4 J3i-29 oe 16 Jamary 1957 different opinions about opening the chamel, All rizht, I want to write dow the opinions; get them down in some orderly fashion, I realize there are things we dontt now, but tre thig ig this, there are things that ve don't have to know at this point. We should not worry at this level about questions of using it or not using 4t. io simply start with this point of view; we say, ve don't imow what the weather situation is up there, we'll assume it's all right. ie don't know what the difficulties are of getting a channel blasted in there, but in order for us to use the place, clearly, it's going to have to be opensd up. Se we start there, with the thing opened up. If they can't open it up, then the whole thing is out and it doesn't make any difference whether we want the place or net. CIBBINS s Yall, isn't that the Nrst thire to be determined, whether or not it can be opencd up? FEIT 2 No, not from our point of view, We say it is opened up. Sane assumptions as to the extent that it's opened, We havo to male we know it's not going to be a big channel like the Enyu chamel, We knay it's going to be difficult to get in amd out, but we will assume that we can get in and out, If it isn't open that much, we might as well quit now. Jut for this thing to be ef any advantage to us, we shouldn't sit around and wait for tuat answer, «je should go ahead and assume that it can be opened and modify the plans wen we find out uhat the details are. ‘ow, I started to say that I don't beliove that it's the $18,000 that's the road blocks I think it's the political question, I tried to get an answer in talking to *tusick on the 18,000 without including the political question but I's dexi sure that the real heldeup is not where does the money cones from, I think the real problen is that Starbird is worried, he suspects that the Comission is worried about the general question of waat would appear 9005100 ee tek