Word: chinook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conservationist's Nightmare. The unexpected decision shocked the combine, which had spent $2,500,000 planning its smaller dams. And it enraged some 200,-ooo politically potent sports fishermen throughout the Northwest. The dams that industrialized the Northwest have blocked great runs of Chinook salmon and steelhead trout as they swarm in from the sea to spawn far upstream. Since pre-dam 1928, the commercial salmon catch on the Columbia River alone has decreased more than 50%. Millions have been spent on devices to help mature fish climb dams, get tiny fingerlings back safely through turbine blades...
Flying into Claremore from Washington to address the business-suited Blackfeet, Apache, Sioux, Mohawk, Chinook, Zuñi, Cheyenne, Chocktaw, Kickapoo and others was Commissioner Glenn Emmons himself, onetime New Mexico banker and a longtime neighbor and friend of the Navajo. Listing such Indian advances of the recent past as better health care and improved educational facilities, Emmons declared his own "confidence in the native capacities of Indian people-in their ability to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps if they are only given a decent opportunity." But, predictably, Emmons' words of encouragement fell on ruffled feathers...
Hynes, who has taught at the University for two years, will also be a 1957-1958 Fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, Calif. His special field is linguistics, and he has written on American Indian languages and myths, especially the Chinook...
...movie folk watched and applauded last week as seven animals got their "Patsy" awards (the annual animal "Oscar") for outstanding performances. The first-prize winner: Rhubarb, a stealthy, orange-colored cat which starred in the picture of the same name. The other winners: Diamond and Smoky (horses), Corky and Chinook (dogs), Cheta (a chimpanzee playmate of Tarzan), and Francis (the "talking" mule). There were minor disturbances-Smoky was frightened and frisky; Diamond was nervous enough to misbehave onstage-but, all in all, the evening was a success. Moreover, it was a true sign of a new Hollywood trend: movies starring...
First Prize. Like Texas, Alberta was prosperous even before its oil wells spouted their new wealth. The southern plains country, where the warm Chinook blowing off the Rockies keeps the rich range grasses clear of snow, is one of North America's great pasture lands. Its sleek, black Aberdeen-Angus, white-faced Herefords and square-built red Shorthorns provide more than a quarter of Canada's beef supply; steaks from Alberta steers are eaten as far away as Karachi, capital of Pakistan, half the circuit around the globe...