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q THURSDAY, JULY U. 1962 MEPfOHP MAIL THI3UHE. MEDFPHP, OHECOIT Flood Control Plan To Aid Southern California Water Problems BY ROBERT FAIRBANKS United Proii International Sacramento, Calif. (UPI) While man ventures into space, he itill haa vast chal lenges on earth. Work will be gin this summer on one of the most useful attempts at moulding the earth's surface to meet man's need: the build ing of a manmade river 750 miles long. This is the engineer's an swer to the fact that 70 per cent of California's water sup ply is in the north of Amer ica's longest (and soon most populous) state, while BO per cent of the need is in the south Northern California must battle surging floods and southern California is beset by encroaching desert. The remedy will be the $12 billion California Water plan, a pro ject rivaling the Panama Canal in magnitude. First step, to come shortly, will be the building of Oro ville dam, a wall of rock and earth across the Feather river Although Oroville will be the tallest dam in the United States, (735 feet above river bottom), it is not a spectacu larly huge projects as dams go. For instance, Hoover dam between Arizona and Nevada and Grand Coulee dam in Washington each store more water and generate more pow er than will the new Califor nia project. What makes Oroville re markable is the destination of its water. Unlike any dam in the nation, Oroville will send its flow into a man-made river more than half the length of the lower Mississippi from St. Louis to the Gulf of Mexico. These two units, the river and Oroville dam, are key projects In the California Wa ter plan which was originated at a conference pf water spe cialists called in 1945 by Cal ifornia's then governor, Earl Warren. After noting that the stale had been tinkering with its natural water supply on a regional and piecemeal basis. Warren said it was time for a statewide program. The specialists began at once to collect statistics, make studies and hold more con ferences. The studying and statistic-collecting continued for five years without produc ing a statewide water plan. Instead, there was a mass of conflicting suggestions, 1 n cluding one from a kibitzer who wanted to pump north ern water into huge plastic sausages that could be floated south along the coast each spring to Los Angeles. Among the many men who wondered if California would ever devise an overall project was state water engineer A. D Edmonston. Described by friends as a "forceful, stub born old cuss," Edmonston had listened to all suggestions NEAR PROPOSED DAM Above is a section of the Feath er river near the proposed Oroville dam, the first stop in the $12 billion California Water Plan. Work is expected to start on the project this summer. (UPI) Stanford Youth Waits Verdict Berlin - IUPII - Stanford Uni versity student Robert E. Mann will learn Saturday the verdict of a Communist court which heard charges he tried to help an East German escape from behind the Iron Curtain. A prosecutor urged Wednes day at the conclusion of Mann's one-day trial that the lD-year-old Sepulveda, Calif., youth be given a prison term of Vi years at hard labor,. Observers believed Mann, arrested last January, prob ably would receive a one-year sentence and be released with in several months. The East German govern m e n t rarely holds convicted foreigners for very long and Mann has al ready been jailed for almost six months. Reports reaching the West but not officially confirmed indicated a co-defendant In Mann's trial received a one year suspended sentence, lie was identified as Uwe Stur berg, 24-year-old East Berlin locksmith, accused of receiv ing a passport from Mann. Western newsmen, U.S. Mis sion observers and Mann's father was barred from the courtroom. West Berlin officials said they had no evidence to sub stantiate a statement In Wash ington by California Congress man Edgar W. Hiestand that the court already had found Mann guilty. Mann came In Berlin last January on a visit from Stan ford's overseas campus at Stuttgart, West Germany. BRANCH OF AQUEDUCT Work will be gin this summer on the engineer's answer gin this summer on the engineer's answer to the fact that 70 per cenl of California's water supply i.s in the north nf America's longest slale, while 811 per rent of Ihe need Is in the south. The remedy will be Ihe $12 billion California Water Plan, a project rivaling the Panama Canal in mag nitude. This picture shows construction nf one of Ihe branches of the main aqueduct system. (UPI) Village Variety & Garden Shop PAY ELECTRIC BILLS HERE "Medford'i Only Independent Variety Store" Next to "Piggly Wiggly" POST OFFICE ALWAYS OPEN 771 Stewart Avenue 9 A.M. to 9 P.M. Weekdays - 10 to 6 Sunday 773-7002 s? 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Oroville will lie where Ed monston put it: in the Sierra Nevada foothills, 1,200 feet up from sea level in the old gold country. It will be 8 miles south of Horsethief can yon, 12 miles west of Last Chance creek 5 miles north of Lannigan's gulch and about 125 miles northeast of San Francisco. ' The dam's storage capacity will be 3.5 million acre feet, or enough to cover the state of Connecticut to a depth of one foot. From Oroville, the dam's water will follow its natural course for 60 miles to a junc tion with the Sacramento riv er on the floor of California's rich Central valley. From its confluence with Potted Plants Used To Enhance Homes Br DOROTHEA M. BROOKS UniUd Pril International New York - OIPD - For the homeowner who is dismayed to find that acquisition of a house does not necessarily confer membership in the green thumb fraternity "port able gardening" may prove a lifesaver. Sales of potted plants have climbed more than 100 per cent in the past 10 years of expanding home construction and one important reason is the adaptability of both fo liage and flowering plants for indoor and outdoor decora tion, according to the Clay Pot Manufacturers associa t i o n, whose members make more than 150 million porous clay flower pots annually. The clay flower pot pro ducers emphasize that house plants can perform this dou ble decorative duty and pro vide portable beauty the year round, if you care for them properly and use them wisely to enhance terraces, patios and outdoor landscapes, as well as to beautify interiors. The mid -summer flower border, difficult for the best of gardeners, can have the professional touch with pot ted blooms from your local grower. Outdoor Summer Plants which spend their winters indoors - where, in cidentally, they not only beautify, but help to alleviate "dry heat" punishment to hu mans and home furnishings alike - generally can spend the summer outdoors. They can summer over right in their pots, if they are the porous red clay containers which permit proper ex change of air and moisture and permit the plant to breathe. Sun-loving plants like cacti and geraniums and the shade loving ones such as begonias, fuchsias, ferns, patience plants and foliage plants should be grouped together, with the latter placed where they will receive filtered shade, under a tree, or near a fence or wall. Several clay potted gera niums can be planted in a large box, Victorian urn or terrace planter, as well as in Nehru Undisturbed By Armed Activity New Delhi - IUPH - Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said today there, is "nothing serious" about the Communist Clvnese encircle ment of an Indian outpost in the disputed Ladakh area of Kashmir. Nehru told newsmen on his arrival from a vacation in Kashmir that "some time or other" the Chinese will have to withdraw. The Prime Minister called a meeting with his cabinet and defense chiefs to discuss the situation which informed sources described as "menacing." Russians Believed Behind in Testing London -HOT- British anti nuclear leader Canon L. John Collins said Wednesday his conversations with Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev led him to believe Khrushchev (eels Russia must conduct nu clear tests to catch up with the United Slates. Collins met Khrushchev in Moscow Tuesday while at tending the Communist-sponsored World Congress tor Peace and Disarmament. "His attitude was that the Americans were in front and therefore the Soviets must have their tests In correspond with the Americans." Collins said PERSISTENT COLLECTOR Chrystal Lake, I.. - il'M -Mcllenry county state's at torney Richard Cross admit ted to an angry county board of supervisors he spent $3. 190 trying to collect a $117.07 personal property tax bill from Donald Sheldon, of Mid ison, Wis. a flower bed or along its bor ders. If these locations are shady, use fuchsias instead. Landscaping A cluster of potted plants near the entrance will extend a warm welcome to visitors. Or perhaps there will be space along a wide flight of stone steps in the garden for some potted begonias, or pa tience plants. Keep some pot ted plants handy to pop into empty spaces in the flower borders wherever a touch of color is needed. Plants can be placed in clay saucers on patio coffee tables - or at the base of evergreen and other shrubs, with the pots submerged to their rims in the ground. . Spending the summer out doors buried rim -deep in garden soil will give house plants added strength and beauty. To "plunge" plants, simply' scoop a hole in the earth, so most of the collar around the top is above the ground. Before setting the pot into the hole, drop about an inch of pebbles or vermicu lile into it and set the plant on top of this filtering materi al, then shovel soil around the pot and pat it firmly so there'll be adequate support. Give plunged potted plants the same watering and care you give to outdoor plant ings and they'll stay healthy, the clay pot makers advise. It's Important, too, they say to feed the potted plants two or three times each summer,, using a balanced plant food dissolved in water and to spray and dust them to ward off aphids, worms, beetles and other pests. the Sacramento, the water will continue on a natural course (with the Sacramento) for another 50 miles to the edge of San Francisco bay. But instead of entering the bay, to be wasted in the Pa cific ocean, the water will be diverted into a stupendous aqueduct. Broad Strom Engineers e n v 1 s 1 o n the aqueduct as a broad, placid river, starting near the bay and running south for 250 miles through the lower end of the Central valley. Vary ing between 15 and 30 feet in depth, the river will have a maximum width of 130 feet and will run between banks of earth or concrete. At the valley's south end. huge pumps - perhaps atomic powered - will lift the stream 2.000 feet over the Tehachapi mountains and drop it into another aqueduct terminating nearly 200 miles still further south jn reservoirs near Los Angeles. Engineers have not yet de signed the Tehachapi pump station, but they know that its capacity must be 700,000 horsepower, to lift nearly nine million tons of water daily over the mountains. After Edmonston's death, engineers began designing ad ditions to his original plan. These included lengthy branches from the main aque duct that will bring water to the cities north and south of San Francisco and to an area of California's south central coast. Working with federal offi cials and the approval of con gress, the state also integrated the government's San Luis project into the California Water plan. This will provida still more water for the aque duct system. 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