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."
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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.
British authorities, meanwhile,
confirmed that Egyptian extrem
ists blasted a British supply train
near Suez and engaged in a minor
skirmish with British troops in the
canal zone town of Ismailia.
No casualties were reported.
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