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T H E BONNEVILLE DAM
CHRONICLE
HOOD R IVER, OREGON
O fficial paper o f city of C ascade
L ocks, Oregon.
O fficial publication for A m erican
L egion post No. 88, B onn eville, Ore.
SU B SC R IPT IO N R ATES
T hree m onths ............ ’. ................. $0.50
^ix m onths ...................................... $1.00
One year ......................................... • $2.00
THE
B O N N E V I L L E
u sages of the autom obile, w hich w as)
thrust upon him a sca n t 35 years
ago. We can im agine that prim itive
man suffered num erous accidents
when he first experim ented w ith rid­
ing the wild ponies o f the grassland.
Considering the con ven ien ce and
savin g in tim e afforded by the auto­
mobile, the accident rate does not
seem out of line.
The fight again st accidents, of
course, is a good figh t, and this
new spaper will do its part to fu r­
ther it. W e sim ply resent being called
fiends and slayers becau se w e choose
to drive an autom obile instead of a
horse and buggy.
DAM
F R ID A Y , M ARCH I», 1937
C H R O N I C L E
places and the th in g s that are there­
in? N ay, nay. The sw ee test son g
com eth from the lips of him that li-
etii in the sun and lacketh occupa­
tion, for to him spring bringeth the
hour of sw eet fu lfillm en t.
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Sun bathing prom ises to be more
popular that ever this season . A l­
ready the hardened connoisseurs are
debating angle of slope, texture of
grass, hours o f sunshine, and so
forth. There are lots o f sides to the
business which the beginner over­
looks.
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W e’ve been thinking of getting out
a booklet entitled “ W hat the W ell-
Entered as second cla ss m atter at
T here’s alw a y s som eth in g wrong- D ressed Sun B ather W ill W ear.”
the p ostoffice at Hood R iver, Ore­ Bu the time you are earn in g enough
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gon, under the Act of C ongress of to show the girls a good tim e your
M anufacturers of sw im m ing suits
March 3, 1879.
w ife won’t let you.
will be hard pressed th is season to
find any more Bpots where fabric
JO H N H. T R A V IS .......................Editor
m ay be dispensed with. The day m ay
HUGH A. SCOTT. A ssociate Editor
com e when bathing su its, now a n ec­
essary evil, w ill be an u n n ecessary o f w hat La Guardia said, H ull's
proper answ er would have been, “ In
evil.
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this country, suh, the governm ent
It isn ’t hard to understand how has nothing to sa y about the utter­
a fellow can en grave the Lord’s a n ces of its citizen s.” It is doubted
P rayer on the head o f a pin. M erely w hether Der Feuhrer would under­
a transference of th ou ght from one stand such an attitude.
pinhead to another.
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A lthough the war debts are a dead
T here’s a lso the stran ge ca se of
the m an — doubtless Scotch — who issue, no politician can be found who
w rote 16,000 words on a penny p ost­ w ill deliver the funeral address.
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card. W e didn’t know there w ere that
m any w a y s of sa y in g "W ish you
Spanish m ilitary leaders are begin­
were h ere.”
ning to learn how a football coach
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feels when he runs out o f su bstitutes.
W e once saw a Bible the size o f a
postage stam p. T hat would probably
su g g est som ethin g to Jim Farley.
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The them e son g of H itler’s gripe
artists la tely has been "the Latin
FOB FIRST CLASS
from M anhattan.”
Bartering
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Cascade Locks
W hen H itler asked the sta te de­
partm ent for an apology on account
MI KE ' S
Meetings
Published every Friday in the
in terests of the B onneville Dam area
by the Sun Publishing Com pany, Inc. C ascade Locks Chamber o f Com­
m erce — M errill’s dining room,
TH E B EG IN N IN G —NOT TH E END
T uesdays, noon.
In the colum ns of this w eek ’s B onneville Parent-T each ers A ssocia­
Chronicle is listed new s o f departure
tion — F irst W ednesday every
o f m any friends and the lea v in g in
m onth, study club a t 1 :30, regular
the near future o f others. It seem s
m eeting at 2:30 in B onneville grade
to m any o f the business people and
school
auditorium.
property ow ners of the area that the
world is com ing to an end. To som e Bridal Veil Lodge, No. 117, A.F. and
it seem s that the area w ill be d e­
A.M. — School house, L atourelle
serted within a very short tim e.
falls, second S aturday in each
T his is nearly true. The con stru c­
m onth. V isitin g M asons w elcom e.
tion boom o f the B onneville area is
speedily drawing to a close. We all C ascade Yacht Club—Model room of
new adm inistration building, F ri­
knew it w as com ing and should have
days, 8 P.M.
been prepared for it. The world is
not com ing to an end, for, with the C ascade L ocks City Council—Second
term ination of the construction work
and fourth M ondays, city hall.
o f the dam, the real future of the
Cascade Locks Boy Scouts — High
area begins to show itself. T his boom
school, T u esdays, 8 P.M.
that w e have ju st been through has
been tem porary but the one that is Bonneville B oy Scouts—Grade school
on the w ay probably will be much
auditorium, T uesdays, 7 P.M.
slow er in com ing but far more la st­
C ascade Locks Townsend Club—Odd
ing and profitable in effect.
F ellow s hall, first and third F ri­
The dam area is in the m ost pub­
days, 8 P.M.
licized industrial and transportation
region in the world. The daily papers R ebekahs— C ascadia lodge, C ascade
contain a con stan t stream o f d is­
Locks, first and third W ednesdays
patches of legislation before the n a­
of each m onth, Odd F ellow s hall,
tional congress as the plans of the
8
P.M.
arm y engineers are brought before
the public eye. This is publicity that D am site post, V eteran s o f Foreign
cannot be duplicated any place in the
W ars — F irst and Third M ondays,
world in the line of power, tran s­
m eetin g room o f adm inistration
portation, natural resources, clim ate
building, 8 P.M.
and abundant w ater supply.
C
ascade
L ocks P.T .A .—Second F ri­
The next year is going to be hard
day o f each m onth, 8 P.M., high
for many, but think of it as a tran­
school.
sitional stage from the construction
Izuak
W alton lea g u e—M eets second
era to the production era.
M onday of every month in B onne­
ville auditorium . Directors m eet
THE OTHER SIDE
fourth M onday.
Probably as much new spaper and
m agazine space has been devoted
to traffic aeidents and the accident
EXAM S ANN O U NCED
problem as to any other one of soc­
A
civil
service exam ination for
iety's problems during the past year.
w
elder's
helper,
to fill va ca n cies in
This new spaper itself has printed
editorials on the subject, and will be the second Portland en gineer district
the last to say the accident rate is at B onneville, w ill be held soon, a c­
not too high, or that every effort cording to announcem ent from the
should not be bent toward reducing United S ta tes Civil S ervice com m is­
sion. A pplications m ust be on file
it.
Yet it seem s we should not cu ss with the secretary, board o f U nited
ou rselves tqo roundly. A ssum ing that S tates Civil S ervice exam in ers, U n it­
each of the nation ’s 25 milion au to­ ed S tates en gin eers office, 664 Pit-
mobiles averages 10.000 m iles of trav­ tock block, Portland, not later than
el per year, we find m otorists trav­ March 22,1937.
elin g a total o f 250 billion car-m iles
in that period, and probably tw ice as
many passenger-m iles.
About 38.000 traffic fatalities oc­
cur anually. Sim ple division show s
that for every traffic death, som e­
By H. A. S.
one has driven an autom obile 6,600.-
000 m iles. T hat’s quite a sizeable
m ileage, considering the number of
T hat tim e o f year has arrived w hen
hazards to driving which present
golfers can discard their sn ow shoes
th em selves every m ile of the way.
and coroled pellets. Throughout the
T he show ing is a lso pretty fair length and breadth of the land are
when one considers that autom obiles heard the chirping sparrow s, th e im ­
are driven by persons of all classes, portuning of landlords and the rattle
ages, sex e s and races.
of trailers. A diaphanous fringe o f
S uggestion s have often been put green appears upon the hem of the
forward to lim it issuance of licenses skirt o f N ature, and the fisherm an
to persons who have passed rigid oileth the reel and inspecteth the line
physical and m ental exam inations, for flaw s. Yea, verily, sunburns and
to revoke licen ses on the slightest tou rists are just around the corner.
laxity on the part o f the holder, and
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to govern the speed o f autom obiles at
T he recurrence of spring is, to say
the factory.
T his new spaper feels that such the least, an annual event. Y et each
su ggestion s are an affront to the tim e it occurs it has a n ew n ess abouc
m otoring public, m ost o f whom, re­ it w hich m ocks fam iliarity. IJke a
ports to the contrary, are decent, gal w ith whom has been on sp eak ­
ing term s for a long tim e, but who
courteous, and law-abiding.
An ordinary citizen does not "sud­ turns up her nose w hen you ask her
denly becom e a ferocious ogre, com ­ for a date.
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p letely forgettin g the d ecencies of
W
ho
shall
sin
g
the
wonders
of this
civilized so ciety .” w henever he gets
season
?
He
who
w
ieldeth
the
prun-
behind the w heel o f an autom obile,
as so m any w riters h ave character­ m g-hook that h is branches m ay be
ized him. He rem ains a hum an b e­ h eavy laden at harvest? H e who sow -
ing. although it is taking him tim e eth the seed upon the face of the
to becom e accustom ed to the traffic ea rth ’' He who seek eth out strange 1 1
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