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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-09-18
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a minimum of 100000 in 1941 and
a mean of 12,240,000. This amounts
to 1910 cubic feet per second
(cfs). The maximum flood of record
is 100000 CTS, however the project
is designed to reduce this to $4,000
CTS. Maximum head would be 243 feet
with a full reservoir level at 2,700
feet above sea level and tailwater
at 2,457 but with 20 foot loss of
head during maximum flood condi-
tions.
CRITICAL STORAGE
The chief value of upstream dams
is for the storage of summer flood
water at high elevation for release
in winter months. Paradise would
have total storage capacity of g.
$4,000 acre feet of which 2,44O,-
GOO would be dead storage and H.
080,000 live or disable storage.
However the skimming-o of
the upper so feet of this storage
would cut the reservoir in half
leaving only 100000 total storage
with 2, 44O,O00 dead and only $780,
600 disable storage. Thus the eff
fective storage would be reduced
by almost 5000 if Buffalo Rapids
Dam were built.
The value of upstream storage in
the Pacific Northwest depends chief
ly on two factors: (1) the amount
of disable storage to catch spring
flood waters for release in winter, |
and (2) the elevation of that stor-
age above sea level because this is |
a measure of the power head through !
which the stored water can be put to |
work in the downstream generators.
In this case the top of the Paradise
Dam reservoir would be 2,700 feet |
above sea level and have 4,080,000 |
acre feet of storage. Obviously an
acre foot Of water at this level is
worth more than twice as much from
a power standpoint as an acre foot
in the Grand Coulee reservoir at an
elevation of only 1920.
By comparison Libby Dam would
have an active storage of 4,250,O00
acre feet at a full reservoir level of /
2, 440 feet above sea level. Hells Can
yon would have 3,880,000 acre feet
at 2,077 feet. Hungry Horse Dam has
2, 100000 at 1850 feet.
Another factor to consider in evalu-
ating an upstream reservoir is the
mean annual runoff. Thus at Hungry
Horse Dam the stream flow varies
from 206 CTS to $4,000 CTS or a mean
Of 1928 CTS. The mean annual run
off is 2,136,000 acre feet or less than
enough each year to refill the ac
i've storage capacity Of 2,98O,0OO.
Thus Hungry Horse has a ratio of
mean annual runoff to active stor
lge of less than one. Yet it is a good
project. Hells Canyon with a mean
.nnual runoff of 12,059,000 acre
eet has ratio of better than three.
libby with a mean annual runoff of
10000 has ratio of about two.
md Paradise Dam with mean an
ual runoff of 12,240,000 acre feet
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-09-18
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the Constitution and from the many
announcements of the Montana Su-
preme Court that the legislative pow
er to prescribe regulations and re-
strictions" contemplates that the Leg
islature shall provide the necessary
machinery for carrying out the trust
and act as a check upon the discretion
of the Board of Land Commissioners.
"In other words, it is the power
and duty of the Legislature to set
minimum standards which must be
met by the Board and to insure
that the Board does not abuse the
trust by accepting less than the
full market value for leases or sales
of state lands. The Legislature may
demand that the Board receive a
certain minimum, it is NOT within
the power of the Legislature to set
a maximum amount which the
Board may accept. 1t may tell the
Board it is receiving too little for
state leases. 1t may NOT tell the
Board it is receiving too much.
''To allow absolute power to the
in setting terms for the
trust would make the Legislature and
not the Board the trustee, contrary
to the intent and manner of the Con-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-09-18
Which Plan Provides the Most in
Tax Revenues?

The 8 Run-Of-the-Rfver
Idaho Power Co. Dams
The Idaho PoWe r Com
pany says it will pay
SO million annually in
additional taxes if it's
three dams are built. If
it's scheme is adopted.
however, no new indus
try can be expected in
a region where excess
sive power rates have
already made Idaho one
of the least industraliZed
states in the nation.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-09-18

THE PEOPLE LOSE
2.8SO,000 acre feet of
useable storage capacity.
THE PEOPLE LOSE
$4,000 Kilow a t t s of
Firm Power or more
than a Bonneville Dam.
The firm power loss an
nually amounts to the
actual figure of $11,701,-
10000 estimate of world
famous consulting en-
gineer, John S. CottOn).
THE PEOPLE LOSE
$4,000 jobs in manufac-
turing - 35, 900 jobs in
service industries-$70O
million in manufacture
ed products.
THE PEOPLE LOSE
$45 million annually in
federal income and ex-
cess profit taxes.
SO million annually in
local property taxes.
THE PEOPLE LOSE
A $50 million invest
ment in fertilizer plants
by two companies which
will not initiate opera
tions until low cost
power becomes avail
able. Failure to build
Hells Canyon will cost
Northwest farmers SIS
to $50 a ton for fertili-
ger - or approximately
IS million a year.
THE PEOPLE LOSE
Millions of dollars in ir-
rigation, navigation, and
recreation benefits. ade-
quate protection from
destructive floods. low
cost power, especially in
critical or low water
years. and the efficient
use through Indignation
of the water resources
that rightfully belong
to them.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-09-18

Let's look "a LOW-COST FederaIIy Generated
Hydroeectric Power has done for Spokane County,
Washington.
Spokane County, Washington, the countys light
industries attracted to the solely because
hydroelectric power) cent OF all
Spokane Countys local property taxes. Although Spo-
kane largest railroad centers in the Pa
cifc Northwest assessed valuation of the city $
light metal plants exceed that of the six railroads
serving by about 60 cent. Low-cost pow
er creates business; new revenues.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-09-18
194s LEGISLATURE EXCEEDED
ITS AUTHORITY

Probably the most important point
Gin the long rum raised by Olsen
and Crowley is one that concerns not
only the state lands, but the entire
concept of democratic government.
This is the question revolving around
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-09-18
The Federally Built
nIultipIe-PurpOse Dam

hIultipIe-PurpOse Dam
The Hells Canyon Null
tiple Purpose Dam, by
making available low
cost power, will bring
to Idaho and the rest
of the Pacific Northwest
new industries that can
be expected to pay Con
the basis of what is hap
pening in other parts of
the Pacific Northwest).
100000 annually in
local property taxes.
$45,OO0,00O annually in
federal income and eX-
cess profit taxes.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-09-18
Accept No Substitutes

One of the main arguments used by power company
propagandists against Hells Canyon is that there
better damsites in the Northwest They suggest Nez
Perez, Mountain Sheep, Kooskia Libby These
good dam sites and may eventually be built to
troll the Columbia-but all have serious disadvantages
which prevent construction For instance, Nez
running to the Salmon River Mountain Sheep stores
less water results in loss of nearly 100000 potential
kiowatts, and also affects fish migration; Kooska
floods five towns Indian tribal grounds of Ida
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-09-18
Some Vital Statistics on HeIIs CANYON

Location Grand Canyon of Water Supply: Con-
Snake River, Idaho trary certain
Oregon Boundary sensations, there is
r1o,uL. - ~ g.. in the
1eit Vi De'" "-"--' az Aee' Snake, in the dri
crest Length OF est and after all
l)anl..-..If4O rect irri ton diversions
Thickness 1926 have made, to fill
Thickness at TON Ok feet reservoirs the size
,.,,5 --1,. ooo 49, of Hes Canyon. In 1881,
Ai'''i0" O'p'Oi'' ~ the driest of
'o""''' record, records of
Prime Power. 122OOO the u S. Geological
kiowatts survey show that $780,
Power at of water
passed the Oxbow site
in Hells Canyon during
Elevation the year. Inis 10 ihole
Greet foot above the amount
coo 1ay,oI o needed to fill
Hel1s Canyon
'1oiie'i VI l@eSei FO'' hlies Storage
Storage Capacity the reservoir, too, it
feet might be pointed out is
Active STORAGE mn captured only after
acre Foot drop of has been
it for
Beneflts: Power Flood Control irrigation Up
Irrigation, Navigation, re
recreation guaranteed
Legislation authorizing provides
of the money of be to
finance irrigation projects approved by Congress
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-09-18

Only 10000 acre-feet
of useable storage ca
pacity will be utilized
as against the $685.
600 acre-feet possible
through Hells Can
yon.
Only SS5,4OO Kilowatts
of firm power will be
generated as against
the 1,461,000 Kilowatt
potential in the Hells
Canyon Multiple ur-
pose Project.
AS against an estimated
SO million annual tax
paid by the Idaho
Power Company. the
people Will forfeit
over 10 times that
amount in lost tax
revenues due to lost
industry.
Due to the high cost of
electric power, the rich
Phosphate deposits of
southern Idaho (60a5
of the nations poten-
tiaD will re m a in
largely undeveloped.
only the electric fur
mace process can eco
nomically develop the
ore.
The comprehensive river
development program,
many decades in the
making, will suffer a
blow from which there
is no recovery. Hells
Canyon, because Of it's
unique and strategic
geographic location
high in the river sys-
tents the Keystone
to comprehensive river
development.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-09-18

Concluded from Last Week.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-09-18

If HELLs CANYON is KILLED THE PEOPLE LOSE
FOREVER!
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-09-18
The Private Power Monopoly path to
HeIls Canyon is not paved with
good intentions.

Here's What the Hells Canyon Give-away Would COS
the People
If THE IDAHO POWER CO
S-DAM SCHEME Is APPROVED
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-09-18

Legislation authorizing Hels Canyon provides that
part of the money from sale may
finance new IRRIGATION projects if Congress-
Evening star., 1953-09-26
Action Paves Way
For Formosa Election
BY the Associated Press

TAIPEH, Formosa, Sept. 26-
Nationalist China's lawmaking
body yesterday paved the way for
the first presidential election
since 1948, before Nationalist
lost the mainland. There was
little doubt that President Chang
Kai-shek would be reelected.
In a decision bound to be con-
sidered illegal by opponents OF
Chiang's Kuomintang Party, the
legislative Yuan, in effect. made
it possible for the National AS
sembly to elect a president and
vice president 80 days before Feb
10, 1854, when present terms
expire.
After day-long heated debate,
the Yuan voted 1919 approval OF
a formula designed to assure
that the assembly will have the
necessary 1,523-member quorum
which hasn't happened since
the Communists forced the Ma
tionalist government to Formosa
in 1949.
Latest figures show there are
only about 1900 members of the
3,O45-seat assembly on Formosa
The bill passed by the Yuan
permits runners-up or reserve
candidates in the last assembly
election to replace assemblymen
who joined the Communists, are
missing or were charged or sem
fenced to Jail by the NationalistS.
Interest in the election could
center on the race for vice presi-
dent, because the incumbent. Ii
Tsung-ien. is in the United
States and certain to be dropped.
Evening star., 1953-09-26
Gamblers Only Pause
In Sharp Reno Quake
By the Associated Press

RENO, New, Sept. ga
sharp earthquake shook Reno
last night and police we're flooded
with calls reporting crashing
sounds, explosions and rumbling.
But gamblers only paused, and
then continued their games.
The desk officer at Reno's new
central police station said he
thought the roof was coming
down, but checks later showed
little damage in the immediate
Reno area.
The quake was felt in Sacra-
mento, Calf, about $50 miles
west over the Sierra Nevada.
Police there received reports of
rattling dishes and swaying
lamp cords.
A dealer at Harold's Club in
Reno described the shake as
similar to the tense moment at
ball game when somebody hits
the ball-and everybody draws
in his breath and waits.
The dealer said the club grew
strangely quiet for a moment,
but when nothing further hap
pened, the roulette wheels began
to spin again and the crap shoot
ers went back to work.
Buildings of four and five
stories sWayed and several fans
watching hardtop races at the
Reno rodeo grounds left their
seats as the f1imSy wooden
grandStandS shook.
Evening star., 1953-09-26
Court Seizes Film Property
OF ErroI Flynn in Italy
By the Associated Press

AOSTA. Italy, Sept. ga
local court has ordered property
owned by two movie companies
one headed by actor Enrol Flynn
seized to satisfy creditors
claims. The companies are
Jointly producing a movie called
The Adventure of William Tell
near here.
The AoSta magistrate yeSter-
day authorized seizure of cam
eras and materials, including
! film negatives of the picture in
which Mr.. Flynn is starring.
Work on the location was halted.
Creditors include hotel keepers
in the Northeastern Italian
mountain village of Courmayeur,
a local lumber company which
built a Swiss village" for the
setting and other local furnisherS.
The action was taken against
Junior Films-Errol Flynn" ="
The former is the Italian CO.
producer of the picture.
In Rome, Mr.. Flynn said the
action apparently was aimed at
the Italian co-producers.
They were to put up the
necessary lire and we put up the
dollars. We have done that.
They apparently ran short of
money; but we're completely
clear on it," the actor said.
Evening star., 1953-09-26

Some schooling in civics and
political science back at home
might have saved some prisoners
of war from turning progress
sive" in Communist prison camps
in Korea.
This is the opinion of Army
1st 1t. Ray M. Dove, jr.. who
returned home here yesterday
after 35 months a prisoner of the
Chinese.
The Arlington West Pointer
said the Communists worked on
the younger enlisted men the
hardest. They we're separated
from their officers, he said, and
called students.
Some of them really didn't
know what to believe" he said.
"a few required courses in high
school might have helped"
1t. Dove wheeled into town
in the 1853 4-door sedan he had
just bought in Detroit.
After landing at Travis Air
Force Base, Calf, September 18
1t. Dove called his wife Dolores
Evening star., 1953-09-26
Crash DisabIes Police Cal
In Chase After Speeder

A speeding auto escaped from
a pursuing Prince Georges
County policeman early today
when his scout car collided with
the fugitive's vehicle in North
east Washington. His car was
disabled. but the other was not.
Corpl. William P. Wiseman
said he first spotted the fast
moving older-type Cadillac on
Sheriff road near Chapel Oaks.
In it, he said, were two colored
couples. He followed the auto
across the District line and at
Forty-Fourth street and Wash
ington place it made a sudden
left turn, causing him to hit it.
Metropolitan Police later found
the car parked in the rear of
$500 Benning road Sc. They
are looking for the driver.
Evening star., 1953-09-26
Stdbbing Probed
As Area Man, 81, Is
Found Dead in River

Police today are investigating
the death of a 54-year-old Dis
triet area man. whose stabbed
body was found in the Anacostia
River yesterday.
The man was identified by po-
lice fingerprint records as Maui
rice Stanley NokeS. Police said
Mr.. Nokes lived in Mount Rain
ier until last March but do not
know where he has been living
since.
Dead Nearly a Week.
The body was discovered about
noon near the Eleventh Street
Bridge.
District Coroner A. Magruder
Macdonald said, after an ex-
animation of the body, that Mr..
Nokes had died of the stab
wounds. He estimated the man
had been dead from from three
days to a week.
The coroner did not cross out
the possibility that the wound
may have been Self-inflicted but
added he did not think so.
Threatened Suicide.
Capt. Richard Felber, head of
the Homicide Squad, said the
police had contacted Mr.. NokeS'
eStranged wife. Capt. Felber said
Mr.. Nokes had threatened to
take his life several times but
police are still investigating the
possibility of foul play.
The widow, Mrs. Evelyn Nokes,
of 4207 Thirty-Second street,
Mount Rainier, Md, told police
her husband sometimes carried
q knife.
The body showed two stab
wounds in the chest. One was
superficial, while the other re-
vealed a deep cut in the chest
wall. The heart had been pune
tured.
Evening star., 1953-09-26
Judicial Conference
Lauds Justice Vinson
For Service 10 Nation

Chief Justice Vinson meas
ured up to the highest standard
of manhood" the Judicial Con-
ference of the United States said
in a resolution passed yesterday
at the closing session of the con-
ference in the Supreme Court
Building here.
Full text of the resolution on
the death of Justice Vinson fol-
lows:
I'm the death of Chief Justice
VinSon the country has sustained
the loss of one who filled we'll
and worthily the highest judicial
Office in the land, and we as
members of this conference have
suffered the great personal loss of
one whom we loved and re-
spected as man and whose Serv-
ice as presiding officer of the
conference had made it an in
Strumentality of great and ever
increasing Importance in the ad-
miniStration of justice.
Chief Justice Vinson came to
the Office of Chief Justice at
critical period in the history of
our country. a period fraught
with many dangers and difficult
ties. He brought to the perform
ance of his duties wide
knowledge of men and affairs as
well as of the law, wisdom
ripened by experience and a
profound and intimate knowledge
of men and affairs as we'll as of
the law, wisdom ripened by ex-
perience and a profound and
intimate knowledge of the nature
and workings of our Govern
ment, having heretofore served
with distinction in the legisla-
tive, executive and judicial
branches. This experience gave
him an unusual grasp of gov
ernmental problems and a sure
ness in approaching and dealing
with them rarely equalled in our
history. His knowledge of the
legislative branch and his per-
sonal acquaintance with the
leaders of that branch enabled
him to develop between this con-
ference and, the Congress a re-
lationShip which has resulted in
better understanding of prob
lens affecting the judiciary and
the passage of legislation, which
has done much to improve the
courts and the administration of
justice therein.
"A man of learning and in
dustry, of wisdom and under
standing. of unimpeachable in
tegrity and wide human SYM
pathy, he has served his coun-
try we'll and will be long re-
membered in gratitude by his
fellow countrymen. He meas
ured up to the highest standard
of manhood. In the language of
the ancient prophet, he did
justly, he loved mercy and he
walked humbly before God. May
his kindly spirit rest in peace
and may the example which he
has left us of consecrated pub
lie service and devotion to the
common good be an inspiration
to all of us in the years that
lie ahead"
Evening star., 1953-09-26
Pope Sets Aside 81
To Mark 100 Years
Of Virgin Dogma
By the Associated Press

VATICAN CITY, Sept. 26.-
Pope Plus XII, in an encyclical
issued today, proclaimed 1854 a
Marian year to commemorate
the Tooth anniversary of the
pronouncement by the Roman
Catholic Church of theS Virgin
Mary's Immaculate Conception.
The Catholic dogma of the
Immaculate Conception was
proclaimed by Pope Plus TX on
December 8, 1854.
The Marian year will begin
on that date this year and con-
tinue for a year.
In his encyclical to Catholic
bishops throughout the world,
the Pope called on Catholics to
perform special devotions and
recite special prayers to the
mother of Jesus during this
commemorative year.
The dogma of the Immaculate
Conception proclaimed as a
tenet of Catholic faith that the
Virgin was conceived without
the stain of original sin. Cath
olic belief is that all other
human beings are born with this
stain due to the sin of dis
obedience of Adam and Eve in
the Garden of Eden.
The pontiff called upon Cath
olicS throughout the world to
pray for the objectives of the
Marian year.
Special Pilgrimages Due.
He urged the clergy to devote
special sermons to explaining the
dogma of the immaculate con-
ception of the Virgin Mary.
The Pope also asked that Cath
olicS gather in groups and pill
grimages in each Catholic dio-
cese. In all of them, he said.
there is a shrine or at least an
altar especially dedicated to the
Virgin Mary.
In dioceSeS where a church is
named for her that church
should be made the center of
prayer for the Marian year. Thus
the worlds great Marian shrines,
such as LourdeS, Fatima and
Rome's own Basilica of st. Mary
Major, will be visited by thou
sands of pilgrims during the
year.
World Need for Prayer.
The Pope's Encyclical said that
there is particular need in the
world today for prayer and for
the Virgin Mary's intercession in
mems behalf and for their return
Ito the straight path"
To-day, as you we'll know,
venerable brethern," said the
encyclical, "men are greatly in
need of these exhortations and
invitations, by which they are
admonished to return to Christ
and to diligently and effectively
conform their lives to the COM
mandmentS, since many are try
ing to root out the Christian
faith from their souls, either by
cunning and secret snares or else
by open and arrogant preaching
of those errors of which they
wantonly boast as if they were
to be considered the glory of
this progressive and enlightened
age"
Evening star., 1953-09-26
Ditch CoIIapses, Kills
School Project Laborer

The body of a laborer was
recovered yesterday nearly two
hours after a deep ditch col
lapsed at a school construction
project in Fairfax County and
buried him in sand. " *#
The victim was identified as
Jack Yates, 81, colored, of Jeffer-
sonton, Va. He was employed
by a subcontracting company
which is digging sewer ditch for
the new Sleepy Hollow School
Workers said the ditch was 18
feet deep.
Rescue squads from Baileys
Crossroads and Annandale re-
sponded to the scene, on Sleepy
Hollow road, 1l2 miles from
Seven Corners, Va.
Evening star., 1953-09-26
Federal Bar Opposes
Bricker Amendment
After Bitter Debate

The Federal Bar Association
at it's fourth annual convention
yesterday went on record as op-
posing the controversial Bricker
amendment to limit executive
power to make treaties.
Meeting for a one-day session
in the Mayf1ower Hotel, the
group fought bitterly over the
issue, which would change the
Constitution and limit the Pres
ident in his treaty-making power
The principal issue at the con-
vention, the question was framed
in three different ways, each of
which was voted on by the 120
Federal lawyers present.
They were:
1. Outright acceptance of the
amendment to the Constitution.
2. A proposal to submit the
question to the entire member
ship.
3. A vote supporting a COM
mittee's recommendation that
the amendment be opposed.
Following a two-hour fight,
the group agreed by voice vote,
to go along with its committee
on international affairs and op-
pose the Bricker amendment.
Earlier, the group heard Civil
Service Commissioner George M.
Moore tell the lawyers he would
like to see the day when bar
risters could take competitive
examinations for their positions
rather than be subject to politi-
cal appointments.
The organization elected as
president Bettin Stalling of
6706 Meadow lane, Chevy Chase,
Md, to replace the outgoing
president, William L. Ellis.
A code of ethics adopted by
the association specified that
attorneys in Federal service
should not engage in personal
business based on their official
positions. The code also decreed
such attorneys should not accept
valuable gifts from persons with
whom they do business for the
Government; not accept private
employment after leaving the
Government, in connection with
any case in which they had
previously been involved.