The Bonneville Dam chronicle., December 04, 1936, Image 1

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Ogee Work
Won’t Wait
On Cofferdam
Because flow in the Columbia river
has shrunk so markedly, Columbia
Construction company officials hope
to complete the curved orgee sections
iu the south half of the spillway dam
without waiting until the north cof­
ferdam is removed.
River flow during the past few
days has hovered around 55,000 cu­
bic feet per second, little more than
a tenth what it was at its peak in
May and June.
Had the river been much higher,
partial cofferdamming of the south
haif to permit completion of the ogee
sections would have raised the
water level and increased the pres­
sure against the north cofferdam,
which is not desirable. The original
plan was to let the ogee sections go
«n til the north cofferdam was taken
out. but this will not be necessary.
The ogee sections are the large
humpbacked concrete blocks between
the piers, against the top of which
the gates will rest. They were left
uncompleted to give the river a low
siti over which to flow while con­
struction was being carried on in the
north half of the river.
The flow has dropped so low now
that stoplogs have been placed tem­
porarily between the piers to give
the water a level of plus 23 feet at
the navigation locks, so boats and
log rafts may be passed through..
G A TE SLO T GRO U T
N E A R LY C O M P L E T E D
No work on the girder spans on
the south side of the main dam was
done this week, as the carpenter
crew was busy on the north side
■working on the fishlocks, but they
will be back soon.
Grouting for the gate slot steel is
about done, with only a day or so of
work remaining. Then only the latch
pits, four to a pier, will be uncom­
pleted. The bottom pits will have to
be checked and a little more pouring
done to bring them exactly to
grade.
Not much excavation remains on
the Bradford island fishway. The
channel has been dug from both
sides up to the gravel piles near the
south shore of the island. Workmen
this week were putting in 3teel and
pouring concrete on the walls of the
ladder nearest Bradford slough.
OFFICE TO CLOSE
The postoffice at Wyeth will be
closed December 15, after which date
mail will be delivered by star route
carrier from Cascade Locks.
M. L. Morgan of Morgan’ s Stand­
ard service station and garage was
awarded the contract for packing the
mail for one year. He will leave Cas­
cade Locks postoffice at 10 A.M.
daily except Sunday and return by
1 P.M.
Local postoffice employees are a
bit peeved at getting their additional
duties just before the height of the
Christmas rush.
COMPLETE LIN E C A R R IE »’
Manv dam area residents don’ t
know it, but the Men’ s shop at Cas­
cade Locks, operated by Mr. and
Mrs. Oscar Hyde, has a surprisingly
complete line of men’s clothing, and
o f women's clothing and accessories
in the women’ s department. A com­
plete gift service, with wrapping and
cards furnished, has been announced
by Mrs. Hyde.
CHRONICLE
B O N N EVILLE
SA N D Y D O W N A G A IN :
IS BAD LU C K CH A M P
The United States engineers’ boat
Sandy, victim of one river disaster
this year, sank again Tuesday night
at Umatilla, it was reported in Bon­
neville Wednesday.
The Sandy reportedly rammed a
rock, filled and sank. She was car­
rying a party of officials on a river
survey. She was later hoisted from
the bottom by a barge and was held
for repair by two workmen who were
dispatched from Bonneville Wednes­
day. She will be brought down under
her own power unless too badly
damaged.
The Sandy has been in commission
only about a week since extensive
repairs were completed after her
epochal trip through the power
house in July, when she lost her
deck house.
HOOD RIVER
CASCADE LOCKS
This Week s Thought
The rut is only a small­
sized grave.
— Spear.
FRID AY, DECEMBER 4, 1936.
Cnhtnirì lìnivio* I JIM M Y T U C K E R D IE S
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L aines . a f t e r a u t o s m a s h Columbia Two
Is experienced
Jimmy Tucker, known throughout Months Ahead
dam area as one-time operator Of Last Year
A nd Pop u la r of the the
motorboat ferry below the i
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Introducing the new commanding dam and employee in French’s tav-1 check by Columbia Construction
officer of C.C.C. company 4765, now ern, died Monday in a hospital at | company officials this week showed
stationed at Wyeth.
The Dalles as the result of an auto-1 spillway dam construction on the
He is Captain Harvey E. Daines, mobile accident Sunday night.
| north side is running almost exactly
an experienced and capable officer,
Tucker was driving a coupe five! two months ahead of last year’s
a veteran of the Philippine occupa­ miles west of The Dalles when the building on the south side.
tion, the Mexican border campaign can ran head on into a Consolidated
Last year the first pier to reach
and the World war. His first service
Freight lines truck.
Before the accident Tucker had
been living in a houseboat on the
north bank, waiting for a call to
work for the Columbia Construction
company. He was 26 years of age
and had been on or near the river
most of his life.
Funeral services were held Decem­
ber 2 in Portland. Tucker is survived
by his wife Clarisse and son Tommie
of North Bonneville, Or., brothers
John and David and sister Helen.
elevation plus 36 feet hit that mark
January 16. This year pier 5 in the
north cofferdam area was poured to
plus 36 feet November 8, and the
two-day difference has doubtless
been more than made up by this
time. Construction on other parts of
the dam such as the wingwall and
fishways, is proportionately as far
advanced as that on the piers.
Only 9700 cubic yards of concrete
was poured during the past week,
compared to nearly 30,000 cubic
yards at the peak, but the drop is
only to be expected following com­
pletion of the mass pours.
Section 1 of the north bank fish-
ladder, at the extreme upstream end,
All children in the dam area have
| has had its footings and foundation
been invited to the American Le­
walls poured to plus 61 feet, mea­
gion’s second annual Christmas par­
sured above normal low water. The
ty Wednesday night, December 23,
Installation crews for the Electric upstream revetment has been poured
in the Bonneville community audi­
Machinery Manufacturing company to plus 52 feet, with two more rows
torium.
of Minneapolis, which has the con­ to go.
Games, entertainment, and gifts
Section 15 of the fishladder nas
tract for putting the generator in the
given out by jolly old Santa Claus
station service unit of the power! 'Ji’en backfilled to the bottom of the
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will be the only order of business.
house, arrived on the job yesterday. J diffusion chambers. Next job is to
The Legion gave two dances, one
build
forms
and
place
reenforced
The contract, Number 40, calls fori
of them last Saturday, to raise
installing a 5000 kilowatt generator. steel for the floors of the chambers.
money for the party, and Legion­
Two complete panels of the down­
The major portion of the heavy
naires tell the Chronicle there are
stream revetment have been poured
embedded steel has been placed in
and the third row on panel 4 is in.
funds on hand for a bang-up affair, D E C E M B E R 1937 S E T
the two main units of the power
as good or better than last year s.
FO R F O R M IN G LA K E house. Speedrings and throat rings The part of the fishway entrance
bay north of the center wall is about
A program will be put on by Bon­
have been installed in both units,
ready
for pours on the floor of the
neville grade school children, and
Answering inquiries by farmers but have not been quite lined up in
diffusion chambers. The fishlock
the Legion will import some adult and rivermen, Colonel Charles W il­
unit 1.
block has been divided into four dis­
talent to round out the schedule of liams, district engineer, announced
Difficulty of lining up this steel is
tinct pour-sections, two sections hav­
events.
this week that no increase in the appreciated when one realizes that
ing been concreted to plus 20 feet, a
Ed Clark and his co-workers on natural river level will be caused by ring sections weighing up to 32 tons' T
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the community service committee Bonneville dam before December, must be adjusted to a tolerance of „
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receiving reenforcing steel prior to a
will be in charge of the party. They 1937. This will enable farmers along
j one-sixty-fourth of an inch all the j sjmjjar [K)ur
are very anxious that every child the bottom land to put in one m ore; way around. The steel is flexible in 1
The cutoff wall has also been
from Dodson to Cascade Locks, and season s crop before the dam is a degree and is affected by tempera­
raised to plus 53 feet.
from across the river, too, come to closed.
ture, so days are sometimes re­
Here’s the height of the piers :
the party and enjoy the good times
Four crews are at work on basin­ quired to get a ring satisfactorily
Pier 5, plus 56 feet; blocks 2, 3,
and the refreshments.
clearing at present, one near Cas­ aligned.
4 and 5 complete to plus 24 feet;
cade Locks, one near Underwood,
Principal concrete pours remain­ piers 2, 3 and 4 to plus 36 fe e t; block
G A R D E N S A RE M O BBED one near Bingen and one near Row- ing in the power house are in the 1, plus 17 feet, getting ready for an­
T H A N K SG IV IN G N IG H T ena. To date more than 50 per cent roof of the scroll cases, the turbine chor bolt pad before putting in struc­
of privately-owned land which will be deck and generator floor.
tural steel; pier 1 training wall to
One of the biggest crowds in the covered by the waters of Cascade
plus 34 feet; block 6 ready to go to
SUES MA R SH AL
plus 24 feet, pier ready to go to plus
history of the Columbia Gardens' was lake has been acquired by the gov­
ernment,
while
about
half
the
land
set for the Thanksgiving night
J. J. “ Blackie” McDonnell, em­ 36 feet; block 7, one pour remaining
dance, Johnny Walker, local orches­ which will require clearing has been ployed for several months at John before structural steel is placed;
denuded of trees and brush.
tra impresario, said.
Drummond’s pool hall, last week block 8, structural steel placed,
Each clearing crew employs about filed suit against Colon Merrill, Cas­ forms ready for pours taking block
For this Saturday night’s dance,
which Walker expects to draw about a dozen men.
cade Locks city marshal, for $5000 and pier to plus 24 and plus 36 feet.
as well, he is going back to the pop­
for false arrest. The American Sure­
CORRESPONDENTS A D D E D
CLOTHES M A N COMING
ular cold cash feature, which drew
ty company, which bonded Merrill,
patrons all through the spring and
The Dam Chronicle is dam — we is named as co-defendant.
Mr. Robb of the Cromwell Tailors,
summer. ’Twill be a mid-holiday mean mighty proud of its two new
McDonnell’s
complaint
charged largest individual-measure tailoring
season dance, so to speak, as it correspondents, Mrs. Clara Nix at Merrill with arresting and hand­ establishment on the coast, will be
comes on the heels of the Thanks­ Cascade Locks and Mrs. Bartlett F. cuffing him and placing him in in Cascade Locks December 11 or 12
giving affair and on the toes of the Carter at Warrendale.
a cell in excess of nine hours, with­ at the office of the Locks Cleaners,
Christmas and New Year’s Eve
Both of them are new to their out cause or reason. The arrest was according to Frank Walker. The ex­
jobs, but both have started out like made on a charge of vagrancy.
melees.
act date will be announced in next
A lot of novelties and stunts are veterans. They spare themselves no
week’s Chronicle. Walker says the
coming up for the holiday dances, effort to tell citizens of their respec­
S PI NE I N J U RE D
tailors will give five to seven days’
Walker promises. He advises his pa­ tive communities what’s going on.
Rolf Enquist, smiling co-proprietor delivery on any order, so there will
They add greatly to the competent of the Bonny Villa tavern, lost his be plenty of time to have clothe»
trons to keep in the swing by turn­
ing out to the intervening affairs, staff which gives the Chronicle, to­ smile for an instant Tuesday when a made before Christmas.
because there’ll be no room to prac­ gether with its sister paper, the 75-pound water tank lid fell from a
tice when the holiday crowds get to Hood River County Sun, the best height of several feet and struck his
MAR<{! EE DECORATED
local coverage of any newspaper in back, reportedly fracturing a ver­
kicking their heels.
N ew red and purple neon tubing
the northwest, and as good as any tebra.
around the marquee of the Lakeside
LEGION TO MEET
newspaper in the nation.
Enquist was helping his father re­ hotel in Cascade Locks has added
Members of Bonneville post, No.
Other correspondents who have pair a tank on the hill back of Bon­ greatly to that hostelry’ s appear­
88, American Legion, will meet at 8 been doing a bang-up job for a long­ ny Villa at the time of the acci­ ance, and also to the appearance of
P.M. Wednesday in the auditorium er time are Mrs. Hazel McShatko in dent. He was taken to the Good Sa­ the city’ s main street. The installa­
to make final arrangements for the Dodson, Mrs. W alter M cElroy in maritan hospital in Portland and tion was made a week ago Monday,
Christmas party. It is important that Bonnevue, R olf Enquist in Bonny from there to his parents’ home In according to Max Millsap and SilveT
Perras, co-proprietors.
everyone be present.
Villa and Gail Gipson in Bonneville. Springdale.
Legion Party
Will Be Held
December 23
was as an enlisted man in the 19th
United States infantry, then sta­
tioned at the Vancouver barracks.
His service in the C.C.C. dates
from December, 1933, when he as­
sumed command of company 1763 at
Effie, Minn. In October this com­
pany was returned to Kansas, then
the state cf origin, and stationed in !
a newly constructed camp at Cawker
City.
In June, 1935, he was transferred
to Fort Riley, Kan., where he or­
ganized Company V4719. This com­
pany later moved to Ottawa, Kan.,
where he remained until March, 1936,
when he was relieved from active
duty. .
He was ordered to active duty
again October 5, 1936, reporting to
Fort Snelling, Minn., where he or­
ganized Company 4765, now at the
Wyeth camp.
Captain Daines has traveled wide­
ly. He is also a musician, an inter­
esting story-teller, a good mixer
with civilians and is careful of the
comfort and welfare of the boys in
camp.
Station Service
Generator
Being Installed