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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, September 13, 1956 i mm urn te-. t Matteson . Lester L. Bennett, . Ronald J. Lutz and , all or Portland, here visiting . Bennett ana Mrs. here as nnetne , daughters 01 nnle Jefferson, and is fciia s aaugnxer, that Jeff, who Is now , Is In the nospitai along line since leg removed. Jr. spent tne weeic- here from La Grande. Mrs. Willard Gilman 1 A. n-1 Fern. of Alanck has been on his ranch on . It Is known as the ranch. Mrs. Gerald Slocum from The Dal- spent the weeK. Morrow, Penny Ka- Scott of Long Saturday visiting at place. was down most of the there was no logging time, but it was run- . . t Monaay morning. Mrs. Bob Kingman Friday for sale. They had a to sell. took a truck to Hermiston to the Mrs. Joe Mellor and sunaay visitors in at the Ivan En- Mrs. Elmer Matteson afternoon with the and Ward families at was In town for from the Harold . M. club held their of the year at the Thursday alter- were 12 present. Hudspeth flew In to the Batty ranches to check cutting for silage. Last Week) . Verne Mccarty re- Monday night from they had gone for his mother. Farrens and to Salem Friday .holidays. Mrs. Charles Griffin , Wash., came In Fri- I . i i- nis parents duck iu with tnem. mey II - 1 - . U .. . , a smaii piaut: uuuui Olympia where raise strawberries. drove to Hepp- for some of tne school checkups. Ray niea mem. Mrs. Clayton Sweek . i I in irom spring- the weekend holt- her. sister, Mrs. Verne family, his sister and family . the Jack hweeKs, . Gerald Slocum their trailer house for a while. , Mr. and Mrs and son of Long Sunday and Monday the Matteson home Mrs. Bob Kingman ilson Is employed In the time helng. are eettlng nippy ure down to so lne. rrosi nus m- e Johnson's melon family returned evening from Mil wnere tney went weekend with her family, the Victor , M. club gathered at Griffen home wea rnoon for a surprise for her. iweive and she was pre- a bed jacket and a sups. left Thursday morn- d Alene, icano to Williams and . Barbara McDon- Creek returned home a. week visiting rom, Garland Swan- Dennis, Noel Dobyns cMnncv went on a last week near Bend. 1 rickens of Salem Is the home of her a iamuv. Mr. ana makket TITM DAT 13 Noon g. Hlway No. 30 LIVESTOCK CO. Iwmlstoa Oi9a & SOU. OWDOTl Wink. Mgr. JO 7-9111 Electric Companies' Comprehensive Plans for 5 Big Dams in Snake River Canyon Will Mean 2,415,000 New Kilowatts for Power-Huiigry Pacific Northwest 3k af II II -ir i i i r - fi i i n i r fr"ini"ifii"'iTr ivmirTiHfT"nr This is the way 147 miles of Snake River will be put to work: BROWNLEE 340,000 KW HlsMr dam 393 II. OXBOW J27.000 KW Httqhl ol dam J0J It. Between Weiser, Idaho and the Mountain Sheep dam site the Snake River drops 1134 feet in its plunge through a spectacular canyon. The five dams diagrammed here will put to work ever foot of this fall. They will harness now-wasted energy to produce 10 bil lion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually to 1 1 7 ft. serve Pacific Northwest progress. 208 ft. After thorough investigation, the Federal Power Commission ha licensed Idaho Power Company to construct the first three dams in the huge river development. Construction crews have been working eight mouths on the big Brownlee project. It will produce over half a million kilowatts and provide one million acre feet of useful storage for power and flood control. Next will come the Oxbow and Hells Canyon develop ments, to add over 600,000 kilowatts. Peak capability of the three dams will be 1,300,000 kilowatts. Idaho Power will spend $133,000,000 on the dams and $21,000,000 on new transmission lines. q i. j mi. T HELLS CANYON 408.000 KW Httghl f dam 330 It, PLEASANT VALLEY 864,000 KW H!ghl of dom 934 It. 161 ft. MOUNTAIN SHEEP 376,000 KW H.IgM ol dam 2 It. 1 ) ".'s4" J 1 ' 3 Now waiting approval by the Federal Power Commission is the start of construction on the Mountain Sheep and Pleasant Valley projects, next in the power development stairway. Full capability of these two dams will be 1,446,000 kilowatts. They will be built by Pacific North.- west Power Company, organized by four neighbor utilities to develop large new power sources for the area. Sponsor companies are Pacific 1 Power & Light, Portland General Electric, Washington Water Power and Montana Power. Cost of the two dams and transmission lines will be $217,000,000, all to be supplied by taxpaying private capital. 4 Tmma On th job ol Brownlee dam sit are 800 construction workers. River soon will be diverted through a tunnel and the dam will rite 395 feet above foundation level. Project will be completed late in 1958. i . v . k v " fifjp"yr i - " Vi'l ry j --V k ) a Nv QRE&ON Highest arch-type dom in U. S. will be 534-foot Pleasant Valley structure, which will provide half a million acre feet of useful storage for power end flood control. Heavy-duty transmission lines from Snake River project! will carry power to load centers throughout repjon. , , This tremendous Snake River development program is of vital importance totthe entire Pacific Northwest. Nowhere else in the region can such huge new blocks of , low-cost power be brought into production in time to meet the growth requirements of the critical period beginning in 1960. These are dams that can be pouring new kilowatts into the Northwest Power Pool right at the time when needed. Your electric companies are pressing this program in a vigorous effort to fulfill completely their public service responsibilities. Every study of the Pacific Northwest's future power demands shows plainly that more and more power is needed almost twice as much in 1965 as we now have available. Only by going ahead NOW with large-scale developments such as these on the Snake River can we have POWER FOR PROGRESS. ' ' This is a time for ACTION not words! Construction workers on the power-development job today have the satisfaction of knowjng that the results of their labor will be new kilowatts to support many new jobs in a future of opportunity for all. r ;V PACIFIC POWER &LIGHT COMPANY t V Your Partner in Progress Since 1910
