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Odyssey (Sun. 4 p.m., CBS). "The Wonderful World of Comics," discussed by Al (Li'l Abner) Capp, Walt (Pogo) Kelly, Milton (Steve Canyon) Caniff...
...plopped a report from the Interior Department discussing the possibility of building a new federal high dam on the Snake River between Oregon and Idaho. The report, as it stood, was a drastic modification of former Interior Secretary Douglas McKay's stand against the celebrated Hell's Canyon federal dam, a stand which some Western Republicans have blamed for the defeat of many a Western Republican candidate last November (including Oregon's candidate for the U.S. Senate Doug McKay...
Symbolically, the high dam now suggested by Interior would impound water enough to obliterate the Hell's Canyon dan site-much as McKay's energetic successor, Interior Secretary Fred A. Seaton, is superimposing on McKay policies strong new decisions...
...takes a broader view of what can be accomplished. Studying the private low dams that McKay favored, Seaton noted that they offered only limited flood control, failed therefore to achieve full development of the Snake's potential. One high dam (at Pleasant Valley, downstream from Hell's Canyon) would generate more power and provide more flood control than two McKay-type low dams at Pleasant Valley and Mountain Sheep, he explained to the Federal Power Commission. (Before the FPC is an application from Pacific Northwest Power Co. to build the two low dams...
...Composer Ernst Bacon, 58, with narration based on Paul Horgan's Pulitzer Prizewinning book Great River: The Rio Grande. Commissioned two years ago by the Dallas Symphony and performed under Walter Hendl, Rio Grande proved to be a collection of twelve thematic snippets-A River Created, Desert and Canyon: Texas-Mexico. Soldiers by Firelight-celebrating the river's history and lurid scenery. Composer Bacon's music, liberally scored for piano, vibraphone and harp, illuminates the text and is occasionally brilliantly evocative, e.g., in the tiny, clear sounds of the orchestra accompanying the words "The evening star hung...