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Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore., Page 6 Thurs., Dec. 20, 1951 Cowlitz Dams Plans Pushed Tacoma Prepares To Start Project TACOMA (U.B Construction of Tacoma's two hydroelectric dams on the Cowlitz River will begin soon, city Light Superin tendent J. Frank Ward said here Thursday. "They will save the city an es timated $50,000,000," he said. Speaking before a panel of Pa cific Northwest power officials, Ward outlined the city's completed plans for the construction of the $148,000,000 project. He said the dams will be pro ducing power by the end of 1953, and will be completed by the end of 1954 with units, of which there will be eight, going into produc tion as they are completed. Ward said all eight units, when completed, will have cost $146, 000,(100. "I he Federal Power Commis sion estimated the net benefit of tho dam, even deducting the hypo thetical loss of all the fish, would be $1,100,000 a year," Ward said. Tacoma has a license to operate the two hydroelectric dams for the next 50 years. This gain was compared with the estimated benefit of the entire fish production from that area, an es timated $1)00,000. However, the of ficial said, it wasn't even being considered that a majority of the fish would be lost. He said all litigations will be completed in about eight months and that he has been promised there will be no dilatory tactics employed by representatives of the fish industriecs. Yoncalla Voters to Decide Bond Issue Of $80,000 to Finance New School White Joins Negro Chapter SEATTLE m Russell M. Pratt, 27-year-old white Univer sity of Washington sociology stu dent has pledged Kappa Alpha Psl, a national fraternity which had only Negroes among its ac tive local members. Pratt, a World War II veteran, was secretary of the Association "for the Advancement of colored People in his home town of Yakima, He said he Joined Kappa Alpha Psl 'because he felt he "could make every contribution to the organization" and because he felt it would "be of great value" to him. He lives at a campus residence hall. Lee Roy (Cop) Woods Lee Roy (Cap) Woods, 87, of 2029 Madison St., died at his home Thursday, Dec. 20, 1951. He was born Dec. 14, 1864, at Cumberland, Ohio. He was married to Katy Bower in Kansas. They came to Oregon many years ago whore they lived first in Portland, then Cottage Grove. He was a World War I veteran, the commanding officer of the 6th Company, Oregon Coast Artillery of the National Guard, at Cottage Grove. Woods was an elder in the First Christian Church and a member of the Kugpne Glcemen, the Otto gcnariim Quartet, McKenzie River Masonic Lodge No. 11)5, A.F, & A. M., Spencer Muttc I.O.O.F., Sons of Union Veterans, and American Legion Post No. 3. Survivors include four children: Col, Lee R. Woods, Jr., retired, and Miss Carolyn Woods, both of Eu gene, Dr. Daniel L. Woods, San Marino Calif,., and Donald M. Woods, San Jose, Calif.; a brother, Lutcllus I.. Woods, Eugene; a sis ter, Dr. Elizabeth L. Woods, San M.irlno, Calif.; three grandchild ren, Sen-Ires will be at 2 p.m. Sat urday, Dec. 22, 1951, in the Veatch Hollingsworth England Funeral Home. Dr. Carroll C. Roberts will officiate, with McKcnzle River Lodge- No. 195 In charge of Mason ic riles. Interment will be in Cot tnuo Grove Cemetery at about 3:30 p.m. Those wishing may donate to the Children's Hospital School In iru of flowers. Voters of Douglas County School District 32 at Yoncalla will go to the polls Jan. 7, 1952, to vote on an $80,000 bond issue, according to school board officials. If sanctioned by the people, this sum will build the first unit of a 16 classroom grade school near the present school, - The first unit would contain four classrooms, rest rooms, janitor's room, and boiler house, as well as a covered play area which would double as a bus loading porch. The boiler house would be built large enough' to accommodate a second boiler when the ultimate 16 rooms have been built, Special Meetinf A special meeting of voters of the district will be held at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 4, 1952, at the Yon calla Grade School, to discuss the building program. Estimated cost of the first unit is $70,000, plus another $10,000 for equipping the rooms, roadway and site improvement, expenditures on the present school, and architect's fees. At present the district is receiv ing $23,000 a year from the state, annroximatcly $80 per census child, and will continue to do so as long as state school standards are met. But, on Dec. 5, the schools were declared to be "conditionally standard" by the state superin tendent, and ordered to meet re quirement for full standardization in order to receive stale lunas. The state order listed zo items which need to be charged before full standardization is accomplish ed, board officials said. The state superintendent ordered that a plan of improvement be submitted be fore March 15, 1952.' Pleasant Valley School Part of the district 32 board's plan is to abandon the Pleasant Valley School because of inade quate lighting, heating and play facilities, outside loueis, no noi lunches, and because children must leave home an hour earlier and arrive home an hour later than those attending Yoncalla School. They meet at Yoncalla and are transported by bus to Pleasant Valley at a cost of $75 a month. The cost of bringing the school up to state standards would be prohibitive, board members said. Grade school enrollment In the district has jumped from 80 stu dents in 1940-41 to 253 in 1951 52. This upward trend will con tinue, board officials declared. Retirement Plant The program also calls for eventual abandonment of the present Yoncalla School, because it is "outdated, obsolete, expen sive to maintain, noisy, a fire haz ard, Insufficiently lighted, and too small," the board's report said. The board's proposal is that the bond issue be retired at $5000 a year for 16 years, with the first payment of about $7200, includ ing interest, about Mar. 1, 1953. About one-eighth of this would be paid by presently enrolled tuition pupils from District 79, Pleasant Valley, which is outside District 32. The board estimates the cost to school taxpayers would be about seven mills tho first year, decreas ing yearly with the interest. Good Excuse RIMttNT.nilt.n, Mass. (urn Fined $50 In the district court fur drunken driving, Armand raquettr. 3S, explained: "The nirls at the Christmas party all kissed me. Thrir per fume was very high powered." . . " 1 - ''-.- S . FIRST UNIT of a proposed 16-classroom grade school at Yoncalla is shown above In an architect's drawing. This unit will be constructed if Yoncalla voters approve an $80,000 bond issue at an election Jan. 7. Follow-the-Leader Routine Tortoise Clan Snobbish By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Pren Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (U.R) Motor ists in a slow-moving line of traffic like we have these win try days in Washington are copying the waddling tortoises in the old game of follow the leader. At least, so it would seem after a look at the tortoise rec ord. The National Geographic So ciety came out with a little dis patch alleging that the tortoise, or land turtles, is a snob, and furthermore, a cad. I checked with my friend, Dr. William M. Mann, at the zoo here and he said the N.G.S. had its facts straight. The main thesis, or reasoning, of the tortoise experts is that most reptiles travel in cliques. "Doc' Mann will go along with that. He pointed out that in the Bronx Zoo in New York a giant herd of Galapagos tortoises, sleep, eat, and travel around in what amounts to a caste system. This particular brand of tur tles is almost extinct, but like as not they are following a pat tern set. by their ancestors. Sci entists at the New York Zoolog ical Park say that for centuries tortoises followed a "one-way" traffic deal on their rocky home Islands in the Pacific, 600 miles west of Ecuador. The turtles migrated with the seasons and once dug deep trails between highlands and the sea shore in the Galapagos." The trail was only wide enough for one tortoise at a time. The gul lies forced the shell-backs to mosey along single file all on the speed of the leader. Just like the lunkhead who holds up a line of automobile traffic. It seems that there are a lot of ways aggressiveness is dis played by the armored crawlers. One pair, possibly named Jones, will snap at the Smith couple next door. Sometimes the Smiths and Joneses among the turtle family will sign a' truce and gang up on the Murphys across the gul ly. Doc Mann, who has observed animal life for many years, would have you know that that goes right down the line in a continuing battle of the survival of the fittest. "Take a flock of chickens,' he said. "You get a sick one in the flock and unless you get him out of harm's way in a hustle he won't live ' Jong. Chickens most birds, in fact, are cannibals. They will peck a weakling into an early grave." Most animals, Mann claims, are bullies. The big pick on the little. Bridge Blasted By Egyptians Troops Skirmish With Extremists CAIRO, Egypt U' The Egyptian underground claimed to have blown up a vital bridge link-' ing the British Suez garrison with its fresh water supply Friday as the Egyptian government con firmed that a bridge had been blasted in the area. An interior ministry communi-: que said that one span of a bridge over the Sweetwater Canal, five , miles east of Suez, was blown up early Thursday by "unknown per sons" who touched off a mine under the bridge. British military authorities said they had no knowledge of any bridge being blown up in the Suez Canal Zone. The interior ministry said the bridge connected British camps on the western bank of the canal with those lying along the "treaty road" in the Ganayen area. The interior ministry said the bridge connected British camps on the western bank of the canal with those lying along the "treaty road" in the Ganayen area. 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