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About The Bonneville Dam chronicle. (Bonneville, Or.) 1934-1939 | View Entire Issue (May 29, 1936)
• » . * l.s Week's Thought THE BONNEVI D A M ). tt'-r f" hav •' T" ' r,T ,,n * Ij, Ü I i • \ • ’ t" b •' ’ 1 A ' '1 t • :in'> 50c 16 PAGES II II I —V». « K HASTENED THREE JOBS T TOOTH ROCK )U#H month w ill clap*«* b«*- jnd«*rground work on tl»»- n«*w DELIVERED BY MAIL EVERY FRIDAY THREE MONTHS FOR B O N N E V ILLE CITY WANTS LAND FOR LOCK-UP SITE — C \s< \|>E LIH KS _ HOOD RIVER K H ID M , M tV 29, 193« JEWELL MILLMAN W A R R A N T S UNSIGNED, BUT IN SPECTS SITES CREWS ARE STILL W O R K IN G TO EAST SUNDAY UNSIGNED W ARRAN TS If the city of Cascade Locks can fimi and porch on* a suitable plot of Krouml, a new two-cell steel ani concrete Jail, sanitary and fireproof, could lie put up in a week or so. Labor unrest on the W illamette Marshal Golm Merrill said We«ln*-i*- and lower Columbia rivers may bring day. The cost, for materials only, new payrolls to Cascade Locks. would be about 9220. M errill and Thomas Higgles, partner in a log \V. M LI irk ar«* willing to donate ging and mill operation n<*ar Jewell. necessary labor. Or., revealed Sunday that he is look- The cells would measure about i ing about for a new location because se\«n by eurht feet and would be of shut-downs of his firm ’s camps. equipped wlUi cots and toilets. Mer Both the mill and the logging outfit rill said. City officials are hesitant are idle now pending settlement of about erecting a jail on leased the hiring-hall controversy waging ground, so are looking into several betw**en w«*»t Oregon operators and. pos-lbiliti**s of purchase. unions. ITEMIZED TO OPEN COFFERS Although disposal of $7.455 in war Following is a list of warrants left unsigned by Mayor Charles Nel rants drawn against the water sys ii of public highway tun- son at the council meeting Monday tem construction fund was still sky- ,rough Tootli rock actually all drawn against the construction high following Monday's council a gang of 30 m«*n working meeting, crews working for Kucken- fumi : mo. Birk«*m**i»*r A Sarrmal, berg-Whitman company, contractors, A. W . Meyers ........................ S5.TTj0.0h .(or*. is preparing ttie east went ahead with work already begun Cascade Water Co.................... 2000.00 along the pipe line ami at the reser- Tennis J. W’y e r s .................... 020.00 ^ch to Ui** tunn*d. C. M. Hurlburt ........................ ¿00.00 i voir * ‘te. •am »hovel crew In also busy Mayor Cliarles Nelson continued Del E l l i f f ................................... 300.00 t tiu’ pr«**»«*nt highw i> rout.« Bonneville ilarn Chronicle .. *5.00 steadfast in refusing to sign w ar t into Wo* bank Just «-ast of tl»** Money to meet these warrants is rant?, despite pressure from Council because operations on tin* W ith W . J. Carlson and a Umber man Max Milisap and City Attorney l„*tn\N in* expected to remove ! cruiser hired at his own expense. Mr. j on deposit in the First National oank Tennis Wvers, both interested in of lh»* un<l«-rpinning from tin* Higgles inspected possible site* and of Hood River. Totaling just over clearing the last hurdle blocking it ro . lie d \ tem porary brldg** timber stands east of Cascade Locks $31,000, it was received upon sale of construction. >.• iT'-' t«*«l to carry tra ffic ov**r Sunday. He is not yet ready for city water system bonds to tne P. Proceedings were charged with InnnH while tin* »*.»»*1 portal l* decision but Indicated he is seriously W. A., from which a further grant emotion from the moment Council of about $25j000 w ill be obtained to (•«instructed. No hr Id ire w ill b** 1 considering locating here. man Milisap intnsiuced the proposal complete construction of the system. >ary it tin- went portal, Three cribs which w e n torn from for payment of the warrants until irty additional m«*n went to place by high w ate r last week » « ' NEW PAIR OF FEET the meeting broke up at 10 o’clock. on the firm ’» th ird contract.; p. I"" '1 ll^rk ....... . i "11 ON CHRONICLE DESK The council room was jammed w ith krincd-straight j*tretcti below the in m t v Ice w ith only m inor repairs.! _______ interested citizens who interrupted it hiKhway from the west por- it was derided Monday follow ing a j n |jn,. xvj||, ¡j„ |* d iry of being frequently w ith pointed questions or I the Tooth rock tunnel t-> the tour of inspection by arm> cngi-. j,tri«*tly modern in every respect, the suggestions. v ill** camp hiKhway. Moat of peer», accompanied by a diver. Bonneville I Jam Chronicle has irn- Mayor Nelson explained h :s refusal Sri' . etch will tot tl about C iptain J. >. Corlinskl ami Captain ported a brand new editor from Possibility of enlarged school fa DO. Colby M. My era h**ad**l ttu* part> Portland, complete from shiny nose cilities at Cascade Locks due to ex- on the grounds that a suit for an in work on the suo-foot tunnel. w hich gave the cribs a thorough p, gjhd»-n«ng except when dusty pected increased enrollment in the junction to prevent the city from fall was contains! in a statement re- 1 constructing Hie system is stin to !i will |»e reenforced concrete looking-over as they lay. largely! Id o*k oxfords. urhout, w ill be carried on from submerged. Just offshore near O n e-¡ The gentleman’s name is Hugh - .t;t y 1«__ I by tl,........ . school l»' w p r e m e court The fight for an injuention was lost ■ast aldi Through traído will onta. The cribs an* at present se- j Scott, lie i- 22 >e.,r*» old. six feet unit board at Hood River. lt>e I n t e r r u p t ' d it any stage o f purely moored to shore. Cong< >tion at Parkdale. Odell and in the Hood River district court.- but tall, and does md like hird’g-nest the mayor fears the possibility of »lions Two top courses on one oi the soup. Otherwise h<* is more or less Barrett schools w ill be serious a reversal by the Salem tribunal. I- section is a project of the n ib s w ill probably have to he r e - 1 normal, and known b> he harmless. enough to make additional space the Advocates of imme Hate payment of un -i «te highway department. Tlo* above fact- call he accepted only an>wer. while facilities here placed, but a good overhauling should suffice to put Ilo* others in t- tru e , because Mr. Scott wrote tlo* m 1 v have to be increased, the board U u ‘ warrants pres-ed the contention ¡(j that the suit had no chance, that the -b-ry himself. shape. mayor himself would not become The cribs w ill be towed back up Following the November report of personally liable by signing the s tre a m when high water has slacked |i. \V. Emerson of the slate depart- drafts. an«l that contractors who had off enough to penult tugs lo battle rnent of education, placing Park- | already obligated themselves by •lale. »»* !•• 11 and Cascade Locks high tlo* curn-nt. probably a month hence. hiring crews and bringing in new s*'h00Is i»n tin* "conditionally stand- I II id the crii»** been lost or destroyed machinery might have considerable O new tunners. labeled A and B. n,.xv ,,n,.s %%oup| have cost In the anlized list.” the unit hoard ex- damage aetions against tfie city. » inu* -link Into the liurk**l slide; neighborhood *30,000 apiece, ¡•r ->••■! hope the enrollment pr.*— Their efforts produced t it tl»* change Imm«*«iiate and long-time planning sure might **.»>•• off. but inst*’ ad i t « : in the mayor’s position, although he by army engineers in an effort proj«*ct>. civering a wide variety ««f w ill probably increa-e in the fall. i repeated previous assurances that he dp additional water pockcts re PILE DRIVER SHUTS Improv. men! in the school dis-| subjects, ar** un«ler way in every OFF JUICE AT DAM would obtain independent legal coun is Ihle für m t I oiih slidc condi- - rtion of the >lat«*, it was shown by tri«*t's financial condition since 1933 sel on the status of the injunction over a period i»f s«*\**ral years. Operations at Bonneville were sus report- made by supervisors at an may permit issuance of enough suit, which is docketed for some tnnei \ w ill In* local cd h«*tvv«*en open meeting of the Oregon state b«»nds t<> supply funds for the needed date n«*xt fail. - I and 4 in Ihe w«st«*rn half pended for about 12 hours Monday planning board recently at the Port .«Iditions. ¡some of the more ardent exponents de slide. white tunnel B w ill b** night when a pii«* «Iriver mounted on land hotel. More than 2n of the 34 of the water system suggested the between tlinn«'ls 2 and 3 lll the a power barg«* collided with the ll.ndO-voll Northwestern F.l*’ctric studi«*> and surveys were described POWER HOUSE GATE possibility of bringing mandamus ern half. to approximately loo interested citi company lin«* wiilch cr*«ss«*s the PASSES BUCK . * DtiAD proceedings against the chief t<» en inncl 2. rnost successful of the zens. S«*\**ral of th«* projects w ill Drowned in an attempt to swim force signature of the warrants, hut river from the north bank h» supply dready coiilpleted, has b<*«*n d«*- furnish data of importance to people the Columbia riv«*r somewhere above Wyers discouraged the move by 'ing a flow «»f fm ir cubic f«*«*t all government activities at the dam- of Cascade lawks and Hood River Bonneville dam operations, a young pointing out that the procedure slte. second for souic tim«*.. The. olhcrs buck deer was tak«*n from the e«ldy might «trag on longer than the orig Power, light and water were off county. produced somewhat b*ss satis- Projects reported on includ«*«! mar below th«* power house Wednesday inal injunction suit, whereas the r.,r lh»* entir«* peri««!. Current came tory results ket surveys for forestry, agricultural morning. Tlie same fate has befallen impasse must he clear«*«l up by June de new timnels w ill he «Iriven nil again about 7 A. M. Tuesday. and «»Iher Oregon products: rural two or thr**e others «»f liis kind since 13, the date for commencing pipe- Tin* pib* «Iriver. v\bi«*li was to have 400 frei to sbirt. luit inay he zoning, including agriculture, for the unit warnt in. (continued on page 8) ¡lieri fartlu r if conditlons warrant. been rem«»ved from th«* barge so the estry. wild life and recr«*ation areas; He was not so fortunate as the latter c«»uld be » is*’« I f«»r transport se\en shafts cover a slid«* face pri'servation of as much <«f Oregon’s «leer that was swept through the CEMETERY READIED hont one and one-hulf inilcs in purposes, snapped th«* line an«l was To*» miles «»f forest borders <»n liigh- power house s«*v»*ral months ago, itself knocked over, t«*aring up much FOR MEMORIAL DAY ,tli. ways as is possible; geologic ami carried under water for half a bl«»ek »•f Ihe superstructure on tin? barg»1 . hles liave been causcil by water mining needs of tin* slate, public or s«». and finally «‘merged, struck Performing .1 service for vvnich y«»i 1 ruI#•<I behind sbaltered r.agb* There were n«i injuries. welfare, and many (»tilers. «•ill for the far shore and high-tailed Cascade Locks citizens should be M. ro«*k formation which lias been 1 % r_ Tw o st ui I i'*s on us«* of Bonneville it into the woods. grateful. Herman Sering. John and h*il out and up toward Ilio C««- M A R S H A L P I N C H J N C r ^ ^ ^ power have already been issued by The venison, apparently in good Bud Won«iard. Lester Sprague and itliia channel by llu* trem<*ndous LICENSE LACKERS the board and have proved very val shape, was turned over to III« state Mayor Nelson put in most of last <Miie i,f basaltic blocks t«» tin* uable to people of the slat«*, it was game eommision f»vr delivery to one week clearing brush and cleaning up Several arrests «»f persons who jili. according to best geohiglcal pointed *«ut by II. >. Bastian, board of the Portland soup kitchens llu* plots at the city cemetery in «■i’ l est drill boles in tin* nn>alt have failed •«» obtain business li expert in eliarg«* »»f those surveys. preparation for visitors on Memorial P 'Imvved that Hit* water laid«* censes or «log licenses have been study of pr«»spectiv«* use of •*b*c- a telegram to Oregon's congri*ssional Day Saturday. k immediately wlien an outlet made and fin«*s Imposed, Marshal A tri«*ily in rural ar«*as w ill soon he delegation and others in Washington "Tin* grounds look better than 1 provided fur impound'd molst- Colin M errill told the Chronicle «>n ! completed, tie stat«*d- urging immediate enactment of l«*g- they have for years," Mayor Nelson Weiliusday. urging those who have hy the tunnels. A stream purification study, which islatlnn that w ill permit setting of deefarett. “All we need now is a little not y«*t obtained lin*ns«*s to do so is expected to lead to n«»e«h*d legis basic rates for Bonneville power. money to repair the fence, and we n hot days he«* colonies have «1«*- before In* Is forc«*d b* lake action. lation. w ill soon he ready for dis The hoard also took prelim inary hope to raise enough by receiving * of “fanners" to stand oiitsid«* Ills <lutb‘s require that he collect tribution. it was announced. st«*ps for a comprehensive plan for donations from visitors on Memorial hive entrance and k«?«*p the air all license f«ies and levy fines for The planning board voted to sen«l highways for Oregon. Day.” failure to pay. ving with their wings THREE CRIBS DUE TO BE SALVAGED School May Have Additional Space IR OF SHAFTS ADDED AT SLIDE PROJECTS CONNED IN PLAN REPORTS