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PXOE EIGHT ifEDFO'RD fATTj TRTBTTKE. rRDFORD. OREGOy, THTJRSDAT. NOVEMBER 11. 1937. 138 DAMS BUILT By RECLAMATION IN 35 YEAR SPAN 21 More Under Construc tion Modern Projects ' More Complex, Larger Than First Undertakings By John C. Pnje (0. 8. Reclamation CommlaMoner., WASHINGTON. Nor. 11. (AP) In Ita 36 years. th reclamation bureau has built 138 damj, great and small, and at the prejtent time It has 31 additional dams under construction, AH of these are parts of Irrigation systems, but some serve other pur poses as well. There has been from the first i trend toward more complex Irrlga tlon works and larger dams of greater overall usefulness. This la aeen to be t natural development when It Is understood that In 1903, when the bureau was organized, there remain ed some undeveloped areas, near riv ers of large flow In the west, which could be provided reliable water sup piles with comparatively simple di version works and small storage dema More Complex Now. Xt Is natural that the easiest and cheapest projects should have been built first. There are no opportun ities now to build (he simple project of 38 years ago. The need for additional develop ment by Irrigation has not decreased with the disappearance of tho project which was easy to build. As the went (rows, the need for expansion of Its Irrigated agricultural base increases In direct proportion. The west Is too attractive as a place in which fo live for Its growth to stop short of that time, which may be reached In a few generations, when all of its tcant waters are conserved and put to their best use. Consequently, there will continue for many years to come need for new federal reclamation projects. This does not mean that all dams now under construction by the bu reau are large dams, nor that all of the dams in the future must be large dams. It means that an Increasing number of the projects require large dams. An increasing number of the projects for which small dams will serve will require difficult tunnels or canals to get tho water to good lands. Mony Proposed. Today, there are literally hundreds of Irrigation projects being proposed i some small and some large. Every western community In an area of undeveloped land, apparently, la con sidering methods of bringing Irriga tion water to the lands. Some of these proposals have rnerlt. Some of them will be atudled by the bureau and may find their places In our pro gram within a few years. Others Involve construction so difficult and expensive that they must wait until the growth of the west has caught up with them. One point not understood outside the west, but perfectly obvious to, the western people, is that all the water will be used long before all the western lands can be irrigated. I have tslkpd with many people not HELP 15 MILES OF KIDNEY TUBES To Fluah out Adds and Other Poiionous Watte DwtWMyywrkHnw-tronUio 18 Mi If l tiny tubtw or biter which help to punly tb blood wi you hMlthy. Mol rwpl stx'ul 3 pinln Jy or about 3 poumii ol ui(, Frniumt or "nty umn ith miinini nd Purnini thoMt thrra am b tomethini WToni with ycuir kidncyi or hUilrter, An iirrti ol Si-i'U or potton in your Mood, whn du to functional V.dnv Hmor). mv familiar with condition In the arid and semi -and states who believed there would be no end of expansion or irrigation until every acre of west ern deserts was watered. nest Must Irrigate. If there were enough water to Irri gate all these lands, of course, we would not have to Irrigate any of them, for the natural rainfall would then have to be great enough to produce crops. Because the rainfall is so pitifully deficient, the west must lrrlgiate; It must gather Its lit tle treasure of water where It (lows and spread it over a few acres to make 1U farms. There la water enough to Irrigate only about I3Gth of the western lands when it all Is stored, diverted and used. In all the semi-arid and arid region there Is sufficient water to Irrigate an area only as large as Iowa when all is used. Think of dividing Iowa and fitting a dozen or more small pieces Into big states like Montana. Colo rado, New Mexico, Wyoming, etc., and you have the picture of the ulti mate Irrigation development west of the 100th meridian. As the need for larger dams to control larger tributaries or entire rivers has arisen, plans have come to Include flood control, navigation and hydro-electric power, as well as Irrigation. The more purposes a dam can serve, the greater the Increase In the overall efficiency of the project. Power Plants Pay. A long time ago the bureau built the first of 33 comparatively small power plants It has constructed. This plant was built to provide power to ! operate drag lines at work digging Irrigation canals. Its cost was fig- J ured in as part of the cost of con struction of the project. When the project was completed, however, the power plant was not abandoned. It la still in use providing power to lines serving the people who settled the project lands. Nevertheless, it was thus that the bureau first entered tho field of pow er generation. In addition to the 33 small power plants, the bureau has constructed one very largo one. that at Boulder Dam, and now has three more large plants underway. These are at Seminole Dam, on the Kendrlck project In Wyoming: one at Grand Coulee, In Washington, and one at Shasta Dam, on the Central Valley project in California. Power plants can pay their own way and thus reduce tho proportion of the cost of the large dams which must be charged to irrigation. In addition, large Irrigation bams, through addition of a power plant, can be made to benefit the people twice through provision of incidental power at low rates to do a part of their work for them. So It Is that another aid to financ ing the large dams now needed has been found, and a means of pro viding chenp power needed for high er standards of living discovered at the same time. Kills Wife, Slays "Best Friend" t", : V -a If' ' f;ll ti ! in ii i mm iii iwrnt t l m Paul A. Wright (rlgltt), preMrtent of Union Air Terminal In los Aii;rps, Ii shown as he was questioned by w. E. Ile(1, eaptaln of drteetlvM, about the ratal shooting of his wife, Erelyn, (right below), and his traffic man ager and "best friend." John B. Ktm niel. (left below) In the Wright home at (ilenilale, Cnllf., after he found them In an embrace... Police an nounced Wright admitted the shoot ing. (A.- P. Photos.) CCC BOYS BOAST Much of Life Saving, Rescu ing of Injured and Search for Lost Persons Is Done On Boys' Own Time. LI EAGLES MYSTERY "MAN at.b dens meet each week at the home of the den mothers. Duties and responsibilities of each member of the cub pack organlzat.on were outlined and discussed by Mr. Beesley and the committee. "The program is so outlined that by each Ipnder doing their part the results are bound to be successful Beoslev stated. "Cubbing Is a home-centered i program for the . lo and 11 -year-Bay F. Baker has been appointed Id boys and ,h0 Darent all ply . part, he said pack committee chairman of Roose- i A veil school LAST JAP SURVIVOR OF ANNAPOLIS SUCCUMBS TOKYO. Nov. 11. (APi Admiral Baron Sotoklckl Urlu. 80, last surviv ing Japanese graduate of the United States naval academy at Annapolis, died today at his home at Odawara. Admiral Urlu played prominent roles in both the Chinese-Japanese war of 1894 and the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5. Upon announcement of his death. Emperor Mlrohlto posthumously pro- cu. wm be neM every other month Zi "T J" L. I "T"? . In place of the regular monthly pack : ,u ' .ou uiu. meeting. Each of the pack', three 'h r""d "n ' Blsln PORTLAND. Ore., Nov. II. (AP) CCC tree troopers, knlghta of the wetern wilderness, devoted more than 500 man-hours to errands of mercy In the forests of Oregon and Washington In the past year. rorest service officials here said much of the life saving, rescuing of Injured and searching for lost per sons was done on the boys' own time. Enroiiees of Camp Oasquet In the Siskiyou national forest saved the home and Uvea of a woman and child when the residence, seven miles from a highway, was menaced by a forest fire. They ran a two-mile cauntlet of names In bringing the near vic tims to safety. Miner Carried Out Boys from the same camn carried a miner wtth a broken leg from an inaccessible mountain region. The record of Camp Belknap In the McKenzle River district of the Willamette national forest lists blood donstlons for emergency transfusions. nnaing an elderly woman lost In' the woods, carrying a, drowning victim to a highway, finding a lost girl and helping to carry out the crtnnlerf leader of a mountain climbing party. Troopers of Triangle Lake camp west of Eugene kept 30 miles of Iso lated, snow-swept road open so that emergency cases of blood poisoning. Influenza and other illnesses could be csred for. Lost Girl Found A group from Camp Uklah In the Umatilla forest found an 8-year-old girl six miles from where she had been missed by huckleberry pickers. In Washington, enroiiees from Camp Lake Cushmtn fought a snow, storm near Hoodspon to rescue a lost 10-year-old boy and carry blm to a doctor. One hundred boys from Csmp Skagit found two small girls who had become lost In the rugged Baker Lake district of the Mount Bsker na tional forest. Cream Grade Law Upheld By Court McMINNVILLE, Nov. 11. (AP) Circuit Judge Arlle G. Walker upheld the state cream grading law today In a ault brought against the Sheridan Farmers Union creamery to force payment of price differentials on varying grades. The creamery, paying one price for all cream, challenged the constitu tionality of the law. It was the first test since passage of the law by the 1937 legislature. WINDOW O LASS We tell window glass and will replace your broken windows reasonably. Trowbridge Cab inet Works. GET UP NIGHTS? FLUSH KIDNEYS WITH Juniper oil. buchu leaves, etc. Make this simple test If passage Is scanty. Irregular, smarts or burns, have fre quent desire, get up nights or If kid neys are sluggish causing backache. Use Juniper oil. buchu leaves, etc, made Into little green tablets called Bukets to flush the kidneys, Just as you would use castor oil to flush the bowels. Help nature eliminate trou blesome waste and excess adds. Ask any druggist for the test box of Bu kets. Locally at Heath's Drug Store. Jarmtn'e Drug Store. Cub Pack 3. was an- ! T - j r- i . ! nouncrment today by Mrs. R, A. 'utourerre ' tgfilS ! Skinner, president of the school's 1 &2Z.n-Plnt0 ri.'nr. Home and School Circle and Mrs. R. ; A. McKay, chairman of the Clrc.es! PORTLAND. Nov. 11. (AP)A pro cubbing committee. "Mr. Bsker, who ! P0""1 f Oliver A. Qiiayle. Jr., acting recently came to the community. Is ; treasurer of the naitonal Democratic Mystery concerning the "man of mystery." who will mystify an audi ence here grew more mysterious to day. The mysterious gentleman will do his mystifying at the variety show to be presented In the senior nigh school auditorium by Crater lake aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles next Tuesday night. Yesterday one high-powered pub licity agent announced the world- famous magician as "Bernard, the I A meeting of the pack committee Man of Mystery." Today an equally j held at Mr. Baker's residence high-powered publicity agent an- Tuesday evening. The following men nounced him sa "Cslvon, the Man j were present: pritr. Nlssen, pack 3 of Mystery." So whatever his name j cubmaster; R. A. McKsy, pack corn really la. he Is still a man of mya- mlttcc finance man; R. A. 8klnner. tery who Is reputed to be master i pack committee contact man. and of all the latest tricks of magic I Irving p. Beesley. local scout execu known to the profession-. ; tlve. Mr. Baker served as chslrmsn , . , , ?,Z TTi.,.- lof meeting and In absence of PIERCE WOULD HAVE ! H. P. Nordwlck, also served as secre- CROOKED POWER LINEj'" , decided at Tuesdays meet WASHINGTON. Nov. Ht ( AP) i in thst the commute will meeet llepresentatlve Walter M. Pierce of j the first Tuesday of each month. The breston hopes the power line linking , den chlets will meet with the cub Bonnerllle dam with the Clrand Cou- master during the second week of lee project "won't be too damned ,.rnch month. Den mothers will meet straight." i together with the cubmaster on a u. iiuum.o in uic young eommittee .for 25 -a-pl at e dinners on He has chiKiren o his bwn and with ; Jttkmm Dv ,. uable leader In our cubbing move- rrom Howard Latourette .Oregon Dem- - L-Miiuun'riiiriii. inm the dinners should not be put "on I money-making basis." Latourette predicted Quayle's pro- pcnl would limit the trndittonal din ners to "a few who are able to pny." Icf glit a Cold ? help end it sooner, throat and chest with VICKS V apo Rub MHsU SANITARY PROTECTION without NAPKINS OR BELTS Ax e XNSWERINC t h problems of modern life for modern women, B-ettet protect safely and efficient ly without sanitary napkins or pads. B-ettes perform their function invisibly and are so tiny that a day's supply can be carried in a handbag. They have set new standards of comfort. J and convenience . . .'of : personal daintiness . , for women everywhere, - Worn internally; approved by ; physicians. JARMIN'S DRUG STORE Schilling t tho bfcinninfl of ntuins' hrkfh 'rhi. iBtip pud,, leg pftintj, 1a ol pop ktK, ttwey, K.."VT.l.Vl,A7r.n.f """" 1 H Mld h "n" he he determined during the 1 ?"' A,k im" dnismi lor ren'i . DT Bonneville Administrator J. D. third wees of the month snd the 1. Th... ...7k ' mu0 lei oer ju koss Mi his Mrst oal. to reach IS MUX et V.lnev !l, .h out pmJaoul I P"" ''XetS trpim voui bloed. r.el the way. pack of boys win hold uvular month- poaslble on jly pack meetltw during the fourth or lnM week. Tire achievement emin- "NO ROUGH EDGES" IN TEN HIGH -AGING WINTER AND SUMMER FOR 2 YEARS DOES ITI TFN HIGH's bourbon fUvor is smooth ts a wlu, yet it price will be muMC to -our ears! 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