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About The Bonneville Dam chronicle. (Bonneville, Or.) 1934-1939 | View Entire Issue (March 19, 1937)
K H .H T Board May Ask Issue Of Warrants THK B O N N E V ILLE OLD RECORDS BROKEN IN OREGON 4H CLUB WORK B eys’ and girl’s 4-H club w ork in Oregon reached a new high during the past year, with 17,743 m em bers carry in g a total of 22,802 projects, the annual report of S tate L eader H. C. Seym our shows. T he value of the com pleted work w as $260,619.72, w ith a net profit a fte r deducting costs of $97,096.99. T hirty-nine different kinds of pro jects were carried on by O regon club m em bers last year, covering alm ost every phase of farm and hom e life. A few of these w ere special projects requested by certain groups and con ducted on an experim ental basis to determ ine their suitability for m ore general use. The list includes work in various farm crops, livestock, poul try, rabbits, m arketing, farm ac counting and record keeping, house hold engineering, ru ra l electrifica tion, gas engine care and use, cook ery, canning, clothing, and other phases of hom em aking, vegetable and flow er gardening, han dicraft, ro dent control, building construction, health and grow th, and m iscellaneous others. The health-grow th project show ed the largest enrollm ent last year, with 5375 m em bers in 325 clubs. A nother popular project w as clothing, w ith 4669 m em bers in 582 clubs, closely followed by the cookery project w ith 4128 m em bers in 559 clubs. The dairy project, w ith 1031 m em bers in 122 clubs, showed the g re a te st financial w orth, w ith a gross value of $84,- 477.66 and a net profit of $23,396.09. FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1937 DAM C H R O N I C L E | Grange Asks Changes in Power Setup C. C. C. BOYS A RE R EPLA C ED Trans-River Mail Route Opened E ffective M onday, a tra n sfe r oi m ail betw een Bingen, W hite Salm on and Hood R iver across the bride w as instituted. T he route sta rts in B in gen, w here the c arrier will pick up m ail for Hood R iver county and w es tern points. H e will dispatch his m ail on Union P acific tra in No. 21, w hich arriv es in Hood R iver at 7 :43 P. M. H e will th en pick up m ail from Hood R iver county and from the train and tak e it back across the river w ith him . Local m ail for north bank points will be closed a t 6 P. M. daily. The low bid w ent to a B ingen m an for $1260 per year, of w hich $552.50 is consum ed in bridge tolls. (C ontinued from P age One) preventing fire« in th e C olum bia gorge w as outstanding." C om pany 4766 CCC officers ara C aptain L. H. R osenthal, L t. Espe- lund, Jr., John T. C rockett, educa tional adviser, and H. M. Johnston, chief forem an. A new group of CCC boys will re place those w ho leave and th is camp will continue w ith its various work projects on national fo rest a re a s in the Colum bia gorge. C haplain B ergen of V ancouver ap peared briefly on the program . Diplom as w ere given out by Mr. Johnston, project principal forem an. L. B. Gibson, sup erinten den t of schools for Hood R iver county, also spoke. T hree adm inistrato rs, instead of How to obtain funds for en larg e one, are recom m ended by the execu m ent and m odernization of several tive com m ittee of the Oregon state Hood iliv e r county schools, described g rang e for Bonneville dam power, by local board m etobers as urgen tly and appointm ent by the president in needed, w as th e chief concern of the stead of the secretary of the interior county unit board a t its m eetin g in is favored. Hood R iver T hu rsd ay night. The executive com m ittee has sub Issu ance of w a rra n ts as ag a in st is m itted its recom m endations to m em suance of bonds w as discussed, w ith bers of the Oregon delegation, giving w a rra n ts hav in g the preference be th e view s of the grange on the d is cause th ey can be retired w ith g re a t position of power. er rapidity. The m atter w as left T he grange does not object to arm y open, and a special election will be engineers m aintaining and operating necessary in any event before funds the plant, installing facilities and C.C’.C. BOYS LEA V E can be raised. building transm ission lines, but from FOR M INNESOTA th a t point it w ants the federal pow er S tate Inspector D. A. E m erson of N inety-nine young m en w ho havo com m ission to control pow er and fix th e dep artm ent of education, who put in the p ast six m onths as en- rates. looked over m any of the cou nty’s rollees at C C C . com pany 4765 a t schools la st year, placed P ark dale, T his essentially is w hat the Oregon Mr. and M rs. H a rry Sm ith and W yeth entrained at 10 A.M. y ester Odell and Cascade Locks high schools and W ashington senators now d ra ft fam ily spent the w eek-end in Port- day at V ancouver, W ash., for F o rt in the “conditionally stan dardized" ing Bonneville legislation favor. On land w ith th eir d au g h ter and son-in- Snelling, Minn., w here they will be class. C ascade Locks has since been the advisory board, suggested by the i law, m ustered out and returned to th eir Mr. and Mrs. W illiam Boss. declared standardized, but P arkdale presid ent’s m em orandum , th e Oregon hom es. and Odell cannot change sta tu s untir state grange w ants the public to be Resident;; who have recently moved F ifty-five innesotans and six alteratio n s are m ade in th eir present represented by two m em bers, one are Mr. and Mrs. O rval V allen and O regon boys M have re-enrolled. set-up. from Oregon and the o th er from Mr. and Mrs. W. B. P eters. The Val- R eplacem ents will been also be from W ashington. One of these public rep lens w ent to the coast, w here Mr. M innesota, and will arrive soon. A. J. B runquist, represen ting the resentatives should com e from an V allen will be em ployed, and the T he present personnel arrived P ark d ale school board, said the class agricu ltu ral region and be appointed P eters w ent to G rand Coulee w here about room s were badly overcrow ded, as the first of October. A lm ost by the secretary of agricu ltu re, the Mr. P eters expects to find w ork. the school w as built for a m axim um im m ediately r app earing they other represen tative to be selected Scoop H ickok, friendly G erm an ! w ere sent out a fte of 60 students but now h as 110. to t fo rest fires by the secretary of the interior. shepherd dog, is sporting a snappy w hich w ere ragin g figh throughout the In Miss M argaret C allihan’s room, O ther requests of the g rang e would new harness-collar. w estern p a rt of the state, and ac 20 by 22 feet, the students m ust all U IT IZ E N S PRO TEST prevent the adm inistrato r from sell Mr. and M rs. A1 Jubie entertained quitted them selves creditably for en ter and take th eir places before B U ILD IN G O F DAM governm ent property >.o priv ate Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lusch and son Roy forest greenhorns. sittin g down. B oardrnan, Or.—A group of Board- ing individuals or private com panies Jr. and Billy A nderson last w eek T he executive sta ff will rem ain th e The typing room , 4*4 by IS feet, m an citizens headed by Tom H en w ithout consent of the p resid en t; end. The Jubies and Mr. and M rs. sam e. boasts four m achines. T hirty pupils dricks plans to protest the proposed stipulate th a t no private agency be “S han ty" W oods planned to m ake a construction of a navigation dam perm itted m ore th an 15 p er w anted to study typing th is year. cent of trip to P ortlan d last night. P rincipal Irvin B ryan’s office is across the Colum bia river n ear Ar the available pow er; favor im m edi The L. W. N ew som s retu rn ed this A tree on th e cam pus of St. Jo h n ’s lington. college at A nnapolis is believed to over-sm all. construction of w holesale tra n s week from the W illam ette valley, be m ore th an 600 years old. T he school has no library space. T hey contend th a t plans for the m ate ission by the governm ent having spent three w eeks a t O ak Books are kept a t the front of the dam show it would resu lt in inunda w ithin a lines Grove. M rs. New som says she’s distance; advocate tion of the entire town of B oardrnan, zones for feasible assem bly room. The accordion w as invented in 1829 rate-m ak ing sim ilar to the m ighty glad to be back. several m iles of the Colum bia R iver A. E. Ja k k u of Odell described Mrs. T. W. Stevens, m other of M rs. by D am ian in V ienna. TVA policy; prevent large private equally cram ped conditions in the highw ay and valuable farm lands. industries from con tractin g for m ore Tom W aring, is spending several high school there. power th an they can use, so they days w ith the W arings. Diesel engines fo r m otor vehicles M rs. E. R. M oller's classroom , 17 a rapid and m oving n arrativ e, the cannot resell to private pow er com Mr. and M rs. Lyle H ickok have in G erm any are becom ing increas by 20 feet, provides 121 cubic feet autho r presents historic background panies and private com panies nearly com pleted th eir cabin on ingly popular. of ah apiece for 33 pupils. Two h u n enough to clarify situations. T hen he from using prevent Bonneville pow er for u n Hood river n ear O ak Grove, and plan dred cubic feet per person is the describes dram atic and thrilling n a fair com petition to destroy business to spend the nex t w eek-end there. ty preparations in P a rag u ay stan d ard m inim um . val exploits and battles, touching of public agencies. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. C orpm an of are B eau regulated Miss M axw ell's room has the sam e w ith skill and color those elem ents Y akim a, brother-in-law and sister of public health. by the m inistry of dim ensions. In the assem bly hall | which m ade the tale one a t w hich to Mrs. S. E. K issinger, are com ing to MRS. IO N E W OODALL there are 98 cubic feet per person. visit the K issingers th is w eek-end. m arvel, in which to glory. R ead this The science laboratory, 10 by 26 Funeral services w ere held M onday M rs. C harles J. Johnson returned D ry ice as a railw ay re frig e ra n t is feet, provides 78 cubic feet of a ir book fo r interest, excitem ent, g lam for Mrs. lone Ja n e E v e re tt K insey | M onday from P ortland, w here she being experim ented w ith in South our, and never m ind the fact th a t W oodall of Shelton, W ash., form er i w as ill three w eeks. A frica. per student. In the basem ent room s there are) you are reading history too. Hood R iver resident. Rev. Louis! S afety officials estim ate th ere are often two or three inches of w ater; "SO U ’W E S T E R SA IL S," by A r-f W hite read the cerem ony. 44,000,000 autom obile drivers in th e on the floor during rains or snow th u r H. Baldw in (R andom H ouse Surviving M rs. W oodall are h er M ARGARET M ATILDA NEA L thaw s. H eatin g is also poor. $2.00). Incorporated in a sotyr of husband, C harles W oodall, of Shel F un eral servies for M argaret M a U nited S tates. Inspector E m erson described con the effo rts of tw o boys to sell a ton ; an adopted son, M orris K insey, tilda 58, w ho died in U nder ditions a t B a rre tt grade school as yaw l designed and built by th eir of Shelton, who is the son-in-law of wood Neal, EV ER Y W E E K IS M arch 14, will be held in the "terrib le.” R alph H inrichs, speaking! fath er, is a m ystery of stolen boats, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. F uller of Hood U nderwood high school gym nasium for the local board, said the students a sto rm through w hich the yaw l River, and a dau gh ter, K atherin e W ednesday at 2 P.M . H er husband, have no assem bly hall, and the fu r Kinsey, of P ortland. A lfred E. N eal, survives. Interm ent rides, a race, and m any details of nace is poor. will also be a t Underwood. in O regon. See th e new Philoo day-to-day sailing. F or the lover of E. J. B rolliar of Cascade Locks R adios a t thanked the county board for its help, boats and sea. BRAIDED JACKET but said the high school there still “ S P A N IS H IG N O TS,” by Com BA RTO L MOTOR CO. Chronicle w an t-ads for resu lts liy CHKKIK NICHOLAS needs new rest room s for the girls m ander E dw ard E llsbcrg (Dodd- and boys, a dom estic science and a Moad 200). Once m ore th is w riter, m anual train in g room. expert on diving and salv ag The annual report from the sta te a, ing, naval sea and subm arine offers a sup erinten den t’s office shows only treasu re salvage story full of inci two counties. Hood R iver and K lam ath, w ere free from w arran t indebt dent and excitem ent of w hich Philip More and more we read of the developments of the R am say is the hero. edness in June, 1936. Columbia Gorge under the management of the Army “ A LL T H E MOWGLI S T O R IE S ,” by R udyard Kipling (D oubleday- TKN MORE GOOD HOOKS Engineers. W e of the dam area are at the focal point D oran $2 50.) A volume to enrich any of all of this development. Let us congratulate ourselves “ T H E LAST O F T H E MOHIC boy’s lib rary this, w ith its store of and watch future developments with pride, ANS,’’ by Jam es Fenim ore Cooper the w isdom th at Mowgli learned (G rosset and D unlap 50c). An ex from his anim al friends and the ad cellent inexpensive edition of the ven tu res th a t he had wdth them . five books in which "T he Deer- "H A N D BO O K FO R T H E C U R I slay er" afterw ard called “ H aw keye” OU S,” by P aul Grisw old How es (P u tn am $375). T he cu rato r of the is the leading figure. “ SW O RD O F T H E W IL D E R B ruce M useum of G reenw ich, Con N E SS," by E lizabeth C oatsw orth neeticut, has compiled a book I t » (M acm illan 12.00). Life w ith the In w hich he answ ers questions a n atu re dians am ong the F rench in Quebec lover m ight ask about insects and as Seth H ubbard, taken from his w orm s, snails, fish and reptiles. fron tier hom e in 1689 and m ade a T here are both photographs and di slave. It is en tertain ly and often ex ag ram s for illustration. citingly pictured in a really good “ BOR W A K E FIE L D , NAVAL story. A V IA TO R,” by Blaine and Dupont “ ON T H E GOLDEN T R A IL " by M iller (Dodd-M ead $2.00). The ex to stay away from the Lakeside hotel since we H ildegarde H aw thorne (Longm ans, periences of the young officer m ake G reen $2.50>. As a little boy, Seth delightful reading for aviation en have put these new low rates into effect, for a had seen his fa th e r ride aw ay from th u siasts p articu larly but the story limited number of persons: his New E ngland hom e to seek gold is a good one for the boy of not in C alifornia and at seventeen set in terest beyond th at of an en tertain $1.75 single room per week. out to find him H is trip, from the j ing story. T his tw o-piece d ay tim e d re ss is $3.00 double room per week. •H U RRICA N E W E A T H E R ." by of satin-back bem b erg and acetate first train ride, to his experience w orking his w ay on th e E rie Canal, H ow ard P ease (D oubleday-D oran crepe, a m a te ria l you w ill love tc then on river steam ers and by a $2.00). D angers and adventures in w ea r du ring th e m id seaso n and pack train over plains, desert and the South Seas w ith Tod M oran one® com ing m onths. It is sim p ly bul m ountains, is glam orously adv en again helping to unravel a m ystery, v ery effectively sty led w ith all-over Cascade Locks turous. concerning a stran g er, a pearl buyer, sou tach e b raid trim on the ja c k e t “ OUR NA VY ," by C harles J. a F renchm an, and the fate of two T he ascot and b re a st pocket h an d k erch ief lend b rig h t color accent F in ger (H oughton-M ifflin $2.00). In schooners. Eagle Creek Philco Week PROGRESS 9 West Coast Power Co. You Can’t Afford LAKESIDE HOTEL