Word: northwester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congressman Sam Coon claimed that "nonfederal interests" could participate in his partnership bill for the John Day Dam. The Congressman failed to reveal to your readers that the Rural Electric Cooperatives of Oregon, for example, have described his bill as "a scheme to turn over the rivers of the Northwest to private monopoly...
private power partisans in the Pacific Northwest. Pro-public advocates cry that the slightest evidence of private enterprise is a "giveaway" of the natural resources bequeathed "the people'' by the Almighty. Pro-private advocates shrill that an inch of dam-building aid from any government source amounts to a mile of "creeping socialism" and a rape of the "American Way." Under such a bombardment of absolutes, the electorate often loses the real problem: how to get cheaper electric power under specific conditions in specific places by means public, or private, or in any combination thereof...
Washington's Stevens County is one Pacific Northwest community where the issue was presented in specific terms. Last week, after nearly 20 years of both public and private power. Stevens County citizens voted overwhelmingly for private power. Reason: public power rates had become far more expensive than private, and no longer fitted their needs...
...statewide holdings) saw a rare chance to dramatize its side of the public v. private issue. It offered to buy the P.U.D. Brushed aside, its case was re-bolstered by a citizens' petition to put the problem to a popular vote-the first such power election in Northwest history...
University of Rome, Blanc hit upon the Torre site by accident. In the grass at the bottom of a hill 13 miles northwest of the Colosseum, he picked up a curious object that turned out to be the fossilized tooth of a prehistoric elephant. Professor Blanc borrowed a fleet of bulldozers and scraped until, 138 feet down, he exposed the remains of a primitive campsite strewn with hand axes and stone flakes. Many of the bones of the deer, elephants and horses that lay alongside had been cracked open by the hand-ax wielders, apparently in their search...