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FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1953
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CONGRESSMAN SAVl COON turned out Sunday for the ceremonies marking the and of pav
ing en t( Three Flags Highway (395) betwaan Baker and Lake view. Shown here at the Silvies
Valley ceremony are (left to right) Coon, State Senator Emlo Smith, Governor Paul Patterson,
who cut the ribbon, Oregon State Highway Engineer R. H. Baldoelc.
, Photo courtesy Blue Mountain Eagle, John Day
Interior Department's Money
Bill Great For Northwest
f By FBANK W. VAILLE
WA8HINOTON U This year's
Interior Department appropriation
biil was an Important measure for
the Pacific Northwest.
Former Gov. Douglas McKay of
Oregon Became secretary ol tne
Interior and was an Important wit
ness before House and Senate ap
propriations subcommittees which
put the bill together.
Ben. Ouy Cordon (R-Ore) headed
the Senate subcommittee and con
ducted a lengthy bearing at which
SIS witnesses testified. Cordon then
piloted the bill through the Senate,
Possibly significant excerpts
from McKay's testimony before
the subcommittee:
Public vs. private power: "We
are In the power business already
and I would not want to see that
scrapped, but I believe that prl
vate enterprise should have the
opportunity to live and the govern
ment should in no event put road
blocks In the Way of either pri
vate enterprise or co-ops or public
owned utilities. .
Bonneville Power Administra
tion: "I think .they spend too
much money., .engage In too much
propaganda.. .have too many attor
neys, too many engineers, too
many people."
The proposed Ice Harbor Dam:
"It is one of the essential proj
ects, particularly for navigation."
Indians: "Something must be
done to adjust the Indian popula
tion to our normal way of life and
let them achieve progress by their
own Initiative."
Bonneville Administrator Paul
Raver said studies Indcate Bonneville-rates
will have to go up
on Dec. 38, 1954, "a minimum of
10 per cent and a maximum of
35 per cent" because of Increased
costs of not only salaries and
materials, but of: new power-producing
dams coming Into service.
He agreed the 10-25 per cent
estimate "seems like a pretty
wide range," but said It was so
because "we do not as yet have
from the Federal Power Commis
sion cost allocations on these new
dams that will Indicate how much
of the dam Is to be charged to
power, how much to navigation,
nd how much to flood control."
Bonneville rates, now $17.60 a
kilowatt year, have not been In
creased since they were first set
In 1930,
Although the bulk of Raver's
testimony was In justification of
Bonneville's budget requests, he
engaged In one exchange with
Ben. Dworshak (R-Idaho) concern
tig the government's role in North
west Vateir resource development.
Asked if he believed it was "the
primary responsibility of the gov
ernment to generate power hub w
discourage private utilities from
generating power and merely act
as distribution agents," Raver de
clared:
- IJither the federal government
assumes that primary responsion
lty pretty soon, or somebody will
have to, because that question of
baslo responsibility for taklngtcare
of the powesj needs for the econ
omy of that region is going to
have to be assumed by somebody
or the region will suffer tremen
dous economic da mage. ..And so
loner as the federal government Is
In a position where It, In essence,
has preempted the main Sydro
resources of the region, it has that
responsiowty wnetner it uses n
or not. Something Is going to have
to be done about It."
One nosslble clue as to that
"something" might be came in the
testimony of Ous Norwood, execu
tive secretary of the Northwest
Public Power Association. In urg
ing restoration of House cuts In
operation and maintenance ilunds
for Bonneville, he declared:
Perhaps before the next con
gress. ..we may be able to submit
to the Senate Interior and Insular
Affairs Committee some legisla
tion to outline revenue bond fi
nancing, possibly for the Incorpo
ration of Bonneville as a govern
ment corporation, possibly eventu
ally for an Interstate compact to
take the job over within the re
gion." -
Anticipating that the Republican
administration might make some
change In Its water policy, Nor
wood and others, Including Cliff
Erdahl Northwest utilities confer
ence chairman, urged that the re
gion be warned In advance of any
switch.
I think." said Erdahl, "we must
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have an early answer to- a deci
sion as to whether they (the fed
eral government) are going to co
operate or whether they are going
to have some new rules set up,
because it takes from 5 to 10
years to build these projects, and
we must know in advance." .
Other witnesses before Cordon's
subcommittee, in addition to vir
tually every member of Congress
from the Northwest, Included offi
cials of the. Coos-Curry Electric
Cooperatives Inc. Ivan C. Laird
of Sltkum, Fred Adams of Ophir
and Charles W. Brooks of Coquflle
seeking funds for the Alvey-Elk
Head-Riddle and Nickel Mountain
Norway transmission lines; Olen
R. Sawyer of Eugene and William
H. Cash - of Oakrldge, manager
and director of the Lane County
Electric Co-operative, on behalf
of . the Middle Willamette Project;
Boyd Jackson and Wade Crawford,
on behalf of Klamath Indians; and
Hubert H. Walter, William A. Oal
bralth, Leon Bailie and George
.um oi wssmngton's Columbia
Basin Commission. ..
The result of the Senate sub
committee's hearing was that the
Senate voted $78,128,817 for the
Northwest, compared to a House
total of $69,315,656. Then both
houses compromised on $71,805.-
817. .. " " . ,
Included were fund for Bonne.
vllle, OJiC access road construc
tion and money for the Klamath.
Columbia Basin and Yakima rec
lamation projects, including both
the Kennewlck and Roza divisions.
Still other funds wem included
In unspecified amounts for na
tional parks, Fish and Wildlife
Service, Bureau of Mines, Bureau
of Land Management, U. S. Geo
logical survey and the Bureau of
Indian Affairs to carry out pro
grams In the Northwest.
WASHINGTON I The Eisen
hower administration a newly
enunciated power policy was under
fire Thursday, from the CIO Politi
cal Action vCommittee and spokes
men for Americans for Democratic
Action (ADA) and the National
Rural Cooperative Association.
The policy, spelled out Tuesday
with President Elsenhower's ap
proval assigns to local interests,
either public or private, the main
role in developing power for the
nation. The Interior ; Dt-partment
said the federal government would
continue to build multi-purpose
dams too big for local units to
undertake. . ' c
The CIO's political organization,
meeting here to open a campaign
for election of a pro-union Congress
next year, Wednesday unanimously
adopted a resolution saying the
power policy "threatens within a
short time to wreck the entire
public power program."
Robert R. Nathan, chairman, of
ADA'S executive committee, said
In a statement the decision to rely
primarily on local Interests "Is an
ui-conceaiea give-away ox resourc
es which belong to all the people.'
ADA describes itself as an or
ganization of liberals supporting
the policies of former president
Franklin D. Roosevelt. .
The statement said the new gov
ernment approach to power meant
private interests wul be in a posi
tion to "get a strangle-hold on
power development and distribu
tion, and thus put the brake on the
continuing expansion of power for
industries and farms."
Clyde T. Ellis, executive man-
V
agar of the National Rural Electric
Cooperative, said in anotner' state
ment tne new policy would cost
farmers several million dollars a
year on their wholesale power bills
because in most cases only power
companies would' be iinanciaiiy
able to build electrlo projects and
transmission lines.
The Interior Department in Its
announcement said it would build
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