. WEDNESDAY, JL'N'E 3. 1959
HERALD AXD NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGOV
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Master Of Oregon Grange Raps Private Power Firms
BAKER. Or. (API f,i...i.
power companies have mounted
the most intense brain-washing
campaign possible in this coun
try, the master of the Oregon
State Grange said here today.
And that campaign, said Elmer
SlcClure, has deluded the "Amer
ican people into accepting the to
tally false premise that public
development of the public's do
main is shameful thing."
In speech prepared for de
livery to the Grangers state con
vention. McClure asked:
"Why is it possible that hydro
electric development here in Ore
gon has stopped and our indus
trial expansion stopped with if
'Why is it that our state Legis
lature kills every proposal to in
crease the availability of low-cost
power in this, state?"
The answer, McClure said, is
that the "private power interests
and their hirelings have used ev
ery technique so far devised by
man to brain-wash the American
people. . . ."
McClure said that when .Jhe
Legislature this year was consid
ering a bill to create a state Pow
er Commission, private power
companies urged school boards to
bring pressure to defeat the bill.
The boards were told. McClure
said, that the bill would destroy
their tax base. Nothing could have
been further from the truth, he
added.
Most people seem unaware. Mc
'Clure said, that the Eisenhower
Administration is bent upon turn
jpg over hydro-electric resources
to "a gigantic string of monopo
lies."
"Control of our water ... is the
control of civilization itself," Mc
Clure said. "We simply cannot
afford to place this power in the
hands of any group whose sole
purpose is to exploit for profit.
here they , have been victor
ious and have succeeded in pre
empting a multi-purpose dam site,
they have failed miserably to de
velop the lull potential of the
site." he said.
McClure said private power
firms develop "only enough of the
dam site's potential to produce
the amount of power for which
they have an immediate market."
That is "unforgivably short
sighted." McClure said. "Indus
trial expansion follows the avail
ability of an abundance of low
cost power."
In his speech. McClure touched
on other aspects of power, and
urged an interne that could carry
surplus power from the Bonne
ville Administration to California.
McClure said too that he sup
ports a moratorium on licensing
additional hydroelectric projects
"on the middle reach of the
Snake River" until ways of get
ting fish runs past the dams have
been explored more thoroughly.
The state should try to attract
industry, McClure said. But he
said the stale also must remem
ber this:
"Agriculture is what is goin
to make or break the economy of
Oregon for many, many years U
come.
McClure urged studies to find
new uses for farm products and
new methods of merchandising.
Reds Trying To Panic West Into Test Ban
WASHINGTON (UPD Atomic
sources said today Russia may be
trying to panic the West into a
test ban agreement by raising the
specter of Communist - China
armed with nuclear weapons.
But Chairman Hubert H. Hum
phrey (D-Minn.) of the Senate
disarmament subcommittee said
he had information from a high
scientific source that Red China
could explode an atom bomb this
year.
These were the conflicting reac
tions to reports circulating in Ge
neva that the Red Chinese have
accumulated enough fissionable
material to touch off a nuciear
blast, possibly this fall.
The reports said this possibility
spurred the efforts by United
States. Britain and Russia to
reach accord on a test ban. Some
officials believe Russia fears a
nuclear-armed China as much as
the West. Although the Chinese
would not be a party to the test
ban agreement, it was suggested
that they would be morally bound
by it.
Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-
Wash.l, chairman of (he congres
sional atomic energy military ap
plications , subcommittee, said he
did not believe Red China could
scrape together enqugh atomic
explosives to make a bomb.
He viewed the Geneva rumors
as a "propaganda pressure deal"
to persuade the West to accept a
test ban that was "not properly
conceived."
Other U.S. sources agreed. One
official said "we have never re
ceived any information" from the
Central Intelligence Agency or
elsewhere that Communist China
"has the capability of making
atomic weapons."
Another official said Russia
would look with horror on its
Communist neighbor owning nu
clear weapons. But he said the
Soviets could suggest that possi'
bility to frighten the United states
and Britain into accepting a dis
advantageous test ban.
Humphrey, however. said
"there is no particular secret
about the bomb. The Chinese can
get uranium from Russia or else
where and they could process ex
plosives in a crude reactor."
He said, "if they could test one
bomb, it will mean they have the
facilities for making more of
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