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About The Bonneville Dam chronicle. (Bonneville, Or.) 1934-1939 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1935)
THIS WEEK | P rotection 1 in possible I T he iiuilriNMi < Crossings I Tiling» Are lle ttr r Wh r u Kuftflia I* Kieh E u rop e seek* «nine network of to prevent a war, or bind armlea and air flecta of each of t h o r n signing such treat lea to protect the oth er« In cane of attack. Unfortunately, In the new war of the air, an In aecret gangster war, no protee- lion la poaatble. W here one criminal haa an “automatic” or “a u b m a c h i n e gun," agree- |tit j * among law abiding rillM M »not protect them. And while nation can aecrKljr build and Jdetily launch atrahlpa with pol* gas and exploelve bomba, no can conalder ttaelf aafe. Trance and England, after «lab ile experiment«, announce thut re la no posMlbl« way of protect- a modern city agalnet air at- Ik». even though the city knew advance when to expert them. The only aafeguard la fear of re lation. deeply grieved by the killing of Iny achool rhlldren at a public )*alng, the President plana rxten- ellmlnatioo of railroad grade laalngH. Complete elimination of fh cro-»lngB would Involve ai»end- hundreda of mllllona or billions, work would be undertaken with iful concentration on Qie fact It railroading Itaeir ta bound to Inge or dlaappear an far aa trans la tio n of phianengrra la con ic i. Ilroads In the future must passengers more than one idred miles an hour, on light Iroad equipment, able to climb p gradea an easily aa a u tomo l i do now. Kllmlnatlon of grade islnga will take that Into con- oration and Includi» elimination of I existing sharp curves at cross- !■ * . that the work may not be 4§pe twice. J ) ii n A Tirade! reet, well tn- |§ ,i,.-d usually, aay that a big bu«l- rise Is coming. Their weekly T rey Informs you that before the of this quarter business prog- i will have developed to a de- » beyond the moat sanguine e«- ifca offered at tho beginning of year. low rich will the Ruaslnna be- wlth their energetic develop- It of national resources, all over k- In and far Into Arctic regions? Ind what will he the effect on kminnlsni, bolshevism and the P*> etnrlnt when Htiasln becomes, ■ • I e lle m a y do, the richest nation onlearth, and those that rule her bWonie the world's richest inet^ petl aps the (lrst multiple blllloa- a lc Is In history? BONNEVILLE DAM CHRONICLE v o n 51K 2, VO. 5. BONNEVILLE CAH4 A D E MM KH T H IR K D A Y , MAY 2, IOSA BOARD QUASHES MAJOR WILLIAMS TO GIVE CASCADE LOCKS TIME TO UPPER COLUMBIA CHARGE AGAINST With the arm y engineers up to VOTES SOON ON neck In work on the Colum V. H E N D E R S O N their bia river above Portland, Colon INCORPORATION Charges of moral turpitude brought against Superintendent H enderson of th e Cascade flocks public schools were sh ifted , dls- nilaed and forgotten by th e local repreen tatlvea of the county school board at the hearing held two w eeks ago, they told The C hronicle Monday. The three local representatives, Capt. Karl Rosenback, G e n e Lov- el and Erwin Hrolllar, Jolneo in declaring they heard all evidence, were convicted that the charges w .-re absurd and w ithout fou n dation o f fact. “One of the girls w ithdrew her ch arges and the other changed her story and becam e so confused that It was clear sh e was not te ll ing the tru th ,” they said. The three board m em bers said It was agreed with a com m ittee that action taken at the hearing would he final. The charges w ere dism issed after evidence had been praented and letters which en ter ed Into the rase w ere burned. The case was closed shortly before m idnight. F riends of Superintendent H en derson have been circu latin g a petition , asking the county board to retai him . The opposition, d is sa tisfied . has carried an appeal to the county board. Members of com m ittee which called upon the chairm an of th e county board de- clcared upon th eir return from llo o d R iver that th e chairm an of the county board had s»ld no con tracts for teaching would be m ade until after th e school board election In June. No contracts have been sent out yet to teachers for next year, but they w ill com e up at a m eet ing o f th e county board In Hood River Mnday n ight. County Su perin tendent told The Chronicle T uesday. He was asked If the county hoard expected to give th e teach ers th eir contracts at the Monday night m eeting. "I d on ’t know ,” he said. “ • d on ’t know w hat th e board w ill do." THREE-YEAR-OLD GIRL BREAKS BONES IN FALL D arlene .Tones, 3. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F orest Jones, B on ny V illa, was seriously Injured Sunday when she fell IB feet down a hank onto th e Columbia River highw ay in front of her hom e. D arlene’s collarbone was brok en, she suffered m inor cuts and bruises, and she narrowly escap e d being hit hy a passing a u to m o b i l e . X-rays are being taken th is week by Dr. A. V. Adlx of Gresham to determ ine exact ex tent o f the Injuries. It Is believed lhat her hurts, w h ile painful, are not critical. in silver, made inevitable this country pushing up the goes on all over the world ; old China Is buying back at Jblt* prices silver sold to o enenp, Hrltnln must wish abe had been 'ss of n hurry to unload below ferita an ounce the hundreds of Mr. and Mrs. David W. Cham- Jons of ounces taken from In- belln w ere dinner gu ests of Mr. when India, In a foolish mo- and Mrs. K. Oranstrom Tuesday t, was put on the gold basis, night at Cascade Locks. to fall off again. el T. M. Robins has taken som e of the burdens o ff the shoulders of Major C harles F. W illiam s, d is trict engineer, by giving the low er Columbia dltrlct to Major Milo P. Fox, who has been assigned to Oregon by th e war departm ent. Mujor W illiam s has had the re sponsibility o f B on neville dam, surveys and sounding of th« Co lum bia above Celllo fa lls and the building of je ttie s at the m outh of the Columbia. Appointm ent of Major Fox to the low er Colum bia district will leave Major W illiam s free to de vote his atten tion to th e vast am ount of work now under way and contem plated between Van couver and the m outh of the Snake river. DODHON KIHH CANNERY II til.IN-» NEW ICK HOC HE i M achinery for voting on w hether Cacade Locks shall be incorporated was again put in m otion this week when a petition bearing th e nam es of 60 sign ers was forw arded Tuesday to the county court at Hood River. The court w ill set a date for th e election to determ in e the fu ture status of Cascade Locks. The petition on which only 40 nam es were legally required, was sign ed by a m ajority of business men and old residents. It sets the proposed boundaries o f the town from 100 yards west of the Bridge o f the Gods to Just east of Carl s o n ’s Red and W hite store, and from the O regon-W ashington boundary In th e m iddle of the Co lum bia river to tn e footh ills. P roponents of Incorporation point out that highw ay construc- tln through Cascade Locks w ill not be delayed should reslaents choose to m ake the com m unity a city, since the state highw ay com m ission ow ns the right-of-w ay and by law m ust pay for Improve m ents to the road. CH4NNEL w o r k WILL SPEED UP NEW HIGHWAY Early construction of the new Colum bia River super-highw ay between Cascade Locks and T routdale seem s assured, now that army en gineers are prepar ing to dredge the channel o f the river from Vancouver to B onne ville. State highw ay en gin eers have been confronted with 10 m iles of heavy construction work on the new road, betw een m outh o f the Sandy river and Bridal V eil. The proposed road w ill parallel th e Union P aciifc railroad tracks at the base of Crown P oint. .Making th e necessary grade would ne an exp en sive operation. W hen dredging of the channel g ets under way th e sand and gravel rem oved from th e river can be throw n alon g th e river bank, form ing a roadbed for the highw ay. The river does not have to be dredged ffor the en tire distance, but there are tw o places adjacen t to Crown P oint w here large quan titie s of m aterial m ust be rem ov ed from th e channel. The h ig h w ay departm ent expects to faJl heir to th is m aterial and to use it to the best advantage. Dirt and rock to be rem oved rom E a g le creek cut » w ill be hauled down the railroad and dam ped beyond Bridal Veil. Other dirt and rock w ill be obtained for the Crown P oint fill when the highw ay en gin eers slic e o ff the side o f th e hill above Tanner creek at B on n eville for the pur pose of takin g curves and grades out o f th e road through Bonny V illa. The sta te h ighw ay com m ission appears determ ined to drive through th e super-h ighw ay just as rapidly as tim e and m oney w ill permit. Just how much m oney they will take from fed eral funds being m ade available to Oregon by th e federal governm ent is not clear, but there Is every reason to b elieve they can u se all that is needed, due to the fact that the governm ent at W ashington w ants to open up a fast, straight highw ay betw een th e B on neville dam area and Portland. An ice house to hold 40 tons of salm on w as com pleted this week a t McGowan’s cannery at Dodson, in tim e for the opening of th e fishing season W ednesday. No plans for rebuilding th e ¡cannery burned in January nave been announced, according to Arthur Fade, superintendent. In stead, fish w ill be bought from the flshboats and trucked to II- waco. W ash., for canning. Cannery ten d ers th is w eek are H eavy eq u ip m en t, for th e B on busy tow ing flshboats through n ev ille pow erhouse w ill be com the rapids to Cascade Locks. pleted when bids for tw o 43,200 About 50 are expected for the k ilow att a ltern atin g current gen season from May 1 to A ugust 25. erators are opened in Portland May 24. FRKN4YT8 INN R O B B E D The generators, advertised for L. M. French of F rench’s Re th is week by governm ent en gi creation center at B on neville is neers are expected to cost slig h tly out $40. Som e th ie f took the m ore than than $1,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 with m oney from th e till at th e Inn accessories and spare parts ceiled Sunday night, he reported to the for. A dditional, lig h te r equip OaLVCYTO ASKS R E L E A SE Multnomah county sh e r iff’s of- m ent rem ains to be advertised ON CANAL, FISH W A Y BID i flee. for. L. C oluccio and com pany, Se attle, last w eek found low bidder for excavation of the low er lock approach canal and lin in g o f the fishw ay at the dam , has asked to have its bid throw n out. The com pany offered to do the work for $19 2 ,5 4 0 . nearly $100,- 000 below U. S. E n gin eers’ figures. It is not know n what steps w ill be taken by govern m ent en gin eers as a resu lt of the com pany’s ask in g for release. D etailed surveys prelim inary to dredging a channel for ocean going vessels betw een Vancouver and B on neville w ill be started im m ed ia tely If recom m endations to th e war departm ent by Col. T. M. R ob ins, division engineer, are accepted by the ch ief of en gin eers at W ashington. D. C. Tours o f the B on n eville dam Colonel R ob in s’ action in requesting perm ission to begin the sur veys have been Interpreted to mean that the arm y en gineers propose area and other scen ic northw est points have been arranged for to develop the channel w ithout further delay. passengers on S tates lin e steam Com m ercial organizations have asked for a 30-foot channel, but no d efin ite depth has been no d efin ite depth has been agreed upon, ers en route from San Francisco and it nppenrs im probable that Colonel Robins w ill recom m end any to the orient. Frank Clyde, north fixed depth until after the detailed su rvey is fin ish ed . The channel west passenger agent for General Steam ship corporation, Ltd., an m ight be 25 fee t, 27 feet, or 30 feet. nounced th is week. Cost o f dredging is expected to range from $ 5 .0 00,000 to $S,- During th e w eek's stay of the O’OO.OOO. Contrary to opinions entertain ed by the public, the chan nel Is not sh allow for the 40 m iles betw een V ancouver and Bonne liners at P ortland , passengers w ill be taken to B on n eville and ville. hut has had spots which fix th e prevailing depth to 10 feet. Mnking a detailed survey of the river w ill provide work for a Cascade Locks and on to Mount and considerable crew of men. A dditional men w ill be given em ploy R ainier. Olym pia, Tacom a Seattle hy bus and rail. The plan m ent when th e dredging actu ally g ets under way. Army en gin eers have protested the need of a deep channel in the w ill he given its first trial with river at this tim e. W hat has occurred to cause them to change th eir, passengers on the General ^.ee. due In Portland >lay 8. view s on the su b ject has not been m ade clcear. ENGINEERS CALL BIDS FOR TWO GENERATORS Engineers to Dredge Deep Channel in River to Dam For Ocean-Going Vessels SEA VOYAGERS TO SEE BONNEVILLE DAM AREA ■ ■■■ BRISBANE THE
