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1Q WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 22. 1362 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDrORD. OREGON Bonneville Power Administration Observes 25th Anniversary This Week By ANN H. PEARSON Portland -(UPD- A quarter of a century ago this week Pres ident Franklin D. Roosevelt scratched his name across a controversial act creating the Bonneville Power Administra tion. Today, giant white slabs ol concrete harness the Colum bia river and her tributaries at 15 poinU. Five more dams are under construction. Humming lines, enough to ring the nation, will carry 31 billion kilowatt-hours of pow er this year to wholesale agencies in the Northwest power pool that feeds Oregon Washington, Northern Idaho and Western Montana. BPA supplies 60 per cent of all power for the area. Since 1937, BPA has gener ated enough power to keep Seattle aglow and her Indus tries rolling for 95 years. The going has not always been smooth. Since 1958, Bon neville has operated in the red. The agency has been em broiled in the running public private power controversy. But it is looking ahead- to tripling its generating ca pacities in the next quarter century, to extending its transmission grid south and perhaps east for sale of sur plus power, to a power treaty with Canada, and to lines that can wheel in power from massive dam planned for Alaska's Rampart Canyon, Nation's Laigoit Since its creation, Bonne ville has become the nation's largest hydroelectric utility operation. It serves 220,000 square miles and five million persons From 1940 to 1960, popula tion in the Northwest grew 55 per cent; power, public and private, nearly 800 per cent. The per capita use of power jumped from 1,600 kilowatts a year to 9,000 - more than double the national average. The power is comparatively cheap. The agency's rate of $17.50 a kilowatt-year has re mained unchanged since 1938. The average family pays a , monthly bill of less than $10. Bonneville wholesales its power to public and private agencies, who in turn distrib ute electricity to the consum er. BPA also sells directly to 19 large industries. About half of the power sold by the power administra tion, either directly or through distributors, ends up in industrial use. The quarter century has seen a spurt of Industrial activity In the Northwest. Industrial power consumption, from BPA ana other sources, is about 25 bil lion kilowatt hours a year, eight times what it was in 1937. Among industries served by the project are plants that put out about one-third of the na tion's aluminum ingot produc tion. Bonneville and private power maintain an uneasy al liance. Some 40 per cent of BPA's power goes to private firms for distribution. Protoitt Hoard The protests from the pri vate companies become aud ible when BPA urges use of the Hanford, Wash., atomic works to generate power, or aeek to run lis transmission grid into California for sale of surplus power. The first project was the Bonneville dam. From Brad ford Island, about 30 miles up the Columbia from Portland, it flings stone arms across two channels, each about one fifth of a mile long. One Is the spillway dam to regulate flow. The other is the power dam, where ten turbines turn generators to make more than three billion kilowatt hours of electricity a year. In addition to neat, white administrative and guest buildings, rolling green lawns and bright flower beds, Brad ford Island is laced with fish ladders. The passage of salmon fend other seagoing fish upstream to their spawning grounds has been a major problem created by the big dams. The ladders, in effect a series of small waterfalls, up which the fish travel naturally, arc one answer. Another, across the channel on the mainland where homes and offices for the Bonneville staff also are located, is the fish hatchery. Here fish eggs are hatched artificially and fry raised in thousands until they can be released to swim to sea and mature be fore returning. Bonneville also has a lock. Shipping passing through in the past decade average one and one-half million tons a year. Grand Coulee dam, BPA's second project, remains the largest in the system - nearly four times the capacity of Bonneville. In the Red The power complex and its related irrigation and recrea tion facilities, already repre sent a $3.8 billion Invest ment. Most of it is being re paid from power revenues. BPA is $20 million ahead of schedule in making repayments. The agency, however, has operated at a deficit for the past five years, and was in the red $18 million this year. It blames an uneven construc tion pattern, making new con tracts unsure; on growing project costs; on recent lum ber and industrial cutbacks; and on a lack of markets for secondary power, the kind that is only available part- time. . BPA says SI million a day in construction will be need ed in the next quarter cen tury to meet power demands. The agency also currently is pressing for a coordinated power development with Brit ish Columbia, generators at Hanford, and long-distance, high voltage lines to sell sec ondary power could be used instead of fuel - generated power. A pioneer in new power techniques, BPA also fore sees the day when it could transmit cheap power gener ated by Northwest rivers to much of the nation. "Differ ences in time zones, stream flows, reservoir seasons and peak loads," BPA says, "would make it theoretically possible for an idling gener ator in Alaska to be sped up to meet a peak load in St. Louis, Mo." Trailways Seeks To Quit Routes Salem - WTO - Public Ulill-1 ty Commissioner Jonnl C. Hill said Tuesday Pacific Trailways, Bend, wants to abandon several segments of its regular route on or adja cent to U. S. 97 in central and southern Oregon. The firm cited lark of need for service, and a streamlining of operations as reasons for the request. Because of the large ex panse of territory Involved, ilill said two hearings will be held. The first hearing is set for 10 a.m. Sept. 11 at Madras, on abandonment of service along U. S. 97 from Madras through Melollus and Culver to the Junction of both old and new U. S. 97 south of Culver. The second hearing will be at 9:30 a m. Sept. 13 in Med ford. It involves abandon ment of service along Slate Highway 62 between Crater Lake and the junction of 62 with U. S. 97; a section be tween Crater Lake and the Junction of State Highway 230 and U. S. 97 via lliuh ways 209 and 230; and a seg ment between the junction of Highways 62 and 230 and the Junction of Highways 209 and 230 via 230 Soft Drinks In Cans Gaining Popularity New York -HTf'-Sales of soft drinks in rans have rhmhrd 172 per cent since l!i:fi. ac cording to Steehvays. official publication of the American Iron and Steel institute. If the can makers realize their 1962 sales goals, they will have five per cent of the carbonated beverage mar ket, which sells about 35 5 billion units annually, the publication said. 1 n;,r ,.,..1 dc MtN WFnNFSnAY. THURSDAY & FRIDAY I uic vpjiii rf rvPFN WEDNESDAY. THURSDAY & from 4 PM ti" MIDNIGHT fo this eventlj A Factory Approved promotion that promises to be one of Medford's bigqest appliance sales of the year! Only a few specials are listed . . . SHOP IN THE COOL, COOL OF THE EVENING AND REALLY SAVE! ftetrioint 2 Cycle, All Fabric Operation All Porcelain Inside & Out Big 10 Lb. 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