GOVERNMENT: Hells Canyon (Contd.)

When Defense Mobilizer Gordon Gray granted Idaho Power Co. a fast tax write-off on two Snake River dams (TIME, May 13), he handed public powermen and the Democrats a political grenade. Last week Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver's antitrust and monopoly subcommittee pulled the pin.

After Gray claimed executive privilege, refusing to say whether the White House influenced him in giving Idaho Power what amounts to an interest-free loan for five years, Interior Secretary Fred Seaton testified. He said that he had been against the write-off from the start, that Idaho Power did...

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