Word: mckay
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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...
Refitted Policy. Though Seaton, like McKay, holds to the Eisenhower concept of private-public partnership in river development, he takes a broader view of what can be accomplished. Studying the private low dams that McKay favored, Seaton noted that they offered only limited flood control, failed therefore to achieve full development of the Snake's potential. One high dam (at Pleasant Valley, downstream from Hell's Canyon) would generate more power and provide more flood control than two McKay-type low dams at Pleasant Valley and Mountain Sheep, he explained to the Federal Power Commission. (Before...
...wife now works in the Gordon McKay Engineering Laboratory...
Frederick Andrew Seaton, 47, after seven months as Secretary of the Interior, is the youngest Cabinet officer in age and service. Succeeding Douglas McKay, Seaton assumed a difficult job with the light hand and sure footwork that marked earlier Washington assignments, e.g., as Charlie Wilson's public relations counselor and as presidential administrative assistant. Currently Seaton's touchy job is to reverse some McKay water and power decisions that proved to be vastly unpopular in the Far West, e.g., to shift emphasis from McKay's theories of all-out help for quick, private-power development...