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...Columbia River 85 miles upstream from Portland, Ore., a rescue party was working last week to save one of the most interesting relics of America's distant past. Water, backed up by the great new dam at The Dalles, will soon cover the strange rock carvings in Petroglyph Canyon. No one knows who carved the animals, sunbursts and strange, maplike designs in the hard basalt, or when or why they did it. But the fascinating mystery will never be solved if deep water is permitted to cover the evidence...
...shift emphasis from McKay's theories of all-out help for quick, private-power development to a more moderate Seaton program of maximum use of each river valley, and possibly increased federal development. Along these lines, Fred Seaton may yet reopen the celebrated Hell's Canyon dispute (TIME, Oct 22 et ante), come out for a modified federal high dam of some sort...
...astounding vistas of the opening West have become familiar to a nation on wheels; most regional art has degenerated into picturesque views suitable for sale to tourists at roadside stands. Art viewers have come to expect more from artists than a pleasant rendering of a sunset over the Grand Canyon or the pine-studded shores of Rockport...
Although CAA's radar network plan was announced early last spring, it was given top priority only after the Grand Canyon disaster shocked Congress into appropriating an additional $35 million toward its completion. Currently, CAA controllers outside of New York City and Washington, D.C. must form their pictures of air traffic conditions from position reports radioed in by pilots. The new installations will enable controllers to scan the skies for 200 miles around 23 of the nation's major cities, spotting everything from highflying, supersonic military jets to plodding commercial airliners and buzzing private planes...
...home building, Oregon's billion-dollar lumber business has slacked off; 2) because of lower farm prices, Eastern Oregon's big-business wheat farmers are pouting; and 3) even though private enterprise already is hard at work on a power project in the Hell's Canyon area, a recent power shortage has allowed Morse to sing his "Government can do it better" chant with some effectiveness. Doug McKay's campaign is well-heeled. He has the almost unanimous editorial backing of Oregon's influential newspapers. And all through the state, he is sparking a wondrous...