14 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Saturday, Jan. 21, 1950
Power Development
Funds Solve Problem
By C. K. LOGAN
Present electrical energy supply problems of Linn and Benton
counties and affecting other communities in the Willamette val
ley, including the Detroit dam area, are believed to be solved by
the Inclusion of necessary funds in the department of interior
budget for 1951, according to W. E. Trommershausen, manager ot
"the southwestern district of tne
Bonneville power administra
Counties Get
State Money
Secretary of State Earl T. New-
bry Friday announced distrmu
tion of $1,709,708.21 out of state
highway funds to Oregon coun
ties.
This amount represented 19
per cent of the receipts into the
state highway fund for last Oc
tober, November and December,
from motor vehicle registrations
motor vehicle fuels taxes, motor
carrier fees and motor vehicle
fines.
The distribution by counties
included:
Baker, $20,801.88; Benton
$32,878.06; Clackamas, $89,
310.30; Clatsop, $32,906.82; Co
lumbia, $27,002.48; Coos, $46,
630.94; Crook, $9,841.56; Curry
$7,135.28; Deschutes, $26,907.55;
Douglas, $58,816.42; Gilliam,
$4,377.22; Grant, $9,907.71; Har
ney, $7,992.31.
Hood River, $16,614.47; Jack
son, $73,843.35; Jefferson, $5,
355.05; Josephine, $33,847.26
Klamath, $56,834.88; Lake, $9,
680.51; Lane, $136,732.14; Lin
coln, $23,956.81; Linn, $63,
581.00; Malheur, $29,918.69;
Marion, $109,473.72; Morrow,
$7,210.05; Multnomah, $495,
865.74; Polk, $29,064.53; Sher
man, $4,446.25; Tillamook, $22,-
846.69; Umatilla, $50,248.91
Union, $22,783.42; Wallowa, $9,
999.74; Wasco, $18,800.20
Washington, $67,585.24; Wheel
er, $3,511.56; Yamhill, $42,-998.59.
Bank Growing,
Changes Made
Growth In every categbry was
reported by G. Carroll Meeks,
president of the Willamette Val
ley bank, at a meeting of stock
holders Friday night with all
directors re-elected. Plans were
made for minor remodeling to
provide additional room for of
fleers and business.
Al H. Flicker, who has been
cashier since the bank opened
in 1947, was advanced to vice
president, a new position. His
place was given to William F.
Baker, a former bank president
in Glenwood City, Wis. Robert
Jungling was promoted from tel
ler to assistant cashier.
Baker has been here four
months and the family is living
at 1739 Market until a home is
purchased. He graduated from
the University of Wisconsin and
served in the army air force
during the last war. He fol
lowed his father as president of
the First State Bank of Glen
wood upon separation from the
armed forces and served over
three years before selling his in
terests. Jungling graduated from Sa
lem high school in 1943 and
came to the bank as clerk in
1948, moving his family here
from Carlton. He has complet
ed a home at 1080 Lamberson
street
Chindgren Can't Hold
Two Offices, Opinion
Attorney General George
Neuncr said Friday that Her
man Chindgren cannot simultan
eously hold office as a member!
of the state legislature and as a I
member of the Clackamas coun-1
ty fair board. j
Neuncr wrote the opinion at
request of Leonard I. Lindas of
Oregon City, district attorney of
Clackamas county.
Lindas had asked: "Is a mem
ber of the Clackamas county fair ,
board the holder of a public of
fice?" Neuncr ruled that he
would be. Under Oregon law one
man cannot hold two "public
offices at the same time." ,
tion.
Projects contemplated by the
BPA for the area, including pro
jected work at Albany and Leb
anon, are designed to augment
greatly availability of power in
the mid-Willamette valley from
McNary and Detroit dams and
the northwest power pool.
Completion Well Timed
A new extension, the McNary-
Detroit-Albany 230 kilowatt
transmission line, is budgeted
for $179,000 and is scheduled to
be completed at the time initial
generation is available at Mc
Nary dam in 1954. The present
budget item will be used for in
itial engineering and line sur
veys. The 230-115 kilovolt sub
station that will be installed at
the terminus of this transmis
sion line will be located in the
vicinity of Albany and will have
a capacity of 150,000 kilovolts.
The budget request of $939,-
000 for the Albany-Lebanon
line and the Lebanon substation
covers completion of work now
under way in the Albany sub
station, terminal facilities in
that substation, a 300,000 kilo-
volt static capacitor installation
and complete facilities in the
Lebanon substation to provide
for 12.5 kilovolt delivery for
the Benton-Lincoln Electric co
operative and 66 kilovolt deliv
ery to the Mt. Mates Power
company.
From Goshen Substation
The main 230 kilovolt grid
extension from Mid-way-De-
troit-Goshen and the Goshen
substation are budgeted at $12,
180,000 on the bassis of comple
tion in December 1951. Upon
completion of the Goshen sub'
station it is anticipated that
power from" Grand Coulee dam
will flow from Goshen north
ward to Albany and that Albany
and Linn and Benton counties
will be obtaining their power
supply from the Goshen substa
tion rather than from the over
loaded 115 kilovolt transmission
lines now leading into Albany
from St. Johns, Oregon City and
Salem.
A third loop is known as the
central and southwestern serv
ice with eventual extension
from Klamath Falls to Medford,
Roseburg and Goshen. This fa
cility is budgeted for $2,000,
000 and the proposed grid will
provide loop service and assure
a reliable supply of power for
central and southwestern Ore
gon. Mother, 2 Children
Burned to Death
York, Me., Jan. 21 W A
mother and two children burned
to death early today when
portable oil stove exploded
their bedroom, splattering them
with the blazing fluid
Those killed in the blaze
which burned out their five
room frame home, were Mrs.
Thomas McDonald, 41, and her
sons Arthur, 5, and Richard, 7.
The woman's husband was
burned seriously when he open
ed the door to the bedroom as
the oil stove blew up. Doctors
said he also suffered a heart
attack and shock.
Two other children, Thomas
Jr., 18, and Sheila, 11, fled unharmed.
Unshaven Man
Is Sen. W. Morse
Portland, Jan. 21 (JP) That
crumpled, unshaven man who
got off the train looking for a
locksmith yesterday, was Sen.
Wayne L. Morse.
He found the locksmith, too,
then shaved, got some rest and
was ready today for a series of
speeches that will keep him in
the state until January 26.
Morse was caught in the snarl
ed transportation resulting from
Mother Nature Turns Lumberjack Winter's icy ax brought
this tree limb crashing down on an auto and across a street
during a severe ice and snow storm at Portland, Ore. The
week-long blizzard left 13 inches o ice and snow in Portland
and caused the death of 39 persons in Oregon, Washington
and northern California. (Acme Telephoto)
What's This Super-Bomb
WOO Greater Than A-Bomb?
By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE
(Associated Press Science Editor)
New York. Jan. 21 W) A hydrogen bomb is merely a lot of hy
drogen gas which explodes by the simple process of fusing hy
drogen atoms together to form helium gas.
In this fusion a lot of energy is given oil. The amount is seven
times greater than the energy from an equal weight of the split-
tine atoms in A-bombs. So thise-
More than 4,800,000 American
farms have electricity.
hydrogen bomb rates about 1000
times stronger than an A-bomb
because of possibly less trouble
in handling the mass.
To produce this explosion, you
need temperatures and pressures
of millions of degrees and
pounds, such as exist in the sun,
An A-bomb gives you both but
only momentarily.
The question is can science
use this momentary A-nomo
flash to set off a hydrogen bomb?
The troubles are serious.
It is true that hydrogen does
just this in the sun and stars to
make their heat. But the change
is not directly hydrogen into
helium. The hydrogen first
changes carbon into nitrogen
the latter into oxygen and then
down the scale to helium as the
final product.
That process may take too
long to furnish an explosion. It
would also require many times
more carbon in the bomb than
hydrogen. There's no evidence
that if you started tne nyarogen
flash it could continue by itself
long enough to explode. In fact,
some scientists have held that
only sustained million-degree
temperatures would make it
possible.
On the other hand, the pros
pects for success rest on a num
ber of facts. One is that scarce
ly anything is yet known about
the details of this process ot
nature.
This means possible short-cuts
to be discovered.
It is a fact that there are three
kinds of hydrogen to play with
plain, double weight known to
the public as heavy water
and a triple weight hydrogen
known as tritium, and with some
mean radioactivity. These com
plicate and increase the possi
bilities.
A five-year chain of events
leads up to the present hydrogen
bomb.
Soon after the war ended, Dr.
Robert M. Hutchins, chancellor
of the University of Chicago,
said new horrors in physics lab
oratories might make the A
bomb obsolete in five years. He
did not explain.
In 1946, the hydrogen bomb
was named by John J. McCloy,
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He said his information came
from scientists who had actually
worked on the A-bomb. They
told him that, working at the
wartime pace, we were within
two years of producing a hydrogen-helium
type bomb 1000
times more powerful. Dr. E. P.
Wigner of Princeton, said the
hydrogen reaction would yield
seven times greater energy.
Next year, Dr. W. O. Roberts,
superintendent of the high alti
tude observatory, of Harvard
and the University of Colorado,
wrote that a superbomb of the
hydrogen-helium type for det
onation by an A-bomb was on
the drawing boards.
The same year, Dr. Philip
Morrison of Cornell, one of the
Los Alamos bomb scientists, was
quoted that "the possibility ex
ists" for a hydrogen-helium
bomb.
No one has been definite. The
gossip has persisted quietly. A
year ago, General MacArthur
was reported to have mentioned
a bomb 1000 times more powerful.
How much worse is a hydro
gen bomb?
At 1000 times more powerful
its concussion won't lay every
thing flat for 1000 miles but
only for 10 miles. That's a ra
dius, meaning the possibility of
flattening most everything over
300 square miles.
Will there be radioactivity
from this bomb? Probably, but
not likely from so many differ
ent kinds of atoms. But you will
have all the present a-bomb ra
dioactivity anyhow.
One horrible possibility is in
the published scientific records.
It is that when a nuclear bomb
gets powerful enough, the
flash of searing heat will rise
in direct proportion to increase
in energy of the bomb. That, if
it should come true, might mean
searing heat reaching out hun
dreds of miles.
Under the atomic energy law.
only the president of the United
States has the right to tell you
how much of the hydrogen
bomb reports are correct.
Everyone else on the inside
has lips sealed by a possible
death penalty. Those who talk
freely are outside the know.
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the train here, he was 30 hours
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shaving equipment inside and
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Chapter Will Initiate
Woodburn, Ore., Jan. 21
Two candidates will be initiat
ed at the regular meeting of Ev
ergreen Chapter No. 41, Eastern
Stars, at the Masonic temple on
Monday night. Members of the
refreshment committee are Mr,
and Mrs. Jess Fikan, Mrs. E.
Hughes, Mrs. Edna Lytle, Mrs.
I. L. Anderson and Mrs. Bertha
Baldwin.
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