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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,
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win. i~->
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«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
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I done »Ince the visit last year.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Cadet Exams for
Group Formed to
Boost Marketing
Of Oregon Nuts
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Henry Wallace, 3rd party can
didate will make seventeen
speeches in the west starting at
Los Angeles May 15th. He will be
in Oregon two days only on May
24 and 25 and will make addresses
at Portland. Salem, Corvallis and
Eugene. He will address a gather
ing at the University of Oregon
May 25th He will talk at Oregon
State College in the morning of
the 25th.
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