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HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls, Oregon
Monday, July 24, 1963
Midwest Congressmen See
End To Preference Clause
WASHINGTON (UP1) South
Dakota congressmen agreed to
day the Pacific Northwest power
bill which they regard as selfish
almost surely will be passed by
the House, probably early next
month.
The legislation would pave the
way for construction of transmis
sion lines to carry the Bonneville
Power Administration's (BPA)
surplus power from the Pacific
Northwest to California. It also
would give first call on power
from the Columbia River dams!
to industry and private utilities in
the area, as well as to publicly
owned utilities.
, This provision Is opposed by
members of Congress from Mis
souri River Basin (MRB) states,
where the 50-year-old law giving,
publicly owned utilities preference
in buying the federal power still
is in effect.
Reps. E. Y. Berry and Ben Rei-
fel, R-S.D., contend this is a first
step to abandonment ot the lime'
honored preference clause.
Their own state is guaranteed
first call on half the power pro
duced at Big Ben Dam, but they
said this is different, if B e n
is only one of six federal dams
in the MRB, four of which are
located in South Dakota, they
said, and the Big Ben provision
was intended as a bonus to Die
state for giving up so much rich
tax-producing land to control the
Missouri.
Berry, a member of the House
interior Lommiuce which ap
proved the Senate-passed Pacific
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Northwest bill, threatened to of
fer amendments which would
make the same first call prefer
ence applicable in the MRB area.
He could not do so, however, he
told VP1, because of House rules
requiring that amendments be
pertinent to the bill, but his an
nouncement produced a flurry of
protest from tfie Midwest.
Defeat Urged
"We urge you most strongly to
. . , defeat both the regional pref
erence in the Northwest and your
own amendment," V. T. llanlon,
manager of the East River Elec
tric Co-operative, Madison, S. D.,
telegraphed.
Other protests were received
from Basin Electric Consumers
Co-op, Stanton, N.D., and Midwest
Electric Consumers Association,
Denver.
"Why didn't they come to life
sooner," Berry inquired. "They
didn t testify against the bill,
The National Association of
REA's took no stand on the bill
he noted, even though spokesmen
told me they hoped it would be
defeated because they didn't want
to see the public preference clause
chiseled away."
It's a selfish gesture on the
part of the Pacific Northwest,"
Reifel said. "Bonneville produces
more power than can be used
there, and California needs it, but
the BPA won't sell the surplus
unless it has this regional pref
erence clause."
The regional preference is de
signed to attract industry to the
area with the lure of cheap pow
Reifel and Berry said. BPA
power sells for 2 1-4 mills, less
than half the cost at other fed
eral dams, they said.
We're subsidizing the Pacific!
Northwest to compete with our
own efforts to attract industry,"
Reifel said.
If they're going to get this
provision, everyone else will want
it too, and I will keep my eyes
open for a chance to apply the
same principle for the benefit of
South Dakota.
Berry doubted that the MRB
ever could win Such an attempt
in Congress.
'We don t have the votes, he
said.
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1 1 :50 a.m. Friday to handle this grass fire that broke out
along the banks of ths Southern Pacific tracks in fhs
vicinity of 200 North Spring Street. Despite the appear
ance, only damage was to a wooden fence which can be
seen on fire in the background. Grass fires plagued fire
departments due to the hot dry weather. Other grass
fire calls Friday included North Spring Street at 3:58
p.m. and North Ninth Street at 7: 10 p.m.
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seventh child.
Officers said Mrs. Betty Nicoll,
30, who was deserted in May by
her second husband, was at home
with tier six children, aged 18
months to 11 years, when she
started having labor pains.
She sent the 11-year-old out tol
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asked her 10-year-old son, Torin,
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So. Carolina Senator Denounces McNamara Order
WASHINGTON (LTD - Sen. i munities "could be boycotted by
Strom Thurmond, D-S.C. Saturday
denounced as economic black
mail in its rawest form a new
anti-segregation order by Defense
Secretary Robert S. McNamara.
Thurmond said McNamara's or
der authorizing military com
manders to place entire commu
nities off limits in cases of seri
ous discrimination is "preposter
ous."
The South Carolina Democrat,
member of the Senate Armed
Services Committee, said in
statehent that "this would be
detrimental not only to tlie local
economy but also to individual
servicemen and their families
and the entire defense program
Thurmond said "the American
people resent blackmail at the
hands of government and arc
generally opposed to coercion in
any form."
He predicted that McNamara's
order "will not be accepted by
the American people and will be
particularly resented by military
commanders who understand
their mission to be defense of
their country rather than creation
of domestic turmoil and strife by
engaging themselves in sociologi
cal and political activities at the
behest of a power-mad administration."
If the order is rigidly enforced.
Thurmond said, such South Caro
lina cities as Charleston, Colum
bia, Sumter, Beaufort and Myrtle
Beach as well as bordering Au
gusta, Ga., and surrounding com-
Dpfensa DeDartment edict
McNamara Friday authorized
in a directive the off limits reme
dy for communities that practice
"relentless" racial discrimina
tion. He told the commanders,
however, to get Defense Depart
ment permission before resorting
to the restriction.
The order, if put into effect,
could have serious repercussions
on any number of Southern com
munities that derive their liveli
hood from nearby bases.
"If we don't just bow to them,
then we're off limits," Mississip
pi Gov. Ross Barnett said when
informed of the directive.
Some Southern officials said,
however, that recent progress in
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PARIS (UPli Former Vice
President Richard M. Nixon ar
rived Sunday from Frankfurt,
Germany, for a meeting Tuesday
witii Presidt-nt Charles de Gaulle.
Nixon and his family are on a
Middle East-European tour. Nix
on met with West German Chan
cellor Konrad Adenauer Friday in
Bonn and earlier in the week
toured Berlin, including the East
sector.
racial desegregation would limit
use of the order.
McNamara's order stopped
short of a more sweeping recom
mendation by a presidential com
mission that the Defense Depart
ment consider closing down mili
tary installations where Negro
troops are subjected to discrim
ination. The commission was headed by
Washington attorney Gerhard A.
Gesell and suggested "a form o.'
off-limits sanction when, despite
the commander's best efforts
with community leaders, relent
less discrimination persist,
against Negro servicemen and
their families."
The Pentagon said last month
that a fact-finding group had
visited bases in Biloxi, Greenville
and Columbus, Miss., and Mobile,
Ala., but officials stressed there
was no certainty that these cities
would be ordered off limits.
The Defense Department said
"relentless" discrimination" ap
pears to mean "those places
or communities which would con
tinue to practice discrimination re
gardless of the situation."
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