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Show O 1 imsa Y P fjr?0S s. Sa't Lake Tribug, Thursday, November 4, ? Bods f Vlt- fl " ft M o I IrU r m mV k 7 r 1 jl V 5V.ja SKsSI- jr fef"; && !S !T Mr If ak Mi fcSd-- Eolor- - pi Keen Net Th dm aiong the !: sowar in It t"ut3l op !i foior- - hve Nowrrnn r hying touvfttum n riwmt Rlw hv elvw'i, . fc (Wyiv toe tt ' rre eMutwiiKra eft Associated Press Writer Ore. For centimes, salmon in incredible numbers fought their way up the Columbia River to spawn The Indians tcck w hat they needed, and the run still prospered Later, white men sent more than 40 million pounds in some good years m the 1920s to canner.es and curing houses The salmon runs survived even this plunder. Then m the 1930s, the first of the hydroelectric dams went up on the nver and the runs started to dwindle Today there are 11 dams on the rr.ain.stem of the Columbia and more on its major tributaries, and the salmon runs, once the world's biggest, are in trouble Engineers and scientists are looking for ways to restore the giant runs to the Columbia, and also to the Atlantic salmon on New Epglarl rivers where dams have all but wiped them out. - Dams Hinder Migration The dams hinder migration to spawning grounds, gruid fish to pulp in their turbines and poison the water with too much nitrogen. They aiier the temnerature of the Columbia and of other rivers, giving rise to diseases ami parasite; urkro'vn before the dams were built. Tne result in the northwestern Umteu State ha been a swap abundant salmon for cheap, plentiful energy supplied by the dams. The campaign to revive the salmon without interrupting the energy uaoul been easy. But the steps taken so far, principally on the Columbia, show promise. They include alterations in the dams to aid salmon migration, man-mad- e hatcher!. dams, and transportation of salmon in tank trucks past dams The original plan for Bonneville Dam, the first one the salmon must pass, had no plans at all for fish passage It took hard lobbying by the commercial fishing industry to get fish ladders included That Would Have Been That' i PORTLAND, 4 evsw54s ..SSf ti ie - 1W "r " :' 2 v Jb , a, J fc V ' : ,Vf &&& - s V5 s S?n 'At V ' f, T " . v A-?- k 3d r tr & n . L w rf i it 1 t f s . - rtrrZ. AMociett a salmon lad- der on the Ice Harbor Dam near Press Ptwto 1 OiU.Tb ifi 1, voters narrowly feated a proposed million levy af I A Bt 51 I de$1.3 K ucj! P 9 1 1 J ( . is. r3j.5 nl fCV! w tf dL?i 3 tUWQAt rilaiWf'VF9jrmmmp Dwsuu J yrr r ' L. . X.Vi ZVZZH eifesj D I 'j tas ' - v- 1 rsiSl E55597HIKU1 1 S3 3 fe fc I cSlXl l n? wt07 'rr;. SI nsfsi ' Bl 111 - jiir 'tr j , isiVrX ?ii. NWy As' rjr jphrpry fc s. - eCK.1 &oi . -- . al e H rtd 4 wimnnQ st9 ?m 4 nkKMr Blal .ord o !hv Ulll U i r T: : 7 r'" xss1' Windsor: A rare breed of Canadian. Troubled Future Puerto Ricos three million people hav e long been troubled over the future political status of the island The promdependence movement is vocal but weak, with the vast majority of Puerto Ricans apparently feeling the island cannot survive economically without some sort of continuing tie to the United States & 4 m3i ,fiSPSwri The smoothest whisky ever to come out of Canada. Hernandez Colon's Popular Democratic party has been the dominant force in island politics since the 1940s. However, island voters have appeared to be in an mood in recent years, refusing to the last three governors fZ (Pt. -- 0'niUrt.iJui AtHjlvO IVij hi 4 ;'r7 ClvMUHUtf CukllUb which advocates independence and European sty ie socialism. In 1972, the Independence party won 4 5 percent of the vote. Romero, a lawyer and Yale graduate, stressed economic issues in his low-ke- y campaign incumbent. He pointed to 20 against the 45 percent unemployment and percent inflation over the past four years and also cited alleged corruption and bad administration by the party in power. 1 - 1 ' jr X: Depending on the angle of the turbine blades, from to 18 nament of ' f'.ch ?.re tiled ut Cuc.li liaui tney pass. Thats 3 to 18 percent of the survivors each time If you pass through several dams, thats a heck of a lot of fish, Horton said. 1 S Ijr .u- Statehood for Caribbean Island 0ipib1 .i-s-- ballot- New Puerto Rican Governor to Ask 1 rtYi u.aEYT! nm$M - Jk. 3 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) Carlos Romero Barcelo, upset victor m the gubernatorial race, wants cO upgrade Puerto Ricans from what lie terms second rate citizenship" by making this Caribbean island the aist American sidle However, he played down Lie statehood issue in his campaign and says his first priority as governor will be to rebuild the sagging economy. Romero, mayor of San Juan for the past eight .vears, defected incumbent Gov. Rafael Hernandez Colon, whose Popular Democratic parly favors continued commonwealth status Romero and his New Progressive party had the endorsement of President Ford and the mainland Republicans while Hernandez Colon was endorsed by Jimmy Carter and the Democrats. With 65 percent of the vote counted. Romero had 615,694 votes to 582,651 for Hernandez Colon Most Charismatic Rico The Puerto Independence party headed by Ruben Bemos, widely considered the most charismatic candidate, had 69,194 votes, or 5 4 percent This w as far short of the 10 percent predicted by the party. J ... . xr- -- iiAi-w- j ;. him c: . Lr T-vi'-- c In La Grande District Pasco, Wash. Ladders bely in maintaining fish population. rr,!. sTT n Jf f , uni t75TlStsSUT5S3SwL. s7T! bXV::. salmon also come upriver to spawn m the fall, spruig and winter. In 1938, commercial fishermen took almost IS million pounds of Columbia River salmon As dams went up the figure dropped. It has passed 10 million pounds only three times since 1952. Eight of the 11 dams were completed after 1952, as were eight of the 11 dams on the Snake River, a major Columbia tributary and spawning ground But the dams aren't all bad Because of them, there are no brownouts in the Northwest and energy from the dams, sold wholesale to publicly owned utilities bv the Bonneville Power Administration, gives the region the cheapest energy in the United States. In Eugene, Ore , the Eugene Water and Electric Board charges $12 10 for 1,000 kilowatt hours of electricity, enough to light and heat a suburban home for two to four weeks In Chicago the price, with taxes, is $43 44. New Yorkers pay $90.62. Fish Go With Water The energj is produced by the water stored behind If the river level is the dams turning giantwl turbines. . --L 4. U .. .11 IV. IT Vi M.M ImI wUICO, VI uicai grinders, as Horton Bitterly calls them, and the fish go w ith it , . If they hadn't, that would have solved the whole salmon nroblcm neht there. said Howard Horton of Oregon State Universitys fish and wildlife department. That would have been that. Fishw ays were built into subsequent dams except for Grand Coulee, the lai gest on the river, 586 miles from the mouth. There are no fishways there, so above Grand Coulee there is no migration. The result is that 500 miles of river and tributaries are useless for the salmon. Today, half of the returning salmon were born in hatcheries opera ten by Oregon, Idaho and Washington. They consist of a senes of quiet pools usually located below dams. The females are caught, killed and their eggs placed at the bottom of the pools to be fertilized by the males. The hatcheries then become the snawnmn ground-- , tn whit !i ibe p genoratcrs of salmon return instinctively to breed. But until all the problems of the dams are solved, f the escapement, or number of fish returning to . spawning grounds can be controlled only by W , PaI.. afimt t)A ficKmrr mvocom season has been cut from 272 days in 1938, when Bonneville was 8omplcted, to fewer than 50 days I t J . . TL ..I - uur ..,,1 L. . J L. , Vwcvuiv . U auuuvu 1 vi vC uvuuuMiit luxury more expensive than steak in many markets Nv Cuuiiiicitiai Fiauiug There has been no commercial fishing during the summer salmon run to speak of for a decade. The V urt s fiJiTa Pi Nov. 24 down t rrr F La Grande and South Lane Voters in the Sou'O I nine liisii ict ueieated a $2 80 million levy, 2,523 ves a"' 2 886 no The district has 3,500 students, and school officials say its 19 schools will DC io:veu tv klvot. gr Wntr flows s ,. u-- ,7T Cana1S wb ittiiii iiimiti - Oregon districts, fe - ,.. C ing also saw levies de- Other fnnlarl in T ' 1 M is m MM tfJt-- irTST r aKM fe? M3 XX ' fl 'V 'ntw: r-- nr LJb ,r., r - '(U " f iv TlIrtcHov'c General election if V kArV MiMnMirlrn Inn It H - V I- (ssMbd.jSr.wa"' . . The unofficial final return was 2,218 in favor and 2,415 opposed Tucs-dnj- s vote was the district's fifth attempt to get a levy passed The next election when a lev can come up for appioval is 'X. i & smAmJ -- -- election Voters in the Eagle Point district near Medford, where sc liuola have been c!osR since Oct. 15 because of a lack ot funds, defeated a proposed $2 5 million operating lev ru- X w.c ff ' ' J O Mole than 3,GuG studrms will be b,.iivd from e,ac'''''",8 by Dec ! bec?,,'P of tax m - r IkLirai&iA PORTLAND, Ore (AP) my v By Joe Frazier I s. gw. . wmAS 9 a"V 1 iif , i trr-- 1 ri lit, n iLJinv . 3Tf7Ert!un NermtW rn m W IO gr tr Dcfctl r, kj IlUVAi rTkWTJ-- l- w r $" -- w S 1876 A 1-35- 35 "t -- |
