1950 Chevrolet Has Powerglide Transmission Showing the location of tach of tha eight new Copco power plant* in the North Um­ pqua Project, to be completed by 1953. Sevan of the eight plant* require no operator* inside — they will be operat- ed entirely by remote control from the eighth plant. Tok*- HERE FROM EUGENE Ralph Beach Copco Spends $50 Million In and Mr son and Larry Mrs. of Eugene visited with relative« In Ashland over Mrs. Laura Beach Post-War Building Program is the Mr. week-end. Beach’s mother and Mrs. A simple example of the basic principles of Chevrolet’s new Powerglide transmission may be furnished by a lump of sugar in a cup of coffee. The sugar can be spun by stirring the coffee, even though it is untouched by a spoon The force of rotation comes from the liquid. To overcome the initial iner­ tia of the liquid and the sugar, the spoon must be rotated rap­ idly. But as the sugar begins spinning, less manual effort is required. A direct drive through the coffee is achieved when re­ volutions of the sugar equal those of the spoon. With an automobile the spoon would represent the engine’s crankshaft and the sugar the propeller abaft which turns the rear wheels. Unfortunately for automotive engineers, however, a lump of sugar offers far less relative resistance than a propel­ ler shaft. Faced with a compar­ able problem the engineer would have to introduce agents which would exert a far greater force on the coffee than possible with a spoon. To develop the Chevrolet Powerglide engineers contrived a compact arrangement of spin­ ners and paddlewheels The spin­ ners, respectively linked to the crankshaft and propeller shaft, faee each other in a bowl-shaped housing filled with oil. They sup­ ply the fundamental flow of power. The paddlewheels are nested between the spinners to increase the force of the flow. Their pri- Thursday, January 5, 1950 mary function is to get the auto­ mobile underway. After initial resistance has been met. the pad­ dlewheels ride free and become part of the revolving mechanism. Since they operate independent­ ly, one picking up when the other loses effectiveness, the pad­ dlewheels accomplish the same result as gears in the conventi­ Ashland, Oregon Souther« Oregon News onal transmission by permitting License Examiner the speed of the engine to di­ Here January 9 minish. A drivers license examiner VISIT KLINGHEIMS will be on duty in Aaiiluud Moo- FOR CHRISTMAS day, January 9, 1959, at the Mrs. Robert Glover of Venice, City Hall between the hours of Calif, spent the Christmas holi­ 9 a m. and 4 p m., according to days with her parents Rev and an announcement received from Mrs O. W Klingsheim the Secretary of State’s office. THE HOME OF SURGE MIIAER SUPPLIES IN ASHLAND PREST-O-LOGS THE IDEAL FUEL FOR FIREPLACES, TRASH BURNERS and HEATERS GLASSWEAVE WINDOW FABRICS PURINA FEEDS MT. SHASTA FEEDS Bellview Feed Store HIWAY 66 The California Oregon Power These two lines represent an in­ Eldon Scr.’pter his sister. A fam­ ily dinner was given by the Paul Company's five year. $50,000,- vestment of $1,000,000 each. 000 post-war building program • Nearly one-half of Copco’s Retters on New Years day. comprising 8 new hydroelectric present building program - $21,- generating plants on the North 700,000 is being used for the ex­ Stationery Supplies Umpqua river plus extensive ad­ pansion of existing transmission at the News Review dition« to transmission and dis and distribution facilities and tribution facilities is designed to for construction of additional meet the ever increasing electric ones. For distribution facilities power demands caused by the as well as power plants must be phenomenal growth of this area. built, in order to keep pace with When completed in 1953 this the needs of the company’s building program will more growing service area. than double the company's pre­ The Toketee power plant plus war generation capacity. the work ulready completed und The North Umpqua project, underway on transmission and which will produce 145,000 kilo­ distribution lines meets today's watts when completed In 1953, needs for electric power The re­ is one of the world’s unique mainder of the project will be hydroelectric generating instal­ brought into operation, step by lations. Only one of the eight step, to supply the electric pow­ plants in the project, Toketee, er required to meet the needs of will require operators in attend­ the future. ance. The other seven units are The average residential use of completely automatic and will electric power by Copco custom­ be operated by remote control ers for the Iwelve months per­ from the Toketee power house. iod ending November 30, 1949 All eight plants of the North was 4611 kilowatt hours, while Umpqua project will be within the estimated national average a radius of 25 miles. for the same period was only Water to operate the generat­ 1670 kwhs ing units is collected by means Copco’s average residential of diversion dams on the vari­ ers for the twelve months per­ ous rivers and is transported by iod ending November 30, 1949 pipe incs and tunnels through was 1 60 cents per kilowatt hour. the mountains to the penstocks The estimated national average and generators. Water used at residential rate for the same per­ one generating unit, is passed a- iod was 2 95 cents per kwh. long for use at another plant Copco’s pre-war generating The Toketee power plant, first capacity was 120,000 kilowatts of the eight to be completed, has By the end of 1953, when the a generating capacity of 42,500 North Uupqua project is com­ kilowatts and was built at a cost pleted, generating capacity wfll of $7,000,000 Now under con­ be more than doubled — a total struction and scheduled for com of 265,000 kilowatts! pletion in late 1950 and 1951, and Soda Springs plants. These respectively, are Slide Creek two units will have a combined capacity of 29,250 k i l o w a t t s a n d will cost $0,500,000 to build. The balance of the North Umpqua CLEAN BURNING project, representing an invest­ METERED ment of $14,800,000, will make TECHNICIAN ON CALL an additional 74,000 kilowatts available to Copco customers by I the end of 1953. Also included in the North Umpqua project are the Toketee-Dixonville tran­ Chevrolet for ’50 brings you the best of everything smission line, already completed at lowest cost . . . greater beauty . . . finer perform­ and the Toketee-Klamath Falls 890 Oak St. Tel. 3331 transmission line, scheduled for ance with economy . . . outstanding driving ease, completion in October, 1952 PHONE: M il Free Parking Free Delivery Standard Heating Oils Whittle Transfer Vr F„ot r v T our Shake Maker McClelland Rites Held Wednesday Calvin McClelland, 52, a resi­ dent of Ashland for 35 years, passed away at his home on East Main St. lute Sunday mor­ ning after a long illness. Mr McClelland was born on Aug. 20, 1897 at Crowley, La., and came to Ashland in 1914. For 13 years he was a salesman with the Ford agency here, and for some time during the late war was at Camp White with the Internal Security Division. After that he was a millworker. He was a member of Ashland Lodge No. 944, B P O E He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Clara McClelland, his step­ father Robert Hach, and a sister Mrs. Steve Zarka, all of Ashland; a sister Mrs. Harry Antrobus, and a brother Everett McClell­ and, both of Portland; and a brother Lloyd Hach of Eugene. Services were held Wednes­ day afternoon at 1:30 in the Lit- willer Funeral Home with the Rev. O. W. Klingsheim of the Assembly of God officiating. In­ terment was in Ml. View Ceme­ tery. Stationery Supplies at the News Review BILL BADGER Drew, Oregon j F7/£S7?. . a n d d in est... a t d o west Cost/ in detail below. And they also bring you quality feature after quality feature of styling, riding com­ fort, safety and dependability ordinarily associated with higher-priced cars, but found only in Chevrolet at such low prices and with such low cost of oper­ ation and upkeep. Come in. 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