Word: interior
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Into the hopper of the Federal Power Commission last week 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...
Seaton has refitted McKay policy in another Interior problem: the continuing deficit in operations of the Southwestern Power Administration, an Interior Department subsidiary. To make up the deficit, McKay proposed a 40% increase on power supplied by the administration to rural electric cooperatives. Seaton sliced the coops' rate increase to 27½%, suggested other revenue by increasing rates on power supplied to private power companies. He also demanded that a 30-year contract between Southwestern Power and the Reynolds Metals Co., fashioned by Truman Interior Secretary Oscar Chapman, be renegotiated to allow higher rates...
Secretary of the Interior Seaton yesterday proclaimed his opposition to peacetime price-wage controls and said there is nothing he can do about recent oil and gasoline price increases. Investigating senators jumped him on grounds he had not appealed to the oil industry to hold down prices...
...average of less than 300,000 bbls. daily. To make the situation worse, much of the oil has come from U.S. reserve stocks, which have dropped from 284 million bbls. to 254 million bbls. since the beginning of November, and are now below the minimum set by the Interior Department as needed for national security. The air from London to Texas crackled with recriminations: everybody blamed everybody else...