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Author Ferber has been to Alaska four times, and must have done a lot of research, too: her book is very knowing about such matters as parkas, salmon fishing and Gold Rush prostitutes. She also makes an emotional and just plea for Alaskan statehood. But decades of panning fictional gold (Show Boat, Saratoga Trunk) have taught canny Prospector Ferber where to find the pay lode. Her heroine, Christine Storm, is beautiful enough to still the growl of a Malemute, so passionate about her native Alaska that she would not swap a fox parka for an autumn-haze mink. Grandpa Kennedy...
...word "recession" was rapidly becoming one of the hardest-working polysyllables in the language. A Los Angeles coffee shop advertised 65? "recession specials" (salmon patties, veal cutlet...
...more private dams-costing $170 million-downstream at Mountain Sheep and Pleasant Valley. FPC said it favors a far bigger $450 million dam farther downstream at Nez Perce, which would produce 1,672,000 kw. and store 3,900,000 acre-feet of water, also curb the flood-prone Salmon River, a wild branch of the Snake. Though FPC left Nez Perce open to private construction by Pacific Northwest Power, a four-company combine, powermen feared that such a dam would almost certainly need heavy federal financing because of its cost...
Conservationist's Nightmare. The unexpected decision shocked the combine, which had spent $2,500,000 planning its smaller dams. And it enraged some 200,-ooo politically potent sports fishermen throughout the Northwest. The dams that industrialized the Northwest have blocked great runs of Chinook salmon and steelhead trout as they swarm in from the sea to spawn far upstream. Since pre-dam 1928, the commercial salmon catch on the Columbia River alone has decreased more than 50%. Millions have been spent on devices to help mature fish climb dams, get tiny fingerlings back safely through turbine blades...
...predecessor, Douglas McKay, and quietly stolen some thunder from Northwest Democrats. Last week all eyes turned to Seaton's suggestion for a $274 million multipurpose dam at Pleasant Valley instead of at Nez Perce. FPC and many powermen have opposed it because it would be above the Salmon and Imnaha Rivers, thus store much less water 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...