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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...
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...
...long battle between public and private powermen for the right to develop Hell's Canyon finally ended. By refusing last week to review the case for public power, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Federal Power Commission's 1955 judgment in favor of private power. That judgment ruled in effect that private enterprise is preferable when it stands ready to serve the public interest quickly and efficiently...
...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...
After lunch, there are various scenic trips prepared by the management to such places as Pike's Peak, Echo Canyon, the Royal Gorge Bridge, or the Will Rogers Memorial located halfway up Cheyenne Mountain. At night there is hockey. Over the weekend, there are numerous social functions such as teas and dances, which are all staffed by CC girls...