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Washington Is Home of Three of World's Floating Bridges
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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.
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to seeing you
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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.
Paar announced his resigna
tion Thursday, apparently over
his dissatisfaction with the net
work's decision not to expand
his show.
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