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With the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding Idaho Power Co.'s private three-dam plan (TIME, April 15), the bitter battle over Hells Canyon seemed over at last. But last week the fight flared anew after the Office of Defense Mobilization granted Idaho Power a fast tax write-off on 65% of the cost of its $67.1 million Brownlee dam and on 60% of its $35.9 million Oxbow dam. In effect the write-off gives Idaho Power an interest-free loan of about $30 million for five years...
...Virginia's conservative Democrat Harry F. Byrd, whose Finance Committee quickly began hearings on his bill to limit all federal fast-amortization plans to defense, AEC and research projects. "A shocking political theft," added Oregon's liberal Democrat Wayne Morse, whose bill calling for a public power dam at Hells Canyon was defeated in Congress last July 51 to 41. It was promptly reported out of the Senate Interior Committee by Montana's Democratic Chairman James E. Murray as "our answer to the Administration's action...
...Occidental College senior had the bar set at 15 ft. 9 in., cleared it by almost 4 in. Later measurement showed that the bar had sagged to 15 ft. 8¼in., still one-half inch above Cornelius Warmerdam's 15-year-old world outdoor record. Warmer-dam, for one, had seen the new heights coming. Just the week before, at 40, he had cleared 13 ft. with a Fiberglas pole, said that at 25 the new pole would have pushed him to 16 ft. ¶ Russia's Vassily Smyslov, an aspiring concert baritone, needed only 22 games...
BIGGEST CONSTRUCTION contract ever awarded to a single company by Interior Department's Bureau of Reclamation is headed towards Louis Wolfson's Merritt-Chapman & Scott for Glen Canyon Dam on Colorado River in Arizona. Company submitted low bid of $108 million for dam, which will be 700 ft. high and 1,400 ft. long, generate...
...Climate. But public power proponents are far from giving up. Though Hell's Canyon was lost, they knew that Northwestern industrial and political climates have changed since the FPC ruling in 1955. With no big new dams completed, Northwest economic growth is slowing down. Cheap power from public dams built under the New Deal is now inadequate, and few new industries are moving in. As a result of this-and the Democratic victories in the Northwest last year on a public power platform-there is growing pressure for more Government help in developing the vast Columbia River basin. Below...