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...Engineer William A. Pearl, 60, head of the State College of Washington's engineering school, was named Bonneville Power Administrator to succeed Dr. Paul J. Raver, who resigned. Although Pearl has never mixed in the Northwest's public v. private power squabbles, the choice raised charges from public powerites that he was hand-picked by private powermen. Pearl insists he has no partisan interest in public v. private power disputes, though he supports development of the Snake River's Hell's Canyon by multiple private dams instead of one public dam. His reason: the multiple dams...
...Paul J. Raver, longtime (14 years) boss of the Bonneville Power Administration, retired to become superintendent of Seattle City Light, municipally owned utility. Most likely bet to succeed him at Bonneville: William A. Pearl, professor of mechanical engineering at State College of Washington...
REPUBLICANS have been putting pressure on Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay to replace Bonneville Power Administrator Paul Raver, first appointed by Harold Ickes in 1939. But McKay, well aware of Raver's popularity in the Northwest, will not ask for his resignation, even though the job is not a civil service position. Raver, however, has been talking with Seattle's city-run light company about a job as manager, and may leave anyway...
Often the argument that can be made for the public operations of a TVA or new projects too big or risky for private industry is used to justify many another project. But even a veteran public-power advocate like Bonneville's Administrator Paul Raver now argues that the Government need not control northwest projects, that they should be built, financed and run by interstate authorities. Thus, when there is a will to get the Government out of business, it can unquestionably be done. To do so, the new Administration will have to overcome all the resistance, obstruction, delay...
...Raver's suggestion, made at a time when worsening power shortages are causing unemployment and brownouts in the Northwest, was the first admission from a top Government power official that federal ownership of power may not be the best thing for the nation. His plan may well meet with approval from the Eisenhower Administration. Oregon's Governor Douglas McKay, the incoming Interior Secretary, has already said he thinks it sound...