TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1954
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
PAGE NINE
Cordon Tells Audience Of
Early Hells Canyon Siand
HEPPNER "The National Hells
Canyon Association is Just 4 years
late," Senator Guy Cordon told a
Gilliam County audience here.
Speaking to some 75 persons In
the county courthouse, Senator
Guy Cordon explained bow he in
troduced an amendment In the
spring of 1950 to -authorize con
struction of the Hells Canyon Dam.
"That was the time when they
should have had a Hells Canyon
Association." he said.
The senator told how his amend
ment was killed on a motion of
Senator . Dennis Chavez of New
Mexico "with every left-winger in
the Senate except one voting to
kill it: Senator Mor.sr to his
credit voted with his colleagues
at that time."
Senator Cordon said, "after that,
on two different occasions they
tried to get a Hells Canyon au
thorization in the House . . and
failed. I tried to get that dam when
we- had a chance to gel it. We
could have done it; we should have
done it. It does not make any dif
ference to me who builds the dam.
I want it built. I Just don't see
how you could get the federal mon
ey for it today; . it'd never get
through the House. But I'd vote
again for the building of Hells Can
yon by the Bureau of Reclama
tion." ' '
Taking a suggestion from his
wife, who is accompanying him on
this leg of the campaign tour. Sen
ator Cordon built an "off-the-cuff"
speech arounj suggestions asked
earlier by h i s audience. He ex
plained how a special title in the
Farm Act passed by the 83rd
congress provides incentive pay
ments to increase the production of
wool to a hoped - for 300 million
pounds annually.
Answering the Question "Why
are we getting so much lumber
from Canada?" Senator Cordon
drew laughter from bis audience
when he said, "That's simple. It's
because the price of lumber in the
United States is higher than that
WIS A
SWEAR WORD
to the Republicans
President Eisenhower must be
congratulated for his courage in
coming to Oregon to dedicate
McNary Dam a dam which is
the symbol of a federal river
development program that the
Eisenhower administration, thru
McKay and his cohorts, are do
ing their very best to wreck.
Many people will wonder why
the Republicans are holding a
celebration at a dam fostered,
atarted, and practically complet
ed by, a Democratic administra
tion. For the past 19 months, Eisen
hower administration spokesmen
in Eastern Oregon McKay and
Coon have been preaching for
"partnership" dams, but people
of the Northwest now know that
it was a label for an empty box.
"Partnership" has brought no
new power projects only con
fusion, disillusionment, and pros
pects for a sev'ere power short
age. "Partnership"- means the
end of dams like McNary.
McNary Dam,' like Hells Can
yon and John Day, is a key struc
ture in the plan for comprehen
sive development of the Colum
bia and Snake Rivers started
nearly 20 years ago with the con
struction of Bonneville Dam. No
amount of political smoke-screen
can obscure the fact that Mc
Nary is NOT a phony "partner- '
ship" dam, but a sound federal,
multi-purpose project.
People of Eastern Oregon will
be interested in what the Presi
dent has to say. Will he make a
political pitch for the so-called
"partnership" to pull Coon and
Cordon off the hook or will he
announce that McNary Dam is a .
cornerstone of one of the sound
est federal programs for region
al development' and for national
security ever conceived, or wiil
he admit to the truth of the pre
diction made at Hungry Horse
Dam in 1951, "Look closely at
this dam. If the Republicans get
in. it will be the last one you will
see."
It's high time that we had rep
resentation in Washington to
fight for more McNary Dams to
bring the power and the payrolls
we need so badlv in Eastern Ore
gon. I pledge myself to that fight.
LMtn la;
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L'llman,
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Paid for by VUtr.an for
Conorett Committee
Birry Bo pan, Chr Baker, Or.
for lumber from Canada.
The senator then took a serious
vein and said. "Why that is I can
not say. There are people in the
slate department whose thinking I
cannot understand. But as far as
I'm concerned,- I protect the pro
ducts In this country."
Senator Cordon went on to ex
plain that lie favors reciprocal
u-aue agreements, and "traffic
where necessary" to protect home
inoustries and their lobs.
To a question about the prefer
ence clause giving electricity to
public utilities. Senator Cordon
si.id. "I have no objection to it
whatever; I've supported it a n d
will again." He went on to explain
how Bonneville administrators
nave interpreted the .'aw "precise
ly opposite" to the way it reads.
(The law specified that until 1942
one - half of all power from Bon
neville be held for puolic bodies).
But the Bonneville Administra
tion Interpreted it precisely the op
posite, tne Senator said. "They
ordered that, all the power was to
be held for public bodies all the
time.'
Senator Cordon then went on to
explain how this ruling by past ad
ministrations has wolked against
Oregon where 85 per cent ol all
power users are served by private
utilities.
"Twice this state has voted
the question of Slate public power
and turned It down," he said
believe in majority rule. Any time
tne majority wants public power
I'm for it. It's up to the people
to say. My critics seem to believe
in minority rule."
Oregon's senior senator closed
his speech by stating his views on
universal military training. "We're
going to have to have trained sol
diers on our right hand in these
times," he said. "I want to see it
In the schools, close to home.
don't want to see a man on horse
back arise in this couutry; but we
need training."
Senator Cordon was introduced
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briefly at Fossil and addressed
high school bodies at Arlington and
Condon. AU Condon, the senator
also addressed a noon meeting of
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