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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (April 10, 1947)
? ay ^ april !0, 1 - ^BRgQKINGS-HARBQR PILOT, BROOKINGS, OREGON • i ♦ ¡2 7 S t udle! ’ he said- January all the m ajor u tilitie s’ indicate th a t on the basis of the of the Pacific northw est—private presen t trends industrial power and p u b lic -h a d united in a state- use m th e area will be doubled ment of policy which calls for or trip led by 1960. more than doubling the present T he nation could not have met c®Pac’ty of the federal power its w a r requirem ents for electro- svstem in the northw est during process m a te ria ls — aluminum. the next SLX >’e a rs- ire Development ferro-alloys and certain essen- “The development of the Co- res Directly on tial chem icals—w ithout Pacific lumbia river and its tributaries n orthw est power output, he de- • is part of a detailed plan.” he »ment in West d a re d . Now, a fte r only a short said. "By the construction of mul- —— post-w ar slump, “The demand on tple-purpose dams, the w aters #ai interest demands e x -[th e Bonneville-G rand Coulee sys- of the Columbia and its tribu- af power production in tern is so g re a t th a t all equip- taries could irrigate some three fic northwest, Ivan B loch., m ent is being used to full capac- and a half million more acres in < the industrial and re- ity, with reserves." the region. It will perm it deep development of the Bon- E lectro-process industry, “In draft and barge navigation from Power Adiministratioh. [ which pow er is a basic ingredient !he Pacific ocean inland to Lew- representatives of and raw' m aterial, demands ex- j ist°n, Idaho, a distance of 470 emical industries a n d trem ely low -unit cost uninter- j miles. lical men in an ad- ru p ted supply and large homo- “In this huge development, the Chicago, 111. geneous blocks of power," he as-1 revenues from power sales W ill ling before a meeting of serted. P o ten tial power develop- not only repay to the treasury cago section of the Elec- m ent in the Pacific northw est ¡of the United States the costs Society, Inc., and to ta ls an estim ated 25,000,000 kil-i of power instllations at dams groups, Mr. Bloch sa id jo w a tts above present output, and and for transmission lines but nfic northwest states offer less th an 3,000,000 will have been will pay for so-called joint facil- h real hydro power po- harnessed by 1952 even if funds ities at each dam,” he declared. -firm power at low rates are provided by congress to carry He added that such revenues' sure essential national ex- through th e now - authorized would furnish a m ajor subsidy of electro-process indus- projects. for irrigating now-arid lands. "In coming years. The lim its of hydro expansion i o ,her words." he said "the tax- a t N ia g a ra Falls and vicinity and Payees of the nation can expect T I S I) A L E S i ° f hYdro o u tPUt in the TV A area. t0 have their monies fully re chief p resen t locations for elec paid on the investment which so o/ the World’s Finest tro-process industries, have been far has been made and will I k * 1 EASTER LILY about approached the speaker made for the full-scale endeavor." and Forcing Stock said. P o ten tial development of Ore. U. S. A th e St. Law rence would largely be absorbed by non-indusrtial re quirem en ts in New York State. He discounted steam plants as a source of fu tu re energy for -------- electro-process industries because Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Hoffeldt o th e r m ark ets for this type of have returned from a trip to pow’e r a re more profitable. S eattle where they visited the "W ith the exception of Texas KIeenhoust> that was forcing a and the southw est, as a very ilu a n ,d .v th e ir C roft bulbs ancrai D irector g re a t p o tential p articu larly for '■'lzc <s’ - >'pars nJd l- 1 hey told and chem ical production, the west re- ,hp Pl these bulbs have been m ains as the prinicpal location dcveloped from one clone over ibulance Service for m a jo r electro-process indus- 1 Ppriod years, and now trie s in term s of power supplies, have over 11.OiX) bulbs produced Phone 1091 of th e kind and price required.” from one m other bulb. These cent City, C alif. bulbs at S eattle had from four he said. to seven buds and forced evenly Mr. Bloch pointed out th a t in + • in the greenhouse. Some of the size 8 bulbs from this same Cone were being forced at Beltsville and Ohio S tate College. The Hoffeldts also visited a num ber of greenhouses and fields in both Oregon and W ashington, and none of the green houses visited, have h id any trouble to bring their lilies in for Easter. One greenhouse visited in the state of W ashington had some D IN NER O RD ERS Creoles which they were forcing. These Creoles had fleck and were coverd with aphis. It was hard to iwiches Ice Cream understand, the Hoffeldts said, why some growers would bring in the Creoles and jeopardize a whole industry'. It was gratify- 1 ing to the Hoffeldts to note in the March 18 new sletter to nur- I serymen th at officials of both Oregon and W ashingston are con sidering a quarantine on diseased stock. At Corvallis, the Hoffeldts saw 1 every individual according to Fred ing made on forcing of Crofts. They returned to Brookings by way of Cottage Grove. 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