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Pge4 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, November 8, 1956 V' ' ,V v U " , U ?r- ic'-y 3 .... . H SWIFT POWER DAM. highest earth-fill dam In the world, will look like this when completed by Pacific Power & Light company. Massive dam will be 510 feet high from foundation to crest and will contain 15,000.000 cubic yards of rock and earth. Power house at dam will be rated at 189,000 kilowatts, while a second one downstream will be rated at 67, 500 kilowatts. Entire project is to be In operation late in 1958. Drawing below shows comprehensive plan for power develop ment being carried out on the Lewis river by Pacific Power & Light. TheYale and Mrwin plants, totaling 233,000 kilowatts are already in operation. Swift is under construction, and the preposed Muddy development, rated at 100,000 kilowatts, and Meadows, estimated at 75,000 and 100.000 kilowatts, are under investigation. New PPfirL Swift Dam to Be World's Highest Earth Fill A world record for high earth fill dams will be established by Pacific Power & Light company when it completes the Swift power dam, its newest power project on the Lewis river. Paul B. McKee, president of Pacific, said that the project also will have the company's largest power plant. It will be completed and in production late in 1958. Into the massive dam will go 15,000,000 cubic yards of rock and earth enough to bury a 20-square-block area more than 500 feet deep. Contract for construction of the dam has been awarded by Pacific to the J. A. Jones Construction and Charles H. Tompkins com panies. Both have been active in dam and power plant con struction throughout the United States and have just finished the Palisades dam project in Idaho for the bureau of reclamation. The Jones company also was part of the Atkinson-Jones-Os- trander contractor group which built McNary dam on the Colum bia. Bid price for building Swift dam, including sdllwav. Dower tunnel and excavation for the power house, was $18,272,000, Mc Kee said. In addition to the huge quan tity of "fill" which will go into the Swift dam, the contract calls for placement of more than 55, 000 cubic yards of concrete and 6,400,000 pounds of reinforcing, structural and plate steel. The dam. will be 510 feet high from foundation to crest, 2100 feet long at the crest and 1950 feet thick at the base. A large diver sion tunnel which carries the river underground for 2990 feet around the site of the dam during construction already is in use. Output of the Swift dam power house will be 189,000 kilowatts. State Weed Control Meetings Scheduled Nov. 12-14 at Bend The annual strategy meeting for Oregon's continuing war on weeds is scheduled November 12 to 14 at Bend, reports Roy Steven son, Madras president of the Ore gon Weed Conference. New chemicals, weed control for both farm and non-farm lands, and weed problems of for est and range lands are main phases of this year's program. The five-year old conference to combat the state's No. 1 Dest. Stevenson says, is open to every one who is growing or fighting weeds. Interested persons can obtain advance copies of the pro gram from conference secretary Rex Warren, Oregon State college farm crop specialist. Representatives of four malor chemical companies will report on new chemicals what they control and how to use them. OSC scientists will review experi mental work with weed control on both agricultural and non agricultural lands. The latter in cludes home and industrial sites, parks and golf courses, and right. of-ways for highways and utili ties. Persons concerned with such lands, includine citv offi cials and representatives of the county government, are urged to attend. Weed and brush control on range nd forest lands will be dis cussed by U. S. forest service rep resentatives and OSC researcher Don Hyder of the Squaw Butte Harney branch experiment sta tion near Burns, who will advise ranchers on aerial and ground spraying for control of sagebrush and rabbit brush. Other topics for the three-day session include: safer use of her bicides, Virgil Freed, OSC agricul tural chemist; control of weeds in a long ditches, Dean Boyle, Boise, U. S. bureau of reclama tion ; cost study of commercial spray application; weed law re port and common ragweed in Oregon, Frank McKennon, state department of agriculture. Sessions will start November 12 at 1:30 p. m Pilot Butte Inn. TO SELL TSM, TELL M With An Ad My Thanks- To the voters of Morrow county who gave me their support in my race for Representative from the 22nd district. Your efforts in my behalf are greatly ap preciated. Jerry Barnett A second power house 3Va miles downstream will develoD annthpr 67,500 kilowatts and will be built and owned by the Cowlitz county PUD in a joint develompnt nf the project. TURKEY AND HAM SHOOT SUNDAY, NOV. 11 MORROW COUNTY GUN CLUB 2 MILES SOUTH OF HEPPNER They're Here- ur New Fall and Winter Pen cileton SKIRTS- JACKETS- SWEATERS- FOR WOMEN Our new line of Pendleton sportswear for women has now arrived and you'll want to be one of the first to select from our big stock. See it today. SLIPOVER SWEATERS $9.95 Three-quarter length all wool Pendleton slipovers with full fashioned sleeves. Colors to match or mix with Pendleton skirts. 38 to 42. PENDLETON SKIRTS $14.95 The famous Pendletons in smart solid colors. Siies 10 to 18. JACKETS $17.95 -$19.95 The popular Pendleton plaidsi in a host of new colors. Sizes 10 to 18. 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