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XfEDFOKD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREflOy, TUESDAY. JULY 9, 1940. PAGE FIVE Actual Building of Second Largest Masonry Dam in World Is Now Underway Sacramento, Cal. (Spli Act ual building of the second larg est masonry dam In the world, as a water conservation struc ture for one of the nation's most Important agricultural areas the central valley of California began on the upper Sacra mento river near Redding July 8 when the first concrete was placed for Shasta dam and power plant. Walker R. Voung. supervising engineer of the United States bureau of reclamation, revealed that almost 4,000,000 cubic yards of earth and rock have been removed from the site since work was started in Sep tember 1938 and that some por tions of the exposed bedrock had been approved for concret ing. Mr. Voung said concrete placement also was to begin soon on Friant dam, the other central valley project storage dam located on the upper San Joaquin river near Fresno. Friant will be the fourth larg est concrete dam In the world. Special Cement Plant Preparatory to concrete place ment at Shasta, trainloads of cement have been shipped in from the specially-built cement manufacturing plant near San Jose. Thousands of tons of sand and gravel have been delivered from Redding via the 10-mile belt conveyor system which ex tends over the hills between the aggregate processing plant and the dam site. The 6,000,000 cubic yards of concrete to go Into Shasta dam and power plant will be placed by a huge cableway system cen tering around a 460-foot high structural steel-head tower lo cated Just upstream from the axis of the dam on the west abutment. Five of the seven cables have been strung, three of them a half-mile long and the other two about 1,800 feet long. They ex tend from the top of the head tower to smaller movable tail towers which travel on curved runway tracks on the east side of the river. The fresh concrete, mixed In a five-unit plant alongside the head tower, will be moved out to a loading dock by an "end less" railway operating on a I circular track, then transferred into big buckets which will be picked up by the cables, carried to any part of the dam site, and dumped into place needed. "Dental Work" for Dam What construction men call "dental work" that is, gouging out soft spots in the exposed foundation has been in pro gress for some time. To com plete the cleanup, workmen have been barring off every piece of loose rock in sight and washing the excavated founda tion, using hydraulic monitors or high pressure nozzles mount ed on tripods. To seal the foundation, pre liminary low pressure grouting has been completed on portions of the dam site. This is a pro cess of forcing a mixture of cement and water, or grout, into specially drilled holes to solid ify all the tiny seams and cracks in the natural rock. The prelim inary grouting has been done to a depth of 20 to 60 feet Mr. Young said that after the dam is partly completed, additional intermediate and high pressure grouting of the foundation will be done to a depth of at least 200 feet. OF LEAD IN INCOME Washington, July 9. W) Iowa farmers led the nation last year In gross Income, with Texas second and California third. The bureau of agricultural economics reported today that the Iowa Income totaled $696. 192.000, Texas $646,208,000, and California's $590,550,000. The figures Included cash Income from marketings, government payments, and value of products kept for farm consumption. Gross income figures for other states included: Montana. $105,398,000: IdBho, $101,127,000; Wyoming $56,380, 000: Washington, $161,960,000; Oregon, $119,932,000. YIELD PER ACRE WILL SET RECORD Total Prospect for Area 11S,792,OCO Bu. Com pared With 104,255,000 This yield ia expected if re cent favorable weather condi tions continue, he explained. "If extreme dry winds come." he continued, "the crop will be maybe 10 per cent leM. If there is practically a full out put of spring wheat which could happen If the growing season is abnormally long then the output may be 15 per cent larger than currently shown.' WILL MEET JULY 18 Annual meeting of the Jack son county chapter of the American Red Cross will be held at 12 noon Thursday, July 18 in the Hotel Medford. New officers and advisory board are to be elected. George T. Frey Is chapter chairman now. All members of the Red Cross are invited to attend. Persons who contribute to the Red Cross for membership cards are members. Portland. Ore., July 9. fP The Pacific Northwest appar ently is facing one of the larg est per-acre yield of grains in its history. Hyman H. Cohen, market edi tor of the Oregon Journal, re turning from a 3500-mile tour of producing areas in Oregon, Washington and Idaho, and touching northern California, reported today: 'The season of 1940 will not show the greatest output of grains and breadstuffs In his story for the Pacific Northwest trio of states, but it will show one of the biggest, if not the biggest, production per acre. The drawback to producing' the greatest total volume is the de creased area of wheat, which is created by action of the gov ernment itself through the U. S. department of agriculture." Big Supply of Food Mr. Cohen said he found that the area, through its grain fields, orchards and farms, gen erally "is in a position to sup ply the most intimate food needs of a very large percent of the world." He placed the total grain prospects at 119.792.000 bush els compared with 104.255,000 bushels for the larger increase of 1939, and 131.652.000 bush els for the much greater area planted in 1938. His estimate of wheat pro duction, including nearly every important producing section in the Northwest except extreme south Idaho, was 80.000.000 bushels Oregon, 21.245.000 bushels, Washington, 36,742.000, and Idaho, 21.183.000 bushels. T SEEK EXPANSION TWO MAGAZINES CARRY YARNS BY LOCALJRITERS Liberty Has Story by Helen Hedrick Life Story Has One by Eileen Reinking Portland, Ore., July 9. Pl Two of the west's biggest freight truckers sparred today for inter state commerce commission sanc tion to serve territory now served by the other. ICC Examiner C. I. Kephart of Washington. D. C. opened hearing yesterday on the appli cation of Consolidated Freight ways to extend services from Marshfield, Medford, Klamath Falls and Lakeview over four routes to San Francisco, Oakland anl Sacramento. At present Consolidated Trucks freight to these South ern Oregon points where its rival in the hearing. Oregon-Nevada-California Fast Freight. Inc., of San Francisco, picks it up and takes it south. Fast Freight, Inc., countered the Consolidated applica'ion with a request for permit to extend its California service into Oregon and Washington. DRIVERS IN MISHAPS FOUND EXPERIENCED Salem (UR1 Records of the secretary of state's office show that the bulk of drivers in volved in auto accidents have had at least six years of driv ing experience. In most instances, the records show, drivers and pedestrians are apparently normal at the time of the accident. Drinking, mechanical defects and law vio lations cause only about 10 per cent of the mishaps. On Mill Tribune want ads. Two Medford writers are rep resented in internationally-dis tributed magazines that will reach the newsstands this week. In the July 20 Issue of Lib erty, available here Wednes day. Helen Hedrick's latest short story. "They Sing and Go Away," will appear. Mrs. Hed rick, who resides at 503 South Oakdale avenue, has had her short stories published regular ly in the Saturday Evening Post. Colliers and Liberty for the past couple of years. In the August number of Life Story, due on the newsstands Friday, Eileen Reinking will have another of her absorbing true-life stories. The author re sides at 28 Washington street. Mrs. Relnklng's latest story is titled "He Led Me Into Crime" and appears on page 26 of Life Story under the name of Isobel McCoy, principal char acter, who tells of her dramatic career through Mrs. Reinking. Isobel is the girl whose young husband committed a number of robberies here a few years ago. The story is replete with photographs, some of Medford scenes. today to set a new west-east transcontinental record for com mercial planes. It had taken off from Burbank field. Los Angeles, at 9:13 p. m. (EST) last night and stopped briefly at Kansas City on Its flight through the so-called sub stratosphere an altitude of about 17,000 feet. It was an hour and eleven minutes ahead of schedule. . The 4-motored Boeing, a 21 ton, $450,000 craft, spanned the continent in the elapsed time of 12 hours, 14 minutes; the former eastbound transport record A as 15 hours, 42 minutes. A sister ship reached Los An geles from New York at 7:4" a. m., PST, today. In the elapsed time of 14 hours, 9 minutes, also a new westbound record. Both inaugurated TWA coast-to-coast passenger flights at the new high level. Radio Highlights going, even should Invasion come, BBC representatives In this country report. These underground studios. It is explained, are so constructed that artillery could be in action overhead without disturbing a broadcast. Locations of the stu dios are kept secret. Tonight: Europe. CBS 4 85, 6:30; MBS S. 6: WJZ-NBC 6. WABC-CBS 6:15 Sen. J. M. Mead on "America's prepared ness program;" 7:45 Gen. Geo. C. Marthall and Adm. Harold R. Stark on defense. WJZ-NBC 5:30 Former Sec. of War H. H. 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