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Al 8 Pages Dam Construction Nears Half-Way Mark ' ' 9 Section Two Cottage Grove Sentinel I om’AGE GROVE, LANE (XXINTY. OREGON THURSDAY. MAY 13, 1948 NUMBER 40 Dorena Dam Visit Depicts Immensity Of Structure By Eugene Bird on the project and building a giant winter, holding back only when The annual vixlt of the Wlllam- cctpenf mixing plant had been ac-1 the rivers above and below the | ette Basin Commission to the Do- compli*hcd I dam hit floor) stage. I rena Darn project May 8 high Mixing Plant Attractive Safety Factor Allowed lighted the fact that the Row The mixing plant is worth a I A twenty-five foot safety factor River project seven miles east ot ' the Grove is more than 40 |x-r cent closer look It Is ot more advanced will be allowed at all times for design than the one used on the emergency purposes. The normal completed. The center spillways giant Coolee dnm Its five-story- height of the water will lx- 835 are nearing completion and the ! form of the dam is taking shiqa' high housing structure is filled feet (above sea level. At low with a machine capable of pro- water the height will be 770 feet. across the valley out of .Dorena, I win. i~-> ..... . . „ , «luring, at the fli< k of a switch. The maximum height of the water *ih^ 727^ yrd« Of concrete and of will be M0 feet, until in© dam is completed. thr ,<>.^..1«.... . The dam will bo over 300 foot commission was Impressed with i f(,ur!L“) bucket^run in^n’rfu from the north end to the south Die amount of work that ha* been i „. i (. w r... , end. I done »Ince the visit last year. , ' „" °' 9 Ino mixer I m high nbovr the dams, UoreM H m * Top Priority operation», »nd I n filled, along one The third and next to hut of thc w*H. with a machine that light» «or dams planned to trap and “P like a pin ball machine and .... gwi a a « *> Work on the Row Klvrr dam project I* more than 40 per cent completed, Willamette Basin com hold the flood waters, IXircna has registers what is happening in the ‘♦111 UlSta wURG 12 top priority with the engineers anti big mixing bowl below it. missioners were told May 8. The dam will stretch 300 feet across the valley when construction Is There are seven possible com-1 Congressman Harri.* Ellsworth contractors who are building it. finished In November, 1949. (Kirk Braun Photo) When first aeeq from a distance blnatkms for this job a* to com-1 an°unced today that preliminary as you drive up th< new highway position of the concrete, and the qualifying examinations for vacan- Wedding Announcements md Typewriter covers for sale- along the i all roti <1 that had to be rnachlnc can lx1 made to mix the c*ea a* i^ib the U. S Naval and Invitations The Sentinel. The Sentinel. 1; Military Academies will relocated, the dam is a mass of correct amount of cement, sand, inducted by the U. S. Civil concrete and steel forms sur and one or more of four grades of “—‘ ------------ —, Monday, Commission, rounded by tall nxk crusher* and gravel, »imply by turning a dial Se^c* a cement mixer which is lx-ginning to the number of the mix desired. Junc 12. 1948, at the Post Office Building* in Albany, C ~ oos Bay. to lx* dwarfed by the product of its Deadline — — November lit lit The dam * civilian force i* on a ' Eugene, Grant* Pa»*. Medford, labor. The building which house» the twenty-four hour *chedulc and the Rosburg and Reedsport. Independent Nut Packers of giant automatic cement mixer contractom hop<. to complété the Candidate* for admission must towers more than five stories in entire job at least six month» never have been married, and । Oregon is the title for a new pro- ahead of schedule In November must be bonafide resident» of the , motional organization which was the air, 1949 Dam Creep« Up Mountain Fourth District. As of the date of ■ incorporated under the laws of One man ha« ticen killed in a entrance into the Academies, July Oregon April 14 to develop new The grey bulk of the dam is 1* 1949, appointees ' for the Naval outlets for the state's filberts and gradually creeping up the sides of fall off the dam. a fact that is 1. the rock mount am which rises spoken of regretfully by the con Academy and Military Academy wOnutx, announces James C. must be 17 years of age. The max Moore, O. S C. assistant extension alongside the north edge of the tractors and engineers. spillways, It is being built on a Although the dam is to be imum ages arc 21 and 22 respcc- marketing specialist. Moore will solid rock kxindatkm with heavily smaller than the Fern Ridge proj- tivciy except In the case of ex- serve in an advisory capacity for reinforced concrete for the mid- ect in terms of the number of acre servicemen who may be two years the new organization. Headquarters for the group will section housing the spillways anil feet held back. It will be two and older. Servicemen within the prop- be in Portland Officers elected i er age limits may compete and one-half times as large as the Cot with rock rip-rap over clay dam ming the main part of the valley. tage Grove dnm. Its center section will be given the examination by are: Harry T. Larsen. Portland. । president; John J. Wilkens, Port-! The earth will be moved in after will be 115 feet above the river »heir commanding officers. land, vice-president; and John j the spillways are finished tx-d when it I* completed. | The examination will be about Karstetter, Boring, secretary The complicated business of The five tunnel spillways are 3^ hours in length and confined buikllng a dam was explained to now being set in the middle of the to vocabulary and reading, spatial treasurer. The organization, made up of in- ■ the visiting commission from the dam's structure. An overflow sec- relation* .and algebra. Nomina vantage jxiinr of t lie highway tion will be left In the center of tion* will be on the ba»i» of grades dependent nut processors, will handle about 30 per cent of Ore above Dorena by Walter A, the dam. although it will not lx-.earned in the examination. gon's filberts and walnuts, Moore 1 - Schwans, resident engineer in nc<<ded very often. Candidates desiring to compete estimates. He says the primary charge of construction. Dam to Reduce Pollution should notify Congressman Harris purpose of the grotlp will lx? to First the highway and railroad Mr Schwan said that the dam Ellsworth. House Office Bldg, had to lie rckx'ated from the valley would serve as a source of irri Washington. D. Ç not later than promote new markets for Oregon > floor. The contractors then mover! gation water and would provide June 1st. indicating their choice of nuts. Moore points out that most of into the valley and changed the some navigation besides reducing place for examination, legal resi- the domestic nut output is now course of the river tcm|x»rarily pollution in the valley by raising donee, and date of birt^ reaching trade channels in shell ,lhc spillways were then begun the level of streams below the! form. Through stiffened com[x^ti- Alter preliminary work of building dam Rrirasrs would Mart in Sep I Wedding Announcements a n d tion from foreign grown'nullf xin^t: i» campaltc for the men working (ember and continue through the ¡Invitations - The Sentinel. the war, markets generally haw* - been depressed. The incorporators feel there is need for a coordinated program to assist independent I growers in disposing of their nut j crops. Through a promotional program supported by assessments on a tonnage basis, members of the new organization hope to expand markets in the baking and candy industries where foreign nuts now have a dominant position. Turkey. Italy. Spain and France arc im portant competitors on the nut markets in this country, Moore states. Processors represented among I the original incorporators are: Ti- ; gard Nut Company, Tigard; Ore gon Nut Shellcrs, Hillsboro; Vai- j ley Nut Packing Company, Port land; Uta I" Ie and Sons Incorpor- > ated, CrWielius; West Coast Fruit Company, Portland; and Karstet- j ters,. Boring. Big Game Salting Nears Completion game diets. By the location of these station.* It is also possible at time» to Induce earlier migrations I °f big game from problem winter ranges and make for a more uni form use of forage on crowded summer and winter ranges. By en couraging a more widespread use of range in this manner game and livestock competition can he re duced. In some instances it is also possible to lessen game damage to crops by drawing the animals away from the problem areas. In the coastal sections of the state some small expet ¡mental salting stations arc being oper ated, although .so far it has been difficult to get big game animals to use the salt in this part of the state. Robert Mace. Chief Biologist for big game, stated that salt Is prov ing to be a relatively inexpensive but very effective management tool for big game animal*. The spring salting operation« on big game ranges by Oregon State Game Commission district agents 11* -nearing completion. Between ten and eleven tons of salt are be ing distributed this season over th»' ranges of eastern and south western Oregon. The salt, in fifty pound blocks, i* being net out by the use of aeroplanes, pick-up trucks and pack horse». All salting stations being set out have been approved by the Forest Service or other land administra tive departments. This is done so that the work will not interfere with established stock salting pro- l grams. The Game Commission conducts ■ its salting operations for several purposes. In some places it pro vides necessary minerals to big Shriner 19-er — Sat., at Armory. 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