good
deal more support on Capitol
Hill than was evident when
! he made his announcement.
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