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)
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and measured them against
his 40 years of experience
with state and local water
projects. In 1951, when it ap
peared that the conflict might
never end, Edmonston made
his choice and presented it to
the legislature.
Carritd by Aqueduct
Known as the Feather river
project it called for storing
northern water behind a big
dam on the Feather at Oro
ville and building a huge aqu
educt to carry the flow south.
This, with later additions, be
came the California Water
plan.
Edmonston retired in 1S5S.
When leaving, he said that
he regretted going before his
project was complete. He died
within a year.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
By 1972, when Oroville
dam is completed, Feather
river water will be flowing
from millions of faucets in
the bustling cities of southern
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