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.
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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. Woodring on
'viewpoints of rational UsueV'
before Topeka, Kan., chamber
of commerce.
his balance while trimming the
tree and suffered a fractured
skull.
New Vndtr-arm
Cream Deodorant
taftly
Stops Perspiration
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Tall From Tree Fatal
Vancouver, Wash.. July 9.
OP) Jjck Fgan, 65, manager of
the local state liquor store, fell
to his death from a walnut tree
in his yard yesterday. He lost
By Associated Press
(Tl mels Pacific Standard)
New York, July 9. Bomb
proof studios dug deep into
England's earth are all ready
to keep the British short wave
MOTORISTS ATTENTION
If your motor heats or
radiator Iraks, m or call
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STRAT0L1NERS SET
New York, July A
giant, new air transport, called
a stratoliner, roared into La
Guardia field at 9:29 a. m. (EST)
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