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More POWER NEWS _ Social as peps 164 loci the coordinator of the program, Charles H Marks, Bituminous Research, Inc, 980 Kfnnear Rd, Columbus 8, Ohio. American Petroleum Institute Withdraws Approval of Oil Tables American Petroleum Institute, In on action that will aSect thousands of contracts, recently announced that it is withdrawing its approval of the No* lional Standard Petroleum Oil Tables issued in 1936. The Institute said that the American Society for Testing Ma terials and the Institute of Petroleum have published a .volume ef recalculated and extended Petroleum Measurement Tables and that API is endorsing these as the new national standards. The Executive Committee of tho API Board of Directors voted approval of the change at a meeting in White Sulphur Springs, W. Vo. The action came at this time to give the industry as much advance notice ea possible for substitution of tho tables in regula* tions, tariffs and contracts. APPlICATION OF THE POWER SERVICES A McCRAW-HIU PUBUCAMQN transmission and The Corps of Engineers hss ordered new surveys of eight sites for molil-purpese dsms on tha middle Snake River basin. .In directing the Walla Walla district office to undertake the studies, Mej Ceo Samuel D Sturgis, chief of the corps, sold Congress had provided 1140.000 for the reports that are to bo presented to Congressional com mittees heat January. Sites to be studied 'ore Nea Perce and Mountain Sheep on the Snake; Device on tho Salmon River; Kooikia, Forks and Penny Cliffs on the middle fork of the Geerwaler River; Elkberry and Bruces Eddy on the north fork of the Gearwaler. in its I9SO survey of the Columbia basin, tho Corps presented Ncs Perce aad Hells Canyon as jointly offering meiimum storage benefits from the middle Snake; Device, the best adapted to development on the Salmon; tbe Kooskia, the best on the Gear waler system. All (ear have become in volved in controversy aside from hydropower questions. Hells Canyon storage potential has stirred .upriver irrigation advocates who foresee infringement water rights by power requirements; Crevice and Nes Perce, be cause these would ereate barriers against salmon runs to spawning grounds claimed by fish Interests to be the finest in tbe Columbia's upper basin area; Kooskia, be cause it would'flood four towns and 183 miles of roads in rugged Idaho mountains where route location Is valued. Some ef the sites here been advocated as alternates to the controversial Hells Can yon dsm spotlighted in recent FPC hear ings on Idaho Power Co's proposal to build three lew-head hydropower structures in the Snake basin in the near future. 166 POWER NOVEMtCt I*