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About The Bonneville Dam chronicle. (Bonneville, Or.) 1934-1939 | View Entire Issue (April 25, 1935)
N * 'ï i WORK TO COMMENCE IN JUNE ON SUPER-HIGHWAY -a> THE BONNEVILLE DAM CHRONICLE <1 MK 2, KO. 4. HONNEX ILLE BRISBANE THIS WEEK Adolph S. Ochs ItiiM Íi'« Nrw 1’ lanr |Si|H-r»t ition and Suicido jO o r k t-a il I ’arlira 9 he death of Adolph R. Ochn. «*«I Itor am] owner of ihe New Ynrl. T1in»‘*. la a Kre.it lona to Ainerl- ran Journalism and k <**«1 cltl* t e n i b l p . Mr Ocha waa a good American, ahom- life and work set an admlr- ahk* example lo h la profession. All hla Ufe n hard worker.cun ar lentloua, Indif ferent to per- aonal profit. Mr. Octia often put U m r K rU b a a * to thla writer Mi! other frlrnda the question. ever In hU mind, “ Mow ran I make of the llrriri a permanent and useful KtltuMoo?" Itussla, according to Lloyd George, It the world'* real flying nation, ylaie -v a, probably, the world * gT *-1 «at fighting air fleet. It la M r “ Inly the country that takra fly ing tnoat seriously, with R,OUt»,OflO B a^'ani trained in aeronautic*, you tip }(u**tan girls ¡earning to pi lot plane* and dirigibles and make » . - ■ foot parachute jam pa. aa our f*king glrla learn new dance atepa. 9'M* make* Important Raaala'a houncement that ahe la manufac- rlng airplane* on a man* prodoc- >u haala ualng for air power “ an tftllnnry light antnmohllo eng^ie." plane*, very cheap, oaing or dinary gnsollne, will he aopplled to etdiectlve farnut. Knaala may he the flret nation to do with flying ■a -hlne* what thla coontry did With automobiles. American genlua pot thla nation on wheel*. If Itns- I ala 11 engineering skill put* Russia OB wings. It will make aome other Montrlea thoughtful. |pn addition to moving 00,000 more •Ollier* to the German lines, France Whurrledly connecting her ateel and COi erete line of fortreaaea, with bflrhed wire entanglements and trr ichea. Thirty thousand soldiers tr< digging In aa you read. //I In* French apparently expect the aa: ie old tiling over again, hut they wlll not aee it I lurlcm. In npiier New York city, with *<une 'Jis'.ooo colored popula tion, I* alauiplng ground for many thin preach ultra radical doctrines. Including the theory that whoever ha* money must have stolen It from that have no money, f'lds added to race antagonism, the Influence of certain “ex- rtera," brings results reminding ir.eiis of what may happen when ngerous doctrines ars preached iklessly. lA W A D K I ah 'KM PETITION ASKS FOR REMOVAL OF SUPT. HENDERSON THVRHDAY, A P R IL 1»3A U R O " N TO W AR ON KPKKDERM, D I U N K * I N U.XhW AJ>K tAH 'kS War on speeders ana drunks at Cascade tanks was announced this wees by Deputy Sheriff C. H. Brown. "W e haven’t been able to do any good by Just talk ing to them." Brown said. "Prom now on the judge at Hood River Is going to do the talking." Brown will have the co operation of the state po lice In enforcing laws re garding speed and drunk en driving and promises to write out plenty of tickets. State and Federal Governmet to B uild Road from Locks Through Cut to Bonneville Work will be started in June Ragle creek, on the site of the on the first link of the Columbia General Construction company’s river super-highway. The new original camp. road, when finally completed, will The first section will cost eliminate grades and curves and $500,000. However, this includes cut five miles o ff the present dis the rebuilding of the highway be tance between Cascade Locks and tween the Multnomah county line Portland. and the toll bridge. First section is to be built be- The cut at Ragle creek which taween the Hood River county will caryr the railroad and high line and Tanner creek. In Bonne way will be 76 feet wide at the ville. The new highway will par base, and 600 ft long. The Eagle allel the Union Pacific railroad creek bridge will set up the creek through the heavy cut at Ragle some distance above the new rail creek, cross Eagle creek on a road bridge. The tunnel under beautiful concrete and steel Tooth rock will be higher up the bridge and pass beneath Tooth mountainside than the new rail rock. Just west of Ragle creek, road tunnel. through a 600-foot tunnel. Plans call for a bridge across Plans for the rebuilding of the Tanner creek. Army engineers highway through the Bonneville prefer a bridge to a long fill, but Dam area became public yester may consent to a change would day, following a series of confer permit of a fill and a odort ences between the state highway bridge. As work progresses the commission, army engineers, of bulk of the low lan-d tributary to ficials of the bureau of public Tanner creek will be filled. The roads and the forest service. bridge at Tanner creek will carry The highway from Cascade the highway past the present Locks to Warrendale is to be con business district and into Bonny structed in three sections. T h e , Villa on a straight, fast road. No first section embraces a distance funds have been made ava».tale of aproximateiy two and one-half yet for this portion of the proj miles. The section betwc- n the, ect. Hood River county line and the| Construction work on the sec toll bridge Is abont the same tion between the Hood River length. The third section, from county line is being held up by: Bonneville to Warrendale 1« 1. Funds. slightly longer. The work to he 2. Definite location of the carried on through the area Is Union Pacific line east of the part of a broad program which Earle creek cut. has been laid down for remind Money for the project is all be ing of the Columbia River high ing advanced bv federal govern way as a whole, from Fairview. ment. Some is coming from the just west of Troutdale to the forest service, through the bu state garage in Cascade L ocks . reau of puhlie roads and some is Location of the contractor’s coming from the war department. camp on the first section has not Other money will come from the been determined, but it probably state highway department, but it will be set up on the hill, just is really a gift from Washington, west of Moran’s Tavern, above D. C. With 133 nuim-s of parents and taxpayers attached to a petition, patrons of the Cascade Locks schools called on members of the county school hoard In Hood Riv er "i-dm-sday night and asked that Superintendent Vernon G. Henderson not be employed next year. A second petition, largely sign ed tu people who are not parents and nave lived In the district on ly s few months. Is being circu lated. Like the first, it is adciress- ed to the routy school hoard and asks flint Superintendent Hender son be given a contract for an other term. Charge« Involving moral turpi tude were brought against Su perintendent Henderson last week by a group of Cascade Locks par ents. The charges were laid be fore the local representatives of the county board. No action was Columbia Construction com pany has commenced work on its taken, one way or another. County Superintendent Gibson aerial Pftble across the river and has been down to Cascade Ix>cks expects to begin pouring cement twice wlthi the past week, en for the foundation of the south deavoring to Iron out criticism half of the main spillway dam which has arisen over the county about August 15. If all goes well the contractors board's action In tendering Su perintendent Henderson a con hope to finish the pour prior to tract for another year. He has the high water in December. A f created considerable antangonlsm ter the winter flood has passed among parents over his failure they will turn In and build the the cofferdam, to order a hearing Into the north half of to complete charges which were brought which they want against Superintendent Hender prior to high water of June. parallels the south end ot the 193«. son. cofferdam. The towers, of steel Members of the county school The Columbia people expect to construction. will stand high hoard, all of whom reside In the be working a force of 250 men Hood River valley, are reported on the towers and foundation for above the river. The two on Brad by parents to have declined to the cableway by the end of vhe ford island will rise 95 feet; the call a meeting for the purpose of week. They polished off last week one on the Washington shore, 225 feet. hearing “protests against re-em a working of 400 men after clos The cableway, a half-mile in ployment of Superintendent Hen ing d<\wn at the coferdam, but length, will be operated by tele hope to be employing a larger derson. phone. No one will be permitted Angered by the refusal of the force by the end of this week. to ride it. Majority of the men to be giv county board to hold a meeting, Material for the south towers a delegation from Cascade Iiocks. en will be sent to North Bonne and the cable was brought to took the protest petitions and ville. where the mixing plant Is Bonneville from Boulder dam. but drove to Hood River with the an to be built. The men employed the tower going up on the Wash nounced Intention of calling on on the Washington side are to be; ington side of the river was pur the hoard members Individually housed In Ihe camp on the reser-! chased new front a Pacific north and laying charges against Super vatlon In Bonneville and w ill' west firm. intendent Henderson before them. travel to ad from work by meanr j Contracts for the school year of the ferry. Barller In the year of 1935-36 were mailed to the the company talked of swinging FOREST SERVICE M AY SCORN TH E LOCKS Cascade Locks teachers almoat a a suspension bridge across the month ngo. This action In Itself river, hut this Is off. Failure of Cascade Locks to engendered considerable bad feel When pouring of cement for provide Itself with fire protection ing. due to the fnct that parents the south half of the main spill may result In the forest service were not given nn opportunity to way dam gets under way in Aug abandoning its policy of aiding be beard prior to the mailing of ust the contractors expect to use the town in emergencies. a force of more than 2.000 men. he contracts. A1 Wang, head of the torest Superintendent Henderson nas Only about three week’s work service in the district, with head declared that he did not propose sre ahead on the Interior of the quarters on Herman creek, has to teach In the Cascade Locks cofferdam, where excavation has recommended that a fire trail be school next year, hut refused tO| hopn carried forward since early built on the hillside, at the base commit himself to a committee In March. Work within the coffer of the mountain, around Cascade which called upon him Tuesday dam cannot he resumed before Locks. If this is done it win re »arly July, due to the late spring lieve the forest service of th« night. altitude*. where problem of controlling fires in Parents appear anxious that In the high other teachers In the schools he much snow still remains In the Cascade Locks. mountains. In the past the town has de rosined. A crpw of men are busily en pended upon the pumper from Mrs. Hugh Roberts returned gaged building a roadbed for the Herman creek, and has always this week from a several week’s track which will carry the travel been quick to telephone the for confinement In Hood River hos ing tower on the Oregon shore. est service for help when the fire This track. 880 feet In length.' alarm Is sounded. pital. CO LUM BIA TO POUR CEMENT BY AUGUST 15 SEATTLE FIR M LOW BIDDER ON LOCK APPROACH L. Colluccio & company, Seat tle, was found to be low bidders for the excavation of the lower lock approach canal and lining of the fishway at the dam when pro posals were opened in Portland Tuesday by Major C. F. Williams, district engineer. The firm bid $192.540. The bid was $96,725 under the estimate of the United States en gineers and $55,050 below Colum bia Construction company’s sec ond low bid of $247.500. Govern ment engineers estimate: $289.- 175. Other bids were: Guy F. Atkin son company. $266.950: Sam Or- ino. Bonneville, *280,650! M ey ers & Goulter, Seattle. $296,700; Maloom & Bell. Bonneville. $325.- 650. The work calls for the moving ot 420,000 cubic yards and in cludes a small amount of grub bing and clearing. The work must he completed within 180 days af ter notice to proceed. It is not an ticipated work will begin until early in the autumn. " I ’m a self-made man." "That relieves someone of an unpleasant responsibility.*
