Word: mckay
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Four younger scientists will become assistant professors of Engineering and Applied Physics on the Gordon McKay Endowment effective this July...
...platform-there is growing pressure for more Government help in developing the vast Columbia River basin. Below Hell's Canyon on the Snake River (chief Columbia tributary), private power had planned two power-only dams at Pleasant Valley and Mountain Sheep. Though approved by former Interior Secretary Douglas McKay, the plans were tentatively disapproved by an FPC study last month that favored a proposed $450 million multipurpose (power, flood control, irrigation) federal Nez Perce dam below the confluence of the Snake and Salmon Rivers. In addition. Interior Secretary Fred Seaton believes that the private plans may be too limited...
Five additional professorships were announced yesterday in the Law School and the College. Herbert Dieckmann, professor of Romance Languages and Literature, was named Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages; Nicolas Bloembergen and Clarence L. Hogan, both associate professors of Applied Physics, will occupy Gordon McKay professorships of Applied Physics...
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...
...Seaton new look, Ross Lillie Leffler, 70, last week was confirmed by the Senate to fill the new post of Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife. Philadelphia Steelman Leffler assumes control of two equal bureaus devised as partial mollification of the powerful conservation and sportsmen's lobby, which McKay had offended. Not entirely satisfied with simple equality, the conservationists nonetheless like Leffler, trust Seaton and are willing to give the new system a chance. They are also pleased because Fred Seaton has suspended the issuance of oil and gas leases on federal bird-and-game refuges; Doug McKay approved...