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...TIME'S Nov. 7 Letters column, Congressman Sam Coon claimed that "nonfederal interests" could participate in his partnership bill for the John Day Dam. The Congressman failed to reveal to your readers that the Rural Electric Cooperatives of Oregon, for example, have described his bill as "a scheme to turn over the rivers of the Northwest to private monopoly...
private power partisans in the Pacific Northwest. Pro-public advocates cry that the slightest evidence of private enterprise is a "giveaway" of the natural resources bequeathed "the people'' by the Almighty. Pro-private advocates shrill that an inch of dam-building aid from any government source amounts to a mile of "creeping socialism" and a rape of the "American Way." Under such a bombardment of absolutes, the electorate often loses the real problem: how to get cheaper electric power under specific conditions in specific places by means public, or private, or in any combination thereof...
...offered by Drs. William E. Petersen and Berry Campbell, who have been working on it (with a dozen colleagues off and on) for ten years. Paul ("Magic Bullet") Ehrlich had shown that antibodies, missing from the blood of calves at birth, can pass to the young in the dam's colostrum. It had been thought that the human species, whether babe or grown man, was unable to pick up these protective antibodies. Not so, say Petersen and Campbell: man and a slew of barnyard beasts and birds can benefit from them. A cow that is vaccinated...
...even more compelling reason not to cut back economic aid now. Today, the Soviet leaders arrive in New Delhi to tempt the Indians into accepting increased Soviet technical aid. Already, the Soviets have offered to India funds and technicians for a steel mill, to Egypt funds for a giant dam, and to Lebanon million of dollars for a river development project. These projects may be minute when compared to the U.S. aid that has flowed into Asia and the Middle East, but the start of a Soviet technical aid program poses a threat to the free world that must...
...flashed the green light for construction of the Priest Rapids and Wanapum Dams on the Columbia River. They will be built by the Grant County (Wash.) Public Utility District, which had to fight objections of the state power commission before it could take on the job. The P.U.D. will share the $361 million cost of the Priest River Dam with the Federal Government, making the dam the first under President Eisenhower's public-private "partnership" policy...