FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1937
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Embree Named
To Lead Group
At Hillsboro
subject to overflow and heavier in
character is seldom irrigated.
The farms enjoy a long growing i
season, with about 200 days between |
(by Mrs. Clan» Nix)
killing frosts. The season starts ear. \
lier at The Dalles than farther dow*
river.
Addition to McArthur Family
end in Portland visiting relatives.
There are about 30 individual
W. Iven Embree, principal of Cas­
Max Millsap and George Howe farms, ranging from five to 60 acres
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. McArthur are
cade
Locks grade school, has been
Miss Gretchen Granstrom of Port­ drove to Portland Tuesday on busi-1 in industrial production.
the proud parents of a baby boy
selected
to lead one of four discus,
land spent the week-end with her ness.
Crops raised include asparagus, to­ sion groups on the topic "Developing
bom January 18 at St. Vincent’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. Granstrom.
Dick McKinnon was a Hood River | matoes, snap beans, pale beans, spin­ a Modem Philosophy of Elementary
hospital in Portland. The baby
ach, lettuce, early cabbage, late Education" at the regional confer­
visitor
Saturday of this week.
■weighed nine pounds, nine ounces
Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Manchester
i
cabbage,
cauliflower, peppers, peas,
and was named Jon Boie. Mrs. Mc­ motored to Washougal Sunday after­
Mrs. Frank Banks spent Monday carrots, beets, turnips, bunch onions ence for Elementary school princi­
Arthur and son are getting along noon.
pals at Hillsboro February 6.
afternoon visiting Mrs. Jack Mc- and cantaloupes.
splendidly and expect to be home the
Embree was recommended by L. B.
Mr. and Mrs. Wright Harris of Christy.
latter part of this week. Mrs. Mc­ Prindle, Wash., spent Sunday with
Gibson, county school superintend­
Pool Level 72 Feet
Archie Douville was a Portland
Arthur’s mother, Mrs. John H. Boie Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Woodward.
According to plans of the army en­ ent, upon the request of John M.
visitor
last week.
o f La Grande, Oregon, has been here
gineers the permanent pool level of Miller of the state department of
looking out for Mr. McArthur and
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Auld of the Clark
Mr. and Mrs. Karl Rosenback the lake behind Bonneville dam will education.
son Wallace.
tract moved from the Locks this drove to Portland Wednesday on
The topic is part of the conference
be 72 feet. The pool will never be
week, destination unknown.
program.
It will be presented in a
business.
allowed to sink below this level, al­
Williams Travel
30-minute
talk by an educator from
William Ferguson spent Tuesday though at flood stage it will rise con-1
Daryle Strader was absent from
the
state
system
of higher education,
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Williams and
siderably higher.
school all of last week due to a bad in Portland attending to business.
following
which
the principals will
daughter, Mary Ann, and Miss Lil­ cold.
Roughly SO per cent of the land
break
up
into
groups
for discussion
lian McLeod spent the week-end in
now used for truck gardening,
Friends were sorry to hear that
Rex, Oregon, visiting Mrs. Wil­
classed by the engineers as low and and formulation of questions, to be
liams’ sister. From there they jour­ Howard Harrison, who is attending
intermediate, will lie below this per­ answered during another 25-mmute
Pacific
college
at
Newberg,
was
con­
neyed to McMinnville and enjoyed
manent level. Owners of this prop­ period.
fined
to
bed
all
last
week
with
the1
Sunday dinner with Mr. Williams’
erty have been adjudicating their
flu.
mother.
prospective losses with the United
Julius Carlson has been ill with
States government.
the flu for several days. Charles
Bakers Visit Here
The remaining 20 per cent will, to
a greater or less extent, be affected
Mrs. John Baker and daughter Olin is also confined to bed with the
A
grapntc
description
of
the
area
flu.
Betty Lou, former residents o f the
The Oregon Milk Control act,
along the Columbia river between by river flow, as Brown has charted
Mr. and Mrs. Kruse Heller have as Bonneville and The Dalles, before it.
Locks, and who are now residing in
which has been under fire since the
When the river is at its normal recent order of the commission rais­
Gresham, visited friends in the their guest this week Mr. "Heller's and after construction of the dam,
niece, Miss Olive Rose.
minimum
flow of 68,000 cubic feet ing the price of milk, is strongly sup­
Locks this week.
was given by Gordon Brown, exper­
per
second,
it stands at an elevation ported by a booklet made available
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Merrill drove to iment station horticulturist, at a
of
45.4
feet
above
mean sea level, at by County Agent Arch Marble this
An Afternoon of Bridge
meeting two weeks ago at Library
Portland Friday on business.
Hood
River.
The
pool
level with this week. As a whole1 the milk producers
hall in Hood River.
Mrs. C. F. Lewallen entertained
Last week Browrn announced he flow will be 72.6 feet, or 27.2 feet disposed toward the act.
G. N. Hesgard is confined to bed
the bridge club Friday afternoon.
The booklet shows in graphic form
would make a station project out of higher.
Those present were Mrs. Silver Per- with a severe case of influenza.
At a flow of 100,000 cubic feet per the increase in milk price compared
his studies, which have led him
ras, Mrs. H. Wilbur and Mrs. V.
Shirley Matson returned to school deeply into the realm of river flow second, still very low water, the el­ with increases in prices ol other
Nelson. A delightful luncheon was
this
week after a week’s absence at all times of the year, from the evation at present is 50.2 feet; it will foods. Within the past three years
served.
with a cold.
standpoint of truck-gardening in the be 72.7 feet with pool control.
milk has risen 20 per cent in price;
But when the annual spring flood sirloin steak, 27.9 per cent; pork
Millers Entertain
Mrs. Marvin Lambert of North rich bottom lands along the river.
Brown prefaced his talk with & arrives and about 500,000 cubic feet chops, 35 per cent; navy beans, 25.8
Mr. and Mrs. George Bogardus, Bonneville and Mrs. Charles Gidel of
comprehensive
summary of the of water per second goes swirling per cent; lard, 57.3 per cent; eggs,
Doc Folsom and Bill Keeler were [ Vancouver spent Sunday visiting
Sunday evening guests of Mr. and their mother, Mrs. C. R. Bybee, river’ s geographical and historical downstream, the river at present 76.5 per cent; potatoes, 52.6 per cent.
background. Few people know that reaches 71.8 feet, or 83.8 feet after
Mrs. Joe Miller. The evening was here.
completion of the dam, a difference
spent playing pinochle.
Japan has a population of 7C.C00,-
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Collins and at the point where the Columbia or­ of 11.8 feet above the permanent pool
000 which is increasing at the rate
small son Gary David are back in iginates it flows for several miles in
level.
Munkres Have Visitor
of eight per cent every five years—
their own home this week after an opposite direction to the Kootenai
At a flow of 900,000 cubic feet per
Miss Zulima Munkres of Bend, Or., spending a week with Mrs. Collins’ river and less than a mile from it,
and all this population has to be
joining it after both rivers have second all control is lost. Either with supported on 147,060 square mdes of
is visiting her brother and sister-in- parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Merrill.
traveled more than 600 miles in en­ or without the dam, the river would territory, much of which is moun­
law, Mr. and Mrs. Hank Munkres.
Mr. and Mrs. William Ferguson tirely different country. The Colum­ then reach a height of 87.5 feet tainous and sterile! Imagine our
Mrs. Jess Glasgow entertained the enjoyed a game of pinochle with the bia is bom in an abandoned ship- above sea level at Hood River. government trying to support more
lock now known as Canal Flat in Should the flood of 1894 be repeated, than half the population of the
pinochle club at her home Wednes- Nixes Saturday night.
when the flow reached 1,170,000 cu­
the panhandle of Idaho.
day afternoon. Those present were
whole United States on territory ex­
Mrs.
C.
D.
Reuterskiold
and
her
He also discussed the principal bic feet per second, elevation of the actly the size of Montana!—The
Mrs. Fred Hill, Mrs. Roy Kendler of
Warrendale, Mrs. George Barker and daughter Donna and Mrs. R. J. Bel- tributaries of the Columbia, which crest would be 98 feet at Hood River, Pathfinder.
Mrs. Marshall Russell of Eagle shaw and daughter Maria Rae mo join to give it a drainage basin larg­ 26 feet above the normal pool level.
Brown’s studies also include a
Creek and Mrs. William Ferguson of tored to Hood River Friday and did er than the state of Texas in area.
some shopping.
chart
of average duration of floods
Following
an
outline
of
the
river’s
the Locks. Mrs. Fred Hill won first
at
the
different stages, a case study
Business
must
be
good
somewhere
history
he
plunged
into
a
technical
prize and Mrs. Roy Kendler won sec­
ond. A two-course luncheon was as sixteen Red Top taxicabs went discussion of the effect of raising of how a given piece of ground at
through the Locks in a caravan the river on the truck-gardening in­ Viento will be affected, and a gra­
served.
phic representation of the effect ol’
dustry in the affected area.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Spangler of Monday morning, at 10:30.
the dam in leveling o ff the flood
Truck Garden Lands Affected
Lakeview addition spent the week-
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Nix enter­
curve.
Roughly 200 acres are now utilized
tained the pinochle club Friday
Brown may also go into the effect
for truck crops in territory which is
night in their home. Guests were
which
damming the river will have
flooded by extreme' high water. Val­
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rosenback, Mr.
on
weather
and on the shoreline, but
ue of the crops runs from $100 to
and Mrs. Artie Sundsten, Mr. and
$500 or $700 per acre annually, with this will not necessarily be part of
Mrs. R J Belshaw and Mr and Mrs.
a grand average of $212 per acre for his project.
Carl Reuterskiold. Of course refresh­
Hood River county and $260 per acre
ments were served to complete the for Wasco county. Principal gar
Chronicle want-ads for results.
evening.
dening districts are Bingen and
Miss Gustafson and Miss Bradley White Salmon in Washington and
spent the week-end at the Columbia The Dalles, Rowena, Hood River,
Gorge hotel. They were entertained Ruthton and Viento in Oregon.
during their stay in Hood River by Yearly value of the produce raised
Jack Travis and Hugh Scott.
may run from $20,000 to $50,000.
Most of the truck farms are irri­
CALIFORNIA WINES
Pearl Stout has taken over the gated, either by gravity flow lines
There was a time when the
North Bonneville' branch office of from side streams, as at Viento
world knew nothing of how
the Locks Cleaners this week.
Available in Oregon!
creek, or by pumping from the Co­
the blood circulated. Will­
iam Harvey, a 17th Cem-
Andy Alden drove to Portland the lumbia river and distributing water
WHITE PORT
by sprinklers or rills. In the latter
t u r y British physician,
1 latter part of the week.
case cost varies from $10 to $20 per
PORT ANGELICA
made the discovery. Pres­
Don Stewart is up and about after acre, according to soil type, eleva
ent day physicians by ac­
SHERRY TOKAY
a week’s illness.
tion, season, crops, etc. Low land
curate observations of this
vital bodily function, can
MUSCATEL
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Gillman this
detect symptoms of certain
week moved into the Bill Keeler
QUARTS
GALLONS
to keep your feet dry and
diseases and prescribe in­
house in the Lakeview addition.
telligently.
comfortable.
*
Mrs. H. E. Pointer is quite ill this
Dort’t sentence yourself
W e have them for you—
Alcohol
20%
week with a severe cold.
to a life fear. Be examined
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seals per capita. Deschutes, Marion,
and Hood River counties are pretty
well tied so far for first place. Mar­
ion and Wasco have always held the
cup. With more returns yet to come
in there is hope that Hood River
county will go over the top.
Brown Makes
Study of
River Flow
Booklet Gives Data
Supporting Milk Act
RO M A
EXPERT
Hood River county may win the
Seal Sale cup. Each year this cup is
given to the county selling the most
K E I R ’S
DR. MELVIN E. JOHNSON
Hank Julius
Drug Store
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
TOOTH ROCK OARAGE
Cascade Locks
Hood River. Oregon.
Cascade Locks Phone 35
1,50
REPAIRS
by your family physician at
regular intervals.
W e’ll mend your tires, charge
your batteries, put your car
in A-l shape.
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Hood River