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Title page 29
Relation Columbia Basin
Date 2005-04-12 to 2005-04-19
Rights This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested.
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Format Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 166.753 kb 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - greyscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit grayscale tiffs and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit grayscale tiffs edited in Photoshop 6.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted, bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created.
Description would have eliminated private power in the basin within a few years. Even after the CVA proposals were soundly defeated in the Congress in 1949, some public power advocates attempted to create in the compact what would have amounted to a "mini-CVA." These attempts were continued into the late 1950's, when the Compact Commission rejected them once for all. Third, controversy (particularly opposition by public power groups) consistently centered on how the compact would affect the public...
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1883

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