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...Learned, by an action of the House Interior Committee, that the Democrats are hell-bent on using Hell's Canyon to dramatize charges of an Administration natural-resources "giveaway" in the fall campaigns. The committee, following a similar move by its Senate sister, voted 15-13 to clear for House action a bill to build a $600 million federal high dam in Hell's Canyon on the Snake River between Idaho and Oregon. The Idaho Power Co., which the Federal Power Commission licensed last August to build three small dams in the area for an estimated $250 million...
Overtaken. Shortly after noon, the first wreckage was sighted. On the impenetrable, rock-jagged slope between Chuar (pronounced shwar) Butte and Temple Butte, just inside the eastern edge of the majestic Grand Canyon, lay the shattered pieces of the Constellation, identifiable by her tail surfaces. Around 7 o'clock the next morning, searchers found the remains of the United 718 on a ledge at the top of Chuar Butte, 1,000 ft. from the Connie...
...sharp notes have begun to creep in. Some friends of McKay have been looking at Hitchcock's record, and are saying that "the issue is whether we want to nomi nate another Wayne Morse." Says Hitchcock guardedly, in a state where Democrats have made the McKay-approved Hells Canyon dam project a symbol of "giveaway": "My activities as an Eisenhower Republican will not be tied to the policies of one controversial department...
...hard for Democrat Wayne Morse's U.S. Senate seat, walked into an unexpectedly tough fight in his own party. While McKay has been winding up his Cabinet duties, Philip Hitchcock, 51, public relations director of Lewis and Clark College, has been wringing Republican hands from Hell's Canyon to Astoria, and gaining strength in rural areas where McKay has lost friends because of the Administration's power policies. "Everything will be all right," said a McKay worker confidently, "when Doug gets out and meets his old friends again...
...thorns made by Arab refugees. The Holy Week price: $1. At the barricaded Jaffa Gate, a pair of Arab Legion sentries stuff hands in pockets against the chill, and a radio blares a newscast. A bright red poster on an ancient wall nearby advertises an American movie, Massacre Canyon...