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
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onal transmission by permitting License Examiner
the speed of the engine to di
Here January 9
minish.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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