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Smylie Needles McClure on Sawtooth Bill - — npnniq of Idaho, not soocial in.BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Former Gov, Robert E, Smylie urged Rep, James A. McClure, R-ldaho, Friday night to sup-port the Sawtooth National Recreation Area bill passed lay the Senate,“I urge McClure to support the Sawtooth recreation bill and get it through this session ofcongress, Smylie told a polltf*cal symposium sponsored by several Idaho environmental groups, That area has needed protection for three years.” McClure and Smylie are rival candidates for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, McClure has expressed differences with the Senate-passed version of the legislation endhas supported one which was approved by the House, The two bills are now in a conference committee, which is Ironing out the differences in the two versionSjThe candidates were asked to prepare statements on damming of the middle stretch of (he Snake River, policies on growth and development in Idaho and discount rates for water development projects,Subsequently they were asked for Impromptu remarks about whether Teton Dam in eastern Idaho should be constructed, an issue which drew the sharpest division straddling party lines,In favor of the dam were Smylie, McClure, George Hansen and Glen Wegner, all Republican candidates for the Senate nomination, and Edward V, Williams, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for 1st District Congress,Opposing construction were Hose Bowman, Atty, Gen, W. Anthony Park and Byron John* son, all Democratic candidates for U. S, Senate, and Wayne Kldwell and Robert Purcell, Republican candidates for the 1 st CongrtjSbiojial District nomI* nation, Steve Symms, also seeking' the GOP nomination for 1st District Congress, said he was 1'skeptical of any government project/'Hansen said he grew up in Teton valley and knows the necessity of the dam for flood control protecUon, adding you liave to weigh what is conservation ag2ilns\ what is ecoto-B).Although supporting Teton Dam, Williams urged that Idaho plan what to do after Teton is built so there is not anotherDworshak,”McClure said he does not fa* vor a dam on the middle stretch of the Snake River now, but said Idaho should keep \\s options open for the people to make some other decision inthe future.Wegner said he hoped the last yard of concrete has been poured in Hells Canyon and on the free-flowing Snake River Mow Hells Canyon until thepeople of Idaho, not special In. lerests and not congressmen in Washington, D.C., determine tliai more, dams are necessary for Idahoans,” • ;Johnson opposed any further-dam construction on the Middle Snake because it needs protection now/’Kid well said a moratorium oii dam construction on the Middle Snake is justified, along with a permanent moratorium on min* ing in the White Clouds mourw tains of central Idaho, where American Smelting and Refining Co, has vast molybdenum deposits,Kidwell said the state should encourage establishment of nonpolluting industries in Idaho.
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Idaho State Journal
Pocatello, Idaho, US
Sun, Jun 04, 1972
Page 2
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