The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 307, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 31, 1955 Page: 2 of 4
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* 2—THE ENNIS DAILY NEWS—Saturday, Dec. 31. 1955
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1951 Chevrolet 3 '4 Ton Pick-up. Overload Springs,
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JOE C. McCRARY Agent
104 South Dallas Street
TR53171 Ennis, Texas
GRAND
LAST TIMES TODAY
lowed up torrents »>I witter during'
the ChrULinu* ruin* snd is hokhnft
the floods back. Pioneered by famed
dam-builder Harold Ickes, It is now
operating like clockwork Tivte
were no major floods from Redding
to Sacramento on the Sacramento
River.
It was the side tributaries of the
Sat'ramento, the Yuba uml F*6-
ther Rivera, flowing In la-low the
Shasta Dam—which caused tjie
damage.
Trinity River—Here a dam and
tunnel were proposed to take water
out of the Trinity .which flows lpto
the Klamath River, and pipe it to
the Keswick Reservoir in order to
relieve the frequently swolh u Kla-
math River. Tliis would have pre-
vented floods. But the 15-foot drop
as the water rushed through tins
tunnel would have generated
•creeping kilowatts”-in other worths
the cheap electric power that Pa-
cific Gas and Electric didn’t have. |
All this came to a head last suiji- j
mer in one of the unpublicized but,
notable battles of the Eisenhower
administration.
Mr KAY DALLIES
Despite PG & E opposition. Con-
gress voted for the Trinity river
flood control-public power project, !
thanks to the tenacity of Congress-
man Clare Engle iDem.t of Cali-,
forma. Congress not only voted the j
authorization but appropriated i
money to begin work, and it did so 1
despite the opposition of the I’resi- !
dent's budget and of Ins secretary of j
the Interior .Douglas McKay. j
At one congressional debate, Pa-
cific Gas and Electric made a cotin -
’ oyRr ill bunk* to destroy and Electric.
inxjfde alftl property in California.
If McKay liad started work sev-
-en month* ago when Congress acted
lie, coufcf not bf course have pre-
vented the flood. But tiie real fact
ts that Trinity Rivere project Vas
in the hang-over budget which Els-
enhower inherited from Truman
and Oscar Chapman three years
^ago but* which was promptly
knocki-U out , ,
Another, flood-control project
killed by the utilities was proposed
for tnc Rogue River In Oregon—
namely, n d«m near Medford. First
.urged in 1948 by the Truman ad-
ministration, it was killed by the
California Oregon Pacific Power
Company together with Pacific Gas
The dam was not'built and the
Rogue ittver nas just flooded a-
galn at this Christmas season.
NOTE :The chief California Con-
gressman who have been maneu-
vering to block flood control power
dams are Leroy Johnson of Stock-
ton and Hubert Scudder of Sebast-
opol, Republicans. They get val-
iant help from Congressman Ben
Jenson, Republican of Iowa, who,
as former chairman of the Interior
Department appropriation* suo-
wa* able to knock riff
dam appropriations in the secrecy
of committee.
(Copyright, 1955- By The Bell Syn-
(Copyright. 1955—By The Bell Syn-
dicate, Inc).
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WASHINGTON, D, C — Tragic,
inside fact about the Pacific Coast
floods is that most of them could i
have been prevented.
Reuse*:, they weren’t goes back to j
the long-drawn-out battle waged
in the Roosevelt administration, the ;
Truman administration, and t h e :
Eisenhower administration over!
“creeping kilowatts” — in other,
words, public power.
Flood-control dams can’t be built
economically with harnessing the
electric power that comes from
those dams, and the utility lobby
has fought bitterly—in many cases
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successfully—agairjst any flood con-
trol that would also put more elec-
t-dic power in the hand* of govern-
ment agencies.
This basic battle was behind
Dixon-Yatea. It was also behind the
defeat of the TVA flood - control
plan voted for New England in 1936
defeated by the utilities. It was also
behind a similar plan for flood-
scourged Eastern P> nnsylvania.
Instead of 'creeping socialism."
therefore, these areas have had
cresting flood waiters. evacuated' ci-
ties, washout oi}t railroads*, and in
California and Qregoij- #p*;Christ-*
mas, a total of 43 dead plus $150.-
000,00® of damage.
The utility which has chiefly
fought flood-control dams in
Northern California is Pacific Gas
and Electric, whose president.
James B. Black, has been a star
guest at Ike’s famous stag dinners
His influence in blocking recla-
mation legislation" began, however,
long before Ike entered the White
House.
THE M.06D SCORE
Here, dam by ctam and flood by
flood, ts the score in Northern Cali-
fornia,
The Feftther River—This is o n e
of the major tributaries to the Sac-
ramento River, and disastrously
spilled over its banks just before
Christmas. To harness the Feather
River. Oscar Chapman, secretary of
the Interior under Truman, prop-
osed Oroville Dam. Pacific Gas
and Electric, however, objected. And
after much maneuvering and prod- I
ding, the State of California took
over the building of the dam.
That was in 1950. Five years have i
now flbcl the OroviiJa* Dam
is no| fej liailt. It isn't even'started, j
California appropriated $100,000-
OOo r\<f get started, part of which
was spent, but ground wasn’t even j
broken.
Pacific Gas and Electric mean- !
while has- R “run of the river” clam !
on, the Feather, with no storage:
cap’iu'ity. It merely generates power.
It costa money to build a big dam l
that cii|i hold back flood waters, j
and PG A: E hasn't built them.
ZSdsu-ta Reservoir—In contract, the
Shasta Dam, built by the federal |
government under Truman, swal- i
tcrpropasal that tin* Trinits River
project be jrartncnsliip whereby tlie
federal govcn.im nt wo
;1J but id
the dams hut let Paeilic
Gas and
Elecric put in its gauier 1
ol" gen-
erate the |>o\ver and sell
it. rhcjrt.
said PG .V K it wouldn't b<
crfeirlng
socialism
Congres.. however, .rallt
*:l this a
one horse one rabbit ciea
and vut-
1 ed no. It decreed that .
Trinity River dam wa- t
1 be p.tjd
for by the taxpayers, the
'.(•u )..yyrs
must get, benefit of cheaper pub-
lie power. So the project.
Inly voted
by Congress was sent to
SecrcUu;y
McKay for actii.m
There has remained
Svcrc! «si‘V
McKay lias taken no a ti
un s> vf*n
months have passed .•:■
ore-
shovel has be**n 1 j11*•.; .,r
n n r b • 111 -
dozer move-.i to cariy 0.
the will
of Congress.
Meanwhile, the T-nuty
River last
week spilled o\.-r .:.‘• tin
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River, the Klamath linei
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January i, 1956
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bring you an abundance of all
that's good In life... fine health,
prosperity, friendship, love,
happiness. To everyone, we wish
the very best year everl
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Bus, Daniel W. The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 307, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 31, 1955, newspaper, December 31, 1955; Ennis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth786066/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Ennis Public Library.