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3L to 14 4 B SUNDAY, DECEMBER . 19M MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Washington Is Home of Three of World's Floating Bridges mui m mil i iin i hi iwi r i an I Miffn miw atuMi rimrn itwi i n m m Tfini JlBil liMl I'LOATINK IlHIDCili People who live in Washington live in a stale of floating bridges. Of five permanent spans in the world that float on top of salt and fresh water, three are in Washington and a fourth is in the works. This is an air view of the second Lake Washington floating bridge on its opening day earlier this year. (UPI) By GORDON W. SC1IULT7- Unitcd Press International OLYMPIA, Wash. (UPI) -They laughed when the engi neers wanted to build a con crete bridge that would float on the lake. But that was 23 years ago. And now the slate of Washing ton has three floating bridges. There are only two others in the world. The floating bridge planners prevailed but not without ridi cule. When the first bridge a concrete span 6,561 feet long was opened to traffic in 1940 some of the first persons to cross the bridge over Lake Washington put on life jackets. They found that wearing a lifejacket to cross the bridge was just as necessary as wear ing a lifejacket to cross a wheat field. People don't laugh at the bridges any more, but some times they get wet when a good wind comes up and slops a lit- Contract Approved For Public Resort PORTLAND (UPI) -The Bu reau of Indian Affairs Friday ap proved a $615,760 contract for construction of public resort fa cilities at Kah - Nee - Ta Hot Springs on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in Central Oregon. The contract is between the Warm Springs Tribal Council and Salem contractors Steven son and Wickman. The entire amount will be paid by we. trine. V We're looking forward to seeing you V M V KDWARDS le water over the railings. All of Washington's three loating bridges have drawspans designed to accommodate pas sage of large vessels. Each is held In place by a se ries of huge anchors. The road ways cross over large concrete pontoons that weigh as much as 6,700 tons. And, of course, each floats. Motorists Like Them The first bridge became popu lar quickly, and in nine years second bridge was opened to trallic two years ago. Popularity and just plain pop ulation growth accounted for the third floating bridge. When it was opened last Au gust just three miles north of the original span, engineers hoped it would help relieve the load of 56,000 cars a day using the first bridge. It is beginning to do just that. Tut! Bridge The mv span cost J?!! million spans, they are the three long-1 widespread locations. One is 2,- est, too. bach spans a body oi 885 leet long ana crosses Lane water more than a mile wide. Okanogan in Canada's British The world's two other perma- Columbia. The second is at Ho- nent floating bridges are at bart, Tasmania. onage users paia on ine oonas ; and is one and one.haf mi)es that financed the $7.5 million 1 inm n is a inii hrui h,,i iho project. That kind of success j stale tieures the lon can be re led to the two other floating spans and a fourth now on the drawing board. The second bridge was built across the Salt Hood Canal which stretches for miles along the Olympic Peninsula. It is just over a mile from shore to shore. Tides raise and lower the 120,680-ton structure 18 feet ev ery day. At a cost of $17.6 million, the Oregonians Picked For NAM Positions moved eventually Sometime between now and 1975 another floating bridge parallel to the original structure will be built to handle the burgeoning traffic load from one side of the lake to the oth er. But even now the state's fleet of three floating bridges com mands a unique distinction. Not only are they the three heaviest NEW YORK (UPD-Two Ore gonians were chosen ad direc-tors-at-large of the National As sociation of Manufacturers at the NAM's 68th annual Congress of American Industry here Thursday. They are Jack Murdock, chairman of the board of Tek tronix, Inc., Beaverton; and Ro bert C. Warren, president, Cas cade Manufacturing Co. Port land. Oregon directors are Thomas W. Delzcll, chairman of the board of Portland General Elec tric Co., and Sam Johnson, president, Jefferson Ply wood Co., Madras. Coleman H. Wheeler, presi dent of Santiam Lumber Co., Portland, was listed among re tiring directors. Bernard L. Orell, vice presi dent, Weyerhaeuser Co., Ta coma, continues as NAM's re gional vice president for the Pa cific Northwest. Poor Adamant on Quilting TV Show NEW YORK (UPI) - NBC officials said Thursday they hoped to dissuade television per sonality Jack Paar from quitting his weekly Friday night show. 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