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...outfit called the National Hell's Canyon Association, Inc. blossomed and bristled like a desert cactus last year, soon after the Federal Power Commission turned down an eight-year-old proposal that the Government build a single high dam in Idaho's Hell's Canyon, instead licensed a private utility to build three small dams in the area (TIME, Aug. 15, 1955). Turning furiously to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, the association charged that the FPC action amounted to "administrative lawlessness" and de manded that the court order the license revoked. Chief argument: under...
...most obvious results of this policy are shown in the Pacific Northwest, where McKay withdrew Interior Department support for a high federal dam at Hells Canyon. Then the FPC ignored its examiner, who had found that a high dam would provide more power, more flood control, more navigation, and more recreation for the Hells Canyon area than the three low private dams. The FPC granted permission for the three-dam plan...
...Roosevelt, of Gifford Pinchot, and of George Norris, all pioneers in the conservation field. And Eisenhower's selection of Douglas McKay as Secretary of the Interior might even have seemed auspicious, for McKay, while Governor of Oregon, had favored federal development of a high multi-purpose dam at Hells Canyon...
...even Ike-liker John Sherman Cooper opposed it. A complicated issue, the Dixon-Yates proposals included obvious attempts to whittle down TVA and to encircle it with a giant utilities holding company. And the President, not normally prodigal with his immense influence, worked as hard to defeat the Hells Canyon dam as he worked on any other bill in four years...
...Democrats have not been perfect on the issue, either, but the dominant element in the party swung 83 per cent of the Senate Democratic vote for Hells Canyon, while 96 per cent of the Republicans, under Eisenhower pressure, opposed...