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• Delivered by Mail THE BONNEVILLE DAM Treasurer Reports At Locks Meeting This Week's Thought A man convinced against his will doth hold the same opinion still. — Selected. Every Frid ay VOL. Ill, NO. 41 lllvof* I’ UUIIC B O N N E V ILLE CAT T R A P P E D No sweet-tempered angel is the bob-cat Clayt Rand trapped up Tan ner creek a week ago Thursday. The animal, on display in a cage in the Lakeside hotel lobby, is con tinually growling and spitting at anyone who approaches. Clayt is building a pen for it now, and will transfer it as soon as the pen is completed. The cat emerged from trap with nothing but slight bruises on its leg. Clayt says the animal is either too smart or too sensitive to fight while in the trap. HOOD R IV E R CASCADE LOCKS FRID AY, J A M \KV 15, 1937 COURT PLAN NED Boy Scouts of Cascade Locks, Bon neville and North Bonneville will meet for their periodic court of honor next Tuesday evening, Janu- ! ary 19, in the Locks high school building. Judge W. J. Carlson will I Mrs. Vera Sprague, Cascade Locks' be the presiding officer, and district Concrete pouring in the north cof The following article was prepared field executive Bill Johnson will also ferdam pit, scheduled to be resumed city treasurer, gave a report of the by the United States engineers, and be present from Portland. Wednesday night after a week’ s lay city’s financial condition for the 16 The committee of Troop 390 of o ff due to cold, was postoned again will be continued in future issues of months since incorporation in Sep Cascade Locks will meet at 8 P. M. yesterday morning because of snow. the Chronicle. tember, 1935, at Monday night’s Wednesday at the residence of The wind, which shifted to the council meeting, the first of the new Scoutmaster M. L. Morgan. southwest and brought rain Wednes For some months the Corps of En term. day, was in the east again yester gineers has been engaged in studies Following are total receipts for day morning. the period: of various power-consuming indus About six inches of snow was on tries designed to determine their the ground at noon today, but weath Fines ....................... $ 396.00 commercial feasibility in the Colum er was unsettled with more snow or Licenses .................. 1268.50 bia gorge area. W e realize the ad possible rain in prospect. Dog tax .................... 25.60 vantage to electrochemical and elec State highway scrapers were keep Miscelaneous ........... 45.00 trometallurgical industries to be able ing the Columbia River highway in Road tax ................... 287.16 to locate at tidewater, obtaining raw fair driving condition, but possibil General tax .............. 3871.29 materials from distant domestic and ity of sleeting and further freezing Alex Klohk, 53. Portland man who foreign sources, and shipping theiv made drivers uneasy. has been working for the Columbia Total ........................ $5866.55 Forms were ready yesterday for a finished products by cheap water A caravan of 20 new automobiles, Construction company off and on A total of $1399.50 has been re 40-hour pour around the throat ring transportation, and have attempted since December 3, 1934, was killed en route to Portland from the east- ceived in payment for city water to in unit 1 of the power house, where to evaluate this advantage to the when his automobile crashed through ern factory, stopped over in Cas date, and $1142.90 spent, leaving a work by General-Shea company has various industries to arrive at some a new steel fence and plunged 300 i cade Locks Wednesday night be- balance in the water fund of $256.60. gone forward unhampered by the logical conclusion as to how success feet down into the Sandy river! cause of highway conditions. The following report was given for weather. ful they would be at this point as Wednesday morning. ' Work on third step cofferdams on Small fires have been built in the compared with similar industries in the month of December: Klohk’s car skidded on the ic y ! lhe ° reSwn side has been earned on pits in some instances to keep parts other sections of the country. The Balance on hand ......... ..$ 11.65 pavement of Baseline road about a| *n c°ld weather. The coffer- of the job warm and dry, but in the picture such studies present is not Rec’d from licenses ......... 57.00 mile from the Sandy bridge, on the dam between piers 16 and 17 has main operations have gone steadily always an optimistic oke. In the case Ree d from fines _______ 10.00 recently completed section of the. been Pumped out to the top of the forward inside the huge building, I Qf some industries definite advan Rec’d from county taxes.. 241.10 ogee block between the piers and highway. big enough for three basketball tages are apparent, while others are the concrete is being chipped pre floors. Surviving are his wife and 19- Total .............................. 319.75 rather doubtful, depending very paratory to pouring remaining con All the steel has gone in for the largely upon what kind of powei year-old son, Herbert, of 6347 S.W. Following is a list of total war crete for the ogee section. Tempor pit liner in unit 2, and the first lift rate could be g ive » Corbett avenue, Portland. Klohk, a rants called for the 16-month per ary shelters have been put up to of pit liner steel has been placed in machinist, was employed by the Co iod : shield workmen on the Oregon side. The accompanying list shows the unit 1. Both Uiroat^ rings have also lumbia Construction company at six To Dec. 1 inch in te r e s t....... $5137.19 About 800 workmen are still wait industries that have been and are different times since he first went to Dec. 5 .................................... 409.61 been completed. ing for work on the Washington side being studied more or less carefully, The survey' towers which once work for them. Dec. 31 .................................. 291.82 and in some cases quite exhaus- to recommence. loomed high above operations in the Klohk’s car snapped o ff a heavy Only four carpenter crews, twot (Continued on Page Nine) fence post and tore out a section of stripping crews and a structural Total ................................... $5838.62 turbine pits are now well dowm in side the pit liners, below the circu the spring-steel fence, bounced off steel gang have been working during Warrants outstanding Dec. 1. $1535.24 REED TURNS FACE lar platforms. a ledge 150 feet below the road, then the past week. The steel men have Warrants issued Dec. 1 to The huge base pedestal for the TOWARD SOUTHLAND made a straight dive into the river. been lining up gate slots, a slow Jan. 1 ................................ 1584.33 motors which activate the turbine pit A companion who was seen in the process. gates is in the power house and will rear of Klohk’s submerged vehicle While the third step cofferdam has Bobby Reed, entertainer sans egal, Total ................................... $3119.57 soon be placed between the first and had not been identified late yester been pumped out, the pumps are still has been snowbound in Cascade Warrants paid, Dec. 1 to second units, with the motors oper Locks for the past week, awaiting day. Both undoubtedly died very throwing about 56 acre feet per day, Jan. 1 ................................ 689.34 ating o ff each side. The gates will a break in the weather before taking shortly after the car struck the or about 12,600 gallons per minute, be adjustable to insure uniform pres to keep the water down. The cold wing for California, where he will water and went under. Outstanding Jan. 1 .............. $2430.23 sure of water entering the turbine weather has aided some by freezing Bal., cash on hand .............. $ 27.93 | pits, no matter how great the he*d. work for the next few months. POST OFFICE BUSY up a few of the smaller leaks. Between mumbled mouthfuls of * The council decided to reach a Several sections of the fishway The Bonneville post office did a j metaphor and florid fragments of conclusion regarding the abandon leading north from Bradford slough ment of Second street, occupied by have been poured, but some excava philological phantasia, he said he bigger volume of Christmas business YACHT CLUB DANCE was glad to be home and was sorry this year than last, according to George Trimble, by February 22. The tion remains to be done. BILLED JANUARY 23 Postmaster Blanche North. All with to be leaving:. Central Lumber company, owned by “ I ’d like to hear from the folks up out extra help, too, according to Mrs. W. £. Anderson, will be asked to S P E C IA L NOTICE The Cascade Yacht club’s mid here while I ’m down thar,’ ’ he said. North, whose, only aides were her winter benefit turn over to the city a private street dance, originally There are lots of angles to the new south of and parallel to Moody ave social security law', but one of parti “ My folks (Mr. and Mrs. Oscar regular assistants, Charles Coulter scheduled Thursday, January 21, has nue in return for the Second street cular importance is called to work Hyde) can tell you where I am—or and Miss Audrey Titus. Mrs. North been postponed until Saturday Jan was not quite so sanguine when right-of-way. uary 23, being combined with Johnny er’s attention in the current issue of ask Dibo.” Dibo, the coyote-husky-malamute asked about the amount of overtime W alker’s regular Saturday night It was emphasized in the council the Spillway. put in, however. The social security law requires pup, looked up and wagged his tail. meeting that the city marshal is not dance at the Columbia Gardens in Cascade Locks. permitted to use his automobile, on the employer to fill out a special which he is granted mileage, for any form when an employee dies. It is Proceeds from the dance will be thing but city business, as some possible on a big job such as Bonne used to provide equipment at Co ville for an employee to die of nat question had arisen as to its use. lumbia beach opposite Sherman s inn ural causes while o ff the job, and I on the Columbia river highway, near the employer know nothing about it. Warrendale. The beach proved very Men frequently absent themselves popular with dam area crowd- last But they did nothing about it. Real mathematicians, these boys from their work for various causes, summer. Your correspondent scented a gen in the Columbia Construction com and after a prolonged absence are More than 40 merchants of ti e en tleman of color in the winter’s fuel automatically dropped from the em pany office—but lazy. supply. He told the interviewees that tire area have agreed to donate Even with their slide rules and he would figure the problem out, and prizes for the affair. ployment records. In order, there fore, to assist in getting the correct their college educations, they dodged bring them the answer along in information to the employer, all em a problem which your Chronicle cor March some time in a 12-yard carry- CARS L E A V E TRACK all. News dispatches report that mem ployees are asked to cooperate by respondent considered duck soup. T ra ffic on the Union Pacific rail notifying the employer in case of But with one pencil, one small road between Cascade Locks and They had been wrestling around bers of the federal power commis knowledge of the death of an em with acre-feet, second-feet and gal piece of scratch paper, and about 10 Wyeth was held up several lours sion in Washington, D. C. met with ployee. lons per minute in an effort to figure spare minutes, he had the answer early Tuesday morning when part President Roosevelt Monday and dis out how much water is being pumped all worked out. Not so many gal of the understructure of a fr> ight cussed pending legislation dealing W ORK H ALTE D from the third-step cofferdam. They lons in a cubic light-year as you’d car dropped o ff upon the track de with the sale of power at Bonneville Bad weather brought a halt to knew they had 56 acre-feet per day, think — only 30,307,600,000. 000, 000.- railing eight cars. No injuries, re dam. work on the Tooth Rock Columbia which they presently discovered was 000 , 000 , 000 , 000 , 000 , 000 , 00 0 , 000 , 000 , 0 0 0 , sulted, and the cars were hoisted Chairman Frank R. McNinch of River highway tunnel project on 000,000, with maybe a few more or back onto the track by service c. ews 18,247,000 gallons per day. the commission said the president Wednesday last week, and opera Your correspondent wondered what less. as quickly as possible. asked that they go over the McNary tions were still closed down when the they would do with a little tougher For those of you who want to bill and "consider any changes that Chronicle went to press. Although setup. So he asked them how many check up, here is the formula • R EBEKAH S TO MEET might be advisable.’’ workmen inside the tunnel are shel gallons were contained in a cubic (186,000 x 60 x 60 x 24 x 365) cubed Members of Cascadia Rebikah The McNary bill would authorize tered from sleet and snow, extreme light-year. times (1728 divided by 231) times 5280 lodge of Cascade Locks will i leet of the power commission to supervise cold adds greatly to Rained expressions and the oldf cubed. W e doubt whether any of the for their regular session next Wed : c r t ; slide-rule lcol; crept into the eyes of, Columbia boys will call us a liar the sale of power at the dam and de mechanical operation.^ ; nesday night in the I. O. O. F. hall pouring. termine rights. the great m’nds of Columbia. when we show up again. at the Locks. Power House Concrete Goes In Rapidly Concrete Work Held Up Again By Weather BONNEVILLE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK Klohk Dies As Car Falls Into River Columbia Boys N eed Glasses— Light- Years H u rt Their Eyes Power Board To Inspect McNary Bill