Word: oregon
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...across the country last week joined Dick Nixon in a Republican counterattack against the Democratic drive to wring political prosperity out of economic recession (TIME, Feb. 17). All week long the Democrats kept up their offensive. The governors of Colorado, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Washington-Democrats all-dispatched a joint telegram to President Eisenhower urging a "practical program" (i.e., plenty of federal funds) to combat "the growing national recession." On Capitol Hill, Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson outlined a ten-point antirecession program that Senate Democrats were busy drafting. It called...
...Washington front, reported a withdrawal in many quarters. The foremost reducers: Vice President Richard M. Nixon, 164 Ibs. (down 20 Ibs. in a year); Attorney General William P. Rogers, 170 Ibs. (lost ten); New York's Republican Representative Kenneth B. Keating, 155 Ibs. (down ten). Champion slenderizer: Oregon's Democratic Senator Richard L. Neuberger, now a skinny (for his six feet) 163 Ibs.-30 Ibs. less than he weighed about four months...
...issue was the turbulent Snake River along the Idaho-Oregon border, main tributary of the great Columbia and potential source of 3,600,000 kw. of the minimum 6,500,000 needed in the Northwest by 1967. There, unlike its previous decision in favor of three private dams at Hells...
...Perce dam. He was joined by some defecting fishermen willing to sacrifice sport for power. Against them, loyal fishermen hotly proposed a ten-year moratorium on all middle Snake River dams while fish-saving technology improves, and Dr. Alfred J. Kreft, president of the Oregon division of the powerful Izaak Walton League, said he will "raise all hell" to press it in Congress. Oregon's Democratic Senator Richard Neuberger, a staunch conservationist, said he could not back the dam ban. But he introduced a Senate bill specifying that FPC dam licenses be approved from now on by the Fish...
...than Nez Perce. It would also flood out the lowest Hells Canyon dam that Idaho Power Co. is licensed to build. But Pleasant Valley, under hard study by the Interior Department since last year, would certainly save more fish than Nez Perce, be within range of private financing. The Oregon Water Resources Board has endorsed Seaton's idea. Whatever happened to the fish, they had kidnaped the dams from the politicians...