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...deal of which has already taken place. Power output, which fell 150,000 kw. short of contracted demand last year, should be enough this year to meet all contracts, with some to spare. Still other additions are well under way, including such major hydroelectric sources as the Chief Joseph Dam in Washington, scheduled for power production...
...even these will be inadequate to satisfy the expanding Northwest. McKay would like to see the private power companies expand to meet the demand. As added encouragement, he is considering a 15% rate boost for Bonneville Dam power to cover increased costs, thus bringing Government prices closer to private power costs...
...Texas and a quiet weekend at the 15,000-acre ranch of Democratic Governor Allan Shivers. This week he continued his southward journey into Mexico. Crossing the Rio Grande at Laredo, he met Mexico's President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, and with him dedicated the $50 million international Falcon Dam, a five-mile-long earth and rock-fill barrier, that will bring irrigation and flood control to both sides of the Rio Grande and electricity to light up the border towns. Before the dedication, both Presidents watched a fiesta in the dam-born village of Nuevo Guerrero, and toasted their...
...mess left by them. Last week the summer White House in Denver announced that President Eisenhower and Mexico's cleanup President will meet at the international border Oct. 19. The occasion: dedication of the largest joint U.S.-Mexican border undertaking on record-the $50,000,000 Falcon Dam across the Rio Grande River 75 miles downstream from Laredo, Texas...
...Turkey: the $67 million hydro-irrigation-flood control program at the Seyhan Dam...