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T H l K SD 4 Y , K E R R I A R Y IS, 193«.
LOCKS BUSINESS MEN FINED
ITY, STATE
CONFISCATE
[BALL DEVICES
t.nlimr hmtin* »» im n of C.i»-
|k« Itili olle of W>**tll fare
s nr Jill Iernia ■*** .1 reami
mirpri'e raid Monday by
ilei »late offlrera. w ho con­
ili alni Iliadi Idea of the pin-
L > inn.I ng \ • rM't »
>. .tie - .1 V \|. rrill of Me !
rn. Frank Moran of M o­
il. Teil llaiiaer of the Lakc-
<n<i Erik Krlckaon "f the
(lull, C I-'' el-
L ‘"*k». alili
Todd'» place, Wy**Ui, were
I each Til* -da) when they
I f I i-f • I • •• Ju-tic.- St; in Mi in
ptiver. Eighty dollar» of the
suspended indefinitely,
h to pay *2 j , or aerve tlie
out at
per day In the
er county Jail.
NVilllalii K<lnk. Ileputle*
llarr arili and llolh-nheck
I
PnlP'.-inen Haney
ind
>"|i I down on tin r<*»‘.rt»
afterniuin. Ila id» W i .,rr<-d
r" ■ ~ "tl t !i I I I e- » 111 pfi
r I
hlmr
out
THUMP! SQUEAK! POP!
MERRILL'S ’BURGLAR'
ONLY COLD BOTTLES
“O u lrk ! Wake up. Jim ! There’*
a burglar in the danrehall!"
"«»• Mrs .1 V Merrill of Käsende
Lock» awakened h> r lnishuml d
.'I 1 in. Saturday, after tu* inn*
sträng« n<d»es com In* from tfieir
dance hall ind restaurant nearby.
Shivering. M. rrill searched, heard
Hcruidii*. poppin* noises, couldn't
t< il jn*t where they came from.
Mrs Merrill railed in City Marshal
K 0 I 111 Merrill, tier brother-in-law.
'I he
stran*e
nois.•> rontiuoed,
hut the searcher» could
catch up with them.
n*-ver
Kurek 1 ’" »houted Merrill as he
discover***! the noise The “toirg-
lar was found to he pop hollies
freezing. breakin*. hlowin* tie*
cap» off <nd falllnu ov«-r. Foot­
steps“ were ifllil.ltei) by IWO
duckling*
tappin*
with
their
Leak» on the wooden box beside
tile kitchen ramie, where tle-> had
been plans! to thaw them out.
-•< o ther -
N. BONNEVILLE
It' It I'tu alK p.ipi mit . , - * I I
THREATENED BY
FLAMES SUNDAY
fully (hdlnary p in-I II 11
I War nml 10 hide the ni ‘
I
-
I
!i • -
confici
ititi
W ere
m
r ff left alone
rather languish In Hood
One entire block in the business
oon-govv than pay tho»e
district of North Bonneville, Wash.,
k 1 nini ti, I,,, tin -I ntiho nt was burned to the ground late Sun-
V ' ' ■‘ted linn, Who \\ ep.
da night with a roiigtil estimated
retili
onte Tuesd.. ev -
loss of ML'N't
1 ift-T being tried. |f the 8*23
A bucket brigade unsuccessfully
*P*fkled part of the fine is nut fought the flames against tin- sub-
■
m it few day«, the iijiera- fn-ezin* temperature and ***»1 wind.
WU proha hi y spend »nine li1
.’ The l S. engineers’ fire truck from
^^krdirnt the w orld through Honneville w is rushed via the bridge
of the find». hut arrived too late to
he of sepv ice.
Fire w ts *.iid to have started in
one of the six Mallier cabins. Also
destroyed were the Liberty cafe.
Apex rooming house. Circus tavern,
l ‘‘n of tin* ptopoM-d new and Nichols hardware store. \ small
• nd of the (àisead** Locks amount of furniture was saved.
Klanu-s were so fierce that fronts
J
of commerce’* suggestion
of
buildings acros- the street to the
oui department
west
were »curdled, but firemen
^ ■ "n
I fund-ra I-iriK dance
1 ’""C topics ti k<n up by prevented further spreading of fire.,
'olnnteer fire department which might have meant destruction
•Miy .
for the entire town. Many from the
committee w ilt i>e ap- Oregon side, attracted by the glare,
H,,, week b ) President rushed over b* help fight the fire.
nen D iscuss
Afft» lir e
J
1-
''
Station
w ith the city
'''im n itte
|o
\ llesKird's fire sta
60 ATTEND PTA CARD
PARTY IN AUDITORIUM
Pn^ r t ilniiM n t 1
hmu#rf
" consider r a is in « funds I
,n" "
1.0
next n
' I I mil T -f ire
'
I -
\ jce
I *1 ' '»'lieti
*"'M Was se| for T lle s ila v .
F* *1 ' p in. in the ro tin -
Mills,||, appointed \ -
I 1'
lini lt> 1 / |e\ c h a irm a n
'Do i vhip, c o m n iille e . O llie r
,r " " Dell .,n,| Itili R y,.r
■
' 1,1 r'"' • h re Ik in the
I P todays rise in temper-
The Honneville P TA cleared ;»p-
provimafely s.'tti on ilÿ Monday **v-
ening cani part» in Ih* govermnent
auditorium lo p • V f'"' *’i hairs for the
school.
Over no per»"ns wer*' present I"
play
hrid«e,
pinochle and five
hundred at the 15 tables set. The
cluhroom was beautifully decorated
by |»T\ members with pussywillows
and greens. Cakes and coffe*- weit
served.
Mrs. Karl Wilson of Kagle Creek
was given the prize for selling the
greatest number of tickets.
CAPT. GORLINSKI W ork on Dam Halted A s
TRANSFERRED TO
Sleet Paralyzes Traffic In
ARMY COLLEGE
Columbia Gorge Region
Kapt. Joseph <. Korliriski will leave
his post is Bonneville dam resident
efi*ineer to attend the Army Indus­
trial eoi|e*>- jn Washington. D. K.,
•<s « further step in his training in
the corps of engineers. His successor
h is not vet been announced.
Army orders issued from Washing­
ton -viturday transfer Captain *»or-
linski to the Industrial college,
w -e- • he will study procurement of
shells, «uri- and equipment of all
kinds to supply troops in time of
war. lb* experts to leave in late May­
or early June.
W o rk on Honneville darn v..is at a virtual standstill yesterday as the
entire northwest lay shivering in the icy grip of sleet and snow storms
that blocked roads and made trains and busses hours late.
Sleet which started 'Tuesday afternoon was continuing its steady fall
late yesterday. The Columbia river highway was a sheet of ice, practical­
ly impassible. Fifteen feet of ‘»tapioca snow" was reported to have slid
across the road at Multnomah falls, burying a highway department rotary
snow plow. Traffic up the gorge was being turned back at Corbett Tues­
day riigtit. Yesterday morning a few trucks and busses were making the
run into Portland via the Warning-
ton side, although that was blocked
at times.
The highway to Hood Rivet- was
blocked most of Wednesday by ice
Captain Doriinski w 1 « graduatisi
slides at Shell Rock mountain.
from West Point in 1D1H. As a lieu­
Traffic between Bonneville and Cas-
tenant lie was assigned to the Port­
eade Locks was routed part of the
land district of the corps of cn-
time along the new railroad grade
uineeps in 193*2. After several months
because of slides.
in the dam’s Pittock block office in
Newspaper accounts of the uirth
The Columbia river this weeK is
Portland, he became resident en­ of a one-pound baby, Nancy Ann
a
mass of floating ice fioes. W ith a
gineer of the project.
Vogt, at Oakland. Calif., called forth
scant
four feet over the sill of the
Captain Corlinski’s appointment to a reminder this week that Oregon
lock
at Cascade Locks, “ Dkrelv
the Industrial college is looked upon and Washington share honors for
around the project as training pre­ an even smaller baby, w hich thrived enough to float a fair-sized duck.’’
according to Lockmaster C. A .
paratory to advancement in rank.
and is now doing nicely at the age
Saunders, the river was at its lowest
of 15 months.
stage in history. Cause w a» the
I’ORTI. \ \ l) OKKHS < II \N \K I.
The Oregon-Washington baby is freezing up of its water supply by
Plans for deepening the Columbia Jacqueline Dean Jackson, born No­ near-zero temperatures over its en­
river channel from Vancouver to vember *2i. 1934, at Stevenson, Wash., tire basin. Despite efforts to break
Honneville will not be protested by daughter of Mr, and Mrs. r’red the ice at The Dalles, the river
the Portland city council, the coun­ Jackson of Cascade Locks. The fa­ there was almost entirely frozen
cil agreed last week. Col. Thomas M. ther is a rigger employed on Bon­ over yesterday. Old-timers believe it
Hohins. division engineer, told the neville dam.
only a matter of a few more days
Mrs. Florence W eller, who was of Ihe present weather before the
council of the f . S. engineer's plans
for the channel, 300 feet wide and *27 Jacqueline's nurse in the Stevenson Columbia w ill be a solid sheet be­
feet deep, large enough to accommo­ 'emergency hospital, reported that tween the Locks and Stevenson.
date small ocean freighters to The the infant, which weighed not W ish . The river rose .8 foot Tues­
Dalles. Other cities and towns along quite 15 ounces at birth, three day from the preceeding day’s rec­
the river unanimously endorse Ihe months before she was expected, ord low.
now weighs 1*2 pounds, has two
channel deepening.
Lowest official temperature of the
treib and is learning to walk. From j year to date was nine degrees rec-
an over-ail length of ID/is inches at 0rd nn the jocks grounds at Cascade
birth. Jacqueline nas grown to the Locks February 8. The previous ev­
stately height of *23 Inches.
ening. the Bridge of the Oods
“The hospital staff is as proud of thermometer was said to have reg­
Jacqueline as her parents are." Mrs. istered four below, hut this could
W eller declared. “ and vve are keep­ not be confirmed.
The sleet storm vesterdav was
Coed politic- for the forthcoming ing a close check on her health andj
progress.
\Ne
never
did
have
her
in
coating
buildings, trees and auto-
w a r were started *111 their way this
an
incubator,
lu
us
she
is
the
doll
mobiles
with
a sheet of ice. begin-
week with the announcement by
bed
baby
.
ning
of
a
“silver
thaw ” which pro­
John N. Mohr, flood River attorney,
vides
beautiful
photographic
sub­
that lie is in the field fur the Re­
jects
bill
causes
untold
damage
publican nomination for District At­
through breaking down trees by
torney in Hood River County.
, the weight of the Ice.
Mohr was horn and reared in Hood
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! Weather bureau reports indicate
River county. Education includes
Plans are being made this week warmer weather and relief w ithin
four years at the I'niversity of Ore­
gon and two years at the l niversity by the Cascade Locks chamber of a few days from the icy storm.
of Michigan law school where he commerce to raise *50. its share of
Ihe cost of printing 45.000 booklets I
was graduated in I9-F2.
• a ¡nee his graduation he has neen describing the Columbia gorge, a
practicing in Hood River and has! project of Ihe Mid-Columbia cliam-l
been very active in local and county her of commerce.
The booklets w ill publicize the en-|
The big birthday party in uonor
affairs.
lire
gorge
and
w
ill
he
distributed
of
Carl Epping. scheduled to be held
John Baker, incumbent, lias not
uvep
the
country.
<7.
N.
Hesgard
told
this coming week by Ted Hauser,
announced his intention h* seek the.
the chamber's Thursday noon meet-; owner of the Lakeside hotel, has
office again.
ing. Total cost is expected io b e ; heen postponed unlit tin* weather
about
83,000. to be raised by cham­ breaks.
\MI
bers
in
Camas. North Bonneville,
Those that have heard the plans
« '.fini v from battling mid-west
Stevenson.
Vancouver and W hile I for the affair w ill he very muen dis­
blizzard», lire I ’nion Pacific’s stream
lined train. City of Portland, sped Saltm»n. Wash., and Cascade Locks, appointed. As everyone in the arerr
past the dam area Tuesday tm.ining Hood River and Th e Dalles. Ore. is to he invited. Hauser is waiting
on it-» first return trip Ibis year from ; Entire sum w ill tie raised before the for the weather to moderate so that
no one w ill have an excuse for not
Chicago. The seven-car diesel-electric printing i- ordered.
attending.
train is painted brown with nrrglit
Ted Hauser Was a Hood River vis­
Ttie date w ill probably be an­
yellow, offers 39 3-4 hour service
itor
today.
nounced
in next week’s Chronicle.
to Chicago.
LOCKS OUTRIVALS
CALIFORNIA BABE
FOR SM A LLN E SS
John N . M oh r Files
For Dist. Attorney
CHAMBER RAISES $50
FOR GORGE BOOKLET
PARTY TO BE STAGED
AFTER SNOW IS GONE
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